Search Results: Authors starting with I from McBlain Books

Boston: Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. 43, [9]p. Softcover in original wrapper. A couple of small spots.

Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika", 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations (b & w), 366p. Original white cloth. dj. 22cm. Russian text.

Ibadan: University College, 1953. Paperback. Very Good. 205p. 26cm. Wrapper has some wear along fore-edge.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. index, xv, 186, 63p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23cm. Text in English and Arabic.

Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1939. Good. 2 vols. index, 8, 99, 349p. plus (4)p. errata at end of 2nd volume. Softcover. 29cm. Back cover detached on first volume; all covers are edge-worn. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate in both volumes. The first volume (1936) reproduces the Arabic text of the Tome 1er of the manuscript of M. Nehlil; the second volume (1939) contains a lengthy introductory study of the evolution of the doctrine of Islamic Holy War followed by a French translation of Ibn Hudhayl's treatise.

Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka", 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. 198, 111p. 22cm. No Jacket. Title and some introductory material in Russian; second title-page, facsimile of manuscript and other introductory material in Persian; brief summary in English. Edited by S. I. Baevskii. Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka, 46.

London: Trubner and Co, 1887. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. viii, 398, 459p. Original red cloth (including some decorations in gilt of Vol. 1 but not on Vol. 2). 28 cm. Title page of Volume 1 has large lightly browned area, probable from a laid in item which is no longer present. Modest cover soiling. Spine slightly sloped on Vol. 2. Small library stamp ("U of L") on copyright page overstamped with withdrawn stamp in first volume -- we found no other liobrary markings. An impressive compilation of material about Egypt and the Sudan, almost all of which seems to be in Western languages rather than Arabic. "Its Compilation has been one of my chief consolations during five years of enforced exile, passed chiefly on the hospitable shores of England, and tempered by the kindness of English friends." [from the Author's Preface].

Washington: GPO, 1936. Paperback. Near Fine. black & white photos (none full-page). 44p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm.

Ibadan: Enicrownfit Publishers, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. index, xi, 212p. Wrapper. 22cm. Some corners creased. Most of the articles deal with Nigerian languages.

Ibadan: International Publishing & Research Company, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. errata slip, 85p. Wrapper. 22cm.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. index, xxviii, 187p. Original green cloth. 22cm. INSCRIBED by Ignatieff to Karl [E.] Meyer.

Onitsha: Highbred Maxwell, 1960. Paperback. Very Good. 68p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Printed on cheap paper. Cover fading around edges. "The content of this Drama is not the exact account of the Nkrumah's Episode but a vague idea of it just as I imagine it." [from the Preface].

London: British and Foreign Bible Society; NY: American Bible Society, 1945. Paperback. Near Fine. 43p. Wrapper. 17cm. Ilamba text.

Moskva: Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. 803p. Original green binding. 22cm. Light bumping and wear. No Jacket. Russian text: added title-page in Kalmuck; Introduction (2p.) in Russian and Kalmuck.

n.p., 1954. Hardcover. Good. 100 + photos (black & shite), 82p. Original blue cloth. 28cm. Gouged area on backstrip. Slightly swaybacked. Contents sound. No Jacket. Martha P. Anderson is listed as General Chairman --0presumably of the committee which produced this loosely organized history of this Illinois convention of African American Baptists and their various organizations and churches.

Quezon City: Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. xv, 107p. Wrapper. 28cm.

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. color photos, 111p. Original green cloth. dj. 25cm.

Good. [African American Fraternal Organization] Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. More details: Purple ribbon fringed at bottom, with a round metal (about 3cm. in diameter) gold-colored Elks insignia and "Member" plaque attached by chain to metal pin pin with image of two hands clasping. 2 cm portion of purple ribbon frayed and almost entirely split under hanging metal insignia. Fraile but appealing item from this African American Elks Lodge.

New York, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. This Part only. illustrations, 31p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Modest cover fafing around edges. Prices realized list laid in.

New York: Sotheby Park Bernet Inc, 1981. Paperback. Near Fine. black and white photos of 35 items on 6 leaves, (28)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Auction Catalog. 218 briefly-described items. Sale held at Sotheby's York Avenue Galleries in New York on March 11, 1981.