Search Results: Authors starting with I from Walkabout Books

Kobe, Japan: Mitsumura Printing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 11 x 14.25 inches, oblong. String-tied decorative cloth boards. Six pages of text, followed by 16 full-page collotype plates and one double-page folding panorama. Light soiling and wear to boards, final leaf with a repair to the margin (not affecting image). National Association of Cotton Manufacturers bookplate on front pastedown and ink stamp on title page call number at lower right corner of front board, otherwise unmarked and internally quite clean. This edition is undated, and we have not been able to determine whether it is earlier or later than another edition that is dated 1909 and credited to Kobe-based photographer S. Ichida (Ichida Sota, 1843-1896). In 1909, the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company employeed more than 14,000 workers and was the largest cotton spinning company in Japan. The company was uncommonly committed to the welfare of its laborers, providing schooling for both adult workers and their children, and offering them… Read More

London: W.H. Allen, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK edition. 255 pp + illustrations. Corners lightly bumped, light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. "Archaeological adventures revealing the religious and historical past."

Sydney and Brisbane: A. Hutchison & Son, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 6.25", pp xxiv, 690, with 22 tissue-guarded chromilithograph plates. Original cloth binding, Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of boards; binding tight, a few pages with finger smudges, but generally clean. Inglis (1845 -1908) ran an Indigo Plantation on the borderlands between India and Nepal in the years 1863-1875. He later moved to Australia and became a politician in colonial New South Wales. An avid big game hunter, he writes here about both plantation life and hunting for tiger, buffalo, bear, rhinoceros, and leopard.

Seven signed manuscript letters on United States Internal Revenue letterhead, each on on a single sheet, ranging in length from approximately 50 to 100 words. Old folding creases, minor spotting; very good. The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to help fund the Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1870 allowed the income tax to expire, but taxes on certain luxury goods remained in place, and a small staff of men was charged with collecting them. Here, Reuben Rockwell, Tax Assessor for the 4th District based out of Colebrook, Connecticut) writes to George Pierpont, a tax collector under his supervision based in Watertown. On August 15, 1870, he requests a report on "the quantity of leaf tobacco, also stems, scraps, clippings, &c." purchased and sold by "all cigar manufacturers in this district between January 1, 1869 and the present, adding that in future this information should be provided monthly. In another letter, Rockwell instructs Pierpont to provide forms for… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lee and Blanchard, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set, pp 272, 296, in original cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards moderately edgeworn, spines darkened at chipped at heads, some splitting along rear joint of Volume II, light scattered foxing, both volumes lacking rear free endpaper. Otherwise complete and sound. Wagner-Camp 55:1:"In 1833 John Irving and his uncle Washington Irving accompanied a government party under the charge of Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth to the Otoe and Pawnee Villages. There they witnessed the signing of a peace treaty and one of the last occurrences of the Pawnee 'Morning Star Sacrifice.'" Field (764) notes that "the object of this expedition was of a higher humanitarian order than those which the government has usually organized for Indian affairs." Howes I-79; Rader 2026; Graff 2157.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First state (BAL 10148). Two volumes in original plum cloth, with folding map as frontispiece to Volume II. Spines sunned but legibles, some chipping to cloth at spine ends, just a bit of scattered foxing, otherwise quite sound and clean. Two ownership signatures on each front pastedown: "John Henshaw 1837" and "J. Andrew Henshaw 1854." Housed in a simple cloth clamshell box. The classic work on John Jacob Astor's Pacific Coast fur-trading operation, "based in part on a revised transcript of the Journal of Robert Stuart and the journals of Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks, which were for a time in the possession of Astor" (Wagner-Camp 61). Field 760: "The narrative is crowded with incidents of Indian subtlety or ferocity, as well as with descriptions of the manners and peculiarities of the fierce lords of the great plains, and the vaster mountains.... It is fortunate for the memory of the great millionaire Astor,… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in original blue cloth with paper spine labels. Each volume 248 pp, and each with a folding map as frontispiece; publisher's catalogue at end of volume two. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. The Doheny copy, with Estelle Doheney's small leather bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume as well as a contemporary ownership signature ("Chas. Henry Hall / Harlem 1837") on the front free endpaper of Volume I. Hall (1781-1852) was a wealthy New York landowner and horse breeder. A very nice, unrestored set with spine labels well preserved, tight bindings. minimal foxing, maps in very good condition. There is, however, offsetting to the title pages from the folded maps. Captain Bonneville spent three years exploring in the Rocky Mountains, funded in part by John Jacob Astor. The ostensible purpose of the expedition was fur trapping, but some historians argue that it was also a military… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First American edition, first issue. Small octavo, 274 pp + publisher's ads, in original blue-green cloth with paper spine label. Some edgewear and light scuffing to boards, two chips to spine label, three previous owner's bookplates (Clara & Irwin Strasburger, Wilhelmus Mynderse, George Clinton Fairchild Williams) and one signature on front endpapers and flyleaf. Binding tight, text clean, but pages slightly rippled. "Everything relating to aboriginal life or manners, had an attraction for Washington Irving which he could not resist. The hardy fur-trapper, with his trusty rifle, and his dusky bride, scorning with the fierce pride of independence the sweets of civilization; the wild warrior of the plains, in his swift foray on the herds of the civilized intruders on his domains, or in the bloody invasion of a neighboring tribe, all had for the author a warm coloring which he loved to paint. It is of such scenes,… Read More

Tokyo: Bungeishunju, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 10" x 12", 90 (nearly all photographs), [14] pp, extensively illustrated in full color. Slight bump to foot of spine, else a fine copy in like dust jacket, with the original pictorial slipcase, which shows moderate wear (some chipping) to the paper at the corners. Text in English and Japanese. Yichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. He descended nearly 4,200 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 26,000 ft). This book documents the full expedition that made his accomplishment possible, including brief mention and a few images relating to the six Sherpas who lost their lives in an ice-fall avalanche. Oversized: additional shipping charges will apply for priority or international orders.