Search Results: Authors starting with I from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Madrid, Spain: Editorial Plenitud, 1958. Fine in original red morocco, top edge gilt, gilt lettering and decorations, ribbon marker. Publisher's material laid in. #4036 of 5000 copies printed. Text in Spanish. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Morocco. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The Proctor & Gamble Company, 1922. 11" h x 21" w original trolley car advertising sign for Crisco - "Crisco frying gives you Nature's delicious food flavors - unchanged. No smoke, No odor. Strain Crisco. Use it again and again. for Frying for Shortening for Cake-making". Signed in image lower left "Irvine", copyright number C-204. Very Good, printed on stiff cardboard, stains along edges, scant edge wear. A SCARCE sign with bright imagery of a sunny-side up eggs and biscuits breakfast, not found in online searches. Will ship flat, please select Priority Mail shipping to help defray costs. . Poster. Very Good. 11" h x 21" W.

New York: Platt & Munk, 1923. Very Good, gilt at spine dulled but still legible, 2 pages with marginal tears, not affecting text, light soiling and foxing, front hinge starting. Wonderful and vibrant full page illustrations by Lois Lenski and others. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Popular Science Publishing Company, 1931. 12 issues, the complete run for the year 1931. Very Good Plus to Near Fine, four with light wear at spine ends, pencil inscription front cover and ink inscription rear cover of January issue. The August issue of particular interest due to the first coverage of August Piccard and Paul Kipfer's hot air balloon expedition to the new height of 9.8 miles above the Earth's surface, thus becoming the first human beings to enter the stratosphere. A great time capsule of popular scientific thought, with numerous articles, photos, and advertisements, and those wonderful and colorful covers ! . First Printings. Magazine. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oklahoma City: Forty-Sixth State Historical Research, 1992. SCARCE. Fine. 331 pp. with numerous photographs. Post-it note with Author's SIGNATURE attached to title page. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Plastic Comb. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Kingsville, TX: Santa Gertrudis Breeders International , 1966. Near Fine, edges of page block light foxing. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1959. Important catalog for the first American exhibition of Gustav Klimt's paintings in April of 1959. Near Fine, a bit of sunning at spine. scant foxing front end page. 28 pp., 13 black and white plates and one color plate. With a 3 page introductory essay by Galerie St. Etienne founder Otto Kallir."Gift Of" stamp title page of Mr. and Mrs. Pal Kelemen Norfolk Connecticut. Pal Keleman was an archaeologist, art historian, and international art lecturer as well as the author of numerous books concerning art history and studies. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

San Francisco: US Dept HEW, Office of Education, Regional Research Program , 1972. vi, 153 pp. SCARCE. Very Good Plus, wrappers lightly soiled. "The general subject matter of this study is argot; specifically, the argot elicited from Black male youths living in the South Central Los Angeles Ghetto". (Abstract, pg. i.). First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Messrs. Boydell & Co., 1812. Finely bound in later 19th c. dark green straight-grain morocco, covers with double gilt rules bordering ornate gilt decorations and then an ornate blind tooled border, backs with gilt decorations and lettering, all edges gilt, marbled end pages. Small label rear end pages of J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles, Very Good, spines uniformly sunned from green to brown, moderate toning associated with plates, boards lightly rubbed at joints and edges, a quite handsome set. With 135 engraved plates as listed in Indexes, Vol. I, 48, Vol. II, 43, Vol. III, 44. The plate "Copy of Kent Altar Piece" at p. 17, Vol. III printed on blue paper. . Third Edition. Straight - Grain Morocco . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

London: Harding,Triphook,and Lepard,, 1824. SCARCE. Attributed to William Henry Ireland.. With half-title in Vol. 1. Printed by S.and R. Bentley, Dorset Street. Frontispiece portrait Vol. 1. In contemporary signed fine binding by Riviere and Son of red morocco, the backs ornately gilt with gilt lettering on red and black morocco labels, wide ornate gilt dentelles, dark blue paper end pages, top edges gilt. Very Good, the covers lightly soiled, bottom edge of half-title Vol. I unevenly cut, bottom corner bumps. A quite handsome set. . First Edition. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House Inc, 1999. SIGNED by John Irving on a tipped-in leaf.. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New York: Random House, 1999. First Printing. SIGNED by John Irving on a bookplate attached to the front endpage. The bookplate is that of the Marian McFadden Memorial Lectures in Indianapolis, where Irving gave a lecture and signed this copy in 2004. . SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Printing, with complete # line. His 3rd book, which had a very small 1st printing. Very Good, the first 40 pages slight curl top corner from dampness, and the ubiquitous small store sticker front pastedown. In a Very Good dustjacket, with a 1" triangular dampstain top corner front flap, corner creases both flaps, and light rubbing front panel. Book is clean and tight and presents better than this description would indicate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1994. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Near Fine, front cover crease (visible only on inside)..1st page excised by publisher, as with all other copies of this advance edition.. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Uncorrected Proof.

London: Bloomsbury, 1994. SIGNED by Irving. Near Fine-smudge on bottom edge- in Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket, crease to front flap.. SIGNED. First British Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998. Special Pre-Publication Cloth Bound Limited Edition of 1,000 Numbered Copies, this being #692.Lovely, and unread.. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

London: Macmillan & Co. Second Edition stated at head of title page. No Date, OCLC dates the Second London edition 1882. Near Fine, the faintest of wear at the joints. Finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in full Christmas green morocco, red morocco labels and gilt back, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, the initials "E. C-Y." stamped in gilt center of front cover. Bound with original cloth covers and spine at rear. [i]xiv, [2], 165 [1] pages. 8 unnumbered leaves of plates. Half-title reads: "Christmas." Monochrome wood-engraved illustrated title page; wood-engraved frontispiece, with protective interleaf. Printer's imprint on p.[166]. Publisher's device on half-title verso. The green cloth original binding at end comports with the 1st ed. binding - Green cloth case edition binding; panel stamp in gold on upper cover incorporating title and author; spine with title, author, publisher and ornament in gold. A quite handsome gift-quality copy of this Christmas classic. .… Read More

Buffalo, NY: The Hillside Press , 1982. #222 of 350 copies printed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR at colophon. Fine in red cloth, as issued. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine. 2 1/2" h x 2" W. Miniature.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1913. Near Fine, cloth very slightly rubbed at the tips, top edge a bit dusted, price in red ink front pastedown. RARE in the First Edition. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " To Professor Frank Banta, with my best wishes, Christopher Isherwood Dec 11, 1976". Frank Banta is emeritus professor of Germanic studies at Indiana University and was the long-time head of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. Near Finr, faint foxing to for edge, in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine.