Search Results: Titles starting with I from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Shorecrest, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Seymour Krim. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95). Pink boards with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Cremer's autobiographical novel, "a blazing, brazen confession of revolt against convention and, at the same time, a terrifying document of life in today's Europe.

New York: Viking Press, 1942. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Revised Edition. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, rubbed and with some small chips along the edges. Black cloth with gilt panels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, clean internally. A look inside the life of female prisons during the early 20th century written by a member of the Pennslyvania State Parole Board and the director of the Federal Institution at Alderson, West Virginia.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Issue. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, a couple small closed tears, faded at the spine. Black cloth with gold and red gilt lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, bookplate on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Angelou's classic autobiography about coming-of-age in the American South during the first half of the 20th century.

New York: Beginner Books / Random House, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Barney Tobey. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (195/195), generally soiled and with multiple stains, bumped at the corners, some small chips and tears. Pictorial boards, rubbed and bumped at the edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. All of the first edition points listed in Younger & Hirsch.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (8s. 6d. net), chipped, generally stained and soiled. Green cloth with green ink lettering on the spine and front board, rubbed at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, spotted green top stain, foxed at the edges. Advertised as the first portrait of the first king of Saudia Arabia, who the jacket describes as "a ruler in the mould of Kemal or Mussolini.

New York: Delacorte, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.00), faded on the spine. Red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of short stories from the author of The Thin Red Line and Some Came Running.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned at the spine. Green buckram with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of five satirical novellas by the author of The Wave.

New York: Wings Books. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Sonja Bargmann. Later Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised as "the definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), creased at the front and back flaps, a few small closed tears at the top edge. Quarter yellow cloth with green paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some remnants of tape on the endpapers, clean otherwise. O'Brien's first novel about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

New York: New Directions, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.95). Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Creeley's follow-up collection to Life & Death.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Quarter brown cloth, some chips and tears to the brittle cloth, with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut novel of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges, chip at the lower-right corner of the front panel. Brown buckram with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, foxed at the edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper. A novel of romance and adventure as "the most formidable dowager in aristocratic Rome" sets off with Colonel Navarro to marry and travel Africa.

Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Hans Erni. Signed by Fitzgerald on the half-title. Early Printing. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.00), faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges, bumped at the head of the spine. Black cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An early printing of Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad, published over a decade after the first appearance of his translation of The Odyssey.

Kent: Grange Books, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Poole: New Orchard Editions Ltd, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Roy Gasson. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the surface and edges. Grey cloth, toned at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. A collection of fifteen Poe stories with illustrations from the likes of Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham, and Edouard Manet.

New York: Michael di Capua, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Feiffer before the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Quarter grey paper with white paper on the boards, black ink lettering and design on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A humorous story about a child's struggle for independence.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Quarter beige cloth with green paper on the boards, both generally toned and soiled. Firmly bound with a slight backward lean, foxed at the edges, toned at the endpapers. A collection of literary criticism that discusses different sciences and philosophical ideas that appear in science fiction stories.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Preface by Ford Madox Ford, Introduction by Glenn Hughes. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned, chipped at the head of the spine. Blue cloth, toned at the edges, bumped at the corners, with a tan pastedown label on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some stray foxing, clean otherwise. A collection of poems and shorter works from some of the 20th century's best writers, such as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, H.D., William Carlos Williams , among others.

New York: Popular Library, 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Third Printing. Signed by Butler on the title page. Near Fine. Faded a shade at the spine, bumped at the top edge. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. The third and final novel in Butler's Lilith's Brood/Xenogenesis series.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, a stain at the top-right corner of the front panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A review of literature that shows "neo-Marxist theories are, for the most part, not empirically testable.