Search Results: Titles starting with T from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: John Day Co., [1961]. 8vo. 254 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this history of the department in the Air Force, which is the first response to military aggression any where on the earth before it can spread to nuclear war. TAC is based on a dozen air fields across the country. Richards, former Aviation editor for the Oregonian, lives in Vancouver, Washington.

New York: John Day Co., [1961]. 8vo. 254 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this history of the department in the Air Force, which is the first response to military aggression any where on the earth before it can spread to nuclear war. TAC is based on a dozen air fields across the country. Richards, former Aviation editor for the Oregonian, lives in Vancouver, Washington.

Mexico City & Los Angeles, CA: Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, 1959. 4to. [10 pp (unpaginated).], 1 TLS on letterhead, 1 mimeographed timetable for Nogales a Guadalajara, 3 printed time tables for Linea de Mexico a Guadalajara, w/ minor folds, creases, still VG. Scarce Typed Letter Signed and time tables for traveling in Mexico in 1959 from Nogales down to Ayutla, Guatemala.

Redondo Beach, CA: TRW Systems Group, 1967. 12mo. 127, [1] pp. With numerous photo illustrations, text illustrations, charts, diagrams. Colour-illustrated softcovers (minor shelfwear), still VG copy, from the library of John R. Maticich (1933-2014), electrical engineer, computer engineer, former director of product development at Floating Point Systems, and then co-founder of Synergy computers, and finally Director of Engineering with Mentor Graphics after 1984 merger, ownership initials on fore-edges. Third edition, revised, of this biennial handbook issued by TRW Systems to provide data for the systematic application of computer techniques for solving aerospace engineering problems. Included are sections on the Solar system, geophysical environment, orbital mechanics, mission planning, and launch vehicle design and selection for rocket vehicles for space projects.

Montreal, Toronto & London: George N. Tackabury, [Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lithographic Co.], 1875. Folio. 14.25 x 17.75 in. 251, [1] pp. Colour lithograph illustrated title page, showing the Parliament Building in Ottawa, Canada from photograph by W. Notman, 53 colour lithograph maps (many double-page), many tables. Publisher’s plum-coloured embossed cloth, gilt decorative lettering on front cover, marbled endpapers (nicely rebacked in simulated black calf, corners renewed, some wear & rubbing to corners, 1 leaf w/ repairs to creases, minor tidemark to upper right corner not affecting maps), still G copy. First edition of this fine atlas of Victorian-era Canada, including maps of climatology, possessions, provinces (prior to Alberta, Saskatchewan & Newfoundland becoming provinces), plat maps of counties, Railways, as well as maps of the United States and Europe. Of particular interest are the city maps of Quebec, Ottawa, London, Hamilton, Kingston, Toronto, and Montreal. This excellent… Read More

Tacoma, WA: Puget Sound Printing Co., 1891. 8vo. 46, [2] pp. Woodcut-engraved plate, woodcut-engraved lozenge tail-piece. Recent blue-green buckram, gilt lettering on spine (small shelf number stamp at foot of title), otherwise a VG copy. First edition of this scarce land promotion work promoting the progress of Tacoma as one of the great railroad boom towns at the end of the 19th century. The plate at the opening of the book illustrates the massive Tacoma Western Washington Industrial Exposition building which when finished in early 1891 was the largest frame building on the West Coast, covering two blocks, and using nearly a half million board feet of lumber to build. Within two years, the bust and recession of 1893 would sweep away the booster spirit in the Pacific Northwest, and the city of Tacoma would join the rest of the region in a deep economic downturn which would last nearly to the end of the century. See: Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States,… Read More

Tacoma, WA: Kipp Associates for The City of Tacoma Department of Community Development, [1985]. 4to. [6], 143, [1] pp. Illust. title, with over 100 text illustrations, photos, maps, diagrams (1 large folding), some colour-tinted. Gray illustrated softcovers, cover art & lettering in red (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition of this scarce and invaluable report for the City of Tacoma, WA redevelopment movement, which intended to recognize the buildings being restored by their owners, and to establish special tax and zoning incentives in order to further promote the movement. This work details the buildings rehabilitated so far, some suggested projects, as well as providing an invaluable local history of Tacoma’s historic downtown.

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, [1933]. 8vo. 252 pp. Blue illust. cloth, illust. & lettrng in blk (vry lght uniform toning), w/ d.j. cover art by J. Clemens Gretta (sml clsd tear frnt cvr, edgewear), NF/VG-. First edition, of this title in the Tahara adventure series.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1961. Thick 8vo. 574 pp. Red cloth, blue lettering on front cover & spine, w/ d.j. (slight chipping head of spine, minor creasing, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy, inscribed by author on ffep. First edition, inscribed, of this informative memoir of the Korean War and its aftermath, including the deposing of Syngman Rhee after a rigged election, and the military coup that followed. Rhee was especially bitter about the refusal by the Americans to march into North Korea.

[England: n.p.], 1911. Tall 8vo. 5 pp. on thick card stock printed in gilt & black (7 x 10.24 in.), with 240 vegetable ivory buttons, all with stock numbers below, and to the side, many in the dark brown patterned material, some jet black, and many with incised, or woven patterns, each page with padded pink silk leaves to protect the buttons, each of the cards has some contemporary ink annotations below the buttons, or along the side in the margins. Quarter-black calf over black pebbled cloth, gilt lettering & design on front cover, spine (minor chipping & tearing to head of spine affecting lettering, slight shelfwear), still a VG- exemplar, with the buttons entirely complete and in perfect condition. First edition of this very scarce and beautiful Edwardian button sample catalogue. Included are a number of different styles of buttons in vegetable ivory for clothing, coats, sportswear and more, which were sold by this English manufacturer for export. Vegetable Ivory is a very dense material that is… Read More

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1933. 32mo. 314, [2] pp. Title page in colour. Illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated boards (minor edgewear, slight bumping head & foot of spine), still VG- copy. First edition, 2nd printing (hardcover spine, still retains coloured title page) of No. 747 in the Big Little Book Series.

New York: Avalon Books, [1958]. 8vo. 224 pp. Blue cloth, blk lettrng (mnr soilng frm offsettng of old plasti-kleer brodart jackets), w/ d.j. cover art by Jon Nielsen, VG-/VG. First edition of this scarce Avalon title.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1993]. 8vo. xii, [2], 370 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Brown leather, gilt decoratn on cvrs, spine, raised bands, a.e.g., silk moire endpapers, signed by author on half-title. First edition, signed of this account of Waites imprisonment by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut from 1987 through 1991.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., [1945]. 4to. 66, [2] pp. Colour illust. title, over 50 colour illusts., colour illust. endpapers. Colour illust. boards (mnr shlfwr, slght rubbng), w/ d.j. (couple mnr clsd tears, edgewear, mnr chppng hd & ft of spine), VG/G- copy. First edition edition of this wonderfully illustrated World War II era children’s book.

New York: Privately Printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. 8vo. [10], 268 pp. Frontisp., 6 plates. Orchid-coloured cloth, silver nude front cover & spine lettering (slightly bowed, very slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of nude seated amidst flowered plants (couple very minor closed tears, very slight shelfwear), VG/VG copy. First edition, thus, of this group of gaily wicked poems embellished and retold in Rabelaisian verse by La Fontaine, including an unexpurgated seelection including the famous paraphrases of Boccaccio’s “The Nightingale” and “The Devil in Hell.” Titles in Godwin’s “Famous Classics of Love” series in original dustjackets are quite scarce.

New York: Leslie-Judge Co., 1912. 8vo. [6], 198 pp. Title in red & blk. Frntsp. Three-quarter pebbled cloth, VG. Reprint edition of Vol. III of this anthology including stories by Lady Margaret Majendie, H.J. Moncrieff, C.L. Lewis, Maurice Kingsley, and Alfred Harcourt.

New York: Leslie-Judge Co., 1912. 8vo. [6], 188 pp. Title in red & blk. Frntsp. Three-quarter pebbled cloth, VG. Reprint edition of Vol. II of this anthology including stories by Hamley, Lockhart, and O.W. Oliphant.

New York & [Sauk City, WI]: Published for Arkham House by Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1952]. 8vo. ix, [3], 321, [1] pp. Brick-red publisher’s cloth, black lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. cover art by Ronald Clyne (slight sunning to spine, age toning), still VG/VG copy. First Arkham House edition, 1 of 3500 copies printed, of this exceptional anthology of macabre and weird science fiction stories, issued originally in Amazing Stories and Weird Tales, featuring such noted stories as: The Worm, The Thing in the Cellar, The Dead Woman, The Yeast Men, and others.

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., [1938]. Tall 8vo. xi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Colour frntsp., over 100 black & white illusts. Green cloth, colour plate mounted front cover (very slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. (slight chipping head of spine, couple very minor closed tears), VG/VG copy. Early printing of this delightful anthology of humorous tales from Grimm, Andersen, and other fairy tales. One title in the Garden City Children’s Books series.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2003]. Thick 4to. 412, [2] pp. Colour frntsp., numerous colour plates, numerous plates, illust. head- and tail-pieces. Full black calf, gilt decorated spine, frnt & bk cvr, raised bands, silk endpapers, a.e.g., NF copy, w/ Easton Press Collector’s Library Archive Notes laid-in. Early Easton Press edition with the famed Harry Clarke illustrations, much scarcer than the William Sharp edition.