Search Results: Titles starting with I from JWMah

Canada: Kebzeh Publications, 1996. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, "To D----/ Murat", no other markings, Fine. Wraps, 177pp,map. This is the spiritual autobiography of a Sufi leader. (1.5 JM HOQ101/a5. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London UK: Fourteen-Nineteen, 2012. (UK) 1st edition (1000 copies) No markings, Fine. Orange wraps, no page numbers, [144]pp. colour and B&W photos. Photos of mostly boys in tough urban settings. Starting in 2000 Vegezzi began documenting his explorations in New York City. Vegezzi and his companions traversed unused but guarded spaces of the city. Wandering through abandoned subway tunnels, constructions sites, alleyways, rooftops and other spaces of abject industrial insignificance, Vegezzi struck out for the liminal and in between spaces of his environment. Vegezzi's photographs both document this experience and immortalise the adventurous spirit of adolescence. (1.8 JM HOJ 304/5. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

NY: Remick Music Corp., 1931. (USA) Owner's name, music store stamp, edge tear, about Very Good used copy. 6 pages including both covers. Illus cover with couple in silhousette. (0.8 JM HOX 1/6. Sheet Music. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Sheet Music.

NY: Paramount Music Corporation, 1938. (USA) No markings , tiny edge tear, a bit of rubbing ti ]o spine, Very Good copy. 6 pp counting both covers. Photo of Franciska Gaal, Shirley Ross and Bing Crosby to cover. (0.9 JM HOX 1/a2. Sheet Music. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Sheet Music.

Tehran: Studio Hooyar Asadian, 2016. (IRAN) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, ricce-grain size spot to cover, two faint spots to back cover, otherwise Very Good; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Grey cloth, 186pp, colour photos of sculptures with text in Iranian and in English. Kambiz Sharif was born in 1978 in Tabriz, Iran. Beginning with his experimentation with line in painting, he felt an instinctual desire to create three-dimensional forms. After graduating from the Mirak Arts School in Tabriz, Sharif moved to Tehran where he opened a studio and began working in sculpture full-time. (2.9 JM LVR 202/b6. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good (-)/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Drive, Clark; Khalali, Iman; Gordon, John; Farahani, Mohsen. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2013. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine; no dust jackdt as published. White boards, 512pp, index, colour photos throughout celebrate the locales and local foods of New York State. Humm is the executive chef of Eleven Madison Park; and Guidara is the manager. A heavy book. (6.0 JM LVR 205/a0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Italy: Casa Editrice G. D'anna, 1972. (ITL) 5th printing of the second edition of 1964. No markings, Very Good; no dust jacket. Blue boards, xvi, 989pp. Frontis portrait of the author, facsimile pages of the 1825 first edition, B&W illus. The text is entirely in Italian. This is an Italian historical novel, first published in three volumes, and significantly revised and rewritten until the definitive version published between 1840 and 1842. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel in the Italian language.(2.9 JM LVR 201/b5. 2nd. Hardcover. Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Milano: Carlo Bestetti Edizoni D'arte, 1967. (ITA) Presumed First Edition No markings, very Good in very Good dust jacket. Dj is in mylar sleeve. Green cloth, 232pp. Colour photos some colour photos tipped-in, B&W photos, historical illus. Text is in Italian, French, English, German. History of Murano glass; Tradition in modern glass; modern taste, table-sets, lights, stained glass windows. A heavy book. (3.9 JM LVR 202/b3. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Chiswick Empire, 1956. (UK) Date notations in pen to cover, therwise Very Good. 18 x 13 cm paper covert with colour illus of ballerina,stapled, [8] pp counting both covers. The role of Leonora is sung by Krystyna Granowska who has inscribed the programme; "With best wishes, Kystyna Granowska". Granowska was a Polish soprano who played roles as Musetta, Bohème 1955; Venus, Tannhäuser 1955 ;Tannhäuser 1956; Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni 1956; Manon Lescaut Manon, Lescaut 1956 Manon Lescaut 1957; Leonora, Il Trovatore, 1956. The Chiswick Empire was a theatre in London that opened in 1912 and closed and was demolished in 1959. A venue for touring artists, some of the greatest names in drama, variety and music hall performed there including George Formby, Laurel and Hardy, Chico Marx, Peter Sellers and Liberace. Local ads. (0.5 JM ITF2 docket 62. Inscribed. Staple Bound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Programme.

NY: Viking Penguin, 1990. (USA) 1st printing of this edition. No markings, very slight easing of the lower corner tip of front cover, otherwise Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Black cloth with blind embossed helmet design, patterned end papers, xvi, 683pp, three line maps; ribbon marker. Fagles' translation has been highly praised. The scholar combines the skills of the poet to bring the energy of contemporary language to this enduring epic. He uses Homer's mesmerizing repeated phrases in what has been called "a superb achievement in style" (Denis Donoghue). (3.3 JM HOZ 402/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

London: Octopus Books, 1987. (UK) First British Edition No markings, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with small piece missing from the top corner of the front panel. White boards with title block, 192pp, index, glossary. Wonderful colour photos of lovingly presented dishes. Introduced by Escoffier's grandson, Pierre Escoffier. These recipes were selected from The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery (1979) by Anne Johnson. The recipe ngredients are in metric and British measures. (3.2 JM LVR 201/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Octopus Books, 1987. (UK) First British Edition No markings, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with small piece missing from the top corner of the front panel. White boards with title block, 192pp, index, glossary. Wonderful colour photos of lovingly presented dishes. Introduced by Escoffier's grandson, Pierre Escoffier. These recipes were selected from The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery (1979) by Anne Johnson. The recipe ngredients are in metric and British measures. A heavy book. (3.2 JM HOZ 402/6. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London / New York: George Routledge & Sons / E.P. Dutton, 1905. (UK) Bookplate from the City of Sheffield for year ended July 31, 19--, (partially rubbed away) to the front pastedown, no other markings, light spotting to the covers, with lower corner tips rubbed through, endapers tanned,about Good; no Dj. 20 x 13.5 cm, red cloth with gold titles to front and to spine, design device of a rising sun to front and sea cliff scene to the spine, xx, 444pp, index. Colour frontis of "The King of Beasts"; 480 B&W illus of animals and birds in the text. There is a preface (for the first edition) which is dated 1852 and an undated preface for the second (revised) edition. This is a description of the habits and habitats of animals and birds, with some material on fishes and insects, in the correct classification "drawn from personal experience and from the most recent zoological writers". There is a lot of anecdotal material included which makes the most interesting reading.… Read More

Boston: New York Grahic o, 1979. (USA) Stated firt edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the half-title, no other markings, tiny bump to lower corner tip of front cover, otherwise Fine in price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket with a fine scratch to back panel (not breaking the paper surface) and a couple of small creases to the corner of the rear flap. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover in cloth, 126pp, then 60 B&W photographic plates of photographs by Imogen cunningham. Dater has selected 60 photographs (half of them never before published) for presentation here in duotone in classic album format. Conntributors include Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Beaumont Newhall, as well as rivate people who remember the photographer. Also included in the book is the famous photograph by Dater of Cunningham and Twinka at Yosemite. 1974. (2.8 JM HOJ 300/5. Signed by Author. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

United Kingdom: Duckworth., 1987. (UK) First Printing INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: " [To]----- ------ from Alex C."; no other markings, Fine in unclipped Near Fine Dj with one 1/2" tear closed tear to top edge of front panel; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Purple boards, 206pp. (1.6 JM HOJ 304/0. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Phaidon, 2000. (UK) First edition Ownership stamp to corner of end paper, no other markigns, Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket withsoft crease to top edge of front panel near the spine. Hardcover, [192pp], collour fashion photographs. This book looks at contemporary fashion photographers' work, utilising the modern digital retouching to create "impossible images. It includes works by photographers Nick Knight, Solve Sundsbo, Phil Poynter, Norbert Schoerner, Andrea Giacobbe, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Matt Alas, Stephanie Sednaoul and others. Fashion today is as much about image as it is about ideas, indeed the two concepts are synonymous with our perceived notions of style. Yet over the past decade, the increasing use of technology and image manipulation within the fashion industry have led to an increase in the fantastical image, as much a product of the machine as it is the result of the imaginative faculties of its creators. From fashion shoots that display clothes… Read More

Victoria: Cappis Press, 1985. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the head of the spien panel. Hardcover, 285pp, B&W photos. These are personal narratives of priosoners of war in German and Japanese camps during WWII; escape via Russia; an Irishman doing a brisk trade in overcoats in the steamy Sumatran jungle; a tail-gunner 'celebrating' his birthday in Buchenwald; a soldier who spent 56 days solitary confinement in Korea; a former Belgian doing slave labour in his own country. Women also play an important role in this memoirs: Gwen Dopson doing cooking for 420 people; Grace Leopold relating what it was like at home as the wife of a POW; Muriel Garner who survived shelling at sea and who tried to muder a guard for attempting to stave her to death. (1.9 JM HOZ 401/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2000. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. iNSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half-title: "To Ruth N---/ Best wishes and enjoy!/ Lee R. Berger, June 7, 2000", 6 pages have pen underlining or small checkmarks, there is a small skiined spot to the margin of page 181, some page corners have been folded, a corner crimpt to several leaves, thus Good used copy in unclipped Good dust jacket with two ceases to the edge of the rear flap; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover, 325pp, index, small B&W photos and illus. The book postulates that the discovery of one hundred thousand-year-old fossilized human footprints places the origin of human beings in southern Africa instead of the previously postulated eastern Africa.Le was born in Kansas but in 2000 was with the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesberg. (2.1 JM HOZ 402/4. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: The Viking Press, 1976. (USA) 2nd printing of the First edition, No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, Cloth hardcover, 184pp, bibliography, lots of B&W illus and photos augmented with colour photos. Ths is a look at the furnoshings and clothing of the Russian aristocracy from 1700 to 1900. Jacqueline Onasis selected the illustrations which show objects d;art, extraordianry clothies, palaces and furnishings. Catherine the Great, Marquis de Custine, Gogel, Pushkin, Tolstoy and other writers provide a running commentary. A heavy book (3.0 JM LVR 202/b5. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd., 1974. (CAD) Presumed First Edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Charlie, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Very Good (+) Dust jacket with tiny chip to head of spine of DJ. Orange cloth, 280pp, index. B&W photos. This history of the Chinese immgrants to British Columbia starts in 1858, (2.2 JM HOQ 102/4. Inscribed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.