Search Results: Titles starting with I from Whitmore Rare Books

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy with minor offsetting to first and last leaves and a few stains internally. An edited collection of newspaper reports tracking General Ian Standish Montieth Hamilton's Boer War campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, which included ten major battles. Churchill, a rising political and military star, arranged to have the reports published in a single volume in 1900. Near Fine.

London: Henry and Co, 1893. Two octavo volumes ( 216 x 134 mm). Bound ca. 1920 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for J.W. Robinson Company (stamp-signed in black on verso of front endleaves). Covers triple ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments. Two black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges , decorative gilt turn-ins, navy blue endpapers with gilt 'moon' design, all edges gilt. Small chip on one of the spine labels on volume II. With the original gilt lettered black cloth covers and spines bound in at the end of each volume. Collating Axvi, 282; vi, [283]-562. Housed in the original paper covered cardboard slipcase, matching the endpapers. A near fine example. The Pentameron is "a collection of fifty folk tales modelled on the Decameron and written in the Neapolitan dialect by Giambattista Basile (c. 1575-1632) and first published at Naples in 1637. The stories were supposed to have been told by ten old women during five days, to a Moorish… Read More

New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). Collating [12], 178, [1], [1, blank]. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Housed in a fleece-lined quarter green morocco clamshell case. Rear inner hinge slightly cracked, otherwise a Near Fine copy. A young, motherless boy, a dreamer who secretly loves poetry, yearns to be held and loved by the beautiful woman he has conjured in his mind in the dim moonlight - Imagina - and communes with trees, birds, flowers, and his dog, Kit, all of whom understand and accept him as he is rather than how his no-nonsense guardian would prefer him to be. Riall 123. See Latimore and Haskell 42.

London: Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817. First edition. Publisher's quarter roan over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 135 x 80mm and collating complete including frontis: [4], 216. A charming example, with gentle bumps to corners and binding firm; rebacked with original spine laid down. Contemporary gift inscription to recto of frontis: "Fanny Tomkinson given her by Miss Morris. Febry 16th 1824." Slight offsetting to title and occasional foxing, but overall a fresh, unmarked example. Scarce institutionally and in trade, we have located 8 examples in OCLC. The present is the only copy currently on the market. An author of pedagogical texts and instructional novels, including Thoughts on Education, Maria Benson infused even her fictional work with lessons that encouraged women's learning. Following the adventures of Agatha Torrington, Imitation suggests that while girls should to some extent learn social graces and good behavior from the women around them, copying such… Read More

New York: Covici Friedi, 1936. First edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Original orange cloth, lettering to spine in black, rules to covers and spine in red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom green morocco-backed folding box. An exceptionally Fine copy which is bright and crisp. Fine dust jacket with only the most trivial rubbing to extremities, otherwise extremely bright and fresh. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "For Guy G. B. Reedy, John Steinbeck" on front free endpaper. A signed limited edition was also issued by the publishers in 1936. Steinbeck met Reedy when he moved to New York in the early 1920s and both men worked on the construction of Madison Square Garden. Steinbeck left after seeing a co-worker fall to his death, but the two remained close, and Steinbeck inscribed first editions of all his books for Reedy. Historically overshadowed by Steinbeck's towering works East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, his later novel In Dubious Battle has seen a resurgence of… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with a gilt camel and tribesman within a double circular frame, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Front inner hinge cracked but still a near fine copy with the just the mildest of rubbing to cloth extremities. xvi, 389, [1, blank], [1, Map], [1, imprint], [2, advertisements]. With 104 photogravure illustrations (some full-page) 8 maps and General Map of British East Africa at end. "In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a plain account of the trials and adventures which befell me on two recent expeditions through the nyika, or wilderness, in British East Africa. On the first trip there were three of us, and all returned safely to civilisation, although dangers were not wholly absent. On the second and longer expedition there were also three Europeans, but, alas! only two got back, the nyika having claimed the third; nor was the god of the wilds content with this sacrifice, for, in… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Mild wear, spine mildly sunned, but still an excellent copy in a later tan pictorial dust jacket printed in black. Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. With the bookplate of Maude M. Monell on front paste-down. Written under the nom-de-plume of clergyman Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends was a collection of myths and ghost stories that blended humor with the grotesque. Largely composed in rhyme, the stories emphasize figures such as saints and gods; and they were published to delight a Victorian audience increasingly interested in sensationalist gothic literature. Latimore and Haskell 30-31. Riall 83.

Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1871. First editions. Near Fine. First edition, first issue with all first issue points called for by BAL 3316. Missing page numbers in the Table of Contents on pages xvii-xviii; Last entry reads "Thankful Devotion-A Newspaper Valedictory"; No illustration on p. 129; P. 643 shows "Chapter XLI"; Text ends on p. 651 followed by five Pages of ads with "Personal History" on p. 654. A Near Fine copy. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Back board stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. All edges speckled brown. Bottom corners rubbed. Top of spine with a small amount of fraying. Overall, a very bright, clean copy with no rubbing to gilt and better than usually encountered. Publisher's prospectus also Near Fine. Full black cloth. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Back board stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. Fold-out Bible advertisement with a large closed tear,… Read More

London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778. Second edition. Very Good. 2 volumes, quarto (282 × 225 mm), half title in volume 2 (as called for), bound without the final blanks in each volume: [8], 510; [8], 589, [1, blank]. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, preserving original red morocco spine labels, plain endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey ("Tout Vient de Dieu") and two Japanese bookseller's tickets to the front paste-down. Some insect damage to the leather boards, corners worn, light to moderate foxing throughout, mostly in volume 1, a few tears or blemishes, one or two signs of a contemporary reader's engagement with the text; a very good copy overall. Second edition, first published in 1776, of this classic of economic thought, the only other edition to be published in quarto format, one of 500 copies. Long considered a straight reprint, this edition in fact contains "a number of alterations large and small, some providing new information, some… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers by Robert Bell, 1773. Second American edition. Contemporary sheep rebacked to style with five raised bands; portion of original morocco label laid down. Measuring 220 x 140mm and collating complete with separare title pages dated 1773 for Parts I-V, page 123 misnumbered 113, and the publisher's prospectus on the verso of the rear leaf as called for by ESTC: [4], iv, 5-119, [1, blank], xii, 155, [1]. General shelfwear and bumps to boards, but overall square and tight. Early ownership signatures to front pastedown, front endpapers, and first title page. Occasional contemporary annotations to text. Light toning to pages and small wormhole to rear pastedown. In all a pleasing copy. The second American edition of Joseph Priestly's appendix to Blackstone's commentaries which, in five parts, contain Priestly's assessments and Blackstone's responses. A somewhat progressive theologian, Priestly called for more tolerance toward religious diversity and dissent; and… Read More

London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First English language edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by Boundey, Root & Son in half morocco over marbled boards. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally a pleasing copy, unmarked but for a previous ownership stamp from the Catholic University of America Library to the lower first title. Collates vii, [1, blank], 101, [1, blank]; vii,138: bound without the original paper wrappers else complete. A pleasing copy of an important work, Isabel Burton's first translation into English of J. de Alencar, the father of modern Brazilian literature. The daughter of British gentry and one of England's most influential Catholic families, Isabel Arundell Burton was educated and intelligent in her own rite. But her marriage to explorer Sir Richard Burton brought a new level of adventure to her life. Before their courtship even began, "Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile,… Read More

London: Service & Paton, 1897. First Rackham illustrated edition. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 194 x 128 mm.). Collating [ii], [x], 628, [2, advertisements]. Publisher's burgundy ribbed cloth. Upper board with gilt stamped title and author vignette, spine with foliate design and title lettered in gilt. Upper edge cut, others untrimmed. E5 & E6 (pp. 73-76) poorly opened with very slight loss (1/8 x 1 inch); 2D6 (p. 427/8) with small piece (7/16 x 1/2 inch) missing from blank outer margin Title-page printed in red and black. Sixteen full-page black and white illustrations, including frontispiece. Engraved bookplate of W. Kinning Crone on rear paste-down. A few very minor and insignificant marginal stains, otherwise a Near Fine copy. "By 1898, Rackham had become the master of a repertoire of three areas of style. The first, and perhaps the style which had brought him the greater part of his income to date, was the blood-and-thunder boy's adventure story manner of... books such as The Money-Spinner and… Read More