Search Results: Authors starting with T from Michal Sawka Rare & Collectable

London: Knight and Lacey, 1824. Book. Fair/Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo (125 x 195mm). 176pp. "Sincerity" by Jane Taylor, better-know as a author of "Rachel: A Tale" or she wrote the words to the song 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star', written with the intention of showing the value of a friend. This book was published at the top of the career of the author, rare first edition. Original publisher's cloth, white labeling to the spine. Engraved plate on frontispiece. Heavy dusty on boards, rubbed label, cracked along front edge, wear on edges, corners rubbed, free endpaper with small tears between hinge. Tanned on edges, deckle, internally browning with minor spotting. Small tear on margin 171/172 page. .

Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. In polish. Octavo. First edition, first impression, boldly inscribed by author on the title page ('Agnieszce - Olga Tokarczuk 20.01.10 Barolo'). Olga Tokarczuk - outstanding prose writer and essayist, Nobel Literature Prize-winner (for 'Bieguni',), The Man Booker International Prize (2018), two-time laureate of The Nike Literary Award (for 'Bieguni' in 2008 and for ' Ksiegi Jakubowe' in 2015). "Bieguni" is not a travel book, but a book about the phenomenon of travel. After mythographic prose, emotionally associated with the described place, the author surprised the readers with a novel that is a kind of study of travel psychology. The title of the book is also the name of an old Orthodox sect that believes that staying in one place exposes a man to attacks of the Evil, so constant movement serves the salvation of the soul. Original pictorial cloth (showing map… Read More

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo (190 x 130mm). Twelfth impression in the original dust jacket. Green cloth decorated with a black motif of a dragon and a mountain, with titles on the spine and front. Endpaper maps, a frontispiece, and illustrations throughout the text by the author. There is minor wear at the edges, the spine is slightly soiled, but otherwise, it is fresh and firm, with clean and bright text. A very nice copy..

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1870. Book. Good. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition, third issue, including at the end, after page 651, 5 pages advertisements. Original boards, gilt titling and decorations, brown endpapers. Ex libris Henriri Lawrance on endpaper. Illustrated with 234 B&W reproductions of prints, drawings, engravings, many full-page. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed, chipped top part of spine; cover soiled, final endpaper cut. Small foxing. Tight and good copy..