Search Results: Authors starting with E from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1913 Hard cover 8vo in attractive trade decorated binding printed with a landscape scene in cream and dark green upon a lighter green cloth. Titles in cream to front and spine, 388 pp. plus 7 page publisher's catalogue. Benziger Magazine order blank laid in. Condition: Very Good Plus or better, with slight sunning to spine, edges a bit dusty and mildly toned. Author Rev. Michael Earls (1875-1937) was a Massachusetts-born Jesuit priest who earned a literary masters degree from Georgetown University before entering the seminary. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories and a play in addition to teaching English at Holy Cross University in Worcester, who have his archival material. Not surprisingly, the novel is a somewhat heavily-messaged Catholic reflection on marriage and duty, but not without a good bit of drama and suspense. A young woman, Elenora Gomez, has been raising her younger siblings after the death of her parents, and she has been… Read More

New York: Cochrane Publishing Co., 1908 Hard cover, 12mo (5 1/2 x 8 inches), in green ribbed cloth with blind-stamped borders, titles to front and spine in gold. No d/j. Condition: Very Good Plus, with minor edgewear and a few small exterior marks. Inside is clean, tight and mildly age-toned. The Springfield, Massachusetts Author, Dr. Robert Thaxter Edes (1838-1923) was a Harvard professor and physician, who wrote this historical fiction title concerning colonial America in the years running up to Gen. Wolfe's capture of Quebec in 1759. Despite a religious-sounding title, this is definitely a book full of pre-revolutionary militia action. The Lac Saint Sacrement separates Maine from Quebec and was the site of the fore-mentioned battle. ALS included mentions this book. (The author also wrote a popular dime novel: "The Story of Rodman Heath: Or, Mugwumps, by One of Them.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.

Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1990 388pp. Writings from nineteenth century American women, organized by month. Condition: Slight shelfwear, else as new.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1982 pp xx 220. Folio (11" x 8 ½"). In publisher's red cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, in dust jacket depicting a Mayan temple. Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. *** The Books of Chilam Balam are nine books written in Yucatec Maya which preserve many of the customs, myths and traditions of the Mayan people. The "Chilam Balam" was a priest or prophet who lived in the last decades of the fifteenth century and foretold the arrival of "strangers from the East". Some of the Books of Chilam Balam are copies of more ancient texts originally written in hieroglyphic manuscripts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: The "Pall Mall" Press, 1907 Hard cover, 16mo, (measuring 5 x 7 1/2 inches), in apricot colored cloth, titles in gilt to front board and spine, 64pp. Condition: Very Good Minus. Slight soiling to covers, one dent at bottom edge. Mild foxing throughout. Blindstamped London bookshop stamp to ffep. Signs of reglueing at back hinge. **Considered a classic work on beekeeping by the multi-talented vicar, naturalist and author, Tickner Edwardes (1865-1944) of Burpham, West Sussex, England. He was also a Fellow of the Entomological Society, London. The book contains a series of essays, ripe with lyrical descriptions, on the art of bee-keeping in the persona of "The Bee-Master" of Warrilow, a quaint English village on the Sussex Downs. This was the first of this material in book form, having been adapted from items previously printed in the Pall Mall Gazette. The photographs look like something out of a Merchant Ivory production. Edwardes also wrote a novel, Tansy, which became a silent film. The… Read More

New York: Street & Smith, 1893 Soft cover, 12 mo., in lithograph-illustrated paper wraps,210 pp. plus adverts. Condition: Fair. Covers badly chipped and brittle. Pages age-toned. This edition was part of Street and Smith's Eagle Library of Ten Cent popular "Copyright" novels, being No. 13 of the series. (An earlier illustrated "select" edition in cloth was released several years prior.) The plot focuses on the trials and tribulations of a newly widowed young American woman who must remake a life for herself amid changing economic circumstances. . Eagle "Copyright" Edition. Soft Cover. Fair.

Boston: Perkins, Marvin & Co., 1834 Hard cover, 8vo, in three-quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled, the spine with five raised bands, titles in gilt, First Edition, 304 pp. Condition: About Very Good, wear to both outer hinges, but holding firm. Scuffing to the calf and boards, with small losses at corners and chip to spine. Feels firm.** Produced annually between the years 1829 and 1843, this is Vol. VI of the series. The American Education Society, for which the Author, Bela Bates Edwards (1802-1852) wrote, was conceived as an outreach for the promotion of training for Protestant ministers, and associated with the Andover Theological Society. The book provides an encyclopedic summary of the known world, with lists and time-line of things such as: the populations of the American States from1790 through 1830, a timeline of mathematical and scientific discoveries, a list of American authors, manual labor schools, literary societies, medical schools, list of the… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1859 Likely reprint of an early American Edition, in one volume, with the stated date of 1859 on title page (no copyright info. given). Hard cover in brown cloth blind stamped with circular intersecting forms to both boards, the titles in gold to the spine, along with "Scenes of Clerical Life." Glazed brown endpapers, iv, 5-452, plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. There were a number of early reprints and repackaging into sets which included this very successful debut novel, but Harper & Brothers was the first American publisher. First published in serial at Blackwoods Magazine. CONDITION: Good Plus, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, with old water stain to lower bottom fore edge most pages and some minor foxing to prelims. Some edge wear. Hinges are in order. and pages are generally bright.** Warwarkshire-born Victorian novelist, Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), using the pen name George Eliot, tells a delicately drawn tale of the seduction of a… Read More

Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1984 Soft cover, 8vo, 162pp. Condition: Very Good. Title of book written in pen to spine. Pen marks to back cover. ** The author, Dr Samha Amin El-Kholy (1925-2006), was a noted Egyptian musicologist who studied at the University of Edinburgh with Henry George Farmer and was married to the Egyptian composer, Gamal Abdel-Rahim. Sections on "Music and the Religious Life", "Music and Sufism", "Music and the Intellectual Life", "Music and Social Life", "Music in the Life of the Aristocracy", "Music of the People", "The Social Status of Professional Musicians". With bibliography. OCLC 21335522.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publishers, 1985 Hardcover, 4to with colorful pictorial dust jacket in Broadart cover, 240 pp. Purple cloth with gilt titles and map-illustrated end papers. A colorful, lushly photographed history of batik, as researched and written by the founder of a batik designer fabric company in the United States. It includes discussions of the religious, cultural and geographic influences on this southeast asian artform. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Some spotting to half title page, otherwise clean and sound. Jacket shows slight wear to corners, one closed tear at rear.. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005 Signed by Author on front flyleaf. Hardcover, with dust jacket, 378 pp. The Edgar-awarded author and trial lawyer gives us a very different fourth novel. Publisher's Weekly says, " ...he branches out from his previous legal thrillers into a minefield of world terrorism and misplaced family loyalties, writing not only in the present tense but working backward from the death of his lead character, author Allison Pagone, who ostensibly kills herself after getting tangled up in a terrorist plot through her lover, a lawyer whom she's suspected of murdering...There's enough high-level corruption to keep several investigative agencies busy, and some wonderfully mordant scenes of the underbellies of law and government in action. This is another impressive performance..." Condition: Fine, with a Fine dustjacket. Like New.. Signed by Author on front flyleaf.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003 Inscribed and Signed by Author on Title Page. Advance Reader's Copy presumably, with pre-publication postcard laid in. Hardcover, with dust jacket, 390 pp. Edgar-winning author Ellis is partner at a Chicago law firm, and this legal thriller is his second novel. A fictional Chicago lawyer, Jon Soliday, finds his life ensnared in an indictment for murder, made doubly dangerous as falsified testimony to a previously dismissed incident further clouds his reputation. The St. Louis Dispatch called this novel ..."a stunning surprise. Expertly written and intricately plotted." Condition: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.. Inscribed and signed by Author on Title page.. Advance Reader's Copy, First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine .

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1895 Hardcover, 8vo, (5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), bound in the original quarter linen with blue holland paper-backed boards, titles printed to the upper cover in black, 98 pp., First Edition. Colophon dates book 16 February 1895. This is one of an edition of 350 copies printed on hand-laid "Flower" watermarked paper (an additional 8 were produced on vellum.) The carved woodblock text borders and initials were designed by William Morris, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the M.S. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral (see the colophon.) The wood-engraved frontispiece art ,illustrated by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, depicts young Pereceyvelle embraced by his aging mother. The text is printed in the Morris-designed Chaucer typeface in black, with red side notes and accent to the title page. Condition: Near Fine overall, although there are some minor issues with the exterior, such as minor rubbing to both bottom outside corners, the front bottom right corner… Read More

New York: John R. Alden, 1886 Hard cover, 12mp., 103pp. A summary of the philosophy of Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), with chapters on Principles, Criticism, Art, Government and Social Organization, Religion, Moral Obligation, and Conclusion. ** Emerson was a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and, like Thoreau, lived for a time in a cabin close to Boston and thereby studied and wrote about nature. ** Condition: Good Plus. Pages lightly age-toned. Small closed tear to fore-edge of title page. Covers lightly marked, with wear to corners and head/tail of spine. BAL 5424. Scarce.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Good Plus.

Boston: Thomas Todd Co. Printers, [1912] Hard cover, 8vo, 166pp. in three quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, printed on handmade, watermarked Italian paper. 166pp. Condition: The book contains minutes and correspondence concerning the foundation of the Peabody Institute in South Danvers, (now Peabody) Massachusetts in 1852. George Peabody (1795-1869), of South Danvers, Mass. became a major philanthropist in New England and elsewhere, after a successful career in merchant banking. While pursuing his fortune in London, he offered his hometown money earmarked for the creation of a lyceum, or public library. Despite two fires and the complete destruction of the original building housing the collection of 13,000 books, the Institute was finally rebuilt and reopened in 1892. This book lists all the officers and trustees of the Institute, holdings and accounts. Peabody would go on to establish a number of other charitable educational foundations in Baltimore, London and elsewhere. OCLC… Read More

Amstelodani: Ex typographia Blavania, 1693 In Latin. In-8,[12], 784, [20] pp. Hard cover, 8vo, (measuring 5 x 8 ¼ inches) in a contemporary full calf binding, panel stamped in blind and accented with a rolled gilt double border. The spine has five raised bands, double ruled in gilt, one compartment with the title, others stamped with a single gilt flower. Edges of the text block are decoratively spattered red. The boards of the binding are decorated in a cottage roof style, with inner and outer banding joined at the corners, the use of a rolled floral ornament parallel to the inner lined border and four fleurons at the outer corners. The engraved title page features an image of Erasmus and three scholars inspecting a globe-- likely a play on the printer/publishers' identity: the family of Joan and Cornelius Blaeu with family roots and fame in the making of globes, maps and atlases. The Blaeus were the official mapmakers to the Dutch East India Trading Company. The editor, Cornelius… Read More

Padua: Ex Typographia Seminarii, 1686 Hard Cover, 12mo., pp [16] 137 [5]. Collation: *8, A-H8, I7. Lacks D2,3,6,7, which are supplied in facsimile. Modern calf binding with tooled decoration. Condition: Covers are Near Fine and pages mostly Very Good, with library stamp and old owner's name to title page.** Erich Johannes Peter (c.1641 - c.1706) was a professor of linguistics and geography from Eisenach, and this work was based on John Dee's "Monas Hieroglyphica" (1564), wherein Dee explains the meaning of a symbol which he himself invented. ** The work is set in the form of a dialogue between Theopranicus and Philologus, and includes discussion on individual symbols, the alphabet, and a discussion on the seven notes in Western music (with a mention of Pythagorus). ** This book is mentioned in Umberto Eco's "The Search for the Perfect Language" (1995) in the chapter on John Dee titled "Dee's Magic Language". OCLC 1014581605.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Culross, Scotland: unpubished manuscript, 1731 Single page letter from John Erskine (?), Culross to James Grierson (?), Brodie's Coffee House, Leith. He writes about trying to offload a barrel of something... Fair condition - the paper is fragile and has wear at the folds with small holes.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair.

Köln: Taschen GmbH, 2016 Reprint. Hard cover, 4to, in color printed illustrated boards, with dust jacket, 95pp. with many color illustrations and art historical text. Chapters include: In Quest of Pure Colour 1869-1905, Realism and Decoration 1906-1916, The Intimacy of the Nice Period 1917-1929, Beyond Spatial Limits 1930-1940, Matisse's Second Life: An Art of Grace 1941-1954 and Henri Matisse 1869-1954 Life and Work. CONDITION: Fine, like new, in an unmarked, unclipped d/j. Part of the Basic Art Series, originally published 1987. From the blurb: "Each of these little books have slick production values, excellent illustrations, and smart texts. Each one is a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." Originally published 1987.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Henri Matisse.

Kirkwall: W.R.Mackintosh, 1959 69pp + ads. With glassine dustwrapper.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.