Search Results: Titles starting with I from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

NY: Grove Press, Inc., (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Small octavo, cloth, in dw. Lightly bumped; dw lightly rubbed with a crease to the front fold. 219 pp. Profusely illustrated with B&W stills from the film. Owner's stamp on title & last page of the text, else very good. <p>First edition.

NY: Grove Press, Inc., (1968).. (1968).. Very good. - Small octavo, pictorial wraps. Rubbed; rear wrap darkened & spotted. 254 pp. Tiny stain to fore-edge. Illustrated with B&W stills from the film. The contents are very good. <p>First edition.

Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, (2007).. (2007).. Fine. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY WALTER WANGERIN, JR. - Quarto [12-1/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards in a matching dust wrapper. There is creasing to the tail of the spine & to the tail of the dust jacket spine. 30 & [2] pages. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>Boldly inscribed by Walter Wangerin, Jr. on the verso of the front endpaper and signed in full.<p>Illustrated by Don Tate.<p>A tale in verse of a German American grandfather on a Midwestern farm who teaches his granddaughter [Enkelin] "life lessons of love and pain, life and death".

(New York): Boosey & Hawkes, (1952).. (1952).. Very good. - Tall octavo, softcover, unbound self-wraps. 4 cream-colored sheets are folded once to form 16 pages, each 10-3/8 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Title page with pictorial border of singing heads down the left margin & 15 pages of music. The edges of the last page are darkened. Very good. First edition of this version. "Reference Copy" is stamped on the title page.I Bought Me a Cat is a children's song on the lines of Old MacDonald, with a verse repeating and adding a new animal with each repeat [the last "animal" being a wife]. The accompaniment imitates the barnyard sounds of the cat, duck, goose, hen, pig, horse and cow.I Bought Me a Cat is one of five American folk tunes which Copland arranged at the request of Benjamin Britten, who planned to program them in his Aldeburgh Music and Art Festival. Copland wrote this first set of Old American Songs for male soloist and piano in 1950 and they were premiered in June of that year by Peter… Read More

Venezia: Marsilio, (1999).. (1999).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 10-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. There is some minor soiling to the rear wrap with a price-sticker on its bottom inner corner. 215 pages. 8 pages of color illustrations and profuse illustrations in black & white. Near fine. <p>A comprehensive and detailed catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo Civico di Vicenza, Italy. The text is in Italian.

(Roma): Gremese Editore, (June 1981).. (June 1981).. Very good. - Quarto, color pictorial wraps. A few light score marks & a light paper- clip mark to the front wrap. 173 & [3] pp. Light paper-clip marks to the top edges of the first two leaves. Illustrated in B&W with stills from Fellini's films & production shots. Near fine. <p>The original Italian edition.

Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, (1976)., (1976).. Good. - Octavo, black cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is soiled, foxed & chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of its spine. vi, [1] leaf & 211 pages. There is a small gray mark to the fore-edge with tiny chips out of the front edges of few pages. Good. First edition.

Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, (2008).. (2008).. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHAEL HASTINGS IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The corners and edges of the covers are creased and the rear cover is slightly rubbed. ix, [iii] & 276 pages. There are a couple of small stains to the fore-edge of the book. Good. <p>First Australian edition of the author's first book, published in the same year as the first American.<p>Inscribed and signed by Michael Hastings on the title page in the year of publication.<p>The American author and journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013) was a reporter for BuzzFeed and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. He rose to prominence for his coverage of the war in Iraq for Newsweek. His first book "I Lost My Love in Baghdad" is a biographical memoir of his relationship with his fiancee Andi Parhamovich and of her tragic death when her car was ambushed in Iraq. His 2010 Rolling Stone… Read More

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, (1933).. (1933).. Very good. - Octavo, tan cloth backed decorative brown & tan paper covered boards titled in gilt within gilt-ruled brown rectangle on spine & with device stamped in gilt on front cover, in dw. The covers are bumped with small areas rubbed. The dw is lightly soiled & heavily chipped & torn with pieces out of the top edge & a large piece out of the tail of the spine. The dw front fold & spine are partially repaired with tape. 375 & [1] pp. Near fine internally. <p>First Swedish edition of "The Sheltered Life".<p>This is the author's own copy with her [Ellen Glawgow's] bookplate on the front pastedown.

New York: Random House, 1977).. 1977).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. The head of the dust jacket's spine is lightly chipped & there is a short tear to the top edge of the front panel. [x], 259 & [1] pages. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.

[Los Angeles], [1965]., [1965].. Fine. A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY JOE SCHWARTZ TO HIS FRIEND DAVE ROBBINS WHO LED HIM TO JOIN THE PHOTO LEAGUE - Octavo, 10-1/8 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled pictorial wraps. [20] unnumbered pages, illustrated with 16 full-page black & white evocative photographs of urban scenes and portraits by Joe Schwartz and a full-page portrait from a drawing by the photographer artist. Near fine. A wonderful association copy of the rare first, and only, edition.Inscribed by Joe Schwartz on the front cover to his good friend and colleague Dave Robbins who inspired him to join the legendary Photo League: "To David Robbins and family - Joe Schwartz 1972".An introduction by Lorser Feitelson precedes the illustrations. The manuscript for Feitelson's introduction, dated June 4, 1965, is located in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.The artist Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) is known as one of the founding fathers of the Southern… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.. 1996.. Fine. - Small octavo, white boards titled in silver & red, in a dust wrapper. [vii], 145 & [4] pages, plus the colophon. Fine. <p>First edition of the author's first novel.<p>Signed by Jane Mendelsohn on the title page.

New York: Element, (1987)., (1987).. Fine. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in black & white pictorial wrappers. [30] unnumbered pages. Near fine.
First edition, wraps issue.
Richard Ogust is a writer and as a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator his New York City loft once held one of the nation's largest private collections of endangered turtles. The 2007 documentary "The Chances of the World Changing" by Eric Daniel Metzgar & Nell Carden Grey portrayed the trials and tribulations of a man devoted to the rescue of endangered species of turtles.

Ambridge, Pennsylvania: A.M. Byers Company, [circa 1965].. [circa 1965].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled wraps titled with a black & white illustration of the Yale University Hockey Rink with exposed piping on the front cover. The corners of the covers are slightly creased. 32 pages, profusely illustrated throughout. Very good. <p>From the Skating Library of Arthur N. Foxe, with his stamp on the front endpaper. A psychiatrist and criminologist, Dr. Foxe was an avid collector of skating books and even published a skating bibliography.<p>A typed letter signed by R.D. James, manager of Engineering at A.M. Byers is laid in as well as a four-fold flyer listing the company's eastern distributors.<p>The report includes summaries of the company's studies of the Rockefeller Center Plaza Rink in NYC, the Chicago Stadium, the St. Paul Municipal Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, The Chandler Park Rink in Detroit, the Sam Houston… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982., 1982.. Fine. Limited Edition Signed by Leonard Baskin with Illustrations and an Original Lithograph by the Artist - Tall octavo, 11-1/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Hardcover, charcoal-gray paper over boards with printed gray paper labels on the front cover & spine, in the original glassine dust wrapper. The book is housed in a matching slipcase with a printed gray label on the spine. xvi, [iv] & 153 pages plus the colophon and plates. Illustrated with 10 black and white plates vividly capturing the essence of the characters in Baskins inimitable and beautifully stark style. Additionally illustrated with an original sienna-toned lithograph by Leonard Baskin with the printers fox device embossed at the bottom. Near fine. Number 666 of a limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. The illustrations and typography are by Leonard Baskin, and Baskins original… Read More

[New York]: Viking, (1990).. (1990).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in light blue printed wrappers with a vignette in blue & black on the front cover. The spine & extremities are faded. [xii], [1] leaf & 412 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. There is a small area of soiling to the rear endpaper. Very good. <p>Unrevised and unpublished proofs of Willim T. Vollmann's novel about the arrival of the Vikings in America.

Paris: Editions Leo Scheer, 2003.. 2003.. Very good. - Quarto [12-3/8 inches high by 10-5/8 inches wide], black cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. 158 & [2] pages plus colophon. Profuse full-page illustrations & plates in sepia, black & white and color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>Published on the occasion of the exhibition shown in Arles as part of the Rencontres de la photographie 2003. The text, which is in French, includes an interview with Claude Berri.

New York: Amphoto Art, (1998).. (1998).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9-5/8 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly bumped & the top edge of the dust jacket is slightly darkened. 160 pages. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations by Jack Mitchell. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995. With a Foreword by Edward Albee.

[New York]: Vanity Fair, 1999.. 1999.. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-5/8 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers with a cover photo of Jimi Hendrix. The lower end of the front edge of the front wrap is slightly roughed. 47 & [1] pages. Profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations by various photographers & color pictorial ads. There is a small chip to the front edges of 2 leaves. Very good. <p>On the rear cover of the magazine is an ad: "Tommy Hilfiger Presents the Lenny Kravitz Freedom Tour 1999". The photographs of rock stars in the magazine alternate with color pictorial ads for Tommy Hilfiger fashions.

(Cleveland, OH/London, U.K.: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971).. 1971).. Very good. - Squarish octavo, B&W decorative wraps. Very lightly soiled. pp. 7-20 & 4 pages of B&W facsimiles. Very good. <p>Inscribed by the author.