Search Results: Authors starting with T from Independent Books

Rutland: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1964 Stapled spine. Once you have cultivated tenkoku as a hobby, you will be captured by its vigorous attraction and certainly will want to thoroughly explore the essence of its beauty. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 59 numbered pp plus appendix; PB; damp stain across bottom edge of back cover visible on inside, errata laid in, crease to front top corner, light soil. Scarce. About very good.

Pleasant Hill: Privately Published, 1996 392 pp. + 1; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; no defects. Cover: Green, gilt artwork front, gilt titles front/spine; no shelfwear. A beautiful copy.

Tokyo: Taishukan Pub. Co., 1989 1655 pp. + 1; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative eps; no defects. Cover: lavender flexible plastic in plastic cover, gilt titles front and spine; protector a little chewed at head, book has no defects.

Portland: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1909 419 numbered pp +3; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, marbled edgestain, marbled eps, frontis; pp foxed, mildly cocked, PO info inked front ep and 3rd fep, ffep has sm taped closed tear. Cover: green, leather backstrip and tips, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear.

Portland: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1906 380 numbered pp +2; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, marbled edgestain, decorative eps, frontis; PO name penciled sfep verso, a.e. lt tanned. Cover: olive, b/w/gray artwork + black titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, spine titles rubbed, extrems a bit worn.

Tokyo: Kodansha Int. Ltd., 1968 96 pp.; TPB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, color frontis; no defects. Cover: beige, black characters front, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: clipped, silver/white, color artwork front/back, black titles front/spine, black characters back; lt shelf/edgewear, head a bit worn, v lt soil, v lt rubbing, tape residue front flap, 1/2-inch hole back.

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS: BOARD OF TOURIST INDUSTRY, 1941 132 numbered pp. TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, double frontis; t.e. lightly foxed, PO info inked inside front cover, mildly cocked. Cover: lovely cream yapped boards, pastel artwork front, brown titles front/spine, embossed logo back; light shelfwear. For English-speaking tourists in Japan.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950 274 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled, yellow eps; t.e. dusty, a.e. tanned, eps a bit toned. Cover: gray, black titles spine; v lt shelfwear, b.e. crnrs bumped. DJ: unclipped, cream w/ brick blocks, gray/black/yellow artwork front/spine, black titles/text all surfaces; lt edge/shelfwear, spine substantially tanned and lt dampstained, lt rubbed, several v sm closed tears.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1927 311 pp.; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled, frontis; PO info inked ffep, hinge cracked but intact at title, a.e. lt tanned. Cover: ridged blue, blindstamped front, dull gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extremities a bit worn, top crnrs bumped, spine mildly tanned.

New York: J.S.Ogilvie Pub. Co., 1888 204 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, frontis; a.e. tanned, PO info penciled ffep. Cover: brown silk, reverse titles to silver spineblock; lt shelfwear, extremities a bit worn, dampstain top crnr, last of pp.

New York: The Mentor Assoc., Inc., 1918 Unnumbered pp.; TPB. Stapled spine. Decorative gray wraps, tear along most of spine edge. In addition to text, six Mentor Reading monographs re: coal laid in. Of historical interest.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973 "The richness and delicacy of the traditional arts of Japan. . . are presented here to the Western reader in a magnificently illustrated and lucidly written book." Includes 108 color photographs. Condition notes - 192 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; a.e. slightly tanned sm ghost to half title. Cover: red, gilt titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear, top corners mildly bumped. DJ: clipped, glossy white, photos front/back, black titles front/spine; minimal edge/shelfwear w/ top edges mildly curling out, sm delam to back t.e. Big beautiful. Heavy.

Denver: H.H. Tammen Company Circa 1919 to early 1920s,. based on publisher's history and autos depicted. "A descriptive view book in colors, reproducing from actual photographs the most prominent views in the City of Denver and the surrounding mountain regions; in which districts are embraced the Denver Mountain Park system, the Rocky Mountain Park and Estes Park." Cord-tied spine. Landscape orientation. Condition notes - un numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, color title page w/ tissue guard; a.e. lt tanned, commentary inked to lfep verso. Cover: heavy soft brown yapped wraps, large color paster + gilt/black embossed ornamentation and titles front, plain spine; modest edge shelfwear, w/ somewhat tattered edges, several tears across spine, 0.5 inch chip to head, med closed tear back. Lovely period book.

Eau Claire: The Eau Claire Cartographic Institute, 1964 Stapled spine. 640 climographs. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the title p. Condition notes: (ii), 45 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, key to reading the climographs located on verso of title p, sm “50” to bottom corner of title p. Cover: white wraps, blue artwork + blue/black titles front; minimal edge/shelfwear, spine and edges sunned.

Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Co. Pubs., 1984 242 numbered pp + record; TPB. Includes sm 33-1/3 record ["A Study in Jazz] in sleeve listing all musicians, which was glued in the back (now laid in). Pages: clean, bright, timeline of jazz printed on front ep. Cover: glossy green wraps, tan/brown artwork/blocks front/back, tan/reverse titles front, reverse titles spine; v lt shelfwear, front b.e. crnr creased. Nice, complete copy.

Minneapolis: T.S. Denison & Company, 1947 102 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. well tanned, inside staples rusted. Cover: yellow wraps, black titles front/spine, black "Balda Art Service" stamp back; modest shelfwear, extrems modestly worn, toned, esp at edges, lt soil. Wacky stunts from a by-gone (thank goodness) time.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939 249 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e./b.e. deckled, eps cream; a..e. tanned. t.e. a little dusty, inscription of purchase inked to 1/2 title. Cover: brick, beveled boards, gilt titles spine, Front board blindstamped; lt shelfwear, dampstain to b.e. friont, sm hole spine, sm area of white substance (NOT MOLD) back.

Not Stated: Self Published, 1994 A conceptual analysis of authority and an explication of the justification of the use of authority in the chosen paradigm religious context, Lutheran Christianity. Inscribed by author Tarkki to his friends Leslie and Louise, signed and dated 1995. Condition notes: (ii), 263 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: olive, black artwork/titles front, plain spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, shallow crease to front joint, spine barely sunned.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978 96 numbered pp; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, blue eps, pastel frontis; speck t.e. Cover: blue, silver titles spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems slightly worn, t.e./tail mildly sunned. DJ: clipped in Brodart, color artwork all surfaces, blue/black titles front, black titles spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, 1" closed tear w/ crease front, crinkled close tear back, a few other v sm tears. Six classic fairy tales w/18 full-page color illustrations by Tarrant.

Tokyo: The Japanese Society of Ethnology, 1965 In Japanese with English summaries. Special issue on Arctic and Subarctic cultures. Die rituelle Erhebung des Barenschadels bei arktischen und subarktischen Vilkern, more. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people.