Titles starting with E from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

[Np]. 20 December 1971 - 30 April 1972.. [2],124 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of a variety of colored papers. Bradbound in stenciled wrappers, with title revision in manuscript, and title lettered on spine. A "Second revised draft" of this very early original screenplay by Crichton, incorporating many leaves of revises spanning the period noted above. The film was released in 1973 as EXTREME CLOSE UP, under the direction of Jeannot Szwarc, but garnered little not... more information

[Torino]: Einaudi, [1992].. Cloth boards. First Italian edition of THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY, translated by Sandro Melani. As new in dust jacket. ... more information

Verona: [Sandy Campbell], 1975.. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. First edition. Edited, with comments, by Windham. One of three hundred copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Light tanning to edges, else about fine. ... more information

[London & Jerusalem: Otto M. Lilien, 1973].. [8]pp. plus forty plates. Laid into printed paper folder. Small bookplate, crown of spine a trifle used, very good. First edition. From a total edition of 375 copies, with the text set by students at the London College of Printing, this is one of 150 copies reserved for members of the Wynkyn de Worde Society. A selection of the German Zionist artist's bookplate work, exhibiting the influence of Crane and Beardsley. ... more information

[Np]: Reprinted from AMERICAN LITERATURE XXIX:4, January 1958.. [440]-456pp. Printed stapled wrappers. An author's separate, retaining original pagination. Wrappers sunned at edges, very good. Compliments slip of Duke UP laid in. ... more information

New York: Norton, [1984].. Cloth. First edition. Top edge slightly dusty, else about fine in slightly spine-faded dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Coward-McCann, 1939.. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to his occasional publisher, James Laughlin, in the year following publication. Very good in dust jacket with a few tiny nicks. ... more information

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1975].. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Light offsetting and soiling to wrappers, else very good or better. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1965].. Cloth. First American edition of this novel, based on the Oedipus legend. A little dustiness to top edge, else fine in a lightly sunned pictorial dust jacket with small nicks and chip to spine toe. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1950].. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. About fine in a lightly spine-faded, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of small chips and a small closed edge tear. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904.. Gilt cloth. Covers very slightly rubbed, but a nice, bright copy. First edition, first book. The traditional first issue, with the dedicatee's initials and the frontis of the seated figure. Variant binding with the publisher's imprint in seriffed type, measuring 15/16" across. ... more information

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. Top edge dusty, else very good or better in dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Houghton, 1907.. Royal octavo. Cloth, paper label. Frontis. First edition thus. One of 550 numbered copies, printed at the Riverside Press under the direction of Bruce Rogers. Label rubbed, slight darkening, but a good copy. WARDE 79. ... more information

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., [1966].. Oblong octavo. Gilt decorated pictorial boards. Illustrations in color by Masakazu Kuwata. First edition in this format of a story from KWAIDAN, with an introduction by Donald Keene. Near fine in slightly darkened pictorial dust jacket and modestly sunned slipcase with faint discoloration along on edge. ... more information

New York: Peter Smith, 1930.. Two volumes in one. 239pp. plus index and plates. Cloth. The second, revised edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Still, the absolutely essential reference. A few stray marks to cloth, but very good. ... more information

New York: The Grolier Club, 1937.. Cloth, gilt leather label. Pictorial title and facsimile plates. Minor foxing to endsheets, otherwise about fine. First edition in this format. One of four hundred copies only, printed on Arches. Introduction by Harry T. Peters. ... more information

New York: Watson-Guptill, [1974].. Large quarto. Cloth. Photographs, color plates. First edition. Marin, Demuth, O'Keeffe, Dove, Hartley, et al. Small wrinkle to cloth on fore- edge incurred in binding process, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a few small nicks. ... more information

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [et al], 1972.. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Photographs. Introduction by Hannah French. First edition of this exhibition catalog. Some dust smudging to white wrappers, but very good. Laid in is an invitation to the exhibit at the Morgan. ... more information

New York: The Grolier Club, 1937.. Cloth, gilt leather label. Pictorial title and facsimile plates. Old paper adhesion to rear pastedown, otherwise about fine. First edition in this format. One of four hundred copies only, printed on Arches. Introduction by Harry T. Peters. ... more information

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society 1985.. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Photographs. Fine. Second edition, enlarged, including a list of Papantonio collection at the AAS, a memoir by Nicholas Marker, and a new Foreword by Marcus McCorison. ... more information