Search Results: Titles starting with I from Independent Books

New York: Harper & Row, 1971 Unnumbered numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green eps, frontis; no defects. Cover: olive, black artwork front, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: clipped w' additional square clipped out, white w/ black front, color artwork front, black titles/text all surfaces; lt edge/shelfwear. "Burt Pike" printed to back f.e.

Scranton: INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY, 1904 Volume 13 only. 4 separately numbered sections + tables an index; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red speckled edgestain, decorative brown eps; a.e. tanned, first and last few pp dampstained and wavy. Cover: brown, leather backstrip and crnrs, 5 raised bands, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, head tattered and has wide shallow chip. Includes Arithmetic, Formulas, Geometry and Mensuration, and Masonry. Heavy.

Not Stated: The Provoker Press, 1970 285 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. lt tanned. Cover: lt gray-green, black titles spine; v lt shelfwear, back b.e. crnr barely bumped, a.e. toned. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, yellow, red/black artwork + black/reverse titles front, red/black titles spine, black text + photo back; modest edge/shelfwear, w/ sm closed tears, crinkles, v sm chips. "A new life can begin at any age . . ."

Milano: Aldo Martello Editore, 1952 In Italian. Title roughly translates to The Great Masters of Design: Leonardo. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 13 numbered pp plus plates; PB w/ DJ w/ glassine. Pages: clean, bright, tight; edges sunned. Cover: cream wraps, black titles front, plain spine; very light edge/shelfwear, edges and spine toned, small tears to joints at head. DJ: unclipped matte cream, b/w study front, black titles front/spine; spine and edges toned, very small tears at joints near head, light edge/shelfwear. Glassine: torn chipped, stain to front

Kingsport: Tennessee Squire Assoc., 1969 Unnumbered numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative brown eps, frontis; a.e. slightly tanned. Cover: burlap, black titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear. Photographic essay of the country life. Nice copy indeed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929 311 +2 pp.; HB. Pages: celam, ivory, tight, f.e. deckled fiest and last fep darkened. Cover: dk blue w/lt blue titles to front and spine. Author's first novel, a literary life in Greenwich Village of the 1920s. From the collection of David Wight Prall, Professor of aesthetics and philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, his bookplate pasted to ep, his owner info inked to ffep.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001 383 numbered pp +1; TPB. Publisher's card laid in. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. slightly tanned, faint smudge f.e. Cover: glossy blue/yellow, black/red/blue titles front, blue/black titles spine, black/red text back; minimal shelfwear. From NPR's terrific National Story Project.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 185 numbered pp; MMPB. Identified as an uncorrected proof, more scarce than the advance reader's copy. Author's first book. Pages: clean, bright, tight; no defects. Cover: cream wraps, black titles front/spine; minimal edge/shelfwear. ". . .a brilliantly imagined fiction in which Amelia Earhart tells us what happened. . ." Not for those who seek the book as it was sold in stores, but for collectors of book- or author-associated ephemera.

New York: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee, 1980 A general treatise on the theoretical basis of power systems analysis, and a reference work on the analytical techniques most commonly applied to electric power systems and industrial plants and commercial buildings. Condition notes: 224 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; obvious damp stained first and last few free pages all edges sunned, a few instances of underlining. Cover: brown cloth, gilt titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, brown, white titles front/spine; moderate edge/shelfwear, creases, small closed tears, tiny chips, moderately rubbed.

New York: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1978 This standard establishes standard methods of measurement of high-voltage and basic testing techniques so far as they are generally applicable to all types of apparatus for alternating voltages, direct voltages, lightning impulse voltages, switching impulse voltages, and impulse currents. Condition notes: 125 numbered pp; HB/no DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; ink underlining on first few text pages. Cover: gray-brown cloth, gilt titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear, extrems barely worn.

Florence: Casa di Dante, 1957 In Italian. Title roughly translates to: Third National Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Portraiture. The competition held by the Society of Fine Arts - Circle of Artists of Florence. Plates of entries are black/white. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: unnumbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; top edge sunned, corners a bit thumbed, mild lean. Cover: white wraps, sick portrait front, black titles spine; light edge/shelfwear, spine crease, extrems a bit worn, front corners creased. Italian portraiture of the 1950s.

Florence: Logge Degli Uffizi, 1957 In Italian. Stapled spine. Title roughly translates to: the Third Review of Contemporary Design. Companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Ufizzi Museum of Florence in 1957. Laid in is a sheet identifying artists that came on board after the booklet was printed. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: unnumbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; some pages uncut, some pages stuck to adjacent page, but he's the private part, all edges well sunned, top corners bumped. Cover: plain white wraps, black titles front; modest edge/shelfwear, toned, a few tiny closed tears, light stains back. Of artistic and historic interest

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931 280 numbered pp. HB. From the collection of David Wight Prall, Professor of aesthetics and philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, his bookplate pasted to ep. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green topstain, f.e. deckled; pencil annotation ffep eps lightly toned. Cover: black, black titles to spine paster; v lt shelfwear, spine lightly tanned, including paster, all corners and b.e. of boards bumped.

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1978 281 numbered pp +1; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative map eps; t.e. a bit foxed, f.e. slightly grubby, PO name inked half title. Cover: lt gray-blue, white titles spine; minimal shelfwear, top board slightly bowed. DJ: unclipped, blue, pastel artwork front, white titles front/spine, black text + photo back; v lt edge/shelfwear, 1" closed tear back, v sm dampstain back crnr. A real adventure tale. One lone man and his dog in the North Atlantic in a 32 foot ketch!

New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988 Revised edition, reprinted from the 1939 second edition of Charles E. Tutle Company. The study of Lamaism and its iconography is both fascinating and baffling. The number of gods in the Tibetan pantheon seems to be limited only by the bounds of human imagination, which, indeed, is here lavishly displayed. Every image is symbolic of something, and every part of an image has a meaning, which doubtless cannot fully be known even to those deeply initiated into the mysteries of Lamaism. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: [xxxi], 131 numbered pp; HB no DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, red eps, b/w frontis; no defects. Cover: white cloth, red/gilt artwork front, gilt titles to black spine block; minimal shelfwear, small light stains to a small area of the front, shallow crease to front corner. Still, a very nice copy.

Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Company Private LTD., 1972 There is no single book at present which covers the iconographies of the Hindus, the Buddhists, and the Jains. This is the first book which covers this area in a single volume. A book which would provide information about the icons of the three Indian religions was perhaps not only necessary but also overdue. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 201 numbered pp. HB no DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, taupe eps; the flaps of the missing dust jacket have been excised and are tipped in the last two pages also laid in in the rear is a single sheet regarding the Tibetan Wheel of Life. Cover: rose cloth, gilt titles spine; moderate shelfwear, bottom corners bumped, dimple to front bottom edge, a few small light stains, spine moderately sunned.

Aurangabad: Marathwada University, 1964 Photocopy reprint of the original text, a doctoral thesis for the rule this area in the evolution of Buddhism. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: [viii], 163 numbered pp; comb binding. Pages: clean, bright, tight; all edges slightly sunned. Cover: dark green vinyl, black GBC binding, no titles; minimal shelfwear.

Bhutan: Department of Tourism, Royal Government of Bhutan, 1982 An introductory book to Mahayana Buddhist iconography. Primarily intended as a reference for Bhutanese cultural tour guides to help them enhance their knowledge of the complex symbolism of the important icons and imagery found in Bhutan's religious art and cultural motifs. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 145 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: glossy white wraps, colored band at head, color photo front/spine, black/white/oxblood titles front, no titles to spine; mild edge/shelfwear, small area of delam to front top edge, slight soil, creases to joints.

Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1975 262 numbered pp; HB. In Spanish. Pages: clean, bright, tight, taupe eps, photo frontis. Cover: black, b/w artwork/reverse titles, front/spine; v lt shelfwear. Spanish textbook re: ideas and motivation in Spanish conversation and writing.

Berlin: Adolph Enslin, 1863 In German, roughly translating to “Ideas of Friedrich Froebel on Education, with Essays on a Variety of Topics.” Condition notes: (xiii), 561 numbered pp +2; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, brown eps, steel engraving frontis; hinges cracked in several locations, a.e. sunned, foxing, ink notes to rear ep, PO name inked to ffep. Cover: dk green blindstamped cloth, gilt ornamentation and titles spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems worn, front joint split, taped over (yikes!), a bit of schmutz to the back board.