Search Results: Titles starting with I from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rader to his friend and fellow radical Craig Anderson, with related correspondence laid in. Anderson, who attended Columbia University with Dotson, is referred to as Sean in the book which provides "an honest account of life among the disaffected young - their violence, politics and sex." Rader's inscription, which is dated May 30, 1969, reads in part: "For my friend and cowriter, Craig Anderson - who went through the thick of it with me and stood. For the man, I come." In the fourth and fifth chapters, Rader writes about attending a 1967 march against the Vietnam War with Anderson and other friends in Washington, D.C. He also recalls Anderson's words: "This war is horrible ... not just for the soldiers and civilians dying, not just because of the money wasted. You know it is so goddammed horrible because it is so American really, for the first time, a war that fits what America… Read More

London: W.H. Allen, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by Althea Gibson on the title page. Octavo: 175 p. with 10 photographs. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of soiling along the edges, with a faint stain to the top of the front board and mild bumping to the tips. The dust jacket is a bit edgeworn, with some minor lifting of the laminate; otherwise very good. The life story of Althea Gibson (1927-2003), a truant from the rough streets of Harlem, who emerged as the unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (precursor of the U.S. Open) - a decade before Arthur Ashe. Following her triumph at Wimbledon in the summer of 1957, Gibson was feted with the first ticker-tape parade up Broadway to honor a woman of color. The New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden argued in a 1977 story that Gibson's accomplishments were "revolutionary" for the… Read More

New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Second printing. "...the somewhat unorthodox account of the pungent doings in some state governments as observed by a civil service stenographer." Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt titles. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some general edgewear, including a half-inch chip to the front panel, and a faint stain to the spine head.

New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. An entertaining trio of short stories examining the hypocrisies, pretensions, and foibles of marital life by Artie Shaw (1910-2004) who, along with Benny Goodman, was the leading clarinetist of the swing era, and a prominent bandleader as well. Gifted with a range of sometimes contradictory talents Shaw led a complicated, frequently contentious life (he abandoned performing for a long time), and his earlier years were littered with a number of famous wives, including Lana Turner and Evelyn Keyes. Signed "Merry Xmas- Artie Shaw" on the front flyleaf. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of minor rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Signed by Author.

Milan and Los Angeles: Electa / The Getty Research Institute, 2000. Wraps. Fine. The Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs featuring simple forms such as cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Among his most famous projects are the cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena; the Gallaratese residential complex in Milan; the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan; and Il Teatro del Mondo, a temporary floating theater created in 1979 for the Venice Bienniale. This limited, boxed-set edition contains facsimiles of Rossi's notebooks for the years 1968 to 1986. Their pages are filled with Rossi's thoughts on architectural theory and history, his musings on progress, cities, and museums, and the impressions he recorded during his extensive travels. Handwritten in Italian and illustrated with Rossi's superb pastel and watercolor sketches, these literate and visually stunning notebooks display the genius of an architect and… Read More

Ojai, California: Dillingham Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. An American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," Wood (1893-1998) served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic. Edited by Lindsay Smith, this memoir includes a color frontispiece and numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Signed by Beatrice Wood on the title page. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some light fading and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 194 p. Edited by John M. Carroll. Introduction and Biographical Chronology by Charles K. Mills. Frontispiece, with six textual illustrations. First edition, #140 of 350 copies signed by Carroll and Mills. "Varnum, as chief of scouts for the 7th Cavalry, played an active and important role in the Little Big Horn battle. This is the first publication of the autobiography, with thorough editing by Carroll." From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original light blue cloth binding, with gilt, red, and blue stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy. Clark and Brunet 37. Signed by Editor.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed by Peterson on the title page. A native historian examines the state's heritage and way of life, as well as its role in the nation's development. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with red and gilt titles. Just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise a fine copy.

New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Paul Allen on the title page, with a printed presentation note on Vulcan stationary laid in. Autobiography of Paul G. Allen (1953-2018), the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into a cultural destination. Octavo: viii, 358 p. with textual photographs (most color). Original white paper-covered boards over a teal paper spine, with silver titles. Light bumping to the tips, with just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; else a fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, a friend and travel companion of Paul Allen, who is mentioned in Idle's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (2018), accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics." Quarto: 247 p. with 105 plates (many color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece portrait, with illustrations by F.T. Richards. First edition, second state. The second book in the author's Idiot series. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. Inscribed and dated by the author on the front flyleaf. Original brown cloth binding, with decorative white stamping. A near fine copy. Inscribed by Author.

Seattle, Washington: Midnight House, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 500 numbered copies. "...a massive retrospective of Jane Rice's sixty-year career in weird fiction. From her earliest stories for John Campbell's Unknown Worlds, through the 1950's tales written for Charm and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science-Fiction, to the recent novelette "The Sixth Dog", all of Ms. Rice's macabre fiction is collected in this book. Editors Stefan Dziemianowicz and Jim Rockhill have done a splendid job of tracking down stories from a wide variety of sources. Ms. Rice herself did revisions on several pieces to restore previously excised supernatural elements." Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

London: The Review of Reviews, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A vividly written, highly perceptive account of life and politics in Chicago based upon the author's visit to the city in 1893 - during a time of economic depression following the triumph of the World's Columbian Exposition. Stead (1849-1912), an erudite and well known British journalist and minister, interviewed notable public figures, as well as people who were poor, in jail, or involved in criminal activities or political graft. His account of Chicago and its people remains valuable, unsurpassed in its scope and ability to capture images of what it was to live in the city at that time. Octavo: xvi, 460, [4] p. with a frontispiece and the two color folding map of the Levee District identifying the locations of brothels, saloons, and pawnbrokers. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some very light pencil marginalia, with tiny ink initials to the top corner of the front pastedown. Just the slightest hint of… Read More

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: American Philological Association, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bolling here presents the fruit of all his studies: the text which was codified by the Athenian scholars at the direction of Pisistratus in the second half of the 6th century B.C." (Language: Volume 27, Number 2). Text in Greek, with an introduction in English. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Honolulu: Robert Grieve, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo: xx ads, [4], 100, [2], xxi-xxxv, [1] ad p. with 4 leaves of ads within text. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, and maps. Original printed boards, with expert restoration to the spine. The front flyleaf, a blank with a pasted errata, is detached and laid in place. Period ink signature ("Eugene C. Zahn, Co. A 1st Regt., N.Y.V., Honolulu H.I., Sept. 1898") to the front flyleaf, with a another Zahn signature to the rear flyleaf. Some minor edgewear to the boards; otherwise very good. Scarce pocket guide to Hawaii at the time of the annexation by the United States on July 7, 1898. Includes a history to 1894, a description of the current state of the islands, information for travelers, a general directory, and numerous advertisements for local businesses, which are printed in blue.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition. "This six-volume library features the work of the artists who set illustration standards for all time." Includes color plates by Arthur Rackham (Grimm), Edward J. Detmold (Aesop), Kay Nielsen (Andersen), Harry Clarke (Perrault), Edmund Dulac (Hawthorne), and Maxfield Parrish (Arabian Nights). Octavo, the complete six volume set. Full black leather bindings, with decorative gilt stamping, accents in various colors, three raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine set.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed and dated by Ansel Adams on the half-title. This copy is additionally inscribed by Imogen Cunningham below her portrait of Adams in the foreword. Retrospective selection of 115 of Adams' finest photographs, including his rarely seen portraits and architectural studies, all superbly reproduced in a manner that captures the full range of Adams' artistry and projects the heightened reality of the actual print. Oblong folio. Original gray cloth-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with silver stamping. Mild discoloration along the bottom edge of the front board; else near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

A photographic album with more than 230 images recording the travels of Agnes Elizabeth Adams between 1913 and 1915, including snapshots of her time at Mount Saint Joseph's College in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as travels to Cuba and California, where she visited the expositions in San Diego and San Francisco. According to Ancestry records, Adams was born in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1896. She was an only child and lost both of her parents by 1911 when she was just 15 years old. She became a schoolteacher and in 1919, married Rex Dimmick (1892 -1974), a veteran of World War I. Together, they had three children and lived in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, where he was a school principal. Their first child, Elizabeth M. Dimmick, was born in 1921, and her name appears on the first page of this album. The photographs in this album show Agnes' travels with a variety of friends before she was married. There are a dozen photographs onboard the "Steamer Alice" dated July 4-5, 1914, followed by images of Cuba,… Read More

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Trade paperback. Fine. Third printing. Winner of the 1986 Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. Inscribed by Ostriker to acclaimed poet B.H. ("Pete") Fairchild on the title page. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Fine.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With a Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Taking the members of one nationality - the Italians - as a prototype, Rolle traces their social, political, and economic progress after they deserted New York's crowded Mulberry Street for more rewarding pursuits in the twenty-two states west of the Mississippi. Inscribed by Rolle to a colleague at Occidental College in Los Angeles on the front flyleaf. Original red cloth binding, with white and black titles. Some general minor shelfwear to the dust jacket, with a bit of sun fading along the spine; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author.