Search Results: Titles starting with I from Rare Illustrated Books

U.S.A.: ITC, 1975. First Edition. Published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the American typewriter, with designers Joel Kaden and Tony Stan reinvigorating the font by dispensing with its rigid spacing. "On every standard typewriter, there's a metal bar with a row of teeth spaced exactly one-tenth of an inch apart. In 1874 this famous bar lifted the typewriter from the inventor's bench and placed it in the office where it changed our reading habits, modified our concepts of legibility, and eventually opened the world of business to women." Bound in stapled colour paper wrappers, 340 mm x 153 mm, 27 pages, a near fine copy.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1911. First Edition. First edition of this surprisingly scarce Rand McNally publisher's catalogue with a focus on illustrated children's books and classic literature. With colour plates by Lucy Fitch Perkins for 'The Enchanted Peacock' by Julia Brown, Grace Chandler Horn for 'Hiawatha' by Henry W. Longfellow, Hope Dunlap for 'The Rose Fairies' by Olivia McCabe, Magniel Wright Enright for 'The Garden of Hearts Delight' by Ida Huntingdon, Katherine Merrill for 'Edda and the Oak' by Elia Peattie, Fanny E. Cory for 'Jackieboy in Rainbowland' by William M. Hill, and Ruth Hallock for 'Other Rhymes for Little Readers' by Wilhelmina Seegmilla. No copies in Worldcat. Octavo, bound in printed paper wrappers, 85 pages [+3], 7 full page colour plates, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings throughout, a couple of minor closed tears at fore-edges, mild bumping to corners, with original promotional slip laid in, a very good copy indeed.

Philadelphia, 1885. First Edition. Elegant catalogue of art supplies for lacquer work, gilding, lettering, stencils and painting. Illustrated with wood engravings. McKinstry 232, providing the circa date. Octavo, bound in illustrated paper wrappers, many wood-engravings, 26 pp.; wrappers repaired at spine, a finy copy.

Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, no date. First Edition. Poem published by Australian poet and journalist, Kenneth Slessor (1901 -1971) in veneration of James Tyrell's wonderful old bookshop. "Broadsheets there are, of horrid hangman's tales; Yellow-stained maps from some forgotten book; Journals of convict years in New South Wales, And Captain Cook." [K.S.]. Single folded sheet, 250 mm x 153 mm, containing one printed poem, with an illustration of a seated monk reading, a very good example.

London: Printed by the Curwen Press for William Jackson, 1929. AUSTEN, John. Decorations by John Austen. A lovely example of the fine typography and high book production standards of the Curwen Press. Numbered limited edition of 850 copies. Large octavo, quarter parchment, pale green cloth, top-edge gilt and others uncut, plates and vignettes throughout; a significant jagged perforation affects the spine, otherwise in good order, internally clean and attractive.

Paris: Charles Moreau, 1920. A series of illustrations of provincial interiors. Folio, loose plates in the original portfolio.

London: International Times (IT), 1968. Andre Bertram. This issue is most notable for its cover: as the editor explains, 'Our front page is a found object. We found it flyposted to the building that houses our offices...' In fact, the cover is actually a translation of an original Situationist poster produced in October 1967 to announce the publication of "Internationale Situationniste" #11. This cover is probably the single most iconic English-language Situationist artifact. Words by Raoul Vaneigem, graphics by Andre Bertram. Other contents include: Allen Ginsberg, "The Maharishi and Me"; "Three Views on the Anti-University" by Harold Norse, Alexander Trocchi and Robert Tasher; "Family Dog" and "Middle Earth" advertisements; J.G. Ballard's poem "Why I Want to F..k Ronald Reagan"; international reports from Sweden, Manila, New York and Germany; centrespread "IT Supports Dick Gregory for President of the United States"; a page of letters about censorship from Tom Maschler, John Calder, Marion Boyars… Read More