Search Results: Titles starting with I from Magus Books

New York: Walker and Company, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out and likely never read. In a fine dust jacket with $4.95 price intact that is fresh and sharp with no noticeable flaws. A spectacular copy, suitable to give as a gift. Basis for three (!) film adaptations (The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and I Am Legend) and also an inspiration for George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1941. 1st Edition . Near-fine, bright and clean inside and out with a touch of shelf wear. In a very good dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with light chipping at the corners and top of spine, and slight rubbing to the extremities. A very nice copy of a scarce title.

Ermanno Loescher, 1902. Very good in vellum boards with slight crack along bottom front edge of spine; cloth ties. Interior clean and unmarked. Color frontis and many full-page illustrations. An excellent copy of a scarce title.

New York: Random House, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing with 295/295 price. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good dust jacket with a bit of chipping at the spine ends. INSCRIBED BY DR. SEUSS at the bottom corner of the flyleaf's reverse (his favorite spot to sign). Scarce signed.

New York: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing with 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 number line on copyright page but lacking the statement of "First Edition." Near-fine with a trace of shelf wear, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket ($5.95 price intact) with slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners. INSCRIBED BY MAYA ANGELOU on the blank page opposite the title page. Includes the flier from the Barnes & Noble event in New York City where Angelou signed the book in October 2007. A beautiful signed copy of Angelou's famous autobiography.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Very good plus in orange boards with slight shelf wear. Foxing to top and side page edges, otherwise clean and tight. A nice copy of this scarce title.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. 1st Edition . Near-fine with very slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket (price-clipped) with light chipping at spine ends, minor wear at the corners, and a few closed edge tears. A very attractive copy of one of the more elusive Wodehouse titles.

Little Brown, 1991. 1st Edition . Fine in a fine dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. A beautiful signed copy.

Japan: SANKEI SHINBUN SHUPPANKYOKU, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy--bright and clean inside and out--in a near-fine clear acetate dust jacket as issued which has some rippling. Housed in the original slipcase which is very good with shelf wear and some loss to the label on the spine. Text in English and Japanese, with many stunning black & white photos. Rare.

Jonathan Cape, 1978. 1st Edition . Near-fine with a bit of foxing to pages edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to bottom of spine and a small and faint crease at the bottom of the rear panel. A very attractive copy.

Covici Friede, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Very good plus with minor soiling to boards and slight shelfwear, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket (price clipped) with a bit of chipping at spine ends and corners. An attractive copy of Steinbeck's fourth book.

New York: David Mckay Company, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fine copy, clean and bright inside and out. In a very good dust jacket--$4.50 price intact--with light wear at spine ends and corners, and two abrasions to rear panel (with slight loss to text of "Contents" list). The autobiography of the former editor of Vogue, with firsthand accounts of life among fashion icons both in New York and Europe, including Coco Chanel and Babe Paley. Scarce.

Chicago: Advent, 1956. 1st Edition . Fine (clean and tight) in a very good plus dust jacket with sight werr at the spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY KNIGHT ("For Rick, Damon Knight") on the title page. Very scarce signed.

London: Michael Joseph, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The exceedingly scarce British first edition of this novel, basis for the famous film starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. Near-fine with name written on flyleaf, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with slight rubbing at the corners. A very atractive copy.

New Directions, 1940. 1st Edition . Fine (clean and bright with no markings) in a very good dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Light wear to spine ends, edges and corners and a couple of closed tears. An attractive copy.

Harper & Brothers, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with a couple of closed edge tears. Very scarce in dust jacket.

Ariel Books, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($2.75 price intact) with slight fading to spine, minor rubbing at spine ends, and tiny soil spot to rear panel. A beautiful copy of this scarce title.

Dragonwyck Publishing, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket, basically as-new. First published in 1931 in only a British edition, this is the first and only U.S. edition. It consists of a collection of 10 speeches by Churchill as part of his campaign against the India Bill, over which he broke with his party's leadership. These speeches are considered to contain some of the finest examples of Churchill's rhetorical brilliance. Includes a new 31-page foreword by Manfred Weidhorn. While 2,000 copies of this edition were printed, a fire destroyed Dragonwyck's remaining stock in 2003. Existing copies are thus very scarce.

Bombay: Thacker Spink & Co., 1880. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing of this rare title, with no other copies found for sale on-line or in recent auction records; a reprint from 1891 does occasionally appear. Very good in soft cloth boards with slight lean to spine. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid down, and neat repair to interior hinges. Offsetting to endpapers and light stain to lower right edge of first 20 pages, otherwise clean and tight. Complete with 123 pages including blank pages between each page of text for taking notes (as issued). An early Indian cookery book compiled anonymously by a "Thirty-Five Years' Resident" and containing recipes and cooking methods on rice, curries, soups, fish, vegetables, preserves, liqueurs and more, along with information on medicines, perfumes and cosmetics. An excellent copy.

London: Cresset Press, 1939. 1st Edition . True first printing of Sarton's second book, preceding the U.S. edition. This was the first British publication of a Sarton book, and it contains the contents of both of her first two American books: "Encounter in April" and "Inner Landscape." Very good plus in green boards that are bright and clean; interior unmarked save for a faint stain along a small portion of the inner edge between pages. In a very good dust jacket (price intact) with sunning to spine, minor chipping at spine ends and corners, and a piece of matching tape on the reverse along the spine edge. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY SARTON on the flyleaf: "To Laura on a most happy occasion, May Sarton, and (---!). Honolulu, April 10, 1957." Opposite on the front pastedown is the book plate of Laura Mell Pleadwell, obviously the Laura in the inscription. She was the stepmother of Theodora Pleadwell, who was a student in Sarton's Apprentice Theatre under Eva le… Read More