Search Results: Authors starting with T from EGR books

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine/Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing (complete number line). Not price-clipped ($27.00 price intact). 8vo. Signed on tipped-in page. Hardcover is in Near/Fine condition with light, circular stain to lower right of front board (about the size of an eraser head). Light shelf wear to spine. Fine, unclipped dust jacket has light shelf wear/ edge wear with no tears or chips. "Signed Copy" sticker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarter leather/calf with marbled boards Gilt tooled spine. Raised bands. Printed at head of each title page: "Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge." Some wear to extremities. Volumes 3, 4, and 6 have small chips to spine. Boards rubbed. Volume 1 has a stain to the lower corner of the FFEP. Occasional foxing. A collection of 168 biographies with accompanying portraits of distinguished poets, philosophers, statesmen, artists, architects, etc. With tissue-guarded steel engraved portraits of Dante Alighieri, Nicolaus Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, George Frideric Handel, Richelieu, Peter the Great, Mozart, Petrarch, Bossuet, Queen Elizabeth, Raphael, Sir Walter Scott, Titian, Thomas Jefferson, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Galileo Galilei, Benjamin Franklin, Nicolas Poussin, Cromwell, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Napoleon, Martin Luther, George Washington, and many others. Extra shipping may be required due to size of volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first issue with page 497 numbered. 736 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Some wrinkling to cloth on spine and light soiling to back boards. Square spine. Some tanning to front and rear boards. Partial DJ with original cutout of DJ front and DJ spine placed over blue paper to create complete wrap. A semi-autobiographical novel declared "unfit to read" for its sexual content by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who asked the publishers to "discontinue its circulation"; they basically complied and the book didn't receive wide distribution until 1923. Additional photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 241 pp. + 12 pp. ads. at rear. Translated by Frank Millet. Introduction by W.D. Howells. Wear to extremities. Soiling to front and rear boards. Spotting to bottom text block edges. Interior is clean. Binding is tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. 519pp. Translated by Mrs. Louise Maude. Illustrations by Leonid Pasternak. Yellow cloth stamped in red and black. Contemporary owner's inscription on front endpapers, Spines tips are worn and spine has darkened. Front and rear borders having soiling, Interior is largely clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Harold Town (illustrator). Limited Edition. Signed by Harold Town and numbered 6 of 175. In the original Near Fine slipcase. Slipcase has slight wear and a sun faded strip to the front. 13 x 15.5 in. Signed by Illustrator(s)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. First Tome dated 1587. Second Tome dated 1603. Bindings are tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Red top stain and bottom stain. Tome I has some cracking to front hinge and some loss at top of spine. Tome II has small chips at top front and rear hinges. Both tomes have edge wear. Some foxing to flyleaves and title pages. Tome I has some loss to the title page upper corner, as well as to a couple of subsequent pages. Same bindings and endpapers, although different publisher/printer in different years.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Rare. The De Vinne Press (printed, not published). Copy No. 35 of an unknown number. Introduction by Katrina Trask's husband, Spencer Trask. Signed by Spencer Trask. Vellum paper. Velvet end papers. Locking clasp. Written by Katrina Trask after two of her children died tragically, 3 days apart - Spencer, Jr., age 5 and Christina, age 11. In 1888, Katrina Trask suffered from diphtheria. A doctor allowed Christina and Spencer Jr. to visit her. Both contracted the infectious disease and died within two days of each other, but Katrina Trask recovered. A year later, the final Trask child died three days after birth. A few years prior to these tragedies, their first son, Alan, had died at the age of 4 and a half.Spencer Trask (September 18, 1844 – December 31, 1909) was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He was the director of several railroads and the president of the Edison Illuminating Company of New York. Beginning in the… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. BAL 3434. 8vo. Frontispiece and 23 b/w illustrations by Dan Beard. 277 pages + 8 pages of advertisements. Original olive green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. Internally clean. Wear to tips, corners, and cloth at the crown and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: NF. First Edition. First State.. BAL 3436. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. 260 pp. with 9 pages of ads. Original tan publisher's cloth with pictorial decoration on the front board in gilt, brown, and black, and gilt title on spine. A group of short stories from Twain. Tightly bound, solid, and square. Cloth has very little soiling. Clean interior including end papers. Little to no wear to edges. Slight wear to tips. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at foot and crown with a little loss to surface layer of the cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Slipcase. Very Good. First edition, second state with illustration entitled "Titian's Moses." From the library of Eugene Field. 631 pp. plus a 1-page publisher's advertisement at the rear. Rebound in full morocco and decorative endpapers with raised bands. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to book's extremities. Custom/matching slipcase rubbed on the corners. Original brown cloth bound into the back of the book The book appears to be signed by Mark Twain on the title page and Eugene Field on a rear flyleaf. The signatures, though quite convincing, are likely forgeries made by the famed forger Eugene "Pinny" Field II (1879-1946) and Harry Dayton Sickles, working in tandem. Field's father, Eugene Field (1850-1895), was a newspaper columnist, poet, and book collector. After his death, Eugene Field's book collection passed on to his son. The younger Field developed the ability to imitate the autographs of the authors his father had collected as well as the signature of his… Read More

Hardcover VG. First Trade Edition. BAL 3451. Hardcover. First Edition. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and text engravings. This copy has single Hartford imprint and the signature "11" at page 161. Former owner's bookplate on inside board. The inner joints are open but firm. Some edge wear to spine, boards, and tips. Some light spotting to front and rear boards. Some rubbing/color loss to elephant imprint on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Two volumes. Burgundy boards with gilt text and gilt top edge. Clean interior. Very light edgewear. Faint stain to upper board (near hinge) and spine of Volume 2. Large item. Additional postage may be necessary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 631pp + ad for The Innocents Abroad. BAL 3386. Frontis says "Titian's Moses", not "Moses." Second printing of frontis..Binding B and state B of portraits. Spine edges chipped. Spine cloth is split at top front hinge. Boards have wear at spine hinges, tips and edges. Boards have some soiling. Front hinge a little loose but still holding firmly. Clean interior other than for occasional spots.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. BAL 3434. 8vo. Frontispiece and 23 b/w illustrations by Dan Beard. 277 pages + 8 pages of advertisements. Original olive green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. Internally clean. Bound tightly. A bit of wear to tips, corners, and cloth at the crown and foot of spine. Cloth is faded. Owner's bookplate on inside front board. Owner inscription on FFEP as well as date stamp "Sep 15 1892."

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. First State.. BAL 3436. Frontispiece by Dan Beard. 260 pp. with 9 pages of ads. Original tan publisher's cloth with pictorial decoration on the front board in gilt, brown, and black, and gilt title on spine. A group of short stories from Twain. Tightly bound, solid, and square. Soiling to cloth. Ex Libris book plate on inside board. Ownership inscription on FFEP. Interior pages clean. Little to no wear to edges. Slight wear to tips. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at foot and crown.

First edition. First state. BAL 3497. VG+/NF All of the earliest issue points present. 8 vo. Original red cloth. Light fading to the spine; two small marks on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, third state of the author's second book with "The History of the Bible advertisement on page 654. BAL 3316. Octavo, bound in publisher's original cloth. Tight, square, and solidly bound. Spine has been professionally re-backed and old spine label laid over. End papers replaced as well, not the original. Some light spotting to boards and edge wear to bottom boards. Text block edges have tanned. Internally clean with some tanning to end papers. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as being one of the best-selling travel books of all time.