Search Results: Authors starting with I from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition thus, First Printing. The Works of Ibsen in one volume. Near fine. Quite rare. Contains Ibsen's 11 plays, including Peer Gynt. A Norwegian playwright and director, Ibsen is one of the founders of modernism in theatre, and is often referred to as "the father of realism;" widely regarded as the second most influential playwright of all time, after Shakespeare. In black and green leather, embossed with a beautiful design of twin dragons. Gilt letter on spine. Dark brown top stain. Very slight wear to spine head and tail. Yellow boards a bit soiled with an 'X' stamped on the front board. Content fine, with text bright, clean and unmarred. Binding square and tight. A wonderful copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Quite rare. A year in the life of two Lapp children. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white throughout. One of the D'Aulaires' most desirable titles. Ingri d'Aulaire (1904-1980) was an American children's artist and illustrator, who worked in collaboration with her husband and fellow artist, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Born Ingri Mortenson in Kongsburg, Norway, she studied art in Norway, Germany and France, and met Edgar Parin d'Aulaire when she was a student in Munich. They married in 1925, and immigrated to the USA shortly thereafter, settling in Brooklyn in 1929. After pursuing separate careers initially, the couple turned to illustrating children's books together, releasing their first collaborative effort, The Magic Rug, in 1931. They settled in Wilton, Connecticut in 1941, and lived there until their deaths in the 1980s. Awarded the 1940 Caldecott Medal for their picture-book biography of Abraham Lincoln, the d'Aulaires published other children's… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Very rare; only one on the market in some time. Original price intact ($2.50). Errata slip on page 55. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout on full color and black and white. Near fine in publisher's original tan cloth. Content near fine with only occasional spots; otherwise very clean, bright and colorful. Very good pictorial dust jacket (rare thus), with moderate chips and small tears / closed tears (see photos). 4to. 55pp. A rare and wonderful copy of this d'Aulaire book.
"Here is a book that is unique in its dramatic presentation of the history of the Atlantic in an unbroken chain of events from the voyages of the Viking Dragon ships to General Balbo's twenty seaplanes flying from Italy to Chicago by way of Greenland." (New York Times Review 1933). One of the D'Aulaires' early (1933) titles. A wonderful tale of exploration and adventure.
Ingri d'Aulaire (1904-1980) was an American children's artist and illustrator, who worked in… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Irving's third book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Blue and gray cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt. Dustjacket with original price of $5.95 on the inside front flap; with photo of Irving on the rear panel and 3 blurbs praising his first three books. Octavo. 245 pages. A fantastic copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with a single, small closed tear. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. Quarter blue cloth over yellow boards, with metallic blue spine lettering, bright and unmarred. A beautiful copy of Irving's second book. Written when the author was twenty-nine, the main character is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Octavo 8vo. 365 pages. "Three or four times as funny as most novels." (The New Yorker). A great copy.

First Edition, First Printing of Irving's fourth novel. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with only the slightest wear on top and tail of spine - essentially as new. Rich blue and mustard cloth and maroon boards. Author's signature on a laid in card. Jacket design by Leo Manso. The World According To Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life of T.S. Garp, novelist and son of Jenny Fields. "There is something of Byron about John Irving. Not only is it that he woke after the publication of The World According To Garp to find himself famous, but the extremity of his opinions and the nervous violence of his language recall that intemperate noleman, and like Byron, he would certainly say that love is no sinecure." (Robertson Davies). A lovely copy of this Irving classic!

First Edition, Second Printing of Irving's first book. Author signature on laid in card. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with slight red stain to lower corner and head of spine. Original DJ with $5.95 price and 1/69. Fine red cloth backed boards stamped in gold on the spine. Top edge stained red. Unmarked, tight and square. "Setting Free the Bears is the most nourishing, satisfying comedy I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it." (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.). A wonderful copy for the Irving fan.