Search Results: Authors starting with T from Singularity Rare & Fine

Palermo: Universidad de Palermo, 2009. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New. Palermo: Universidad de Palermo, 2009. ISBN 9789872496708. Octavo, hardcover, glossy blue and black boards, 333 pp. Text in Italian. New. Clean and bright. LT-4

Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Media Co., 2018. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New. See scans and description. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Media Co., 2018. 'The Milky Way Inside and Out', edited by Richard Talcott. A publication from Astronomy magazine. Includes the large four-page-wide Galaxy Foldout. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 106 pp. New, immaculate. See scans. Replete with rather spectacular astrophotography in full color, with other graphics as well. Orion Nebula; Earth-Like Worlds; Nearest Stars; When Stars Explode; Andromeda Collision; Stellar Archaeology; Satellite Star Clusters; Cannibalizing Dwarf Galaxies; Massive Stars; more, of course. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR43

Japan Mix Inc & Kinichi Tanaka, 1997. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. Quarto. Kinichi Tanaka. [no location]: Japan Mix Inc & Kinichi Tanaka, 1997. First Edition. Quarto, unpaginated, black cloth without imprint, photopictorial jacket. Fine book in fine jacket, jacket in protective mylar. Pristine; publisher's two inserts are present and laid in. Gleaming. Kinichi Tanaka's artfully executed collection of dozens of full-page black-and-white bondage shots of Japanese women of diverse looks and forms, all done in outdoor - often public- venues. Japanese bondage is itself an artform, as adherents know; but Tanaka's aesthetic vision herein combines that spirit with believably different women, generally beautiful but each always with a face, body, expression and pose (to the degree possible in bondage) which are particular to her unique personality, rather than to cloned models. Moreover, Tanaka's choice of setting and background is in every case itself striking, and… Read More

London: Cadell and Davies, 1804. Gilt-stamped Calf. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. London: Printed by J. M'Creery for Cadell & Davies, 1804. Translated by English historian and author William Roscoe, who also wrote the notes section and the sonnet entitled "Inscription" at the end. Association copy, having been presented to poet Lorenzo Sosso on his forty-fourth birthday by Mrs. John M. Jackson. 12mo, 89 pp. + 34 pp. of Notes and Inscription sections. Gilt-stamped calf, raised bands, black leather spine label, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of C.W. Frederickson on the front pastedown, gift inscription to Sosso on the flyleaf. Spine largely perished, front cover detached, fair only. See scans. Tansillo's deft opus encouraging women to suckle their own young, written at a time when such a topic indeed needed to be handled deftly. Lorenzo Sosso was the author of San Francisco and Other Verses; The Last Roundup: A Book of Verse; Wisdom for the… Read More

no location: Gurdon L. Tarbox, 1966. No Binding. Near Fine. Near Fine. See scan. Gurdon L. Tarbox - Signed ALS, in shaky elderly hand, with body of ALS by his wife; see scan). Dated 11-25-1966. Tarbox was, with his brother Preston, the inventor of the first automatic pilot -later to be nicknamed the "Iron Mike". With accompanying article typescript. These were a gift to an American collector, the late Richard Carlow. The typescript is the text of an April, 26, 1956 article in the Georgetown (SC) Times newspaper, describing the invention, its testing, and the histories of the brothers themselves; it includes a fairly lengthy excerpt from another, earlier article, one from July 13, 1911, the day after the first - and highly successful - test flight of an unmanned craft using the auto pilot. Gurdon Tarbox was later inducted into "The Early Birds", an organization of men who flew before 1915. In her ALS, his wife notes, "...tho, today, he will not fly! Period!" (i.e., in… Read More

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008. Soft cover. As New. . Fine, pristine and flawless. You'll almost say it's brand new. With access code page and CD, untouched. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008. Foundations of Earth Science - Fifth Edition / ISBN 9780132401357. Unopened CD. Large quarto, glossy photo-illustrated perfect-bound wraps, access code page and CD, xvii + 476 pp. Fine; bright, tight, pristine, flawless. Complete and unused in every way. See scan. LT19

Sherman Oaks, CA: Haze Ent LLC, 2021. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, and pristine. The first-ever issue of Black Cannabis, that being the April, 2021 issue, also known as 'The 420 Issue', with Whoopi Goldberg on the cover. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 122 pp. New and pristine. High quality production values. Whoopi Goldberg, Corvain Cooper, Blaqstar, Terpenes 101, much more. See scan of contents. The first ever, and without doubt will become the scarcest ever hardcopy issue. Ships in a stout box, of course - not a bag. LPR44

New York: Oak Publications, 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: Oak Publications, 1973. First Edition and printing. Quarto, perfect-bound wraps, 126 pp. + 1. Book design by Carol Freeman; uncredited illustrations. Near Fine, with just trace wear. See scan. A scarce and very well-regarded tutorial on finger-picking techniques, with graphic charting and of course a variety of songs. L-G2

Menlo Park, CA: Lane Magazine & Book Co., 1967. First Edition & First Printing . Cloth. Near Fine. Short Quarto. Brusstar, Gordon. Near Fine. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Magazine & Book Co., 1967. Stated First Edition/first printing (see scan), illustrated by Gordon Brusstar. Near Fine. Presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed by the SUBJECT, Pat Patterson, to Kent Dyson, in which inscription Patterson recalls his time at Wells Fargo, with Dyson and another, as being the most important memories of his life. Quarto, 160 pp. including index. Light dust and edgewear, else near fine. See scans. A handsome copy now in protective mylar. Biographical treatment of an icon in aviation history, William Allan "Pat" Patterson, who led United Air Lines to passenger air service primacy in the United States by the time of his retirement in 1966. Particularly interesting copy as well in that the biography begins with an anecdote, on the first page, about a young, low-rung bank manager at… Read More

London: Studio Editions, 1990. 1st Edition thus 4th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. London: Studio Editions, 1990 (1995 Fourth Printing). Folio, too large for scanner; photo-illustrated jacket, navy boards with gilt spine imprinting, navy endpapers, 320 pp. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket showing small-scale edge curl at top edge and a rear flap which needs re-creasing. L-flthc

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1908. 1st Edition . Hardcover. About Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1908. Large 12mo, red cloth boards with white cover and spine imprinting, very elegantly romantic color frontispiece by George Alfred Williams with tissue guard, no jacket; 334 pp. + 4 pp. ads. Several small foxing spots on tissue guard of frontispiece, early owner's name signed on ffep, spine quite faded but its lettering is still readable; some soiling to front cover (see scan); some fade on rear cover. About Very Good, would be strong VG without spine fade. Stout hinges and binding. A very scarce first edition of an early Mary Imlay Taylor period romance. L-88

New York : Penguin Books, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. The first paperback edition, first printing, of 'There Is Simply Too Much to Think about: Collected Nonfiction', an aggregation of Saul Bellow's non-fiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor. Hefty octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 542 pp. (ix + 1 + 532). Near Fine; on centimeter abrasion at lower left front cover corner (see scan), touch edge wear at cover top edge. Otherwise, immaculate. See scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L72

New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1935. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1935. "Roll Along Prairie Moon" original sheet music for Piano Solo, by Ted Fiorito, Harry MacPherson, and Albert Von Tilzer. From and for the MGM musical, "Here Comes the Band". Large quarto, illustrated folded wraps, 6 pp. including covers, as numbered. Very Good Plus; light wear and a small price sticker on cover. See scan. Vintage music ephemera and collectible. L-eph1.

New York : Mills Music, Inc., 1933. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Better than Very Good, About Near Fine; see scans and description. New York: Mills Music, Inc.,1933. ''Stormy Weather' Vintage Sheet Music, 1933. Ted Koehler (Words), Harold Arlen (Music). Mills Music, Inc. Performed by Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and his Band in the 20th Century- Fox production of the same name. Tall quarto (12 1/8" x 9 1/8"), center-folded wraps, 6 pp. Better than Very Good, About Near Fine; 2/3" spine top slit, micro-touches of wear at perimeter, modest age-toning at interior pages. Otherwise, without flaw. Sharp, handsome. See all scans (note that the opened scans barely fit within the plate dimension of a large-format scanner, as is the case with most sheet music, hence opened scans are cut off at the edges). Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. Lph2

The Hague: Jean Neaume, 1739. Troisieme Edition . Period Mottled Calf. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Hague, A La Haye, chez Jean Neaume, 1739. Troisieme Edition [third edition]. All text in French. 12mo, 307 pp. Period mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers red-stained page edges. Some peripheral wear, front pastedown with damage from removal of a bookplate, else near fine. In absolutely remarkable condition for a book in the later years of its third century. A historical romance by the feisty Mme. de Tencin - Mme. Claudine Alexandrine Guerin De Tencin. Disparaged by some during her lifetime and since, Mme de Tencin nonetheless insouciantly produced three romances, and later in life managed a...uhhh...salon...often visited by the leading thinkers in France at the time, Montesquieu, Fontenell, and Marivaux being among them. The "woman of intellect and letters but of unpleasant character" thereafter… Read More

New York: Popular Library, 1976. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Popular Library, 1976. Science fiction ephemera: 8 1/2" x 11", three-hole-punched octavo promotional informational bulletin, printed on one side, for the 1976 Popular Books edition of "Universe 5", a Terry Carr-edited collection of 12 science fiction stories by Fritz Leiber, Edgar Pangborn, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolf, F.M. Busby, J.J. Russ, Geo. Alec Effinger, Mildred Downey Broxon, J. Michael Reeves, Hilary Bailey, and Kris Neville. Near Fine; see scan. Collectible Sci-fi ephemera, quite scarce. L-eph1

New York: Time Inc. , 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: Time Inc., 2003. The April 16, 2003 Commemorative Edition of SI - " Syracuse: National Champions 2003" cover titling, with a shot of an exultant callow freshman Carmelo Anthony pointing skyward, indicating "Number One". Note: this commemorative release is as distinct from the regular weekly issue of SI that week - which see -, which also featured 'Cuse and 'Melo on the cover. Quarto, photo-illustrated stapled wraps, 79 pp. As New; pristine and immaculate. Protectively archived since purchase. See scan. Even the loose-laid subscription offer remains inside. Both productions - as well as the April 7 Final Four preview issue - are a necessary collectible piece of history for the 'Cuse fan or the general NCAA hoops fan. Or - the 'Melo fan. Already getting quite scarce in this truly choice condition. LPR52

New York: Jack Mills Inc. , 1927. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: Jack Mills Inc., 1927. "El Tango Del Perroquet" vintage tango fox-trot sheet music for piano, by famed bandleader and composer Roger Wolfe Kahn, who in fact made the cover of Time Magazine (see image) as a callow youth of 20 years age, in this year of 1927, when he first created and performed El Tango del Perroquet (the magazine is not included; this listing is for the sheet music). Orchestration by Lee Terry. Eightfold plain printed wraps, 10 3/4" x 6 3/4" when folded, 10 3/4" x 27" fully opened. Printing on the four front sides; no printing on backs. Moderately age-toned; a solid Near Fine, with very little micro-wear. See scan. A handsome and scarce piece of Vintage Tin Pan Alley music ephemera. L-eph2.

Colchester - Essex, UK: MU Publishing Ltd, 2020. Limited Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New and pristine. See scans and description. MÜ Magazine Iissue 1 / Winter 2020 - 2021 / First and Limited Edition (#212 of 500). Colchester - Essex, UK: MU Publishing Ltd, 2020. "An Occasional Journal of Art, Poetry, Music, Opinon, Discussion, Debate, and Dissent".Quarto, illustrated prefect-bound wraps, 66 pp. Jarvis Cocker; Big Joanie; Alan Moore; Mark Stewart; Vivien Goldman; Penny Rimbaud; Audry Grant; Tom Hodgkinson; Helaine Blumenfeld; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; Craig Sams; Young Visionaries. Hard to find counterculture, in the numbered first 500, and highest condition. Ships in a stout new box, of course; not a bag. LT4

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine. See scans and description. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004 (1999 copyright). 'Greater Syracuse - a Twentieth-Century Album', by Dennis J. Connor (Onondaga Historical Association Text). Tall octavo, illustrated semi-gloss wraps, 128 pp. Fine; just short of As New, in fact. A thorough photo-recollection of the history of the Salt City from 1900 to 1999. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LG7