Search Results: Titles starting with I from The Parnassus BookShop

U.S.A: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. 245 pages. Burnt orange cloth, very clean, with dark brown lettering. Small indentation on lower edge, light edgewear, small scuff on lower left corner of front panel. Solid and tight book. Ffep has pocket from a senior center, damp stain on upper corner of paste-down. Interior very clean and unmarked, lightly toned. From a Massachusetts life of gentility to Montana in the 1860s is a longer journey than in miles for Lidian Dorie. Here is her story of that journey.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Nobel-Peace Prize winning author. 23rd Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Just a slight touch of wear to upper rear corner. Two 8-page photographic sections. The story of family uprooted by global terrorism. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Vallley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out, refused to be silenced, and fought for her right to an education. Here is her story. 327 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2013, Little, Brown and Company, New York.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A: Algonquin Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket As New. Archival protective jacket cover. Immaculate in black half cloth gilt titled with green speckled boards, tight, solid and square . Eric Larsen's prize-winning novel, "An American Memory", ended with the hero, Malcolm Reiner, married. We now meet the woman he married, Zoe Handke. Zoe struggles through life with a mother who seems enraged by her very existence and does hateful things to Zoe; but with a supportive and loving aunt grandfather and father, Zoe just barely saves herself. A beautiful work. 216 pages. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. 1992, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

U.S.A: Gotham Books/Penguin Group, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Clean, unmarked, tight , solid, square volume. Staight-shooting look at the hottest issues and controversies in golf today, from the game's most popular and provacative commentator. 268 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Gotham Books/Penguin Group, New York, 2004.

USA: Gotham Books/Penguin Group, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Clean, unmarked, tight , solid, square volume. Staight-shooting look at the hottest issues and controversies in golf today, from the game's most popular and provacative commentator. 268 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Gotham Books/Penguin Group, New York, 2004.

USA: Penguin Books, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright in oranges, navy and black, very clean with slight edgewear, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Penguin Books, New York, 1992.

USA: Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Now a Major Motion Picture. A haunting memoir vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen. A memorable and moving narrative of the vast spaces and rugged beauty of Kenya's interior and a memorial to the ones she loved and lost in Kenya. Paperback cover is bright, very clean with trace wear to extremities, no creases; tight glued binding; text block edges clean and white. Four illustrations section, two in full colour. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. 315 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2000, Penguin Books, New York, New York, USA

New York: Three River Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Three Rivers Press, 2003. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked book with faint wear to cover edges, rear cover upper corner is creased, tight and sound glued binding, square. 16th century England, politics and intrigue in the royal houses of England, an England ravaged by religious wars, at war with France and Spain, and badly in debt. At the end of Elizabeth I's reign, forty-five years later, her empire spanned two continents, was unified under one church, victorious in war, and with an overflowing treasury. And the Elizabethan Age was a cultural Golden age, peopled by Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, and others. 641 pages. 8" x 5.25". 2003, Three Rivers Press, New York.

USA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback A Prize-Winning Novelist's Journey in Search of an Elusive Father. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. . Handsome binding of black half-cloth with gilt titles, green paper-wrapped boards, clean and bright, tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Interior immaculate. 204 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading, MA 1993.

U.S.A: PublicAffairs, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Former owner name on endpaper, otherwise book is as new, in binding of brown and deep orange paper-wrapped boards, solid, square with sharp corners. Pages also as new. Jacket is clean and unmarked, not price-clipped, upper edge slightly ruffled. Kathy Gannon reports on the roots of terrorism in the Middle East. As a Western journalist in Afghanistan, she knew that country under the Taliban, knows its beleaguered people, its ruthless leaders, and speaks with authority about Afghanistan's heartbreaking history. 186 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Public Affairs, USA, 2005.

Regan Books/HarperPerennial, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Regan Books, 1999. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 901 pages. 8vo. Clean, gently used, solid book with light cover edge wear, tight and solid binding, pages completely unmarked, no creases. David Teplica (Cover Photo by), David High (Cover Design by). A story set in Connecticut of twin brothers and their lives, one with paranoid schizophrenia and how that affects the lives of both. A story of alienation and connection, of power and abuse. of loss and redemption. 1999. Regan Books/ An Imprint of Harper Perennial/ A Division of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0060987561 9780060987565 [US]

U.S.A: Blue Mountain Arts, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback A lovely book of poetry for your Mother. Hardcover Book A New with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Floral pictorial cover in pastels. Very nice paper, each page in different pastel colors, with floral illustrations throughout. Jacket illustrated the same as the cover. No edgewear. The jacket has some pale spattered marks on the lower part of the cover. otherwise bright and clean, no wear to extremities. 64 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 1998, Blue Mountain Arts, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

USA: William Morrow & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Top edge of text block is a bit greyish, otherwise in Fine Condition, in ivory half cloth with gilt titles on spine, ivory paper-wrapped boards-immaculate. Brown endpapers. Internals very clean and completely free from any markings. Jacket is unclipped, clean and unmarked with edgewear and light chipping around spine ends and upper edge of back side. Possibly no one has had a greater impact on sportscasting and television sports journalism in the twenty years prior to the writing of this book than Howard Cosell. 380 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. William Morrow & Co., New York, 1985.

Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A: Doubleday & Co, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Vintage Dust Jacket. Bob Hope in his inimitable style on London Fog, Flying, Krushchev, Marines--lots of humor and fun. b/w photographic illustrations. Gray cloth binding with red titles is very clean with no marks, upper corners very gently bumped. whisper of wear to spine head and heel. Pages toned otherwise Fine. 224 pages. 5.75 x 8.6 inches. 1963, Doubleday & Co, Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little Brown & Co, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Eight pages of photographs. Gently used book is clean and unmarked, faint wear to corners, soundly bound, internals clean and free from any markings, no creasing.The autobiography of one of America's most prominent journalists and former news anchor on CBS evening news. A memoir about growing up in Texas in the later 1930s and 1940s, a moving, anecdotal and revealing portrait of a family and community life during a vastly different time, of a country just recovering from the Great Depression and on the brink of and during World War II. 261 pages. 8 x 5.2 inches. Little Brown & Co., Boston, MA 1992.

U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House, 1990. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked with a slight crease to front corners. A comic picaresque chronicling the rise and fall of Ditie, a tiny, ambitious busboy at the Golden Prague Hotel in the years before World War II. A story of nobody and a history of Czechoslovakia --hilarious, poignant, erotic, and deeply profound. 241 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 1990, Vintage Books/Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Berkeley. CA: Rdr Books, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Edition Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Special intro by Mary Morris and a rebuttal by Jan Morris. A hilarious anthology with 51 top travel writers, novelists and journalists telling their stories of their greatest travel disaster. Includes contributions by Isabel Allende who tells of freezing in a battered camper in Paris; Rick Steves; Paul Theroux; Barbara Kingsolver; Dominique Lapierre; Helen Gurley Brown; and many others . The book is gently used, whisper of wear to corners, faint crease down spine, tight & solid, pages quite clean, no markings of any kind. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. 256 pages. 1994, Rdr Books, Berkeley, CA

USA: Pocket Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. A Laugh-out-loud reality check that only a seasoned mother of three could write! 196 pages. 8.8 x 5.75 inches. Pocket Books, New York, 1999.

USA: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback Fourth Printing. Author's debut novel. Hardcover in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Imagine you are Amelia Earhart and you and your navigator just disappeared off the coast of New Guinea on a windy day in 1937--and you tell us about yourself--this is this story. 146 pages. 7.5 x 4.75 inches. Alfred A Knopf Inc, New York, 1996.

USA: Bantam Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. By the author of The Day of the Jackal, a classic spy novel, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and others. And here is another novel of international intrigue involving a Russian one-time army sargeant with dreams of becoming the promise of a Russia reborn Clean & unmarked, tight & solid & square with sharp corners. Faint, pale spots on bottom edge of text block is the only defect. Bright, clean black jacket with gold print with very slight wear to edges. 464 pages. 6.3 x 9.5 inches. Bantam Books, New York, 1996.