Search Results: Titles starting with I from The Book Shed

New York: Penguin Press, 2001. 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket, one short closed tear to upper corner-rear panel. First printing stated Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Hyperion Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, a bit more to the jacket which is rubbed on the rear panel, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. Susan Straight's second novel set in the Gullah culture of South Carolina's Low Country. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. As New in all respects, small remainder dot to the top page edges else clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. A stand alone novel not part of the Inspector Sejer series. "In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith and Iain Banks, Fossum creates a creepily realistic sociopath, rolling his story out in a spare Scandinavian style that lends the book a classic horror feel...It’s not light reading to climb inside of a sociopath’s brain, but readers who can handle the darkest tales will be rewarded by Fossum’s streamlined, thoughtfully constructed story." —BooklistMost items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Viking , 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. light wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. Bill Morgan is an American writer, editor and painter, best known for his work as an archivist and bibliographer for public figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary. Morgan served as Ginsberg's personal archivist and bibliographer from the early-'80s until the author's death from cancer in 1997. Over their 20-year professional relationship, Morgan became quite close to Ginsberg, and has written extensively on the Beat Generation and its key figures. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. lightwear to tips, corners and edges of the book, no jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. The Times Literary Supplement has called it a 'slight but bookishly funny early novel', in which Amis's alter ego Garnet Bowen is 'ludicrously sent off to Portugal in search of a reclusive writer named Wulfstan Strether', and admired the more serious and eloquent tone achieved when, finding himself in Lisbon.. " Amis however was unhappy with this his third novel, ".. really cobbled it together out of straightforwardly autobiographical experiences in Portugal, with a kind of mystery story rather perfunctorily imposed on that. The critics didn’t like it, and I don’t blame them really. I had a look at it the other day and parts of it are not too bad. But it’s really a very slipshod, lopsided piece of work." Most items ship with tracking numbers… Read More

Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Inc., 2002. First American edition. Paperback. Very Good. light shelf wear; else gently read once perhaps. First printing, full number line. Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Rome: Societa Biblica Britannica e Forestiera, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, spine faded, legible. Clean and unmarked A New Testament with Psalms, translation by Giovanni Diodati. In Italian. Published just before WW II by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Diodati (6 June 1576 – 3 October 1649) was a Genevan-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator. He was the first translator of the Bible into Italian from Hebrew and Greek sources. Born of a noble family originally from Lucca in Italy, the Diodati's were exiled on account of their Protestantism. His family considered themselves Italian "di nation lucchese", of Lucchese nationality. He and his father Carlo Diodati were part of the "Italian Cabal", a group of about sixty noble Luchessi families who had emigrated to Geneva. The younger Giovanni matriculated at the Genevan Academy in 1596. At the age of twenty-one he was nominated professor of Hebrew at Geneva.… Read More

Ear Candy, 1991. vinyl. New. New in unopened shrink wrap. 12 inch vinyl single. 7 2827 38008-1 Four versions, Extended Remix; Instrumental; Radio Mix; LP Version, of the Cincinnati hip-hop artist's hit single I'll Be There for You. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Edinburgh: H.M. Stationery Office, 1954. Second edition. Hardcover. Good+/no jacket. 1st printing of the 1954 second edition. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, previous owner's emboss to title page; no jacket. Map present in pocket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003. First edition. Flexible covers. Very Good. Very lightest wear to the book, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. Flex covers. 1500 photos of locomotives from around the world. Detailed specifications for over 100 key locomotive designs. Accounts of 95 of the world's most legendary railway journeys, U.S., Europe, India and more. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: World Almanac, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. lightest wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors if applicable.

Apple Music, 1971. lp_record. Good. Original US 1971 vinyl pressing. SW 3379. All lp's cleaned and played. Any sticks and skips will be noted, nothing significant. Sounds great. Vinyl is clean and shiny with surface scratches. there is a long surface loss to the rear of laminated album cover plus a slight one to the front. Lyric inner sleeve has short split and some soiling. No poster. In 2012, the album was voted 80th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!  JB Records

New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good-. some wear to tips and corners of book and jacket, light soiling to page edges. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Hearst Business Publications, 2000. 2000. Paperback. Very Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, clean and unmarked. Porsche, Saab, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, Yugo. 1758 pages, plus note pages (blank), Guide to Estimating. No dditional domestic s&h. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. Hardcover. Near Fine. in bright red and gilt letter with marbled page edges and endpapers, two discreet previous owner's names on blank pages, else unmarked. A beautiful copy. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Later printing of the first edition, no date. First published in 1879, it was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. Previous owner's name and bookplate, else clean and unmarked. Unread. First printing, full number line. "...a valuable contribution to the history of women in science." -- The Journal of American History, March 2003. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

A C McClurg & Co, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. tips worn, corners bumped, spine sunned, bit of soiling to covers, some surface loss to frontis and page vii due to previous owner's name erasure, a couple of illustrations missing. Deckled edges. Travel and big game hunting in the British East African Proctectorate or what would become Kenya. From Wikipedia: " Edgar Beecher Bronson (1856–1917) was a Nebraska rancher, a West Texas cattleman, an African big-game hunter, a serious photographer and starting late in life, an author of fiction and personal memoirs. As he matured as a writer, his works showed a "marked advance...in characterization". First printing, same date, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919. New Impression. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. much wear to the book wear to tips, corners and edges of book, foxing to the preliminaries. Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, were an Anglo-Irish writing team, perhaps most famous for their series of books The Irish R.M. This is the third and final novel in thast series. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Chicago: The Blakely Printing Co., 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/no jacket. some shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, small puncture to front cover below the title, offsetting to preliminaries and pages facing photos; no jacket. IN brown and gilt decorated cloth featuring a spinning wheel. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Ex-library-minimally marked. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!