Irwin John Edited (32 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher,. 194 PAGES. Posthumous collection of writings which become, in effect, an unofficial history of the rise of the counterculture in New York city. Included is an essay on the Kerouac legacy, another on the influence of the New Yorker magazine, an unpublished excerpt from his prose poem 'Chaos' and more. Foreword by James Walcott. Index, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956. 95 pages; 6 color plates; numerous b&w plates. A very nice copy, clean and bright, nearly fine; jacket with a small tear but no loss; jacket's spine faded. First Edition. Hard Cover - Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Square 8vo.

Good plus or better, light general wear. Reprint Cloth Back cover cloth wrinkled. Worn, soiled jacket with tears and chips. Pages browned.

Softcover. 448 pp. Softcover. LCC: 9426362 Very good condition; traces of wear on edges of covers; traces of soiling on edges of papers.

Boards. Condition: G/G. Photgraphs(Color & B&W) (illustrator). New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art. G/G. (1956). . Boards. 8vo., 95pp., Binding frayed at tips; dj has tears, spine faded .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket. Good to Very good condition, with rubs to paper on cover corners, some browning to edges of interior pages, slight foxing to endpapers. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Single Issue magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. New York: Conde Nast Publications Inc. Very Good. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Single Issue magazine. A nice vintage issue of this bedsheet sized magazine in pictorial wrappers [about 8.25" x 11"], 96 pages , illustrated. A very good copy with light cover creasing, tiny nicks at the spine ends, light dust soiling to the covers rear cover rubbing, text paper lightly toned as usual. See photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. (1956) 96 pp. Original decorative paper covered boards w/ light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Faint dampstain to top edge of rear cover. Light foxing to top edge of text block. DJ moderately soiled w/ wear and short tears to edges. Mild chipping to spine ends. Faint musty odor. Illust. w/ 110 plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean unmarked. NO WRITING NOR HIGHLIGHTING. NOT a former library book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine. Interview with John Gardner and Irwin Shaw. Also, featuring Andre Dubus, Peter Handke, Mary Morris, James Salter, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, Jayne Anne Philips, Mary Morris, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth boards with silver gilt decoration on front and titles on spine; Overall clean sound & unmarked, prev.owners name on book plate on front endboard under jacket; Slightly agetoned pages; Jacket is intact but lightly discoloured with minimal chips along edges and small pieces missing; 200 pages with 16 plates of b/w photos at back; A collection of essays as an introduction to the world of Indian Art.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. Trade paperback, xviii + 392 pages, many black-and-white illustrations; very light cover wear, but whole book is clean and unmarked throughout.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Small quarto. Wrappers. 495-749pp. Crease on front wrapper, spine a touch sunned, very good. Essays by Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Joseph Blotner, Peter Brooks, Anne Hollander, Robert Boyers. Poetry by Howard Moss, James Merrill, Richard Howard, Daryl Hine, Alfred Corn, Daniel Hoffman, Frederick Morgan, Turner Cassity. Fiction by Max Apple. Graphics by Libby Bailey. Book Reviews.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated. Small quarto. Wrappers. 233-486pp. Topedge foxed, top corner on front wrapper creased, very good. Essays by Stanley Cavell, John Brenkman, J. Hillis Miller, Marc Shell, Dabney Stuart. Fiction: "Inside Norman Mailer" by Max Apple and "Death Sentence" by Maurice Blanchot and translated by Lydia Davis. Poetry by John Hollander, Michael Mott, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Pack, Philip Dacey, Donald Finkel, Richard Blessing, and Greg Kuzma. Book Reviews on Robert Frost and Hart Crane, John Trumbull, and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Cover illustration by Rudolph de Harak. Octavo. 169pp. Perfectbound. Illustrated with color plates by James Thomas Flexner. Creases along the spine with edgewear, very good. This issue features many notable authors including Katherine Anne Porter, Francis Steegmuller, William Maxwell, E.B. White, Louis Kronenberger, Peter Qeunnell, Ernest Nagel, Daniel G. Hoffman, Howard Moss, John Hall Wheelock, F.W. Dupee, George Boas, John Gassner, and Clyde Kluckholm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Book good, D/J acceptable. Label mark to front paste down. Rubbing and chipping to D/J with slight loss.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Perfectbound. Small quarto. 153-307pp. Small crack in mid-spine, else fine. Inscribed by William J. Smith to fellow author Daniel Hoffman above his memoir entitled "My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams", and Smith's penned notation on page 187. Additionally, laid in is a handwritten letter from Smith to Hoffman. Poetry, short stories and art by William J. Smith, Richard Howard, David Huddle, Andrew Hudgins, X.J. Kennedy, Jill McCorkle, Jay Rogoff, J. Allyn Rosser, Stephen Dixon, Castle Freeman, Jr., Scott Sternbach, Kent Lydecker, Susan Forscher Weiss, Jefferson Hunter, Richard A. Macksey, and Erin McGraw.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Canadian Edition. Original 1863 Good Hardcover. 399 pp. History of Ireland. Montreal: John Lovell. First Montreal Edition. 12mo - Pages Clean Free of Underlines First 1863 Canadian Edition. Fades to covers and spine frays with a little bit of loss to top edge of spine. Slits to outer seams. Binding still solid. Bookplate of The Montreal Fraser Institute. NO Spine Numbers. NO underlines. NO library Pocket NO writing in text History of ancient and medieval Ireland published and printed in Montreal Canada. A bargain of an early Irish Canadian 1863 hardcover! See our Scans.Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books since 1977.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Chapters include : Early Years, Zen Training, Western Training, Kanto Years, Kyoto Years, Opening to the West, War Years, Return to the West, Retun to Japan, Looking Back.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 181pp. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Decorative owner bookplate (William H. Johnson) and contemporary owner gift inscription on front endpapers, old bookstore label on rear fly, spine toned and cloth modestly worn, else very good. Literary spoof of the bluenoses of the era with contributions by Dorothy Parker, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott and several others. Amusing illustrations of the contributors at battle with the forces of prudery by Ralph Barton.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. 515-712pp., iv. Yapped edges bumped and nicked, spine lightly cocked and sunned, very good. "A Voyage to Nowhere with Thomas More and Jonathon Swift" by John Traugott. Essays, poetry, fiction, art and letter contributions by Brainard Cheney, John Traugott, W.R. Irwin, Ralph Ross, Daniel G. Hoffman, Brewster Ghiselin, E. Lucas Myers, Hilary Corke, Charles Tomlinson, Sister Mary Gilbert, P.H. Lowrey, Robert Kent, James Schevill, R.W. Stallman, James W. Gargano, Frederick R. Karl, Eliseo Vivas, Warren Eyster, Gene Baro, Bernard Grebanier, and Charles Harrison.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 25x17.5cm. 259 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XZJ-GF.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. First Edition. BROWN CLOTH BOARDS HAVE SOME WEAR, ARE FADED AND THE CLOTH IS A BIT UPLIFTED IN SPOTS. SOLID BINDING. CLEAN WITH READ THIS WHOLE. WRITTEN AT TOP OF CONTENTS PAGE AND 2 WORDS IN PENCIL AT TOP OF LAST ENDPAPER. 399 PAGES, FOXED IN PLACES. SCANS IN REQUEST. DIRECT INQUIRIES ALWAYS WELCOMED. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Publishers cloth in original dustwrapper. Black & white illustrations. A very good dustwrapper. Slight wear to spine ends and corners. Slight soiling to rear panel. A very good book. No inscriptions. PBFA Member. We welcome direct contact with our customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books if you require any further information or images.

Book is tight and clean. Small tear to front endpaper. Previous owners name to front endpaper. Dust Jacket shows various toning, foxing and grime. Rare cream coloured DJ with red lettering. Dust Jacket wrapped in acetate - nothing adhered to book. Lower end of the Very Good spectrum - great shape for its age. Please see photos.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1945, 1st Edition, NF-/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Beige cloth with rub, wear Scuff cvr, Titled in Red on Spine cvr with slight creases wear, Interior nice tight cleanlight wear fox. 232 pgs with List of magazines in back .Includes At Aunt Kathies, Aerial Killer, The Solitary, Noah's ark, Paterson, the Falls, ETC. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Collected Edition. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1967. Very Good condition. EX-LIBRARY copy, stamped "WITHDRAWN" on endpapers. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Bibliographical references. Frontispiece portrait of John Gamble Kirkwood (1907-1959). Collects the author's 13 papers on the subject. The first 6 deal with shock or blast waves produced by explosions. A volume in the JOHN GAMBLE KIRKWOOD COLLECTED WORKS series. This is the hardcover version. Bound in the original cream and reddish-orange boards. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No dust jacket. 8vo. xvi, 123pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: New New. Reprint. Edited by John Irwin with Monograph on Printing on Cotton at Ahmadabad in 1678, Packed in Cardboard Slip Case.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Vol. I (1955): 1. Indian textile trade in the seventeenth century: Western India/John Irwin. 2. Some evidence of Indo-European commerce in pre-Mughal times/Agnes Geijer. 3. An English source of Indian Chintz design/K.B. Brett. 4. A neglected group of Indian ikat fabrics/Pupul Jayakar. Select bibliography of Indian textiles. Vol. II (1956): 1. French documents on Indian cotton painting : the Beaulieu ms., 1734/P.R. Schwartz. 2. Indian textile trade in the seventeenth century : Coromandel coast/John Irwin. 3. A French source of Indian Chintz design/K.B. Brett. 4. The historical evidence for two Jain velvets from the first quarter of the 18th century/R.N. Mehta. Bibliography of Indian textiles. Vol. III (1957): 1. Pichhavais : temple hangings of the Vallabhacarya sect/R.N. Mehta. 2. French documents on Indian cotton painting (Part II): New light on old material/P.R. Schwartz. 3. The flowering tree in Indian Chintz/K.B. Brett. 4. Indian textile trade in the seventeenth century (Part III): Bengal/John Irwin. Vol. IV (1959): 1. Patola influences in Southeast Asia/Alfred Buhler. 2. The Roxburgh account of Indian cotton painting : 1795/P.R. Schwartz. 3. Indian textile trade in the seventeenth century : foreign influences/John Irwin. 4. References to textiles in Bana's Harshacharita/V.S. Agrawala. 5. A note on the Indian Sashes of King Gustavus Adolphus/John Irwin. The etymology of Chintz and Pintado. The insignia of the E.I.C. Vol. V (1960): 1. Indian Costumes and textiles from the eighth to the twelfth century/Moti Chandra. 2. The Japanese style in Indian Chintz design/K.B. Brett. 3. State weaving-shops of the Mauryan period/Romila Thapar. Some dated textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Vol. VI (1961): 1. Costumes and textiles in the Sultanate period/Moti Chandra. 2. Bandhas of Orissa/R.N. Mehta. Vol. VII (1967): 1. Flowers in Indian textile design/Vijay Krishna. 2. Naksha Bandhas of Banaras/Pupul Jayakar. 3. Dyeing of cotton goods in the Mughal Hindustan (1556-1803)/Hameeda Khatoon Naqvi. Printing on Cotton at Ahmedabad India in 1678/edited by John Irwin. Monograph/Paul R. Schwartz. Preface. I. Printing on cotton at Ahmedabad, India in 1678. II. The Roques manuscript of 1678: 1. Of the painters and painting of Chittes. 2. The covenants with the painters. 3. The method of preparing the cloth to receive the imprint of the colours. III. Examination of the techniques employed, according to Roques' account. Notes. Appendix: 1. Dimensions of cotton cloths. 2. Index of subjects contained in the Roques manuscript.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 201p Size: 39.5x30x4.5cm.