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

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, August 2012. Hardcover. New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 112 pages.

New York: Hyperion, May 2009. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 402 pages. A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him.

New York: Penguin Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Movie Tie-In Edition, first printing / full number line. Very Good+. Prior owner's name inside cover. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 315 pages. At the age of twenty-five, Kuki Gallman, divorced and badly injured in a devastating car accident, left Italy to convalesce in Africa with the man who would become her second husband. Enchanted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. But Africa's splendor came with a price. Filled with pain and joy, beauty and drama, Gallman's haunting memoir captures perfectly the magic of Kenya. Made into the motion picture starring Kim Basinger.

New York: Berkley, November 1971. Mass Market Paperback. 31st printing, October 1980. Very Good. Interior lightly tanned but unmarked. Spine straight and tight with light creases. Covers clean and bright with some edgewear and a short tear to upper corner of rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 512 pages. The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant. A man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy discovers that money can buy everything.

London: Verso, June 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Foxing to top edge and inside of covers. Text pristine. Spine straight, very tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 214 pages. Translation of Ibn Khaldoun : naissance de l'histoire, passe? du Tiers monde. This intriguing study opens with a general description of the Maghreb in the later Middle Ages, focusing primarily on mercantile trade, especially in gold, and the social and economic structures of tribal life. He unravels Khaldun's fascinating biography: born in 1332 to an aristocratic family in Tunis, he had an extraordinary diplomatic and military career in the turbulent wars and politics of Western Islam, withdrew to a desert retreat in 1375, and finally emigrated to Egypt. Lacoste then turns his attention to Ibn Khaldun's Universal History, arguably the greatest single synthesis produced by medieval thought anywhere. His account of Ibn Khaldun's thought is a remarkable, sympathetic work of… Read More

New York: Random House, June 2019. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiv + 418 pages. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland--at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland's ice doesn't just tell us where we've been. More urgently, it tells us where we're headed.In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains… Read More

New York: Bantam, November 1996. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Near Fine jacket. Foxing to closed edges. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light shelfwear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No creases, no tears, no folds. 464 pages.

New York: Galaxy Publishing. March 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Binding square and tight. Small hole to rear hinge near lower staple. Pencil marks next to story titles on contents page; otherwise interior unmarked. Cover clean with reading creases. Spine ends chipped. No mailing label. Not from a library. 164 pages. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Paul Wenzel for Worlds to Kill (novelette) by Harlan Ellison. ALSO: Slowboat Cargo (serial, part 2 of 3) by Larry Niven (book publication as A Gift from Earth); Sunbeam Caress (novelette) by David Redd; Deadlier Specie (short story) by David A. Kyle; Caterpillar Express (short story) by Robert E. Margroff; Squatter's Rights (short story) by Hank Davis. FEATURES: What Science Fiction Is (editorial) by Frederik Pohl; At Nycon #3 by Lin Carter. Interior artwork by Virgil Finlay; Jack Gaughan; Vaughn Bodé; Dan Adkins

New York: Galaxy Publishing. January 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Good. Cover secured with archival tape. Shadows of old tape. Nicks and reading creases. Pencil check marks next to story titles on contents page; otherwise interior unmarked. Lightly tanned. No mailing label. Not from a library. 164 pages. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by John Pederson, Jr. illustrates He That Moves (short story) by Roger Zelazny. ALSO: Starsong (short story) by Fred Saberhagen; The Peacemakers (novelette) by John Rankine (Douglas R. Mason); The Taste of Money (novelette) by R. V. Humphrey; Rogue's Gambit (novelette) by Phyllis Gotlieb; All Judgment Fled (serial, part 2 of 3) by James White; From Distant Earth (short story) by Basil Wells; Interstellar Travel and Eternal Life (science article) by R.C.W. Ettinger. FEATURES: On Doing Better (editorial) by Frederik Pohl; Foreign Fandom by Lin Carter. Illustrated by Virgil Finlay, Gray Morrow, and Jack Gaughan.

New York: Galaxy Publishing. December 1967. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Binding tight, slightly rolled. Pencil check marks next to story titles on contents page; otherwise interior unmarked. Cover clean with reading creases. 1.5 inch tear along lower front hinge. No mailing label. Not from a library. 164 pages. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Douglas Chaffee illustrating City of Yesterday (short story) by Terry Carr. ALSO: Answering Service (Nebula-nominated short story) by Fritz Leiber; When Sea is Born Again (novelette) by C. C. MacApp; Swordsmen of the Stars (novelette) by Robert E. Margroff & Andrew J. Offutt; Ocean on Top (serial, part 3 of 3) by Hal Clement; All Judgment Fled (serial, part 1 of 3) by James White; On Conquered Earth (short story) by Jay Kay Klein; The Time Trollers (short story) by Roger Deeley. FEATURES: Guest Editorial: Herbert George Morley Robert Wells, Esq. by Arthur C. Clarke; Fandom in Europe Today by Lin Carter. Illustrated by Gray Morrow,… Read More

New York: Galaxy Publishing. February 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Binding tight with light roll. Pencil marks next to story titles on contents page; otherwise interior unmarked. Cover clean with reading creases. Spine creased and chipped. 3/4 inch tear along top front hinge. 1.5 inch scar to ad on back cover. No mailing label. Not from a library. 164 pages.Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Vaughn Bodé for The Petrified World ( short story) by Robert Sheckley. ALSO: Slowboat Cargo (serial, part 1 of 3) [Known Space] by Larry Niven (book publication as A Gift from Earth); All Judgment Fled (serial, part 3 of 3) by James White; Star Bike (short story) by Burt K. Filer; The Courteous of Ghoor (short story) by Robert Lory; The Selchey Kids (novelette) by Laurence Yep. FEATURES: The Day We Launched the Moonship (editorial) by Frederik Pohl. Illustrated by Gray Morrow, Jack Gaughan, Dan Adkins.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. Trade Paperback. Fifth impression, 1956. Good+. Underlining in pencil. Name and address inked to first page. Edge and corner wear. Not from a library. 527 pages.

Shaftesbury, Dorset, England: Element Books, November 1995. First Edition. New. Never sold but jacket spine faded from 25 years on a shelf, otherwise pristine inside and out. No remainder mark. 256 pages. Illustrated in color. The Complete Guide to the Use of Oils in Aromatherapy and Herbalism.

London: Arrow, 2016. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Black remainder dot to bottom edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 490 pages. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spellbinding orator, determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state. This is the starting-point of Robert Harris's most accomplished novel to date. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, it takes us inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, to describe how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, September 1981. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Slight edgewear and light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 128 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, July 1978. Hardcover. First Edition, fifth printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clear, spine faded. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 561 pages.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. Revised Edition. Very Good+. Text unmarked. Spine creased but straight and tight. Light dust stains to top edge. Light rubbing and slight edge wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 590 pages. Six historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia.

New Delhi: Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Indian Paperback Edition. No additional printings listed. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rear cover has sticker from Giggles Bookshop and three-inch crease at bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 393 pages. An ethnography in narrative form. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some imaginary, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. The book contains two narratives. The first, an anthropological narrative, revolves around two visits made by Ghosh to two villages in the Nile Delta, while he was writing his doctoral dissertation (1980–81) and again a few years later (1988). In the second… Read More

New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press. 1996. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 275 pages. The Soviet Union's collapse eliminated the organizing principle of American foreign policy--and the focus of U.S. intelligence since World War II. In the wake of this sudden shift, a new host of priorities have been suggested for the intelligence community: terrorism, the proliferation of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction, organized crime and drug trafficking, ethnic conflicts, and even global economic competition. Meanwhile, the coming of the information age and the opening of more and more societies have prompted arguments for changing the way intelligence is gathered. In response to this debate, the Twentieth Century Fund assembled a task force drawn from the intelligence community, the military, government, and academia. In the course of its meetings, the task force identified four crucial areas for improvement: first, in an age when information is plentiful,… Read More

London: Black Swan, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine curved and creased. No tears. Not from a library. A nice reading copy. 348 pages. This overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. 'This idn't nothin',' says Alison's grandmother, recalling a drought when the earth swallowed lambs, and the summer after the war when people got electric shocks off each other. But Alison knows her grandmother's memory is lying: this is far worse. She feels that time has stopped just as she wants to enter the real world of adulthood. In fact, in the cruel heat of summer, time is creeping towards her, and closing in around the valley.