Search Results: Authors starting with I from Twin City Antiquarian Books

London & New York: Everyman's Library (Dent, Dutton), 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp. Full mauve cloth, copper titles on spine, dec. endpapers, xii, 242 pp. Slight wear to bottom edge, else fine. DJ moderately rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Everyman's Library No. 747. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. . Near Fine/Very Good. 18½ X 12 cm.

New York: New York University Press, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spines, bound with unusually large squares, 222 pp. Corners & spine ends lightly rubbed, top edge a bit dusty, very faintly musty, bookplate on front paste-down. This is the second printing of the first American edition of this translation. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Organizational Library. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, xxvi, 400 pp. Top edge dusty, book plate of Library at Players of New York. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

New York: The Modern Library WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, no list of ML books in back. Full green cloth, gilt-on-black titles & device, top edge dyed green, decorative endpapers, xiv, 1185 pp. Extremities rubbed, previous owner's address dated 1948 on half-title. Contents: introduction by H. L. Mencken; A Doll's House; Ghosts; An Enemy of the People; The Master Builder; Pillars of Society; Hedda Gabler; John Gabriel Borkman; The Wild Duck; The League of Youth; Rosmersholm; Peer Gynt. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . VG-/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. "Reader's Guide to People...in The Inside Struggle," a 12-pp pamphlet, is laid in. Quarter brown cloth, dark blue paper-covered boards, gilt titles in blue box on spine, gilt facsimile signature on front board, grey endpapers, [v], 759 pp, index. Slight scuffing to boards. DJ extremities rubbed, fore-edge browned; in Brodart archival cover. Ickes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, kept massive diaries of over 6,000,000 words filled with portraits "painted in vitriol" of his contemporaries. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 22 X 15½ cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge dyed blue, vi, 282 pp. Corners and tail of spine bumped, top edge lightly faded, remains of a sticker or bookplate on fpd. DJ rubbed at extremities, chipped at corners and spine ends, paper browned, a small tide mark at tail of spine, a few 1 - 2 cm tears, corners of flaps trimmed; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "The setting of this novel is Brooklyn and New York City from 1884 to the 'Blizzard of '88,' when New Yorkers dug themselves out from snow not quite so deep but more destructive than the 'Great Snow of Christmas '47.' ... In The Great Blizzard, [Idell] brings a special freshness and nostalgia to time when the Brooklyn Bridge was new, when women took pride in their husbands' whiskers, and when twenty-five cents was highway robbery for a country ham sandwich." Shipping weight 2 lbs..… Read More

Prague: Council of Jewish Religious Communities, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Plain white paper wraps in dust jacket, sewn through folds, 111, [1] pp, frontispiece, a few figures, notes. Wraps have light creases & wear at corners, very faintly musty. DJ rubbed at edges, small chips and tear at spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Inscribed by honoree and co-author Dr. Sicher to previous owners, dated 13.4.1958 in Prague. Contents: essays by Dr. Sicher; Rabbi Bernát Farkas; Milos Bic; Eliás Katz, Chief Rabbi of Slovakia; Rabbi Emil Davidovic; Rudolf Iltis; Pavel Eisner; Dr. Hana Volavková; Dr. Otto Muneles; Jirí Weil. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. Wraps. VG+/VG+. 21 X 15 cm.

Cambridge, England et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated pictorial covers, white titles on spine, xi, 423 pp, many figures, bibliography, author index, subject index. Head of spine bumped, slight wear to covers. Beginning wave mechanics courses usually make simplifying assumptions about the forces that create waves, assuming that they vary linearly in proportion to displacement of the medium. This book examines the behavior of waves in systems in which the forces are not linear. Contents: linear waves & instabilities in infinite media; convective & non-convective instabilities; group velocity in unstable media; surface waves & instabilities; model equations for small amplitude waves & solitons-weakly nonlinear theory; exact methods for fully nonlinear waves; Cartesian solitons in one & two space dimensions; evolution & stability of initially one-dimensional waves & solitons;… Read More

Tel Aviv: Israel Dance Library, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on title page. Distributed in the United States by Emmett Publishing, Minneapolis. Gold pictorial wraps, 116 pp (English text), 16 ff b&w photo plates, 88 pp (Hebrew text). Small delaminated area near base of spine, else fine. Inscribed to a relative of the author's, with also a gift card laid in. From the front flap: "...the remarkable story of a boy born to an observant Jewish family who discovers the magical world of dance in culturally rich Vienna after World War I. Dance offers him a chance to create a whole new life for himself several times when escaping from the Nazis to England, Cuba and finally America during World War II. Berk's story is also about his long struggle with crippling arthritis, which did not deter him from creating the most important vehicles for Israeli folk dance and Jewish dance in the United States." From… Read More

New York: Forum (Prima Publishing / Random House), 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xvii, 334 pp, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Sölvesborgs: Sölvesborgs Boktryckeri, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on title page. Sewn in beige card covers with titles & photograph printed in brown, 200 pp, 21 illustrations (mostly photos) in text. Slight shelf wear, gift inscription on title page. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow-orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, ix, 479 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, one bumped corner, extremities lightly rubbed and spine slightly faded. Sixteen articles review recent literature in sociology in the areas of organizational structure, deviance, health care delivery systems, urban community & personality, alienation, race & ethnic relations, age differentiation, macrosociology, science, development, voluntary action & voluntary groups, community power, sex roles, evaluation research, collective behavior, and political participation & public policy. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow-orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, vii, 453 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp and extremities lightly rubbed. Fifteen articles review recent literature in sociology: technology, alienation & job satisfaction, by Jon M. Shepard; response to social crisis & disaster, by E. L. Quarantelli & Russell R. Dynes; measurement in social stratification, by Marie R. Haug; trend studies with survey sample & census data, by Norval D. Glenn & W. Parker Frisbie; family interaction patterns, by Joan Aldous; structural equation models, by William T. Bielby & Robert M. Hauser; mortality trends, by Samuel H. Preston; social structure of world regions: mainland China, by Martin King Whyte, Ezra F. Vogel & William L. Parish, Jr.; political socialization, by Richard G. Niemi & Barbara… Read More

CFA Institute, 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Contains: Book 1, Ethical and Professional Standards and Investment Tools; Book 2, Asset Valuation and Portfolio Management. Two mauve volumes with white titles, together 2.2 cm thick. Still in shrink wrap. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Wraps. New/No dj. 27½ X 21 cm.

St. Paul: Merrill/Magnus Publishing Corporation, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author recto ffep. Dark grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, ix, 317 pp, notes, glossary, index. DJ has slight edge wear and a small tear (under 1 cm) to top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Ioffe was a Soviet lawyer who emigrated to the United States in 1981. According to the DJ, "Ioffe explains how the Soviet economic system works. And he reveals why, despite Western enthusiasm, Gorbachev's economic reforms are unfortunately but inevitably doomed by the realities of that system." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2010 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon boards, foil titles on spine, xxii, 250 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 18½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Loizeaux Brothers, Bible Truth Depot WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but c. 1910 based on publisher's street address (not entirely sure if this is the 1908 first edition, but certainly an early printing). Maroon cloth embossed with pattern of half-leather binding, gilt titles & decorations on spine, vi, 7-451 pp, [4] pp publisher's ads. Corners bumped, spine ends slightly worn, edges (especially top edge) soiled, paper slightly browned, a few water rings on front board.. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Presumed First Edition. . Very Good/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1931 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Side-stapled in light grey wraps, 122, [4] pp. Slight edge wear, pencil gift inscription dated 1935 on inside front cover, one leaf dog-eared, else fine. Shipping weight 12 oz.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 16½ X 12 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Edition not stated, but book club suspected. Dark green cloth with light green titles on spine, [xiii], 399, [2] pp, 4 ff plates, notes, index. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and faded, top edge lightly soiled, paper browning a bit. Price-clipped DJ rubbed, several small tears, spine ends and corners chipped, browned at fore-edges, sticker mark on front flap; in Brodart archival cover. "...a masterpiece of description of two great men and the time in which they lived...." Based on both published and unpublished sources. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/VG-. 21 X 14½ cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan boards with black spine, gilt titles on spine, green endpapers, xx, 443 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 7 sketches by Ernst Udet, notes, bibliography, index. Corners bumped, boards fading slightly near edges. DJ has a few tears to 2 cm and small chips to edges, the 2-color illustration is printed about 1 mm off register; in Brodart archival cover. Head of Lufthansa before the war, Milch was largely responsible for organizing production of warplanes for the Luftwaffe. He served 10 years in prison for war crimes, but his guilty verdict was based in part on evidence later found to be the fabrication of an habitual fraud. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG+/VG. 24 X 17 cm.