Search Results: Titles starting with I from Antique Books Den

NEW YORK: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, 1971 NICE LOOKING TEXTURED COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT, BLACK PRINT SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. BOOK PRINTED CZECHOSLOVAKIA. RED TASSLE ATTACHED TO MARK SPOT, BOOK FILLED WITH COLORFUL ARTWORK, POEMS AND HISTORY. EPILOGUE ABOUT BOOK, CATALOGUE OF DRAWINGS, TIMETABLE. A WONDERFUL, TOUCHING BOOK THAT GIVES A LOOK INTO A VERY SAD PART OF HISTORY. A TOTAL OF AROUND 15,000 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 15 PASSED THROUGH TEREZIN. OF THESE, AROUND 100 CAME BACK. I Never Saw Another Butterfly The works were compiled after World War II by Czech art historian Hana Volavková, the only curator of the Jewish Museum in Prague to survive the Holocaust. Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (a German-occupied region of Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served two main purposes: it was simultaneously a waystation to the extermination camps, and a… Read More

NEW YORK CITY: THE WOMANS PRESS, 1919 RARE LIGHT BROWN PROTECTIVE COVER WITH GREEN DESIGN AND PRINT. PROTECTIVE COVER IS FAIR IN THAT PART OF THE SPINE OF PAPER IS MISSING. BOOK HSRD COVER IS GREEN WITH WHITE LETTERING. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, PAGES CLEAN AND TIGHT. GEISTER WAS RECREATIONSECRETARY FOR THE NATIONAL WAR COUNCILOF THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. BOOK HAS NICE DETAIL ON ICE BREAKERS, STUNTS, PARTIES, RACES, TRICKS, GAMES AND GIRLS ACTIVITIES. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: STREET & SMITH CORPORATION, 1899 RARE PAPERBACK DATED 1899. GOOD SHAPE CONSIDERING, TIGHT, WEAR SPINE AND WATERMARKS BACK COVER. SMALL STAMP FRONT RIGHT UPPER CORNER 15 CENTS. NICE ARTWORK AND COLOR FRONT. RIGHT BOTTOM CORNER HAS DARK COLOR VERY EDGE. STATES NEW BERTHA CLAY LIBRARY, NO. 99. CLAY IS A VERY DESCRIPTIVE WRITER AND A JOY TO READ. SHE MAKES YOU VISUALIZE WHAT SHE IS WRTITING ABOUT. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY! Bertha M. Clay is a literary pseudonym first used by Charlotte Mary Brame (based on the reversal of the initials). After Brame's death on 25 November 1884, Brame's daughter began to write under the name. At the same time the pseudonym became a house name of Street & Smith, where "a dozen male writers" including John Russell Coryell and Frederick Merrill Van Rensselaer Dey wrote under the name.1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

MAYWOOD, ILL.: THOMAS DESCHAUER PUBLICATIONS, 1945 NICE LOOKING BROWN TEXTURED COVER, REINFORCED SPINE, BLACK PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL OF PLANTS AND USES. ARTWORK OF PLANTS. NAMES OF HERBS AND PAGES IN BACK. BOOK ASSOCIATED WITH THE NATIONAL HERB COMPANY. FOR THE LOVER OF HERBS AND DETAIL ON USES. Phytotherapy is the use of plants or herbs to manage health conditions. It also refers to substances that come from plants or herbs. Medicinal plants and herbs are a form of complementary medicine. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

UNITED STATES: PENNWICK, 1978 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY OF IMPERIAL CHINA, 1850-1912. PROTECTIVE COVER IS LIGHTLY WORN. PICTURE OF MANDARIN AND HIS WIFE. RED COVER WITH CHINESE WRITING ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SECTIONS INCLUDE FOREWARD, IMPERIAL CHINA: A CHINESE VIEW, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHY IN IMPERIAL CHINA, INDEX OF COMMERCIAL AND AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHINA 1846-1912 AND SOURCES. VERY INTERESTING PHOTOS AND DETAIL. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND CHINA. WORSWICK WAS A PHOTO HISTORIAN WHO WAS A GUEST CURATOR IN CHINA AND JAPAN. Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July… Read More

USA: M.A. DONOHUE & COMPANY, 1940 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, INDIAN ARTWORK FRONT, LIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE, VERY NICE BOOK BY GRIDLEY WHO WAS A HISTORIAN. LARGE BOOK WITH THICK PAGES. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SIX ILLUSTRATIONS AND SIX CHAPTERS. CHAPTERS INCLUDE THE INDIANS WORLD, DWELLERS AMONG THE LEAVES, DWELLERS IN THE SOUTHLAND, DWELLERS ON THE PLAINS, DESERT AND ALONG THE COAST. ARTWORK BY LONE WOLF VERY GOOD. ARTWORK ALMOST EVERY PAGE. BOOK SPONSORED BY THE INDIAN COUNCIL FIRE. DETAIL COVERS THE UNITED STATES. TRIBES AND STATUS. VETY NICE BOOK TO HELP ALL UNDERSTAND THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND WHERE THE DIFFERENT TRIBES LIVED. Marion Eleanor Gridley was born in White Plains, New York, on 16 November 1906. She married Robinson Johnson on 15 May 1932, but they divorced in either 1947 or 1948. Gridley published Indians of Today in 1936 and edited Indian Legends of American Scenes three years later. In 1940 she wrote Indians of Yesterday, following it with The Story of Pocahontas in 1948 and then… Read More

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1938 BEAUTIFUL BOOK, ORNATE DECORATIONS FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT TAN COVER, GREEN & GOLD DESIGN. RED ON SPINE. NICE SLIP COVER WITH DESIGN AND BEAUTIFUL ART WITH WEAR ON EDGES. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, EIGHT COLORFUL, DETAILED ILLUSTRATION. DELUXE EDITION.THE GARDEN OF KAMA FRONTISPIECE WITH TOPLESS DANCERS. THE IMMORTAL POEMS OF LAURENCE HOPE, "LESS THAN THE DUST", "PALE HANDS I LOVED" AND MANY MORE. John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 ¿ 26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was an Indian-born British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) (9 April 1865-4 October 1904) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. VERY NICE HEAVY PAGES AND ART. 84 LOVE LYRICS ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

HARTFORD, CONN.: AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1886 VERY NICE DECORATIVE COVER, DARK BROWN WITH GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 60 CHAPTERS. TERRIFIC ARTWORK, TRAVEL DETAIL AND HUMOR THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF TRAVEL, TWAIN AND HUMOR. DESCRIPTIONS OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES, AS THEY APPEARED TO TWAIN. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner… Read More

TOKYO: THE HOKUSEIDO PRESS, 1939 VERY NICE LOOKING RED TEXTURED COVER, DESIN ON FRONT AND SPINE IN BLACK, RED AND WHITE. FORMER OWNERS NAME ERASED INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND NO MARKINGS. PICTURE OF MOORE AS FRONTISPIECE IN JAPANESE DRESS. BOOK IS MEANT TO COVER THE PAST HISTORY AND PRESENT. STARTING WITH THE NARA ERA 645-794. THROUGH THE SHOWA ERA 1912-1926. JAPANESE BOOK LABEL IN BACK INDICATING ON SALE BY MAJOR BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE FAR EAST AND AMERICA. WONDERFUL BOOK WITH EXCELLENT DETAIL FOR THE HISTORY LOVER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: SCHOLASTIC BOOK SERVICES, 1970 Wells, H. G. (1866¿1946), British novelist and social critic, regarded as one of the pioneers of science fiction. His most famous works in this genre are The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1897). NICE LOOKING PAPERBACK WITH GOOD ARTWORK ON COVER, THREE PAGES WERE FOLDED BUT LOOK FINE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. february 1970 5th edition. The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure. Instead, his plight becomes known. GREAT BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS… Read More

LONDON & GLASGOW: COLLINS CLEAR TYPE PRESS, 1880 BEAUTIFUL RED LEATHER COVER, SPINE IS LIGHTER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, FORMER OWNERS LABEL INSIDE FRONT COVER. WONDERFUL ARTWORK BY PAUL HARDY THROUGHOUT. CLEAN AND TIGHT. NO DATE, CIRCA 1880. Charles Reade (8 June 1814 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. It Is Never Too Late to Mend (sometimes written as It's Never Too Late to Mend) is an 1856 novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It was later turned into a play. A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires to have her lover framed and sent to jail. aul Hardy (baptised David Paul Frederick Hardy) (2 August 1862 near Bath, Somerset - 2 January 1942 Storrington), was an English illustrator, well known for his regular illustrations in The Strand Magazine and his painting of Canterbury Pilgrims (1903), and his drawings were associated with the serials of the writer Samuel Walkey (1871-1953). ANTIQUE… Read More

NEW YORK: UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, 1908 VERY NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS OTHER THAN A SMALL STICKER INSIDE THE FRONT AND ERASED NUMBER ABOVE. NO MAPS ARE INCLUDED. RARE BOOK IN VERY GOOD TIGHT CLEAN CONDITION. INTRODUCTION BY JAMES C. EGBERT. BOOK BY DANIEL JAMES ELLISON- WRITES A NICE PREFACE AND HOW TO USE THE BOOK. VERY NICE DESCRIPTIVE, ENTERTAINING BOOK OF ITALY. THROUGH THE IDEA OF THE STEREOSCOPE THAT WAS POPULAR AT THAT TIME. Stereograph- Two stereoscopic pictures or one picture with two superposed stereoscopic images, designed to give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope or special glasses. A WONDERFUL PIECE OF OUR PAST AND LOOK AT ITALY BEAUTY FROM INSIDE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.