Search Results: Authors starting with I from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Hali Publications, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A nice copy, with very light wear to the spine. Very Good binding.

Los Angeles, California: Self-publihsed, 1939. Very Good binding. 8vo. (8 3/4" x 6 1/4"); quarter brown suede over burgundy cloth with decorations and titling in faded gilt; [x], 11-111, followed by [1] with "Official Codes"; comic quatrains, 3 to a page, each illustrated with simple line drawings printed in burgundy;there is a previous owner name and address on the pastedown the book housed in publisher's slipcase.~~A nice period piece: "The sketches of such people as Columbus, Queen Isabella, Brigham Young and Champlain are, quite naturally, not sketched from life. I was not personally acquainted with them. On the other hand, neither were your. And so you cannot prove that they didn't look like that." (Note from the Author).~~Uncommon. We locate 4 copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.

New York, London & Paris: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with sixteen color plates. Title page engraved, with printer's device on the front endpaper. Contemporary inscription on the front pastedown in pencil. Minor wear to the joints, and some loss to the extremities of the spine and corners of the boards. Pictorial paper covered boards. Very Good binding.

Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1952. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's printed wrappers; 112 pages, with illustrations.~~Post-war humor fit for the nascent baby-boomers. "Your college education in a nut-shell ... It gives you the low-down on everything, from Women to Money -- from Registration to Breathing. All you have to do when faced with a problem, is look it up. All subjects are arranged alphabetically for you. It's easier that way."~~This little Baby Boomer gem is uncommon, both in commerce and in institutional holdings (we find two listings). Very Good binding.

New York: B. W. Dodge & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A lovely copy of this attractive children's ABC book, in pictorial beige boards stamped in black, red and green and depicting a duck, a rooster, and flamingo and a parrot in "A Bird Cage". With delightful full-page alphabet rhymes and illustrations -- A is for Auk; B is for Bantam; and so forth. Printed on thick paper, and illustrated on one side only in red and black. There is a pencilled gift incription "From Santa Claus" on the pastedown; otherwise unmarked. One leaf has a 1" closed tear. Very Good binding.

Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1877. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two folio volumes (17 1/4" x 13 1/4); in the publisher's red cloth bindings, gorgeously stamped in black and gilt; [iv], [1], 2-422 pages, followed by Tables des Gravures (the final leaf of which has a crease); [iv], [1], 2-373 pages, followed by Tables des Gravures; each volume with 50 full page plates by Dore, all protected with tissue guards; the first tissue guard in Volume I has minor corner loss; the plates are almost all clean of foxing and superb.~~Volume I has some minor rippling to the bottom edge of the last quarter or so of the textblock, no affecting the text or the plates.~~Volume I has been rebacked in red japanese tisues with the original spine laid down, and Volume II has had small patches to the top and bottom of the front gutter.~~Altogether a magnificent set in two volumes.~~~. Very Good binding.

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/4" x 5"); in the publisher's dark green cloth, with titling in red along with a rule to the perimeter of the upper board, with a rondel of a comic image of (presumably) a Congressman in the center of the upper board; with frontispiece and 14 additional illustration; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~Comedy abound in this story narrated by a Congressman who is among the large group accompanying by train Senator Thurlow's body home to Kentucky for burial. The train, with its load of colorful politicians is snowbound, a circumstance which affords the men -- including Colonel Manysnifters of Georgia -- an opportunity to tell "strange and wonderful stories" to while the time away. ~~A reasonably attractive copy of one of the less common of the Neale titles.~~ (Krick 144). Very Good binding.

Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Text illustration in green, blue and orange, by the author's husband, who also illustrated The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon. With no marks. Some loss to the dustjacket spine; beginning of separation to the dustjacket folds. Illustrated paper boards, with a Good only dustjacket. OCLC notes 34 institutional holdings. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1908. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. Ten 16mo. volumes; in three quarter blue morocco double ruled at the edges, over marbled paper boards with matching endpaper; top edges gilt; the spines with raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornaments in the Egyptian style; the several illustrations by C. E. Brock in each volume, with their soft pastel colors, seem particularly well suited to Jane Austen's writings. Very Good binding.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Color frontispiece and additional plates throughout. Some foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Some toning to the endpapers. Sunning to the spine, and slight silverfishing to the dustjacket and binding. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Protected by the publisher's red cloth dustjacket with gilt lettering. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: American Tract Society, 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quite a nice copy in decorated cloth board, stamped in blue, green, brown, red and white. With a frontispiece protected with tissue guard. There are no marks in this sturdy and quite serviceable copy. There are full page black and white plates throughout.~~An account of the doings of a Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides, "Told for Young Folks". Very Good binding.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. Full Leather. Good binding. Signed. Folio; in tan linen boards, with titling and decoration in gilt and in red; [12], 13-120 pages with illustrations in color, including a gatefold at the rear of the book; with a slipcase which has a few marks; while one edge of the slipcase is cracked, it is all still holding well, with no real separation; the book is housed the publisher's red slipcase, with a pastedown label to the spine. Good binding.

Philadelphia, New York, London, Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A collection of three short stories on fox hunting in the South. "The Stranger;" "E-String;" and "The Leader of Tate's Band." With a few full page illustrations and text illustrations. Gray cloth. Some chipping and tears to the edges of the Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's mauve cloth ruled in black to the perimeter of the upper board with titling in gilt; 144 pages; with frontispiece and five plates, all present as called for; there are no ownership marks of any kind.~~We believe that Mr. Krick outdid himself with the synopsis of this novel. This Neale imprint we nearly took home to read on the basis of what Krick said about it: "Dick loves Ruth, who is being sent away to school, but not before an exciting spelling bee takes place. The pair winds up joyously married, of course, with Ruth exclaiming, "I am so glad I am the wife of a Southerner." (Krick 434). Very Good binding.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. This edition with the blue and white pictorial endpapers; a previous owner name is on the front endpaper. The dustjacket is present with some loss at the spine and a closed tear with a small amount of loss to the front panel. The binding is pale purple boards stamped in green with a pastedown of "The Robber Kitten"; it is backed in red cloth with titling in green. A bright binding. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding, with the dustjacket, there is an erasure and pencil scribble marks on the front endpaper; there are no other marks in the book. The dustjacket flap lists "The Land of No Shadow" as the third listing the in the Adventures in the Unknown Series. The dustjacket has moderate wear and closed tears is pretty much intact. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A copy of Robert Smith Surtees' Ask Mamma. Collates complete against the index, with a color frontispiece, and twelve additional color plates. Bookplate pasted over a previous bookplate on the front pastedown; additional bookplate on the first flyleaf; sunning to the spine. Polished calf with contrasting morocco labels; double rules with stops at the perimeters of the boards; dentelles; top edge gilt. Original cloth binding bound in at the rear. Very Good binding.

Shanghai, China: A. R. Hager, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. First Edition of Shamus A'Rabbitt's (pseud.) Ballads of the East, with illustrations by "Sapajou." With no marks. Some sunning, and small chips and tears to the dustjacket. Very Good with Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

[London]: [Blackie & Son], 1875. Hard Cover. Good binding. Volume III only of Edward King's The Southern States of North America: A Record of Journeys [...], with many anecdotes and observations of note on the Southern states and their culture at the time. Illustrated by J. Wells Champney. With half title and sepia-tinted frontispiece, and in text illustrations throughout. Foxing throughout; hinges reinforced by a conservator; 3 cm closed tear to the half title; shelfwear and minor loss to the extremities of the spine and corners of the boards; remnants of a sticker on the rear board. Red decorated cloth. Good. 413-602 pp. Good binding.

London: Messrs. Forres, 1907. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First twenty four volumes of Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, focusing mainly on horseback riding and racing, along with some other sports. Attractive illustrated plates throughout, thirty two in each volume, in a charcoal sketch style; also with photographic plates. Foxing to some preliminaries. Front hinge of Volume I and XII is cracked but holding well, and the top of the front joint of Vol. XXIII is discretely repaired by a conservator. The spines are sunned and faded, though the decorated front boards are generally quite bright. Silverfishing to some of the volumes. Red cloth, decorated in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Generally in Very Good condition. Very Good binding.