Search Results: Titles starting with I from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Sausalito, California: Angel Island Publications, 1961. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Very Good. Jerry Stoll. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs by Jerry Stoll. Bound in stiff printed wraps with Stoll's photographs on front and rear cover. Light wear to edges of cover; bookseller tag on inside rear cover (Paul Elder). Poignant photography from the artist best known for his photography of jazz artists. The photos here capture the bohemian essence of San Francisco's flourishing arts scene, painters, poets, musicians, sculptors, et al., along with street photography.

Seattle and New York: Wave Books, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 83. Bound in white cloth with lettering stamped on spine in black. Dust jacket has a die-cut in the shape of a heart, exposing the white binding. Of 100 copies signed by the poet, this is copy 25. The publisher's two-page comment, sent to subscribers when the book was published, is laid-in. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

NP: White Pine Press Signature Editions, 1996. Limited Edition. Single Sheet Printed Recto. Near Fine. Single poem printed recto on heavy stock measuring 11 x 22 inches. Monochromatic illustration by Wendy Mark. Top right corner bumped; slight striation at top left corner. Corners sharp, Signed by the poet and initialed by the artist, both in pencil. Of an edition limited to 50 copies, this is hand-numbered copy number 1. A bright, presentable copy of St. John's poem with his bold signature beneath his printed name. Artist and printmaker Wendy Mark is best known for her collaborations with poets: other than St. John, she's illustrated works by Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Paul Muldoon, et al. Scarce. Broadside is now housed in a removable, clear, archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

New York: Summit Books, 1983. First US Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Ralph Steadman. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated double title page. Illustrated with color reproductions. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, sage green endpapers: light scuffs, ink remainder mark to leaf edges at the spine tail. In the laminated color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap: edges crimped, light scuffs. The British gonzo illustrator and caricaturist imagines the Florentine genius at work, in text and image.Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Pp. xii, 226. Chapter heading illustrations. Notes. Index. Bound in stiff, color wraps. Inscribed by Shenkman on the title page. Inscription in black ink reads, To Walt and Marie, Richard 4/23/05. Walt Crowley and Marie McCaffrey are perhaps best known as founders of HistoryLink, the online encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest history, and the first US website devoted to regional history. Crowley and McCaffrey also collaborated on an extensive list of books documenting Seattle history. In that capacity, Crowley's positions as a city planner, local television commentator, speechwriter and civic activism served him well.

London: Hutchinson & Co, ND. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fair+/Good. Peter Rudland. 8vo. Pp. 160. Bound in taupe cloth with black lettering on spine. Sporadic foxing to endpapers. Top edge dust soiled. Slight lean. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows wear to edges, especially head and tail of spine. Third printing. The Peter Rudland dust jacket art conveys the gloomy ambience of a deserted city street - deserted but for a couple dragging a corpse. See HUBIN, p. 221, who cites this as being first published by Lippincott, and that "William Irish" was one of two pen-names used by Cornell Woolrich; the other was "George Hopley." Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Princeton New York: Karz-Cohl Publishing, Inc, 1982. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Very Good. Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff, Gerard Malanga, Mick Rock, et al. (photography); David Bowie (painting printed on rear cover). 4to. Pp. [6], 7-128. Foreword by Andy Warhol. With anecdotes, narrative, letters and lyrics. Laden with black-and-white photography throughout. Inside rear cover with ad for "Zombie Birdhouse" album (Animal Records). Bound in stiff, printed wraps, photo-illustrated on front cover; Bowie painting on rear cover. Very light evidence of wear. A bright, well preserved copy. Contains a candid account of a party following a Seattle show in which Iggy first went to his room at the Edgewater Hotel, then to a punk rental house where he and local musicians played "Gloria," "Louie Louie" and other garage rock chestnuts.For a book usually found quite worn, as if it had been passed around at parties, this copy is notably fresh.

(New York): A Signet Broadside / The New American Library, 1968. First Edition. Stiff Photo-Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. David Douglas Duncan. 12mo. Unpaginated. Fourteen pages of text precede the black-and-white photo essay. Bound in stiff glossy wraps, photo-illustrated. Slight edge-wear to covers; a few leaves with mellowed nudges. A handsome, presentable copy. First printing of the first edition. Known by many as a friend of Picasso as well as his photo-documentarian, Duncan was just as well known as a combat photographer. Beginning in WWII, he served as an officer in the Marines, photographing the American invasions of the Solomon Islands and Okinawa. By the Vietnam War his objectivity waned; this collection became an appeal for mainstream Americans to question the wisdom of the US military invasion in Vietnam.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Good-. Boris Artzybasheff (dust jacket design). 8vo. Pp. 249. Decorated endpapers. Bound in red cloth stamped with black and gilt lettering. Edges worn. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows large chips near head and tail of spine, and old, small tape reinforcement on verso. A novel told in the voice of a tiger in Bengal. The sleek Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket illustration is quite effective in its use of a limited three-color printing palette. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Biltmore Publishing Co. Inc, 1943. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Poor. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 25-322. Bound in full green cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Very slight age-toning to leaves. In the illustrated dust jacket, which is defective: large chip on rear panel, rear flap nearly detached, old cello tape repairs on verso. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. A propaganda piece, published at the height of WWII, intended to belittle Hitler and warn the world of his Caesar-complex. Includes frank accounts of his sex life, peccadilloes, experiences with impotence and syphilis, his attraction to Jewish prostitutes, etc. We are uncertain whether the book addresses Hitler's purported monorchism, memorialized in the WWII British military song, "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball." The dust jacket designed by Irving Politzer captures the sensational-exploitative nature of the psychoanalytic study of Hitler's worldview, with special focus… Read More

New York: Rockport Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 269. Preface by Roy W. Howard, president of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Front edge untrimmed. Top edge stained dark grey, slightly dust-soiled. Full red cloth with gilt lettering (a tad dulled) on spine and Tong's chop, in gilt, stamped on front cover. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the author: "General Maxwell D. Taylor / With Warm Regards / Hollington K. Tong / Tokyo, May 14, 1955" An effort by Tong to correct the record by refuting commonly held assumptions surrounding the failures of Chiang Kai Shek and his Nationalist government. Among them,Tong states the corrective that Chiang's head of secret police, General Tai Li (Dai Li) was not sympathetic to the Japanese invaders and that Li did not wage covert efforts to subvert foreign correspondents in China. The very act of refuting such claims carries the opposite effect by reinforcing an assumption, accurate or not, that may have been lost to history. Regardless,… Read More

Bruxelles: Henry Kistemaeckers, 1887. Early Reprint. Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. iv, [2], 348. Marbled endpapers. Half morocco-grained calf over patterned boards with spine lettered in gilt, along with gilt decoration and raised bands. Original wrappers preserved. Silk bookmark bound in. Slight wear to binding: spine a bit faded; with light, stray foxing. Withal, a handsome, presentable copy. Inscribed by Bonnetain on the ffep. An early printing of the "Edition Augmentée" inscribed by Bonnetain on the front free endpaper to Henry Céard (1851-1924) who remains best known as the author of two novels Une Belle Journée (1881) and Terrains à Vendre au Bord de la Mer (1906). A close friend of Zola and de Maupassant, he was a member of the Académie Goncourt.Bonnetain's "celebrated and epic masturbation novel" (Kearney), "a romance of masturbation, gross but exceedingly well and even powerfully written" (Bibliotheca Arcana), originally published in 1882 and an immediate scandal upon its release:… Read More

(Vancouver): (Vancouver Art Gallery), 1988. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Good+. Square 4to. Pp. 84. Foreword by Willard Holmes, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Introduction by Christos Dikeakos. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white photographs of Ian Wallace's artwork. With a list of works, selected exhibitions, and bibliography. Bound printed french-fold wraps with black & white photograph of Wallace spanning front and rear cover. Light waviness to bottom of leaves in second half of the book; faint scratches and fading to cover. Withal, a presentable copy. A handsome overview, to-date, of the Vancouver painter-photographer, presented as an exhibition catalog.

Madras and New York: Hanuman Books, 1987. First Edition. Stiff wraps with dust jacket. Very Good-/Very Good-. 32mo. Pp. 29. Blue stiff paper wraps, titles stamped in gilt on the cover, letterpress printed in India: edges bleached. In the color photo illustrated dust jacket with titles stamped in gilt: edges lightly worn and crimped. Number 8 in the publisher's second series. One of the scarcer Hanuman titles. Produced out the Chelsea Hotel in New York City by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente. The diminutive format was inspired by pocket prayer books they collected in India. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

(New York): (Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc), 1987. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Very Good. Ida Applebroog. Small, square 4to. Pp. 64. Frontis. black & white photograph by Gianfranco Gorgoni of Ida Applebroog with several of her paintings. Forward by Ronald Feldman. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color reproductions of Ida Applebroog's artwork. Biography of Ida Applebroog. Bound in printed wraps with a painting by Applebroog entitled K-Mart Village I on front cover. With the large illustrated decal pasted on front cover, as issued. Light wear along edges of cover; lower corner of rear cover scuffed. Original bookseller's label from The Lapis Press on rear cover, with price of $20.00. A generous catalog of Applebroog's show at the Feldman, featuring commentary by Feldman, Carrie Rickey, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda F. McGreevy, and Carter Ratcliff.

New York: The Sri Aurobindo Library Inc, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. viii, 340. Glossary. Index. Bound in blue cloth with publisher's device printed in gilt on front board, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket flaps. In the printed dust jacket that shows sunning to spine and a slight stain on the front panel; price of $3.50 intact on the front flap. Laid in is a reproduction of a full-page ad "as appearing in the New York Times Book Review June 10, 1951" that extols the author's five works with the headline "Sri Aurobindo - Master of Integral Yoga." One of the five works that comprise Sri Aurobindo's concept of an Integral Yoga program in which the divine Brahman manifests itself through "lila." Published the year of the yogi's death. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 107. Notes. Bound in light blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine. In the illustrated dust jacket, unclipped. Publisher's advertisement laid in. Dust jacket edges rubbed, no other detracting qualities. Poems written over nearly thirty years. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 88. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge foxing. Crisp pages and binding. In the illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact on front panel. First printing. Book design by Doris Huth; jacket design by Muriel Nasser. A bright, fresh copy. Dust jacket now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1864. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. 460, xx, followed by eight pages of publisher's titles. Title page engraved vignette. Illustrated with engravings throughout. One color map, depicting the "Indian Families" known in 1650. Appendix, of sorts, reprints the Declaration of Independence, and Constitution. Endpapers ads. Bound in blindstamped black leather with gilt lettering over brown cloth covers. Occasional soiling and contemporary pencil marginalia. General wear to cover consistent with age. That said, the book remains well bound. A two page addendum to this edition, published prior to the conclusion of the Civil War, utterly fails to cite that conflagration. The book is now protected with a clear, archival sleeve.

San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc, 1940. First Edition. Plastic comb bound. Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. 127. Frontis. black & white photo. Illustrated with numerous Ansel Adams black & white halftone photo reproductions and several three-color diagram maps, one folding out. Includes bibliography by Francis P. Farquhar and chronology. First edition, first printing stated. Stiff paper covers printed reversed blue on white with titles and illustration front and back, white plastic comb, coated paper leaves. Edges minimally rubbed, original $1 price sticker and a very small stain inside front cover, leaves crisp and bright, comb intact. A crisp, cleanly printed first edition copy of a deeply researched guide many times reprinted since. The plastic comb binding, often found cracked, is well preserved.Covers the history of the valley, roads, trails, camps, trees, fishing, Indians, flora and fauna, etc. With superb photography that wants a larger format than will fit in a backpack.