Search Results: Titles starting with I from Crow Hop Rare Books

Providence, RI: Effendi Press, 2005. First Edition. 208 pp. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (edgewear, scuffing). SIGNED by Michael Harper on the title page. Poems and memoir.

Baltimore: The Coppin Poets/Coppin State College, 1974. Darlene Scriven and Gregory Lewis, Eds. Cover illustration by Wess Smith. 44 pp. 5.25” x 8.5” stapled illustrated wraps. VG+ (a touch of rubbing to covers, light soiling, bottom corner of opening pages creased).52 poems on Black power, Black beauty, and Black liberation, many from a female perspective, and 2 photos. Poems include “Black Woman” (“From my womb the race has come / And from my womb it must continue; / For I am Black and I am Woman”), “to Kayode” (“time and time and time and time / again / we say / ‘black folks gotta git togethaÂ’ / BELIEVE IT / when some devils bomb our children in a church in Alabama / we gotta CRY / and get MAD / and DEMAND justice / in BALTIMORE (and boston and Cleveland and Detroit and…”), and a wonderful poem “Nikki” about the poet Nikki Giovanni (“The Black princess be singing the blues like / Bessie, Dinah, and Billy / But her instruments are words—and LOVE!”). “The aim of the Coppin… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979. An early story (1942). Quarto in red cloth with stamped device in gilt. Olympus types on Mohawk Superfine paper. First Edition, one of 350 copies, this being # 81 and SIGNED by Welty on May 19, 1979. VG+ or better, a touch of soiling with a modest small stain to front cover.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1990. 10 pp. Near Fine pictorial stapled wraps (wrinkling to lower edge near staple). SIGNED by Sanders on lower front cover of this promotional pamphlet for her first book, Clover.

A carefully-arranged vernacular book (1950s?), where the unknown owner copies by hand large sections of What Tree is That? (1927) by E.G. Cheyney (Professor of Forestry at the University of Minnesota from 1905-1947) and Royal Dixon and Frank FitchÂ’s The Human Side of Trees (1917). Also included is a section of the James Russell Lowell poem, “Under the Willows” (“I care not how men trace their ancestry, / To ape or Adam; let them please their whim; / But I in June am midway to believe / A tree among my fair progenitors”). 4” x 7”, ring bound, thick paper-backed covers that are worn and stained. Internally clean, with first page attached to only one ring. Overall VG+. 222 pp. Handwritten (with the exception of one page typed on Willows) descriptions and nicely-realized drawings (62 total) in pen of trees including Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Balsam Fir, Cedar, Cottonwood, Poplar, Walnut, Hickory, Birch, Beech, Chestnut, Oak, Elm, Sycamore, Dogwood, Maple, Linden, Dogwood, Ash, and others.A… Read More

New York: Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1932. First Edition. Octavo, 24 pp. Published as Science Fiction Series No. 16 (Gernsback Publications). VG+ or better in stapled wrappers (toning to edges, ownership signature inside front cover which has bled onto opposite page). Smith’s first work of science fiction, what the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls “a conspicuously uneasy Space Opera.”

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover, 89 pp. Third collection by this African-American poet.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899. First American Edition. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. 237[1]; [8] pp. Dark gray pictorial boards with t.e.g and gilt lettering. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing and spine starting to pull away from textblock. An attractive copy.

Oakland: [n.p./Wally Ehler], 1957. Sandra Morra, Editor-in-Chief. 8.5” x 11” Unpaginated, but 9(1) pp. Pink and light green covers, side stapled. Toning and light wrinkle to covers with crease to upper corner affecting entire issue. About VG+.Mimeographed zine issued by Oakland Technical High School students (text hints that contributors/potential readers are mostly tenth graders), featuring a write-in Monthly Star contest, the KOBY 1550 radio station's "top forty of Greater San Francisco - Oakland Bay Area" for the week of September 16, 1957, an abundance of school news and gossip (including a note that Wally got a new mimeograph machine) and pop culture commentary on everything from Elvis to new be-bop sayings (“that tickles my spine” and “dig me later”), and a number of illustrations. Unrecorded in OCLC.

New York: Viking , 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by Boyle on title page. VG+ (a touch of rubbing to boards) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (toning to inner folds, small indentation to top of spine). His third collection of short stories.

New York: Everest House Publishers, 1980. VG+ softcover. 192 pp. Introduction by Al McGuire. Illustrated by N.E. Wolff. "Written with an authenticity made possible only by first-hand participation, The In-You-Face Basketball Book is a compendium of things your coach never taught you: language, scoring, violations, getting into a game, ethnic playing characteristics, gear, and games for one to five players. There is also one dazzling section on 'forbidden fundamentals' which could just revolutionaze the game, a glossary of ball terminology, and a rating of courts throughout the country."

New York: Knopf, 1995. Advance Reader's Edition. SIGNED by Ford on title page. Near Fine in illustrated wraps. The sequel to Ford's The Sportswriter.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. Ucorrected Advance Proof. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine glossy illustrated wraps. Alexie's second novel.

Bulletin of Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, which was founded in 1907. Includes a history of the College, Advisory Board, photographs and biographies of faculty in numerous departments--Piano, Voice, Orchestral Instruments, Harp, Wind, and Other Instruments, Dramatic Art, and Dancing. The bulletin describes courses of study for each department, activities, dorms, and scholarship information. Affixed by paperclip to opening pages is a typed letter (Dear Student) from 1926 SIGNED by College President Eva Louise Schurmann. VG or better overall in stapled wraps.

Portland, ME: J. Weston Walch, 1972. First Edition. About VG+ in illustrated softcovers in comb binding (a few stray marks in red, a pen notation on rear cover, two combs loose). 109 pp. Illustrations in black and red throughout. Contents include sections on lines, shapes, color, dimension, and dots in design, as well as chapters on design in nature, industrial design, interior design, architectural design, and urban design. Uncommon.

[1967]. Mimeograph invitation, 8.5” x 11”, with illustration of the Scarecrow. Paper is browned, heavier at left of document, and creased from mailing—VG or better. The First Munchkin Convention was held at the Malvern, PA, farm (with its own private menagerie) of Fox and the Hound author and noted Oz collector Daniel Mannix, who was the co-founder of the Wizard of Oz ClubÂ’s First Munchkin Convention. It reads in part, “Come and join the merriment / which upon, we all are bent. / Take a quiz on Ozistory, / view Ozian treasures, there to see…” According to www.ozclub.org, “Club members arrived to find the most beloved Oz characters represented by painted plywood figures, and the silver slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East protruding from beneath the barn.” The form was to be returned to Ray Powell, co-organizer of the event, a noted Oz collector in his own right, and author of two original Oz books.The year 1967 also saw the ABC television network release of the live action/partially… Read More

Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers, 1986. Illustrated by Peter Nelson. VG+ illustrated softcover with some sunning to spine. SIGNED by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic on p. 87 at his recipe and caricature. Simic also began to sign his name on the title page. Uncommon signed.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1956. First Edition. VG+ (soiling to endpapers, rubbed boards) in a VG+ or better unclipped dustjacket (toning to flaps and verso).