Search Results: Authors starting with I from Barbara Bilson Books

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1951. Very good (faded and soiled spine, otherwise near fine, interior very clean). No dust jacket. Translated by F. E. Garrett. Introduction by P. H. Wicksteed.. Hard Cover.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1956. Very good paperback book. 436 pages including index. The classic story of the conquest of Mexico by Cortes's small force. Diaz was a member of the expedition but understood the horrors of the defeat of the Aztec and the destruction of their civilization. Idell uses the Cabanas Edition as the basis for his translation.. Soft Cover.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association, 1973. Good+ (first two pages were stuck together, now separated leaving a scar; soft cover edgeworn and creased; interior clean and firm). The author, a Japanese American born in Washington state, was in the political science department at Stanford University when he wrote this 116 page book on Japanese history and mores, with the emphasis on mid-20th- century developments.. Soft Cover.

Munn and Co., 1946. The sixth printing of the fourth edition of Amateur Telescope Making, featuring the contributions and art work of Russell Porter who is described humbly as "Associate in Optics" at CalTech but was well-known to the amateur and professional astronomical community because of his accurate and truly inspiring art work for, among other projects, Palomar Observatory and the 200 inch telescope.This book's title describes its focus, and the last major section of over 200 pages is devoted to "miscellany," a wide-ranging survey of different methods and telescope designs appropriate for talented amateurs, edited by Ingalls of Scientific American. 497 pages in total, including index. Very good condition (worn covers--see scan--with firm binding and generally quite clean interior; previous owner's name and address in ink on ffep). . Hard Cover. Illus. by Russell W. Porter and others.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Near fine (small, inked name on back free endpaper) in very good dust jacket (smudges on white dust jacket, some edgewear). Four short novels by the author of "Mrs. Caliban." . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York City: Options for the Future, Inc., 1984. Near fine (slightly sunned cover edge; ownership stamp (?) of Citizen Soldier on title page) in soft cover. This is the English translation of the CIA's manual for psychological operations in guerrila warfare. 48pages, copy of typescript prepared by the Congressional Research Services, dated October 15, 1984. Pages 3 and 4 cover the investigations into the origins of this manual, the origiin of which was not entirely clear at this publication. . Soft Cover.

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1964. Near fine (bump at lower spine edge) in fine dust jacket. A lovely collection of illustrations, reminiscent of medieval art, and poems celebrating these distinctively Irish saints. 14 poems in all, 37 pages, written by the Irish poet John Irvine, including explanatory and biographical notes for each poem. Atmospheric drawings by Ruth Brandt. Copyright page carries the Catholic Imprimatur, interestingly stated as in Belfast whereas the book was published in the Republic of Ireland. See scans.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Ruth Brandt.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson , 1926. Reprint of an essay appearing in Sunset for February 1916. Color frontispiece (beach scene) from painting by John Muir's friend William Keith (slightly wrinkled at very tip of one corner--the frontispiece, not Keith). Very good: clean, tight copy with pictorial front cover and beige boards. Slightly soiled cover. Small bookstore sticker--a historical item itself, from Bullock's Los Angeles yet--on back pastedown. No dust jacket. (Irwin is the author of ANGELS & AMAZONS: A HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN WOMEN, 1934.). Hard Cover.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001. As new without dust jacket as issued. Still in publisher's shrink wrap (see shrink wrap wrinkles in our scan; the shrink wrap is wrinkled, not the book). Ivanov was a Russian symbolist poet and philosopher. Translated from the Russian and with notes by Robert Bird who is a professor at the University of Chicago specializing in Russian modernism. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.