Search Results: Titles starting with I from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Vito Schnabel. 20 Hoxton Square Projects, 2009 74 pages. Edition of 1000. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. White printed card covers. Green lettering along the spine and on the front cover. Sealed in original transparent publisher's shrink-wrapping. This publication accompanied the exhibition Theo A. Rosenblum: "I Didn't Know There Was Chicken In This Soup" that took place June 24 August 1, 2009 at 20 Hoxton Square in London, United Kingdom, presented by Vito Schnabel and 20 Hoxton Square. The art works, the artist s first solo show, included humorous paintings, sculptures and drawings influenced by comic books, horror films and medieval art, and allegorical painting. Rosenblum grew up in Manhattan; his mother, Jane Kaplowitz, is a painter, and his father, Robert Rosenblum, was curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum and a Professor at New York University. Rosenblum's work parodied the world around us and offered a visceral thrill, which provoked an immediate reaction… Read More

Gollancz, 1986 179 pages. Unclipped dustwrapper. Collector's condition. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon is a book by American writer Philip K. Dick, a collection of 10 science fiction short stories and one essay on his "discovery" that we are living in the Roman Empire:"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later","The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford","Explorers We","Holy Quarrel","What'll We Do with Ragland Park?","Strange Memories of Death" "The Alien Mind","The Exit Door Leads In","Chains of Air, Web of Aether" "Rautavaara's Case","I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon". Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Rolling Stone College Papers, The Yuba City High Times, Omni and Playboy.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1937 First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. xiii, 120 printed pages. No ownership marks nor inscriptions. Pages evenly toned; some offsetting on facing, preliminary blank leaves and rear free endpaper. 14 x 21 cm. Original tan paper covers (not price clipped), with black lettering on the spine and upper cover. Spine creased and torn at the foot of the spine (revealing original sewn and glued gatherings). Some light handling marks and very slight fading. No repairs. First editions are rare. Martin Buber's I and Thou [Ich und Du] was to have served as a prolegomenon to his five-volume project, (a project Buber abandoned) & has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged it as a landmark influence on their work. Buber tried to make religious belief and practice perspicacious in light of a general philosophical anthropology. ("The close association of the relation to God with… Read More

Alex. Murray & Son, 30, Queen Square, W.C., 1871 781 plus 2 pages of adverts and colophon at the back. Yellow endpapers with binder's 'ticket' (Jarrold & Sons, Norwich) on paste-down endpaper. Owner's contemporary pencil signature on front free endpaper (Chater, 29th January 1872). Mild foxing on a number of pages. 14 x 19 cm. Original purple embossed cloth. Spine with gilt lettering within gilt and embossed ruled compartments (slightly faded and some minor wear to the head and tail). Upper and lower covers with proprietary embossed decorative emblem & lettering ("Murray's Reprint"). Corners very slightly bumped and extremely mild shelf wear. Overall in very good condition & an uncommon survivor. Alexander Murray & Son published reprints of classics, poetry, history and moral philosophy for just 3 years from 1868-71. Chater probably refers to the accountants Chater's of Cambridge, that was founded in the early 1870's. This is a very good… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1924 Translation by H. J. Stenning of DIE INSELN DER WEISHEIT (1922).Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-322, original blue paper covered boards. edges of some leaves lightly foxed, otherwise in good condition; in original blue publisher's paper covered boards, spine faded, blue lettering, corners bumped, head and foot of spine very slightly worn;
Translation by H. J. Stenning of DIE INSELN DER WEISHEIT (1922).Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-322, original blue paper covered boards. edges of some leaves lightly foxed, otherwise in good condition; in original blue publisher's paper covered boards, spine faded, blue lettering, corners bumped, head and foot of spine very slightly worn. OCLC locates one copy (British Library), COPAC finds 6 further copies at Senate House, Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, the London Library, and the National Library of Wales.
First English edition of Alexander Moszkowski's dystopian satire. Narrative trip to a group of South-East… Read More

L - 13 Press, 2007 This book is in as new condition. It is a first edition, and one of a limited run of 500.. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket.

479 printed pages, plus 15 page index at end. Title page illustration of Christ carrying cross engraved after Nicolas Pitau (1632-1671), a Flemish-born French engraver and printmaker. Each page with printed black border. Text divided into numbered paragraphs and books designated by roman numerals- liber I, liber II, etc. Contemporary marbled endpapers (old writing rubbed out on front free endpaper and paper worn thin and with two pin-holes). Original green silk place-marker. All edges red (mild age-toning; old thumb print on page 285 & 337). Similar text to the Anvers, 1647 edition of Philippe Chifflet (1597-1663). Edited by Frederic Leonard (1665-1712). Contemporary ink signature "Ex Libris Toupelin" at foot of title page and on verso of front free-endpaper; below which is a pencil dedication in French dated 1915. 2.2 x 3.6", or, 57 x 92mm. Original black morocco; spine with three raised bands with hand-tooled stylised flower and floreate corner-pieces in gilt. Lettering "Imita" within dog-tooth… Read More

Edward Arnold, 1926 Portrait frontispiece and one plate. viii, 392 pages. Signed by author on front frre end-paper"To a very dear old friend Sir Thomas Barlow from Knutsford", together with signed letter pasted onto free end-paper from author to Barlow explaining that the first edition had sold out and that he had bought this copy second-hand from the Times Library. The author has made six or seven manuscript corrections to his own text. Some marginal spotting, more so to the ALS. Original black cloth worn to spine and edges of binding. Provenance: purchased directly from Claire Barlow at 10 Wimpole Street, in August 2017.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987 xv, 279 pages. 165 x 250mm. Text block very slightly marked-text entirely unaffected. "In Contradiction" advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the center of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Sampson Low London, 1890 2 volumes. pp. xv, 529; xv, 472, [2, publisher's advertisement]; one wood-engraved frontispiece and one in photogravure, both retaining tissue guards, 37 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding, colour-printed lithographic maps, one colour-printed lithographic geological profile, one folding letterpress table, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations (including maps and plans, a few full-page) in the text; slight foxing throughout both volumes, as usual, frontispiece of volume 2 missing corner and creased, front hinge cracked, small dent at bottom of back board, large folding map has short tear. Spines very slightly sunned and with mild edge-wear, consistent with the covers, these with very slightly bumped corners, a good set in reasonably well preserved original pictorial cloth. First edition of Stanley's famous account of his 1886-9 expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatoria who was supposedly besieged by Mahdist forces. Stanley's dealings with Emin… Read More

Circa 1905. 365 printed pages (some leaves very slightly creased at upper corners). Frontispiece. Printed at the Glasgow University Press. Thin paper. Original marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bound in black morocco with gilt title to cover and spine with single fillet gilt border. This copy has the original dust jacket in plain paper with "In Memoriam-Tennyson Miniature Edition" printed on the cover and "In Memoriam" printed on the spine (fragile with both flaps just still attached, edges a bit chipped and generally a little handling patina- including some minuscule spots). 35 x 52 mm. Original publisher's full black leather binding (very slightly rubbed at corners). Bondy describes various versions of In memoriam and other poems, and other works by Tennyson issued by Bryce dated 1905, but not this version. Bondy, 115. Spielmann, 475. Welsh, 6645. OCLC, 250573537. WorldCat locates 3 copies worldwide (Rochester, Delaware and Indiana University Libraries). Scarce with dustjacket.

Ward & Downey, 1892 Contemporary 3/4 russia, slightly rubbed. This is an attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.

Hutchinson, 1917 16 plates, contemporary 3/4 brown morocco, gilt spine. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Institute of Economic Affairs, 1977 Occasional Paper #51. Complete with loose summary. In fine condition.. Soft cover. Fine.

John Murray, London, Albemarle Street, 1840 First edition. Engraved title page (somewhat foxed, as usual), xii; 406 pp.; (2)pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in blind & gilt, spine faded to brown and some minor soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription "L. O'Grady" on front free endpaper and upper margin of Introduction. It gradually occurred to Jane Loudon that the technical terms and descriptions were rather off-putting to new gardeners, particularly women, who although literate and interested had often not been well schooled in the sciences. Instructions in Gardening for Ladies was published by her in 1840 and partly written because her family were in financial difficulty and extra income was needed. The book was popular, with over 1300 copies sold on the day it was published. It was precise and correct but written in an anecdotal style which made it easy to follow; more than 200,000 copies were sold altogether in multiple editions..… Read More

London : Visual Advertising Ltd. for the Widescreen Centre, 1985 180 printed pages. Photographic portrait with white printed lettering on additional card title page. Text illustrations throughout. 21 x 16 cm. Ring bound with clear plastic front cover. Very mild handling wear. COPAC locates only a sole copy at London Metropolitan University Library. This is a rare survivor of a small print-run moviemaking manual. Ivan Watson was the doyen of amateur movie making techniques, including script writing in the 1960-80s.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.