Search Results: Titles starting with I from McBlain Books

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 69p. Original cloth. 24cm. Backstrip and adjacent areas faded on cover. No Jacket. Poetry. Davis, an African American author, wrote three books of strong poetry in the 1930s and 1940s while he was a working journalist in Chicago. He moved to Honolulu in 1948 and owned a small wholesale paper company and was heavily involved in leftist organizations. He also wrote a pornographic novel under a pseudonym. Davis is mentioned (as "Frank") in "Dreams of My Father" as someone our former President knew when growing up in Hawaii.

New York: The Macmilliam Company, 1968. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. frontis, index, index, 128p. Original illustrated cover. dj. 24 cm. Front panel of jacket browned and has a modest stain in upper left corner. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Adoff ("7-23-68 For Bill Many many thanks -- for your help in finding good poetry! All my best wishes! Arnold Adoff"). We don't know who this book was inscribed to but wonder if it was Bill French of University Place Book Shop in New York who co-compiled a comprehensive bibliography of African American poetry ("Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources").

Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. photos, index, 127p. dj. 24cm. Jacket chipped. Endpapers slightly browned.

New York: Random House, 1969. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 281p. Original black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Ends of backstrip slightly faded and rubbed. Ends of jacket backstrip and corners rubbed. INSCRIBED ("To Yvette LeRoy Thanks for your warm support. More joy! Maya Angelou"). Her first book and the first of her autobiographical works.

New York: Welcome Enterprises, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Romare Bearden. color illustrations, (30)p. Original decorative boards (same image as on dj). dj. 30 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stephen Alcorn. full-page color illustrations, 128p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 30 cm.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good/Good. 320p. Brown cloth. Worn dj (chipping and edge-tears). 21 cm. Modest stain on fore-edge. INSCRIBED by Hercules on first white page ("For Marion, a lovely friend whom Dellora [his second wife] and I deeply cherish, with much love, Frank Hercules New York, October 18, 1967"). A novel about interracial marriage.

Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1937. 1st trade ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. photos, unnumbered pages, Original glossy photographically illustrated boards. 38 cm. No jacket (as published). SIGNED by Burke on verso of front free endpaper.

Moskva: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1960. Paperback. Good. 82p. Wrapper. 22cm. Name on half-title. A few ink annotations. Russian text. Dari is the Afghan dialect of farsi (Persian).

Berlin & Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24 plates, 170p. 1/4 leather (tan boards with brown leather backstrip and narrow corners). 32 cm. No Jacket. Articles in a variety of European languages (mostly German and French).

Riga: Izd-vo "Salamandra", 1926. Paperback. Good. Softcover in original wrappers. 27cm. Cover browning. Mostly modest wear although some issues are rather worn. A twice-monthly Russian-language periodical published 1925-1926 in Latvia while the Baltic states were independent between the two World Wars. Short stories ranged from science fiction to Christmas tales. Other regular features included Stamps, Boy Scouts, Projects around the House, What's on the Radio, Photography, Contests and Puzzles. Each issue also contained a few pages of advertisements for such items as Halava, sport and ballet shoes, "Salamander" publications, etc.

Moskva, Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1940. Hardcover. Good. fronits portrait, illustrations, 74, (3)p. Original brown cloth. 26 cm. Covers somewhat soiled. Corners and ends of backstrip rubbed and worn. No jacket. Russian text. Georgian (USSR) sculptor and artist.

(Queensland): University of Queensland Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations (two full page color), index, xvi, 170p. Original brown cloth. dj. 24 cm.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. x, 404p. Cloth. dj.

Montevideo, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrated (a few color), 190p. Original blue cloth. 30 cm. No Jacket. Spanish text.

New York: Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing), 2008. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. photos (16-page section), index, xii, 800p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23 cm. Text leaves somewhat browned - apparently printed on acidic paper, perhaps because the book was rather long. Round white "Autographed Copy" sticker on front panel of jacket. SIGNED on title-page by Giddings.

New York: Macmillan, 1913. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. Translated by Rudolf Pintner. xi, 110p. 18cm. Extremities slightly rubbed or bumped. A little green paint on back cover. No Jacket. SIGNED on endpaper by Pintner.

La Plata: Taller de Impresiones Oficiales, 1944. Primera Edicion [so stated]. Hardcover. Good. errata slip tipped in, illustrations, 453p. Contemporary leather. 26 cm. Covers rubbed and somewhat worn along joints and other extremities. INSCRIBED in 1950 by Rodriguez on the first page of the Prefacio. Spanish text. Tattoos, fingerprints, etc.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 192p. Cloth-backed boards. dj. 22cm. Minor tan glue line on endpapers. SIGNED on title-page by Unsworth.

New York: Dial Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 197p. Original orange cloth. dj. 20 cm. Previous owners name ("Yvette E. LeRoy June 1974") in red ink on front free endpaper. Someone (probably LeRoy) has written in pencil words from the third stanza of Handy's Beale Street Blues on a blank leaf at the end of the book. A novel about Tish and Fonny.