Search Results: Authors starting with T from The Curiosity Book Shop

McBride, Nast & Co., 1912 Green cloth; ivory title, cover decoration, and (formerly) spine lettering; 53 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, including frontispiece, and planting diagrams. Part of "The House & Garden Making Books" series, this volume deals with the description, selection, and care of shrubbery. Light-to-moderate rubbing at extremities, including slight fraying at spine tips. Ivory spine lettering completely rubbed away; slight loss to cover decoration near fore edge. Three tiny dark spots at upper spine. Light cover soil. Tiny, light spot to front endaper. Interior otherwise clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1947 Cloth. Second printing; first published 1946. Many black-and-white illustrations. Moderate wear to cover extremities. Prior owner's inkstamped name/address on front endpaper and inside front cover. Faint partial cup stain to front cover. Interior clean and intact.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. 1971, 1971 Cloth. Very Good in dust jacket. Third printing. Traces the history of this profession. Intended for young readers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Clean and tight. Dust jacket only fair, heavily edgeworn and creased, and with diagonal 6" closed tear at lower front panel, 1" chip out of upper spine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Robert Bentley. Inc., 1964 Red cloth; metallicsilver spine lettering. Revised edition. First published 1959; second printing 1960. Introductions to both first and first revised edition are included. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph text plates. Very light rubbing to cover extremities. Spine slightly faded. Light soil to cover, including library spine sticker shadow. Rear blank endpaper missing. Other library marks: spine lettering; inkstamps to all page blocks, title page, and front blank endpaper; pocket-removal remnant at inside rear cover. Main text and illustrations clean, andunworn, binding tight.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916 Ex-Library. Pictorial cloth; former schoolbook; reinforced binding. Third printing. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs with Inkstamped school library bookplate on inside cover the only library mark. Moderate-to-heavy cover soil; light edgewear. Prior owner's name in pencil ffep. Remnants of pencil scribbling on ffep and reverse. Very small inkstamp "Howard St." on title page. Interior otherwise clean and tight.

London: Hurst & Company, 2001 Ten-page Bibliography in rear. Cover corners bumped. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1969 Ex-Library. Reprint; first published 1930. Rear endpaper excised; inkstamps to title page, top and bottom page blocks; spine lettering. Small area of dampstain to lower rear cover along spine edge, with very small stain to inside rear cover and lower rear hinge; no musty odor. Otherwise clean and tight with only faint wear.

London: Faber and Faber Limited 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff wraps with stiff wrap dust jacket and protective glassine cover. No date; circa 1950. Part of Faber Gallery series edited by R.H. Wilenski. Tipped-in color plates. Very light edgewear. Glassine cover mostly present, but in two pieces and missing a piece along front spine edge.

Detroit: General Motors Forty-nine booklets. Economist Henry J. Taylor (1902-1984), also a prolific journalist/author and Ambassador to Switzerland from 1957-61--was the featured speaker on the Mutual Broadcasting System's General Motors radio program "Your Land and Mine" in the mid-40s. His talks were published in staple-bound booklet and brochure format, two talks in each. He probably was popular because of his basically conservative/"man-in-the-street" views and comments on government ("Government Costs Too High, "A Governmental Weakness") the economy ("Taxes Must Come Down," "Understanding Profits Needed") the Communist threat ("Snakes in America," "Outlaw Communism") patriotism ("Courage--Our National Heritage," "Help Strengthen America") morals ("Keep Trying," "Our Destiny Rests With Ourselves") and many other subjects. Very entertaining reading and historical perspective. This… Read More

Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1987 Very Good/Very Good -. Lavishly illustrated with author's color and black-and-white photographs and drawings. Faint edgewear, including miniscule scrape/tear bottom front cover corner.

New York: Worthington Co., 1887 Decorative Cloth. Franklin Edition. Tragic adventure tale of English boys who board an unmanned trading vessel at port and somehow drift out to sea. Illustrated with tissue-guarded black-and-white frontispiece drawing. Light rubbing to cover extremities; light rubbing to boards. Bookseller inkstamp to front endpaper; prior owner vintage name/date third front blank endpaper; otherwise clean and tight.

Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers, 1982 Illustrated with color photographs by Bob and Ira Spring.

New York: Dell, 1968 Sixth printing of Dell first edition. The step-by-step illustrated manual by a world renowned expert and holder of a Fifth Degree Black Belt. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs accompanied by concise instructions. Also line drawingsof male figure depicting strike areas front and back strike areas. Light cover edgewear. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 Annual publication of International Council for Bird Preservation, U.S. Section. Volume One only.

New York: City & Company, 1998 Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Foreword by Henry Stern.

New York: Carlton & Porter, 1860 Good/No Jacket 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Original decorative blind-stamped cloth, originally possibly purple, now sunned to tan with purple tint; gilt spine. Moral tale of the period, for young readers. Illustrated with three engravings, two by Felter (?J.D.) and one by E.J. Whitney. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; corners bumped. Prior owner name, date in pencil on front endpaper. Occasional light brownstaining/foxing to first several pages; otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1877 Rust-colored cloth; gilt spine lettering. Hart, the wife of Rev. Dudley Hart, rector of Stretford, Manchester, was a fairly prolific writer. Like many women writing during the Victorian period, she didn't affix her name to her publications, calling herself "A Clergyman's Wife," "The Author of. . .," etc. This work is in verse, a tale of devoted marital love in the face of tragedy, and dedicated to poet and novelist Menella Smedley (1819-1877). Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Few tiny inkspots to page 81. Otherwise clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999 Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Includes sections on technical documents, oral communication, letters and memos, technical writing basics, and much more. Faint cover edgewear. Upper half-inch front cover sunned. Clean and tight.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956 Cloth. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; some light, irregular stains and faint scuffing to blue cover cloth. Library marks: bookplates at inside front cover and front endpaper; "withdrawn" inkstamp front and rear endpapers; small remnant "date due" slip rear endpaper; pocket affixed to inside rear cover. Interior otherwise clean, tight, and only gently worn.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1963 Cloth. Twenty-one of the world's most exciting adventures--from the Norman invasion of England to the space flight of Colonel John Glenn. Dust jacket spine sunned; rear panel has light, irregular patches of brownstain; light edgewear to jacket. Otherwise clean and tight.