Search Results: Titles starting with I from Lighthousebooks, ABAA

New York: Ward & Drummond, 1879. Octavo, blue illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, tissue-protected frontis., 216 pp. Fair, with edgewear, penciled marks to endpapers, ffep. excised. Illustrations.

New York: Viking, [2006]. 1st edition. Octavo, tan boards (hardbound), xv, 702 pp. Photos. Fine in dust jacket.

London: William Kimber, (1977). First Edition. Octavo, green boards (hardcover), 224 pp. Photos, portraits. Pilot and leader of No. 3 (Naval) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Fine, with bookplate, in dust jacket.

Tallahassee Democrat, (1983). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, turquoise boards (hardcover), silver letters, 248 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Bankers and preachers were barred from public office by Florida’s first constitution... Florida waters and shores survived one of the world’s most massive oil spills... Why the capital was put in Tallahassee... How a nocturnal spider dismantles and hauls in its web... Florida once had a candidate for governor who made no campaign speeches -- because he couldn’t talk... Such are some of the items you will find in this book, gleaned from several thousand columns and other commentaries by Malcolm B. Johnson, who retired in 19¶• as editor of the Tallahassee Democrat after 43 years of newspapering in Florida. Most of them appeared under the familiar logo in the left column of the Democrat’s front page. Some appeared as Sunday columns on the editorial page.… Read More

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), 189 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Starting in 1950, shortly after they met, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife, Nancy. In this beautiful book, those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving portrait of a long and loving marriage, as Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them, and on the life that she and Ronald Reagan shared, from courtship, young marriage, and the White House years on through to her life today. Included letter: My Darling / This is really just an in-between day. It is a day on which I love you three hundred and sixty-five more days more than I did a year ago and three hundred and sixty-five days less than I will a year from now. / But I wonder how I lived at all for all the three hundred and sixty-fives before I met you. / All my love, / Your Husband.

Brentwood, TN: Worthy Publishing, (2013). Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 391 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Israel is aflame with passion, Rome is burning, and a murderer-turned-apostle strains against his chains in prison, desperate to share the Gospel one last time. Two thousand years later, a modern-day seeker travels the globe to save his best friend’s life and is drawn into a search for that ancient prisoner’s secret memoirs -- which may have already fallen into the wrong hands. I, Saul transports you from the first century world of Saul, Luke, Timothy, and Mark, to the life of a modern-day professor, who learns first hand that God can turn anyone’s life around. Filled with political intrigue, romance, and rich historical detail, I, Saul, is a thrilling tale of loyal friendships tested by life-or-death quests, set two millenia apart, told by a master storyteller.

Mount Sinai, New York: Katydid Publishing Company, (1963). First Edition. Octavo, illus. tan cloth (hardcover), 93 pp. Fine. Illustrated. From Preface: I have always been intrigued by giraffes. As a child I pitied them for I thought that probably they were aware of their tallness in the same manner that I was. It happened that while I was tall, all my friends in school days and later in society were short, and I pitied myself. Since I myself have never been friendly with a tall woman, I wondered how a giraffe with his long neck and long legs could even notice any creature at all, for all were so much smaller. Recently I have looked in bookstores for a possible story about a giraffe. I found none. I concluded therefore that a giraffe not only had to endure his awkward height but had to console himself with nonentity. I therefore went to the Zoo and talked to the giraffes and one who was very loquacious told me the following story. I hope you all will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed… Read More

Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995. Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 401 through 501, Plates 502 through 600 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page… Read More

Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995. Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 201 through 301, Plates 302 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page… Read More

Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995. Unbound, as issued. Plates 201 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page botanical line drawing. The other side of each page… Read More

Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1993. Unbound, as issued. Plates 001 through 200, + [ii] Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page botanical line drawing. The other side of each… Read More

Seattle, Washington: Special Child Publications, [1968]. Octavo, softbound, 108 pp. Near-Fine. ‘The purpose of this monograph is to share with the reader the clinical observations and data accumulated during several years’ use of the ITPA...Interpretation applicable to both the experimental and new revised edition of the ITPA.’

Paris: Icare, (1997). Quarto, softbound, 23, 136 pp. Photos., color plates. Pilot biographies. Fine.

Oxford University Press, (2010). Royal octavo, softbound (slick brown stiff illustrated wrappers), 230 pp. From lower cover: This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa’s second reform of the penny c. 792. Outside numismatic circles, this material has largely been ignored because of its complexity, yet artistically this is the most vibrant period of English coinage, with die-cutters showing flair and innovation and employing hundreds of different designs in their work. By analysing the iconography of the early coinage, this book intends to introduce its rich legacy to a wide audience. Anna Gannon divides the designs of the coins into four main categories: busts (including attributes and drapery), human figures, animals and geometrical patterns, presenting prototypes, sources of the repertoire and parallels with contemporary visual arts for each motif. The comparisons demonstrate the central role of coins in… Read More

Venetia: Appresio Nicolo Pezzana, 1669. Octavo, original vellum over boards, calf label, uncut, [viii], 686 [with numerous pagination errors] pp. Illustrated with 354 woodcuts. Ripa’s Iconologia with its emblematical representations was highly influential throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Used by artists and poets to giver personification and substance to virtues, vices, passions, etc., the concepts are arranged alphabetically for easy reference. This copy is in Very Good condition, showing some cover wear and with the interior clean and tight.

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1946. Royal octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & illustration to upper cover, map illus. endpapers, 63 pp. Fine. From Introduction: In the ruins of the Roman fortress called Babylon or Kasr ash Shammah in Old Cairo, and within its vicinity, there survive twelve Coptic churches whose structure dates from the early centuries of Christianity. Icons in these churches, hung against the whitewashed walls or set in screens of ivory and ebony or cedar inlay, claim attention by their curious representation of Christian saints. The icons selected for illustration in this book are those which particularly reflect the outlook of the Christian East in the subjects depicted and in the manner of portrayal. It will be appreciated that the intricate problems of theology, historical trends and artistic development are treated in the introductory text in the very broadest manner. This presentation is intended simply as a background to an appreciation of the icons and an… Read More

Pocatello: Idaho State University Press, [1983]. 3rd printing. Quarto, softbound, xvi, 230 pp. Photos, maps. Near-Fine.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1986). Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 159 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: With its exotic, semitropical climate and luxuriant proximity to the Gulf Stream, Florida has always captured the imaginations of its visitors, becoming for them not just a geographical region but a land of legend. Traditionally, Florida has been a place where the rigors that characterized life in much of the rest of North America dissolved into a seemingly paradisiacal garden, a rich, beautiful land to be revered or exploited.

Washington, D.C.: American Speech and Hearing Association, 1961. Octavo, softbound, 68 pp. Very Good+ with former owner signiture to cover. ‘Idenification Audiometry includes many aspects of program development, procedures, problems of personnel and management, interpretation, and follow-up, with regard to preschool age children, school-health programs, and different aspects of industrial and military audiology. All these facets are pertinent to the basic problem of identifying the individual who has, or who offers a predilection for, hearing impairment.’

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 220 pp. Very Good, with light wear.