Search Results: Titles starting with E from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Light rubbing and wear to boards; slight offsetting to endleaves; scattered staining to textblock edges; jacket gently toned and chipped. Very good. CDK-00418A. James Blish. Earthman Come Home. New York: G. P. Putnam's Son, 1955. First edition. Octavo. 239pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in yellow to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $3.50. .

A fine copy. CDK-87. James Blish. Earthman Come Home. Shelton, CT; First Edition Library, 1991. Facsimile reprint of the 1955 reprint edition.   Octavo. 239pp. Cloth. Dust jacket. Slipcase. .

Minor wear to boards, light toning throughout, jacket a bit rubbed and chipped. Very good. LMM-361. D. M. Low. Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794. New York: Random House, 1937. First edition. Pencil signed by author Larry McMurtry and dated 1972. Octavo. 270pp (indexed). Portrait frontispiece by Sir Josua Reynolds. Publisher's maroon pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket . From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate to each volume. .

Spine darkened and leaning; rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn to boards, with slight loss to corners and spine ends; front cover starting; front hinge lightly cracked; minor toning. About very good. YLN-7. Robert Hichens. Jules Guérin, illustrator. Egypt and Its Monuments. New York: The Century Co., 1908. First edition. Quarto. 272pp. Illustrated, with color plates by Guérin. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, top edge gilt. .

Paper with additional horizontal center fold, small fold tear. Erasure marks in the upper right corner on the first side. Signature with small ink smudge. Very good manuscript work from this protagonist of the Decadent movement. JBS-127. [Manuscript Poem]   Marie Madeleine  "Ein Erntelied" ("A Harvest Song")   c.1905 Manuscript poem by Marie Madeleine, the subject of Ronald K. Siegel's 2016 book The Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of Nazis. Folded paper sheet written on two sides, eight verses of four lines each. Text in German. Signed by Marie Madeleine.  Gertrud Günther (1881-1944), under the pen name of Marie Madeleine, was a Jewish German poet who became infamous for her erotic works on lesbian love and the ecstasy of morphine. The first few lines translated roughly in English read: A harvest song. / How endlessly the heights spread! - / The path is so steep and narrow, -- / Do you want to lead me across / Over the dark valley? - / On… Read More

Minor wear, else fine.. [SIGNED]. Donald Sydney-Fryer. Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography. West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1978. First edition.  Signed by Donald Sydney-Fryer.  Quarto. 303pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's mustard yellow cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Ned Dameron.

Spine leaning; extremities gently rubbed bumped; offsetting to endleaves; minor uniform toning throughout; hinges lightly cracked; stamps and marking from Nottingham Mechanics Institution Lending Library. Very good. LMM-155. H. St. John Philby. The Empty Quarter being a Description of the Great South Desert of Arabia Known as Rub' al Khali. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo. 433pp (indexed). Illustrated, two folding maps. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, top edge stained green. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Rubbed, bumped, and soiled to boards; lightly cracked to front hinge; early ink inscription and bookseller's pressure stamp to front free endpaper. Very good. JJA-23. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: An Illustrated Journal, Combining Practical Information, Instruction, and Amusement, Vol. 7 - 9, 1863/64. London: S. O. Beeton, 1863 - 1864. First edition. Octavo. 336pp. Illustrated with 18 hand-colored fashion plates. Bound in contemporary red cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, all edges speckled red, endleaves in yellow. .

Light shelfwear; offsetting to endleaves; jacket soiled and torn. A Very good copy in a good jacket. SJK-35. A. W. Kinglake. S. L. Bensusan, introduction. Frank Brangwyn, illustrator. Eöthen: Or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1913. First edition. Quarto. [306]pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by Brangwyn. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth, deckled edges, original unclipped dust jacket. .

Slightly rubbed and edgeworn to boards; front hinge a bit overopened; light toning throughout; ink ownership signature to first blank. Very good. JBS-143. John Uri Lloyd. J. Augustus Knapp, illustrator. Etidorhpa, or the End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey... Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1896. Fifth edition. Octavo. 386pp. Profusely illustrated by Knapp. Publisher's mottled brown pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in silver, endleaves in grey. Bleiler, 1028. Etidorhpa, an allegorical hollow-earth fantasy (Aphrodite in reverse), was written by a prominent Cincinnati Pharmacologist, who describes a journey led by a mysterious being known as I-Am-The-Man, in which the main character (Llewellyn Drury) is shown a world of wonders and horrors, fueled by sacred mushrooms and other ingestibles. Illustrated to unsettling effect by Augustus Knapp. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants… Read More

Rubbed to spine and boards; scattered foxing to endleaves. Very good. SJK-43. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator. Evangeline. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1905. Reprint edition. Quarto. [132]pp. With illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Publisher's red decorative cloth, stamped in gilt and white to spine and front cover, illustrated endleaves. .

Minor toning and wear, else fine. JBS-125. J. M. Anvil. Everything You'll Ever Need to Know About Freebase Cocaine. The Greatest Thing Since Sex. [Philadelphia]: Flash Post Express, 1979. First edition. Pamphlet. 20pp. Staple bound in textured card stock illustrated wrappers. Anecdotal stories and technical details, not quite Breaking Bad, but still... Note: Seller does not endorse or recommend the information contained herein. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Scattered foxing to title page; occasional creasing to prints; card slipcase somewhat creased and dampstained. Very good. JBS-402. Jack Jackson. Exile Into Consciousness: Selected Pen Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings from the Period 1962 - 69. San Francisco: Rip Off Press, 1970. Edition limited to 1,000 sets.  Quarto. Unpaginated, includes 87 loose prints + Title page (complete). Housed in card portfolio/slipcase, color illustration tipped to front cover. .

Boards and text block edges foxed and soiled, previous owners' names on front endpapers; lightly bumped at spine ends; text sprinkled with pencil markings, in regular and color pencil; jacket held together in mylar sleeve, large paper loss to spine and front panel with loss of text, tears and other smaller areas of paper loss, fold separations and soiling. A good copy in a poor jacket and with a fascinating letter. LMM-116. Malcolm Cowley. Exile's Return: A Narrative of Ideas. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1934. First edition. Octavo. 308 pages. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in red on boards and spine. Unclipped jacket listing a price of $3.00. Includes a single sided one page TLS in its original envelope from Malcolm Cowley to Larry McMurtry, dated January 25, 1962. "Great news for Ken Kesey last week: movie sale plus option for stage play." From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .