Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bygone Books

London: Illustrated London News, 1967. Soft cover. VG+. Various. The Illustrated London News. Christmas Number 1967. No. 6692A. Vol. 251. Folio stapled wraps, 70 pages, stories, articles, advertisements, color and b/w illustrations of art reproductions, advertisements, etc. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear, internally clean and tight. Includes: Five Centuries of Christian Art from Russia; Light on London by Gerry Graham; An Eminent Victorian in Wartime London: a true ghost story by Alan Dent; The Graceful Fisherman: Herons at Chilham photographed by Dave Waterman; Spellbound: a child's view of Christmas photographed by Frank Herrmann; Inspiration of the Nativity, in Manuscripts fomr the Hans P. Kraus Collection; Flying Colours: the spirit of the turf caught by Gerry Cranham; ILN on the Map, drawn by Ionicus; Shepherd's Watch: a short story by Alan Dipper, illus. by Douglas Gorsline; The Gometra Soiree: a short story by J. Roger Baker, illus by Peter Gibson; Hearts and Flowers:… Read More

NY: Harmony Books / Push Pin Press, 1977. Soft cover. VG+. 2nd printing, 4to, stiff wraps, 72 pages, color illustrations. VERY GOOD+ condition.

Geneva: Skira, 1979. Hardcover. NF/NF. Lg 4to, orange cloth, 239p. b/w and color illus, many tipped-in. NEAR FINE book in a NEAR FINE jacket in an edgeworn, sl. yellowed slipcase.

Boston, MA: L. C. Page & Company, 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. With sixteen illustrations in color, reproduced from original paintings by eminent British artists, and forty-eight duogravures from English photographs; also indexed maps covering routes. 8vo, illustrated boards with gilt titles, top edge gilt, deckle edges, 402 pages, many illustrations as noted (all present and accounted for), 2 fold-out maps. Condition: VERY GOOD / no jacket: a few scuff marks to the covers, some pages are uncut and a handful, opened by an idiot, have small chips; faint discoloring to the overhanging pages, very faint smattering of foxing but plates are unaffected. A lovely book really and 7000 miles of delightful British adventures await you.

New York: Brentano's, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Various.. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges, 502 pages, 44 b/w illustrated plates, index, list of "Works by the Brontës." Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities, a slightly toned spine, owner bookplate of Edith Scoville ["Be of Good Cheer"], some light foxing stains to deckled edges with very light scattered foxing on some pages (it is minor, a bit more foxing is on the title and dedication page), illustrations are clean. This is a lovely book, one of the earlier biographies. Chadwick lived in the Haworth area for a few years; she also wrote a book on Elizabeth Gaskell. "A few years after Esther Alice Chadwick (fl. 1882-1928) - who wrote under the name Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick - had read a copy of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë, she moved to a house near the Haworth vicarage where the Brontë family had lived.… Read More

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. Hardcover. G+. No edition statement, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. 8vo, brown paper-backed boards / olive green backstrip, 396 pp, 30 b&w plates. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket: boards are rubbed, esp. at corners, spine head and tail have small tears, front hinge sl. loose (webbing just exposed at ttile page), pages are clean excepting a few pages that have faint foxing. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741 - 1821), known mostly as Mrs.Thrale, was a good friend and correspondent of Dr. Johnson.

Washington DC: USGPO [ United States Government Printing Office ], 1951. Soft cover. VG. 4to, stapled wraps, 21 pages of text, 10 fold-out charts (all present). Condition is VERY GOOD: light edgewear to paper covers, staples show faint rusting stains on title page, all charts are presnt and in excellent condition. The "Standard Chart and Map Symbols" published by Texaco Waterways Service is laid-in (this is a folded broadside, dated 9/51)

Philadelphia: Daniels & Smith, 1846. Hardcover. Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Altered from the original work of Rev. John Hill, by G. T. Bedell, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Phil'a. Reprint ed, originally published in 1832-3. 32mo (4 ½"), brown blind-stamped publisher's cloth with gilt decoration on cover and spine, all pages gilt, yellow eps, 109 pages. Condition is NEAR FINE: slight bumping to spine head and tail and corners, otherwise this little book is like new - somebody took very good care! It is Well; or, Faith's Estimate of Afflictions seems to be a companion piece to Bedell's work "Is It Well? or, Three serious and interesting Questions to Wives and Mothers" also first published in 1832-3.