Search Results: Authors starting with I from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2007. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Brings together, for the first time, translations of two ancient texts. Signed by Hall on the title page. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Ink notation to the rear flyleaf. The spine is a touch sun faded; otherwise very good.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by William Archer. First American Edition, limited to 500 copies. A volume in The Green Tree Library. Decoratively stamped green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some minor rubbing to the top edge gilt. The spine is darkened a bit; otherwise very good.

Guildford, England: Genesis Publications Ltd, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy number 374 of 500 signed by Eric Idle. Accompanied by a certificate bestowing "The Order of The Rutland Goat", a compliments slip from Rutland Weekend Television, a "Galaxy Song" lyric sheet numbered and signed by Eric Idle, and a "The Meaning of Life" lyric sheet numbered and signed by Eric Idle. Octavo. Quarter bound in navy leather with gold foiling and gilt page edging. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. As new, still sealed in the original mailing carton. Coming of age as a writer and comedian during the Sixties and Seventies, Eric Idle stumbled into the crossroads of the cultural revolution and found himself rubbing shoulders with the likes of George Harrison, David Bowie, and Robin Williams, all of whom became dear lifelong friends. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving other close friends and luminaries such as Mike Nichols, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, and… Read More

Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Edition. This is copy 22 of 100 signed by Birney Imes and Richard Ford. Acclaimed collection of photographs revealing a previously unexplored and now nearly vanished domain: the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. Includes approximately sixty color photographs taken between 1983 and 1989 as Imes (b.1951) traveled throughout the Delta. Many of the images are the result of long exposures that show the blur of human movement as a figure lounges at a bar or steps across a room to feed quarters into a juke box. The resulting "ghosts" animate the pictures and give them an otherworldly quality. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth binding, with blind-stamped titles. Just the slightest hint of foxing, with some mild edgewear to the publisher's pictorial slipcase. Better than very good.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed by the author on a prefatory blank leaf. "Inglis was a missionary stationed in the New Hebrides Islands; he was based at Aneityum. His book covers every aspect of life on the islands, from observations on the terrain to local ceremonies and festivities. Also included are biographical sketches of some of the missionaries who first brought Christianity to those islands" (Hill 866). Octavo: xvi, 352 p. with a map and a portrait plate. The erratum is tipped in before the rear flyleaf. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles and ruled borders. Faint label shadow to the front flyleaf, with some general dust staining to the top edge. The spine is lightly sun faded, with a bit of wear to the corners and tips and some minor spotting; otherwise very good.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from the French by E.A. Lunzer and D. Papert. First American edition. A classic work in the field of developmental psychology. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Ink signature and date to the frotn pastedown. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn; otherwise a very good copy.

London: Chapmans, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hammond Innes on the title page. Notes discovered on the body of a glaciologist whose plane had gone down in the waters of the South Atlantic launch an expedition intent on recovering an ancient ship whose ghostly image the glaciologist had seen. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. $40.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. From the library of American mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes, with her embossed stamp to the half-title and her signature to the front flyleaf. A near fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket. Signed by Author.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. From the library of American mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes, with her signature to the front flyleaf. Red buckram binding, with black titles. The dust jacket is rubbed; otherwise a very good copy. Signed by Author.

Los Angeles: Know Now Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Inscribed by Inosanto on title page, with his Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts business card laid in. Books signed by Inosanto (b.1936), the Filipino-American martial arts instructor best known as a training partner of Bruce Lee, are rather scarce. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Highlighting to five pages. Some minor edgewear to the wrappers, with an unobtrusive tape repair to the spine heel; otherwise very good.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Third Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. ...investigates questions raised by films about the Holocaust." Profusely illustrated. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A few tiny bumps along the extremities of the boards; else a crisp, unread copy. Near fine.

Bucharest: Passport Levant, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This edition is limited to one hundred numbered copies" (this copy is unnumbered). The author's first book: "It is 1952. At the Retreat in Wilflingen, bequeathed centuries ago by the Von Staunffenberg Knights, the residents, drawn inevitably and mysteriously to its shelter, hold their secrets and shame. Amongst them is the Englishman who plundered and beggared a family during the Austrian inflation: the German, whose loss of courage caused the 1944 July plot to fail and the student who betrayed the White Rose Movement." Frontispiece photograph by Stefan George. Oblong octavo. Full purple cloth binding, with gilt stamping, red endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of 12 short works by John Irving (b.1942), the award-winning American novelist whose work is noted for engaging story lines, colorful characterizations, macabre humor, and thought-provoking examinations of contemporary moral issues. Includes memoirs, six short stories, and essays on Charles Dickens and Gunter Grass. Inscribed on the half-title by Irving to Glenn Goldman (1950-2009), founder of Book Soup, the independent bookstore in Hollywood he built into a Sunset Boulevard landmark. A near fine copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Irving's third novel. The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp (1978); but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Octavo. Original green paper-covered boards over a green cloth spine, with green and gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with just a hint of edgewear.

New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's second novel, which revolves around the mishaps of its narrator, Fred Trumper, a floundering late-twenty-something graduate student with serious commitment and honesty issues. Octavo. Original yellow paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with light blue titles. The bottom corners are very lightly bumped; else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The author's first book, concerning a plan to liberate all the animals from the Vienna Zoo, as happened just after the conclusion of World War II. Octavo. Original red paper-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with gilt titles. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed, with some light, isolated foxing to the flaps and a minor crease to the rear flap. Better than very good.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1882. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A lovely edition featuring full-page plates and numerous textual vignettes by influential English illustrator Randolph Caldecott (1846-86). Bracebridge Hall (1822) was originally published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, and centers on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell. Interspersed with witty, evocative sketches of country life among the English nobility is the well-known tale "The Stout Gentleman" and stories based on English, French, and Spanish folklore, vividly recounted with Washington Irving's inimitable blend of elegance and colloquial dash. Octavo. In a one-half green morocco over green cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, and marbled endpapers. Period ink gift inscription to the half-title. The spine is a bit sun faded; otherwise very good.

New York: Random House, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. First American Edition, from British sheets. British-born Christopher Isherwood (1904-86) mined a lot of literary gold from his decadent, bohemian youth in Weimar Berlin, most notably this semiautobiographical novel which George Orwell hailed for its "brilliant sketches of a society in decay." Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver stamping. A fine copy in a remarkably fresh dust jacket with just a hint of edgewear.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first American edition. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropout at large in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Minor foxing to the endpapers and the dust jacket, which is a bit browned, more so along the spine and folds, and lightly edgeworn. A very good copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Signed by Christopher Isherwood and contributors Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heald, Aldous Huxley, and John van Druten on the front flyleaf. While living in Hollywood, Isherwood (1904-86) was introduced to Vedanta (Upanishad-centered philosophy) and the circle of Hindu Swami Prabhavananda by his friend Aldous Huxley. Adopting Prabhavananda as his own guru, Isherwood visited the Swami every Wednesday for the next 35 years and collaborated with him on a translation of the Bhagavad Gita. He also took over editorship of Vedanta and the West, a bimonthly journal concerned with the theory and practice of Vedanta teachings and their relevance to Western intellectual life. This is the second collection of articles from the journal, including contributions by Isherwood, Huxley, Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Alan W. Watts, and many others. Octavo: xiv, 410 p. Original gray cloth-covered boards over a blue cloth spine with gilt titles.… Read More