Search Results: Authors starting with T from The Bookworm

Philadelphia:: J B Lippincott, 1976.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with cloth at the spine; the spine is slightly slanted, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with drawings by Pamela Johnson. ''For years, Gladys Taber's myriad fans and friends have urged her to share with them her life before she moved to Stillmeadow, her 17th-century Connecticut farmhouse. This book is that eagerly awaited story -- a reminiscence of her life from childhood to the present. Mrs. Taber re-creates her childhood in the mining country of the Southwest and Mexico; the warm, small-town life in Appleton, Wisconsin, her years at Wellesley College during World War I and her marriage to music instructor Frank Taber; her life in New York during World War II, pursuing a writing career on Manhattan's Upper West Side and on to the present.''

Philadelphia:: J B Lippincott, 1974.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth with black spine text; the spine is somewhat slanted, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket spine is faded; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Pale olive endpapers. Description: This copy is Signed by the author. Illustrated with drawings by Pamela Johnson. ''Here is Gladys Taber at her best, writing about Stillmeadow. In this seventeenth-century Connecticut farmhouse and its lovely surroundings, Mrs. Taber finds something new to observe and feel with each passing day, with each changing season. Whether she is setting out a warm dinner for skunks, raccoons, and barn cats, or making potpourri from the petals of summer roses, her life is a constant celebration of nature. She invites her readers to share her pleasure in the masses of wild irises that grace the fields in May, the music of cicadas and the musky fragrance of goldenrod that… Read More

Wheaton, Illinois:: Crossway Books, 1998.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: purple boards with gilt text; rubbed at the corners, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.. about 10.25 inches tall by 9.25 inches wide . sprinkled endpapers. Description: Illustrated on every double-page spread with a full page oil painting by Craig Nelson. Card catalog description: ''A disillusioned artist, who feels his talent will never match that of his father, is restored by the older man's love and faith.''

Tokyo:: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1969.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; reinforced binding for this heavy volume; Very Good condition; the buckram covered slipcase has paste-on title labels; some fading, otherwise Very Good.. 13 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide . Index of advertisers. Description: Lavishly illustrated throughout in color. This publication comes out once a year (beginning in 1954) and features ''a wide range of articles by leading authorities on social problems, economics, politics, art, and literature. In addition, every issue contains expertly translated stories and essays by top-flight Japanese writers.'' One highlight from this issue is Don Quixote in Samurai Guise (Prints by Keisuke Serizawa). Special report on Islands of the (Seto) Inland Sea: Lairs of the Forgotten Pirates by Rowland G Gould. The End of the Land by Michael Connors (About the Shimokita Peninsula at the northernmost tip of Honshu. Here, blind mediums talk to the dead.) Much, much more.

New York:: Sterling Publishing Company, 2002.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. about 9.5 inches square . Description: Well illustrated in color. This is from a six-book workshop series, Art Techniques from Pencil to Paint. This approach takes readers through the natural progression from drawing to painting and shows the common effects that can be achieved by each of the principal media, using a variety of techniques. Each book in the series features six main sections comprising of exercises and tutorials worked in the principal media. Supportive sections on materials and tips, plus color mixing.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1953.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth; the paper is tanning, the spine is slightly slanted; a Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Reisie Lonette. Author photo by C. Bennette Moore. Born in New Orleans in 1909, author Robert Tallant worked as editor on the Louisiana WPA Writers Project during the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction, including two titles in the young reader's Landmark series. This book is a sequel to Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night, and is also set in Crescent City, Louisiana. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Romance temporarily comes a cropper, but Mrs Candy, undaunted and unaided, manages to unsnarl some pretty tangled love knots in this hilarious sequel.''

Self Published, 2006.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue binding with gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket has a short tear, mended externally with magic tape, otherwise the jacket is Near Fine.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Description: This copy is Signed by the author with a personalized inscription. One map and one black and white illustration. An aviation novel: ''Coerced to play a game not of their choosing, sustained by anger and an anachronistic sense of brotherhood, a group of aviators have cast their lot together in the dubious business of smuggling goods into Mexico. Drawn into a web of deceit and greed, politics and power, the group must step into the lion's den in El Salvador to save a friend, and then themselves.'' Lone Palm Publishing.

New York:: Lyons Press, 1999.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray binding with black at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Description: Black and white photo illustrations; ten color illustrations. ''A thorough guide to all aspects of fly rodding for bass -- tackle, bugs (and how to tie them), casting techniques and strategies, and how to find fish in all seasons.'' William Tapply is also the author of the Brady Coyne mystery series (Brady does manage to get in a little fishing).

Glendale, California:: Arthur H Clark Company, 1973.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: reddish-tan cloth; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is rather drastically price clipped, though no loss of text.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Bibliography, index. Description: Includes a frontis portrait plate and twelve additional black and white photo plates. Stanley Vestal (Walter Stanley Campbell), was a novelist, biographer, historian, artillery captain, Rhodes Scholar, an exhaustive researcher. and a plainsman in love with the Indian way of life. Author Ray Tassin utilized voluminous unpublished autobiographical data and correspondence available at the University of Oklahoma's Western History Collection where most of Vestal's life was spent.

New York:: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1955.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) .

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1983.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: dark brown bonded leather with gilt text, stamped decoration on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker; both volumes are in Very Good+ condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Notes, appendix. Marbled endpapers. Description: Each volume has a colorized frontis, with three additional black and white illustrations (''with illustrations by the author'').. This was first published in 1850 in two volumes; this two-volume reprint edition is from the Time-Life Classics of the Old West series. Each book in the series has been photographically reproduced from the original edition. The subtitle reads: ''Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel''. One of the true classics of the Gold Rush literature. Taylor was sent (by Horace Greeley) to California as a newspaper… Read More

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1983.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: dark brown bonded leather with gilt text, stamped decoration on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker; each book has an embossed ownership seal on the blank page that has publisher's statement on the verso; Good condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Notes, appendix. Marbled endpapers. Description: Each volume has a colorized frontis, with three additional black and white illustrations (''with illustrations by the author'').. This was first published in 1850 in two volumes; this two-volume reprint edition is from the Time-Life Classics of the Old West series. Each book in the series has been photographically reproduced from the original edition. The subtitle reads: ''Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel''. One of the true classics of the Gold Rush… Read More

Self Published, 1975.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Good condition.. 10 inches tall by 7.75 inches wide . Bibliography. Description: The introduction states ''The information compiled herein has been assembled over a period of about twenty years, but systematically only during the past five years. As a student at the University of Michigan and then the University of California I had access to the library facilities of those institutions. And subsequently while working for the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Museum, and from the facilities of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Valuable additional information has been obtained by the receipt of reprints from individual colleagues, and special visits to other libraries. The 'index by species' is perhaps the most valuable part of this compilation provided one makes allowance for the caliber of published identifications (about half are unreliable).'' The geographic scope of the book is the area of North America from the Greet… Read More

New York:: St Martin's Press, 1979.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two tone boards, brown with beige at the spine; the spine is slightly skewed, otherwise a Very Good books; with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is very good but for fading at the spine.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Joel Iskowitz. Set in eleventh-century Spain against the backdrop of mortal strife between Christian and Muslim, this is the story of a woman, Jimena Gomez, who is forced to choose between two cultures and two men. One of the men is a bold young knight who will come to be known as El Cid, and the other a wealthy and powerful Arab whom El Cid has wronged. Rear gutter code 'J-16''' indicates a printing date of April, 1979.

New York:: Zebra Books / Kensington, 1992 - October.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo, dust jacket art by Bob Berran BINDING/CONDITION: white paper covered boards with navy blue cloth at the spine; the book is cocked, otherwise Very Good-, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dj is NOT price clipped

Berkeley, California:: Ten Speed Press, 2000.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: olive green boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. about 9.75 inches tall by 7.75 inches wide . Index. Photo endpapers. Description: Several black and white illustrations. From the first Spanish ships to touch California's shores to the rise of a thriving industry with hundreds of olive growers, canners, and oil makers, this traces the path of this sturdy, life-giving tree as it developed into a California agricultural phenomenon. The olive was one of California's first significant crops, drawing interest from nurserymen and farmers across the state. From San Diego -- the location of the Spanish missionaries' first harvest of California olives -- to Corning -- the self-proclaimed olive capital -- the olive became a signature California crop. This brings all the history together for the first time. Meticulously researched, this is a timely… Read More

New York:: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) . Index. Description: Lavishly illustrated in b&w and color. A collection of weird and wonderful flying machines. The author points out that many important milestones in aviation development have been attained by unconventional aircraft, and while a particular flying machine from the past might look bizarre to us in retrospect, yet could have been viewed as a perfectly sensible line of approach to contemporary onlookers. Similarly, strange-looking aircraft that we know flew well, and so tend to view in a different light, might have been seen as 'barking mad' at the time. Among the strange aircraft that proved to be highly successful in their assigned tasks and added to the pool of aviation knowledge were the Bell X-1, a little rocket-powered airplane, air-dropped from a bomber -- the first aircraft to break the… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall, July, 1971.. 11th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: patterned yellow binding; one small stain on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9 inches tall) . Reading list. Description: ''From the real Shangri-La -- the amazing 2,000 year-old secrets of the Hunzakuts who live in almost perfect mental and physical health and stay youthfully active for over one hundred years! Here are Hunza recipes, nutrition secrets, exercises and ways to diet.'' (from the front cover).

New York:: Dover Publications, 1979.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block; the text block was bound in just a wee bit off vertically, and as a result the top edge was not cleanly trimmed as most pages had to be 'opened by hand'.; Good condition.. 4to (12.25 inches tall) . Description: This Dover edition is a republication -- in one volume -- of three separate volumes. The book presents the full scores for: Fourth Symphony in F Minor Op 36; Fifth Symphony in E Minor, Op 64; Sixth Symphony in B Minor, Op 74. A glossary of French and German terms used in the score -- including instrumentation -- is included.

Chicago:: Privately printed, 1924.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding with darker green at the spine and corners; the binding material has suffered an unsightly mottling; especially affecting the front cover, otherwise in Very Good condition.. 8vo (8 inches tall) . Description: The author's foreword declares: ''This volume is in large part made up of articles which I have written at different times during the past forty years, descriptive of some of my hunting an fishing trips. They are not in any sense published, but are printed as a convenient means of preservation.'' The following is from Heller's American Hunting and Fishing Books (number 639) ''With chapters on deer hunting and trout fishing in the Lake Superior region; hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose, and grizzly in British Columbia; and deer camouflaged in the woods.'' Printed by R R Donnelly at the Lakeside Press, Chicago.