Authors starting with I from Bartlebys Books

Charleston, SC:: Welch, Harris & Co., premium book binders,, 1862.. Title-page and index leaf only, printed to be used in binding a volume of sheet music. 4to. (4) pp. Title page printed in brown, red, green, and blue, and with a wide triple ornamental border; index leaf printed in blue and black. Not in Parrish & Willingham (cf. P&W 6719 for an 1861 issue of the same title page). Disbound; index leaf with 26 manuscript titles, soiled, a little edgewear, but a good example. ... more information

Bardstown, (KY):: Printed by John P. Edrington,, nd [but before 1819].. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 13 inches, a partly printed document enclosed by an ornamental border, this copy completed in manuscript as a deed for a parcel of land in Springfield, Kentucky, sold by Edward Gerthen to David and Elizabeth Rodman and signed by Rodman. Printing in Bardstown apparently began in 1803 with the establishment of Francis Peniston's newspaper. Folded; some small breaks at corner folds, some old staining and foxing. S... more information

Wardensville, W.Va.:: J.E. Russell,, 1870.. First American edition." 8vo. 40 pp. Illustrated. OCLC locates four copies (Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, West Virginia, Duke). Original blue-green printed wrappers (chipped); some foxing, but very good. ... more information

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1835.. First edition. 12mo. 2 volumes: 276; 294 pp. The Streeter copy, with his small book label on the front pastedown of volume two and his note of provenance "Goodspeed Feb 1927 $10" on the front endpaper of volume one. Howes I-49. Sabin 34775. Streeter sale 1543: "Ingraham's contemporary description of New Orleans (vol. I) and Natchez (vol. II) is a major source on the social history of the two cities." Clark Old South III, 58: "Arrived in... more information

Caldwell, TX:: The Club,, 1897.. Advertising circular. Printed invitation, 6 1/2 x 4 inches, printed on light card stock, issued by the Hunting, Fishing, and Mounted Gun Club of Caldwell, Texas, for its annual hunt; below the invitation are listed members of various club committees,"arrangement," "invitation," and "boat and fishing tackle," two camp managers, and "Chaperons" to include the wives of five members. Horizontal fold, rubbed, some foxing, including one dim... more information

Columbia, SC:: Press of R.L., Bryan Co. for the St. John's Hunting Club,,, 1932.. Enlarged and edited by Louisa Cheves Stoney. Second edition (first published Charleston, 1842), 1/300 copies. 8vo. xv, 221 pp. Folding map (prepared for this edition). Includes the text of Irving's original work, interspersed with commentary and historical notes by Stoney concerning the river's plantations and families; mentioned along the way are hunters and other sportsmen, hunting and horse racing clubs, writin... more information

Folded; some foxing. ... more information

Partly printed form for a stock subscription in the company, 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches, this example not completed in manuscript, but with spaces for date, an amount of money (to represent "fifty per cent of the subscription [for] Capital Stock of the Sea Island Company"), a signature, and address, the money to be sent to "C.C. Puffer, Treasurer of the Sea Island Company," formed as the Civil War was ending to continue cotton production on the islands. Folded, but fine. ... more information

Warrenton, NC:: Privately printed by the editor,, (1926). .. First edition. 8vo. 25 pp. Illustrated, 2 plates. Inscribed by the editor in 1932 on a rear endpaper. Biography of an 18th-century Halifax County, North Carolina, native who was a Methodist minister, a member of the state's provincial congress during the Revolution, and a pioneer settler in Tennessee after that war. Thornton 6773. Original printed stiff gray wrappers, stapled. Very good. (3359) ... more information

Chicago [IL]:: A.C. McClurg & Co.,, 1939.. Yellow paperwraps, with illustration in brown on front cover. 8vo.; 50pp., map. Frontis. illus., and photos. Text by James Phelan, who inscribed this copy on the recto of the frontispiece. Offsetting to front endpaper, from news clippings laid down on verso of front wrapper. A very good copy. Part of the American Guide Series, of the Works Progress Administration. Sponsored by the Unity Club of Nauvoo. ... more information

Washington, DC:: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Servies,, 1981.. Stapled paperwraps. 4to.; vi, 21pp., (1). Maps & charts. Very good. ... more information

Phila.:: Carey, Lea & Blanchard,, 1835.. First edition. 12mo. 2 volumes. (4) 9-272 pp.; (2) 5-296 pp. Original cloth. Volume one lacking front free endpaper. Contemporary ownership signature and blank bookplate on front pastedowns. HOWES I79 WAGNER-CAMP 2157 ... more information

Phila.:: Carey, Lea & Blanchard,, 1835.. 2 volumes. 1st ed. 8vo.; viii, 290pp.; 302pp. Howes I-80: Compiled from Herrera, Garcilaso de la Vega and the narrative of the gentleman of Elvas." Orig. green cloth; gilt lettering on spines. Prev. owner's signatures on front pastedowns & front endpapers. A very good set. HOWES I-80 ... more information

4to. and 8vo. All of the documents come from the papers of Charles Sabin, whose promotion to fourth sargeant, signed by Brown, is recorded in the earliest broadside. That first item is torn and somewhat rumpled, the other items are very good. Among the printed items are one fund-raising form and a series of announcements for a camp excursion, special meetings and parades, a drill, an anniversary celebration, a "Washington Ball," and a gathering to act on Brown's resignation after his election... more information

Columbia, SC:: August Kohn,, 1914.. 1st ed. 8vo.; 167pp. Illus. Orig. gilt-stamped gray cloth (a little rubbed & soiled). A very good copy. HOWES I98 ... more information