Search Results: Titles starting with I from Capricorn Books

New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006. 218 pp, 8 1/2" H. Photographs. "Beginning with Tommy's experiences growing up in Canada in the forties and fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend (with Cheech Marin), 'The I Chong' is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding of civil liberties in post-9/11 American society. He tells the unbelievable story of his trip down the rabbit hole of America's War on Drugs and of his experiences in the federal prison system, and he offers up timely observations on combating the conservative political forces at work in this country. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, it is a unique chronicle of one man's life and how his humorous and spiritual point of view saved him during his wrongful incarceration at the hands of an administration without boundaries." Minor twist to the spine. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at the… Read More

Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc., (Toronto, 1993). 224 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover with self-flaps. B&w photographs. "From his earliest days in Winnipeg and throughout his varied and flamboyant career as a journalist and public relations manager, Ed Parker distinguished himself as a dynamic, creative, energetic innovator. Readers will delight in his association with the world renowned Canadian geologist and 'mine finder', Dr. Franc Joubin, and the colourful, unpredicatable American mining promoter, Joeseph H. Hirshhorn. Untimately the founder of the School of Journalism and Graphic Arts at Ryerson in Toronto, Ed Parker has left us a legacy of a life style characterized by boundless enthusiasm and the unmistakable 'Parker' flare." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear and rubbing. VG+.

Firenze (Florence): Vallecchi, 1954. 265 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). Small envelope with four colour post cards of Arcimboldi's work laid in. *ITALIAN TEXT ONLY*. Profusely illustrated with tissue-covered colour plates and many b&w reproductions. Contents: Premesa; Giuseppe Arcimboldi; L'Arcimboldi musicisa (Lionello Levi); Epilogo (Oscar Kokoschka); Documenti; Regesti e Bibliografia; Elenco delle opere. The artist is known for his fantastic portraits made up of vegetables, animals, fruit, everyday utensils/instruments, flowers, etc. Very slight browning to page edges and to endpapers, small bump to bottom corner of front board, minor wrinkling to top of spine. Dust jacket is yellowing at edges, a few very small chips and tears, some light edge wear/wrinkling, 1/4" dia. hole in lower part of rear panel, moderate soiling and rubbing, protected in a mylar sleeve.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Arcimboldi..

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1932. 286 pp, 8vo (8 13/16") H, green cloth with black lettering on spine and front board - no dust jacket. B&w photographs (collated). "Brilliant Embassy Attache in the capitals of Europe and patron of pawnbrokers; favourite partner at Court balls in Vienna and Berlin, and dishwasher at the Savoy Hotel in Rosario de Santa-Fe in Argentina; courtier and lover of Princesses, and old offender at the Assize Court; member of the 'Guestphalia' student corps at Heidelberg, and on the roll-call of the Foreign Legion; hero of many battles of the Great War, and nameless stoker on board the steamer 'Sylvia'; honoured guest in hotels de luxe, and unwilling guest in the forbidding dungeons of La Guadalupe prison at Lima in Peru; as well known to the attendants in the sleeping-cars of the great international expresses as to the drivers of prison vans; sleeping under bridges, or renting princely apartments; with handcuffs on his wrists today, and decorated with… Read More

Richard B. Smith, Peterborough, New Hampshire, (1963). 64 pp, 8vo, hard cover. The author's first published collection of poems, exploring such fundamental themes as human communications and the individual's search for identity in the modern world. Minor soiling to dust jacket. Very Good+/Very Good.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1992. 160 pp, 7 1/2" H. " 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren - more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures - vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad - this book offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it. Like a collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes or Grimm's fairy tales, (it) deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood." Slight bump at bottom of rear hinge. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, light… Read More

Self-published, 1966. 333 pp, large 8vo (9 15/16" H), hard cover (red cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold badge represented on front board) - no dust jacket. Color plates, b&w photographs, fold-out maps. Contents: Sedgemoor to the Treaty of Utrecht, 1685-1714; Th e Jacobite Rebellions and the Seven Years' War, 1715-1789; The Napoleonic Wars and Their Aftermath, 1799-1830; Industrial Troubles, The Crimean War and the Consolidation of the British Empire, 1831-1899; The South African War to the Outbrea k o f t h e First World War, 1899-1914; The First World War, 1914-1918; Amalgamation, Mechanisation, The Second World War, and Postscript, 1919-1965; Appendices: The 25th Dragoons; The Natal Carbineers; The Windsor Regiment (Royal Canadian Armour ed Co rp s ); C ol o nels of the Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonels in Command; Uniforms and the Standard; Regimental Music; Casualties, Honours and Awards; Regimental Collect. Minor browning to edges of pages and edges of textblock, light… Read More

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1937. 99 pp, 7 13/16" H - green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, gold emblem on front board. A collection of poems by the Canadian poet Lloyd Roberts, gathered under the headings: General; Mystical and Philosophical; Love; War; Children; Nature; Songs. Minor browning to pages, tiny light foxing marks on rear free endpaper, moderate browning to edges of textblock, heavy fading to spine colour, moderate fading on boards - more on front board, fading to edges, small light stains on bottom of textblock.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1991. Unpaginated, 10 1/4" H - glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Inscribed on title page: "BEST WISHES, / Dennis Lee". Over sixty poems including; Digging a Hole to Australia, The Pig in Pink Pyjamas; Gumbo Stew; A Wonderful Trip in a Rocketship, I'm Not a Naughty Daughter, The Lottery Dream of Miss Patricia Pig, A Home Like a Hiccup, etc. A very slight bump to the top edge of text block, minor edgewear, a few small wrinkles in laminate of covers, light fading to spine colour.. Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - (as issued). Illus. by David McPhail..

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1991. Unpaginated, 10 1/4" H - glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Signed on title page: Dennis Lee". Over sixty poems including; Digging a Hole to Australia, The Pig in Pink Pyjamas; Gumbo Stew; A Wonderful Trip in a Rocketship, I'm Not a Naughty Daughter, The Lottery Dream of Miss Patricia Pig, A Home Like a Hiccup, etc. Some soft wrinkles on the pages due to handling, large light crayon child's drawings/scribbles on the rear endpapers, one page with a 1" tear archivally taped at the bottom edge near the spine, a small bump at the top/bottom of the spine and at the corners.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/No Jacket - (as issued). Illus. by David McPhail..

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. 153 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "(T)he story of a woman on the run: from her children, and from herself. Late one February night Marion leaves her baby twins in the care of her sister, and drives away. She drives north into a world of snow, pressing over blocked and snowbound hills, relentlessly, pursued by a tide of memories, discordant emotions, and visions of her family that threaten to engulf her. Her journal is the record of that journey; but the last thing Marion wants to face is her own life. In the journal she takes refuge in writing stories, other people's stories - and through and between the stories, she begins to articulate and come to grips with the conflicting elements of her own life. (C)ombines the forms of short story and journal to produce a complex and compellingly honest portrait of motherhood." Very light browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket is price clipped, very light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing, small faint watermark at… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1983. 132 pp, oblong (9 1/8" H x 10 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, architectural drawings. "The magical buildings illustrated in this pioneer study of a virtually unknown architectural phenomenon were truly built of ice, and they were said to shimmer with color and fire reminiscent of sapphire, topaz, and opal. In style they recalled medieval castles, Gothic cathed-rals, Russian palaces, and Art Deco fantasies. Many were huge, reaching as high as a 14 -story building and extending as long as a football field, but, of course, there's no physical trace of them. Nevertheless, the authors have discovered dozens of historic photographs, lithographs, postcards, paintings, and drawings of these fabulous but ephemeral constructions, as well as mementoes of the winter activities and sports surrounding their creation. (They) relate the history of ice castle building and examine about thirty in detail.… Read More

New York: Chartwell, 2011. 224 pp, 8 1/8" H. Glazed pictorial boards, coiled wire binding to allow pages to lie flat when in use. Colour photographs, maps, step-by-step drawings, palettes. "As you are guided from an outline to the final stages of color variation, Blue Jays, Goldfinches, Cardinals, Robins, and dozens of other favorites emerge on the page. Featuring more than 45 of North America's most intriguing birds, these inspiring lessons provide details that will enhance the experience for artists of all skill levels, even those who are new to birding. (G)ives you a complete guide to the birds themselves, with information on plumage, preferred habitats, and how to attract the birds to you backyard. What's more, a full-color photo of each brings the 'model' right to your home studio." Some bumping/wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine.. Not Signed. First Printiing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - (as issued). Illus. by Michael Canas..

Edmonton, Alberta: M.G. Hurtig, 1967. 85 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H). "Eli Mandel's third book of poetry marks a radical departure from his earlier work, although the voyeurism of 'Fuseli' and the beast-poems of 'Black and Secret Man' are obvious forbears of his new rhetoric. 'An Idiot Joy' is a striking collection of visionary poems in which gossips and criminals inhabit a landscape of shrines and moons." Very small bump to bottom corner of both boards, small bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edgewear/wrinkling - moderate at top/bottom of spine, a few tiny chips and tears, tear at bottom of rear panel, tiny closed perforation on rear hinge, light rubbing, minor soiling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, n.d. (gift inscription dated 1928). 319 pp, 12mo (7 3/16" H), hard cover (orange cloth with black lettering and illustrations on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. B&w frontispiece. A public school mystery featuring the theft of The Gold Cup of Saint Moncreeth, the adventures of The Detective Clique and cricket. Moderate browning on endpapers, gift inscription on free front endpaper, book very slightly cocked, slight darkening to top of textblock, minor soiling to edges of textblock and on boards, very small bump to top corners of boards, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good+.

HarperCollins, (Toronto, 1996), Ist edition. 216 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Remember Ray Kinsella, the baseball visionary...from 'Shoeless Joe'? Or Gideon Clarke, the hero from 'The Iowa Baseball Confederacy', who, after a miraculous sojourn in the past, proved that what he a nd his father new about a Midwestern baseball league was entirely true? Nobody believed either of them. And nobody believes Joe McCoy. Joe McCoy's only hope is that Ray Kinsella and Gideon Clarke will believe his fantastical tale. Joe k n o w s t h a t , if he had to do it over again, he definitely would have pitched the Iowa State Baseball Championship, for sure married his tough but sexy high school sweetheart Maureen - and would never have written that crazy story about the U FO s ig ht in g . N ow h e's on the run from the law, accused of hijacking a jet and kidnapping a baby. And he can't quite shake the feeling that there must be a parallel dimension where he's… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. 189 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Around the world thoughtful people are asking one vital question: How could an unspeakable terrorist act carried out by a small group of Islamist zealots, most of them Saudi Arabian, result in war being declared on Iraq, a country with a brutal but firmly secular government that had no known connection with 9/11? Is it a grotesque mistake, a sinister plot, or just the strategic equivalent of a highway pileup? Far too many politicians and journalists who should know better have swallowed the story that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the West, that his weapons of mass destruction are about to fall into the hands of suicidal terrorist fanatics, and that we must invade Iraq before the Beast of Baghdad eats us, hair and all. And too few observers have pointed out that the weapons are not very dangerous, that Saddam has been successfully contained for over a decade without a war, and that the emperor has not clothes." Interior… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. 223 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H). B&w photographs, maps, 3-view drawings. "(Sikorsky's Russian years began in Kiev in 1910) when as a young inventor he designed his first airplane. For the next decade, spanning the turbulent years of World War I and the Russian Revolution, Sikorsky designed a series of aircraft. By the time he emigrated to the West in 1918, he had established himself as one of Europe's preeminent aircraft designers. K.N. Finne's memoir provides the most comprehensive and authoritative documentation to date of this obscure period. Drawings, maps original photographs, appendices, and an epilogue by Sikorsky's son Sergei bring to light significant information about the development of the world's first heavy bomber - the Il'ya Muromets." Dust jacket has light wear on the rear flap-fold, minor wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.. Not Signed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Milano: Electa, 1995. 285 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket and slipcase. Colour reproductions. **ITALIAN TEXT ONLY.** Looks at the incredible Italian advertising art of the end of the 19th and first few decades of the 20th centuries. Sommario: Premessa; Origine della grafica cartellonistica; Il manifesto storico italiano; Daglianni Trenta alla caduta del fascismo; Manifesti italiani; Apparati; Notizie biografiche; Bibliografia. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, very minor rubbing. Slipcase has light rubbing to glossy surfaces, very light wear on bottom surface.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Folio Society, 2001. 214 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H) - full dark blue cloth blocked in silver and red/brown with a design by David Rooney; light blue endleaves - blue/black slipcase. B&w photographs, maps. "This book tells the (true) story of what is remembered in Great Britain as a tremendous jape, yet is recalled in Crete - as Paddy Leigh Fermor explains in his afterword - as an act of just revenge for past German atrocities. It recounts the kidnapping, by two young officers serving in S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive), of a German general from his headquarters in Crete, and the spiriting of him over the mountains of that island into a motor-launch, and so to captivity." Slipcase has minor rubbing, tiny dint on one front edge. . Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.