Search Results: Authors starting with I from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

1882. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1882. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, with ruling in black; boards ornately ornamented in gilt and black, with fillets in blind; all edges gilt; decorative endpapers; pp. [iv], 219; light rubbing to head and tail of spine, with fading to cloth; light marks to top of upper board; previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; some discolouration to half title and free endpapers; a little spotting throughout; a very good copy in the superbly decorated cloth binding. First edition. In the original Norwegian. En Folkefiende, or, 'An Enemy of the People,' is a five-act play, first published in 1882 and subsequently first performed in 1883. It concerns the actions of Doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer charged with inspecting the public baths on which the prosperity of his native town depends. He finds the water to be contaminated. When he refuses to be silenced, he is declared an enemy of the people' (Britannica).

Miskolcz, gedruckt bei Ludwig Tóth v. Csögle, 1845. 8vo. Uncut and largely unopened in later Hungarian marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in; pp. 99; wrappers a bit dusty and with one small hole; title-verso with carefully removed 19th-century collector's stamp, otherwise a very good copy of an almost unrecorded publication. First edition. The Beggar-Poet as Legal Assistant and the Legal System of the Nether World was written by a mentally deranged messianic Hungarian author, who at the time lived in the North-Eastern Hungarian town of Miskolc. This play, which contains Hungarian verses, although largely written in German, opens with a scene of social realism: An impoverished merchant and poet in his only room with his four children is having breakfast. Other scenes are situated in prison, a hotel, or at a law court 32 in hell, the fantastic and realistic are mingling, a mockery of authoritarian politics and the liberating foreshadow of free-roaming creativity are alternating in this… Read More

France, c. 1793 This inkwell has all the insignia of the French Republic (fasces, torch of liberty, oak branches for glory on the battlefield). Finely executed, a little surface wear, without glass insert, height 85 mm, diameter at base 58 mm, no glass insert. This inkwell was probably part of a large desk set, decorated with the insignia of the young and struggling French Republic. These complete sets fetch impressive and silly prices on the market.

London, Hutchinson, 1936. 8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in black, map endpapers; pp. 283, 16, (publisher's catalogue), plates after photograph, cloth a little marked, occasional light spotting, bookdealer's pencil annotations to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. Uncommon first edition, inscribed by the author on dedication page, with Japanese-style drawing of a cherry. Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram was the travelling naturalist responsible for saving certain Japanese ornamental cherry varieties, and to introduce them to Britain. These cherries have now become ubiquitus, due to councils favouring them over other ornamental trees. In this book Ingram, always the keen naturalist observer, describes a world tour visiting islands. Thaiti, Coll, Teneriffe, Sumatra, Dassen, Kyushu, Sanday, New Zealand, Little Tobago, Corsica and Ouessant (Ushant).

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, [November, 1918]. 8vo. Original dark blue pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 256, large colour-printed folding map of Eurasia in rear pocket; apart from light fading to cloth and offsetting from paste-downs (as usual), a near-fine copy of a scarce and important work. First edition, issued by the spy-masters of the British Empire, this restricted handbook examines the peoples of Mongolian, Hun, Turcic and Finno-Ugric origin, their languages, way of life and culture. Background was the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Revolution, ferment in China, and the end of the First World War in Europe. The volume covers Eurasia from Scandinavia to Eastern Siberia, from the Arctic Circle to the Balkans and and Syria, Afghanistan and Tibet. 'During the years 1913–18, when Turkey was involved in a bitter struggle with Russia, Pan-Turkish propaganda was officially promoted by the Ottoman government. In the 1920s and '30s, Kemal Atatürk… Read More

[Various printers for H.M. Stationery Office], December 1941 - January 1945. Four volumes, 8vo. Original orange cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt; highly illustrated with plates, fold-out maps and plans, large colour map in rear pocket of volume I; This book is for official use of persons in H. M. Sevice only and must not be shown, or made available, to the Press or any member of the public; bindings a little marked to varying degrees, otherwise very clean and fresh; the British writer Alan Sillitoe's set with his name on front fly-leaves. First edition. Restricted Geographical Handbook Series. - The complete four volume set, with the last volume being the rarest. Probably one of the best-researched books of the time on the peninsula, including the Atlantic isles (volume IV). Volume one is on the peninsula as a whole, volume two is on Portgal, volume three on Spain and the fourth is on the rarely dealt with Atlantic islands with very good maps. 'A series of intelligence handbooks… Read More

[Cambridge, UP, printed under the Authority of HMSO], June 1942-October, 1943. Four volumes, 8vo. Original Royal Air Force grey-blue cloth, spines and front covers lettered and ruled in gilt; highly illustrated with maps, plates and diagrams, one large colour-printed map in rear pocket; cloth a little spotted and marked and spines unevenly faded, internally very good;provenance: from the library of the Imperial Agricultural Bureau with their stamps to front endpapers, volume II with number inscribed on front cover. First edition of one of the rarest complete sets of the series, restricted. Probably one of the best-researched books of the time on the country, with contributions on agriculture, population, topography, economics, climate, transport, in short, every aspect - and more - the military was supposed to know about France during the liberation from Fascism and the Nazis. 'A series of intelligence handbooks produced during the First World War had proved valuable both during the conflict and as… Read More

[Simla, no printer], 1st October, 1943. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with printed label Burma Intelligence Bureau pasted over upper portion of front cover; pp. [2], iii, 82, two leaves of plates with portraits; covers a little rubbed and lightly spotted; internally, apart from light even browning, due to paper-stock, a good copy; provenance: Confidential stamped onto front cover, crossed out in red ink and priced in ms. Rs. 1/12/, later Polish institutional stamp in the margins of two pages. First edition, of great rarity. 'This publication endeavours to paint as accurate a picture as possible of events and conditions in Burma during the period of the Japanese occupation up to 1st October, 1943' (p. iii). A short history of the occupation, including the organisation and administration of the puppet regime installed by the Japanese is followed by the preparedness for and atittitude of the Burmese towards impending British recapture of the country. The booklet deals in detail with the role of the… Read More

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, [November, 1918]. 8vo. Original dark blue pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. [3]-256, large colour-printed folding map of Eurasia in rear pocket; apart from light fading to cloth and offsetting from paste-downs (as usual), a near-fine copy of a scarce and important work. First edition, issued by the spy-masters of the British Empire, this probably restricted handbook examines the peoples of Mongolian, Hun, Turcic and Finno-Ugric origin, their languages, way of life and culture. Background was the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Revolution, ferment in China, and the end of the First World War in Europe. The volume covers Eurasia from Scandinavia to Eastern Siberia, from the Arctic Circle to the Balkans and and Syria, Afghanistan and Tibet. 'During the years 1913–18, when Turkey was involved in a bitter struggle with Russia, Pan-Turkish propaganda was officially promoted by the Ottoman government. In the 1920s and '30s, Kemal… Read More

1928. London, Jonathan Cape, 1928. 8vo. Attractively rebound in olive green morocco, title gilt to spine; pp.255; a little fading along the spine, some very occasional foxing, an very good copy in a simple but skilled binding, with an authorial inscription to "the Governor" on page 1. First edition. Isherwood's first novel, which he began at the age of 21, which depicts generational struggle and the slow deterioration of middle-class English life in the wake of the First World War. In his later fictionalized autobiography Down There On A Visit", Isherwood describes the reception of his novel as a 'flop', perhaps accounting for its relative scarcity in the Isherwood canon. Even rarer still, this particular copy is inscribed to "The Governor", or Andre Mangeot, the French violinist who gave Isherwood his first job, introduced him to Stephen Spender, and provided him a home in which to write the novel. Presentation copies of this work are rare, and sought after by collectors of… Read More