Search Results: Authors starting with I from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: I.J. Fox, 1934. First Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers printed in blue and silver foil, yapp edges; 84pp.; text illus. Some minor wear to wrapper extremities, faint dampstain along top edge of upper cover not affecting textblock, else Very Good and sound. An uncommon title on the fur trade, full of illustrations of adorable fur-bearing animals, issued by "America's Largest Furrier." FIT only in OCLC as of October, 2018.

New York: Folkways, [1954]. 10" vinyl record in original pictorial jacket. and kraft-paper inner sleeve. Disc appears unplayed, with excellent gloss and no visible surface scratches; jacket Very Good but for a horizontal surface scratch at bottom third. Includes descriptive booklet with lyrics. Glazer's pioneering recordings of Joe Hill's iconic labor songs, including "The Preacher and the Slave," "Casey Jones the Union Scab," "The Rebel Girl," "Mr. Block," and others. Glazer was the leading exponent of the labor song tradition during the folk revival, and his interpretations of these songs would not be superceded until Utah Phillips breathed an entirely new life into them in the 1970s.

Paris: Somogy éditions d'art, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (29cm x 26.5cm). Cream cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in red on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremities, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities, else appears new. Paris-based Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff was known for his drawings of Africa and Asia. This volume was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Alexandre Iacovleff. Itinérances" presented at the musée des Années 30 de Boulogne-Billancourt March 31-August14, 2004. 158 reproductions. In French language only.

Moskva: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1983. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's white cloth, color plate mounted to upper panel, housed in photo-illustrated die-cut slipcase; 334pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Some minor rubbing to slipcase extremities, small gouge mid-slipcase spine, else Near Fine. Catalog of early 19th-century Russian watercolor and pencil portraits, bilingual text in French and Russian.

Moscu: Editorial Progreso, 1968. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket, red topstain; 367,[1]pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 31 plates of illus. and facsimiles printed on rectos and versos. Jacket spine crown a bit worn, else Near Fine. Memoirs of the Spanish Civil War by Basque Communist activist, politician, and celebrated public speaker. Exiled at the end of the War, Ibarruri was appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, a position which she held from 1942 to 1960. This edition published in Moscow, though the text is entirely in the original Spanish.

Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1965. Octavo; decorative cloth boards; publisher's original slipcase; xii,325,[3]pp; illustrated throughout by Fredrik Matheson. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase, lightly rubbed overall, with a few scuffs to boards.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,223pp. Copy of prominent latino scholar, author and educator Roberto Márquez, with his ownership signature on half-title. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), mildly spine-sunned, lightly soiled, Very Good+. First title in the publisher's series "Contemporary Latin American Classics." First "authorized translation" of the Ecuadorian author's highly acclaimed first novel, a radical indictment and realistic portrayal of the South American "latifundista" system and the exploitation of indigenous Ecuadorians at the hands of ruling elites. First published in 1934, a full English-language translation did not appear until 1962, though that version did not meet with the author's approval, prompting the current new translation which was done with Icaza's collaboration. With an introduction by the translator and… Read More

New York: Greystone Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); red linen, light green panel on spine with titles stamped in gilt; dustjacket; 245pp. Attractive bookplate of a former Pennsylvania coal miner (Charles Schifano) on front pastedown. Hint of a lean, top edge dusty, with some trivial offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Near Fine. The unclipped dustjacket shows some wear along the top edge and spine ends, with toning at the spine and flap folds; Very Good. A terribly dark novel about a promising prize fighter who is injured after being matched out of his class by a crooked manager. Desperate to make a comeback, though neither his injuries nor his girl will allow him back in the ring, he ends up snapping - killing his girlfriend in a fit of rage. While on the run, he is tricked into taking a job as a strike breaker, and is ultimately shot dead by strikers and lawmen. Idell, a Philadelphia native, drew from his own experiences as a boxer and fight promoter for the novel's background.… Read More

New York: Praeger Publishers, [1971]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii,156pp.; map frontispiece. Very minor rubbing to bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Fine. Autobiography of the author's childhood growing up during the Mexican Revolution, 1911-1920.

New York: IFCO, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22cm) orange, oblong stapled wrappers, printed in black, white and gray; 37pp. illustrated with black and white photograps. Mild soil to rear cover, former owner's address label on rear cover, Near Fine. "IFCO providing skills and talent, soul and spirit, resources and theory for the liberation of people." An annual report of the IFCO, mid-point in its 5 year plan, which reviews the organization's 5 major programs including: Grant Making; Training; Technical Assistance; Black United Fund and its International Program. "The [IFCO] ia a church and community agency whose mission is to help forward the struggls of oppressed people for justice and self-determination." (from the mission statement, p.3) IFCO had become a target of COINTELPRO following the delivery of the controversial Black Manifesto [James Foreman, 1969] at the NBEDC, where he demanded 500 million in reparations for the black community. (from archives.nypl.org).

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,452pp. Slight lean, boards very slightly splayed, with some scattered foxing to text edges, and mild dustiness to cloth; Very Good or better. Scholarly volume offering critical assessment of the discipline of historical studies, and the new methodological approaches in the field.

Prairie City and New York: Decker Press and Morris Gallery, 1948 and 1955. First Edition. First editions of the poet's first two books housed together in a clamshell case with leather label. POEMS in yellow cloth and fragile yellow jacket. Near fine in an easily very good and complete jacket, with light wear and minor stain. The price has been gently scored through in pencil and in the same pencil above the price is written: "19 cents." THE GENTLE WEIGHT LIFTER is in the most common form of the book: loose signatures laid into the dust jacket of the book.  Apparently only a small percentage of the run of 500 got bound. The jacket usually found toned is bright; red binder's mark on what would be pastedown, else fine. Both books inscribed to a dealer/collector in 1989. POEMS is a very scarce book, rare signed. Both books much nicer than usual. Decker Press was founded in 1940 and for nearly a decade published several titles a year including volumes by Edgar Lee Masters, August Derleth, William Everson… Read More

Watertown MA, 1975. 1st Edition. First issue of this edgy Boston-area poetry journal, crisp nice copy. 40 pages in stapled pictorial wraps.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1981. First edition. Blue paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 82 pp. Inscribed by the poet : "For Jocelyn, Read this book & write your own best." Very near fine in a near fine complete dust jacket showing light wear at corners (in removable protective archival cover).

New York: Society for the Prevention of World War III, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 41pp.; illus., text in double columns. A bit worn from handling, else About Fine. Articles almost exclusively regarding post-WW2 Germany and the Nuremberg trials.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1942. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 10pp. Mild wear and handling, else Near Fine. Pamphlet issued as "Bulletin No.193" of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, highlighting the contributions of nearly 1.5 million newly-registered women in unemployment offices around the country.

[Buenos Aires]: Pimsa / Dialektik, [2011]. First Edition. Limited to 600 copies. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's orange and white pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 255pp.; tables throughout text. Light wear at corners, else Very Good to Near Fine. Text entirely in Spanish. Forms part of the series Colección Confrontaciones.

New York: Vantage Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],322,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, very slight sagging to textblock, else Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $9.00), spine-sunned and shelfworn, with some shallow losses and short tears to edges, and a remainder stamp to front flap; Very Good. Nigerian author's novel of "the struggle for liberation from ignorance and servitude and for independence and general improvment of the hero - Hekmdilim Okoye - and of the country he symbolizes - Abukanza, a mythical contemporary West African land" (from front flap). Uncommon.

N.p. [New York]: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, (1950). First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; [8pp]; illus. A few spots of soil to front cover, else Near Fine. Special program for the inaugural screening (a few weeks before the World Premiere) of Jack Arnold's "With These Hands," a feature documentary-drama on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the origins of the ILGWU. The cast included such Broadway stalwarts as Arlene Francis and Sam Levene, and the film was nominated for the 1950 "Best Documentary" Oscar.

Moskva: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1958. First Edition. Slim quarto (26.5cm,); publisher's parchment-covered boards, blind-embossed upper cover, unadorned spine; 99pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards rubbed and worn with spine separating at rear joint. A Good or better copy, internally fine. Catalog of the works of the Soviet book illustrator and designer.