Search Results: Authors starting with I from James Arsenault & Company

West Berkeley, California: California Ink Company, [ca. 1922]. 12mo (4.5" x 7.75"), illustrated cardstock wrappers, cloth spine. 118 pp, index, numerous plates printed in black and one of various ink colors, 1 full-color plate, 1 b&w illus. A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper most suited to its use, and the tint samples are printed over images of canned products for sale such as pastes, compounds, tablet gums. A full-color reproduction of a Del Monte Canned Fruits oil painting opens the sequence. The catalog concludes with cover inks, printer's rollers, and miscellaneous merchandise. California Ink originated in 1891 as part of the Union Oil Company, moved to West Berkeley ca. 1900, incorporated 1919, produced the first red… Read More

New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1948. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo, blue cloth. [xii], 101 pp. Inscribed by author at ffep. CONDITION: very good, touch of wear at corners; jacket good, head of spine panel chipped, rubbed and creased at edges. First edition, first printing of Berryman's uncommon second book. Inscribed by Berryman to poet and Princeton professor Charles Bell: "Charles affectionately John" and "Princeton[,] so late as to say Merry Christmas Dec 1948." Bell was a colleague of Berryman's at Princeton and an influential poet/teacher. Among his students were W. S. Merwin and Galway Kinnell. The latter accompanied Bell when he left to teach at Black Mountain College.

Baltimore: Printed by Richard J. Matchett. 8vo (9.25" x 6.5"), later brown cloth, gilt spine title. Deckled edges. viii, [1], 10-108 pp., original rear wrapper bound into rear with ad reading: "Printing in all its variety, and in a superior style, at R.J. Matchett's office. Copperplate printing handsomely executed." Pictorial bookplate of "Edwin Stanton Fickes" at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good ex-library, label residue at foot of spine, dampstaining to upper margins and upper right corners of most leaves, library stamp in blue ink at verso of title page, library checkout-card pasted onto rear endpaper, light foxing. An account of the American recognition of South American countries fighting for independence from the Spanish crown. An anonymous work that, though often attributed to Henry Brackenridge, offers a harsh critique of Brackenridge's policies. According to AAS, "possibly written by Baptis Irvine, Theodorick Bland, or John Stuart Skinner and mistakenly attributed by Cushing and Sabin to… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnamm 1860. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.75"), gilt green cloth. Engraved half-title, xiv, 412. Previous owner inscription on title, "Whitney 1861." CONDITION: Very good, light wear to extremities, light stains to endpapers and pastedowns.