Search Results: Authors starting with I from Peter Ellis bookseller

E.P. Dutton, New York., 1932. Second printing of the U.S. edition. Translated by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Octavo. pp [iv], 348. A novel set in Spain. Near fine in very good, nicked and slightly chipped dustwrapper faded at the spine and with a couple of short closed tears.

E.P. Dutton, New York., 1925. First U.S. edition. Various translators, including Arthur Livingston who writes the introduction. Octavo. pp xviii, 391. Fifteen stories. Signs of damp to edges of free endpapers, but nowhere else. The gilt on the covers is dull in places. Very good in good, chipped and nicked dustwrapper. Uncommon.

Elkin Mathews, London., 1902. First U.K. edition. Translated by R.A. Streatfeild. 12mo. pp 38, [2]. Wrappers. Seventeen poems.Covers faded at the spine and edges. A short tear to top edge of front cover goes through to the the first leaf. Very good. Very scarce.

Gyldenalske Boghandels Forlag, Kobenhavn., 1892. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 220. Grey cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers.Small inscription on second blank. A hint of rubbing to corners. Fine. A lovely copy.

Gyldendalske, Kobenhavn., 1890. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 236. Original elaborately decorated red cloth stamped in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Danish text - Ibsen wrote in Danish which was the literary language of both Denmark and Norway at the time. The book was issued in four different colours of cloth with no known priority.Neat ownership signature on first blank. Spine a bit faded and with a darkened patch at foot. Head and tail of spine slightly scuffed. Very good indeed.

Maclaren, London., [1923]. First edition. Octavo. 184 pages. Illustrations. Numerous adverts fore and aft. The subtitle says it all.Covers slightly marked, rubbed and darkened. Very good. Scarce.

Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1997. First edition. Royal octavo. 14 pages. Four illustrations. Out of a total edition of 75 copies printed on Teton paper this is one of 50 in monochrome Colorplan wrappers.Fine.

Sycamore Press, Oxford., 1982. First edition. Octavo. [16 pages]. Sewn wrappers. Six poems. The author's first book, preceding his first regularly published collection Birthmarks (Chatto & Windus, 1988) by six years.Fine.

Clutarg Press, Thame., 2006. First edition. Royal octavo. pp [32]. Sewn card wrappers in dustwrapper. Poems.One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author.Fine. Scarce.

Chatto & Windus, London., 1988. First edition. Octavo. 61 pages. Glossy card wrappers - no hardbound issue.Signed by the author on the title-page.Cheap paper lightly tanned. Fine.

Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta., 1919. First edition. pp [ii], viii, 383. Folding map at rear. Cloth-backed boards. "The object of this Handbook is to give readers in other parts of the world a bird's-eye view of the foreign trade of British India" - Introduction.Spine and corners rubbed. Very good. Scarce.

Nicholson & Watson, London., 1939. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 522. Plates and maps. Ownership ink stamp on front free endpaper. Edges spotted. Very good indeed in near-fine dustwrapper. Uncommon in such presentable condition.

John Murray, London., 1939. First edition. Octavo. pp xxxii, 550. Well illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. The author spent six years among this small aboriginal tribe in the Satpura Mountains of central India. As well as the anthropological discussions of race, language, economics, sexuality, magic etc, there are autobiographies of several tribesmen and full translations of legends, songs, riddles and folk-tales.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper. Uncommon.

John Murray, London., 1844. New edition of a book originally published in 1828. Small octavo. Two volumes: pp viii, 311, [1] adverts; iv, 304. Double-column text. Period binding of quarter tan calf with raised bands, gilt rules, green morocco title labels, marbled boards.Contemporary (1845) ownership signature on each title-page. Covers rubbed at the edges. Spines rubbed and faded. A very good set.

A. Strahan, London., 1799. Third edition. Octavo. pp viii, 442, [xx] Index. Two folding maps. Period binding of full marbled calf with gilt decoration to spine. A study of India by the leading Scottish historian of his day, written at the suggestion of his friend Edward Gibbon.Corners a little rubbed. Some light foxing to prelims. Very good indeed. A very bright copy.

Thack, Spink, Calcutta and Simla., 1928. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 295, [3] adverts. Illustrations. Cloth-backed paper pictorial boards. Covers marked and rubbed at edges. Good. Scarce.

Ernest Benn, London., 1924. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Seven plates. Foreword by H.J. Fleure.Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Dr Harold Mann with the author's compliments''. The recipient was a leading expert on Indian agriculture.Very good indeed.

Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London., 1932. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 215. Seven plates including colour frontispiece. Rubber-stamp of the New Oxford Book Co. in Lahore on front free endpaper. Spine slightly bumped at head and faded at tail. Very good indeed in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, chipped at head and tail of spine and with a closed tear of approximately three inches at upper joint.

William Blackwood, London., 1914. First edition. Octavo. pp [xviii], 345. Illustrations. Original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Two corners a little bruised. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good with a few chips and short tears to the edges. A bright copy.

Spring Books, London., 1970. First U.K. edition. Translated by Till Gottheiner. Quarto. Unpaginated. 46 photographic plates in colour and black-and-white by Werner Forman, with descriptions opposite. Original gilt pictorial cloth with a brass clasp in the shape of an Indonesian kris held by a gold thread loop. The book is designed by Bedrich Forman. Covers slightly marked. Very good indeed.