Titles starting with I from Boston Book Company

1959. Fine. SARTON, May. I KNEW A PHOENIX. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a moderately soiled dust jacket. ... more information

1959. Fine. SARTON, May. I KNEW A PHOENIX. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. First edition. Bookplate on pastedown else a fine copy in a rather worn slightly soiled dust jacket. ... more information

1959. Fine. SARTON, May. I KNEW A PHOENIX. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a rather worn slightly soiled dust jacket. ... more information

1959. Fine. SARTON, May. I KNEW A PHOENIX. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. First edition. Remnants of a label on the pastedown else a fine copy in a rather worn, tired, slightly soiled dust jacket. ... more information

1927. MORLEY, Christopher. I KNOW A SECRET. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1927. First edition. 8vo., green cloth boards. Front board and spine stamped in yellow. Boards soiled, shaken and slightly warped at top-edge. A reading copy only. ... more information

1958. Fine. AMIS, Kingsley. I LIKE IT HERE. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1958). 8vo., yellow cloth. A near fine copy that shows some light soiling at the cloth in a crisp dust jacket that also shows only some light soiling. ... more information

1963. Paperback. Fine. (MAESTRI DEL COLORE). I MAESTRI DEL COLORE. Storia della Pittura. Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, (1963-1966). #s 1-220 (missing #146), plus general index #s 1-200. Folio, in wrappers. Fine copies, in the publisher's slipcases, a few of which are tape-repaired. ... more information

1959. Paperback. Very Good. HERBERT, A.P. I OBJECT: Letters to the Electors of East Harlow. (London: Bodley Head, 1959). 12mo., yellow wrappers, 16 pp. Foxing and a touch of damp to wraps. About very good. ... more information

1827. MANZONI, Alessandro. I PROMESSI SPOSI. Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII Scoperta e Rifatta da Alessandro Manzoni. Livorno: Dalla Tipografia Di G. P. Pozzolini, 1827. 3 vols. 328; 353; 398pp. Fifth edition (Bibliografia critica... de I Promessi Sposi, by S. Giujusa), published the same year as the first. Although the three volumes of the first edition are dated 1825, 1826, and 1827, they did not appear until 1827. The novel was such a runaway best-seller that eight other editions, including one at... more information

1927. Fine. WIVEL, Niels, illustrator. I SKOVEN SKULDE VAERE GILDE. Kobenhavn: Richard Edelmanns Kunstforlag, 1927. Dansk Arbeide. [14 pp.]. 4to., quarter cloth with color illustrated paper covered boards (chromolithographs). Music on first page, with lyrics on each page and chromolithograph illustrations of various birds (single sided). In Danish. Fine and bright. Slight rubbing to rear cover. ... more information

1968. Fine. AMIS, Kingsley. I WANT IT NOW. London: Jonathan Cape, (1968). First edition. 8vo., blue paper-covered boards, spine in gilt. A fine copy; clean and bright in a dust jacket that shows just a hint of soiling and a little rubbing at the foot of the spine. ... more information

1908. Good. WORKMAN, Fanny and William. ICE BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH. An account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First American edition. 8vo., green illustrated cloth, gilt, spine in gilt, t.e.g. Illustrated throughout with over 150 photographs, 2 folding maps. Ex-lib. A good and servicable copy that bears a small tear and perforated stamp on the title page, perforated stamps at the plate margins, libr... more information

1915. Paperback. Good. GIFFORD-WOOD CO. ICE ELEVATORS, CONVEYORS, LOWERING MACHINES, ICE TOOLS, ICING STATION EQUIPMENT (1915 CATALOGUE). Hudson, NY: Gifford-Wood Co., 1914. 180 pp. Tall 8vo., embossed printed wrappers in two colors. Good, minor soil to bottom of front cover, top of spine has two 2 inch closed tears. Pp. 137-140 and pp. 145-6 are missing pieces where illustrations of tools have been neatly excised. Die-cut thumb index through pp. 108. One hundred year company anniversary catalogue, with ha... more information

1958. Fine. FERBER, Edna. ICE PALACE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958. First edition, with lengthy inscription by Ferber to ffep. 8vo., black cloth. A near fine, tight clean copy, in a moderately soiled dust jacket with light wear to edges. ... more information

1908. Paperback. Fine. J. G. BODENSTEIN & CO. ICE TOOLS ELEVATOR PLANERS AND CONVEYING MACHINERY. Staatsburg-on-Hudson, NY [n.d. ca 1908]. 56 pp. 8vo., green stapled printed wrappers. Near fine, minor sunning to bottom of front cover, small closed tear to fore-edge of first 10 pages and pp. 47-48. Pink errata slip tipped in at title page. Illustrated catalogue, b/w drawings and halftones. Hand tools, sleighs, plows, scrapers, shoes, scales, elevator machinery. ... more information

1970. Fine. PAPAGEORGIOU, Athanasius. ICONS OF CYPRUS. New York: Cowles Books, (1970). First U.S. edition, translated by James Hogarth. Profusely illustrated. 131 pp. 4to., gold cloth printed in red. Boards lightly bowed, else fine in dust jacket. ... more information

1979. WELTY, Eudora. IDA M'TOY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1979). One of 350 signed and numbered copies. [36] pp. Small 4to., green cloth stamped in gilt. Limitation page at rear is signed by Eudora Welty. The author's lovely b/w photo portrait illustrates the text, and facsimiles of letters from Ida M'Toy follow Welty's text. A lovely book. Welty tells the story of Ida's life, from her beginnings as a nurse and then midwife in Jackson, to her business dealing in second-hand ... more information

1978. Good. PAL, Pratapaditya. THE IDEAL IMAGE: THE GUPTA SCULPTURAL TRADITION AND ITS INFLUENCE. Washington, DC: The Asia Society in association with John Weatherhill, Inc., 1978. 144 pp. Oblong 4to., beige cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Near fine, ink ownership to front flyleaf, gently bumped corners. Dust jacket in good condition with one 3 inch closed tear to front panel, a few nicks to edges and sunning to spine. B/w and color photographs. ... more information

1998. Fine. KUNDREA, Milan. IDENTITY. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. New York: Harper Flamingo, 1998. One of a "limited number of the first edition ... signed" by Kundera (an exact limitation is not given). 168pp. 8vo., publisher's binding of red & white paper-covered boards. A fine copy in a like dust jacket with an "autographed copy" sticker on front panel. ... more information

1948. Fine. WILDER, THORNTON. THE IDES OF MARCH. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1948). First edition. 8vo., blue cloth. Near fine, in a slightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. ... more information