Search Results: Authors starting with I from Captain Ahab's Rare Books

New York: Photo Researchers, Inc, 1962. Striking photographic portrait of Ursula Andress in her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the 1962 film Dr. No. Taken by American photographer Bradley Smith (1910-1997) on location in Jamaica, where shooting took place near Ian Fleming's Goldeneye estate and in the small town of Oracabessa. Original borderless, double-weight black & white photograph, measuring 24.75cm x 34.5cm (9.75" x 12 5/8"); a few holograph notes, photographer's rubber-stamp, Photo Researchers sticker, and a typed snipe taped on verso, reading: "DR. NO" - On location in Jamaica. Portrait of Ursula Andress, young Swiss-born actress starring in "Dr. No." Light wear to extremities, a few faint creases to corners; Very Good+.

Belvedere Tiburon, CA: Simbolica, 1961. First Edition. Elusive issue of this Bay Area mimeo poetry magazine, published irregularly between 1949-1969. Contains the first appearance of Bukowski's poem "Ample Sewers" and his prose piece "Dialogue: Dead Man on the Fence," with additional contributions by Judson Crews, Rochelle Owens, Harland Ristau, Carl Larsen, William Beyer, and others. Inscribed in a contemporary hand by contributor Ottone "Ricky" Riccio to his muse and long-time correspondant Anaïs Nin. Dorbin C136, D16. Slim quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (printed recto & verso), side-stapled into pictorial wrappers, and bound with tape along the spine; 26pp. Inscribed by contributor Ottone M. Riccio on the verso of the front wrapper, to Anaïs Nin: "To Anaïs / Who told me to come out of the country / Ottone." Toning to wrappers, with several tears, creases, and small losses to same; contents clean, complete; Very Good.

London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First British Edition. First Issue. Octavo; pink and white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on the spine; 294pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, imperceptibly toned at the spine with two faint splash marks to the same; Near Fine, without chips, tears or the usual heavy rubbing. An attractive copy of the author's third book and second novel.

New York: New Directions Books, 1945. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, blocked and titled in brown and black on spine; dustjacket; [vi],207,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a 1cm closed tear to upper rear panel, and a few tiny nicks to spine ends and corner tips. First combined edition of a pair of novels set in Weimar-era Berlin, originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1935 (Mr. Norris Changes Trains) and 1939 (Goodbye To Berlin). Basis for Bob Fosse's Oscar-winning 1972 film Cabaret, starring Liza Minnelli and Michael York.

London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First British Edition. First Issue. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in black; photographic frontispiece; 312pp. A touch of minor offset to endpapers, else Fine and clean throughout. The gray dustjacket is lightly toned at the panels and flap folds, and slightly darker at the spine; light rubbing at the extremities, with some creasing at the spine ends; Very Good+. The author's fictionalized account of his early years as a writer.