Search Results: Titles starting with T from The Curiosity Book Shop

New York: American Book Company, 1948 Square-format stapled card covers with two tone color (red and blue) illustration of two children watching a plane take off. Short, abbreviated form of the Teacher's Guide is printed on inside covers. With 48 pages of colorful illustrations, some unlabeled but illustrating concepts, some labeled with single words to indicate sounds, and some with short phrases or other early reading examples. Very light cover wear. Erasure mark to upper corner of cover (formerly numbered in pencil). Otherwise clean and intact.

Washington, D.C.: Departments of the Army and the Air Force, 1957 Exterior Fair+/Interior VG- Light card wraps; staple-bound text; 264 pages. Combined Department of the Army Technical and Department of the Air Force Manual. This manual superceded TM-5297 (1943) and TB-5-297 (1944). With numerous black-and-white drawings, photographs, and diagrams and detailed text about types of wells and drilling methods. Covers moderately edgeworn, scuffed, and soiled. Clear tape repair by prior owner to damaged upper third of spine. Cover partially pulled away from text block at spine and re-glued for stability. Prior owner private library inkstamp to cover and inside front cover. Few inked digits at upper margin of Contents page; tiny date inkstamp to upper margin of final page. Main text clean, tight, and only faintly worn.

Wildlife Society of Southern Africa, Western Cape Branch, 1987 Square format, staple-bound; 44 pages, plus inside-cover map. With many color and black-and-white photographs and line drawings depicted natural history highlights.

London: John Wiley & Sons, 1910 Original Cloth. Eighth edition, rewritten; total issue sixteen thousand. Original copyrights 1888, 1907, 1909. Moderate-to-heavy wear/fraying of cover extremities. Prior owner name at upper front endpaper. Some previous owner pasted neatly-handwritten tables of "Solution of Problems in Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Gases" onto second set of front blank endpapers. Foldout temperature graph (origin unknown) pasted onto inside rear cover. Header boxes of many of the tables have been colored in with various colors, apparently for quick reference. Neat notes to blank rear endpapers. Binding tight.

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1909 Pictorial tan cloth with black, white, and red illustration covering front and rear boards (man holding bulldog is walking with woman and child while an elderly couple looks on from behind). Heartwarming novel about a foundling child and his bulldog companion. With black-and-white drawings throughout. Ads in rear for L.C. Page new fiction titles. Faint soil to cover cloth. Prior owner inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Upper corner of front endpaper diagonally clipped. Interior clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

St. Paul: The Price McGill Company, 1893 Original Cloth. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by John Henderson Garnsey. Stories include: "Captured by Cannibals," "A Battle With a Kangaroo," "Treed By an Elephant," and "In a Shark's Mouth." Decorative cover; gilt title and spine. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; one 1/2"x1/8" chip out of cloth at lower rear spine edge; spine slightly cocked; few light-to-moderate cover stains. Upper corners first two free front endpapers clipped; rear free endpapers heavily foxed; occasional small, light stains to text margins; binding tight.

Providence: The Providence Journal Company, 1976 Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Oblong format. With black-and-white and color photographs, including one on heavy card at rear, by [Providence] "Journal-Bulletin" photographers. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Very small area of heavy rubbing at upper corner rear endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight.

Norwood, Massachusetts: The Copper Mill Press, 1983 Chronicle of the F.O. Winslow family of Norwood, Massachusetts and its tannery business, one of the largest of its kind and a vital part of Norwood's history. First page states that this is a "collector's edition. . . only 2,000 copies of the book having been published and less than 1,500 made available to the general public." Although each copy was supposed to have been individually numbered by the authors, and there is a space for this number, the designated space within this copy is blank. With a small reproduction old map of the town and several black-and-white photograph reproductions. Faint cover edgewear. Clean and tight.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994 Near Fine/Very Good+ Clean, tight, and unworn.

Springfield, Massachusetts: The Gordon Flagg Co., 1904 Good+/No Jacket. Second edition. Essays. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on front endpaper: "To the [? nightly] editor of the Transcript--from the author," followed by a handwritten quote on grief by Thomas Hood. Gold-stamped green paper covered boards. Wear to spine edges, especially head of spine, including 1/4" fraying of paper. Two text pages have short closed tears at lower margins. Clean and tight.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927 Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. With illustrations from etchings. Some of the articles which form the basis for this book were first published in "The Cosmopolitan," then published in book form in 1896 under the title "The Land of the Castanet." After the author made five more visits to Spain, however, new material was added. Faint rubbing to cover extremities; upper half of front cover cloth is slightly sunned. Clean and tight.

Cooperstown, New York: The Arthur H. Crist Co., 1913 Cloth. Part of Teaching Truth Series, with letters "TT" on spine. Intended for mothers. . ."with a prayer that the Spirit of Truth may go with it and breathe in its words." [From 1892 Preface]. Frontis black-and-white photograph of author. Ads in rear. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover corners and spine edges; spine rubbed; faint reddish staining along rear spine edge/cover. Very faint prior owner name and single 1 1/2" black line on front endpaper; interior otherwise clean and tight.

Orono, Maine: New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center, University of Maine No date; circa 1976. Second edition revised. 102 pages.

Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1940 Good+. Staple-bound digest-size manual; tan card covers. Prepared under the direction of The Quartermaster General. Many sample forms--tally sheets, shipping tickets, requisitions, etc.-- are illustrated, including one fold-out at rear. Light-to-moderate cover stains and edgewear. Staples somewhat rusted. Interior clean and tight.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 TM 1-705, July 25, 1941. Staple-bound; 127 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. With sections on decreased oxygen pressure, stratosphere flying, emergency and delayed-action parachute ascents, psychiatry in relation to flying personnel, and more. Light cover wear. Interior clean and intact.

Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1940 Very Good-. Staple-bound card covers; 28 pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Half-inch to one-inch wide dampstain along upper margin front and rear cover; light dampstain upper margin rear endpaper. Otherwise clean and intact with light wear to cover extremities.

Washington D.C.: War Department, 1941 Good+. Staple-bound stiff wraps, 140 pages. TM 11-455. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Moderate cover wear; few faint dampstains to upper cover edge. Interior clean and tight.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1967 Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. With numerous black-and-white drawings and illustrations and a few color plates. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities; library lettering to lower spine/front cover near spine. Diagonal crease to lower corner page 135/136. Internal library marks: bookplate inside front cover; pocket-removal remnant to inside rear cover; embossed library seal title page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bond Astronomical Club, Harvard University Custom-bound by prior owner in dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine; prior owner initials at lower spine. Decorative endpapers. Periodical beginning with Volume I, No. 1, July, 1933, and continuing after April 1934 bi-monthly through Volume IV, Number 6, November-December 1937. According to Charles Federer, author of an article entitled "The Story of 'The Sky,'" ("Sky and Telescope, November, 1986), "The Telescope" was a magazine for amateur astronomers published between 1931 and 1941; it later became "Sky and Telescope." The original editor was Harlan Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory in Ohio. When Stetson moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1934, he brought the magazine with him. Publishing duties were assumed jointly by the Harvard College Observatory and the Bond Astronomical Club, and the magazine became a bimonthly publication (it was previously published quarterly). A… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964 Good. Ex-Library. Translation by Margaret D. Senft from the Fourth Edition (1955) of the book "Zehn kleine hausgenossen," published in Munich by the Ernst Heimeran Verlag. Household insect pests. Black-and-white drawings. Library marks/repairs as follows: front and rear hinges reinforced with wide strip blue tape; several inkstamps to half-title page and rear endpaper; "date due" slip affixed to rear endpaper; spine label. Cover lightly worn.