Search Results: Authors starting with I from Back of Beyond Books

New York: Duffield & Company. Fair. 1919. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Boards have heavy soiling and light wear to edges; gutters are cracked; "police dept." rubber stamped on front pastedown and numerous leaves in the text block. From the Spanish "Los Muertos Mandan" and translated by Franklin Douglas. Vicente Blasco Ibanez was a Spanish realist novelist, screenwriter and occasional film director. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pp .

New York: C. S. Hammond & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Softcover. Pamphlet in original blue wrapper is rebound in marbled stiff boards with a green cloth spine and title label. Grey cloth tape on hinges. Inside boards have a bookplate, owner's stamp, and binder's label. The wrapper has soiling and pieces up to an inch missing from the front and a few front pages. Two-color maps are on the insides of the wraps. Light soil on pages. Illustrated with many black and white photos. "An authentic account of the finding of the North Pole by Dr. Frederick A. Cook Com. R. E. Peary, U. S. N. Together with biographies of the explorers and a brief history of Arctic discovery. " ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 47 pp .

Good. 19th century stereoview with photographer's imprint on mount. Stereoview measures 4" x 7". Titled in the negative. On front mount reads "Yellowstone National Park Series, Photographed by T. W. Ingersoll, St. Paul. Yellowstone National Park Views." Photographer's imprint on verso is quite lengthy, but starts with "Ingersoll's Yellowstone National Park, Alaska, North Pacific Coast & Western Views…" Mount has moderate toning, soiling and wear; photograph has moderate yellowing and soiling. Overall good. This excellent photograph depicts two men lounging in a horse-drawn carriage parked next to the "Devils Punch Bowl" in Yellowstone National Park. The Punch Bowl is an actively boiling spring with a raised geyserite rim and here makes for quite a unique image. The photographer of this shot, Truman Ward Ingersoll (1862-1922), was a prolific photographer and stereoview publisher. He first traveled to Yellowstone in 1883 and made… Read More

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Indians Baseball Company, Limited Partnership. Fine. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards of photographs from Cleveland's Jacobs Field. One of 15,000 copies. This collection of photographs, stories, and statistics paints a picture of the history of the first 10 years the Cleveland Indians played at Jacobs Field. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 127 pp .

American Institute of Mining Engineers. Very Good. 1901. Pamphlet. From the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Richmond Meeting, February, 1901. Staplebound pamphlet has light creasing and a rust paperclip mark on front. Personally inscribed "with the regards of the writer." Contains a geologic map of the Lead City, South Dakota area. J. D. Irving worked for the U. S. Geological Survey studying the ore-bodies of the area in 1899. Only one copy found on OCLC. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 13 pp; Signed by Author .

Indianapolis, IN: Privately Printed. Very Good. 1942. Hardcover. Maroon boards with gilt imprint on front board. Boards have light wear and soiling; text block has light toning. One thousand copies of this book were printed for Howard Waldemar Sams in 1942. ; B & W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pp .

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Decorative Cloth. Blue boards with decorative gold gilt design on front. Spine is faded and gold gilt is very dark. Light soiling to boards; corners lightly bumped. Tight binding. Owners signature on back of frontisepiece. All six color illustrations present; one is loose. Light foxing and one dog-eared page.; Book; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

Very Good. Cabinet card depicting Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf the Younger seated and dressed in a suit. Mount has "Irwin, Chickasha, Ind. Ter." Imprint gilt on recto and "Lone Wolf Chief of the Kiowa Indians" in manuscript on verso. Circa 1900. Mount measures 5 ¼" x 7 ¼". Print is in very good condition with light soiling on recto and verso of mount. William Edward Irwin was a photographer active in Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, as well as other places in the American West, circa 1893-1935. He opened a photography studio in Chickasha, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) in 1893 but spent most of his career based out of Bisbee, Arizona. Chief Lone Wolf the Younger (1843 - 1923) was the adoptive son of Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf the Elder, and was a fierce warrior who survived the Battle of Washita and served as Chief of the Kiowa for 40 years. .

New York And London: Theatre Arts Inc.. Good. 1941. Theatre Arts magazine from 1941 with a great illustration of Mickey Mouse in Fantasia on the front cover; includes two xeroxed publications from the "Leopold Stokowski Society of America." Magazine has moderate soiling and moderate creasing; text block has moderate toning. ; B & W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 80 pp .

New York: Adolph Isaacsen. Good. 1890. Second Edition. Softcover. Yellow wraps with black lettering on front wrap and illustration on rear wrap. Wrappers were hole-punched on spine, not affecting content; wrappers have moderate soiling and light wear to all edges. Some of the signatures are shorter than others, making the fore edge uneven. 5pp of advertisements at end of book. Copyrighted to 1890. Adolph Isaacsen, known as "Sure Pop", provides a complete review of rat extermination and a natural history of the rat and the ferret. "Sure Pop" advertises that "houses are cleared of rats by ferrets," and promises complete extermination of bugs and other small rodents with different powders, pastes and traps. Three copies in OCLC as of December 2017. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 67 pp .

Paisley, Scotland: Gleniffer Press. 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Red buckram boards with gilt lettering on front board. Light soiling on front board. 3" x 2". Comes with an informative pamphlet about the publisher, which has significant sunning and some edge wear. A short story about losing innocence. ; Miniature .

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma. Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. Softcover. Wrapper is in fine condition. Wrapped in mylar. "Books Abroad is a quarterly publication devoted to comment on recent books." This volume focuses on surrealism in literature. ; Books Abroad: an International Literary Quarterly; Vol. 2/1/2043; 10" x 6.75"; 208 pp .

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1861. Hardcover. Twelve full-page engravings, one profile, seven color plates, and 41 woodcuts. Includes "Map No. 1 Rio Colorado of the West" and "Map No. 2 Rio Colorado of the West" published in 1858. Missing the two scarce shaded geologic maps, as is common. Rebacked using original spine and boards. Some surface staining to boards, gilt rubbed. Edges rubbed, corners bumped. This first book to deal with the Colorado River predates Powell's exploration by 10 years. The Ives report is also one of the first descriptions of the Grand Canyon and of the area's native inhabitants. Many of the sketches have exaggerated views of dark and narrow canyons, reflecting how strange the landscape must have looked to these early explorers. Farquhar 21, Howes I-94, Wagner-Camp 375. ; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .