Search Results: Authors starting with T from Monkey House Books

London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 45 Albemarle Street, 1895. Beige cloth boards, decorative red and gilt cover.. Good/No Dust Jacket. 171 pages. Rare title. Tadema, 1865-1940, wrote many works including Wings of Icarus; One Way of Love; Poland, Russia, and the War; and Realms of Unknown Kings. She also translated Maeterlinck's work. She was the daughter of Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Tadema. Covers well-darkened, especially the backstrip and edges. All edges uncut. Corners bumped and frayed, endpapers spotty.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1952. Light blue boards.. Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Euro-English romance novel, style akin to Wharton. 405 pages, a few opened roughly but overall clean and bright. Ends, edges, corners worn. Dust jacket has some wear and tear, loss at top of spine. Clear wraps added for preservation.

New York: Moffatt, Yard and Company, 1911. Light blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Story of an English village, with sociological themes. Second Impression, May 1911. Ex-library, card pocket & date slip. 298 pages, toned & dampstained at the corners throughout. Wear, fraying and stains to extremities. Pastedown on fep. Evelyn Beatrice Hall.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1897. Red cloth boards, orange & gilt-decorated cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Stamp on front endpaper, ""Steam Yacht Conqueror"" and ""F.W.V."" Collectible volume owned by Frederick W. Vanderbilt, son of William H., born 1855. The ""Conqueror"" was the finest steam yacht in the world in the 1890s. 352 pages, second edition, wear to ends and corners. Set in Moscow, this is a ""story of Russia in the youthful days of Peter the Great.""

Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Examines a complex environmental and social problem and the long-term, multi-pronged effort to address it. 421 pages, b/w photo section, index. Foreword by William Cronon. Light edgewear to jacket. Weyerhause Environmental Books.

Culver City, California: Murray & Gee, 1949. Blue cloth boards, light blue and gilt-stamped spine. Good Plus./Dust Jacket condition good+. . Foreword by Alfred Noyes. 203 pages. Scarce hardcover edition, March second printing. The Thomas More Book Club Selection for May. ""Exquisite romance"" set in France, Switzerland, and pre-revolutionary Georgia. Text clean and unmarked. Top edge tinted blue. Dust jacket edgewear, small tears and rubbing. Clear wraps added.

Flushing: Ultimate Publishing Co., 1979. Magazine.. Good. Cover illustration by Steve Fabian.. Science and Fantasy periodical. Volume 27, number 4, January 1979. 132 pages. Includes ""A Sense of Disaster"" by Christopher Anvil and ""The Pursuit of the Umbrella"" by Marvin Kaye, and other short fiction. Pages tanned, some creasing, color cover nice.

Beaverton, Oregon: Tektronix, Inc., 1964. Softcover, white Stapled booklet. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. Characteristics, instructions, circuit description, maintenance, calibration, parts list & diagrams. Some soil & creasing, pages clean & bright., staples rusty.

Portland, Oregon: Tektronix, Inc., 1957. Softcover, green card covers, comb binding. Good. Sweep generator, sweep trigger, vertical amplifier, probe, CRT circuit. Wear to covers.

Beech Grove, Indiana: Telonic Industries, Inc., 1964. Softcover, paper covers, comb binding.. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. Plug-in Sweep Oscillator. Wear and creasing. Foldout schematic. 16 pages. Specs, instructions, general description, certification procedure, calibration & maintenance, parts list.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1909. Red embossed boards.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Introduction and extensive notes by G. C. Macaulay. 1st edition, 8th printing. 86 pages. Wear & fraying to ends & corners.

The Metropolitan Life Gallery, [no date, c.1990]. No binding. Very Good. Folded pamphlet printed to accompany the exhibition of the artist's murals executed for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1940-45. Wyeth was the first of 3 generations of talented artists, and his work as a prolific book and magazine illustrator made him a household name. Faded area on front cover.

Limited Keskin Color, [no date, c.1970]. Softcover. Good. Text in French. Histoire et Legendes, Ephese, Artemis, St. Jean, Ste. Marie. Small color guidebook for the archaeological treasures of Ephesus. Foldout map at back. Cover wear.

New York, Evanston & London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1959 [later printing]. Hardcover pictorial boards. Good. Pictures by Clement Hurd. A duck and a monkey have a race. Ex-library, Harpercrest Library Edition. An I Can Read Book.

London; Philadelphia: Smith, Elder, & Co.; J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876. Rust-colored cloth boards, black & gilt-stamped cover & spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in 12 volumes - Volume III only. 776 pages. Edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq. Rfep missing, hinges cracked. Moderate wear & tear overall. 6 illustrations, frontispiece with tissue.

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903. Tan cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Charles E. Brock.. From the set, The Prose Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Scarce edition. Also contains The Wolves and the Lambs, Little Travels and Road-Side Sketches. Edited by Walter Jerrold, illustrated by Charles E. Brock. 446 pages, top edge gilt, brown and tan decorative title page, front hinge starting at bottom. Frontispiece with tissue, engraving of Thackeray from a pencil sketch by Count D'Orsay. Tiny bookstore label on fep, F. Loeser & Co. Brooklyn. Uncut edges, some spotting and foxing throughout. Owner's name neatly inked on fep. Slightly misshapen, water staining along bottom inch has affected covers and decorative endpapers.

London & New York: The Encyclopedia Britannica, [no date] c.1900. Mustard cloth boards, black-stamped cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. By numerous authorities from their articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Covers pre-Chaucer to the 19-20th centuries. 75 pages, short chapters, broad overview. Backstrip quite worn and fragile.

Cornwall-on-Hudson: Idlewild Press, 1939. Light blue cloth boards, silver-stamped spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Collection of spiritual (not necessarily religious) poetry originally published in ""Spirit"" magazine, printed for its 5th anniversary. Preface by Francis X. Talbot, S.J. 2nd printing, June 1939. 105 pages, index, tight and square. Plain blue paper jacket with dark blue titling on cover; edges browned and worn, losses to top and bottom of jacket spine. Clear wraps added for preservation. Pages lightly toned.

Chicago: The Decorators Supply Corp., 1989. Softcover catalog.. Fine. Illustrated Catalogue of Period Ornaments Cast in Composition and Wood Fibre for Woodwork - Furniture. No date, but price list is from 1989. 305 pages, very light wear. Full size glossy b/w catalog.

Peterborough, New Hampshire: The Edward MacDowell Association Incorporated, 1907-1932. Stapled paper wraps. Very Good. Pamphlet detailing the artists' colony, summer residence and retreat established by Edward MacDowell and administered by his wife. Pamphlet includes information on the colony's purpose, buildings, studios, eligibility, colony life, and an achievement list. The colony was open to composers, painters and sculptors, playwrights, poets and prose writers. A partial list of residents includes Aaron Copland, Stephen Vincent Benet, Willa Cather, Sara Teasdale, and Thornton Wilder. Illustrated with b/w photos. 45 pages, clean and bright, staples rusty at center but strong, some edgewear, corners curling. Laid in at front is a brochure for the MacDowell Colony Inn, an Art & Environment brochure by Lawrence Gilman, and a brochure about the colony.