Search Results: Authors starting with I from Great Northern Books

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1906. First edition thus. Very Good +. Adapted and abridged from the translation of William and Charles Archer. Includes frontis portrait of Richard Mansfield, embossed red and black type on front cover and spine, with deckle edges. Former owner's inscription on front pastedown, else a bright, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, [n.d.]. First edition?. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. Ten Cent Pocket Series No.353. Slim, inexpensive reprints of the world's great literature, philosophy, and social thought. The Little Blue Book Company was founded by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), who believed that everyone, regardless of income, should be exposed to history's best literature. The booklets, which cost as little as a nickel apiece, were small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. The works were wildly popular and eventually sold over five hundred million copies. Slight creasing to wrap cover.

New York: Heritage Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good +. The Heritage Press reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. "An Enemy of the People," translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.-"The Wild Duck," translated by Frances E. Archer.-"Hedda Gabler", translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer. With an introduction by John Gassner and nine full-page, full-color wood engravings and twenty-seven smaller monochrome engravings. by Fredrik Matheson. Half bound in an linen cloth with front and back boards in patterned paper reminiscent of a drawn curtain with author/title in gold on spine. Also includes the "Sandglass" newsletter. A clean, bright, tight, unmarked copy lacking the slipcase.

London: Harvill Secker, 2006. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. First printing. Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. The third Reykjavik thriller to feature Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson by the Gold Dagger Award–winner author. A clean unmarked copy. Shps from USA.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1920. Fourth impression. Ex-Library. Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He was also a eugenicist and wrote considerably on the subject. "Outspoken Essays" contains the essay "The Future of the English Race," on the topic. Ex-library will minimal markings.

Philadelphia: Cromarty Law Book Company, 1911. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes list of titles in the series Notable English trails and Notable Scottish trials. Trial in 1864 for the murder of Thomas Briggs. Xlviii, 194, [6] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Cromarty Law Book Co. was the sole American distributor for the "Notable English Trials" series, importing the British printed sheets from the orginal publisher, William Hodge and Company, Glasgow. Red binding with top edge gilt. Slight foxing, else a clean, unmarked copy.

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. Irving's eleventh novel. Dustjacket design differs from American edition. Includes attached ribbon marker. Edgewear to dustjacket. Ships from USA.

New York: Straight Arrow Publishering, 1981. First publication. Stapled periodical. Good. First appearance of the story "The Bear Called State O' Maine" by John Irving, preceeding its publication in the novel, "Hotel New Hampshire." Illustrated with numerous woodcuts by James Grashow and one full page color illustration by Richard Hess. Spine frayed, cover edges slightly chipped, ink marks on back cover. Still a very presentable issue.

New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good -. First printing. The third book by the author of "The World According to Garp" and "The Cider House Rules." The dustjacket has edgewear along the top edge with some chipping and some small tears and is price clipped but still a bright green. Book itself is clean and unmarked. A reasonably decent copy.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. Advance sampler. Paperback. Near Fine. Advance sampler of book published in hardcover in 1996 by Arcade Publishing. Includes only "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed" and "Other People's Dreams". Also includes "Author's Notes" on each story. 40 pages. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Dutton, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Irving's fifth novel made into a movie starring Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe. A clean, unmarked copy. .

New York: Straight Arrow Press, 1979:Dec. 13. First publication. Periodical. Very Good. First appearance of "The World of the World According to Garp," an 8 page interview, with photographs, by Greil Marcus. A couple of small closed tears else a complete, intact copy.

New York: Random House, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Novel title inspired by a Dylan lyric, by the author of "The World According to Garp" and "The Cider House Rules." Slight edgewear to dustjacket else a clean unmarked copy.

Bussum: Agathon, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Translated into Dutch by C.A.G. van den Broek. Great pictorial cover. Three "invisible indentations" accross front cover not affecting image.

New York: Avon Books, 1973:October. First Paperback edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Irving's second novel. Wonderful, colorful cover design with Vonnegut blurb. Tiniest black mark on front cover, crease to back cover corner, else a clean, unmarked, uncreased copy.

New York: Antaeus, 1976:Winter. First edition thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First print appearance of the story "The Pension Grillparzer," two years before its publication in the novel, "The World According to Garp." Also includes a black and white photograph of Irving in sunglasses, at a zoo, with polar bears in the background.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. Advance Reader's Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. French fold pictorial covers. Includes publicity material from publisher. Slight edgewear with a touch of soiling to rear lower edge of back cover, else a clean unmarked copy.

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. Irving's eleventh novel. Dustjacket design differs from American edition. Includes attached ribbon marker. Edgewear to dustjacket. Ships from USA.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. With introduction by William Archer. Ex-library with minimal markings.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. With introduction by William Archer and C.H. Herford. Ex-library with minimal markings.