Search Results: Authors starting with I from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Washington D.C.: The American Tree Association, 1927 Soft cover in pictorial green wraps printed in forest green and black, oblong 8vo (measuring 5 x 8 7/8 inches), 123 pp. First Edition. Condition: Very Good Plus: a couple of inconsequential marks and small fold-line to rear of wrap. Spine gently aged. Illustrated with black and white line drawings, this guidebook was intended for distribution in the New York schools, presented by the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust. Described as one of the wealthiest men in America before WWI, the Michigan-born Mr. Pack was a third generation timber baron, with financial interests also in banking and real estate. A plethora of interesting facts and taxonomy of trees, both native and introduced, to the State of New York is accompanied by a life list, aphorisms and an index. . A Library With Compliments slip bound in. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.

Washington DC: Francis B. Mohun, 1880 Hard cover, 8vo., 613pp. In publisher's brown cloth binding with gold lettering and US Army seal with motto "This We'll Defend" to front cover. Condition: About Good or better - with cracked front hinge with ghost of old tape, and a number of bumps to the edges of the covers. ** Contents include the founding of the War Department, the War of 1812 with Great Britain, the Mexican War, "The Situation of the Indians at the The of the Establishment of the Government", and an appendix of the Roster of the Medical, Pay, Corps of Engineers and Ordnance Departments. With two illustrated plates. Includes a leaflet advertising another book by the publisher. OCLC 57275071.. Hard Cover. Good.

Strathaven: Bryson Printer, 1920 Soft cover, 8vo, in green paper wrapps, 64pp. Exceedingly scarce booklet of poetry. The title poem concerns the American missionary David Brainerd (1718 - 1747), who preached to the Housatonic and Delaware Indian tribes. English-born poet J. Hixon Irving, a missionary member of the Plymouth Brethren, was famed as an early anti-vaxxer in 1880's England. Condition: Good. Covers quite worn and detached. Pages age-toned but interior Good or better.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

New York: G.P. Putnam's and Sons, 1897 Printed at the Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, New York. Hard cover, 8vo. (measuring 6 x 9 inches) in blue cloth, the boards with a blind stamped double ruled border, and the spine with the titles in gilt, and author's name encircled in gilt dots. Vol. 1: (xvi), 389pp.15 black and white tissue-guarded illustrations. Vol. 2: (xxi) 391 pp., 12 illustrations. This edition features two-color title pages, and decorative borders in brown framing each page of text, with designs of acorns and pine cones. **First published in 1836, this account of the westward expansion of the fur trade was gleaned by the author Washington Irving from papers supplied to him from John Jacob Astor about the origins of the American and Pacific Fur Companies in the 18aughts. The author also relied on previously published accounts of Lewis and Clark, and others. American "manifest destiny," and tales of "remote and adventurous enterprises," all voiced with the skill of a novelist, makes… Read More

London and Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, [1908] Reprint. Soft cover chapbook, 16mo, (measuring 3 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches,) in gray green paper over stiff card, with applied chromolithographed art to cover, the titles in green ink, printed on art paper by Neill and Company, Ltd., Edinburgh, 35 pp. (No publisher's ads.) Chromolithographed illustrations by Englishman Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1970), Cambridge School of Art graduate, illustrator of Charles Dickens and other books, worked as well in advertising. He also contributed illustrations to the magazine "Punch." Here he provides the onlaid cover illustration, titled "He bore a silver dish, on which was an enormous pig's head," which is also used (in full) for the frontispiece The hand-lettered and illustrated title page as well as two other full page illustrations within the text, for a total of five. The text is abstracted from Washington Irving's (1783-1859) serialized " Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." first published in 1820." Crayon enjoys… Read More

New York: Privately Printed, 1930 Hard Cover, 12mo, measuring (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches) in decorative blue paper-covered boards with design of black and gold dots, and with a red paper label applied to front in black ink, 27 pp. A limited edition of 245 copies privately printed for George A. Nelson. Type design by the noted early twentieth century typographer and book designer, Frederic Warde. Warde (1894-1934) was a contemporary of Bruce Rogers, and was active with a number of small presses in the thirties. He became the production manager at Oxford University Press in New York at the latter part of that decade. George A. Nelson is listed as a donor to New York's Grolier Club. This is one of the quintessential Christmas stories penned by Washington Irving in the 1820's which cemented the holiday as a fixture of the holiday calendar of the new republic. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a bit of minor rubbing to edges, in a Good slipcase. . Limited Edition of 245. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus .

Haarlem, The Netherlands: Joh. Encschedé en Zonen, 1931 Hard cover, 12mo (measuring 4 1/2 x 7 inches) in silver paper-covered boards, with applied cream label to front board in blue and black ink. 35pp. plus notes, on cream parchment, bottom edge untrimmed. Limited Edition of 200 given as a Christmas token. Washington Irving's classic short story of "The Christmas Dinner "was originally included in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1820), and was responsible for popularizing some of the English traditions of the yuletide season to a new American audience. The publisher of this charming item, Enschhedé en Zonen of Haarlem, The Netherlands, was a printing firm, and type foundry, responsible for the Netherlandish currency, certificates and stamps over the course of their history from the eighteenth century to the present. They also designed type matrices, and the typography and design in this item is very nice. Condition Very Good. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine, corner wear. Light… Read More

London: MacMillan & Co., 1877 Printed by R & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover, 8vo., in dark green publisher's cloth with gilt decoration and titles to front board and spine, 284 pp. plus 4 pp. reviews and advertisement. No dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrator Randolf Caldecott (1846-1886) is acknowledged in the Preface as the "same able pencil" to have illustrated MacMillan's re-publication of Irving's "Old Christmas the year prior. Gift inscription in old ink dated Ap. 1879. Small bookbinder's label on rear pastedown: "Bound by Burn and Co., London." Condition: Very GoodMinus. Rear hinge cracked. Corners are gently rubbed, and there is a small closed tear at head of spine. Interior is clean, lightly age-toned with no obvious foxing. A pictorial bookplate of a former owner is upon the pastedown. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. Illus. by Randolf Caldecott.