Search Results: Titles starting with I from Austin's Antiquarian Books

New York: Columbia University Press, 1914. Revised edition. Hardcover. Good +. Duodecimo (4.5" x 6.75"). tan cloth.220pp. with index, bibliography and notes. Good or better. Spine somewhat soiled. Origins of the pastoral of fishermen, Sannazaro and his imitators on the Continent and the English Fisher Idylls.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (6" x 9"), ryal blue cloth with cameo dog's head at center. 211pp. Charming illustrations by dog illustrator Diana Thorne. Very good but for a faint area of discoloration on the back cover. Foreword by Richard E. Byrd. A story of the dog who accompanied Byrd's party to the polar regions.

New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1907. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Frank A. Nankivell, the plate measures 10" x 13.75";. Illustration shows in six panels TR doing unlikely things, photographing a bear as opposed to hunting one, breaking up a fight between two boys etc.

New York: The Outlook Company, 1908. Wraps. Wrappers chipped and toned but internally vey good. 16mo; pp; 210; frontispiece portrait of the author; original printed blue paper wrappers;. American, preacher, publisher, reformer and author . Friend and advocate of Theodore Roosevelt.

Lewiston Me: Bates College Museum of Art, 1999. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Oblong octavo; pp; 77; with seventy-seven plates in black and white, several are double page plates; pictorial stiff paper wrappers;. Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a fine artist, illustrator and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. A lovely exhibition catalogue.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; vii, (i), 309; Folding color map as a frontispiece; two toned green cloth, gilt, patterned endpapers; Bookplate of the Holy Cross College Library with no other markings with the exception of a single call number. Spine is clean. Bookplate states that volume has been released; Very good, minor rubbing. Irish Politics, the Land Act and much more.

Boston: Privately printed by the Merrymount Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. square octavo; pp. vii, (v), 120; Frontispiece portrait of Bellamy Storer and one additional portrait of Mrs. Storer; decorated black cloth, gilt;. Maria Storer was a Cincinnati Longworth who married Congressman Bellamy Storer. In 1899 Bellamy Storer became the foreign minister to Spain,and the two convinced President McKinley to petition Pope Leo XIII to make Ireland a Cardinal (with the help of New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The following year McKinley arranged for a visit with the Pope and authorized the couple to mention John Ireland for consideration. In 1902, when Roosevelt was President, he made Bellamy minister to Austria-Hungary and did not wish to involve himself in advocating for John Ireland. However, Maria continued to press the issue by meeting with members of the Vatican and leaving false impressions with others that Roosevelt backed such sentiments. These events led to the removal of… Read More

(Chicago: Allied Printing), 1919. Only Edition. Wraps. Very good. octavo, pp; (10); original string tied cream printed paper wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of TR. Very good. One of many gatherings to honor and mourn the late President in 1919. Harold Ickes & Jane Addams spoke at this meeting.

Chicago: Dwight & M. H. Jackson, 1919. First & Only Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; (16); frontispiece portarit; original printed string-tied wrappers;. One of many gatherings to honor and mourn the late President in 1919. The Memorial was held February 9, 1919 at the Chicago Auditorium, Harold Ickes & Jane Addams spoke at this gathering.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xvi, (ii), 414, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; burgundy cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. One of the best single volume treatment of Mr. Jefferson's life.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; xviii, (ii), 387, index; Frontispiece portrait of the author plus thirteen black and white plates; green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; Very good, edge wear. Travels in the USA and reflections on TR.

Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1900. First Edition. Wraps. A small water stain at top left affects the first 10 leaves, else a very good copy. Duodecimo; pp; 64; illustrated in black and white; original printed pictorial tan paper wrappers;. A collection of six in depth articles; Battle of Manilla Bay; The Fall of Manilla; Life in Manilla; Progress in the Philippines; At The Pumping-Station; My First Night In Manilla; that last article by C. A. Stephens. Scarce!

Clinton Mass: W. J. Coulter Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; 76; Frontispiece; green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp; (vi), 370; black cloth letterred in gilt and blue paper covered boards in an unclipped dust jacket;. First edition of the author's first novel.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 155; illustrated with drawings by Dorothea von Elbe; black cloth and terra-cotta paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket;. Retraces Walton's steps on his favorite waters.

London: Alec Tiranti Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Duodecimo; pp; viii, 46; Map and sixty-one black and white plates; black cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket;. A very clean tight copy in jacket.

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/in near very good jacket with two closed tears.. (Chicago: 1986). Octavo (7.75" x 10"), black cloth in pictorial jacket. 210pp. with index, bibliography, notes and glossary. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. "In a magnificent cultural tour, Raymond Head documents the continuous influence of Indian architectural and decorative style on the European sensibility from the seventeenth century to the present." How Western architects incorporated and interpreted Indian motifs in a variety of their work.

Rochester N.Y.: A. M. Purdy, 1885. Wraps. Very good. Folio; 10.5" x 14"; pp; 145-160; illustrated;. Rochester New York was a hotbed of Nurseries.

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1999. First edition. boards. Very good/very good. (Mechanicsburg, 1999). Small quarto (8.75" x 11.25"), light blue boards in pictorial jacket.196, (1) pp. with index. Illustrated with color plates from photos by Michael Radencich. Great photos of unusual flies with their recipes.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919. New Edition. Hardcover. some pencil marks in the margins denoting passages else very good. Ocatvo; pp; xiii, (iii), 367; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. As a leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, Veblen attacked production for profit. His emphasis on conspicuous consumption greatly influenced the socialist thinkers who sought a non-Marxist critique of capitalism and technological determinism.