Search Results: Titles starting with I from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding/near Good dust jacket. Octavo. x, 310 pp. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Pale blue cloth is sunned at the extremities; previous owner name on the title page; some foxing/browning scattered throughout; one page spread with intense offsetting from a newspaper clipping laid in; dust jacket is edgeworn with chipping; price intact on the front flap.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. [6], 13, [1], [4] pp. First edition, thus; number 152 of 165 copies. As issued, in buff paper over boards with a printed paper title label on front and rear board; text in black, title and shoulder notes in red. Binding is a trifle soiled including some staining to fore-edge of the front board at the bottom corner; contemporary gift inscription on the first blank; contents are clean. Stunningly reprinted, perhaps no other printer at the time had such a similar aesthetic Cobden-Sanderson's Dove Press--clean and elegant in type and page design. Nash really does capture the spirit of the original. Cobden-Sanderson thought so as well and wrote Nash: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it! Paper, type, arrangement, all combined under your clever hands to a while which is at once a thing of beauty and a symbol of that great order touched with delight which I am never tired… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. vi, [2], 256, 4 (ads) pp., frontis., plates, illus. First edition. In publisher's cloth with arrowhead motif in gilt on the front board, all for inserted plates present as called for. Spine a bit sunned; binding is a trifle rubbed but presents fairly well. An adhesive mend to the front hinge has left the front free endpaper unable to lay flat when the front cover is opened; endpaper at the rear hinge is separated, but the hinge remains relatively stable. This is Variant 1 without the publisher's device in blind on the rear board. Payne A7a.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [10], 260 pp. Third printing. In publisher's cloth backed boards with dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy in similarly sharp dust jacket with price intact.

Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1932. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Quarto. xvi, 206 pp. First edition, signed by Page on the half title. As issued, backed in cloth with cloth-over-boards; spine sunned and covers a bit soiled; contents clean. This copy is from the library of Eppa Hunton IV, grandson of the Confederate General and United States Senator by the same name. Additionally is a letter from Page to Hunton IV about the book and the several mentions of General Hunton in this epic poem. Page remarks about having read some of these passages from the manuscript to Hunton IV's father; a warm note indeed; laid in typed response (unsigned) to Page. Hunton IV has noted in pencil the pages on which his both of his grandfathers appear, General Eppa Hunton and General Willam Payne. There is pencil underlining and brief marginal notes at those pages. A very nice association copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xx, [2], 359 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's olive green cloth but lacking the dust jacket. Spine and the edges of the boards are sunned to a tan; contemporary Olds & King's Book Shop ticket on the rear pastedown; contents are clean. A reasonably nice copy of the first edition of this Southern Agrarian manifesto.

Sindicato dos Trabalhadores nas Industrias Metalurgicas, Mecanicas e de Material Eletrico de Sao Bernardo do Campo e Diadema, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto. [xvi], 272 pp. Red cloth titled in blind on the front cover; dust jacket is edgeworn but now protected in a mylar cover; inscription on the front pastedown; text is Portuguese and profusely illustrated throughout.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. xxiv, 196 pp., frontis, plates, facsims. Firs edition, thus. As issued, in cloth-backed, patterned paper over boards with dust jacket. A very bright copy, clean throughout; dust jacket is only a trifle edgeworn including a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel; spine a bit sunned; price clipped. Uncommon thus.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. 167 pp., frontis. First American edition. In publisher's cloth with title in gold on the spine and front cover. Light soiling to the binding; spine darkened; contents clean and binding solid.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. 62, [1] pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Bottoms. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A nice, copy in similarly sharp jacket. Review slip is laid in.

New York: Printed at Kelly-Winterton Press for Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1995. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [12] pp. Limited edition, one of 200 copies, signed by Salter. As issued, sewn into stiff printed wrappers. A very fresh, sharp copy.

Baltimore: George Lycett, 1870. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 15, [1] pp. First edition. As issued, stitched and in printed wrappers. Front wrapper is heavily spotted, otherwise, in Very Good condition with light wear. Dornbusch lists two editions by different Baltimore publishers, both published in 1870 know mention of priority (Dornbusch II, 2950).

Berkeley, CA: Sombre Reptiles, 1980. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. 39, [5] pp. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Signed and inscribed by Wolfe on the first leaf. In original stiff, printed wrapper. Light wear to the wrappers, but generally a nice copy with a warm inscription by Wolfe: "For Tom and Angelica, a little reportage from the 4th shore of Europe. I hope this finds you well. Best, Michael

London: Published at the "Review of Reviews" Office, 1900. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 48pp. 12mo. Stapled pamphlet in printed orange wrappers; light wear to the very fragile wrappers; text is evenly toned throughout; several maps and charts; an interesting perspective on the fate of the English Empire at the turn of the century; digital images can be made available upon request.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972. Unbound. Very Good+ binding. Oblong octavo. [4], 20, [1] ff. Limited edition, press numbered 87 of 125 copies. As issued, printed on the one side of 25 different shades of handmade Shadwell paper, all laid into a portfolio backed in cloth with autumnal marbled paper sides; all in a cloth slipcase. A beautiful production of these poems pulled from Hamady's journal. He notes in the colophon that in addition to bringing these poems "into the air" this works served the purpose "to use up all the different papers that came from trying to reduce our supply of old towels, ties, jeans, sheets & shirts--so you could say our friends have slept on & worn this book." Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 52.

Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Tall octavo. xii, 82 pp., facsims. First edition. As issued, in illustrated boards. A beautiful copy with trivial edge rubbing and very light soiling to the rear board. Among the most important of Civil War bibliographies.

[New York]: Wm. G. Boggs, 1842. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 46, [2 (blank)] pp. As issued, stitched into self wrappers. Cover is generally soiled; final blank is creased with some notable closed tear; contents clean. Mayor Morris refused to swear in Heath and Roome as assessors, claiming election irregularity. The state supreme court held: "The loss of the votes in one of the four districts into which the Sixth war was divided, did not defeat the election in that ward. If the votes of the First district are to be considered as wholly out of the question, in consequence of the riotous proceedings which drove the Inspectors from the room where they were canvassing, the result of the election must then be determined from the votes of the three remaining districts.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. x, 113, [5] pp. First edition, first printing; stamped "review copy" on the front free endpaper. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A very bright, clean copy in similarly sharp dust jacket; price intact on the front flap.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 244 pp. First edition, first printing; signed and inscribed by Bidart. In publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. Top corner of the front board is slightly bumped; dust jacket has a bit of sunning to the spine, otherwise nearly fine with price intact. This copy is warmly inscribed by Bidart to poet Stuart Dischell on the front free endpaper. Bridart is a critically acclaimed poet with awards including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Richmond: Virginia Genealogical Society, 2004. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. xxvi, 547 pp. A bright, fresh copy.