Search Results: Titles starting with I from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED BY BOB HOPE ON FEP without personalization. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with short closed tears and a faint dampstain on front corner. Dust jacket has very little edge wear. 272 pp.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Bound in original blue cloth with silver lettering spine and front cover. Near fine copy with mild fading of cloth at spine ends and head of front cover, in a near fine dust jacket with light crease to rear flap of dust jacket. 305 pp.

Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1988. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Octavo. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. 143pp. Bound in tan stiff paper wrappers printed in black. A fine bright copy with signed letter from the publisher laid in.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 223pp., (1) pp. author's book list. Bound in red cloth, spine lettered in black. A fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. 246pp. Bound in dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Nearly fine in unclipped dust jacket. A very nice copy.

Boston/London: Robert Bros./John Lane, 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First American Edition, issued as the 26th title (of 33) in the "Keynotes Series," published by John Lane in London and by Roberts Bros. in Boston. Near fine copy bound in original light blue cloth decoated in green, gilt lettering spine. Binding design by Patten Wilson. Illustrated tite page. 210 pp + 10 pp. Ads.

Tokyo, nd (ca.1950): The Kairyu-Do Press. Original Wraps. Very Good. 5" x 7" 57pp. Edited with an introductory preface with notes by Prof. Jun Tanaka. Bound in gray wraps printed in red and black, spine lettering black. The story in English ends at page 44 with the remaining pages forming a Japanse translation of some of the English words translated into Japanese. Pages toned, owner's bookplate; a very good copy of this work which originally appeared in Hearn's Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Now quite scarce on the market.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good-. Octavo. A very good+ copy with mild cover edge wear, small ink stamp ffep in a very good- dust jacket with chips, short closed tears, long thin piece missing rear panel of dust jacket affecting "A Note About Ellery Queen" blurb. 195 pp.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in black cloth with red lettering spine. A very good+ copy with owner inscription ffep, hinges repaired with binding still tight. 286 pp.

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 464 pp. Bound in black cloth, upper board stamped in silver, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. An outstanding example of a 1932 dust jacket. A lovely copy of this powerful, real life story of growing up in the raw and brutal West.

New York: Paul S. Erikksson, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DAVID MAGEE WITH AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL STATIONARY WITH HIS PRINTED LETTERHEAD. Bound in original gold cloth with black lettering. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. xiii, 274 pp.

London; 1840-42 & 47: Richard Bentley and Son. First Edition. Full-Leather. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, first issue; the First, Second and Third Series, in three volumes, each with half-title and engraved title pages, humorously illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leach and with a 2 portraits of the author, with the excessively rare blank page at 236 of the first series and the slip of explanation. All beautifully bound by Riviere in full green crushed morocco, board edges ruled and stamped with a repeated tiny flower pattern within gilt rules; raised bands with title and compartments gilt; lavish inner gilt dentelles, burgundy coated endpapers; top edges gilt, all others uncut. with original covers bound in at the rear; spines have uniformly changed to a lovely brown. A very handsome and fine set of this collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham.The best known poem is the Jackdaw of Rheims… Read More

Croydon: H.R. Grubb, Ltd, 1931. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine. Thick Small Quarto. PART II ONLY. 740pp. Illustrated throughout with many photos. Beautifully bound in a pristine green pictorial gilt cloth, large folding chart at rear, in original glassine wrapper. This is the second part after part I, Medical (1929). An important work in beautiful condition.

Lincroft, NJ: TIA Publications, 1992. Original Wrappers. Near Fine. Octavo. Near fine copy in original staple bound printed wrappers with address label rear panel. 16 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition, second issue, with p. 44, last line "blue..." and p. 45, first line "beth..." 4pp. front ads, 136pp., (8)pp. rear ads; 16mo (3 1/8" x 4 11/16"). Bound in contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, paper label to front board. Harper's Half Hour Series, No. 91. Minor wear to covers; a very good, clean copy, internally clean and bright. Now scarce on the market. [BAL 10539].

New York: The Ronald Press Co, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 518pp. Bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt. Very possibly, an association copy, with an interesting previous owner's long inscription,."Tim I still don't know what to write in this thing except to say that I have made a special effort to carry it around all these years....Perhaps it reminds me of the 60's, UTMB & our rebelious interns who trusted no one 'over 30'...." Small ink stamp on top edge and free endpaper. A very nice copy in printed dust jacket with evidence of tape removal.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The Pen/Hemingway Award. 198pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over paper covered boards. A fine bright copy in crisp fresh dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. First printing. Bound in original black cloth lettered in blue and gilt; a lovely copy in an about fine dust jacket, with a 1/8" closed tear at top of rear panel. 247 pp.

New York: The Viking Pess, 1962. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Viking review copy with slip laid in. Forward by Greene, who explains why this book was eventually republished. He found after re-reading the first edition which was first published 28 years earlier in 1934, he didn't care much for parts he had written and made changes. 214pp., bound in light blue cloth, upper board stamped in blind, spine lettering lime green; fine in unclipped near fine dust jacket with a small closed edge tear to bottom front panel. This would make for a nice addition to accompany Greene's first edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1975. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. first printing, 314 pages, so near fine pictorial dust jacket with price of $7.95 on front flap. A flawless, unread copy, inscribed thus to Chuck and Sandy Parkhurst: "To / Chuck & Sandy / Boy, is it ever / cold. / Cheers, / Clive Cussler" - Signed in person, in Scottsdale AZ. Armorial bookplate of Charles Parkhurst laid in.