Search Results: Authors starting with T from Keel Row Books

Baltimore; Johns Hopkins Press, 1969., 1969. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. xxvi, 636 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original two-tone cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth a little rubbed to edge and surface soiled; jacket price clipped, toned to spine and surface soiled, with a few nicks & creases to edge. Scuffed area to ffep (approx 3-inches x 1 1/2 inches) where bookplate has been removed. No annotation or inscriptions.

London; Secker & Warburg, 1961., 1961. Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 183, [1]. Publishers' midnight blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. Text-block edge slightly foxed otherwise a clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket sunned to spine and partially toned, with a few minor creases. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Novel with themes of fear, impotence and sexual incompatibility, told in the form of diary entries that each half of a couple keep, by the award-winning Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki. The 1960 film "Odd Obsession" was based upon the story, winning a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year.

New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 1955., 1955. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvii, [1], 202, [2]. Vignette to title page and head-piece to each chapter. Publishers' pictorial paper-covered boards with printed black spine, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips and corners a little rubbed; endpapers lightly foxed & ffep removed, otherwise contents clean. Jacket lightly toned and scuffed, with creasing to edge and minor loss to spine tips. Overall a Very Good copy in Good jacket. A novel of Japanese family life and the conflict between modern Westernised ways and Japanese tradition.

Alnwick; Henry Hunter Blair, 1866 & 1869., 1866. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vi, [4], 480; [5], iv-vi, 481, [1], xxiv Appendix. Vol I, 9 plates including frontispiece and 39 figures within text; Vol II, 12 plates including frontispiece and 6 figures within text (21 plates in total as called for). Publishers' original deep emerald green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and decoration in blind to boards. Cover cloth lightly scuffed, with slight wear at spine tips and corners. From the library of Collingwood F. Thorp of Alnwick with his ownership inscription to ffep dated 1919, below earlier gift inscription to Henry Bell. A little scattered foxing; damp staining to upper margin of plates to Vol II. A Very Good set. Tate (1805-1871) was a Freeman of Alnwick, the local Postmaster, a founder member of the Alnwick Mechanics Scientific Institution and secretary to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and a member of many learned societies. As a pillar of the Alnwick community the… Read More

Newcastle upon Tyne, The Bewick Society, 2020., 2020. Hard Cover. Limited Edition of 125 copies. Quarto, pp. 92. 20 monochrome plates, several multi-image, plus colour frontispiece; Bewick head-and tail-pieces. Olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine in grey and green pictorial dust-jacket. Brand New. The story of an unscrupulous bookdealer who conspired to foist specious publications, doctored woodblocks and "original drawings" onto collectors of the work of the superlative wood engraver Thomas Bewick. Pearson's speciality was using genuine Bewick cuts to illustrate pastiche works, which he offered at high prices to Bewickiana enthusiasts. Tattersfield is the greatest living authority on the work of Thomas Bewick and this volume chronicles Pearson's life and career, telling the story of the Bewick "rarities" along the way.

London; Longmans, Green & Company, 1885., 1885. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Vol I : x, 375 pp; Vol II viii, 345 pp, [5], 24 catalogue. Portrait frontispiece from a photograph by Mr Hawker of Bournemouth, with facsimile Taylor signature below. Book Condition: Very Good. Two volume matching set. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, blind borders to boards, and decorative panel in gilt to upper and in blind to lower boards. Black endpapers. Spines sunned; edges a little worn and corners bruised. Small stains to front endpapers Vol I; sporadic foxing mainly to endpapers and textblock edge. Gift inscription dated 1885 to William J Thorp to first blank Vol I. Autobiography of Taylor (1800-1886), the English dramatist, poet and man of letters.

London; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1850., 1850. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. viii, 192 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to boards. Top edge stained brown; blue patterned endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns. A slightly shaken copy. Cloth a little stained and corners bruised; ticket of binders Remnant & Edmonds to rear pastedown. Gift inscription to Miss Fenwick from Mr Thorp to title page, dated 1850, above a little annotation; marginal lines in pencil throughout. The second of poet Taylor's dramatic works. Scarce.

New Haven; Yale University Press, 2009., 2009. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 399. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket; bright orange endpapers. Very light bruise to upper corner and slight creasing to jacket edges; overall a neat, bright copy. Near Fine book in like jacket. Almost 200 of Gorky's paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints are reproduced in this volume, with insightful essays by Harry Cooper, Jody Patterson, Robert Storr, Michael R. Taylor and Kim Servant Theriault. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Summerhill Books, 2009., 2009. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Small quarto, pp. 128. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Bound in pictorial publisher's wrappers. Inscribed by the author to the verso of the front wrapper, with a programme for 'The Ellington Colliery Memorial Unveiling Ceremony and Open Day', dated Saturday 7th November 2009 loosely inserted. Near Fine. Scarce social history of the Ellington Colliery, generously illustrated with archival photographs.

London; Newcastle; Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans; M. & M. W. Lambert, Printers, Grey Street and Sandhill. 1851., 1851. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo, pp. viii, 119, [1]. Complete with 9 coloured plates containing 37 courses, and an additional two large coloured folding maps to rear. Rebound in twentieth century deep blue half morocco over blue marbled paper covered boards; red morocco spine label with gilt titles and gilt fillets across spine. A clean copy. A presentation copy with the authors gift-inscription to title-page. Thomas John Taylor (1810-1861) was an eminent engineer, serving as mining engineer of the Duke of Northumberland and writing extensively on mining and the coal trade. This treatise advances informed suggestions for the improvement of the river Tyne, being a great shipping port for coal, and gives his views on the improvement and management of rivers and tidal harbours generally. With attractive folding maps illustrating "Map reduced from Rennie's plan and… Read More

London; Samuel French, [1855]., 1855. Mass Market Paperback. Softcover slim octavo in sixes, pp. 58, [2] adverts. Original pink paper wrappers with adverts. Wrap has several small nicks and areas of loss, primarily to spine (max. 2.5 cm length approx.). Very Good condition. French's Acting Edition number 319 with cast for the Royal Olympic Theatre production.

London; Cassell, 1925., 1925. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. x, 315 pp. 8 plates including portrait frontispiece with facsimile below. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's black cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper board. Spine very lightly sunned. Ownership inscription to front pastedown; light foxing throughout otherwise a clean tight copy. Scarce in this condition.

London; Lincoln Williams, 1935., 1935. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 106. Publishers' red cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth partially sunned to spine. Lacks rfep; scattered light foxing, mainly to tex-tblock edge and endpapers. Jacket toned, and split up rear joint, with small loss top edge and significant loss (approx 3 cm) to tail of spine. A Very Good copy overall, in Good jacket. Based upon the personal experiences of Henry Stuart Tegner (1901-1980), whose later works were published under the name Henry Tegner. The Author's rare first book, particularly scarce in the fragile 1935 dust-jacket.

London; Bloomsbury Circus, 2016., 2016. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 399, [11]. Publisher's white cloth with back titles, housed in an unclipped pictorial jacket with pictorial endpapers. Boldly INSCRIBED "Dear Cal, For You, from Kate Tempest" to title page. A clean, neat copy; Fine condition. Poet Kate Tempest's first novel centring on Becky and Harry's attempts to leave London with a suitcase full of cash.

London; Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1938., 1938. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 256. Colour frontispiece and 7 monochrome plates by D. L. Mays. Publishers' airforce blue cloth with black titles to spine and RAF crest and titles in blind to upper board, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Scattered light foxing, mainly to textblock edge and prelims, otherwise clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little rubbed and creased, with 3 cm closed tear at tail of spine and small loss at head of spine. A Near Fine copy in very good jacket. Adventure story featuring Flight Lieut. Leo Jayson (a.k.a Jaggers) and his sidekick Flying Officer Winks (a.k.a. The Winkle) who need to recover a dangerous stolen weapon before it gets into the wrong hands.

Leyburn; Tartarus Press, 2005., 2005. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies only. Small octavo, pp. [6], 213. Publishers' green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to upper board inside border, in unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. Red satin place-marker. Clean and tight; bold Author's signature, without dedication, to title page. A Fine copy in like jacket. The story of Henry Newby, who visits Haworth Parsonage shortly after Emily Bronte's death to retrieve a novel for his publisher uncle, weaving fact into fiction amidst ghosts and passion.

Stroud; Sutton Publishing, 2002., 2002. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. ix, [1], 326. 8 double-sided plates with monochrome photographs. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine housed in an unclipped, pictorial jacket. A clean, neat copy; spine is lightly sunned. Fine book in Near Fine jacket. Comprehensive list of the Merchant ships lost during WWII to submarine attacks.

Newcastle upon Tyne; Arthur Brown, [1879]., 1879. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Green pebbled cloth portfolio with gilt titles to upper board and triple border in blind to boards; primrose yellow endpapers. 4 page printed insert with 13 numbered photographic plates as called for, each photograph mounted on thick cream card and captioned with Tennyson verse below, with printed border. Lacks cord ties. Unobtrusive surface wear to upper board; repair to inner hinge and light marking to inner flaps. Left margin of mounts lightly toned; some mounts a little corner creased and a little scattered light foxing. Overall Very Good condition. Collected photographic plates of Skelton Beck at Saltburn, inspired by Tennyson's thirteen-verse poem with one plate per verse interpreting the poet's description. Scarce.

Manchester; Co-Operative Wholesale Society, 1903., 1903. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Square landscape octavo. Pp. 110, including 20 pp. advertisements at end. Frontispiece of the building, and numerous illustrations throughout including archive photographs and map. Black cloth with bevelled boards and gilt titles & decoration to upper board. Cover cloth lightly scuffed, and rubbed at corners and spine tips. Free endpapers a little toned otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Near Fine copy. A heavily illustrated descriptive account of Gilsland and environs, with an expansive description of the establishment of the home there by the Co-Op; now a hotel known as Gilsland Spa, the site was retained by CWS until 2017.

London; Bradbury & Evans, 1858., 1858. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION bound from the parts. Octavo, pp. Volume I viii,382 plus original wrappers and advertisements bound-in to rear; Volume II viii,376 plus wrappers & advertisements. 46 plates with tissue guards (23 to each volume including frontispiece) plus line drawings in text from illustrations on steel and wood by the Author. Full red morocco bound by Morrell with five raised bands, gilt titles and decoration, gilt dentelles and top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers; red silk ribbon placemarkers. Bindings Fine. Armorial bookplate of Walter Harold Wilkin, author of "Some British Soldiers in America", to each front pastedown; a little scattered light foxing and minor repair to margin of plate facing pp 323 Vol II. A Near Fine set in a particulafrly handsome binding. Thackeray's historical novel set during the Siege of Quebec and the outbreak of the American War of Independence, and sequel to "Henry Esmond". The story was originally published in 24 monthly… Read More