Authors starting with I from Charles Agvent, ABAA

Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Leather-backed boards. Touch of rubbing to spine tips; faint adhesive stain on the front pastedown from bookplate once tipped in. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 9-7/8") bound in half polished tan sheepskin and boards with sheepskin corners. Translated by William Archer and others and revised by Archer; introduction by John Gassner. Copy #355 of 1500 with illustrations cut in wood by Fredrik Matheson who made nine sets of full-page four-col... more information

Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Cloth-backed boards. Near Fine in Very Good case with minor wear. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. One of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with drawings and color plates by Per Krough and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

Richmond, VA: William F. Ritchie, 1862; 1863. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Moderate soiling to covers. Very Good or better.. Contemporary cloth-backed boards with a paper spine label; 36, 154, 29 pages. Includes much pertaining to the Civil War. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, (1982). First Edition. As new in dw. An extraordinary short novel which was cited as the most promising novel published in England in 1982 & which earned Ingalls a citation as one of the twenty best post-war American novelists. ... more information

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1966. Reprint. hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with plates. New Howes I-56. ... more information

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, (1994). First Edition. Decorated leather. New in shrinkwrap. Limited and true First Edition SIGNED by the author and with a preface by him not in the trade edition. ... more information

New York: Dutton, (1981). First Edition. Near Fine. Uncorr. Proof. The later issue with pages 1A and 1 tipped in. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1968). First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in Near Fine, beautifully bright dustwrapper. Irving's scarce first book. With a generic bookplate SIGNED by the author laid loosely into the book. A very nice copy with very slight foxing to the endpapers from the price-clipped dustwrapper which has two vertical creases to the fore-edge of the front flap. ... more information

New York: E. P. Dutton, (1978). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner, made into a successful film. INSCRIBED "For Jerry" and boldly SIGNED on the half title page by the author, quite uncommon as such. Irving's signature, unfortunately, like Capote's and a few others, is often forged so what appear to be bargains are usually costly mistakes. Book has a small sunned area at the base of the spine. Dustwrapper quite nice with mi... more information

New York: Random House, (1994). First Edition. Printed glossy wraps. Fine. Advance Reading Copy. The first page, which contained the Random House catalogue copy describing the book and the author, has been excised, reportedly at the author's request. SIGNED by Irving on the title page. Apparently these signed copies were given to the Random House sales force for promotional use only after Irving insisted that the first page be removed. ... more information

(London): Bloomsbury, (1989). First British. cloth. Near Fine in price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. First British Edition of this wonderful and extremely popular novel. INSCRIBED "For Andrew" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small, faint stain on the fore-edge of the bulked text; typical browning of cheap paper. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1994). First Trade Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Also published by the Franklin Library. SIGNED on the title page by Irving. ... more information

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1989. First Edition. leather. Fine, as new copy. Decorated green leather. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of Owen Meany. The true First Edtion with an unspecified limitation preceding the trade edition and with an introduction by Irving not in the trade edition. SIGNED by the author, as issued. ... more information

Fine. Fine 7" x 11" studio portrait by Walery, Photographer to the Queen, on a 13" x 18" matted photographer's board. INSCRIBED "with every good wish" to John Drinkwater, fellow actor and theater manager as well as the father of the poet John Drinkwater, and SIGNED and dated 1889 by Irving. The photograph depicts Irving seated holding a book with his inscription placed vertically in the upper blank margin. Born John Henry Brodribb in the Somerset village of Keinton Mandev... more information

(New York): The Library of America, (1983). leather. Slight wear to upper front corner. Near Fine. Seventh Printing, attractively rebound by Asprey in full burnt orange morocco with gilt rules and lettering, floral endpapers, all edges gilt; 1144 pages. Includes LETTERS OF JONATHAN GOLDSTYLE, GENT; SALMAGUNDI; A HISTORY OF NEW YORK; and THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. ... more information

(New York): The Library of America, (1991). leather. Fine. Second Printing, attractively rebound by Asprey in full burnt orange morocco with gilt rules and lettering, floral endpapers, all edges gilt; 1104 pages. ... more information

New York: Putnam's, 1855. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine. The first printing in the primary cloth binding. Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece. BAL 10188. Chapters on Bermuda, France, Indians, etc. ... more information

New York: Heritage Press, (1939). hardcover. Spine a little sunned. Near Fine in slipcase.. An original publication by the press. Illustrated with watercolors by Gordon Ross. ... more information

Some soiling to margins. Very Good. 4-1/2" x 5-1/2" with wide margins.. Nice color-printed portrait engraved by Sartain after Newton with Irving's printed signature. Image size: 4-1/2" x 5-1/2" with wide margins. ... more information

New York: I. Riley and Co, 1806. First Edition. full calf. Very Good set. Three octavo volumes in contemporary calf with black leather spine labels. "Translated by an American Gentleman," who happens to be Washington Irving, and this happens to be his first book. His translation was in collaboration with his brother, Peter, and George Caines. BAL 10096: Setting A of the text for Volume I; State B of Volume II. Illustrated with a large (26-1/2" x 17-3/4") folded map in the first volume ... more information