Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Harry Von Tilzer, 1903 Folded printed cover, 1 page insert; 6 pages including covers. Lightly rumpled & creased, tanned, with a few short edge tears & small chips, faint seller's stamp. Unsigned front cover art in red deep green & white features a dapper African-American gent in evening wear. Photo inset of singers Edwards & Ronney. Four pages of the featured song, which has no obvious racial content; rear cover has an excerpt of the 'Latest Von Tilzer Coon Song', 'Pretty Little Dinah Jones'. 'Companion song to the big slumber success 'Please Go Away and Let Me Sleep'". Scarce.. Pamphlet. Good. 11" by 14".

[self-published], 1985. Fictionalized life of the author's great uncle, Major S. H. M. "Marsh" Byers, who fought in the Fifth Iowa Infantry in the Civil War, later becoming a diplomat. Inscribed by the author on the front endsheet: "To Philip and Anna, the Wisconsin Foxes at Fox Hall, 4-27-85, Lyal LeClair Fox." Grey hardcover, blue lettering and decoration. Shows some wear, scuffing to boards, light spotting to page edges. Text clean; [6], 151 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Folio Society, 1997. Classic of a girl's coming-of-age in 1930s England, where her eccentric & poor family inhabit a run-down castle whose denizens the protagonist 'captures' in her prose; the castle is inherited by a wealthy American family, romance ensues. Attractively bound with line drawings by Brouwer; unknown Folio printing, as new in shrinkwrap, as pictured. . Reprint. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Aafke Brouwer. Octavo.

Secaucus: University Books, 1975. Essays attempting to demonstrate the metaphysical & cosmological implications of the I Ching, which is not just a divination manual. Large hardcover, black cloth spine over red boards, red titling. Typescript text, widely spaced. Light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing, minor edgewear, faint old sticker stain to upper front panel, minor nicks & chips, spine faded. Text clean; [12], 235 pages; index, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Quarto.

Milan: Silvana Editoriale d'Arte (1965), 1965 281 pgs; 24 color plates, 235 b&w photographs, including 100 catalog entries; chronological table, 2 fold-out maps, glossary, bibliography. Book near fine, binding tight and text clean. Jacket shows edge wear, and a few small chips. Plain board case in good condition, with edge wear. Text in Italian.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1995. Third printing of the first Robin Miller mystery, in which the romance/travel writer protagonist investigates the death of her ex-lover on Big Sur and in San Francisco's gay community. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Paperback, as pictured; light wear.. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 5½" by 8½".

New York: Vantage Press, 1958. Uncommon account of missionary life among the Guna people (earlier spelled Kuna or Cuna) of the San Blas archipelago, north of Panama. Iglesias was an "American girl" married to Alcibiades "Lonnie" Iglesias, a local "San Blas Indian"; after their marriage in 1932 they returned to the islands and taught and ministered for many decades, still active at the time of the book's publication; Morgan herself lived in Panama for 16 years. Slim hardcover, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor foxing to endsheets, ink price inside front cover; price-clipped jacket rubbed & chipped with author's note "Order from:" and rubberstamped name & address on the real panel. Text clean; 81 pages, rear endsheet map. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small Octavo.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1928 Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. 251 pages. Translated from French by Brian Rhys. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt beginning to rub off in places. Some light stains on end sheets. Jacket has usual small chips and small tears at ends of hinges; longest tear is a half-inch. Light rubbing on front and rear jacket..

Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori (1965), 1965 480 pgs; 230 color plates. Volume 1 only, of a 4 volume set. Bound in brown imitation leather, with gilt decoration. Cover shows only light wear. Jacket shows edge wear, with several short tears; 2 3/4" x 2" loss on top back edge; some creasing; a water stain is visible on the interior of the top front corner, but it does not affect the front of the jacket, or the book itself. A beautiful presentation of the Gospel of St. Matthew, illustrated throughout with images reproduced from medieval illuminated manuscripts. The text is presented in the Italian translation prepared by the Pontificio Istituto Biblico di Roma, along with Greek and Latin texts edited by A. Merk, and a commentary by P.C. Landucci (in Italian). This volume includes a general introduction to the series. A heavy, oversize volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori (1965), 1965 300 pgs; 144 color plates. Volume 2 only, of a 4 volume set. Bound in brown imitation leather, with gilt decoration. Cover shows light wear, a few small indentations, short tear in cover material at top of front cover, near spine. Jacket shows edge wear, with several short tears; 2 chips on back; some creasing. A beautiful presentation of the Gospel of St. Mark, illustrated throughout with images reproduced from medieval illuminated manuscripts. The text is presented in the Italian translation prepared by the Pontificio Istituto Biblico di Roma, along with Greek and Latin texts edited by A. Merk, and a commentary by P.C. Landucci (in Italian). A heavy, oversize volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1991. Memoir of a combat infantryman; the married father of a young child, Zorns was drafted in 1944 ans served with the 62nd Armored Infantry Division, 14th Armored Division, commencing with their push to the Siegfried Line through the Vosges Mountains in late November, 1944. Wounded & captured in mid-January, Zorns spent the rest of the war in Stalag XIIA, where his faith in God helped sustain him until the camp was liberated in March; he spent a little time recuperating in Paris before being flown home. Hardcover, full green cloth, white titling. Light wear, no jacket as issued; ink numbers on page 117, no other marking noted. Text clean; x, 222 pages, b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Calder & Boyars, 1971. Two men, in flight, encounter more trouble on the road. The author's first novel, first published in the UK. INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endsheet. Black hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear, minor dent at head of spine; jacket shows little wear, near fine. Text clean; 156 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5½" by 8".

New York: Twice a Year Press, 1940 Good. Large Octavo. 43 pages. Contains title poem plus "Think It Over, America." Also includes laid-in handwritten letter (dated Nov. 28, 1940) from Beecher to previous owner of this pamphlet. Beecher was descendant of famous 19th century Beecher family. Scratch on back cover; a few creases on front cover near spine. Text is clean and binding is tight..

New York: Pyramid Books / Almat Publishing, 1952. Paperback reprint of the classic exposé of Georgia's convict leasing system and its abuses, originally published as I Am A Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang; filmed in 1932 under this title, starring Paul Muni, with a few pictures from the film on the back cover. Pyramid 45. Pocket-sized paperback as pictured, front cover art by Hunter Barker. Shows light wear, minor chipping, rear cover badly torn with a non-archival tape 'repair'; pages lightly tanned; no names or marks.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 4¼" by 6½".

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. A "combination of literary, psychological and social criticism in one"; comparable to the author's studies of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, gilt dull; jacket tanned with a few chips; endsheets tanned. Text clean; vii, blank, 139 pages; index, bibliography, frontispiece portrait.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930 Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First British Edition. Octavo. Very nice. Fore-edge lightly foxed..

Madison WI: Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, 2011. Account of a project involving the hot-water drilling of dozens of holes deep into the South Polar ice in which to deploy long strings of neutrino detecting modules, and its predecessor, AMANDA. Not highly technical. Oblong hardcover, glossy color cover; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, minor scuffing. Text clean; [90] pages, timeline, many color photos, diagrams.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 11¼" by 8¾".

New York: A. A. Wyn, 1949. Brief history of the art of the Eastern Orthodox Church and its standardization by the monks of Mount Athos; with nicely-printed examples from earlier centuries. Slim hardcover, as pictured. Shows some wear, corners & spine rubbed. Text & plates clean; 10 pages, 22 color plates opposite captions. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4¾" by 7½".

Sofia: Angela, 2000 79 pgs; bibliography; 53 color photos., 6 b&w; 1 map. Parallel texts in Bulgarian & English. Very clean & unmarked; binding tight. Summarizes the development of Christian iconography in Bulgaria, and provides descriptions of 31 icons in various media: ceramic, mosaic & wood. Primarily a stylistic study, although it does provide some information on techniques & materials. Nice illustrations.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Octavo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1979 Very Good/Good. Large Octavo. 188 pages. Review copy with slip taped to front end sheet. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to head and tail of spine; otherwise fine. Front jacket rubbed..