Search Results: Authors starting with T from Oshtemo Book Sellers

Ibis Books, Surrey, England, 1971. Soft cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Rubio Tapani Lindroos was born in Finland in 1949, and has lived in London's Chelsea sind 1971. his English, full of inflections and overtones, is remarkable. His poems uncover life in unusual ways. Book is near fine with rubbing to front cover. Internally book is unmarked. A fine unusual collection

About this Item: The Verona Society, London, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. " The book is the Chevalier de la Tour Landry (1371) was the manual of deportment for girls of birth in France, England and such parts of Germany as were relatively civilized, from the year of its appearance to well into the renaissance, Its popularity was great.The object of this edition has been to give a modernized but not an emasculate version of the original fifteenth century manuscript, anonymously translated from the French in the reign of King Henry VI and now in the Harleian collection in the British Museum. This introduction is by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Book is Near fine with a bumped bottom spine and a bit of soil on this nicely bound white linen jacket The printing is very fine and the book is internally spotless. 500 copies of this edition have been printed at the Alcuin Press, in the UK. Rare and collectible. Seller Inventory # 001580

New York: The Authors Club, 1918. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The life and work of one of the greatest all time artists of our time (1918). (And if you believe that I have some land for you in Florida) One of many hoaxes popular at the turn of the 20th century.Various authors, trying to keep a straight face in print. Book is in near fine condition with nice paper labels to front cover and spine. Spine label is slightly darkened. Very Collectible.

About this Item: Macrae-Smith-Company, Philadelphia, 1933. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Marge (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/first printing book is signed by the author with a great inscription dated oct 10th 1933, with a small illustration of a bunny and a notation, copy#2 ? The interne, was a well known surgeon who originally wrote the book for the amusement of his professional colleagues tells the story of a side of hospital life that never reaches the headlines. Book is very good+ with a very good priced (1.00) dust jacket that has a 1" loss at the top of the spine. Book is mylar protected. Signed by Author

About this Item: E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1947. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is near fine, bound in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and nice gilt blind stamp on the front. Book has minor wear at the spine ends. Book is square crisp and unmarked. Priced (3.50) Dust jacket is very good with chipping at the top of the spine and a 1/2" chip at the top front of jacket. Some of the most fascinating and important stories discovered by foreign correspondents never appear in your newspapers or magazines. Sometimes censorship blocks them, sometimes reasons of policy, lack of space or time. In Deadline Delayed the members of the Overseas Press Club of America have an opportunity to tell these stories. These are real stories and not alleged fake news. Book is quite interesting and in many stories educational. Book is protected in Mylar.

London: Duckworth, 1929. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of 1275 copies signed by author. A fine unopened copy in an intact but rather faded, soiled and very slightly chipped jacket, reinforced on verso.Top of book block is gilded, fore-edge and bottom of book block is quite soiled.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: The Story Classics, 1949. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slip Case . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Tommy Beere. Frank Stockton, in part a sophisticated nineteenth- century antecedent of Edmund Wilson and , like him, a chronicler of events in the lives of genteel Manhattan suburbanites, had also much of lewis Carroll's blithe and chi9ldlike delight in the fantastic.There are eight wonderful stories by Stockton and ten whimsical illustrations by Tommy Beere a fine New York artist whose work encompassed water color, oils, murals and pen and ink sketches. She had many shows and exhibits in the area and was considered one of the most "exuberant and skillful artist of her time. Book is very fine bound in floral cloth and a quarter bound spine in brown cloth. Book plate of Seymour Hecht a charter member of Story Classics. A nice addition to any library. First Story Classics Edition

New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1938. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A biographic check list of 123 artists. book in VG condition with faded spine and fading to top 3" of front cover. Internally flawless. Strong tight and square, and full of important data. limited to 1000 copies.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is new as is priced ( 23.00) jacket. Now protected in Mylar.For Nevelle and his mother, hong kong is part of Britain. One of the pleasanter parts. Cozy, monotonous, profitable and homey. Big breakfasts, and high tea and bad weather, the races at happy Valley, roast beef at Fatty's Chophouse and for Nevelle Bunt Mullard, the blue hotels of Kowloon Tong, where he eats his lunch and sometimes rents a room with a girl by the hour.Bunt and his mother Betty can see China from their parlor, but have never been there. They detest Chinese food and the " take-away" as they call the hand over of Hong Kong to mainland China does not particularly concern them. A fine read and a fine collectible.

New York: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 1st Edition First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Set in a ramshackle mythical East African country who's unlikely protagonist is a Chinese Catholic named Fong. Book is very fine condition in a very fine clipped cover, which is not price clipped. The jacket is priced on the verso ( L4.50 net.). Book is a First British edition which came after the first American.

About this Item: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, Seattle, 1978. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. This very fine book of warm and graceful poetry by Juliet Thomas Elliott is LIMITED to 100 un-numbered copies. Book is very fine, internally pristine. Book is bound in salmon colored paper over boards with an illustration of sailing ships and gulls on the cover. This is a very fine collectible book.

About this Item: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Marc Simont (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition First printing ( stated) book is in fine condition with a minor bump to the bottom of the spine. Book is unmarked except for a former owner name on the FFE and apparently unread. This is a book about a map and a treasure and the treasure hunters who spin this marvelous tale. Thurber is at his best. The Marc Simont illustrations are great. Quarter bound in tan cloth over blue boards. Collectible.

About this Item: Harper and Brothers Publishing, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Thurber (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is in near fine condition. First edition. Thurber writes " don't you think things are getting better/" a woman ask me at a party not long ago. " madam" I replied, in my courtly, but slightly edged fashion, " things will take care of themselves, What i am interested in is people.".

London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in fine condition. A fine biographical account of Douglas through the critical eyes of one of Douglas's biographers. He talks about facts and fictions of Douglas's writing. Book has slight wear to spine ends and corners. Spine is very slightly faded. Book is unopened and unread. Marbel boards. A fine Douglas collectible. #9 of 260 copies.

London : J. M. Dent, 1898. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The page after the title page reads in middle English, Marcvs Avrelivs Antoninus The Roman Emperor, His Meditiations concerning Himselfe: Treating of a Natvrall Mans happineffe; Wherein it confifteth, and of the meanes to attaine unto it. Translated ovt of theOriginall Greeke; with notes:by Meric Casavbon, B. of D. and Prebendarie of Christ Chursch Canterbury The fecond Edition; with Table containing the princapall matters in the Booke. ECCLVS 18.8. What is man, and whereto ferveth he? What is his good, and what is his euill. LONDON, Printed by M. Flesher, for Richard Mynne, in Littloe Britaine at the Signe of S. Paul. M DC XXXV. This rare and fragile book was published in 1898 by J. M. Dent and Co. Aldine House Lonndon E.C. Book is very clean but very fragile. The first five leaves have separated from the binding and all leaves are brittle, which doesn't detract from the overall book. Book is bound… Read More

London: Cassell and Co. LTD., 1967. 1st Edition First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very fine + copy in like dust jacket which is not price clipped (30/-net) 14 stories by the solitary traveler, who tells the stories of the Mexican peasants. The author is reclusive and gives little information about himself, which makes his writing all the more appealing.Mylar protected. A near perfect copy in a near perfect jacket. A great collectible, unread and internally flawless .

U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stewart Dubinsky knew his father served in WWII. After reclaiming his father original last name and a packet of letters after his father death, he discovers shockingly that his father was court marshaled and imprisoned and all he knew of his father's mysterious war time record was turned upside down. Scott Turow's 7th and possible his best novel is in excellent condition as is the priced ($25.00) jacket. This FIRST edition and FIRST printing is a great read and a nice addition to your library.

About this Item: Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2013. Hardcover. Condition: NEW first edition/first printing in priced (28.00) dust jacket is unmarked and unopened. Scott Turow is one of Americas best crime writers. His books have sold more than thirty million copies and have been translated into more than twenty five languages. Identical is the story of State Senator Paul Gianis who is a candidate for mayor if Kindle County. His identical twin brother, Cass, is newly released from prison, twenty five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend Dita Kronon. When Evon miller, an ex FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a reinvestigation of Dits's death, they find themselves ensnared in a tangle of deception as only Scott Turow could weave. This copy is suitable for any fine library. NEW. Seller Inventory # 001510

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robbie Feaver is dying. He loves his wife, has a great practice and has a slush fund for the judges who make him wealthy. Greed and human failing and Scott Turow, who could ask for more. Book is near fine with slightly faded spine, internally mint. Priced jacket ($22.00) is in fine condition with minor wear to top edge by spine.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Burden of Proof, written by the author of the signature novel of the eighties This dazzling, taut and utterly engrossing novel about a family and it's deepest, most closely guarded secrets. It's a story of a family that deals with death and is brought under extreme scrutiny by the legal powers to be. Book is in fine+ spotless and unread condition. First state ( 0690 on back flap) priced jacket ($22.95) is in fine condition with the barest sign of shelf wear. A great collectible at an extremely attractive price. This book will be bubble wrapped and cartoned to ensure safe delivery.