Search Results: Authors starting with I from Gotcha By The Books

Russia, 1879. Silver over wood panel. Good. 17.5 x 20cm. Russian Icon, 1879 most likely St. Petersburg, showing a rendition of The Christ behind a riza (silver covering) with repousse work and pierced (in the traditional fashion) to show elements of the painting beneath; the painting is not of the highest quality here, the silver being more impressive, with a rather spectacular halo extending beyond the upper edge of the panel; silver stamped 1879 lower lh corner, and with the numerals 84, ie 84 zublotniks (the highest grade Russian silver); further silver marks show a double-sided eagle (being the Romanov Family crest), and a Byzantine emblem of a bird looking east and west; silver with ornate borders, folded and nailed over the edge of the canvas-covered wooden panel; dimensions 17.5 x 20cm (but with halo extending 2cm beyond edge); painting and silver generally a little rubbed, but generally Good.

Rutland and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1964. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w illustrations 1st Edition (stated) of this translation of one of the classics of Japanese erotic literature (first published in 1682), translated and with an introduction by Kengi Hamada, and with illustrations (b&w woodcuts, colour woodcut to title page) by Masakazu Kuwata; a volume in the Tuttle Library of Japanese Literature; purple cloth boards with illustration blind-embossed to front board, and silver titling to spine; former owner's name-stamp to front pastedown, top text block foxed, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.

Melbourne: Georgian House, 1944. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Selected poems of Rex Ingamells; association copy, Signed and with gift-inscription from Ingamells to New Zealand historian John Cawte Beaglehole, best known as biographer of James Cook, and editor of Cook's three journal's of exploration - inscription to front endpaper; small bookshop label to front pastedown, tape stains to endpapers and prelims, occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper tanned around edges and spine, o.w. G-VG.

Sydney: Quadrant Publishing Services for The Golden Lantern, 1975. Signed Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight clean copy/no dustwrapper. 8vo. Collection of 40 poems by Nan Ingleton, privately printed in an edition of 125 copies, this copy with gift-inscriptions by Ingleton, once to front endpaper, and then to colophon, where the poet has crossed out the edition number designation and written 'This is a presentation copy for Phyl and Lyndon Furness - Nan Ingleton'; half black cloth with lime paper sides, gilt titling to spine, printed title label to front board; privately printed by Quadrant Publishing Services for The Golden Lantern; fore-edge untrimmed; Very Good tight and clean throughout; boards very lightly faded at edges.

Paris: Francois Ruy-Vidal at Harlin Quist Editions, 1969-1970. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 2 volumes 4to. profusely illustrated 1st French Editions of the first two (or four) volumes of Ionesco's Conte Pour Enfants de moins de trois ans (tales for children under three years of age) illustrated by Etienne Delessert; a very scarce Ionesco First, with the distinctive illustrations of Delessert (who once produced animated segments for Sesame Street); 2 vols illustrated laminated boards, text and illustrations in combination throughout; Vol 1 Very Good and clean throughout; Vol 2 with occasional foxing, o.w. Very Good; both volumes with minor knocks/worn spots to head and tail of spines.

London: Calder and Boyars, 1971. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st UK Edition of Volume 8 in the collected plays of Ionesco; Here Comes A Chopper, The Oversight, The Foot Of The Wall, translated from the French by Donald Watson; very minor toning to endpapers, tiny knock to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Good in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. large 8vo. copper plate etchings Series of full-page copper plate etchings after Hogarth, with commentary by John Ireland, includes frontispiece etching with tissue-guard; Analysis of Beauty, The Rake's Progress (8 plates), Southwark Fair, The Harlot's Progress (6 plates), The Distress'd Poet, The Enraged Musician, Industry and Idleness (12 plates), and many more; text block untrimmed; foxing and offset from plates throughout (sometimes heavy), med-heavy foxing to prelims, o.w. Good; boards fairly heavily rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine, title label to spine mostly gone.

Ohio, 1983. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Guide to training racehorses, with chapters on the physiological basis of performance, the fit thoroughbred, the fit standardbred, the quarterhorse, injuries, case histories, and more; includes a substantial reading list; heavy foxing (and some edgewear) to front endpaper, lighter foxing to prelims and text block, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards a little sprung.