Search Results: Titles starting with I from Supercalifabulistic Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1951 Book. Fine. Hardcover. BCE, F/VG Orange cover with black title in pristine condition, pages crisp and slightly dusty. 245 pages. DJ chipped at base of spine, one inch by two inch off color stain at top of spine. Lidian Dorie's move west, from Massachusetts to Montana lasts 12 years. She forgets the gentility of her former life. Her green silk parasol ceases to be her prize possession, replaced by the silver-handled whip. This unusual novel retraces every moment of Lidian's early life and captures the movement of westbound pioneers in the mid-1800's..

NF/NF, Knopf First Edition.
"An enchanting novel about the place of traditional music in a modernizing Indita and what it means to be an artist." Newark Star Ledger. The Immortals is a tale of two families; one luxuriating in a new world of corporate affluence and another getting by on the old world of musical tradition.

John Day, New York 1956 . No other dates. VG+/VG- Rare edition in Rare DJ. Collectible copy of hard to find book in early printing. Burnt orange hardcover in VG + condition . Slight bumping to spines. Light shelf wear to edges and corners. Tight, clean copy. A few tiny spots on first fly leaf, otherwise no marks , no book plate, no P O, no stickers, no foxing, no smells. DJ shows wear. Tears at top and bottom of spine as well corners and edges. Statement by Sterling North on the back of DJ, "In Defense of the Novel".Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriquing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi - Empress of China, in youth a beautiful concubine, in middle life a brilliant strategist, in old age a goddess. Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to modern way.

G.P. Putnam's Sons NY and London 1915. VG+/GOOD+ Purple hard boards, tight clean edition. Each interior page has flower and gilt border around text. DJ is in Good + condition. It has been taped at the top and bottom edges to the book. Has chipped and open tears along top and bottom edges.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated 1st Edition, first printing. The green hardcover boards with blue title designs, spine, hinges, and 540 pages are secure and in fine condition. Straight and square with sharp corners. slight shelf wear at base of spine. Gracing the cover is a beautiful tribal design of a hunter, and the negative image of six cave painted hands run up the spine. There are three separate sections of photographs, with over 48 pages of photos total, and hundreds more illustrations and diagrams. Wendt has compiled and begins to discuss the philosophies and perspectives of discovers, scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, dreamers, and visionaries on our roots as a species, melding evolutionary and psychospiritual development into an astute commentary. Printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge. Translated from German by James Cleugh. Printed in England as "I Looked For Adam"..

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1985 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/VG Blue boards with darker blue at and along spine. Siver titles at spine with mutiple stars above and below the title. No marks, stains, smells, etc. Clean, tight edition. Inside Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humor and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, with the spectacle of a fallen president and with the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift. .

Farrar & Rinehart Book. Very Good. Hardcover.

1995 Harcourt Brace . First English Translated Edition, Stated first U.S. edition with the number line ABCDE. NF/NF Blue boards with gold gilt titles on spine. Tight, clean, no foxing, one small black dot on the bottom, no bookplates. Beautiful DJ ~ art work is detail of fresco from Sala del Mappamondo at the Palazzo Farnese by Zucarro Taddeo. DJ is NF condition with price of $25.00- a wee bit of shelf wear along the edges. In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of an international race to establish the Punto Fijo; of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood.