Search Results: Authors starting with I from Century Books

Menlo Park, Calif.: Lane Publishing, 1964. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Hardback. Very Good. How, why and where earthquakes strike in California. Foreword by Dr. Charles F. Richter (developer of the Richter Scale for measuring earthquakes). This edition was printed in April 1964 and so includes a page of discussion of the Alaskan Earthquake that occurred on March 27, 1964. 191 pages plus index. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings. Previous owner embossed stamp on title page, some scuffing on cover.

New York: Random House, 1958. 1st Printing. Hardback. Good condition. Some wear on boards, some fading on spine. Pastedown picture on front cover is slightly scuffed. Previous owner name on first free endpaper, else contents are fine and bright. Considered by some to be Inge's finest play. Inge describes it as his 'first cautious attempt to look at the past, with an effort to find order and meaning in experiences that were once too close to see clearly.' Play was produced on Broadway in 1957 starring Eileen Heckart, Pat Hingle and Teresa Wright and directed by Elia Kazan. Contains three pictures from the Broadway production plus the pastedown on front. Was later (1960) made into a Hollywood film. Tennessee Williams was the first to recommend the play be produced in earlier (1947) and unpublished version titled 'Farther Off From Heaven.'