Search Results: Titles starting with I from The Antique Map & Bookshop

Arrow. V.Gollancz. 1973. 7.75 x 5.0 inches. In illustrated limp card covers in illustrated hard card slipcase. In very good condition with very good slip case. Slip case slightly rubbed around edges. Slight browning throughout both volumes. Both volume signed by author with neat inscription at front of Next Horizon. Relevant newspaper clippings loose in both volumes. Else clean and tight copies. 207, 304 pp. With b/w photographs to both volumes. The two volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography with an emphasis on his climbing and exploration.

Folio Society. 2000. Size 7.5 x 10 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt decor. Brown hard card slip case. In very good condition with a very good slip case. (S.C Some light scuff marks to the slip case) Inside very bright and clean, A very clean and tight copy. 254pp. Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth growing up in 1930's America, is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors.

Yale University Press. 2001 1st.. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In marbled white hard card covers with silver gilt to grey cloth spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Blue endpapers. In very good condition with a very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped. Neat inscription to first blank page at back. Else a clean and tight copy. 386 pp. With B/W photographs. Autobiography of the Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. Her father was executed during the Great Terror and her mother sent to a Gulag. As well as an autobiography, the story is of the life of a Soviet artist in the troubled years from the late 1930s to the 1990s.

Poole. Poole Historical Trust. 2003 1st edition. Size approx 9 x 7 ins. Hardback in grey cloth with silver lettering to spine. With glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. Small author signature lower title page. An excellent copy. 224pp. With many B&W photo illustrations.

Harrison and Sons. 1956 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In yellow and red hard card covers with black lettering to front. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Handling marks to covers and corners slightly rubbed. Else a clean and tight copy. 83 pp. With yellow borders. Long ‘S’ is used throughout. The I Zingari League was an amateur association football competition based in Liverpool, England which existed from 1895. Its name means 'the gypsies' in dialecticised Italian, and I Zingari was the name of an English amateur cricket club formed in 1845, and an Australian one formed 40 years later. The Liverpool football league’s name invokes their spirit of amateur competition. This takes the form of a reort, including obits for late members between 1934 and 1956.

1718. Unmounted. Total Size 22.5 x 25 inches. In very good condition. SLightly tanned to margin edges. Hand coloured,

Orr & Comp Amen Corner Paternoster Row Ca1870. Size of engraved surface: 25cm x 30cm. In very good condition. Small pencil text by Ceylon. Some pencil marks and coloured underlining Uncoloured.

Hodder and Stoughton 1999 (1st.).. Tall 8vo. 200 pp. Bound in original black cloth, with original dustwrapper. Fine in very good dustwrapper. PUBLISHER’ S CARD loosely laid in, WITH AUTHOR’S SIGNATURE (Raymond Benson).

London, Longmans Green & Co., 1900 (1st.ed.). Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Cover is a little worn and darkened, some fading and soiled/faded patches to edges. Front endpaper partially cracked. Prelims tanned. Inside pages all very clean & tight throughout. Maps clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Illustrated with a B&W Frontis portrait & 10 B&W maps & plans, (maps in text, with one fold-out coloured map at rear.) 409pp; Cat.32pp.(dated 7/00)

London, Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1914. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. Green cloth, coloured pictorial designs and gilt lettering to front and spine. All edges Olivine. In very good condition. Lovely bright cloth. Some slight rubbing to printed designs on spine and front. Slight darkening to top edges of cloth. Small bump to front leading edge. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Albion Rd. School, Elizabeth Smith, July 1913.” Some fading to edge colouring, else a very clean and tight copy. 324pp. +16pp cat. Illustrated with 9 colour plates.

London, Greening & Co. Ltd. 1903. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Light green cloth with white lettering and design to front, gilt to spine. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners. Spine darkened. Author’s inscription to front “With the author’s compliments and kindest regards, M.D.R.” Some dark foxing spots to pages else a tight copy. 215 + 8pp cat.

England. Airlife. 1988 1st.. 9.0 x 6.25 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine slightly faded. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 357 pp. With b&w photographs, and maps. An expedition to reach the North Pole from the USA in 1879 foundered after the ship was trapped in ice for two winters and then crushed. The survivors struggled to reach land, in Siberia. The facts were covered up for a century, but here are exposed in all their horror.

Oxford University Press 1939 1st thus. Size approx 7 x 10 inches. In light green cloth with gilt to spine. In good condition. Some darker handling marks to cover. Pages and print varies as different papers taken from seperate/previous publications. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy. C102g Various paginations. With various maps and illustrations.

London, The Arcadia Press, 1971 1st. Ltd Ed. 91/265.. Hardback, approx 13 x 9.5 inches. Bound in dark pink polished morocco leather fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. With leather title label to spine. Black and gilt Angel design to front. Full gilt page edging with decorative marbled endpapers. In grey cloth box-case, with soft felt inner lining. In very good near fine condition with very good box-case (Case is lacking title label front spine, some minor rubbing to corners and minor bumps to bottom edge.) The book itself is very clean and bright, no marks to endpapers or pages. Title page is numbered and signed by the author. Else a very nice copy. 336pp. With many full-page b&w and colour illustrations and photos.

London. Dean & Son, LTD. ca 1955.. 9.0 x 7.0 inches. In illustrated hard card covers. In very good condition. Spine slightly bumped at top. Handling marks. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 140 pp. With colour frontis and many line drawings in text. Dean & Son publishers produced many editions of the ‘Ideal Book’ series. A collection of adventure stories for boys by various authors.

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1899 1st thus. Hardback, approx 6.5 x 5 inches. Fine leather binding, navy blue morocco leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards, with gilt line edging, raised banding to spine with gilt lettering and decorations. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some slight minor rubbing to edges of boards, and leather on corners and ends of spine, else cover very clean and smart. Bookplate to front endpaper “Raymond Ball.” “Ex-Libris” stamp to following blank prelim with gryphon design. Some minor handling marks to pages with some neat pencil notes (lightly pencilled). Edges uncut. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 295pp.

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1929 3rd. 6.5 x 5.0 inches. In grey hard card covers with black lettering to white title label on pink cloth spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened. Foxing spots to front. Slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 94 pp. With b/w frontis with tissue guard. A whimsical collection of canine tales. The principal is nominally the work of an Aberdeen terrier.

London. The Folio Society. 2009 9th printing. Size 7.0 x 9.0 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with silver to spine and boards. In dark blue hard card slip case. Silver endpapers. In very good condition, With good slipcase slight marks on the side. A clean and tight copy. 234pp. With b/w illustrations and map. The author describes his arrest as a member of the Italian resistance during the Second World War and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated in January 1945.

London. The Folio Society. 2000. Size 7.0 x 9.0 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with silver to spine and boards. In dark blue hard card slip case. Silver endpapers. In very good condition. A very clean and tight copy. Corners rubbed. Small mark to back of spine. Shelf wear to slipcase. 234pp. With b/w illustrations and map. The author describes his arrest as a member of the Italian resistance during the Second World War and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated in January 1945.

Venezia, (Venice, Italy) Vincenzo Valgrissi, 1560. Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. Vellum boards with gilt line panels, later leather to spine with raised banding and maroon leather spine label. Red page edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Professionally rebacked on spine with later leather and spine label, and later endpapers. Boards darkened, corners bumped. Inscription to prelim “G. Frere, to his dear sister Susanna, Oct. 1805.” Some minor darkening to title page, faint water stain to top inner corner of pages, disappears about 1/4 way through.Chip/tears to bottom inside corners of pages at rear p208 - end (does not affect text.) Else a very good clean and tight copy. xii + 214pp + 5pp Index. Illustrated with a decorative engraved title page, decorative chapter headers and pictorial letterpieces. One clipped illustration pasted to one page in intro/dedication (M. Lavra.) Illustration to last page of cross & serpent design. “Alessandro Vellutello’s Commentary,… Read More