Search Results: Authors starting with I from Independent Books

Victoria: Lonely Planet, 2000 222 pp.; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: orange stiff wraps, color photographs front/back, reverse titles front, black titles spine, reverse/black text back; minimal shelfwear.

New York: Random House, 1989 "A stylish, beautifully illustrated collection of salad recipes for all year round." From the author of "Glorious Food." Landscape format. Condition notes - 191 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative green eps. Cover: glossy photo of lettuce, green titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, glossy white/photo of lettuces front, white titles front, black titles spine; minimal edge/shelfwear w/ edges starting to curl.

New York: Gallery Books, 1983 41 color plates depicting the life of the courtesan in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japan. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: unnumbered pp; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, X topstain, t.e.g., b.e./f.e. deckled; top edge foxed. Cover: navy cloth, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, top corners bumped. DJ: unclipped, glossy yellow wraps, erotic art front/back, black titles front/spine; light edge/shelfwear, very small closed tear front top edge, head a bit worn.

Chicago: The Sphinx Publishing Co., 1905 Compilation. Cover of each issue is intact (frequently, these are removed). Hinges cracked, pages shaken but all here, spine torn, covers stained. A real pig, but it's its scarity, not its beauty that matters in this case. For the collector of things magical and mystical.

BATON ROUGE AND LONDON: LOUISIANNA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1983 186 numbered pgs.+2. HBw/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, black eps, frontis; no defects. Cover: taupe, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, teal, b/w photo front, black titles/text all surfaces. Essays regarding the works and life of the famous yet somehow obscure American author.

New York: DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC. A drama and a romance from the 1980s, separately bound. Scripts. Stapled spines. Pages and covers: annotated/highlighted, bright, tight. Both in VG(-) condition.

New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1890 251 numbered pp +4; HB. Page: clean, bright, tight, yellow edgestain; t.e. dusty, mild stain f.e. Cover: navy, silver ornamentation and gilt titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, head/tail a little worn. Lovely.

New York: The Mentor Assoc., Inc., 1919 Unnumbered pp.; TPB. Stapled spine. Decorative lt broen/dk brown wraps. In addition to text, six Mentor Reading monographs re: famous naturalists (Audubon, Agassiz, Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs, and Seton) laid in. Of historical interest.

Washington DC: C. P. Farrell, publisher, 1880 These lectures have been so maimed and mutilated by orthodox malice; have been made to appear to halt, crutched and decrepit by those who mistake the pleasures of calumny for the duties of religion, that in simple justice to myself I concluded to publish them. Condition notes: [xvi], 225 numbered pp + 2 appendices + advertisements; HB no DJ. Pages: generally clean, ivory, tight, dk brown eps; a.e. well sunned, PO info lavishly penned in. Script to third free and page, some foxing. Cover: blue, black stamped cloth, gilt titles front/spine; substantial shelfwear, extrems worn through, rubbed, overall rather tatty. Of religious and historical interest, somewhat worse for wear.

Not Stated: Not Stated, 1910 Each lectured individually paginated; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, engraved portrait frontis; a.e. deeply tanned, a few pencil marks or notes, front hinge cracked w/ crash showing through. Cover: decoratively stamped black cloth, dull gilt titles front/spine, w/ spine gilt nearly black; moderate shelfwear, extrems worn through, paint mark to tail. 42 lectures covering topics from Thomas Paine's Vindication through Blasphemy, generally on topics of religion or freedom. From Wikipedia: Ingersoll ". . .was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism."

Vancouver: Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association, 1986 Stapled spine. The companion booklet to the exhibition at the Vancouver Maritime Museum (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) in the summer of 1986. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the title p. Condition notes: 40 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: white wraps, b/w artwork + blue titles front; minimal edge/shelfwear. Scarce.

Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1979 Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper No. 87. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the title p. Condition notes: (v), 260 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: salmon wraps, black artwork front, black titles front/spine; lt edge/shelfwear, spine sunned, sm tear at tail, spine and adjacent wraps sunned.

Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1973 All things ocean. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 325 numbered pp +2; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, taupe eps; t.e. lt tanned. Cover: black, b/w photo +white quote front, white titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems a bit worn.

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company 520 numbered pp +4; HB. Pages: clean, ivory/tanned, tight; title p torn way up gutter, a.e. well tanned, a few crnrs missing/crinkled. Cover: red, pink/dk green artwork + dk Green titles front/spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, spine a bit faded, v lt soil.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1986 253 pp. HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; no defects. Cover: blue paper over boards w/ cream cloth spine; copper titles stamped to spine; no defects. DJ: unclipped in Brodart; t.e. very slightly tanned.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1952 A collection of 99 tales indispensable for the non-Korean to understand Korean culture, history, philosophy, politics, and economics. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 257 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. tanned. Cover: Red, silver titles spine; v lt shelfwear.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1869 473 pp.; HB. Pages: soiled, foxed, tight. Cover: faded red, dull gilt titles on faded spine; substantial shelfwear, dampstaining, etc. Ugly. Fascinating and of historical value.

Washington D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 535 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. tanned, old price inked to ffep. Cover: dk green, gilt device front, dull gilt titles spine; lt shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, white specks to front.

Washington D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 876 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, loose; all fairly loose in binding, a.e. tanned, ffep torn. Cover: black, v dull gilt titles spine; substantial shelfwear, extrems worn, tear to front hinge, back hinge split , boards loose. Rough.

Washington D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 633 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; a.e. tanned, old price inked to ffep. Cover: dk green, gilt device front, dull gilt titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems slightly worn, schmutz across back.