Search Results: Authors starting with T from DuBois Rare Books

London: Ellipsis, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good/None Issued. 272 p. ; 11 cm. Square 48mo. Photo pictorial wraps. Book condition: Bonked around a bit, rear panel lamination loose in spots, a little fatigue. Interior top notch.

Mihato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan: The Nihon Ki-in, 1969. 17th printing of the 1956 First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 130pp. Comb bound soft cover. Octavo. Condition: Very Good. Showing it's age a bit but v. bright and without tears, cracks in the comb or any other obvious condition issues. The author was the National Go Champion of Japan.

Tokyo: Shukyosha, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 preliminary leaves, 326 pages, 1 leaf 18 x 10 cm. 16mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original deep wine red cloth over boards, lettering to front cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. A clever, nicely preserved copy. We have a fondness for the Dictionaries & Grammars category, especially since out of all the printed book categories their days would seem to among the most desperately numbered. We'd never heard of an Aeronautical glossary per se so we were delighted when we tumbled onto a few. That is until we really started pondering who these little pocket guides were actually for. English is the lingua franca of civilian aviation, they had to pick one and English seemed to do nicely. America does make most of the planes, so there's that. So leafing through the pages and coming across the Japanese translation for, say, "emergency alighting area", or "amount of gas leakage", in 7 point type casts the urgency of need for something exactly… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1927. First Edition, First Printing so stated. Hardcover. 1 vol. (543 p.) ; 20 cm. Black cloth over boards with orange spine label and orange label on front cover. Book condition: very good plus, wear to the extremities, small chip to the corner of the spine label, a little dusty on the top edge. Owners presentation on half title dated February 1, 1929, inscribed in a very nice hand. Lacking the dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1900. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Lacking. 1913. 115 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. 12mo. Red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Darkened from handling v. mild wear to extremities. Rock solid.

New York: Nan A. Talese, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 194pp.: illustrations ; 19 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: light wear to the extremities, faint signs of handling. Well received memoir of author's experience taking care of his aging parents.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. xv, 188 p. : frontis. (col.), ill. by Tory Taylor; illustrated with specially commissioned original frontis-art by Dick Williams and photographs from the author's private collection. A presentation copy warmly inscribed by the author. Publishers original cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Spine shows mild fading, else fine. Dick Williams original frontis-art adorns the slipcase which shows a bit of wear to the edges and some finger soiling here and there.

Canada: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Canadian Edition (true first edition) first printing so stated with full number line. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 432 pp. Hardcover. Black paper covered boards, copper spine lettering. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. Pristine signed copy of well received first book by author Timothy Taylor.

London: Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine. ix, 78 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 4to. Goldenrod colored stiff wraps. Book Condition: Covers a little dusty else fine. "Report of a visit to the United States of America in 1950 of a productivity team representing the letterpress printing industry." Copiously illustrated. A fascinating exercise in trans-Atlantic cooperation between the Brits and the Yanks of the respective printing industries.

Geneve: Gallery Eric Franck, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. (Edition limited to 2000 copies). Wraps. Very Good. 84 p. ill. 29 cm. Oblong folio. Softcover. Perfectbound in glossy white wraps, lettering in black to upper panel. Book Condition: covers show light soiling, turned tips; interior pristine. Limited edition of 2000 unnumbered copies. In French and English. Catalog of some of Oppemheim's most fantastic and elaborate sculptures; including: "A Device to Convert Chilling Underground Winds Into Memory" and "Station for Detaining and Blinding Radio-Active Horses"

London: Society for Education in Film and Television, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine. 96pp. illus. 24cm. 8vo. Perfectbound wraps. Condition: Mild wear to extremities else fine.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1902. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. xi, 913 pp. 17 cm. 12mo. Hardcover. Frontispiece. Publisher's original burgundy cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and decorations to upper cover; top edge gilt. Book Condition: PO inscription to ffep, faint tide mark to ffep, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: none issued. From the publisher: "The text is reproduced, word for word, including punctuation, from the Cambridge edition.

Lancaster Place: Little, Brown & Co, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. (UK / True First). Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. ix, 454 p. ; 23 cm. Showing a bit of that British paper yellowing, but just a bit. Spine ends with the gentlest push. A v. sharp copy.

New York: Abbeville Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing so stated with full number line. Near Fine/Near Fine. 175 pp. Folio. 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with red spine lettering and blindstamped title on front board. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding tight and square, corners sharp, text unmarked and apparently unread, edges clean and white. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine to Very Good+. Tiniest of dings here and there but also a lack of sparkle that a DJ needs to have to be considered in Fine condition. That said the colors are bright and fresh, tips sharp, extremities book store keen. Heidi Hollinger has captured the spirit of the Russian people with sympathetic portraits that reveal how some emerging Russians relish their new opportunities while others, rooted in the past, struggle to survive in their changing world. 175 photographs, 140 in full color.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 volumes: Vol. I - 416pp. Vol. II- 435pp. Vol. III- 431pp. 22cm. Hardcover. 3/4 crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, gilt decorations, borders, lettering and top edge gilt. Book Condition(s): Very mild wear to extremities, tips & hinges primarily. Fore edges a little dusty, and on two volumes have small splash marks; otherwise, bindings very sound, pages and plates bright and unmarred. A handsome set.

np: The Armenian National Committee, 1979. Pamphlet. Near Fine. [6 p. - One long leaf. Folded towards the center, back-third first, front-third second to make a quarto size 6 page pamphlet (printed on both sides) ]. A call to action with regard to upcoming votes in the United Nations concerning a report entitled "The Study on the Question of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". This report, commonly known as the Ruhashyankiko Report (after Nicodène Ruhashyankiko the special Rapporteur appointed in 1973 to produce it) was ultimately approved for the widest possible distribution by the UN sub-commission but not before some fairly mild language mentioning the Armenian massacre during WWI as a bona fide genocide was removed under pressure from Turkey, realizing precisely the fears mentioned in this pamphlet. Encourages the public to exert itself politically and pressure the UN to do the right thing. Nicely printed on cream colored medium weight stock with exuberent typography, one… Read More

New York: The New York Recorder, 1896. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 1 print. Offset lithograph on thin paper. 21 cm x 15 cm. Verso blank. Condition: Very Good. Small closed tear at edge impinging into picture and very small chip to edge, margin only. Print is numbered with red ink stamp on image. Scarce souvenir print published by The New York Recorder which would have been distributed as an insert inside a paper. Ephemeral in the extreme, this copy has survived in remarkably fine fettle. Rare as such.

New York: Dial Press, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 431 pages. Publisher's binding, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned and worn, some wear to jacket extremities, a few short creased tears, some rubbing to binding, bookplate.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. 512pp. Rust colored paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.