Search Results: Authors starting with I from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Hali Publications, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A nice copy, with very light wear to the spine. Very Good binding.

Los Angeles, California: Self-publihsed, 1939. Very Good binding. 8vo. (8 3/4" x 6 1/4"); quarter brown suede over burgundy cloth with decorations and titling in faded gilt; [x], 11-111, followed by [1] with "Official Codes"; comic quatrains, 3 to a page, each illustrated with simple line drawings printed in burgundy;there is a previous owner name and address on the pastedown the book housed in publisher's slipcase.~~A nice period piece: "The sketches of such people as Columbus, Queen Isabella, Brigham Young and Champlain are, quite naturally, not sketched from life. I was not personally acquainted with them. On the other hand, neither were your. And so you cannot prove that they didn't look like that." (Note from the Author).~~Uncommon. We locate 4 copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.

New York: American Tract Society, 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quite a nice copy in decorated cloth board, stamped in blue, green, brown, red and white. With a frontispiece protected with tissue guard. There are no marks in this sturdy and quite serviceable copy. There are full page black and white plates throughout.~~An account of the doings of a Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides, "Told for Young Folks". Very Good binding.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Color frontispiece and additional plates throughout. Some foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Some toning to the endpapers. Sunning to the spine, and slight silverfishing to the dustjacket and binding. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Protected by the publisher's red cloth dustjacket with gilt lettering. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A copy of Robert Smith Surtees' Ask Mamma. Collates complete against the index, with a color frontispiece, and twelve additional color plates. Bookplate pasted over a previous bookplate on the front pastedown; additional bookplate on the first flyleaf; sunning to the spine. Polished calf with contrasting morocco labels; double rules with stops at the perimeters of the boards; dentelles; top edge gilt. Original cloth binding bound in at the rear. Very Good binding.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding, with the dustjacket, there is an erasure and pencil scribble marks on the front endpaper; there are no other marks in the book. The dustjacket flap lists "The Land of No Shadow" as the third listing the in the Adventures in the Unknown Series. The dustjacket has moderate wear and closed tears is pretty much intact. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

London: Charles Knight and Co, 1839. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Three large 8vo. volumes; in the publisher's green cloth bindings, with a vignette of arabic motif stamped to the center of each blind embossed board; Volume I has loss to the front endpaper where it had adhered to the pastedown; xxxii, [1],2-618 pages, [4]; xii, 643 pages, [3]; xii, 763 pages, [3]; each volume with an additional engraved half-title page; the front hinge of Volume II is a bit wobbly, but holding well.~~Volume I has been rebacked, and retains the original (slightly trimmed) spine.~~A copiously illustrated edition of The Thousand and One Nights, translated by Edward William Lane, with frequent in text engraved illustrations by William Harvey. Complete in three volumes. Very Good binding.

New York: American Heritage Press, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo.; in publisher's pictorial boards, with dustjacket; [3],4-64 pages; this copy is signed with an inscription "as Jeremy Mouse" by illustrator Hilary Knight; the dusjtacket is bright and attractive, but has been price-clipped.~~The inscription reads: "Jeremy Mouse says ... | This book is for Carla Ann".~~Hilary Knight is one the great illsutrator of children's books in our era -- especially known for the Eloise books, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books as well. In this case he collaborated with Richard Scarry's widoe. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Easthampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. Limited Edition. Half Leather. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; quarter morocco over marbled boards; the edition limited to 40 copies signed by Anne O'Connor, of which this is number 8.~~From the colophon: "Beings of Fancy was printed at Pennyroyal Press in the spine of 1975. The text was freely edited from the 1871 edition of Johnson's Natural History. The paper is handmade Mulberry, with an additional suite of wood engravings printed on Moriki. The type is handset Arrighi. Composition, printing, and wood engravings by Anne O'Connor."~~The book laid in a brown cloth covered tray case, with a morocco label.~~With a handwritten letter from Ms. O'Connor to Bromer Booksellers regarding copies of the book. Fine binding.

Globi-Verlag: Zurich, 1944. First Edition. Very Good binding. With the splendid illustrations of the Swiss graphic artist Herbert Leupin. There are no marks of any kind in the book. Bound in pictorial boards backed in blue cloth. The boards have minor shelfwear. Discreetly rebacked; the textblock extrudes a small amount beyond the boards. Very Good binding.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in publisher's red cloth binding, slightly cocked; with the uncommon dustjacket with illustration by Eric Ravilious; the dustjacket has not been price-clipped; is has a small chip and an internal closed tear to the spine; top corner of the front panel with residue of a long-gone sticker; the endpapers are toned but there are no ownership or other marks in the book; with 34 woodcut illustrations, decorations and vignettes by Ravilious, three of which are full page, including the frontispiece. ~~Desert recounts the struggles of Malchus, a wealthy Alexandrian who becomes a hermit, is a novel by the prolific writer and poet Martin Armstrong. Ravilious of course was one of the finest of the 20th century woodcut illustrators.~~. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York, London & Paris: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with sixteen color plates. Title page engraved, with printer's device on the front endpaper. Contemporary inscription on the front pastedown in pencil. Minor wear to the joints, and some loss to the extremities of the spine and corners of the boards. Pictorial paper covered boards. Very Good binding.

London: The Cresset Press, 1928. Limited Editio. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in quarter brown buckram over tan cloth, titling to the spine in gilt; [2], [i]-xxiv, [1]-349, [1] pages.~~"Of this edition 375 copies have been printed on special mould-made paper of which 350 are for sale, numbered 1-350, and 30 copies on hand-made paper, numbered i-xxx. This copy is number 185."~~A nice copy of a handsome edition. Very Good binding.

Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1952. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's printed wrappers; 112 pages, with illustrations.~~Post-war humor fit for the nascent baby-boomers. "Your college education in a nut-shell ... It gives you the low-down on everything, from Women to Money -- from Registration to Breathing. All you have to do when faced with a problem, is look it up. All subjects are arranged alphabetically for you. It's easier that way."~~This little Baby Boomer gem is uncommon, both in commerce and in institutional holdings (we find two listings). Very Good binding.

New York: B. W. Dodge & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A lovely copy of this attractive children's ABC book, in pictorial beige boards stamped in black, red and green and depicting a duck, a rooster, and flamingo and a parrot in "A Bird Cage". With delightful full-page alphabet rhymes and illustrations -- A is for Auk; B is for Bantam; and so forth. Printed on thick paper, and illustrated on one side only in red and black. There is a pencilled gift incription "From Santa Claus" on the pastedown; otherwise unmarked. One leaf has a 1" closed tear. Very Good binding.

Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Text illustration in green, blue and orange, by the author's husband, who also illustrated The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon. With no marks. Some loss to the dustjacket spine; beginning of separation to the dustjacket folds. Illustrated paper boards, with a Good only dustjacket. OCLC notes 34 institutional holdings. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1912. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in publisher's orange cloth with tiling in silver and rules in black; xvi, 367, [368] pages; with twelve illustrations as called for; the hinges are slightly loose but holding well. Very Good binding.

Philadelphia, New York, London, Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A collection of three short stories on fox hunting in the South. "The Stranger;" "E-String;" and "The Leader of Tate's Band." With a few full page illustrations and text illustrations. Gray cloth. Some chipping and tears to the edges of the Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's mauve cloth ruled in black to the perimeter of the upper board with titling in gilt; 144 pages; with frontispiece and five plates, all present as called for; there are no ownership marks of any kind.~~We believe that Mr. Krick outdid himself with the synopsis of this novel. This Neale imprint we nearly took home to read on the basis of what Krick said about it: "Dick loves Ruth, who is being sent away to school, but not before an exciting spelling bee takes place. The pair winds up joyously married, of course, with Ruth exclaiming, "I am so glad I am the wife of a Southerner." (Krick 434). Very Good binding.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. This edition with the blue and white pictorial endpapers; a previous owner name is on the front endpaper. The dustjacket is present with some loss at the spine and a closed tear with a small amount of loss to the front panel. The binding is pale purple boards stamped in green with a pastedown of "The Robber Kitten"; it is backed in red cloth with titling in green. A bright binding. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.