Search Results: Titles starting with I from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

I AM LEGEND, Walker, 1970, first hard-cover edition, the most modest bit of tanning to the upper edges of the covers, else fine (the covers snap back) in like dust-wrapper save for some very slight tanning to the dust-wrapper spine and upper sections of front and rear dust-wrapper panel. Vampires, including Jewish Ben Cortman, who could only be stopped by ------ a mezuzah !!! Filmed 3 times. A nice copy. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in.

I AM LEGEND, Fawcett / Gold Medal Publications, 1954, first edition, a bright vg+ or better copy in full color pictorial wraps with some light wear to the spine. The source book for this thrice filmed classic.

I ASIMOV, A MEMOIR, Doubleday, 1994, first edition., fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Along with a first edition of the book, fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The 3rd part of the authors massive autobiography.

AN I.D.B. IN SOUTH AFRICA, Lovell, 1888, first edition., small area of black discolorization at the base of the spine, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original pictorial cloth. Illustrated. A tale of a diamond and diamond mines in South Africa. 

I DISCOVER COLUMBUS, Little, Brown, 1941, first edition., near fine in vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light soil. Profusely illustrated by the author of course. The saga of Aurelio the parrot who made Columbus what he is today.

I HAD TROUBLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLEW, Random House, 1965, first edition, just about fine in vg+/near fine four color pictorial dust-wrapper with color illustrations on virtually every page.

I HEAR VOICES, Olympia Press, 1958, first edition., vg+ in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. The authors first novel.

I KILLED STALIN, Eton Books, 1952, first soft-cover edition, text block tanning as usual, else fine in full color pictorial wraps.

I KNEW A PHOENIX SKETCHES FOR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Rinehart, 1959, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with a somewhat faded spine and evidence of a sticker removed from the base of the rear dust-wrapper panel. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

I LEARNED ABOUT GOD FROM A NEGRESS Cosmopolitan, N.d. ( ca.1929 ), first edition., covers dust-soiled, else a vg copy in boards as issued of this advance excerpt.

I LED 3 LIVES / CITIZEN "COMMUNIST" COUNTERSPY, McGraw Hill, 1952, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Illustrated. The source book for the 1950's TV program of the same name.

I LIKE IT HERE, H-B, 1958, first American edition, some light dust-soil to the t.p.e., else fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with a slightly sunned dust-wrapper spine. Very nice.

I MET A MAN, Houghton Mifflin, 1961, first edition, fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated in color by Osborn on virtually every page. INSCRIBED by the author/ artist to the wife of the late premier Walt Whitman collector/scholar, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg in 1961 at the time of publication. It would be difficult to find a nicer copy than this.

I NEVER GET TIRED OF PLAYING" in Colliers Magazine for May 22,1935, first edition, near fine in wraps. The only appearance in print of this work.

I PLAYED THEIR ACCOMPANIMENTS, Appleton-Century Company, 1940, first edition, spine faded, else a vg copy. Illustrated with photos.Inscribed by the author and dated at time of publication. A musicians reminiscences on the classic musical scene in N.Y.C. from the period 1900 through 1940.

I REMEMBER AMERICA, F & W, 1971, first edition., some fraying to lower front corner tip, else fine in near fine dust-wrapper with 37 full color plates and many, many black & white illustrations.

I, ROBOT, Gnome Press, 1950, first edition., fine in vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with some light rubbing to the front dust-wrapper panel and fading to about half the dust-wrapper spine. Laid in is a 42 word typed postcard SIGNED Isaac to long time friend Sam Moskowitz dated 1/29/67 thanking Moskowitz for a royalty check for his contribution to MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION, a book he (Moskowitz) edited.

I, ROBOT, Gnome Press, 1950, first edition., vg+ or better in bright near fine dust-wrapper with slight restoration to the head of the dust-wrapper spine.

I, Robot - The Illustrated Screenplay, Easton Press, 1994, first edition thus, fine in gold & silver stamped pictorial and decorated leather binding with raised spine and all edges gold-gilt. Illustrated in both gray tone and full color by Mark Zug. SIGNED by Ellison.

I SAY SUNRISE, Wells, 1949, first American edition, vg/vg+ in near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and soil.