Search Results: Titles starting with I from Select Tomes

Warner-Jenkins Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 1924. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 134 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and b/w drawings. Prior owner attributions on front free endpaper. A "textbook covering a variety of subjects including bacteriology, chemistry and physics, of which some knowledge is indispensable in modern methods of manufacture." This early primer on the science of ice cream making is rare in part because: "This book will not be broadcast to the trade as the cost is too great, but a copy will be mailed free to any of our customers applying for one. A charge of $1.00 will be made if a second copy is wanted. To all those who are not on our books as customers, the price is $2.00."

Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, NY 1955. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 512 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Page edges have some soiling. Prior owner attribution on front pastedown. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with original illustrations compiled under the direction of P. Edward Ernest. Very rare collection of children's favorite literature in one large volume.

A. S. Barnes & Company, New York and Chicago: 1873. Hardcover. Possible first edition. Condition: Very Good-. 80 pp. Text clean and bright. Several pages have purple water-color stains, but do not affect readability. Front cover has small closed tear (one inch) from spine and rear cover has wear with small area of paper pastedown missing. Alphabet illustrated with b/w woodcut for each letter. The remainder of the book is written in cursive. Prior owner (child) name written on front pastedown. Original readable copies of this book are rare. Remarkable condition for its age and usage.

Wilson, Hinkle & Co. Cincinnati, 1870. Hardback. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. 360 pp. Text yellowed typical of age. Deckled edges, clean, unmarked text. Headband has one-inch closed tear. An instruction manual for teachers of all grades on imparting education to young pupils. Remarkable condition for its age.