Search Results: Authors starting with T from Great Expectations Rare Books

Univ of Washington Pr, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, bound in black cloth and lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 210 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 85 black and white photographs. First edition. An examination of the early medieval transformation in Islamic architectural motifs as representative of cultural conflict between Seljuk and post-Seljuk proponents of the traditionalist Sunni revival and their main opponents in Fatimid Egypt. No previous ownership marks. AS clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Large softbound volume. 322pp., Advance Uncorrected Proof, Generic printed wrappers. A new heart-stopping adventure from the author of "The Deep Zone", set against the back-drop of the South Pole. Uncorrected proof, paperback. An uncirculated copy, no previous ownership marks. An unread, clean, square copy. Fine. . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Welcome Books, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Small, thick octavo, pictorial boards in publisher's non price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. 352 pages. Illustrated with color drawings throughout. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. Everything one wants to know about New York in poems, prose, fact sheets, history and even recipes. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new with original Little Big Book book mark laid-in. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998. Small trade paperback. 308pp., Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with double page map at rear and color and Black and white photographs. A title in the History of Architecture series. ",,, this book describes the evolution of architecture on the Indian sub-continent and the neighboring countries of outh East Asia from the earliest times to the rise of Islam at the end of the 11th century in the north and in the 17th century in the south. ...also [covered] is the exported tradition in Java, Cambodia, Burma, and Thailand...." No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh copy. Very good+.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Blue cloth in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustated with 72 pages of plates appended to rear of book, exhibiting the work of 35 artists, inc luding: Frederic Remington, H.B. Mollhausen, Harry Ogden, Charles Schreyvogel, Otto Becker, Walter Yeager, et alia. Map endpapers. Book in in near very good condition, dustjacket quite edgeworn, but comple te. A useful reference on the art of the old west and a difficult book to find.. First Edition. Near Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1967. Trade paperback. 288 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photographs and a map. Third printing. Previous owner's small label inside front cover. A title in the Praeger World of Art Paperback series. A clean, square, unmarked copy. No spine crease. Not ex-library. Near Fine. . Third Printing. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936. Cloth in tattered dustjacket lacking nost of spine and all of rear panel. Illustrated with photographs. The account of the activities of the author's tr ading company cum, fishing boat, hunting excursions and other expeditions, etc. in Greenland and Barents Sea, 1929-33. An interesting book told with an artists eye {the author was a New England scuplt or before buying and renovating a Norwegian sealing and fishing vessel} to the fantastic landscapes to be found above the Arctic Circle. Good+ copy.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Algeria: National Publishing and Distribution Company, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in gold on spine, no dust-jacket. 312 pages. Foreign publication, text entirely in Arabic. This is volume II of Dr. Ammar Talebi's The Theological Opinions of the Kharijites [al-Shurat], an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656-661) and constitutes a summary of their theology. From this early schism emerged the Ibadi movement or Ibadism, which began as a moderate school of the Kharijites, ( "although contemporary Iba?is strongly object to being classified as Kharijites.") Ibadi Islam is considered by some the third branch of Islam, along with Sunni Islam and Shia Islam. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Text entirely in Arabic. Near fine. .

New York: Knopf, 1992. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 635 pages. Bibliography. Stated first trade edition, first printing with no others listed. A personalized history of Italian immigration to America from the late nineteenth century through two world wars. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1848. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's original heavily embossed brown cloth. 306 pages. Two pages of ads preceding and 6 pages of ads appended at rear. First American edition. No previous ownership marks, Not ex-library. End-papers, title-page and frontis and tissue guard heavily foxed. Cloth shows wear to tips, spine ends and several slight abrasions to embossed covers. Book is tight, with strong hinges and internally text is clean, with no foxing, writing or marking. Good. .

Cambridge, MA: Circlet Press, 1996. Trade paperback. 191pp., First edition, first printing. A collection short stories by eleven women writers. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. Hardcover in pictorial laminated boards and original glossy dust-jacket. 60pp., Index. Illustrated in color. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unread copy. As new in very fine price clipped dust-jacket.. Second Printing. Laminated Boards. As New/Very Fine. Illus. by Susan Dray. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Circlet Press, 1996. Trade paperback. 203pp., First edition, first printing. An anthology of erotic science fiction by twelve women writers. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 2001. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in royal blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's red pictorial dust-jacket. 242 pages. Glossary, Selected Bibliography. Indexes. With 185 illustrations, 143 of which are in color. First edition, first printing published on the occasion of the eponymously named exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-May 13, 2001 and the First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., September 27, 2001-January 6, 2002. A fine selection of eighty the Philadelphia area's museums, universities, public library's and scholarly institutions examples of medieval illuminated books, many published for the first time. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. No international shipping available for this title; domestic Priority orders… Read More

New York: Scarborough Books, 1982. Large trade paperback. First Scarborough Book edition, after the hardcover edition published by Stein and Day in 1980. 480pp, Index, Illustrations, No pevious owner's name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. Near fine.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edison, NY: Book Sales, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red boards in non clipped dust-jacket. 346 pages. Bibliographical References, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Reprint edition, first thus. No previous ownership marks. Mild evidence of moisture to very bottom of front cover and red from boards has bled onto verso of dust-jacket, albeit front of dust-jacket fine. An otherwise clean, square and unmarked copy. Still very good in a very good dust-jacket. .

New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format quarto, laminated boards in publisher's glossy dust-jacket sharing the same cover art. 128 pages. Illustrated on every page with full color captioned photographs and a large double page map by Cristina Franco. Translated by Barbara Fisher. First American edition. A pictorial survey of Mexico, its scenery and its people. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Media mail only. .

New York: Bonanza Books, 1986. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, red cloth lettered in white on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 544 pages. Select Bibliography. Thousands of entries arranged alphabetically, illustrated with over 1250 drawings, 250 of which are in color. Reprint edition (1986), first edition, first printing by this publisher with full letter line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

New York: Doubleday and McClure, 1899. Bound in original pictorial cloth with ear of corn facing upright on backstrip. Former owners name and small stamp inside front cover . First edition, first issue of authors' first book. Points: P. 245, line 12, last word "eye"; line 16, "so pretty." P. 291, line 7, reads "brainy bumps". P. 342, line 23, reads "brain of Zeus." Sligh t tear to upper spine along outer front joint, extending 1 1/2" from top. With clipped signature of Booth Tarkington, on card stock, laid-in. But for tear along out joint a Very good copy. Blanck p.48 9.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Hardcover, red cloth in original publisher's slipcase. 121 pages. Preface by J. Donald Adams. Illustrated by T.M. Cleland. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine slipcase. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.