Search Results: Authors starting with T from Pages Past Books

VG+, no dj Hiroshi Tanabe illus Design Korinsha Press Kyoto 1998 1st (scarce) Softbound 4to, unpaginated, color & b+w illus, list of works by appearance, signed & inscribed with drawing by Tanabe This is Tanabe's rare first book and won a gold medal for illustration and design from The Art Director's Club. His work appears in many prominent fashion publications and advertisements; his editorial illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker etc. The book is inscribed and signed by tanabe on the front endpaper with a drawing of an electric guitar and amplifier dated 1998. Light soiling to the rear cover; otherwise clean and solid

Good/no dustjacket Joseph Simont illus Doubleday Doran Garden City 1932 1st hardcover 8vo, 280 pages, color frontis and b+w illsutrations, pictorial endpapers. Binding rubbed and soiled. Solid copy.

Very Good plus book in Very Good dustjacket Coward McCann Inc. NY 1965 1st hardcover 8vo, 385 pages, b+w photos, index, Three centuries of great theatrical highlights by the drama critic of the New York Times, with 86 photographs, engravings, posters, drawings, posters and playbills. DJ price clipped with some light edgewear, but very nice copy.

Good condition Independent Publishing Fort Worth (1928) 1st hardcover 8vo, 101 pages, b+w photos, signed by author. Promotes the worthiness of Smith as a Presidential candidate. Paper banner tipped inside front cover printed "To my good friend for Tolerance and Truth" and signed by author. Flexible cloth covers with edgewear and rubbing. Rear cover spotted. Solid otherwise clean copy.

Good+/Good Studio Publ London no date 1st British hardcover 8vo, 237 pages, index, b+w photos, illustrations, appendices. Undated. 1947 date inked front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket chipped and worn. Solid clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover. A classic of industrial design by the founder and first president of the American Society of Industrial designers.

Good condition/no dustjacket Houghton Mifflin (1937) reprint hardcover 8vo, 461 pages, index, appendix. A guide for administering the Stanford-Binet test of intelligence. Dime sized ink stain fore edge. Light soiling rear cover. Solid copy.

VG+/VG TW Nason illus JB Lippincott Phila/NY 1961 1st hardcover 8vo, 338 pages, b+w wood engravings. 36 narratives by Olin Sewall Pettingill, John Kieran, Alexander Sprunt et al. Clean and solid with dustjacket in protective cover.

VG Longmans, Green and Co NY 1930 1st hardcover 8vo, 64 pages, b+w photos. Elementary reader with many b+w photos of children at play, in school, with animals and animals dressed in children's clothing in school settings.Some toning to endpapers and 50 cent price stamped in ink on front endpaper. Clean and solid.

Fine Prentice-Hall NY 1988 1st softcover 8vo, 351 pages. A collection of travel writing including Richard Halliburton, Peter Matthiessen, John McPhee, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, etc.

Good+, no dj Walter S. Rogers illus Girls Series Grosset & Dunlap New York (1925) Probable 1st Hardbound 8vo, 184 pp + ads, b+w illustrations on glossy paper, color paste on pictorial cover Probable 1st edition with inside listing to this title (6th in series.) Rear ads list to this title and show Bobbsey Twins to Clover Bank and Bunny Brown to Sugar Camp. Light foxing only. Solid with bright cover.

VG-condition/no dustjacket Chanticleer Press NY 1948 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 80 pages, color and b+w illustrations. Art forgery in painting and sculpture with 73 reproductions in color and monochrome. A little fading of cloth at extremities. Solid clean copy.

VG condition George Wiggins illus Girl Scouts of the USA NY 1959 hardcover 8vo, 277 pages, b+w illustrations by Wiggins, index, bibliography, source list. Designed to describe the Girl Scout program in all kinds of camping situations. For troop leaders, committee members and adults responsible for camping programs. Nice solid clean copy.

Near Fine, no dj Biographies Vantage Press New York 2002 1st Edition Softbound 8vo, 282, b+w photos Just the lightest cover wear; clean solid and bright.

VG+/VG- Studio Publications NY 1935 1st thus hardcover 4to, 120 pages + ads, color and b+w photos. The principles and teaching of crafts including basket work; dolls, puppets and marionettes; embroidery and weaving; metal work; models and toys; pottery and modelling; primitive art; printing and book craft; and woodwork. Green burlap covers with black titling. Shallow chipping at spine head and top front of dustjacket. Clean and nice in protective cover.

Good condition/no dustjacket Maurice Day illus George H Doran NY 1926 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 246 pages, color frontis and 4 b+w illustrations, color paste on cover. Adventures of a young movie star who runs away to travel with hoboes. Foxing inside covers. Spine rubbed. Solid copy.

G+ conditions Charles Scribner's Sons NY 1922 reprints hardcover 8vo, 357 pages + 304 pages + 227 pages, b+w illustrations. 3 volumes in matching brown embossed bindings by author who was Assistant District Attorney in New York County. 1st title is nonfiction with his observations on crime, police, law, courts, etc. The following 2 titles are fiction and include several black and white illustrations. Inside covers browned with some soiling. Some rubbing to binding extremities. Overall solid generally clean copies.

VG/G John Wiley NY 1945 1st hardcover 4to, 202 pages, index, appendix, many b+w illustrations. Heavily illustrated with most of the sample illustrations from the Douglas Aircraft Co. Dustjacket chipped at extremities, bright in protective cover.

Fair (1891) hardcover 8vo, 168 pp, bIw illustrations, indexed. Monograph on tannins with an indexed chronological Literature of the tannins. The title page is missing, the inside front hinge is cracked and there is some pencil doodling on the reverse of the front endpaper. Still, otherwise complete with light agewear. there is a name and 1893 date pencilled on the front endpaper.

Good+, no dj Sports Virtue & Co London 1868 1st (scarce) Hardbound 8vo, 322 pp 8 essays on sports including horseracing, hunting, shooting, fishing, yachting, rowing, alpine climbing and cricket. Green pebbled cloth binding.Name and 1872 date inked on front endpaper which is clipped at upper right corner. Light soiling inside covers and light rubbing and extremity wear to binding. Solid and clean with strong gilt titling. Virtue & Co's bookbinding ticket is inside rear cover.

VG Henry T Coates Phila (1873) early reprint hardcover 8vo, 279 pages + ads, b+w illustrations. 4th title in the Jack Hazard series. Early printing in brown cloth binding with black and gilt titling and decoration. Solid clean copy.