Search Results: Titles starting with I from Back of Beyond Books

New York, NY: Harms Incorporated. Fair. 1933. Sheet music. Sheet music is in fair condition. Music company stamp on front of wrapper. Tears on top and bottom spine have been taped closed. Water damage (2" x 2") on top right corner throughout item. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp .

Philadelphia: Lee & Walker. Good. 1863. Pamphlet. A sad Civil War song, very popular on both sides at the time. Disbound with rough binding edge. Seems to have been trimmed on lower edge, with no apparent loss of text. Chorus: "Then weep not, love, Oh! Weep not, One hope is not vain; That when the war of life is over, We in Heaven may meet again." Advertisement list on rear. ; 12 1/2" x 9 1/8"; 6 pp .

Buffalo, NY: Audit/East - West. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. Wine-colored card stock wrapper. String-bound. A single poem by James Koller. Wrapper shows light fading and rubbing. Interior is clean. Unpaginated [24 pp]. ; Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall .

New York, NY: Lombard Music, Inc.. Very Good. 1949. Sheet music. Sheet music is in very good condition. Pages toned. Soiling on front edge of wrapper. ; 12" x 9"; 3 pp .

New York, NY: M. Witmark & Sons. Good. 1930. Sheet music. Sheet music is in good condition. Spine separated. Pages toned. Previous owner signature and stamp on front of wrapper. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp .

U.S.A.: Stoecklein Publishing. Very Good. 1991. Hardcover. 0922029024 . Stoecklein's portrayal of the life of cowboys in Idaho: winter season, calving, spring on the range, and the personalities of the ranch. Bound in full tan leather with embossed title on front and spine. Protected in linen slipcase with eight brands embossed on front in brown. The front leather board states Limited Edition, but no signature or limitation found within. Still in publishers shrink-wrap but opened to inspect book. Leather boards show imperfections but interior is clean. ; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall; Price dropped 1-14-19 .

U.S.A.: Stoecklein Publishing. Good. 1991. Hardcover. 0922029024 . Stoecklein's portrayal of the life of cowboys in Idaho: winter season, calving, spring on the range, and the personalities of the ranch. Bound in full tan leather with embossed title on front and spine. The front leather board states Limited Edition, but no signature or limitation found within. Leather boards show imperfections and a few nicks, but interior is clean. ; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall; Price dropped 1-14-19 .

Washington: United States Printing Office. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. Mauve wraps with brown lettering; staple bound. Map housed in the rear pocket. Wraps have light sunning along spine and light soiling. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1079. Many b&w illustrations and a 17 ½" x 22 ½" geologic map accompany this monograph. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 27 pp .

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the early travel guides to Illinois and one of only 500 copies. Faded brown stamped cloth boards with gilt imprint. Light soil, sunning, and worn off spine ends. Rubbed out former owner's name on front pastedown, former owner's name on first free endpaper. Light soil on edges and some pages. Xi, 2-[256], hand-colored folding map measuring 16" x 12". Map is in good condition with edge toning and tape repairs on three-inch tears. Part travelogue and part poetic and philosophical description of Illinois, the guide covers everything from homesteading to poisonous reptiles. Howes J 184. ; 6 1/2" x 4"; 256 pp .

Good. Real photo postcard depicting an Illinois Valley Pasteurized Milk Company horse-drawn cart, led by a young man holding six milk bottles. Manuscript on verso reads "Ray Dair - Sister Cora Dair." RPPC has a divided back and is on AZO paper. Published circa 1910. In good condition with light soiling on both sides, affecting content, and light wear to edges. The Illinois Valley Pasteurized Milk Company was located in Ottawa, Illinois. .

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company. Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the early travel guides to Illinois, one of only 500 copies. Brown cloth boards with brown tape spine repair and spine cloth ends worns off. Rubbed and bumped corners, front hinge cracked. Soil and light foxing on edges and endpapers, traces of writing on front pastedown. Xi, 2-[256], hand-colored folding map measuring 16" x 12". Map is in very good condition with tears where it is stubbed in. Part travelogue and part poetic and philosophical description of Illinois, the guide covers everything from homesteading to poisonous reptiles. Howes J 184. ; 6 1/2" x 4"; 256 pp .

Moab, UT: Back of Beyond Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 2008. Limited Edition. 1/2 Leather. Limited Edition, this being Letter A of 26 copies, A-Z. There were also 14 publisher copies printed. 1/2 brown leather over deep blue cloth with tipped in giclee print on front and gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Unpaginated. Book in fine condition. Small rough mark at base of spine. Slipcase is lightly soiled plus shows several small areas of discoloration. Slipcase also has tipped on giclee print replicated from artwork in the book. Calligraphy by Chris Montague. Each illuminated letter of the alphabet with writing by Terry Tempest Williams is on a full-page color giclee illustration of a desert scene by Chloe Hedden. An illustrated glossary and bibliography follow. Both the artist and writer live in Castle Valley, Utah. Limited edition designed by Dave Jenney, printed by Chris Conrad Photography on 100% cotton Entrada Rag Bright Paper, bound by Roswell Bookbinding in an edition of… Read More

New York: Sherman & Smith. Good with no dust jacket. 1848. Third Edition. Hardcover. A very early pocket map and tour guide for the United States. Red boards with gilt imprint and blind stamping. Rubbed and bumped corners, light soil on boards. Soil on edges and endpapers with a few lightly foxed pages. The folded and ornate hand-colored map is in good condition, but toned with fold splits that could use repair. Insets include the railroads around major cities and California, Oregon, and Washington, and many scenic illustrations. The map boundary ends around west Texas. Dallas appears as an isolated dot in one of its first appearances on US maps, eight years before it was incorporated as a city. Only three copies found on OCLC as of March 2016. Howes S 614. ; 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" ; 234 pp .

Boston: Frost and Adams Company. Good. N.D.. Softcover. Circa 1890s? Green wrapper has some soil and light edge wear. Laid in materials include pencil sketches on tracing paper and a pamphlet for Frost and Adams' leather working tools, with some shadows on the surrounding catalogue pages. Light soil on pages. A hard-to-find and amply illustrated catalogue with hundreds of pre-cut wood articles designed for pyrography decoration. Bellows, carving tools, pyrography points, waxes, color stains, and stamping paste are all for sale. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 157 pp .

Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office. Good. 1896. Hardcover. Half leather binding over marbled boards with title gilt on spine. Boards have moderate rubbing to spine and all edges, and spine has moderate chipping at top. Collated and complete, includes 46 b&w plates, most are backed on linen and fold-out. Plates are in good condition, most having light soil and some having light foxing and creasing at edges. Plates are b&w photographs of fur-seal rookeries found on St. Paul and St. George Islands, Alaska which were taken to accompany a report by Charles H. Townsend titled "Reports of agents, officers, and persons, acting under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the condition of seal life on the rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, and to Pelagic sealing in Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, in the years 1893-1895". ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Printing Company. Good. 1912. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition numbered 159/500 copies, with an author stamp on the limitation page. Purpled blind embossed boards with gilt imprint. Some light sunning of edges and spine, soil, and bowing of front board. Rubbed and bumped edges and corners, spine shaken. Purple patterned endpapers with a small bookseller's label on the first free endpaper, some inked notes on second endpaper. Light soil on text block edge and some pages. Laid in errata sheet. Author Benjamin M. Read engaged in numerous disagreements over the history of New Mexico and who had the authority to write about it. First English-language publication, based on the authors's second Spanish edition, and translated into English by Eleuterio Baca. Howes R-90, Graff 3430. ; 10" x 7"; 812 pp .

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Printing Company. Good. 1912. Author Benjamin M. Read engaged in numerous disagreements over the history of New Mexico and who had the authority to write about it. 476/500 copies, author stamp on limitation page. Laid in errata sheet. First English-language publication, based on the authors's second Spanish edition, and translated into English by Eleuterio Baca. Unusual violet cloth boards with marbled endpapers are quite sunned on spine, spine cocked, edges rubbed, corners frayed. Binding is holding, interior clean. Howes R-90, Graff 3430 ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 812 pp .

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Printing Company, Printers and Binders. Good. 1884. Paperback. Yellow-green wrappers with black text and engraving. 1" x 2 1/2" piece missing from front wrapper, chips missing from spine and back. Binding remains tight; interior mostly clean with light toning to edges and first several pages have tears at top with no content affected. Unique double issue of the Official Report paired with Ritch's Illustrated New Mexico in fourth edition. The New Mexican Printing Company printed both volumes. The Ritch includes the folding birdseye view of Santa Fe plus folding map, which shows very light separation at folds. Ritch also includes many text illustrations and full-page plates. The Official Report includes the folding table as called for, plus reports from the Bureau of Immigration, Auditor, Treasurer, Librarian, and Adjutant General. A nice working copy of an important pre-statehood report and promotional. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Buenos Aires: Laclaustra Y Compania. Very Good. 1947. First Thus. Full-leather. One of eighty copies. This is a facsimile edition of Hans Holbein Le Jeune's 1549 edition, as a set of two volumes in a marbled slipcase. The text volume with illustrations is full leather with five bands. Leather along the bands and edges is rubbed with a small crack at the head of the spine. Front endpapers are marbled and rear endpapers are brown suede. The second volume is a folder with a leather spine, with spine ends rubbed off, over marbled boards. It contains an etched copperplate with image and text. A unique presentation of the work of Hans Holbein the Younger, a famous 16th century artist and supporter of the Reformation. ; 10 3/4" x 7 1/2" .

Evanston, IL: Monroe Wheeler. Good. 1921. First Edition. Pamphlet. Wraps have heavy chipping and moderate soiling. Text block has moderate soiling. With typescripts of two poems laid in. Overall good condition. Yvor Winters’ second book of poetry. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pp .