Search Results: Titles starting with I from JimsOldBooks

London: Readers International, 1985. Some yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover novel. Originally published in Spanish as ''Sone que la nieve ardia'' in 1975, this is the first English version, here translated by Malcolm Coad. The story deals with the lives of the inhabitants of a cheap boarding house in Santiago, Chile, just before the fall of Allende. 220pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Book Club, 1940. Book Club edition from 1940. No dustwrapper, title panel on spine is rubbed but still (just) readable, some old water splash-marks on red cloth-covered boards, original owner's name and date (April 1940) on f/ep, otherwise a not too bad, tight copy. The author was a reporter for the Daily Express during the First World War and after, and travelled widely in Europe and further afield. 314pp.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Vintage, 2006. Minor creasing to the spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback book. The story, set in Czechoslovakia from the 1930s onwards, deals with a hotel waiter who becomes a millionaire and is later imprisoned by the Communists. 241pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Art and Educational Publishers, 1946. A lot of tears and creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, particularly at top edge, also pieces of same missing at top edge and spine ends. Minor bumping to spineends and corners of buff-coloured boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. The author's memories of life in an un-named village in the late nineteenth century (but was Shapwick in Dorset). The book was reprinted in 2000 as "A Country Childhood: Boyhood Memories of Victorian Rural Dorset". 183pp, 15 b&w drawings by the author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Illus. by Joyce, H S. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dalkeith, Western Australia: Swan Publishing, 1996. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. The autobiography of the Australian cricketer Ian Healy. 208pp, numerous colour and b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1987. Paperback edition. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, a mark on first page where orginal owner's address label has been removed, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the two British whalers "Dee" and "Grenville Bay" which were trapped in the ice in the Davis Straits in the winter of 1836-37. 129pp, 42 b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1987. Hardback edition. Some fading to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the two British whalers "Dee" and "Grenville Bay" which were trapped in the ice in the Davis Straits in the winter of 1836-37. 129pp, 42 b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Travel Book Club, 1955. Travel Book Club edition. Creasing and tears to edges of dustwrapper, also some fading to spine of same, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of light brown boards, two previous owners' names (one scribbled out) on f/ep and inside front board, but otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1953, an account of the lives of animals in Alaska during the brief Arctic summer, possibly a bit anthropomorphic in style. 269pp, b&w drawings.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by Kane, Henry B. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1954. Some creasing and tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, more so to the lower edge, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, school prize label (class prize for Latin, 1958) on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel by the author of "The Bridge at San Luis Rey". Originally published in 1948, this is a later printing, part of the "Uniform Edition", from 1954. The story, told through various fictional letters and other documents, deals with the last years of the Roman Republic up to the assasination of Julius Caesar in 44BC. 198pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, a previous owner's name on front inner flap, a pencilled note on last page, but otherwise good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this slim soft-cover book. The author's third poetry collection,. NOT a first edition as the number line starts with a 7. Signed by the author on title page. . Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Fall River Press, 2009. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. A biography of Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, the Welsh-born pirate captain who operated on both sides of the Atlantic between 1719 and 1722 when he was killed in battle with a Royal Navy ship off West Africa. Originally published in the UK in 2007, this is a slightly later US edition. 278pp and a map.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, some old water-stains to boards but otherwise a good tight copy, with gilt titles on spine still bright, of this hard-cover book. Originally published in French in 1924 as "Si le grain ne meurt", this is a much later English translation by Dorothy Bussy, limited to 1500 copies of which this is number 535. An autobiography by the author, dealing with his childhood and up to his engagement in 1895. Also with his homosexual experiences in North Africa in 1893-94. 302pp.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Circle Books, 2012. Slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Autobiographical writings by the author, an openly gay Catholic priest. Signed by the author to previous owner on title page. 139pp.. Signed by Author. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lagos, Nigeria: Department of Culture, 1987. Some wear to outer edges of cover, but no creasing to the spine of this soft-cover book. A ''Nigeria Magazine'' publication, this book deals with the use of masks in traditional drama of the Igbo (formerly Ibo) people of southern Nigeria. 164pp, 33 b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. No dustwrapper. Ex library copy with white numbers on spine of blue cloth-covered boards, labels inside front board, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A ''selective'' guide to buildings of architectural interest in Illinois. 304pp, 150 b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1980. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, very slight bumping to spine ends of black boards, a previous owner's address label on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Eleven short stories by the author, all set in Africa. 139pp, b&w drawings at chapter heads and elsewhere in the text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Hutcheson, James . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Istanbul: Peva Publications, 1995. Very slight creasing to outer corners of cover, a Turkish bookseller's ink stamp inside back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine,of this soft-cover book. Originally published in French as "Le Harem Imperial" in 1925, the author's memories of her time living in the Imperial Ottoman Harem in Istanbul from 1854 until 1861. 222pp. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2011. Slight creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The autobiography of veteran Scottish Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who served as MP for West Lothian and Linlithgow for forty-three years, retiring in 2005. Signed by the author on title page. A number 3 below the publishers informantion on the rev of title page, so a third printing. 306pp, 16pp b&w illustrations.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First US edition, signed by author. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, some fading to spine and to boards from where the book has sat on a shelf with slightly smaller books, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A satirical novel by the author, based on Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", but set in modern (at the time the book was written, i.e. the 1930s) times. the story, set during a European was which hadn't quite happened yet, involves the women of Britain protesting about the loss of their menfolk in the War by refusing conjugal rights to their husbands until the War ends, and eventually taking over Edinburgh Castle in protest. Signed by the author on f/ep. 312pp.. Signed by Author. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1984. Paperback edition. Some creasing to spine, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Looks at the "Fantasy"novel since the mid 1940s, mainly at what might be thought of now as juvenile fiction such as Mary Norton's "Borrowers", Lloyd Alexander's "Chronicles of Prydain", Ursula K le Guin's "Earthsea Trilogy" (as was) and "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C S Lewis. 253pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.