Search Results: Authors starting with I from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Nashville: The Battery Press, 1983. 359pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: St. Martin's Press. 1981 book club ed. 266pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj in poly cover [dj = p-c; else VG+]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974 1st ed. 330pp. illus. burgundy cloth tall 8vo: Very Good+ in a Good+ dj [small coffee spot on fore edge; else a nice clean, complete & crisp copy]

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,  1948 1st ed. 308pp. black cloth 8vo: Good+ in a torn dj stabilized in a Brodart poly cover [some age browning of edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An entertaining, cynical view of wealth that was based loosely on the Luces. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll (1900-85), founded the liberal tabloid newspaper "PM" in New York, and joined the army as a middle-aged private soldier in 1942, received a field commission and served as a lieutenant colonel on General Omar Bradley’s staff.

New York: G. W. Carleton & Co. 1880 reissue. 526pp. brown cloth 12mo w/gilt spine titles: Good [some light cover wear; some internal foxing; antique ink name ffep; else a clean, complete and tight copy. A posthumous reissue of a book of fictional letters in defense of the antebellum South by "Kate Conyngham," who was Maine born Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-60), originally published in 1860 as "The Sunny South."

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986 reprint. 205pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; foxing of edges; else a complete & tight copy] An Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard mystery involving an English country house. The Oxford academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906-94) wrote his mysteries under the pen name "Michael Innes."

Athens: Georgia Historical Society, 1990. 799pp. illus. paperback tall 8vos: near Fine. A nice full set (4 issues) of Volume 74 of the GHQ.

Athens: Georgia Historical Society, 1999. 818pp. illus. paperback tall 8vos: Very good [couple of ink notes in Volume I & ink note on cover; else VG]; Volume IV = some small edge spots; a back cover spot; else nrVG] A full set (4 issues) of Volume 83 of the GHQ.

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2011 1st ed. 305pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Good [book is crisp but text block is bent and curled from shelf shifting]

Athens: Georgia Historical Society, 1991. 912pp. illus. paperback tall 8vos: near Fine. A nice full set (4 issues) of Volume 75 of the GHQ.

Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper, 2004 reissue. 224pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [top corners very lightly bumped; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998 1st ed. 375pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [text is age browned owing to publisher's acidic paper; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

Felony & Mayhem, 2006 1st Am. ed. 355pp. paperback: Fine. The third of Lady Catherine Manning's mysteries.

New York: Saturday Review Press/E. P. Dutton, 1974 1st ed. 245pp.  hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj [dj = sticker remnant on front cover; else VG+] A British journalist’s grim analysis of British postwar decline, now an interesting period piece. Jacket praise from C. Northcote Parkinson and Claude Cockburn.

New York: David McKay Co., 1967 1st Am. ed. 256pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good+ in a Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [top & fore edges are age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

London: Max Parrish. 1951 1st ed. 272pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a generally Good dj in Brodart poly cover.

Norris, TN: Museum of Appalachia Press. 1979. 95pp. illus. paperback oblong 4to: Very Good+. A history of the author's collection of instruments housed in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. 131pp., 154pp.+ appendices, maps, etc. illus. original black blind-stamped cloth 4to w/gilt riverboat decoration: Very Good [original covers have been professionally rebacked & repaired with a completely new spine strip of black cloth w/gilt titles; original gilt cover decoration is still extant and is reasonably bright] A nice original copy of this classic of Americana.