Search Results: Authors starting with I from Books of the World

New York: Doubleday / Main Street Books, August 1992. Trade Paperback. August 1992. Full number line. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. 246 pages. More than 500 photographs and illustrations anchor this guide to social dancing that offers easy, step-by-step instructions for most popular ballroom dances: the waltz, fox-trot, tango, cha-cha, polka, and many others.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, May 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Quarter-bound in black paper over boards with orange paper sides. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight; ends lightly bumped. Light edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 390 pages.

New York: Random House, April 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), second printing per number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Rubbing and edge and corner wear. Remainder mark to top edge. Not clipped. 333 pages. A thriller about a reporter who dances too closely with his sources in the CIA.

New York: W. W. Norton, June 2011. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight; tail lightly bumped. Slight edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 369 pages.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, April 1991. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Quarter-bound in purple linen with purple papar sides, gilt lettering to spine, title blind-stamped to front cover. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Spine straight and tight, head bumped. Corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed, light wear to top edge, particularly at spine and corners. Red "P" stamped to bottom edge. Not clipped. 465 pages. A CIA agent, a beautiful woman, and a secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union.

New York: Simon and Schuster, October 1974. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Red cloth over boards with blue illustration to front board and blue lettering to spine. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Slight spine tilt. Edgewear to jacket with three 1/2-inch tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 224 pages. 8.5 x 11.5 x 0.75 inches.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. Digest-size Magazine. July - August 1980. First Edition. Very Good. Dean Ing's novella Anasazi first appeared in print when it was serialized in two parts in the July and August 1980 issues of Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact magazine with cover art (July) by Broeck Steadman. Also includes "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson, winner of the 1981 Hugo A ward for Best Novelette. This is the second story in Dickson's Shane Evert series.

Toronto & New York: Bantam, September 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Bantam Classic. With an introduction by John Gross. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight with a slight crease. Cover clean and bright with light crease along front hinge. Sharp corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 416 pages. One of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. The story of an artist as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother, his passionate love affair, and his intense liaison with a married woman. England's Derbyshire springs to life with both is sooty mining villages and deep green pastures, a setting as full of contrasts as the deep emotions that rule this remarkable.

New York: Dell, April 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Dell 1921. Fourth Dell printing, June 1965. With an introduction by "John Blaize" (John Collard). Near Fine. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine square and tight with a slight crease at front hinge. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 159 pages. One of two non-fiction books Fleming wrote. An account of attempts by the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO) to shut down diamond smuggling from South Africa, Sierra Leone, Portuguese West Africa, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika.

New York: New York Review Books, October 2000. Trade Paperback. As New. Just the slightest hint of corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 135 pages. A spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter--and fully embrace--normal life while spending the summer restoring a recently discovered medieval mural in an idyllic English village.

New York: New American Library / Signet Classic, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Text unmarked. Prior owner name inside front cover. Spine straight but creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 158 pages. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing journey into the savage heart of Africa and the saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense.

New York: Crescent, August 1981. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition / full Number line (h g f e d c b a). Glossy pictorial boards in pictorial jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Sewn binding. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight. Covers and jacket clean and bright. Very slight wear to bottom edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 125 pages. Photographs of Prince Charles' and Lady Diana's wedding and courtship accompanied by a description of the ceremony and its associated festivities.

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, July 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth over boards with gold lettering to spine. As New book in a Fine jacket with light rubbing. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxviii + 308 pages. The second volume in the official history of the CIA made available under the CIA's Historical Review Program. The author was a leading government official who participated in the interdepartmental debate over the postwar organization of U.S. intelligence that occurred in 1945. He drafted many of the policies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during this bureaucratic struggle, including JIC 239/5, the plan that was also the basis for the establishment of the Central Intelligence Group, the predecessor of the CIA. He served as General Smith's executive assistant when Smith was appointed Director of Central Intelligence in 1950. Montague contends that Smith is so important to the development of the… Read more

Lanham, MD: University Press of America and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, August 1986. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Foxing to cover and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 78 pages.

New York: Liberal Arts Press, September 1948. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. First Edition, fifth printing, May 1953. Good. Prior owner's name inked to first page. Underlining and a few notes in pencil. Securely bound with two staples. Sun shadow to cover. xviii + 68 pages. 21 cm. In these four superb "dialogues", Plato provides the classic account of the trial and death of Socrates which has a central place in the European philosophical tradition.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. Paperback. Second (Revised) Edition. 24th printing, 1981. Good. Some highlighting and underlining. Not from a library. 70 pages. In these four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account of the trial and death of Socrates which has a central place in the European philosophical tradition.

New York: Bantam Books, June 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Bantam Classic. 5th printing, SC4319. Good+. Spine creased. First page is clipped and has a booksellers ink stamp; the rest of the interior is tanned, but unmarked. Cover shows only minor shelf wear for a 50+ year-old paperback. 346 pages. Virgil's epic poems recount the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition (stated). Good book, no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight with three-inch tear to cloth binding. No jacket. Not from a library. 516 pages. Virginia Woolf's diaries abridged into a splendidly readable single volume edition.

New York: Chanticleer Press, 1944. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gold lettering to spine. Sewn Binding. Lavishly illustrated with 48 color plates and 132 B&W illustrations. Very Good. No jacket. Prior owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Text unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine ends bumped with small tears. Not from a library. 316 pages.

London: J. M. Dent / EveryMan, September 1993. Paperback. Edited by Pamela Norris with Introduction by Peter Conrad. Near Fine. Interior unmarked with light tanning to page edges. Spine straight and tight with hinge creases and light spine crease. Cover clean and bright. No tears, no folds. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. 317 pages.