Search Results: Titles starting with I from Uncommon Works

New York: Scribner, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine (as new) first edition, first printing in a very near fine dustjacket. Rust paper boards over black quarter-cloth. Gilt title-stamping on spine. First Scribner hardcover edition, 2020, and complete number line on copyright page. Unclipped dust jacket showing miniscule tear at foot. 448 pp. Octavo. The master of supernatural disaster returns with four horror-laced novellas.The protagonist of the title story, Holly Gibney, is by King’s own admission one of his most beloved characters, a “quirky walk-on” who quickly found herself at the center of some very unpleasant goings-on in End of Watch, Mr. Mercedes, and The Outsider. The insect-licious proceedings of the last are revisited, most yuckily, while some of King’s favorite conceits turn up: What happens if the dead are never really dead but instead show up generation after generation, occupying different bodies but most certainly… Read More

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007. Glossy pictorial cover. Near fine/fine. Mark Millmore. A near fine first printing in a fine dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards, top corner bumped. Otherwise fine. Fine, unclipped dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Not remaindered. 192 pp. Quarto, 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Early Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. A near fine, signed copy of Mr. Rathbone's autobiography. Black cloth boards with rust colored title stamping on spine. Square and sturdy binding. Deckled page edges. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper. Uniform toning to pages. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket, showing minor tears and loss at crown and foot of jacket, plus shelfwear at the edges. 278 pp. Octavo. Basil Rathbone is an actor and a gentleman of the old school; thus In and Out of Character, his memoir, has a sort of dated charm: the people are gay, the events gallant, the prose gilded. A very honorable, apparently honest book. Not a snippet of scandal peeps through; Aunt Edna should love it. At cricket-classy Repton School he learns esprit de corps; as a World War hero he recites Rupert Brooke to a French lass; after Stratford-on-Avon repertory and matinee idol success on the West End, he's off to New York, playing with Helen Mencken in… Read More

San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office, 1863. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good +. A very good plus, original softcover booklet. Green loose dust cover over string binding. Octavo. Established in 1850, The Society of California Pioneers is dedicated to the study and enjoyment of California art, history, and culture. Founded byindividuals arriving in California before 1850 and thriving under the leadership of several generations of their direct descendants, The Society has continuously served the academic community and the public. As the oldest organization west of The Mississippi, The Society opened one of the first libraries in California, as well as a grand hall for meetings, lectures, and social events. Today we operate a museum on The Main Post of The Presidio of San Francisco, free museum education programs, and The Alice Phelan Sullivan research library, all as a nonprofit organization designed to support scholarship and to encourage new interpretations that both… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Frederick Catherwood. A near fine first edition thus, newly edited with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Illustrations by Catherwood. Rust colored cloth boards. . Small smudge on bottom edge of book, otherwise fine. Dust jacket is very good plus, showing mild shelf wear at head and tail, and is price-clipped. Maps, illustrations and index. 473 pp. Octavo. Perhaps best known for his discovery of the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, lawyer-turned-archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was the author of a number of highly praised travel books. The present volume, his first effort in the genre, received wide acclaim from reviewers, including Edgar Allan Poe, who found it ''written with a freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling.''Conversational and unpretentious, the book is a delightful narrative of the author's year-long journey through the Middle… Read More

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1975. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus, early printing in a very good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt llama on cover and gilt title stamping on spine. Foot of spine softly folded. Binding is sturdy and square. Machu Picchu endpapers Previous owner's name on second leaf. profusely illustrated and painstakingly documented. Color plates throughout. Dust jacket showing 1/2 loss on rear left corner, small tears and wear at top and bottom of jacket. Octavo. 200 pp. Loren McIntyre (March 24, 1917 – May 11, 2003), was an American photojournalist who worked extensively in South America. His photographs and writing appeared in National Geographic and hundreds of other periodicals. He has numerous books to his credit, including The Incredible Incas and Their Timeless Land (1975), Exploring South America (1990), Amazonia (1991), and Die Amerikanische Reise (2000) -- Alchetron

New York: Hurst & Co., 1891. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good copy in original publishers bright blue ornate book cloth; title and centerpiece in silver with burgundy accents. All wood engravings present. Text block is solid, hinges have been repaired with archival quality white cloth tape. Cover rubbed, head and tail of spine worn. Previous owner's name in pencil. One corner bumped. 197 pp. + index Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.

Baltimore: University of Oklahoma, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good+. A fine first printing of this second edition reproducing the original Carnegie Institution edition of 1943 [HAND R235], In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Orange cloth boards, cream endpapers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Interior pages clean and bright. Dust jacket is showing wear along head and sunning on spine edge of DJ with no tears or chipping. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and drawings. 244 pp. Octavo, 7 x 10 inches tall The book examines Yucatan Maya civilization at the time of the Spanish Conquest and places in perspective the role played by the native population in subsequent political and social development. In addition to a general depiction of the Maya society found by the Spaniards, it offers....an analytical description of the political… Read More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Trade Edition. Boards. Fine/fine. A fine, SIGNED first trade edition in a fine dustjacket. Black paperboards. Gold foil title stamping on spine is fresh and bright. Binding is sturdy and square. SIGNED by Alexie on the title page. Octavo, 6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/4 inches tall. “Vigorous prose . . . haunted, surprising characters . . . flashes of sardonic wit . . . [ Indian Killer is] a meditative exploration of the sources of human identity.” — Richard E. Nicholls, The New York Times Book Review

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A near fine first printing thus from the University of Oklahoma Press. Green cloth boards with maroon and gold title stamping on spine. Tan end papers with previous owner's name on first free end paper. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Odd printing showing a reversed bleed through of text on verso of some pages in the introduction. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with no chips or tears. Dust jacket shows spots of soil on back cover and sunning to spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and b/w plates. xlii, 275 pp. including index.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/good. A very good plus first edition. Russet cloth boards with black title stamping on spine. Corners very slightly rubbed. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Binding is sturdy and square. In a poor, price-clipped, original dust jacket. Loss to jacket on back cover and at froot of spine, back flap detached. Dust jacket spine sunned. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with map, b/w plates. xivi, 434 pp. Octavo.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. First Edition. Leatherette. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus dust jacket. Jacket showing waving on front and wear along top edge. 293 pp. including index. Octavo. A history of the California Indians as they have been perceived by whites, with discussion of the customs, practices, laws, and institutions that resulted from those attitudes.

New York: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition,as stated. Red paper-covered boards over black quarter cloth. Map endpapers. In a very good plus unclipped dustjacket. Short 3/4" tear at crown of jacket and slight wear to inner flap top corner of jacket. xvi, 366 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps. Octavo. Pulitzer prize-winning author. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr."One of the master storytellers of modern war." The Wall Street Journal "Mr. Toland has written a thriller. He recounts the attack dramatically and then reviews the investigation in a way that raises doubts and questions." New York Times Book Review "An ambitious book written with revisionist vengeance." National Review "John Toland has been fearless in his pursuit of truth ... Infamy is not only readable and suspenseful; it is probably his most… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1994. Book Club Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/near fine. A very good Book club edition, first printing in a very near fine dust jacket. Grey paper boards over white quarter cloth spine. SK in red foil on cover, title in red foil on spine. White endpapers. First published by Viking Press and complete number line 1-10. Dust stains to top edge and fore edge. This massive book has been carefully read. Dust jacket shows no price and numbers 1094 on innner front panel. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover.787 pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. A small town in Maine again serves as King's (Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 1993, etc.) setting in this deft, steady tale, in which two lovable geezers travel through hyper-reality to balance the books of human existence, or something to that effect. Since his wife's recent death, Ralph Roberts, age 70, has been beset by insomnia and hallucinations. These hallucinations appear as auras, terminating in… Read More

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. A fine, hardcover first edition. Previous owner's name neatly stamped on first free endpaper. Otherwise clean and bright with no other markings..325 pp. plus author index.

Berkeley: University of California, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Copyright and title page both say 1961, Previous owner's gift inscription to first free endpaper. Unclipped jacket with original 5.95 price. Jacket has loss at crown (missing top 1" of jacket) descending into a short tear on the front cover. Minor loss and tears at foot of jacket, short tear to back cover and edgewear on top edge. Jacket now protected in a clear, removeable, archival cover. 255 pp. illustrations, portraits, maps. Octavo. Tells the story of Ishi, the last member of the lost tribe of Yana, who wandered out of the hills on August 29, 1911 and was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California where he spent the last years of his life. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a… Read More

New York: Basic Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A very near fine first edition, first printing with complete number line. Appears unread. Top right corner and bottom edge mildy bumped. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket. 543 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Octavo In this book, acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming undertakes nothing less than a drastic revision of America's experience in World War I. He reveals how the British and French duped Wilson and the American people into thinking the war was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas. He describes a harried president making speech after speech proclaiming America's ideals while supporting the Espionage and Sedition Acts that sent critics to federal prisons. Meanwhile, a government propaganda machine created a hate-driven "war will" that soon spilled over into attacks on ethnic Americans. On the Western Front, the Allies did their… Read More