Search Results: Titles starting with I from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket is quite sharp, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Clean within, slight darkening at edges due to age and quality of paper.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Webb, Todd. A beautiful collection of Todd Webb's (1905-2000) stunning black and white photographs of New York immediately following World War II and continuing in the late 1950s. 175 pp. Folio. Slight wear to dust jacket, two tiny tears at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Clean within.

London: Royal Society of London, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) paper describes imaginary dimensions in geometry, builds up on his three papers, "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the Automorphic Linear Transformation of Bipartite Quadric Function" in our #27536. Also contains John Gassiot's "On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges, as Observed in Torricellian and other Vacua.- Second Communication" (pp. 137-160) and William Farr's "On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England" (pp. 837-878). vi, [4], 16, [1]-930 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Joseph Lister's (1827-1912) articles investigate pigmentation in frogs and his explanation of inflammation. Although he did not develop the product, Lister's work in antisepsis led Joseph Lawrence to name the mouthwash Listerine after him in 1879 Also contains John P. Gassiot's "The Bakerian Lecture -- On the Stratifications and Dark Band in Electrical Discharges as observed in Torricellian Vacua" (Volume 148 pp. 1-16, 1858) and Arthur Cayley's "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the Automorphic Linear Transformation of Bipartite Quadric Function" (pp. 17-37, 39-52). v, [8], 21, [1]-909 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains J. Frederic Daniell's article, "Fourth Letter on Voltaic Combinations, with Reference to the Mutual Relations of the Generating and Conducting Surfaces." (pp. 41-56). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the electron. In 1838, he passed an electrical current through a glass tube containing various gases, and noticed a strange "glow discharge" that occurred at both electrodes as he evacuated the tube. The glows extended from both electrodes for some distance as he increased the evacuation, but it never fully met at the middle. ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine… Read More

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Rexroth, Nancy. A hardcover update of Rexroth's groundbreaking "IOWA" which she self-published in 1977. This edition includes twenty-three new images, essays about the work, and new postscripts by Rexroth and Mark L. Power. Second Printing. 158 pp. 4to. Minor scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Lavender cloth boards with black embossed titling to cover and spine. Clean within.

1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 370 pp. 8vo. Green marbled paper boards with black cloth spine and gold embossed titling, light scuffing from shelf wear. Interior pages have age toning, otherwise quite clean.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Minette Walters first book and signed by her on the half-title page. First Printing. 240 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Baskin, Leonard. Signed by Leonard Baskin on the half-title page. First Printing. 219 pp. 4to. Light wear and darkening to dust jacket from age, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Two handwritten, signed letters (ALS) from Baskin to a boat broker in Camden, Maine, in the original envelopes are laid in.

New York: G. Schirmer Inc, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. v, 245 pp. 8vo. Terracotta dust jacket with vibrant blue printing, which is replicated on the cover boards. Dust jacket has split at spine with a 1" loss at foot, remaining rear panel and flap present and now encased in mylar cover. Scarce with any semblance of a dust jacket. Interior quite clean and includes 8 photographic portraits by Edward Weston. [Purcell 40].

Fayetteville, NY: L. & J. G. Stickley, Inc, nd [c. 1930]. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Small one sheet, folded advertising piece with six advertising cards showing different displaces of Colonial Revival furniture the company produced. Also included is a tri-fold printed piece showing four vignettes of Stickley furniture at the Lake Placid Club Sales Rooms in Lake Placid, New York. All housed in the original mailing envelope.

Switzerland: Edition Stockeregg, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gasser, Peter. Stunning catalog of the black & white photography of Peter Gasser. First Printing. Unpag. 60 Plates. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Sixth Printing. xiii, 681 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has small tears and losses, front flap torn at turn-in hinge, original price tag on front panel, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Light underlining and marginalia notes throughout in pencil.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Catalog from the traveling exhibition of the same name. 135 pp. Folio. Dust jacket very sharp, price clipped, in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.

New York/Brooklyn, NY: Viking/powerHouse Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Vollmann, William T.. William T. Vollmann's monumental book "Imperial" explores the history of southern California's Imperial Valley that passes over the US/Mexico border and continues into Mexico from the U.S. Vollman looks at the situation on the ground and interweaves it with the long history of the region from Native Peoples to Chinese immigrants, Anglo settlers moving west, migrant workers from the south as well as illegal immigrants who cross the border daily. While writing and researching the book Vollmann also photographed the people and landscape he was writing about, primarily with a large format 8x10 camera; many of the images he captured are included in the companion volume of photographs. Unusual to have as a set. First Printings. xxx, 1306 pp. 8vo.; 223 pp. Folio. Both volumes are clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First Printing. 305 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with very light staining at head of text block. Dust jacket in mylar cover.

New York, NY: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. First Printing. 353 pp. 8vo. Scuffing and wear to to dust jacke, small tears and chips at edges, losses, now in mylar cover. First state dust jacket with "I/66" printed at lower right corner of front flap. Burgundy cloth boards with bumping to corners, clean within.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Classic collection of stories by the humorist, Jean Shepherd (1922-1999) about his childhood growing up in Indiana in the 1930s. Two stories from the collection, "Duel in the Snow" and "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award" became the pivotal plot threads in the beloved 1983 holiday classic, "A Christmas Story." Inscribed boldly by Shepherd in blue ink on the half-title page. Scarce. First Printing. 264 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket, small small chips at corners, 1-1/2" closed tear at the head of the spine and running a little diagonally on the front cover of the dust jacket, some staining on verso, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with black cloth spine; blue printed endpapers and deckled foredge. Clean within.

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by August Derleth (1909-1971) on the first free endpaper. Printed in an edition of 3,000 copies. xv, 238 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket clean and crisp, price clipped, and in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with red embossed titling to spine, clean within.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1939. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Raised and trained in Switzerland and having worked for Le Corbusier, Albert Frey (1903-1998) was closely identified with Palm Springs, California, and what was known as "Desert Modernism." In this scarce, heavily illustrated volume Frey uses the natural landscape, dwellings built by early peoples, urban planning ideas, and the industrial landscape to demonstrate his theories on architecture. First Printing. 95 pp. Oblong 4to. Stiff brown card covers with stadium and canyon images printed on front cover. Light scuffing but remarkably clean given its age and spiral binding. Sharp within.