Search Results: Authors starting with I from Singularity Rare & Fine

New York: EMI Records, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. New; in original shrinkwrap. See scans and description. New York: EMI Records, 1997. A very early Five For Fighting promotional cassette bearing two titles - "Bella's Birthday Cake" and "Ocean" - as given to me by John Ondrasik when I delivered food to him and his group at a Days Inn in Syracuse, NY, in either 1997 or 1998. Fine/As New in original shrinkwrap which itself is very Near Fine. See scans. Scarce FFF collectible. L99

Chicago: The Book House For Children, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Katherine Sturges. Chicago: The Book House For Children, 1925. First Edition. Quarto, purple-brown textured cloth boards with gilt imprinting on front cover and spine, color illustration by illustrator Katherine Sturges as pastedown cover decoration, brilliantly illustrated endpapers, 191 pp. +1. ABout Very Good; spine ends worn, corners bumped, ffep excised, a young lass's bookplate is on the front pastedown, front hinge starting but binding generally strong. See scans. Contents are quite bright and unbesmirched by crayons or other shenanigans. Enchanting haiku poems assembled by Olive Beaupre from various Japanese poets, with even more enchanting illustrations by Katherine Sturges. See scans of samples. L-g1

Chicago: Engineering Publications, Inc., 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Chicago: Engineering Publications, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt imprinting on cover and spine, x + 286 pp. Very good plus to about Near Fine. Corners very lightly touched, penciled prior owner's name on ffep, occasional light soil, notably at top pages edge. See scans. An aggregation - more like a tour de force - of experts on industrial piping, each writing a case chapter on a separate topic within that field. An extremely rare and collectible reference in the genre, in handsomely preserved condition. l-39n

New York: Guest Informant, 2002. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (New York): Guest Informant, 2002. Quarto, glossy photo-illustrated boards, 286 pp. New; pristine and flawless. Always an experience in glamorous full-color professional photography, the Guest Informant hardcover guide to the Big Apple certainly doesn't disappoint in this incarnation. Sections include City Focus, Maps. Information, Calendar, Best Bets, Shopping, Neighborhoods, Dining, The Arts, Nightlife, Sights, Recreation, Japanese interest and an index. The interspersed ads may feature the best photography of all of it. Generally present in upscale hotels, etc., the Guest Informant guide is a memorable piece of New York City turista fare. Top quality example, here. L-FLTHC

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 10 1/2" x 7. Engravings. Boston:Ticknor & Fields, 1868. The January 4, 1868 issue (Vol. V, No. 105) of Every Saturday. 10 1/2" x 7", newsprint wraps, 32 pp. + 8 pp ads. Very Good; moderate edge wear (see scans), standard modest amount of age toning. Sturdy and supple. An extraordinarily scarce original wraps copy of Every Saturday, a literary journal which is found, when it is found, almost always as six-monthly hardbound aggregations. Every Saturday was the weekly offering of Fields & Osgood after Ticknor & Fields; each of which offered, in the publisher's words, "choice reading selected from current foreign literature" - i.e., usually reprints from similar overseas journals, generally English ones, but often as well from advance sheets, and even the reprints were often pre-publication of the novel from which they were taken. This issue includes the typical variety of topics;… Read More

New York: M. J. Ivers & Company, 1888. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Both covers separated from content, though present in full; content is Near Fine; with the separated covers, just Good overall. See all scans and description. New York: M. J. Ivers & Company, 1888. "Co. Ingersoll's Memorial Oration on Roscoe Conkling. Mr. Conkling's Career. Conkling as an Orator. Mr. Depew's Oration at the Grant Anniversary.", by Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (that's Ingersoll's portrait and reproduced signature on the front cover). Octavo, stapled printed wraps, 24 pp. + 5 pp. ads ('Standard Recitations by Best Authors.", the last of those being on the inside of the rear cover. Just Good, due to the separation of the covers from the contents; those wraps also show some edge tatter and moderate spotting (scans). Contents are very Near Fine, with an earlier owner's green rubber stamp and green date on the… Read More

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folkard, Charles. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. First thus. Winston's attractive American version of the illustrating of the 1837 verse tale by Thomas Ingoldsby [R.H.Barham]. An initially mischievous, but then pious and eventually canonized, crow carries the moral of the tale. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates by Charles Folkard. Folio [about 13.3" x 10.4"], purple beveled cloth with elaborate gilt cover device, fine paper uncut, unpaginated. Original red ribbon fragments laid in. Typical moderate fading to the purple cloth, light soiling, minor endpaper foxing, first plate has a small tear at the corner, but is complete. A very sharp, solid, better than Very Good example. See scan. l-g3

New York: Sterling Children's Books, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. William Ings. New, and pristine. See scans and description. First Edition / First Printing. New York: Sterling Children's Books, 2016.'Time Traveler Coloring Bool - A Puzzle-Trail Adventure', by Penny Worm, illustrated by William Ings. Wide quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, unpaginated, but 32 pp. New and immaculate. Not just coloring, but adventure / puzzle coloring. See scans for more information on that. Absolutely pristine in every way, and an example that might perhaps better be set aside as a collectible, given its first/first status. But, in truth, you probably won't be able to stop yourself from creatively essaying these challenges. Don't plan on using fat crayons. See all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. LPR34n

Boston: Boston College Third World Law Journal, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good; see scan. Boston: Boston College Third World Law Journal, 2007. Returning to New Orleans: A Domestic Right of Return?: Race, Rights, and Residency in New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a bound excerpt essay article regarding Hurricane Katrina and social/legal issues arising therefrom, as perceived by the author; from the Boston College Third World Law Journal, 2007, Volume XXVII, Number 2. Quarto, printed cream wraps, 49 pp. Very Good; fairly active ball pen annotation through the first half of the article, otherwise this would be a Fine example. See scans. Scarce. LT18

Washington, DC: The United States National Committee of the International Geographical Union, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Washington, DC: The United States National Committee of the International Geographical Union / National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952. First Edition. Internal maps and foldouts. Quarto, navy blue pebble cloth boards with gilt spine and cover imprinting, 776 pp. Near Fine; bookplate of ffep states "Gift to the Department of Geography from the Library of John(H.)Thompson"; John Thompson's penciled initials JHT above that; stamp of the Department of Geography / Syracuse University next to that. John H. Thompson was a professor of geography at Syracuse, and the author of "The Geography of New York State" and several student-aimed geography titles, as well. Otherwise, very minute wear; solid, handsome near fine. A wealth of scholarly geography and graphics. See scan. Box 28N

Washington, DC: The United States National Committee of the International Geographical Union, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Washington, DC: The United States National Committee of the International Geographical Union / National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952. First Edition. Internal maps and foldouts. Quarto, navy blue pebble cloth boards with gilt spine and cover imprinting, 776 pp. Near Fine; very minute wear; solid, handsome near fine. A wealth of scholarly geography and graphics. See scan. Box 28N

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. , 2016. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John Coulthart (Endpapers and Poster). H.P. Lovecraft's "The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales", with John Coulthart 2004 poster, "Cthulhu Rising", laid in. New, and completely pristine. See scans and description. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2016 (note: individual stories had early 20th century copyrights; poster, a 2004 copyright; cover art, a 2015 copyright; endpaper art, a 1988 copyright; compilation and introduction, a 2013 copyright by Fall River). H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales. B&N Decorative Leatherbound Edition with tipped in John Coulthart's famous 2004 poster, "Cthulhu Rising". Introduction by S.T. Joshi. A stunning form of presentation of the all-separately-published stories in the Cthulhu Mythos of the peerless H.P. Lovecraft - called "The Man Who Can Scare Stephen King", and of whom King… Read More

London: R. Faulder, 1795. First Edition . Orig Calf Rebacked in Sheep. Very Good Plus. 9" x 6.5. [aquatints]. London: R. Faulder, 1795. First Edition. xviii, 284 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, 29 sepia aquatints, 2 engraved portraits & 1 copper engraved map, plus woodcuts within the text. Quarto, trimmed, 9 x 6.5, ooriginal calf over boards rebacked in sheep, gilt dec., dentelles, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers. See scans. Abbey, scenery 427 - As with many copies, the added engraved title has a trimmed-away caption. Binding a bit worn, but sturdy and handsome; book shows little foxing. Near Fine internally in a solid very good or better binding; see scans. Also, for the collector of scarce old bookseller's pasted labels, the front pastedown bears the small [.5" x 1"] label of: "Lapworth. Printer, Binder, Performer, Newspaper Agent. Stratford. " Samuel Ireland, an engraver, collector and publisher who worked in London at the close of the… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8 3/8" x 10 1/8. From Photographs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. First edition and first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep verso. Illustrated from photographs. Oblong, 8 3/8" x 10 1/8", 45 pp., glossy black boards, photopictorial dustjacket. Photographic endpapers. Fine book in a fine, unclipped jacket. Beautiful copy of Irvine's profusely photographed Books For Young Readers account of two of the featured Big Cat attractions in the San Diego Zoo: Blanca, a white tiger originally seized from a smuggler at the Mexican border, and Arusha the cheetah, a long-term resident of the zoo. Plenty of information on the species accompanies an account of their lives at the zoo with their handlers/caretakers. Boldy signed by Irvine in violet ink: "Big Cats Forever ! All children deserve to inherit an earth rich in wildife Warm wishes, Georgeanne Irvine", with no… Read More

New York: Dell Publishing (Division of Bantam Doubleday) / A Laurel Book, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Guarnaccia, Steven. Near Fine; see scans and description. New York: Dell Publishing (Division of Bantam Doubleday), 1992. A Laurel Book. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps. Illustrated by Steven Guarnaccia. Near Fine, with trace edge wear to bottom edges of covers, and small corner crease first two pages, standard very slight age-toning to the pages. Fun. First Printing of the First Edition, in nice condition. See scans. LG8

New York: Burdick Reed & Roberts, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Burdick Reed & Roberts, no date but circa 1853. 12 superb color floral plates with tissue guards, each with an opposed engraving, grace this prettily bound book - six with each of the two included volumes of The Ladies Wreath periodical. Octavo, red cloth boards with elaborate gilt imprinting on both cover and spine, All Edges Gilt, 218 + 218 - 4 pp., or 432 pp. (the second of two included volumes starts herein without the first four pages of the separate periodical). Two "Index" pages - in fact contents pages - for the two sections, the second of those pages being entitled "Index. Vol. IX.". Good plus to About Very Good - really, a strong Very Good but for the slit on the lower half of the left side of the spine, thus loosening the spine backstrip. Only light to moderate foxing at the plates, which certainly retain their beauty. Modest darkening to parts… Read More

London : Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine; As New. Remarkably so. 'Nightfall', the Gollancz first printing of the Isaac Asimov / Robert Silverberg collaboration. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. ISBN 0575046988. Octavo, illustrated jacket (illustration by Chris Moore), red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, 352 pp. A Fine example of this double-teamed expansion of Asimov's 1941 novel by the same name, of a star system with 6 suns which only experiences darkness once in two millennia. A sci-fi collector's must-have, in the superior condition. First printing thus, as well. Ships in very stout protection, of course. L101

West Nyack, NY: American Political Science Association / Cambridge University Press, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. West Nyack, NY: American Political Science Association / Cambridge University Press, 2010. The March, 2010 issue. Volume 8. No. 1. Quarto,raps, 406 pp + ads. Very Good or better; some dust and signs of reading, but no markings or tears. Nice example. L-T1

London: Macmillan, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. London: Macmillan, 1982. First English edition. Illustrations by Sylvain Mangeot. Octavo, russet boards, illustrated jacket. Pristine; as new. A Fine/Fine flawless collector's copy. Early light rhyming by Isherwood with some art work contributed by his friend Mangeot. L11n