Search Results: Authors starting with A from Turn and Temper Books

The MIT Press, 1963. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Complete 3 volume set in slipcase. Free of any markings and no writings inside.Slipcase has minor wear on edges and tips. All three volumes in pristine condition. All three volumes have initials or acronym on front free endpaper (marked out). No additional markings.

Modern Library, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book in solid, tight condition, unmarked aside from small owner name opposite fly leaf and minor pencil underlining. Dust jacket price intact, with wear to corners/spine ends and front.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 963 pp. 2-volume set (complete). Bindings firm, spines slightly faded. Feels unread. Some bumps on tips and edge of slipcase, otherwise in Near Fine condition.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Alfred H. Miles. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1895 First edition (no additional printings listed). Beautifully illustrated with chromolithographs. It has 385 pages, 20 full page color plates and was a gift in 1907. The cover is a dark sage green with black and gilt lettering and a gray Rhinoceros head. The top of the pages are done in gilt. Hardcover, Near Fine, no dustjacket. Corners and head and foot of spine rubbed, scuffs on back board, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked except for inscription from previous owner on front free endpaper dated 1907. Natural history; zoology; nature prints; science; biology; hunting.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some staining on top tip corner of last third of pages. Dust Jacket has intact price ($2) and well-preserved with small piece missing on top of spine. Lustig DJ.

University of Michigan Press, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, viii, 614 pp., unclipped illustrated jacket in mylar sleeve. A book in excellent condition; jacket with some fading on tips and top edges.

Regnery Publishing, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Boards have scuffs and soiling, but internal pages are clean and clear. 1st Edition.

London: Folio Society, 2016. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Joe Wilson. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2016 (first thus). Octavo, xxx, 209 pages plus 6 color plates (one double-page) by Joe Wilson. Papered boards 'blocked with holographic foil'; a fine copy in the near-fine silver-foil slipcase (lightly scuffed on the base). The book was first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson in 1968. This edition follows the text of the first edition, with minor emendations.

New York: Wings Books (Random House), 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small tears at top of DJ. 1st Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 145136

Random House, 1969. First Edition First. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine/Fine. Random House, 1969. First edition. Hardcover/DJ. Near Fine/Fine. Dust jacket in Brodart. First printing stated on the copyright page. Owners name and date stamped on first blank page, small stain on bottom.  Price penciled in top right corner of same page.  Original price of $7.50 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Crisp spine, feels unread.

Pantheon Books, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boards are clean, contents are clean. Dust jacket is not price clipped, and has chipping on edges and spine with a small rip mid spine. Text in English, translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Rare first edition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's debut novel. While the Ghanaian author published short stories and essays, it is his novels that have built his reputation and have "been central in the shaping of the canon of African literature" (Gikandi). Simon Gikandi, Encyclopedia of African Literature, Routledge, 2002, pp. 38-40. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 213 pp. Black cloth. Very Good in Good dust jacket. A few small spots of fraying to extremities of boards and scuffing on the spine. Some small tears and chips to jacket at spine ends and tips, and along base. Previous owner's name (who was a high ranking State Department diplomat) neatly written in front free endpaper.