Search Results: Authors starting with I from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Munich, New York & London: Prestel, 2010. First Impression. Stiff Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], paperbound with stiff pictorial covers, pp.158, indexed. Fully Illustrated with colour plates, b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego: San Diego Aerospace Museum, 1988 - 1990. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers. Fully illustrated with colour plates and b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Milan, Italy: Silvana Editoriale, 2008. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No . Table book, [12 by 12 inches], full pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Robert Indiana was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His "LOVE" print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965, was the basis for his 1970 Love sculpture and the widely distributed 1973 United States Postal Service "LOVE" stamp.From July 4 – September 14, 2008, Indiana's work was the subject of the grand multiple-location exhibition "Robert Indiana a Milano" with the main exhibition having been at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Pavilion of Contemporary Art), in the city, with other works displayed in public piazzas. Indiana's lover was Ellsworth Kelly, whom he met in 1956.

Portland, Oregon: Diamond Books, 2008. Paperbound. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 151. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Publisher's Weekly Review notes: "Trained in Buddhist teachings, Ingram (In the Footsteps of Gandhi) is also the founder of Living Dharma and conducts Dharma Dialogues for devotees and interested students. Transcending traditional religious practices, Ingram here offers a program of how to develop a heightened awareness of the self. This awareness may be achieved with or without a personal instructor (the author's teacher was the late H.W.L. Poonjajai of India) and involves developing the qualities of silence, tenderness, embodiment, genuineness, discernment, delight and wonder. According to Ingram, engaging in meditation (silence) may lead to heightened creativity that eludes those who pursue ego-driven ambition. She also believes that for noble… Read More

Edinburgh & London: W. & A. K. Johnston & G. W. Bacon, 1958. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full embossed yellow cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 298, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Innes of Learney's writings contain a number of theories which, at a time when English armorial law had come to dominate even Scottish heraldry, may have seemed quite novel, despite his claims that they were grounded in Scotland's feudal past. As a jurist, in 'Scots Heraldry' and in his revision of Adam's The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands as well as in The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland he offers evidence from ancient legal documents as well as more recent parliament and court decisions to support his position

Marcelline, Missouri: Wallsworth Publishing, 1970. First Impression. Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30.5cm/12.5 inches], full elaborately gilt and blue and red embossed cloth, unpaginated. Illustrated w/ b-w halftones as well as colour plates.(ex-19794). Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full chrome-embossed ebony-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.191, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Goodreads notes: "Acclaimed naval illustrator Tony Gibbons has painted all classes of twentieth century battleship for "Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century." Every major battleship is shown in profile, with the 25 greatest battleships illustrated across the full width of the page, with accompanying plan and bow views. Naval historian Bernard Ireland reveals the fascinating background to each class of battleship. Each entry includes comprehensive technical data. Special features investigate what happened when battleships opened fire: Why British battle cruisers were so vulnerable to German shellfire, how American radar helped "USS Washington" sink the "Kirishima" off… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. Hardcover. In quite good condition./no jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full ebony-embossed Dublin-greencloth sans dust jacket, pp. x, 259. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was an author and a minister. He was born in Antrim, Ireland and attended Oxford University, 1887-1888 and Yale University, 1900-1904. He served in the British Marines and was later ordained a minister. He moved to the United States in 1888. From 1916-1918, Irvine was the chief morale raiser of the British Army in France. He authored such books as The Master and the Chisel (1904), My Lady of the Chimney Corner (1913), God and Tommy Atkins (1916), A Fighting Parson (1930 Autobiography), and Anna's Wishing Chair (1938). Irvine died on Mar. 15, 1941 in Hollywood, Calif. 

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: The Daguerreian Society , 2007. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 27. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Daguerreian Society's website notes: "As the premier historic photographic collecting organization, the Daguerreian Society brings together a community united by a common interest in and passion for all types of early photography. Members include top museum curators and scientists, photo collectors and dealers, photo historians, photographers and artists, students and teachers, and contemporary practitioners of antiquarian processes. We invite anyone that loves 19th-century photography and its processes, history, impact, and aesthetics to join. The Society was formed in 1988 as a group "dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype," but has expanded its mission… Read More

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: The Daguerreian Society , 2007. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 23. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Daguerreian Society's website notes: "As the premier historic photographic collecting organization, the Daguerreian Society brings together a community united by a common interest in and passion for all types of early photography. Members include top museum curators and scientists, photo collectors and dealers, photo historians, photographers and artists, students and teachers, and contemporary practitioners of antiquarian processes. We invite anyone that loves 19th-century photography and its processes, history, impact, and aesthetics to join. The Society was formed in 1988 as a group "dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype," but has expanded its mission… Read More

Liverpool: Sea Breezes, 1966. First Edition. Royal octavo [27.5cm/10.75inches], paperbound auction catalogue with pictorial covers, unpaginated; Fully illustrated with color plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.. Royal octavo [25.5cm/10.25inches], paperbound auction catalogue with pictorial covers, pp.115, indexed; Fully illustrated with line drawings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

Pula, Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) : Uljanik, 1986. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full aqua-blue cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 158 Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Uljanik was founded in 1856, in the carefully selected bay of Pula as a shipyard of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The foundation stone was laid on December 9 by Empress Elisabeth of Austria so, this date is celebrated as the anniversary of the shipyard, one of the oldest operational shipyards in the world. Almost two years after laying the foundation stone - on October 5, 1858, the first ship - SMS Kaiser - having a deadweight of 5,194 tonnes, was launched from the berth. The construction of 55 ships of various type for the Austro-Hungarian fleet having a total deadweight of 53,588 tonnes followed. It was named after an islet on which there used to grow olive trees… Read More

Greensboro, North Carolina: Piedmont Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [24cm/9.5in], gilt-embossed mint-green cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 399. Illustrated with frontis and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. J. B. Ivey opened the first Ivey's store 1n 1900, in Charlotte, North Carolina.[4] The initial location, "one and half blocks from the town square," resulted in poor sales. Later in 1900, Ivey moved the store location to the first block of West Trade Street. The business grew and relocated in fall 1914. Ten years later built a new store in Charlotte, which remained the only Ivey's store until 1935 when Ivey's opened a store in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1935, and in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1937.

Naples, Italt & Scottsdale, Arizona: University of Naples and the Frank Lloyd Wright Memoial Foundation, 1981. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully Illustrated with 232 annotated colour and b-w halftone drawings, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Naples, Italy & Scottsdale, Arizona: University of Naples and the Frank Lloyd Wright Memoial Foundation,, 1981. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully Illustrated with 232 annotated colour and b-w halftone drawings, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.