Search Results: Authors starting with T from Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA

[Leadville, Colorado] [Baby Doe Tabor] Archive of Letters, Notes, Clippings, Paperwork, Scraps and Ephemera from Horace Tabor and Baby Doe Tabor. Collection all in protective sleeves. Most of the material has been well preserved and remains in very good condition. Many of Baby Does handwritten notes were written on scraps, old calendars or envelopes and the condition reflects this. Her writing can be a little difficult to read but most of the longer notes have been transcribed. Overall, very good condition. Horace Austin Warner "Haw" Tabor (1833-1899), also known as "The Bonanza King of Leadville" arrived in Colorado in April 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. He was accompanied by his first wife, Augusta, and their son, Nathaniel. In 1860, he tried prospecting at California Gulch in Oro City, the area that would eventually become Leadville. But after those prospects were not successful, he relocated to Park County, settling in Laurette. There, they operated a store and Horace served as the… Read More

[Marlboro College][Military] American Soldier Gib Taylor "Annual Reports", 1951-1954. Germany, France, and the United States Archive consists of a variety of mediums including two journals, watercolors, pen and ink, photographs and pencil sketches. Overall, the collection is in very good condition. The two journals have some disbound pages which have been taped using cello tape which has become brown. Gilbert "Gib" Clinton Taylor (1929-2006) was born on Deer Isle, Maine and attended Harvard College (1947-49) and the Art Students League (1949-51). He was in the Army 1951-1953 stationed overseas, returning to school in New York. Following service in the U. S. Army, he enrolled in the American School of Art (1954-57). For 30 years, Mr. Taylor taught design, color, and woodworking at Marlboro College in Vermont. According to his obituary, "While teaching, he continued to live an active creative life, producing masterful art in a variety of fields, including painting, drawing, sculpture, fine furniture… Read More

Tarrytown, New York, 1892. [Poetry, Literary] Stephen Henry Thayer Manuscript Archive plus Ephemera, Terrytown, New York, 1887-1892. Collection of manuscripts, letters and clippings in very good condition with most in protective sleeves. Typical edge wear and toning. Very Good. Known as the banker-poet of Sleepy Hollow, Stephen Henry Thayer led a multi-faceted career as banker, author, poet and literary editor. In New York, he was elected to membership in the New York Stock Exchange after which he founded the banking firm of Stout & Thayer. He served on numerous boards including those of steamship companies, railroads and coal mines. Thayer's retreat, "Edgewood" on the Hudson River at Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, NY was where he found his literary muse. Here he wrote "Songs of Sleepy Hollow", "Songs from Edgewood", and "Daughters of the Revolution". He also wrote works of poetry, essays, hymns and many literary articles. Longfellow included two of Thayer's in his "Poems of Places" anthology. This… Read More

Newark, England, 1903. Very Good. [Advertising] The Jervis Potato Planter, Messrs. Battle, Maltby, and Bower of The Jervis Potato Planter Co., Newark, England, 1903, 3.25 x 5.25 inches, 10 pp. Staple bound booklet with black and white pictorial wrappers; some rust discoloration around the staple, else clean; very good condition. Nice little booklet advertising a patented invention for planting potatoes more quickly and without stooping over and hurting one's back; "a simple and useful contrivance, and has the merit of being quite inexpensive" (The Book of the Potato, Sanders, 1905). Contains an explanation of the contraption and several pages of glowing testimonials from potato farmers. No copies found in OCLC as of November 29, 2023.

Seattle, Washington: Seattle Garden Club, 1926. Very Good. Scenic Seattle Booklet, The Roadside Committee of the Seattle Garden Club, Seattle, Washington, circa 1926, 4.5 x 8 inches, 32 pp. Staple-bound green pictorial wrappers; some light edge wear, wrinkling to top; interior clean, unmarked; contains numerous black and white photographs. Very good condition overall. Two copies found in OCLC as of January 2024. Promotional booklet published by the Roadside Committee of the Seattle Garden Club; content within urges readers to preserve the scenic beauty of the Seattle area by supporting the removal of billboards along highways, practicing fire safety, cleaning up after yourself when camping, and more. Includes beautiful photographs of the natural wonders and impressive man-made architecture in and around Seattle.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/None. Arabia Felix:Across the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia, Bertram Thomas, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932, xxix, 397 pp., 9¼ x 6½ inches. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, sunning to spine, shelf wear to bottom edge, light scuffing to covers, top edge has light soiling, pages toned, previous owner's name inked in. Third printing. Good condition. The author has "attempted to set down...a narrative of my recent camel journey across Rub' al Khali, and of my researches in this fair province of Dhufar, the gateway of that journey." relates some aspects of his adventure in which he crossed the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) from Oman to Qatar, and provides geographical information about the peninsula of Qatar, especially the southern part. Has folding map bound in at back of book. Also contains maps, charts, diagrams and illustration complementary to the text.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1878. Ex library edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Voyage of the Challenger: Atlantic; a Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876, C. Wyville Thomson, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1878, in Two Volumes, Vol I: xx, 391pp., Vol II: xiii, 340 pp., 9 x 6¼ inches. Green boards with gilt titling to spine and gilt pictorial to cover. Both volumes: covers and spine scuffed and stained. Shelf wear to head and foot of spine, also to bottom edge, corners worn to boards, top text edge soiled, library sticker to inside front cover with library stamp, boards slightly separating at hinge. Ex-library edition. Good condition. "The 1870s voyage of HMS Challenger lasted 1,000 days and covered more than 68,000 nautical miles. Many consider it to be the first true oceanographic expedition because it yielded a wealth of information about the marine environment.

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1957. First. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Raymond W. Thorp, Doc W.F. Carver Spirit Gun of the West, Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California. 1957. 266pp. 9 5/8 x 6.5 inches. Blue boards with gilt on spine. Deckle fore edge. Very light shelf wear and clean interior. Very good condition. Dust jacket is not price-clipped; light soiling with wrinkle to top front of jacket. Small chips on back. Jacket protected by mylar jacket. Very good condition. Biography of Doc Carver: frontiersman, trapper, buffalo hunter and marksman. Carver helped begin the Wild West Show concept touring throughout the world. Clark and Brunet 250 calls for red cloth yet no re-print noted.

[Lawrence Tibbett] Program for Performance at Stanford Pavilion February 17, 1930, Signed by Lawrence Tibbett. 6 x 9 inches. Program has split at horizontal fold. Chipping at top. Additional manuscript notes in black ink plus bold Tibbett signature in blue. Fair Condition. Program for Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's performance at the Stanford Pavilion of Stanford University, February 17, 1930. Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960), a baritone, played over 600 leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1923 to 1950 and also performed as a film actor and radio personality. Boldly signed by Tibbett in blue ink. Verso contains ad for Sherman, Clay & Co. Steinway Dealer in Oakland, California.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910. Good/None as issued. John Rae and Edith and Mildred Cowles. My School Days, A Record. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. 1910. 144pp. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Commercially produced 'guided' scrapbook with pages for signatures, photos, classmate remembrances, sororities and fraternities, letters, activities etc. Good condition with binding still holding but partially sprung due to laid or glued in material. Boards rubbed and soiled. Book owned and created by (Mary) Dorothy Tierney in 1914 as she was attending Mount de Sales Academy of the Visitation in Baltimore County Maryland. Bound at back is a printed 36pp. yearbook for the school which lists Tierney as a resident of nearby Baltimore Maryland. Also tipped in is the 1914 graduation program in which Tierney is listed as the Valedictory student and soloist singing Wiegand's Meadow Song. Contents include many calling cards and graduation cards, printed theater playbills, various invitations, a Barnum &… Read More

Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Company, 1926. Good. Outlaw Days: A True History of Early-Day Oklahoma Characters, Revised and enlarged from the records of Wm. Tilghman, Zoe A. Tilghman (Mrs. Bill Tilghman), Harlow Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, 1926, 4 3/8 x 6.75 inches, 138 pp. Staple-bound, fragile pictorial wrappers; front wrapper has a few small chips to edge and bottom right corner missing; front wrapper mostly detached from book, has been affixed to first page with clear tape to lower third; small piece of bottom left corner missing from back wrapper; wrappers moderately toned, pages lightly so; interior pages clean, unmarked; appears unread; several black and white photographs throughout. Good condition. A nice little book about Oklahoma outlaws active in the late nineteenth century. This book includes chapters on officers of the law and a general overview of "outlawry", as well as chapters on specific outlaws such as the Daltons, the Doolin gang, the Jennings gang, and Henry and… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Bazin & Chandler, 1853. Very Good. [Biblical Studies] A Lecture on the Deluge: Delivered in the City Hall, Charlestown, Mass., on Sunday Evening, January 9, 1853. Bazin & Chandler, Boston, Massachusetts, 1853. 29pp. 9 x 5 5/8 inches. Light brown string-tied pamphlet with black imprint on front. Some foxing, light soiling and chipping. Interior exhibits light foxing. Very Good. Lecture by Robert Townley (1816-1894) debunking the biblical story of the great deluge of forty days and nights of rain. "The science of Geology, however, demonstrates that the faith [deluge] is a superstition which has no foundation in fact." Townley was a pastor at Boston's First Universalist Church and a known Preterist, or one who holds that the prophecies in the Bible about the End Times have already been fulfilled. 6 copies found in institutions including 4 in the United States (Columbia, Harvard, State Library of Mass and Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky) as of January 2023.

Japan, 1850. Very good. 1850s Woodblock Print by Utagawa Toyokuni III, aka Utagawa Kunisada, Japan, 1850s, 4.5 x 7 inches, 1 pp. One black ink woodblock print on thin paper; ink bright and clean; a few small holes to edges due to thinness of paper; mounted on white paper mat, seems removable with little to no damage; overall very good condition. Utagawa Toyokuni III, otherwise known as Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), was the most successful, prolific, and popular designer of woodblock prints in 19th century Japan. He produced some 20,000 ukiyo-e designs, which was an art style focused on kabuki theater actors, beautiful women, sumo wrestlers, and more; ukiyo-e translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". This woodblock print was produced in the 1850s. Nice collector's item.

Aspen. Colorado, 1903. [Mining][Colorado] 1903 Mining Notes Aspen, Colorado Engineering Notebooks Smuggler Mine and Others. W.E. Tracy, Aspen, Colorado 1903. 4 x 6.5 inches. 72, 86 pp. Light wear to exterior of notebooks with worn label on front. Interior is remarkably clean. Pencil sketches remain very sharp. Very good condition. Two engineering notebooks of W.E. Tracy of Aspen Colorado. Tracy was superintendent of the Liberty Bell Gold Mining Co, in Aspen and published several technical articles on Aspen area mining including "Engineer and Mining Journal" titled " Cyanide Practice at the Liberty Bell Mill, Telluride, Colorado" from 1906. Sketches include pumps, timbering. ore bins, terminals, tramways, frames and shafts. Mines include the Smuggler, Durant, Mollie Gibson and Free Silver.

Pennsylvania: The Military Service Publishing Co, 1947. First. Hardcover. Good/Good. The Rifle: Its development for Big Game Hunting, S.R. Truesdell, The Military Service Publishing Co., Pennsylvania, 1947, viv, 274 pp., 9⅜ x 6½ inches. Dark green cloth with gold titling to spine, light wear to cover, rubbing to bottom edge, soiling to top and fore edges. First edition. Good condition. Dust jacket in protective mylar, corner wrinkled and chipped, piece 1½ x 2 inches missing top back of jacket, head and foot of spine shows wear. Good condition. "The full story of the development of the big game rifle from 1834-1946 from the large smoothbores, through the breachloading medium bores to the high velocity small mores...tells why they changed from rifle to rifle, what game they hunted with which weapon and cartridge, and what they thought of the various weapons and ammunition. It provides an analysis of the big game hunting rifle that is unique" (excerpt dust jacket flap).

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Ron Tyler, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, 1982, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, 480 pp. Mylar wrapped gray dust jacket with black and white lettering to front and spine, and color reproduction of Miller's painting "Buffalo Hunt" to front; very good condition. Dark burgundy cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering to spine; a few small dust spots to top edge of text block, otherwise pristine. Very good condition. Ron Tyler is the retired director of the Amon Carter Museum of American (formerly Western) Art. First edition, comprehensive study of the career of romantic painter Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), who was best known for his paintings depicting the fur trade in the Western United States.