Search Results: Authors starting with E from Mac Donnell Rare Books

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Edison, Thomas. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PREMIER QUARTET. [n.p., Edison Laboratories, 1917] Cylinder record (Edison Blue Amberol Record). In original sleeve, with lid. Some crumbling of the inner clay liner, but the cylinder is fine and playable. This recording by the Premier Quartet is based on the sheet music and lyrics by Sam Lewis, Joe Young, and Cliff Hess, published the same year in connection with an early film version of HUCKLEBERRY FINN. One of the Premier Quartet singers, Bill Murray, was as popular in his day as Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby a few decades later. Edison produced wax cylinders in… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Mogul Egyptian Cigarettes. MARK TWAIN. IF YOU DAILY DRINK YOUR FILL, THERE'LL BE NO NEED TO MAKE A WILL. New York: S. Anargyros [ca. 1910] Cigarette card, color lithograph, with Twain's portrait at left and saying about drinking at right, all within a red and gilt border. Part of Mogul's `Toast Series,' issued between Summer, 1909 and Fall, 1910 in a series of 550 cards. The five Twain cards were numbers 512-525 in the series. Fine example, and one of a handful of cigarette cards featuring Twain issued during his lifetime. Forbes & Mitchell, p. 426 (#521). Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Mogul Egyptian Cigarettes. MARK TWAIN. A WOMAN IS ONLY A WOMAN, BUT A GOOD CIGAR'S A SMOKE. New York: S. Anargyros [ca. 1910] Cigarette card, color lithograph, with Twain's portrait at left and saying about women at right, all within a red and gilt border. Part of Mogul's `Toast Series,' issued between Summer, 1909 and Fall, 1910 in a series of 550 cards. Fine example. The five Twain cards were numbers 512-525 in the series. One of a handful of cigarette cards featuring Twain issued during his lifetime. This quote is not by Twain, but in fact is a quote from THE BETROTHED, by Rudyard Kipling. Forbes &… Read More

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI. Boston: Samuel Simpkins, 1841. First edition. Original brown printed wrappers. Blank rear wrapper lacking, else a nice copy of an Emerson lecture rarely seen in the wrappers. The edition was only 500 copies (about half the edition size of some of his other lectures). BAL 5190. Myerson A11.1.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. REPRESENTATIVE MEN. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850. First edition, first printing, first binding. Original black cloth, gilt. Abrasion to front free endpaper, small points of rubbing at spine tips and corners, else a tight bright copy. A rare book in the correct first state (printed on thin paper; binding with hour-glass design on covers). Copies are invariably found in the later printing and binding; a few copies of the later printing have surfaced in the first state binding, but copies in the earliest state of binding and text are seldom encountered. Emerson's essay on Shakespeare, which… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] New England Company. COMPLIMENTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COMPANY, NEW YORK, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARK TWAIN... [New York: New England Co., 1899] Portfolio prospectus with above imprint, containing fifteen illustrations from the American Publishing Company edition of Twain's WORKS. Portfolio crepe paper envelope with silk tie and wax seal. Twain first heard of this company's activities when he got a letter from a bank president saying they'd tried to sell him a set of Twain's works. Twain forwarded that letter to Bliss on April 15, 1899 asking him to look into it (Machlis 05576), but in… Read More