Search Results: Titles starting with I from James Arsenault & Company

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Hardcover. Sm. 4to (11 x 7.5"), gray cloth, dj. Decorative endpapers, 80 pp., [4]., numerous color illus. CONDITION: Good +, toned covers and spine, light foxing throughout; dj with 3" open tear at upper left edge of front cover, small tears and chips at extremities.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. Hardcover in dj. Sm 8vo (7.5 x 5.25"), blue cloth stamped in silver. 114 pp., numerous b&w illus. Gift inscription at foot of front paste-down reading: "To Josephine from Aunt Mabel. Carmel. Dec. 25-1937," and author inscription on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, light foxing to endpapers, faint offsetting from dj to endpapers, occasional light foxing; Very good dj lightly worn at extremities, no tears. Twentieth printing. Inscribed by the author: "To Josephine Haskell, Aloha to you, Don Blanding." Josephine Haskell, herself a noted poet, was wife to Maine poet Richard Aldridge and daughter of portrait-artist and etcher Ernest Haskell.

Boston: The Boston Athenæum Collection. 1991. Hardcover in dj. Oblong (10" x 11.25"), gilt gray cloth with facsimile lithograph pasted on front cover. ix, 191. CONDITION: Very good, one white spot on front cover, faint dampstain on edge of front cover, faint dampstains on rear cover; very good dj, wear to extremities and small tears at edges. Author's gift inscription on front title reads "With best regards, To Scott Nason, from Sally Pierce December 1992.

Pasadena, California: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. Hardcover in black cloth slipcase with illus. on front panel. 4to (13" x 11.25"), white linen. [6], 95 pp., [5], numerous full-page, gravure plates on uncoated stock, laid-in artist statement and holiday card from the Webbs. Author inscription at title reading, " Best Wishes to Jo and Dick. Todd Webb." CONDITION: Very good, light foxing to edges of covers, clean throughout; near-fine case with faint spots and rubbing. First edition, inscribed by author and photographer Todd Webb to poet Richard Aldridge and his wife Jo of Phippsburg, Maine. One of five thousand copies.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Hardcover. 8vo (8.75" x 6"), green paper boards in half tan cloth with title-author leather stamped on spine. Previous owner bookplate on front paste-down. b&w woodcut engravings throughout. Author and illus. autograph on colophon. 40 pp. CONDITION: Very good, front and back covers faded and spine sunned but text-block fine. Edition 191 of 300. "Uniform with Enid Clay's Sonnets & Verses, also illustrated by Gill [his first collaboration with Golden Cockerel]." "This is no. 101 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications" (Gill). Signed by both Eric Gill and Enid Clay (Gill's sister) on the colophon. REFERENCES: Gill 293; Chanticleer 101; Skelton 38.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo (8.75" x 6.25"), gilt brown cloth. Frontis., 349 pp. Author inscription on ffep. ownership inscription of Wyman Parker on preliminary leaf. Bookplate of Wyman Parker on paste-down. Several contemporaneous newspaper clippings about Frost laid in. CONDITION: Very good, wear at extremities, toning to frontis. and title page, offsetting to rear endpapers from newspaper clippings. Stated fourth printing. Inscribed by Frost with a single line from his poem "Blueberries," as follows: "The blue's but a mist from the breath of the wind, Robert Frost. For Wyman Parker. Bread Loaf, 1933." Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.

Cambridge: The Farlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University, 1929. Hardcover. 4to (14" x 11.25"), gilt green cloth. 120 pp. 103 chromolithographic plates. CONDITION: Very good, spine sunned, fading to edges of covers, small white spots at covers, minimal wear to extremities, endpapers and pastedowns with light foxing. A work of "unsurpassed elegance" on North American fungi by eminent mycologist William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919), after whom Harvard's Farlow Herbarium library is named. Depicting 103 species of fungi commonly found across the north-eastern United States, the Icones was a forty-one year $50,000 project bringing together "four botanists, two professional artists, two commercial printers, one warehouse, and numerous photographers and editors" to present a work of mycology unlike any seen before or since" (Harvard). An early reviewer, Charles Kaufman of the University of Michigan notes that "no illustrations of mushrooms have appeared which remotely approach the beauty and scientific… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), yellow paper over boards with cream paper title label affixed to spine. viii, [1]-61 pp., early ownership inscription at front free endpaper: "Isabel S. de Bustamante 1948." In dust jacket. CONDITION: Good, a few small spots to back cover, some toning and foxing to pastedowns, ffep, and terminal leaf; spine of jacket rubbed and browned, dampstains to jacket along edges of spine. Stated first edition, sometimes described as the first trade edition, but actually the second edition (see Edelstein), after the signed, limited first. In Edelstein's third binding with yellow paper over boards and title label at spine.  REFERENCES: Edelstein A 2.b.

Metuchen, N.J., & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to (9" x 5.5"), green cloth with gilt-stamped title and author on spine and cover. x, 617 pp. CONDITION: Very good, minimal wear.

New York: Supervue Map and Guide Company, 1935. 9.75" x 7.75", color wrappers. [64 pp. of "collective" b&w illus. and text ]. A profusely illustrated souvenir of New York City, including images with captions of monuments, maps, museums, parks, colleges, beaches, entertainers, and the like. CONDITION: Good, lightly rubbed, central four-page section detached, clean and appealing interior.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. Softcover. Sm 4to (11.75" x 9"), blue ornamental paper, gilt author-title on front cover and spine, b&w illus throughout. xxxiii, 336 pp. CONDITION: Good, cover faded and slightly bent at bottom-right corner, spine sunned, text fine.

[Lewiston, Maine, 1911.]. Image size: 8.25" x 4.25" plus margins. A wonderful image of an assembled group of Pythian Knights apparently taken in Lewiston, Maine perhaps at the 1911 Central Maine Pythian Jubilee. The celebration brought thousands of Pythian Knights and sisters to Maine's second largest city and was the first held apart from the Portland-area chapters. CONDITION: Very good, light edgewear and toning, two small holes punched in margins.

New York: the John Day Company, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo (8.5" x 6"), burnt orange cloth, decorative gilt title, deckled fore-edge. [8], 376 pp. First edition. CONDITION: Very good in fair dj with chips, tears, and losses, upper right corner of front flap clipped, price of $4.95 present in lower right corner.

St. Louis, Missouri: Printed by Jno. McKittrick & Co., [1870s]. Broadside with map, 17.5 x 53 cm. Stamp of "Henry H. Hannan Land Agent Swan Creek, Ohio" in lower margin. A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company's land grant and elsewhere. Promising the "shortest and quickest route" to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the "liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in Arkansas and Eastern Missouri." Appearing in the center within a star-studded circular border is a map of the railway above which hovers a winged train wheel with a setting sun in the background, accompanied by the phrase "For the Happy Bound Lands." Text on the wings reads "rapid transit" and "easy transit." The map shows the railway extending as far as Auston, Dallas, and Sherman, Texas. Advertised here are both one-way and round trip tickets for land explorers, with rates from various cities provided in two… Read More

Providence, Rhode Island: Printed by John Carter, 1808. Broadsheet, 31 x 52 cm. Reinforced on verso with transparent tissue. CONDITION: Light chipping at margins and small tears along old folds, light dampstaining, several small losses to the text. A rare and compelling broadsheet publication of a letter by Senator Timothy Pickering opposing President Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807. Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) was a Massachusetts statesman and Federalist who served as the third U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Washington and Adams. Here Pickering writes as a Senator from Massachusetts in response to Jefferson's 1807 Embargo Act in a letter to James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts. Through the Act, Jefferson had sought to respond to British and French molestation of U.S. merchant ships carrying cargo to warring European nations during the ongoing Napoleonic Wars. The general embargo was precipitated by violations of America's neutrality when these vessels were seized as… Read More

Bangor, Maine: Passenger Department, 1934. 8vo (9" x 6"), pictorial wrappers printed in color. 161 pp., numerous b&w illus., two-color maps, 1 25" x 18" fold-out color map, folded 5" x 15" b&w illus. laid, apparently from another source. The 1934 issue of this classic sportsman's guide to the North Woods of Maine, with a directory, maps, 1933 Big Game record, summer train schedule and fares, numerous sporting camp ads, photographic images attributed to visiting hunters, and articles on a variety of topics, such as Marking the Appalachian Trail in Maine, Boys Scouts on Mount Katahdin, and Voyaging Wooded Waterways by Canoe. The color fold-out map covers the Northern Maine Hunting and Fishing Region, bordered on the east by the Bay of Fundy, south by the Atlantic Ocean, west by Quebec and north by the St. Lawrence River. Railroad lines and connections are included. The folded laid-in sheet features photographic views of potato fields and other crops. CONDITION: Good +, light wear at extremities, 4" .5"… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Hugh Maxwell, Columbia House, 1801. 12mo (20 cm x 12 cm), disbound (removed from sammelband). [iv], 16 pp. An 1801 medical essay for the University of Pennsylvania, describing the symptoms and procedures doctors need to understand when treating Uterine Haemorrhage. "When hemorrhages occur during the first six months of pregnancy, we call them abortions. Hemorrhages may occur at any time from the sixth month til labor commences, or it may occur during labor, before the birth of the child." Great consideration and respect is given the female patient in this essay. REFERENCES: Shaw & Shoemaker, 240; Austin, R.B. Early American Medical Imprints, 296. CONDITION: Very good, toning on edges.

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Hugh Maxwell, Columbia House, 1801. 12mo (20 cm x 12 cm), disbound (removed from sammelband). Half-title, [7], 30 pp., [1]. A University of Pennsylvania medical dissertation, describing the Bubonocelle disorder, remedies, and when all else fails, the operation. REFERENCES: Shaw & Shoemaker, 557; Austin, R.B. Early American Medical Imprints, 814. CONDITION: Good, first signature detached toning at edges, lightly stained throughout.

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1801. 12mo (20 cm x 12 cm), disbound (removed from sammelband). [10], 72 pp., including acknowledgments and three chapters. An 1801 Doctor of Medicine dissertation for the University of Pennsylvania. In his first chapter, Tongue argues against the widely held notion that Europeans caught venereal disease from the aborigines of America, using references to venereal disease from the bible, and from historical research from Persia, Greece, England and others. Experiments with mercury are described in later chapters. REFERENCES: Shaw & Shoemaker, 1427; Austin, R.B. Early American Medical Imprints, 1916. CONDITION: First signature detached, toning at edges, moderate soiling throughout, crease through upper right corner of title-page, .5 cm loss near top of two pages.

New Orleans, 26 November 1806. Partially printed 1 p. document filled out in manuscript, on wove paper, 27.5 x 43 cm. CONDITION: Old folds, chipping and minor losses to the margins, one letter missing, no other losses to the text. An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her "understanding of the household business." This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany-aged twenty-three and possibly Jewish, given her surname and the presence of a Jewish community in Anspach at the time-who had recently immigrated to New Orleans aboard the vessel Lewis William from Hamburg. David's immigration was likely precipitated by the turmoil besetting Bavaria during the Napoleonic Wars era. This document notes that jailkeeper Blas Puche has paid on David's behalf the "sum of one hundred and forty dollars of passage-money" to Benjamin Morgan,… Read More