Search Results: Authors starting with I from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

[ Peking, China ? ]: Hwa hsing Press, ( 1940). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, [8], 70, 70, [2] pages, red cloth, 27 cm. Naval Commander Gillis, U.S.N. spent a lot of time in China and the Orient. This was useful during WWII.

Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 399 pages, boards A history of 19th century Wabash, Indiana, by a native son of Wabash. Col. Hugh Hanna was a pioneer founder of the city. Maps, photographs. Inscribed by Wimberley to Penelope and Jimmy, on the title-page, in 2011.

Minneapolis, MN: Waldm Kriedt, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fair. portrait frontispiece (detached). Octavo, black embossed cloth, printed on acidic paper, some fore-edges torn, early leaves detached. Portrait frontispiece (detached)

London & New York: Walter Scott / Scribner, 1902. Authorised English edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 353 pages, bevelled green cloth, short tear at head of spine, edgeworn. Issued as vol. 4 in Ibsen's Prose Dramas. Contains "Caesar's Apostasy" and "Emperor Julian".

New York: Crowell, (1969). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, 280 pages, handcrafted mission leather, a.e.g.. Ex libris Arthur Dallman Oceanography is a composite of all the basic sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology) as applied to watery environments

Springfield: ISHS, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Photogravures. 8vo, 526 pages, black cloth, gilt spine titles scuffed Includes "Parks and Public Grounds for Villages and Country Towns (Illustrated)," by O. C. Simonds. Photogravures.

Springfield: ISHS, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Photogravures. 8vo, 315 pages, black cloth, pulpy paper, some pages jammed, but readable. Includes "Indiana Apple Show," "The Forestry Situation In Illinois," "Principles of Peach Growing", "What Fruits Can Be Grown in a City Lot", etc.

Chicago: City Club of Chicago, 1939. First edition. stapled wrappers. Fine. 8vo, 11 pages, self-wrappers A Report of the Constitutional Revision Committee.

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Plates. Octavo, 151 pages, blue cloth, covers scuffed Includes "Lincoln and the Beginning of the Republican Party in Illinois," "The Development of State Constitutions," "Masheena [ a Kickapoo chief]. and articles on Illinois in the Civil War. Plates.

Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co. / Unigraphic, 1883 / 1972. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, 286, 263, 79, 45 pages, blue cloth Part One is historical, Part Two is biographical. The 9 portraits include the 3 contributing editors, plus six other pioneers. The first county history of Effingham County [ Buck 803] . Note: Laid in is an Index to the Biographical Sketches in this work, in alphabetical order; also, this was published without the usual map of the county.

Hopkinsville, KY: Historical Record Association, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 944 pages, red cloth A Reference Edition Recording the Biographies of Contemporary Leaders in Illinois with Special Emphasis on their Achievements. Photogravures.

Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4tos, original 3/4 black morocco, rebacked with most of original spines laid down. 2 volumes will require extra postage. [ Buck 847 ]. Photogravures. Kiner was from Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois. " This is a history of Henry county, written to be read, it is hoped. It is not a compilation of musty records, a gazetteer of places, or a tabulated census report - Preface." Indeed, this record is very chatty, very anecdotal, including the 1893 burial of a giantess at the town of Mineral: she was calculated at 700 pounds.

[ Chicago ]: Montgomer Ward & Co., 1893. printed wrappers. Very Good. 16mo, printed drab folder, pencilled sites on verso of folder A handsome red-orange detailed and indexed map of the World's Fair.Printed by Rand McNally & Co.

Chicago: William Le Baron, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Poor. county map. Thick 8vo, 826 pages, original cloth covers,,lacks spine and title-page A History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., a directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers, gen. & local stats. [Buck 872]. With the map of the county.

Evergreen Park, IL: 75th Anniversary Committee, [ 1968 ]. First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Quarto, 56 pages & Local Businessman's Supplement, Extensively illustrated. The smaller format Local Businessman's Supplement, stapled at the center, about doubles the total pages.

Chicago: General Printing Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo; vii, 436 pages + Index, red cloth This history was done for the Illinois Sesquicentennial.

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Planning Commission, 1940. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. 15 foldout maps & charts. 8vo, ii, 87 pages, red cloth, covers spotted, bookplate. One of a series of eight studies prepared for the National Resources Committee of Washington, D. C.. The basin is 220 miles long and 180 miles wide. It has an area of 14,290 sqiare ,o;es. pr 9,145,.600 acres.

Chicago: Illinois State Dairyman's Association, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 308 pages, brown cloth Includes essays on such as "Ensilage", "Cheese Production in Illinois", "Chicago Milk Market", "Dairy Cows and How To Care for Them to Get the Best Results", " Poultry on the Dairy Farm", "Pasteurizing".

Chicago: Chicago Cotton Manufacturing Co., 1870 circa. First edition. Fine. Folio, one leaf, folded at stub. This is an unexecuted certificate for $100 worth of stock in the company, which was incorporated in Illinois Nov. 15, 1870. This is Certificate No. 162, and includes the stub. It was printed by the Charles Shober Lithographers, and depicts a prosperous building at the top center, with an American flag, and smoke streaming from the smokestack.

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. portrait plates and map. Octavo; 246 pages, tawny cloth Articles on the judicial history of Illinois, Rev. Peter Cartwright, the first Irish in Illinois, the Bishop Hill Colony, the destruction of the Fox Indians in 1730 by the French and their allies, the Indian captivity of William Biggs. Portrait plates and map.