Search Results: Titles starting with I from Paul Johnson Fine Books

Emily Bestler/Atria, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Emily Bestler/Atria Books: New York, 2014. 612 pp. First edition, first printing. Hayes has signed and dated this book on the title page in the year of publication. Slight concavity to spine else near fine in a fine jacket. Not price-clipped.

Atria, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Atria, 2014. Sm 4to. 607 pp. First printing of his debut novel. His follow up to I Am Pilgrim, The Day of the Locust, is expected in June 2023. Near fine book: top edge sunned; owner's blind stamp and initials on the half title page. Near fine jacket with a touch of wear to the top two corners.

Viking Press, 1965. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of Beagle's cross-country trek by motor scooter with his friend Phil Sigunick. Near fine book in a very good plus jacket with minor edge wear. Not price-clipped. Signed by Beagle on the title page. His pen took a second to get started so his first name is not complete but the rest of his name is perfectly legible.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Stated first edition of this "offbeat travelogue by Dennis the Menace's Poor Ol' Dad" from behind the Iron Curtain. Sm 4to. 213 pp. Ilustrated throughout by Ketcham. About fine in a very good or better jacket that has a little spotting and minor wrinkling to the top of the jacket, both front and rear panels. Inscribed by the author with a self-portrait on the red front free endpaper.

Viking, 1978. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Briefly inscribed by Mr. Cowley on the front endpaper. Near fine in a fine jacket.

Harper & Brothers, 1948. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Limited signed edition of 750 copies, this copy being #378. A superior copy, price-clipped but no other defects.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated first printing of Malamud's second book of stories. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket.

London: Quercus, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition, first printing of this Bernie Gunther thriller. Signed by Kerr on the title page. Fine in a fine jacket.

Encino Press, 1968. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, second issue. Very good or better book in a fine jacket. Tape ghosts to bottom edge; one bottom corner worn. Inscribed (legibly) in an early hand on the front free endpaper. Not price-clipped, no other defects.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of Frost's final book. Near fine book in a very good plus jacket with a little fading to the red lettering on the spine and minor edgewear. Price-clipped.

New York: Random House, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this novel. Author of The Carpenter Years, a novel. "A People Apart."This copy inscribed and dated on the orange front free endpaper. Below the inscription are five lines of notes in pencil.

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated first edition of this volume of stories by Gass. Near fine in a near fine, price-intact jacket. Inscribed by the author to the book collector Don Kaufmann on the half title: "To Don Kaufmann, in Sarasota, on June 16, 1977 from the heart of the country to the tail of the country, a work whose heart needs now a doctor - but best wishes, Bill Gass.

Harper & Row, 1965. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Stated first edition. A near fine or better book (touch of toning to the edges of the boards) in a near fine, price-clipped jacket. Jacket has a small closed tear to the bottom of the front jacket fold and a negligible nick to the top of the spine. Unfaded and clean jacket.

New York: New Directions, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this novel, Part 2 of "In the Money." Blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. "20 c" has been written in ink on the front free endpaper. THe price-intact ($2.50) jacket s very good with light edgewear to the corners and spine extremities.

Zoland Books, 1998. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing. Tight copy, perhaps unread. Signed by Jin on the title page.

Houghton Mifflin, 1983. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983. First edition thus. This is the third printing of Houghton Mifflin's first paperback edition. Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in the US and Collins in the UK in 1971. 8vo. (approx. 9" by 6"). 297 pp. About near fine with a half-inch tear to the fore edge of the rear panel; the top front right corner is slightly upturned. There is a handwritten inscription (not by Goodall) on the half-title: "Guardian Wildlife Award Presented to Jane Goodall May 10, 1986 International Wildlife Par Grand Prairie, Texas." Goodall has signed her name on the title page. Rare signed.

Riverhead Books, 2018. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine jacket. Author's well-received first book.

Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1923. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Herbert JenkinsLimited: London, 1923. First edition. 12mo. 255 pp. Light green cloth with black lettering and illustrations. Very good or better without the dustjacket. A few spots of foxing to the edges; minor rubbing to extremities. A nice example.

Burning Deck, 1985. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition. Signed by Hawkes on the half-title. Fine book in a near fine jacket (a tiny amount of rubbing to the front panel).

Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects, 1957. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cincinnati: CRIFO, 1957. First printing. 8vo. 94 pp. White and blue perfect bound wraps. Stringfield's first book. Stringfield was primarily interested in investigating crashed UFO stories. Very good with toning and staining to the spine and wrappers. Signed by Springfield beneath his printed name at the end of the foreword. Very rare, especially signed.