Search Results: Titles starting with I from TBCL The Book Collection Library

New York: Doubleday, 1972, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Inscribed by Purdy to the dedicatee of In A Shallow Grave, Edward G. Hefter. A lovely copy in the publisher's 1/4 cinnamon over green cloth covered boards, purple lettering to the spine in a very good dustwrapper showing light use. 8 vo. 120 pp.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Inscribed by Brian Moore to author John Glassco's wife, Marion [McCormick] on the front free endpaper. 'For Marion with affection, Brian'. A better than very good copy in 1/4 yellow cloth over rose paper covered boards, red titles to the spine in a bright, fresh dustwrapper with some light overall use. 8vo. 217 pp. A very nice copy indeed with a splendid literary association.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1975), 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Lee, Laurie. I CAN'T STAY LONG. Signed. London: Andre Deutsch, (1975). First Edition Signed by Laurie Lee on the title-page. A fine copy in moss green cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fresh, bright very good indeed dustwrapper showing some moderate overall use and a few neat mends. 8vo. 232 pp. With decorations by Susan Campbell and frontispiece of the author by William Thomson. A superb selection of occasional essays by the author of Cider With Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.

Toronto: Macmillan, (1971), 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of Canadian author Norman Levine's second book of short stories, Inscribed by him on the front free endpaper. "For Margaret and Alan, with good wishes, Norman Levine, Toronto. Sept. 8. 1970". 8vo. 160 pp. A fine copy in blue cloth, silver titles to the spine in a near fine dustwrapper with some minimal use. "He (Norman Levine) is simply the most accomplished short story writer the country has ever produced." John Metcalf, Ottawa Citizen.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of this comic novel briefly Inscribed by Donald Westlake on the title-page. 8vo. 222 pp. A near fine copy in purple cloth, silver titles to the spine in a bright, fresh, near fine neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper.

New York: Random House, 1965. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Dr. Seuss, I HAD TROUBLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLE. [Custom Clamshell case only - Not a book]. New York: Random House, [1965. Book Date]. A colorful Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition of this Dr. Seuss favourite. Black Nuba® with sculpted imagery from the dustwrapper with orange additions to the embossing" with green sides, gilt-stamped title-piece Black Velour finished interior. A lovely case for your first edition. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included Size can be adapted to soft or hardcover first editions.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition of this delightful tale by the founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and long-time editor of The Saturday Review. A very good or better copy in green cloth, yellow titles and decorations in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 235 pp. Wonderful illustratrations by Jeanette Warmuth. The heartwarming story of Fourchette the Cat, Donny the dog, Ferdinard the mouse, Escargot the snail and their family, the Mistletoes. Certain to charm children and adults alike.

New York: Gnome Press [1951-1953, Book Date], 1950. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Asimov, Isaac. I ROBOT. Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. New York: Gnome Press, 1950 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed 'sculpted' upper cover after the famous dustwrapper's vintage Robot illustration. The case is finished in overall Rich Deep Red Cloth with a gilt stamped red title piece. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both.Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. [Available in Red… Read More

New York: Gnome Press 1951-1953, 1950. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Asimov, Isaac. I ROBOT. Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. New York: Gnome Press, 1950 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed 'sculpted' upper cover after the famous dustwrapper's vintage Robot illustration. The case is finished in overall Rich Deep Red Calf with a gilt stamped red title piece. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba or a combination of both. Nuba is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. [Available in cloth as well $155 -… Read More

London: Grayson & Grayson, 1952. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Asimov, Isaac. I ROBOT. Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1952 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features an embossed 'sculpted' upper cover after the famous dustwrapper's vintage Robot illustration. The case is finished in Black Nuba and red sides with gilt stamped titles on the spine. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both.Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.… Read More

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Roger Senhouse. Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth, touch of fade and wear at edges) in a scarce dustwrapper, (black lettered in white; large chip at the base of the spine and small chip at the base of the top panel-reinforced tape on back of folds) Rear panel announces various Hogarth Press books including #3 of Woolmer's Hogarth "Ghosts" (de la Mare's, Atmosphere in Fiction, was never published): dustwrapper price at 7s, 6d. Woolmer #142. ROGER SENHOUSE'S copy with his signature on the front free endpaper. Senhouse was Lynton Strachey's friend, and his last lover and operated on the periphery of Bloomsbury. Copies of the First Edition of I speak of African are rare as are the signature of Roger Senhouse.

New York: Dutton, (1947, Book Date), 1947. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Spillane, Mickey. I, THE JURY. New York: Dutton, (1947, Book Date). Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] thematic design raised on the upper cover inspired by the first edition DJ's illustration & is covered in elegant Black & Charcoal Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather & finished inside in soft black velour. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over a hundred cornerstone generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1996, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. Uncorrected advance proof. A fine copy in white wraps, printed in black, as issued. 8vo. 219 pp. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986 and the Damon Runyon Award, a feisty Breslin, whose appearances on the Ja ck Paar show endeared him to international television audiences, remains the quintessential New York City journalist.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1938], 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, pp. 207. A fine copy in dustwrapper showing a tiny bit of wear at the spinal extremities. A very nice copy, indeed.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1982), 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Fine, fresh copy in dustwrapper.

San Francisco: A Yolla Bolly Press Book/Sierra Club, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in beige decorated cloth, black titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper showing the slightest of use. 8vo. 183 pp. A richly engaging study of a sandstone ridge in East - Central Ohio by this recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and two time winner of the Commonwealth Club Of California's Silver Medal For Literature. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1956. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. COLLECTOR'S CLAMSHELL CASES, FEATURE CLAMSHELL, FeatureClamshell. Seuss, Dr. IF I RAN THE CIRCUS. [Custom Clamshell case only - Not a book]. New York: Random House, [1957. Book Date]. A colorful Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition of this Dr. Seuss favourite. Black Nuba® with sculpted "circus imagery from the dustwrapper with orange additions to the embossing" on the side, gilt-stamped title-piece Black Velour finished interior. A lovely case for your first edition.

London: Londra: Dalla Stamperia Di J. Bretteli, 1806, 1807, 1806. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Polidori, Gaetano. IL FIGLIUOL PRODIGO, DRAMMA SACRO with IL NABUCDONOSORRE, DRAMMA SACRO Londra: Dalla Stamperia Di J. Bretteli, 1806, 1807. Sm. 8vo., two volumes bound in one, 74pp + 1 + 84. A very good copy of these rare self published titles. Contemporary half calf over paper covered boards neatly refreshed at the spine, contents clean; several contemporary ownership signatures on the ffe. Gaetano Polidori was a teacher of Italian in London, had been Alfieri's secretary, and is known as the author of tales and educational works and the translator of Milton and Lucan into Italian (1840 and 1841). His oldest son was John William Polidori, a physician to Lord Byron and author of the first vampire story in English, The Vampyre (1819). He published a number of works, including some of his own writings. He also set up a private press at his home in London, where amongst other titles (mostly… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Turner, George. IMAGE BELOVED SON. London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. 8vo., viii, 376pp. Gilt lettered Light blue cloth. A fine example in like dustwrapper designed by Dave Griffiths. First Science Fiction novel in the Ethical Culture trilogy by the Miles Franklin Award Winner who turned, at the age of 62, from writing realistic regional novels to science fiction, becoming the doyen of Australian science fiction writers & critics. "The Australian George Turner joins a handful of writers - like Stanislaw Lem and J. G. Ballard - whose works transcend national and genre boundaries and deserve to be known by readers who would not ordinarily pick up a book labeled science fiction." - New York Times Book Review. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-461.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed on the front free endpaper. 'Inscribed to Otis P. Yost by his appreciative friend Glenway Wescott, November 21, 1962'. Yost was an editor at Harper & Row in mid-2000. A near fine, fresh copy in blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, better than very good dustwrapper with some light use and a neat repair to a closed tear on the upper front panel. 8vo. 210 pp. An eloquent evocation of the art of fiction writing through appreciations of Isak Dinesen, Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Thomas Mann, Colette and Thornton Wilder.