Search Results: Titles starting with I from Island Books

Harcourt Brace & Co., New York NY,, [1946]. 8vo., First English Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright,, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped (without material loss) at extremities. First edition in English of the author's critical assessment of De Gaulle's standing immediately after the Armistice. Kerillis was a WWI aviation ace and member of the French Chamber of Deputies just before the war. For obvious political reasons this work was not published in the UK. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.173.

Folio Society,, 2018 [2021]. 8vo., with frontispiece, coloured and monochrome illustrations, and illustrated head-pieces; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and black, green endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's sculpted board slip-case. This is the first fully illustrated edition of Matheson's novel.

Andre Deutsch,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; olive tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.

Folio Society,, 2023. 8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread in monochrome and 6 full-page coloured illustrations; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in dark red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Gollancz,, 1973. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first book, originally published in 1966. Includes his first major Scottish climb in 1953, the first British ascent of the Eigerwand, first steps in the Himalaya and the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia. Neate 90 (recording the first edition).

Gollancz,, 1977-1973-1986]. 3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; cloth (blue/brown/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. First volume with personal armorial bookplate on front free endpaper. The trilogy comprises: I Chose to Climb (sixth impression, 1977), The Next Horizon (first impression, 1973) and The Everest Years (first impression, 1986). Neate 90, 94 (first and second volumes respectively).

Gollancz,, 1966. 8vo., First Edition, with 44 plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with git frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with an ice-axe motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. An elegant copy of author's first book. Includes his first major Scottish climb in 1953, the first British ascent of the Eigerwand, first steps in the Himalaya and the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia. Neate 90.

Chatto & Windus,, 1950. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, free endpapers browned; green cloth, gilt back, red top, covers sunned (but gilt legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Cross & Perkin A17a.

Elliniko Logotechniko Kai Istoriko Archeio, Athens,, 1997. Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in Greek, with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board presentation case. The presentation case is modelled on a cigarette box. VERY SCARCE.

Routledge & Kegan Paul,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, text in green and black; black cloth, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, a fine copy. The work is dedicated to Robert William Chapman, Austen scholar and editor, 'the greatest Janeite of them all'.

Folio Society,, 2020. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured illustrations (one double-page); pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Rockliff,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE AND ADDITIONAL SIGNATURE ON TITLE. This copy was presented to an institution and bears its neat blind stamp on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.174.

Hart-Davis,, 1962. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Collects eleven of the author's inimitable short stories.

Christopher Johnson,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 22 plates and a full-page map in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at fold-ins. With striking dustwrapper artwork by R A Maynard in the style of Brian Cook.

Grays Inn Press,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontisiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, contemporary signature on paste-downs, a few leaves lightly soiled in blank margins; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Ray Theobold. Prien's classic account was first published in Germany in 1940 shortly after the event. This is the first edition in English: 'An important if partial source' (Law). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.59; Law, 0100.

Hollis & Carter,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION

Doubleday,, [2010]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A Discworld novel, with striking dustwrapper artwork by Paul Kidby.

Doubleday,, [2010]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR [WITHOUT DEDICATION] ON TITLE. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Paul Kidby.

St. Ermin's Press,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 8; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's account of his father Major Kavan Elliott, SOE agent and deceiver extraordinary.

[Privately Printed, Diss],, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE.