Search Results: Titles starting with I from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1992. Advance Reading Copy. New York, Hyperion, 1992. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 326 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Elegantly constructed and eloquently written, Straight's ( Aquaboogie ) second book is a coming-of-age novel of grand proportions. The story she tells is as monumental as its main character. In 1959, 13-year-old Marietta Cook lives with her ailing mother in the tiny, Gullah-speaking village of Pine Gardens, S.C. They eke out a precarious existence by gardening, fishing and selling handwoven baskets by the roadside. Marietta, who is descended on her dead father's side from a slave the townspeople remember as "Africa woman," is far darker-skinned than anyone else in the community, and she is enormously tall. This--and her taciturn nature in a society where women fill their days with constant talk--makes her an outsider who is never fully accepted, not even by her family. When her mother dies, Marietta leaves Pine Gardens for Charleston and participates briefly in the civil rights… Read More

1969. Berkeley, Shambala Booksellers, 1969. 21,5 cm x 13,5 cm. 13 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Rare ! The I Ching, also known as the Classic of Changes or Book of Changes in English, is an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period, but over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings". After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought.

1959. Rome, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1959. 17 cm x 24 cm. 879 pages. Illustrations in colour and black and white throughout. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Mild signs of foxing only. Some very light rubbing to the spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. Includes, for example, the following works: 'Alcyone'; 'La figlia di Iorio'; 'Contemplazione della Morte'; 'Odi Navali, maia, Elettra, Merope'; 'Le Vergini della Rocce'; 'Il fuoco, La Leda senza cigno' etc. Gabriele D'Annunzio, all'anagrafe Gabriele d'Annunzio, nome con cui usava firmarsi (Pescara, 12 marzo 1863 – Gardone Riviera, 1º marzo 1938), è stato uno scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, militare, politico, giornalista e patriota italiano, simbolo del Decadentismo e celebre figura della prima guerra mondiale, dal 1924 insignito del titolo di "principe di Montenevoso". Soprannominato "il… Read More

1971. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. 20.4cm x 13.4cm. 176 pages with dust-jacket photograph by Dennis Rolfe. Original Hardcover with original, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Starke's outrageous comedy, a wild and zany extravaganza with a memorable cast of characters that includes Norman, confidence trickster extraordinary in the field of sexual promise; Mrs. Berry, called by God to perform singlehandedly the unification of the churches; Mr. Berry, for whom VE Day is still around the corner; Merle, the bartered bride of the Coptic Church of St. Nicholas; The Rev. Safenda, over whose corpse Norman loses his head; Mrs. Lamotte, widow, who loses the American way of life trying to bend Norman's principle; Caroline, her daughter, who finds Norman unexpectedly; Commander Swayne, who doesn't find Norman at all; together with an hilarious supporting cast, including Barnstaple and Trelawney, trainee constables- trained only in the… Read More

1998. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. 24cm x 16cm. xv, 350 (4) pages. With maps to show district towns in Cork, 37 tables and 2 figures. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including several interesting newspaper-clippings related to the topic. Includes for example the following chapters: The Kilmichael Ambush/ Rebel Cork/ Dying for Ireland/ The Cork Republic/ The Boys of Kilmichael/ Youth and Rebellion/ Volunteers/ The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Family/ Spies and Informers/ I.R.A. Membership and Violence etc. What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the most turbulent periods in twentieth-century Ireland. These years saw the breakdown of the British legal system and police authority, the rise of republican… Read More

1996. Fifth printing of the first edition. Hartville, Diakonia Ministries, 1996. 13.8 cm x 21.5 cm. 391 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minimal edgewear on the cover and slight fading near the spine. Selections from over 100 years of letters which appeared in "The Budget" an Amish/Mennonite community newspaper which helps scattered families keep in touch. Includes for example, the following chapters: Accidents and Mishaps / Amish, Amish Mennonite and Mennonite / Deaths and Funerals / Historiacal Significance of THE BUDGET / Intergenerational Viewpoints.

2011. First Edition. London, Salt Publishing, 2011. 13 x 20 cm. 39 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a dedication to Adam Wyeth on the half title. [Poetry Salt Modern Voices No. 7.] Includes for example: I Sing of Bricks; Shoes; Glove; Romance in Middle Age; Driving Away From You; In His Eyes etc.

1985. Reprint. London, Darton Longman and Todd, 1985. 14 cm x 22 cm. 154 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Experience of God - Evil, What Does Not Exist - Chance, Experience of the Church - A Taboo to Be Rid Of, 'Mercy I Desire, Not Sacrifice', and Farewell.

1994. Watsonville, CA, Papier-Mache Press, 1994. 18 x 24 cm. XVI, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The dustjacket stronger frayed. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Giftinscription to endpaper. Includes for example the following essays: Linda Nemec Foster - History of the Body / Marilyn Johnson - Womansong / Matchmaking - Stephany Brown / The Makeup Poem - Jan Epton Seale / Ode to Grey Hair - Alisa Wolf / Living the Green Life - Maril Crabtree / To my Body - Judy Clouston / Premenstrual Syndrome - Sharon H. Nelson / Spa - Anne Giles Rimbey / Contemplating a Breast EnhancementOperation - Rosaly DeMaios Roffman / Breastfeeding at Night - Susan Eisenberg / Before Stillbirth / etc. I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, the latest in the series of best-selling anthologies (When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple and If I Had My Life to Live Over I would Pick More Daisies), delves into the sometimes hidden and always powerful… Read More

1969. First Edition. Italy, Einaudi, 1969. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. 301 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Indice: Parte prima: Critica e strutturalismo / La sintesi stilistica / Verso una critica semiologia / Fra strutturalismo e semiologia. Parte seconda: Invito alla Farfalla di Dinard / La poesia di Giotti / Per la storia di Non ti chiamero piu padre / Victor Sklovskij o le strutture della pieta / Caos e cosmo in Gombrowicz / Il tempo curvo di Garcia Marquez.

1975. Milano, Bompiani, 1975. 21.4cm x 13.4cm. 136 (6) pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Il canzoniere shakespeariano e rivolto in gran parte a un giovane aristocratico, il 'fair youth.' Ma questi sonetti, come quelli rivolti alla 'dark lady', non costituiscono semplici pagine di 'diario': la loro scrittura e altamente formalizzata, i reiferimenti personali cedono il passo a una strategia retorica. Questa lettura dei sonetti cerca di porre in contatto il linguaggio shakespeariano coi codici culturali della sua epoca e di mettere in luce il disegno retorico che li regge, la loro coerenza macrotestuale, la staordinaria modernita della riflessione che essi svolgono sullo statuto dell'arte e sul rapporto tra arte e realta. Intento metodologico dell'autore e stato di mostrare come lo studio strutturale della letteratura non sia ne formalistico ne tautologico, ma sia capace di attivare ogni 'spazio' del testo, facendo interagire e portando a illuminarsi… Read More

1971. Fribourg, Éditions universitaires Fribourg, 1971. 8°. 233 pages. Hardcover. Edition originale Italiano. / Italian edition. Former Library copy.

1958. Primera Edizione. Italy, Garzanti, 1958. 21.6cm x 14.3cm. 299 (4) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Nelle 24 battute del Gadda che in questo volume sono presentate al pubblico si manifesto gran parte della di lui attivita di opinante edito: la quale ha occupato, grazie al disvolere degli dei, una piccola parte della sua fatica di vivente scrivente. Saggi, brevi saggi, e il nome che nelle letterature occidentali, si suol conferire a un siffatto genere di lavorucci. Meglio forse varebbe, per il libro che ci occupa, il francese Entretiens. Il letore vi potra scorgere, a dispetto di qualche impressione momentanea, una coerenza tonale nell'istruttoria e nel giudizio delle cause, lievei cause; quella coerenze che al secol nostro si use chiamare una linea. Il guaio e che la linea del Gadda, le piu vlte, s'impenna a diverge dalle linee piu accreditate: donde la severa imputazione che gli vien… Read More

1959. Köln, Verlag M.Dumont Schauberg, 1959. 22 cm x 22 cm. 471 seiten. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen und farbigen Abbildungen und Illustrationen. Original Hardcover. In protective mylar. Die Bindung am Ruecken minimal angeplatzt. Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Enthält u.a.: Einführung von Werner Haftmann / Die Argumente der Kunst des XX.Jahrhunderts / Die Lehrmeister der Kunst des XX.Jahrhunderts / Kunst nach 1945 etc etc.

2005. Cork, Collins Press, 2005. Octavo. X, 180 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2008. Dublin / Portland (Oregon), Irish Academic Press, 2008. 24 cm. XIV, 274 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Liquidating the Irish separatist Movement / Internment 1939-1945 / A ireless, Ceaseless Effort: IRA Reorganization 1948-1956 / Organizational Structure of the IRA / Prisoners and Internees in Military Custody on Hunger Strike, 1939-1946 etc. etc.

1963. First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company Inc., 1963. Octavo. 276 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963). In the late 1960s, encouraged by film producer Elliott Kastner, MacLean began to write original screenplays, concurrently with an accompanying novel. The most successful was the first of these, the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, which was also a bestselling novel. MacLean also published two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time. According to one obituary, "he never lost his love for… Read More

1982. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1982. 14 cm x 22 cm. 370 pages. One black and white map. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author William Boyd on the titlepage. Set in East Africa where World War One continued for a short while after the Armistice. An Ice-Cream War is a darkly comic war novel by Scottish author William Boyd, which was nominated for a Booker Prize in the year of its publication. The title is derived from a quotation in a letter (included in British editions of the book but not the American ones) "Lt Col Stordy says that the war here will only last two months. It is far too hot for sustained fighting, he says, we will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!" (Wikipedia)

2013. Bilingual Edition (German/english). Heidelberg / Berlin, Kehrer-Verlag, 2013. Folio (24,5 cm x 30,5 cm). 143 pages with photographs throughout / 143 Seiten mit zahlreichen Photographien. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stunning nature photographs of Iceland and its landscape. Ulli Crespo made these photographs during a visit in 2013. Her amazing ability to feel landscape through photography, is well presented in this publication. (Holger Smyth)

1946. Second edition. New York, Random House, 1946. 22cm. VIII, 260 pages. Frontispiece illustration in colour. Original hardcover (cloth). Excellent condition 1946, SECOND edition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is some slight rubbing above and below the title on the spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen - Translator Erik Haugaard. Eugene O’Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O’Neill’s darkest and most nihilistic play. In the half century since, The Iceman Cometh has gained enormously in stature, and many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics… Read More