Search Results: Titles starting with I from Lamplighter Library

Stewart Tabori & Chang. New York. 1989. Photographs and interviews by Brian Lanker, edited by Barbara Summers and foreword ("They Came to Stay") by Maya Angelou. Later printing with shelf wear as seen in photos. Inscribed by the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Photography Brian Lanker (1947-2011) on flyleaf. Photographs and interviews of numerous black American women including Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson and Wilma Rudolph. (see photo for list of portraits). I Dream A World was the title of a poem written by Langston Hughes. 11x11 in. 167 pg.

Hyperion, talk miramax books. New York. 2001. Quarter-bound in blue with darker shade of blue paper boards and (ice-cold) silver lettering to spine. Later printing with one corner lightly bumped. Signed bookplate on half title page and inscription by author on title page. Included is the Feb. 25, 2001 review from the Des Moines Register. The book is more than just a "it's cold down there" story. In part, to escape monsters in her personal life, she volunteered to work at a South Pole reserach station. Spoiler alert, it didn't work. While there she performed a biopsy on herself to diagnose breast cancer. Being trapped by weather for eleven months and being the only doctor within six hundred miles required starting chemotherapry via satelite communication with experts. Eight pages of B/W photographs. 6.25x9.75 in. 362 pg.

Farrar, Straus And Giroux. New York. 1978. Near fine brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Similar near-fine unclipped ($5.95) jacket with minor shelf wear to edge protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in year of publication by the yr. 2000 National Book Award winner for Fiction. Metaphor, the symbolic representation of something else; is that how society views cancer and tuberculosis as more than a disease? It was originally presented as a lecture series at NYU. 8.5 x 5.5 in. 88 pg.

New York. Pegasus Books. 2016. Flat black paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. First Edition, first printing with requisite number line ending in 1. Unclipped ($25.99) jacket shows minimal shelf wear that is protected with removable mylar cover. Inscribed on title page by author. Seventeen authors write a story about seventeen paintings by Edward Hopper. "Highthawks", perhaps Hopper's best known work, becomes a story by Michael Connelly. Stephen King gets his chance on "The Music Room" and Joyce Carol Oates handles "The Woman In The Window". More paintings results in more stories with each individual story approximately 16 pages in length. A book easy to pick up, hard to put down. 6x9.25 in. 278 pg.

Crown Publishing Group. New York. 2011. Quarter-bound in black with black boards and gold lettering to spine. Bottom of spine slightly pushed in near fine book covered with a very good jacket, having only minor shelf wear and a 1 in. cut on the lower left side of the jacket back. Stated First Edition with correct number line ending in "1". Inscribed on title page by author. A masterful narrative nonfiction account that begins in 1933 and follows the story of the US Ambassador to Germany. Through the eyes of the ambassador and his family the evolution of Nazi Germany unfolds in all it's terror known to history. 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover.

Grant Central Pub. New York. 2010. The sequel to Presumed Innocent. Quarter-bound in red with black boards and silver lettering to spine. Signed on title page by author. Near fine First Edition, first printing with correct 10...1 number line with slightly pushed bottom of spine and slight shelf ware to book and unclipped (27.99) jacket with minor crease to jacket flap that is protected with removable mylar cover. Recall Presumed Innocent and the trial of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto.....well, when Rusty's wife is found dead Molto accuses him of murder for the second time..... 406 pg.

Eakin Press. Austin,TX. 1999. Bright blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Assumed First Edition, first printing with no subsequent printing shown on copyright page. Flyleaf shows Discard and The Senior Center stamps. Upper right front board has been bumped. Inscribed by the former Soviet Intelligence Officer and the novel's protagonist (Zoya Zarubina, 1920-2009) on the flyleaf. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with wrinkling to several edges. Jacket shows no price and is protected with removable mylar cover. Zoya Zarubina is a name perhaps lost to history yet played a part in numerous historical events: in her mid twenties she became a member of the KGB who later went on to become an interpreter for Joseph Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Tehran and Yalta conferences. She later worked at the Potsdam Conferences and Nuremberg Trials and still later, translated the atomic secrets stolen from the United States. She has served as the Dean of the English Language Department at the Foreign Language… Read More

New York. Harper (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers). 2012. Quarter-bound in black with hunter green paper boards and silver lettering to spine. Fine First Edition (stated), first printing with requisiste number line ending in 1. Author signed CLP bookplate on front paste-down. Unclipped ($27.99) jacket is "as new" and protected with removable mylar cover. Colin Powell (1937-2021) was born in NYC to parents who immigrated from Jamaica. A child of immigrants who, during a 35 year military career, rose to the rank of four-star general. Powell was the first Black secretary of state (2001 - 2005), was US national security advisor (1987- 1989) and became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989 - 1993). The Joint Chiefs of Staff position is the highest military position in the US Department of Defense. A must read for those wishing to run for public office. As Mr Powell said, "Do your best - someone is watching." 6x9.5 in. 283 pg.