Search Results: Authors starting with T from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, 256 pp, b & w line drawings. Family Bookshelf edition. Ink notations on a couple of pages, slight shelf wear. DJ has a 1-cm tear at head of front joint and some rubbing to top edge; in Brodart archival cover. This is Taber's journal of a year in Stillmeadow, her house in the Connecticut countryside. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. Illus. by Sidonie Coryn. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, gilt titles on spine, 287, [1] pp, pen-and-ink drawings. Christian Herald Family Bookshelf edition. Reprint of 1962 title. Brief ink notation on ffep, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is Taber's diary of a year in Stillmeadow, her house in the Connecticut countryside. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. . Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Family Bookshelf edition. Blue boards, black spine with gilt titles, 251 pp, many b & w photos by John Schram. Has a few ink notations, bottom edge of front board bumped, clipping with Taber's Diary of Domesticity laid in. DJ has a 1½ cm tear to bottom edge of rear panel, slight rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Taber writes about life in and around her house on Cape Cod. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stated first edition, but a book club copy. Blue cloth, foil titles on spine, top edge dyed blue, 312, [8] pp, a b & w drawing heads each section, index. Tail of spine slightly rumpled, one corner slightly bumped. DJ worn at tail of spine, very slight wear at corners; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "I choose from my own kitchen recipes that are for the most part not too time-consuming.... A simple meal, well cooked and seasoned with imagination, makes dining a pleasure." Includes some Cape Cod specialties. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Pamela Johnson. 23½ X 16 cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, blue cloth spine with gilt titles, 224 pp, pen-and-ink chapter headpieces. DJ has a 1-cm tear to top of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Taber writes a dozen essays about her most vivid memories of her life before she moved permanently to her house Stillmeadow in rural Connecticut. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. Illus. by Pamela Johnson. 21½ X 15 cm.

Minneapolis: Veckobladets Tryckeri, 1924 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Memorial publication of the Swedish Mission Covenant's Svenska Tabernaklet (now First Covenant Church) in Minneapolis on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Black pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles & decoration on front board, 102 pp, b & w photos. Extremities lightly rubbed. Where one might expect a half-title, there is a photo of E. August Skogsbergh, pastor from 1884-1908 and founder of the church's school, Minnehaha Academy. According to Kastrup, Skogsbergh "is regarded as one of the greatest preachers the Swedes in America have produced. Contents consist of the usual history of the congregation followed by brief sketches of the church's activities and their leaders. The text is mostly Swedish, with six pages in English. The building pictured on the cover and inside, at the corner of Chicago (formerly 8th) Ave. & 7th Street, is still… Read More

Minneapolis: Veckobladets Tryckeri, 1924 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Memorial publication of the Swedish Mission Covenant's Svenska Tabernaklet (now First Covenant Church) in Minneapolis on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Blue pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles & decoration on front board, 102 pp, b & w photos. Extremities rubbed, top edge of rear board bumped. Where one might expect a half-title, there is a photo of E. August Skogsbergh, pastor from 1884-1908 and founder of the church's school, Minnehaha Academy. According to Kastrup, Skogsbergh "is regarded as one of the greatest preachers the Swedes in America have produced. Contents consist of the usual history of the congregation followed by brief sketches of the church's activities and their leaders. The text is mostly Swedish, with six pages in English. The building pictured on the cover and inside, at the corner of Chicago (formerly 8th) Ave. & 7th… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-School. Full red cloth, gilt titles on spine, xix, 102, [2] pp, folding map, notes, index. Old ownership stamps, slight shelf wear, else fine. Main text in Latin, with extensive annotations in English. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 12 oz.. 2nd ed, 6th ptg. . Near Fine/No dj. 17 X 11 cm.

Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Photographic reprint of the first edition published by Librairie Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1913. Sewn binding, stiff card covers, printed on coated paper, [10], G, xxvi, 312 pp, footnotes, index, errata. From the preface: "A tous les siècles de son histore, Thessalonique a tenu dan l'empire byzantine une place considérable: grande ville de commerce, peuplée, riche et prospère, place de guerre importante et boulevard de la Macédoine, la cité de saint Démétrius apparaît vraiment comme la seconde capitale de la monarchie. ... Entre tant de choses que nous conaisson mal encore dans l'histoire de Byzance, une de plus ignorée à coup sûr est l'étude des institutions municipales, des luttes de classes qui agitèrent les cités : sur tout cela l'histoire de la… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Navy blue cloth, pink & silver foil titles on spine, xiii, 251 pp, 4 drawings, 2 photos, 3 tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, Taggart "presents dozens of orally transmitted tales...collected from seven villages in the region of Cáceres, and analyzes the differences in male and female approaches to telling them. His study shows how men and women use the tales to grapple with some of the contradictions found in gender relations in their culture, which conditions men to be sexually assertive and to marry virgins and which teaches women to fear the men who court them." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. Illus. by Beatrice Taggart. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & front board, [v], 578 pp, index of first lines. Small tear to tail of spine, else VG, owner's name on ffep, one leaf dog-eared, and a few browned by clippings formerly laid in. DJ spine browned, about a 1-inch chip at head of front joint, smaller chips to spine ends but otherwise VG; in Brodart archival cover. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913; his poems and plays were first collected in the present title, of which early printings in DJ are somewhat scarce. Shipping weight 2 lbs. Location:Poetry.. 2nd ptg. . G+/G+. 20½ X 14½ cm.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly white laminated boards, white titles in purple box on front board & spine, xxi, 916, [1] pp, chapter bibliographies, index, 3.5-inch floppy disk (ISBN 0-13-281172-3) in rear pocket. Last few dozen pages cockled at fore-edge by handling, else fine; rear pocket with disk is still sealed. Contents: deterministic models (linear programming; the simplex method; duality & sensitivity analysis; transportation model & its variants; network models; advanced linear programming; goal programming; integer linear programming; deterministic dynamic programming; deterministic inventory models); probabilistic models (basic probability; forecasting models; decision analysis & games; probabilistic dynamic programming; probabilistic inventory models; queueing systems; simulation modeling; Markovian decision process); nonlinear models (classical optimization theory;… Read More

Toronto et al.: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xvi, 267 pp, notes, index. DJ has surface chip at top front fore-edge, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: financing (legal aspects; income tax & GST considerations; raising money; legal aspects of strategic partnering); protecting software (protecting intellectual property rights; the criminal code; proprietary rights protection policy; agreements with employees and contractors); marketing (competition law; export control & government contracting; licence agreements; support, software development, & source-code escrow agreements; agreements with distributors). Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ed, 1st ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 24½ X 19 cm.

New York: Book Presentations, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Title page gives publisher as Book Presentations, but binding says Greystone press. Putty colored cloth with blind-stamped decoration of front board, 319 pp, numerous drawings and photos, index. Bumps on corners, edges, and spine ends, a couple of spots on front board and all along rear joint. Covers hand and machine sewing techniques, clothing construction, mending, curtains and quilts. From foreword: "This is a book on Sewing made easy--Sewing made fun! The author...was a small girl when she first learned to sew. As she grew older she quickly became impatient with time-wasting Victorian sewing traditions--became too busy to labor long over a costume that required weeks of work when the same effect could be developed in a few hours with the aid of short-cuts." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 25 X 18 cm.

New York: Random House, 2007 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xxviii, 366, [1] pp, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). Later printing. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1987 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Joint publishers: Universitat de València & Fundación Instituto Shakespeare (both Valencia), & Ediciones Hiperión, Madrid. Black, white, & blue pictorial covers, titles in white on black spines. No. 1: 196, [4] pp, subtitled La crisis de la literatura como institución. Nos. 2-3: a double issue, 215, [1] pp, subtitled El problema del canon. Both issues with slight edge wear & a bumped corner, else fine. Contents appear to be entirely in Spanish, although the colophon (in English) also mentions French, Italian, and Portuguese. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Magazine. VG+/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, 222 pp, glossary. Spine cocked. Price-clipped DJ shows slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Memoir of an Indian businessman during the decades immediately before and after independence. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . VG+/VG+. 22½ X 14 cm.

Boston, New York, Chicago, London et al.: Ginn & Company, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, black titles on front board & gilt titles on spine, xiii, 500, xxxix pp, 21 illustrations, index. Light shelf wear. Apparently a 2nd printing, code 629.2 on copyright page. High-school level text book. Shipping weight 2 lbs..

New York: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, 496 pp. Contains a brief history of the foundation, text of founding documents, list of officers, trustees, and advisers, statistics, list of publications subsidized by the foundation, bibliography of the foundation's own publications, list of prizes won by fellows, and lists of fellows organized by field, country, and name. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . As New/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Reprint of the 1974 British edition published by Macmillan, translated and edited by D. McN. Lockie from the 2nd French edition of 1967. Foreword by Professor A. G. Dickens. Red cloth, xxii, 622 pp, genealogical chart, 7 maps, 4 ff b/w plates, chronological table, notes, author's bibliography, editor's bibliography, index. Bottom rear corner lightly bumped, slight wear to bottom edge, else fine. DJ lightly rubbed with slight edge wear and a few blind pen/pencil impressions on rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. A scholarly, thoroughly documented study (43 pp notes, 91 pp bibliography) of the reign of Louis XIII. From DJ: 'When Cardinal Richelieu became Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624, France was in danger of becoming a vassal state. By strengthening the power of the state and pressing the whole nation into its service, Louis and Richelieu helped to liberate… Read More