Search Results: Titles starting with I from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Scarborough, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 2004. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 676 pages, clothbacked boards Ticket to the Tom Wolfe reading, December 14, 2004, laid in.

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, ( 1915 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, vii, various paginations, black cloth Good advice for wannabes in the world of books, magazines, and journalism. Many plates in color, b&w illustrations, samples of alphabets.

Boston: Four Seas Company, ( 1929). First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 56 pages, boards, title scuffed; part of front dj flap laid in. Poems of a philosopher protesting that science has killed soul. "The poet shows how the biologists, physicists, and astronomers in prying into the secrets of the physical universe, trying to measure the infinitely small and the infinitely vast, have made the age physical instead of spiritual, and committed the disobedience of the fable of the Garden of Eden."

Boston: Four Seas Company, ( 1929). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 56 pages, boards; a few nicks in top edge and tips of dj Poems of a philosopher protesting that science has killed soul. "The poet shows how the biologists, physicists, and astronomers in prying into the secrets of the physical universe, trying to measure the infinitely small and the infinitely vast, have made the age physical instead of spiritual, and committed the disobedience of the fable of the Garden of Eden."

Indiana Society of Chicago, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, red-orange cloth, tips of spine worn No. 468 of 1000. [ Russo p. 76]. Illustrated with photographs, and with drawings by John T. McCutcheon. Brief biographical comments by George Ade about his fellow Hoosiers.

Fredericton, NB, Canada: Brunswick Press Limited, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 188 pages, cloth; light edgewear to dj. Surprisingly uncommon " Many of us who have cruised the properties of The Ontario Paper Company Limited and the Quebec North Shore Paper Company have thought we were pretty good. I was among thos until I read Paul Provencher's book. It goes far beyond my knowledge of woodcraft. It is so valuable that I think it should be made available to everybody entering the woods, not only to save themselve trouble and hardship, but also their lives." - Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Are you reading this Bear Grylls?? Provencher, a timber cruiser, master woodsman and outstanding Canadian forester was inspired by the coureurs de bois, the voyageurs, to imitate their feats. He was an instructor in the Canadian Army School of Bush Fighting in 1943. His lessons in military woodcraft were designed to train soldiers for any… Read More

Chicago: Virginia Lee, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, 107 pages, clothbacked boards " I NEED A JOB " was both an organization and a radio program. Photogravures. Lee was the Director and Originator of the radio program.

San Francisco: Wm. Doxey, 1895. Second edition. stapled wrappers. Good +. Bruce Porter. 12mo, 16pp., stapled self-wrappers, delicate paper, light wear Burgess was considered one of the funniest people in California. He was famed for his nonsense verse, starting with this poem and this magazine, which appeared in the year after he resigned from the University of California. The first edition was rather a test printing of fewer than two dozen copies. Probably all or most of this issue was by Burgess, who also invented and named the "blurb"; the remainder likely done by Bruce Porter, with typography by Doxey.

Milan: Collana Rana Verde, ( 1954 ). First Edition. Stiff Boards. Very Good. Oblong octavo, unpaginated, pictorial boards, nicked at the perimeter. UNCLE = Unknown No Copy Located Elsewhere E' un album movibile! This is album no. 1 in the Serie Gioconda in the Collezione " La Rana Verde ". The Italian text tells the story of puma which wanders into a group of Native American children. The booklet of text slides left, causing the figures on the front of the backing board to move and reveal.

Peoria, IL: BF Press, ( 2008 ). Third Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo, 160 pages, photographic wrappers A boy, a Polish Jew, eludes the Nazis: how he did it, how it changed him.

No place: Published by the Author, 1956. First English language edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo, 179, [ii] pages, red wrappers. Scarce. Niescior was a member of the Polish Resistance. He survived Auschwitz in order to describe its horrors. His prisoner tattoo was 16,087. Foreword by George K. Wrobleski, M. D.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped dj. Octavo, 471 pages + ads, beige cloth; cellophane tape repair to lower right corner of dj, several nicks How an author lives and works. He also details facts about his occasional collaborator, Booth Tarkington.

New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, clothbacked pictorial boards A splendid copy of this picture book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, with text again by his colleague, Ruth Krauss. This is the trade binding with a later state dj price of $3.95. [ Hanrahan 22 ].

Simon & Schuster, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 254 pages, clothbacked boards "There is nothing greater for a huam being than to get his body to react to all the things one does on a ballfield. It's as good as sex; it's as good as music. It fills you up. Waste no tears for me. I didn't come along too early - I was right on time - Buck O'Neil."

Lanham, MD: Taylor Publishing Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Cloth. Fine/Fine Dj. First Edition. Octavo. What color was his mask? This book answers that question -and many more. With filmography and two sctions of photgraphs.

New York: Beginner Books / Random House, ( 1965 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 64 pages, pictorial boards (lightly worn, small smudge at bottom margin pp. 1-4: chocolate from little hands??) in matching dust jacket: dj nicked at tips of spine and at tips of front fold, small brown spot to left of the "D" in Duck Feet, and some spotting in the splash, and some tears and small chip on rear panel. Rather scarce in this first edition with dust jacket. The chief indicator of priority of publication for this book is the dust jacket blurbs, and the price of 195/195. Illustrated by Barney Tobey. [ Younger & Hirsch, 42]. "I w"ish / that I had duck feet. / And I can tell you why." But if you want to know, this book you shall have to buy.

[ Norwood, MA]: Privately Printed, no date. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, [14] pages, quarter leather spine but for half-inch chip at base of spine Done for private distribution to the friends of The Plimpton Press by The Plimpton Press, circa 1913.

Bayport, NY: Published by the Author, ( 1978 ). First, Limited Edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. Octavo, 44 pages, pale green card Copy no. 195 of 500 copies, signed by McCarthy. "This guide shoiuld help the collector when he's unsure of the authenticity of an item. The front and back or outside and inside of an item will be shown. I am sure that this will be a reliable reference to use to detect reproductions." - p.3.

London: W. Horton for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Fifth, Revised edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Engraved title-page. 16mo, 358 pages, 19th century half calf, marbled, trimmed edges, minor bookworm damage. Scarce. A Dictionarie of English and Latin IDIOMES wherein PHRASES of the English and Latine Tongue Answering in Parallels ... . Schoolmaster Walker offered this book as a means to cure the barbarisms of translations from English to Latin committed by students. After some examples, Walker observed, "If your spleen be not ready to crack I could furnish you with more such as these be ... as finding them matter of almost every days tormenting observation." Most idioms are identified by its classical author, but others by moderns, such as Erasmus, Beza etc. Printed in blackface type. [ Wing W428; ESTC R34703]. With a copperplate frontispiece.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xvi, 85 pages, cloth edgeworn (especially the top edge, where it was probably shoved into too-tight a shelf) New thoughts by the author of ABRAHAM LINCOLN MAN OF GOD. Introduction by Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois. Inscribed by Hill in 1926 to James H. Durand