Search Results: Authors starting with I from Boston Book Company

Charles II. FRAMED SIGNATURE. [n.d.] 1 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Matted, glazed and framed with an engraved portrait of Charles II (1630-1685) from the original by Sir Peter Lyly.

1961. ICHITARO, Kondo. JAPANESE GENRE PAINTING: THE LIVELY ART OF RENAISSANCE JAPAN. Translated by Roy Andrew Miller. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, (1961). First Printing. 4to., blue cloth. Illustrated in black and white with color tipped-in plates. Very good plus.

1961. ICHITARO, Kondo. JAPANESE GENRE PAINTING: THE LIVELY ART OF RENAISSANCE JAPAN. Rutland, VT & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961. First printing. 148 pp. Folio, blue silk over boards with gilt spine lettering and paper cover label. Fine in very good glossy color pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped with a few small closed tears at top of spine. In original cardboard slipcase. 10 tipped in color plates (including frontis.) Numerous halftone illustrations.

1944. SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WAR III. PREVENT WORLD WAR III (19 ISSUES). New York: The Society for the Prevention of World War III, a non-profit educational organization, 1944-1971. Originally issued monthly, but later only twice a year, we offer an interrupted run of 19 issues from 1944-1971: nos. 4,8, 24,29, 33, 35, 36, 38, 49, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 72, 73,74, 75, 77. Some interesting contributors, for example, in issue numbers. 4 and 8, among others are Rex Stout, who served as president of the society, Sigrid Undset, Stefan Heyn, Sumner Welles, Booth Tarkington, Erika Mann, Eugene Tillinger, and Darryl Zanuck. A few issues are faded at the top right corner, one issue is dampstained and the spine is split otherwise they are all in very good condition. Quite scarce.

Iijima Fumitsune 飯島文常, artist. Chikugado 竹画堂刀 , block cutter. Fumitsune Hōgikuchō 文常芳菊帖 (also Hōgikuchō 芳菊帖). Korakudo 後楽堂, publisher. [Tenpo 2 天保二 1832]. 27.5 x 19cm orihon folding album with navy blue boards in brown chitsu with clasps. Photocopied title slip on front board; chitsu title slip reads Hōgikuchō 芳菊帖. Introductory notes in Japanese text with 4 hanko lists artist name Iijima Fumitsune 飯島文常 and date. Red artist hanko on each woodcut, with final red hanko in a basket design (with the characters Gōsō 傲霜) on facing page of colophon. Zodiacal date given in preface is Mizunoe tatsu 壬辰 (1832, 1892, etc.) Tokyo library online version gives date as Tenpo 2 天保二 [1832]. The feel and type of paper confirms the 1832 date. Our volume corresponds to the Tokyo library version, except ours has a title slipand the order of woodcuts near the end is reversed. The publisher/bookstore name on the colophon is Korakudo 後楽堂 in… Read More

1962. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: A Complete Primer. By Ellen G. Allen. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1962). Later printing. 8vo, purple cloth; 86 pp.; many illustrations. Near fine, in the dust jacket.

1963. [IKEBANA]. LIVING WITH FLOWERS. (Table Decorations). Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., (1963). Small 4to., tan cloth; 99 pp. Ink ownership. Slight soiling at boards; offsetting from paper-clips to a few pages. Very good, in a slightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket.

1958. [IKEBANA]. THE ART OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENT. By Tatsuo Ishimoto. New York: Crown Publishers, (1958). Eleventh printing. 8vo., tan cloth; 125 pp., illustrated with 150 photographs. Tape residue at front endpapers; else fine, in a slightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket.

1963. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: A Complete Primer. By Ellen G. Allen. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1963). Inscribed by the author. 8vo., purple cloth; 86 pp., many illustrations. Fine, in a slightly edgeworn and soiled dust jacket.

1967. [IKEBANA]. IKEBANA: The Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement. By Georgie Davidson, in collaboration with Beata Bishop. New York and South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Company, (1967). 4to, yellow cloth; 144 pp., many illustrations. Fine, in a worn dust jacket.

1963. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: A Complete Primer. By Ellen G. Allen. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1963). Inscribed by the author. 8vo., purple cloth; 86 pp., many illustrations. Fine, in a slightly edgeworn and soiled dust jacket.

1962. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: A Complete Primer. By Ellen G. Allen. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1962). Later printing. 8vo, purple cloth; 86 pp.; many illustrations. Ink inscription. Slight soiling at front board; else, near fine, in the dust jacket.

1973. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: IKEBANA. [By] John March-Penney. Hamlyn: London, New York, Sydney & Toronto, (1973). With photographs by Janet March-Penney. 4to., brown cloth; 141 pp.; many illustrations. Fine, in a mildy edgeworn dust jacket with slight dampstain at verso.

1973. [IKEBANA]. JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: IKEBANA. [By] John March-Penney. With photographs by Janet March-Penney. Hamlyn: London, New York, Sydney & Toronto, (1973). 4to, brown cloth; 141 pp.; many illustrations. Ink ownership. Fine, in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket.

1963. [IKEBANA]. FLOWERS AROUND THE CLOCK. By Seiko Hara. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., (1963). Small 4to., green pictorial cloth; 147 pp. Ink ownership. Near fine.

1969. [IKEBANA]. A NEW WORLD OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENT. By Patricia Kroh. Author's Flower Arrangement Photography by Milton B. Freudenheim, Sr. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1969). 4to., maroon and black cloth; 160 pp.; many illustrations. Fine, in a price-clipped, soiled, edgeworn dust jacket.

1895. [LILIES] IKEDA SHOTEN. Saishoku Shasei YU^SHUTSU YURIBANASHU^. To^kyo^, Ikeda Shoten, Meiji 28 [1895]. Hybrid Japanese-Western binding in cloth covered paper covers. Printed paper title label. Ribbon-bound. 26.3 x 19.3 cm., 43 pages of color woodblock printed pints of lilies. This copy A COLLECTION OF COLORED SKETCHES OF LILIES FOR EXPORT is quite rough - the worn covers have been repaired and there is internal staining and soiling. Still and all, early Japanese nursery catalogues of lilies are very scarce and those done in woodblock printing, virtually unheard. Sold with all faults. In a clasped cloth chitsu case.

1926. Okada Tatsuo 岡田竜夫(Author and illustrator). Aozameta Dōteikyō 蒼ざめた童貞狂. The title of this important work is usually translated as "The Pale-Faced Virgin's Mad Thoughts." Published by Choryusha of Tokyo in 1926, it is illustrated throughout with black and white linocuts executed by Okada Tatsuo. 22.5 x 16cm. 120 pp plus 4 pp. There are 17 full-page prints and many other figures integrated into the text with abstract designs in color by Okada, illustrating the boards front and rear. No single one of Okada's illustrated works can be distinguished as being remarkably scarce; all five are almost unattainable. He appeared on the avant-garde scene in Tokyo as suddenly and mysteriously as he left. He is believed to have arrived from Kyushu in the early 1920s and, after a run of considerable authority and influence in Mavo and avant-garde circles, disappeared into Manchuria in the middle 1930s. A very important item for any collection of MAVO-related material, it is Okada's most… Read More

NATIONAL ANILINE & CHEMICAL COMPANY INC. ACID DYES FOR WORSTED PIECE-GOODS. New York: National Aniline & Chemical Company, Inc. [n.d. ca 1920's]. xv + [1] + 20 stiff card pages, 9 of which have fabric samples in various colors and hues. 8vo., dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. Gilt faded, front board slightly soiled, corners bumped. A few spots of foxing and smudging to text. Very good overall. [a].

1916. (INDEX). MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. New Series, Volume I, 1912-1916. New York: Published by Order of the Trustees, 1916. Folio, white wrappers lettered in black. Disbound with some wear to edges. As is.