Search Results: Titles starting with I from Walkabout Books

Los Angeles, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 11 inches. Unpaginated, extensively illustrated with b/w photographs. Clean, tight, and unmarked, with just a touch of shelfwear. Inscribed on the last page "Your mountain is a high one--but you are a brave and courageous person--you can climb the mountains and none are too high for you. Stan." The author was an enthusiastic and accomplished amateur climber who credited climbing with his recovery from serious illness.

Vineyard Haven, MA: Salt-Works Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 15 pp, in original sewn wrappers. Very light sunning and wear to wrappers; else clean and sound. First edition, one of 500 copies, handsewn in Beau Brilliant wrappers with bogus endsheets designed & produced at home in the woods.

London: Oxford University Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 348 pp + illustrations from photographs, with index, illustrated endpapers. Light shelf wear (including lightly bumped upper corners); text clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Hatfield was born in Britain but decided to migrate to Australia at the age of 20, working his passage as a steward and landing at Port Adelaide in January 1912. "Hatfield soon became a first-rate bushman. For many years he worked in the north of South Australia, Central Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland as a station-hand, stockman, drover, cook, horse-breaker, kangaroo-shooter, dingo-trapper, book-keeper, seaman, miner, fruit-picker, painter and timber-worker. In 1915 he attempted to join the Light Horse but was rejected because of injuries. Over the years he sympathetically studied Aboriginal languages and customs" (Dictionary of Australian Biography).

New York: Russell & Russell, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. 438 pp + 1 (folding chart), with bibliography, index. Minimal soiling to boards, light edge wear including light bumped and rubbed corners, name on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. Front panel and flap of dust jacket laid in. From the dust jacket: "An admirable account of a little understood but most important phase of the American labor movement is given in this study. Dr. Brissenden brings out clearly the economic and philosophic background of American syndicalism, and, at the same time, avoids the danger of separating the theory from its application in the field of industry."

New York: H. Seibert & Bro. Rare lithographed poster advertising a winter scene from a performance by the Ida Siddons Burlesque Company -- a popular, mostly female, troupe of entertainers that toured widely in the United States in the 1880s. Ida Siddons was born in Niagara Falls in 1857 and first appears in newspaper stories as a performer with a "skipping rope act" in the late 1870s. An 1881 article in the San Francisco Examiner mentioned the "first appearance in 'Frisco of the talented eastern character dancer Ida Siddons." Siddons' 1933 obituary in the Brooklyn Times Union credits her with having "organized the first burlesque company in the country." Whether that is accurate we cannot say, but she seems to have launched her company in 1883, when newspapers from several different states refer variously (and with variable placement of apostrophes) to "Ida Siddons' Female Minstrels," "Ida Siddons' Female Mastodons," "Ida Siddons' Female Mastodons and Burlesque Company," and "Ida Siddons' Female… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xxii, 483 pp + publisher's ads. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, slight spine crease, some rubbing to extremities, minor discoloration to lower spine. Binding sound, text clean.

Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 224 pp + illustrations, with index. Fine copy in clean dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. From the dust jacket: "In this fifth volume of his collected essays published by the Phaidon Press, Professor Gombrich has assembled papers and lectures which deal with values and their place in the humanities.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 8vo, 220 pp + ads, indexed and illustrated with 40 plates and 4 line drawings. A very good copy with light foxing to edges, small bump to fore edge of front board. Dust jacket is missing top two inches of spine panel and has additional chips and tears, old price written in ink on front flap. The author served as expert witness in many legal cases involving firearms before writing this pioneering book on the subject.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. First trade edition. Bookplate on front pastedown, mild rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket is chipped at foot of spine and has a stain on the rear panel and two pieces of clear tape on the front panel. Origian $2.75 price present. Novel set in ancient Rome, dealing with the events that led up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Poor. v, 158 pp, + 8 plates by Weston. Fine copy in original dark orange cloth, in a partial dust jacket, lacking the spine panel. Articles and critiques by Armitage, Eugene Goossens, Henry Boys, Jean Cocteau, Eric Satie, and others.

Philadelphia: Franklin Printing House, 1883. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 27 pp, in original printed wrappers. Near fine, with a few tiny chips. Pancoast was a Philadelphia lawyer who traveled to Dakota Territory in 1882 with an Episcopal Mission and spent a month visiting the Sioux Agencies. Upon his return, he and his traveling companion, Herbert Welsh, founded the Indian Rights Association, a primarily white organization dedicated to promotion equal protection under the law, education, citizenship, and land ownership for Native Americans. In this pamphlet, Pancoast offers a narrative of his travels and lays out his reasons why "civilizing" the Indians -- "making them self-supporting, industrious, and peaceable" -- is a "national necessity" and can best be accomplished through education.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1907. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint. 393 pp + [2} publisher's ads. Illustrated. Original blue cloth with decoration in green and gilt. Corners and spine ends well rubbed. Binding sound, text clean. Previous owner's name and old bookseller label on front endpapers. The author "traversed many parts of the United States intent on the pursuit of game...[and] recorded his experiences and adventures in an unpretending but animated and entertaining narrative.

New York: Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Near fine. One-volume reprint. Title page undated, copyright 1909. pp xxv, 249, (1), with folding map and numerous illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with black titles and decoration. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, bookplate Grace Nicholson, Pasadena, California on front pastedown, else fine.

Cairo: Lehnert & Landrock. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca, 1910-20. 7" x 9.75", oblong, in original paper wrappers. [32] pp, all illustrations, each captioned in English, French, and German. Original gilt lettering on cover mostly rubbed off, wrappers sunned at edges, very mild bump to one corner. A scarce and beautifully produced souvenir view book. Scenes include Jersusalem and the Mount of Olives, Damascus Gate, Jaffa Gate, David's Tower, Mosque of Omar, Mosque El-Aska, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Via Dolorosa, the Wailing Wall, Gethsemane, Valley of Kidron, Church of the Nativity, Tomb of Rachel, and more.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First printing, with "A" on copyright page. Extensively illustrated. Green cloth boards have some slight pale spotting, spine is sunned, mild foxing to front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. Dust jacket spine is sunned and chipped at the ends, front panel a little rubbed and creased. Sequel to "Uncle Bill.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xxii, 259 pp, with index, folding map, 66 illustrations from photographs by the author, three color plates by Mrs. A.E. Berry. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, small indentation and some tiny white spots on spine, bookplate on front pastedown. Merrick (1874-1944) traveled extensively in Central Asia and was the first woman to become a member of the Himalayan Club. This book describes her travels in Ladakh, which included making her way over several dangerous Himalayan passes.

Mexico: Centro de Investigacion para la Integracion Social, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Second edition. Trade paperback, 221 pp, with bibliography. Minor cover wear, remnant of a removed label on front endpaper, pages lightly tanned. Clean, tight, unmarked.

San Miguel, CA: American Rock Art Research Association, 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. iv, 36 pp, with author index, title index, geographic index, keyword index, in original wrappers with spiral binding. Very light surface scratches to plastic cover; else fine. "This current index fulfills another important facet, a system enabling researchers to quickly locate articles on the myriad topics encompassed under the patronym of rock art" (Foreword).

Cincinnati: J.A. Brainerd, 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Twenty-second thousand. 304 pp, illustrated with many engravings. Original blind-stamped cloth boards. Spine slanted, horizontal tear in spine cloth, corners worn through, cloth chipped at head of spine. Rear hinge cracked. First and last few pages foxed, text otherwise clean and unmarked. Text based on a serious of lectures on the "manners and customs" of India the author gave after a period of travel in the country. Illustrations show female costume, wildlife, landscape, religious ceremony, festivals, etc.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1968. Softcover. Good. viii, 52 pp, with map, selected references, in original illustrated wrappers. Old dampstain visible on front cover and title page, name stamped on title page; text clean. Division of Government Research, Institute for Social Research and Development, University of New Mexico, 77. Based on interviews with Bureau of Indian Affairs Personnel, superintendents, principals, counselors, and teachers in public schools enrolling Indian students.