Search Results: Titles starting with I from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Fiesole and FLorence, Italy: Giunti, 1998. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the bright blue wraps with color image in cameo. Plentiful full-color and black-and-white illustrations, and all text is in Italian. Catalogue of the exhibition paying due homage to the Della Robbia family of Fiesole, Italy. xviii, 406 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Scriptum Editions, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely in dark blue cloth over boards, and replete with full-color, full-page illustrations. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 335 pp. Beautifully illustrated journey through wedding fashion of the last one hundred years. Divided into five chapters: Edwardian Extravagance, Flapper Style, Forties Restraint, Fifties Froth, Counterculture Chic, and Modern Fairy Tales. Complete with Acknowledgments, Notes and Bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Philomel Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A beautiful, simple Japanese fable put to words and illustrations. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Glossy, pictorial boards. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Italy: Giunti Gruppo Editoriale, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Italian language survey of fine works of Italian art history and to celebrate a Jubilee at Pellegrini. With texts by Jacques Le Goff, Andre Cquot, Anna Benvenuti, Thomas Szabo, Claudio Strinati, Massimo Miglio, Gloria Fossi, Silvia Maddalo, Giovanni, Morello Anna, Maria D'Achille, Franco Cardini, Arnold Esch, Giuseppe Alberigo, Alessand Zuccari, and Marina Panetta. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, lightly sunned and worn along edges. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but along top edges. Replete with full-color, full-page illustrations. 270 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Jen Corace. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. A beloved title in Fine condition, bound in an oblong hardcover format, illustrated by Jen Corace's paintings, and written by Jill Esbaum. Glossy pictorial boards, unmarked, clean interior. Unpaginated, but roughly 24 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Pasadena, California : Trail's End Publishing, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author, being warmly inscribed at the first free endpaper, "To Dwight Prouty III from Elizabeth French Fiske." A collection of "Indian captivity narratives" written by a woman related to Mr. Fiske and who lived amongst many different tribes of Apache on the mesas of Arizona. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in bright red cloth covers, with black lettering to cover and spine, still sharp. Light blue printed dust jacket, showing moderate sunning, light soiling, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. The original price of $2.50 is still present on the front flap at bottom. Commentary at end by F.H. Cushing excerpted from Edna Dean Proctor's Commentary on the Song… Read More

Englewood, Colorado: Colorado Historical Society, by WestCliffe Publishers, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Mary Ann McNair. Signed by Author. An absolutely engrossing photographic journey through the Colorado of the late 19th- and early 20th-century, suffuse with black-and-white and duotone photographs in quarter-, half- and full-page format. Selected and edited from the Collections of the Colorado Historical Society by Mary Ann McNair. DOUBLE-SIGNED by the author and photographer at title page, the former inscribing his name "To Kittu--with very best wishes!, David Wetzel 1/31/03." Currently the only copy available on-line that is signed. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, bound handsomely in an oblong format. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 127 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required… Read More

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Frontis matter, 4-259 pp. An engaging, endearing recounting of the author's experiences teaching poetry and poetry writing in a Manhattan, New York nursing home. Contains some of the authors' poetry. Quite nice.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

St. Louis: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound in glossy pictorial covers, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Acknowledgments by Paul Ha and Susan E. Cahan, a Sponsor's Statement, Susan E. Cahan has contributed the title essay, "I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol," then Jose Esteban Munoz has enned "Just Like Heaven: queer utpian art and the aesthetic dimension," followed by Selected Works, and then another essay by Cahan, "Iconographies of Mourning: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol. Complete with a list of exhibitons, lenders to the exhibition, and a full chronology and index and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be… Read More

St. Petersburg, Russia: The Imperial Academy, 1886. Hardcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exceedingly scarce Russian-language volume no copies of which appear to be available on-line at present. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still pretty sturdy, with some beginning separation to rear gutters but still tightly bound throughout. Marbled paper over boards, printed paper label over front cover (and that says 1886 for a date of publication, though the field survey appears to have taken place in 1865), blue cloth-backed. Some toning to pages. Slightly wavy text block Bumping to and a bit of scuffing to spine head, less to its tail. Russian language extensive survey and account of an archaeology season's diggings in 1865, being an architectural and archaeological voyage through Rumalia by a Russian clergyman (1817-1894). The area is now part of contemporary Rumania. 652 pp. and 18 lithographic plates in black-and-white and duotone.Member, I.O.B.A.,… Read More

New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. A fine and accessible, historical fictionalized account based on the Lewis and Clark expedition all the way to the Pacific Ocean investigates the minds of Lewis and Clark and other whites and all the Native Americans they encounter. The author published two prior novels and other works of non-fiction. 419 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Firenze, Italy: Centro di, 2006. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume surveying art history of 2nd and 3rd century Italy. A fine and fitting homage to the art exhibition held between two Italian universities to contribute to the series Prospettiva Rivista di Storia dell'arte Antica e moderna. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright, glossy cloth over boards, clean, unmarked interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated with a famous Giotto e Bottega painting hanging still in the Basilica SUperiore. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Over 600 illustrations, many being full-page and full-color. 485 pp. including photography credits.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Audience Arts, by Marcel Dekker, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Anna Kisselgoff provides the Foreword to this fine collection performing arts reviews and essays by an acknowledged expert in professional dance for 40 years prior to this publication, edited by Andrew Mark Wentink. Big, heavy, Imperial octavo format hardcover copy bound in dark brick-red cloth, with silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [2], 2-692 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Marcel Dekker, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy bound in Imperial octavo hardcover format, burgundy linen weave cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear but for previous owner's unobtrusive ink-stamp front and rear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. A fine collection of performing arts reviews and essays by an acknowledged expert in professional dance for 40 years prior to this publication. Foreword by Anna Kisselgoff, compiled and edited by Andrew Mark Wentink. xv [2], 1-692 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in two-tone, gray paper over boards, with author's initials blind-stamped to front cover, black cloth-backed. 16 pp. of sharp and distinct black-and-white plates depicting the author of the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming (1908-1964). x, 486 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

The Limited Editions Club, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Joe Mugnaini . Translated from the original French of Pierre Loti by Guy Endore and with gorgeous illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. Bound handsomely in decorated paper over boards, light-blue leather-backed, and with raised bands. Sunned a bit along edges, spine sunned and rubbed a bit. Pierre Loti (the literary pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923) was a French naval officer and eventual novelist. Plastic jacket protecting boards, peeling thereto at rear flap fore-edge. 161 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Liepmannssohn, J. Baur, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. M.-A.-A. Mareschal. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in pumpkin-colored cloth, with bruised but not broken tips, a brilliant bookplate featuring the initials "AVP" and the motto "Nunquam Amicorum." Mild foxing to and soiling of endpapers; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Forward cock to spine, mild soiling to covers, else still quite sturdy and tightly bound. 133 pp. French language text. Chromolithographies by M.-A.-A. Mareschal throughout. List of abbreviations at frontis, opposite title page, and then marks follow of all the France-based makers of ceramics, from Anspach to Vajafo, or the company names in their place. Bowed fore-edges, else a good, sturdy copy.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Cornhill, London, England: Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. The title page continues, "with their lives compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing many curious biographical anecdotes and particulars never before published, the whole authenticated with notes, references, and observations." A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in stiff cardboard, chipped along the edges, scuffed and rubbed a bit but intact, burgundy cloth tape to spine, also scuffed and rubbed a bit. Paper label of short title to front cover, abraded a bit but fully intact. Royal quarto format of original boards, bookseller label inside front flap at bottom. Printed for the bookseller Robert Wilkinson, London, 1798. Treatments of John Knox, the Reformer, with a fine black-and-white engraving at frontis; Cardinal Beaton, half-page engraving;… Read More

Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1867. First Edition. Softcover. Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author was then Pastor of the Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chipped and damp-stained brick-red paper wraps, dissipating in both directions. A standard election sermon delivered in 1867. The author, Henry White Warren (1831–1912), was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop and also the brother of William Fairfield Warren. Henry White Warren was born at Williamsburg, Massachusetts on January 4, 1831, graduated from Wesleyan University and then taught ancient languages at Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy before entering the New England Conference (1855). Both he and his wife died in 1867 the very year he delivered this sermon. [7], 8-50 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Oliver Herford. First Edition, with 1900 at both title and copyright pages. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Handsomely bound in heavy green sailcloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, black illustration to front cover and spine. Sunning to very light brown of spine, light discoloration to rear panel top near spine head. "Pictured by" Oliver Herford, including at frontis in black-and-white. 153 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.