Search Results: Titles starting with T from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Good plus with toned vellum-like paper spine with leather spine label over paper covered boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, stain to fore edge, pages browned from age and paper quality, professional repairs to spine and hinges. Nevertheless, a respectable copy of a noted rarity.. Limited edition #79 of 105 copies, signed by the author (who is most famous for the children's classic, The Velveteen Rabbit). Notable as a Rackham limited edition which he didn't sign. This work is frequently cited as the "rarest Rackham" limited edition and was never issued in England as a limited edition. With 7 tissue-guarded tipped-in plates by Rackham. 4to. xiv, 15-175pp., [1]. Latimore & Haskell, pgs. 59-60.

London: William Heinemann, 1923. First Edition. Very good but with front hinge broken. The scarce original dust jacket is present but spine darkened and large open tear to rear panel.. Signed by Max Beerbohm. First edition being a limited edition of 380 numbered copies signed by Beerbohm, of which only 350 were for sale, this copy being number 315. With an additional plate signed by Beerbohm in the back pocket. Large 4to. Cream gilt printed cloth.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition. Very good without dust jacket and water stain to edges of ffep.. Signed, limited edition of 520 copies, this being copy 232. Printed at the Windmill Press.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. Very good but with with somewhat grubby boards.. Number 45 of 250 copies. Introduction by Pre-Raphaelite W.M. Rossetti. Bookplates of former owners, including Edward Crane, noted collector and publisher. Top edge gilt.

Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1811. Good in contemporary plain pink paper covers (though AAS copy has printed wraps), slightly soiled, hinges cracked, foxing on pastedown illustrations.. Lovely chapbook filled with illustrations. Much scarcer than later printings. Rosenbach 448. Shaw-Shoemaker 24052. Welch 215. 12 cm.16 pp. + 8 leaves of plates ill., with first and last pasted down to covers as usual.

London: Printed at the Minerva Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1807. About good in well-worn blue paper board with spine label with substantial loss, hinges loose, prior owner name to title page, some soiling and dog-eared pages, but contents generally clean. Nevertheless desirable as a very scarce item.. Scarce Minerva Press imprint of two travel works. Curiously, apart from the Minerva title page, this volume seems identical to Volume XXII of Mavor's Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of Columbus to the present period . . . (1801), even containing the same pagination, printer imprint, and volume numbering (as Minerva was known to place their imprint on those of other publishers). 12mo. [viii], [1]-318. Frontispiece and engravings at pgs. 93 and 265. Not in Blakey. Not is McLeod. Two copies located on Worldcat as of February 2021 (Yale and NLS).

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First American Edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket with only slight shelfwear.. Signed by Eco on the title page. First American edition. An essay in the book, "Dreaming in the Middle Ages" helped to popularize the neologism "neo-medievalism

Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, 1853. Good with foxing, prior owners name in ink twice and final leaf torn a bit but not affecting text.. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, "take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important hour of death". 32mo. [2], [3]-8pp. Not in Rosenbach. In publisher's wraps, but this appears to be a variant as the rear wrapper has different wording that OCLC 950909583.

London: Printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly, 1798. First Edition. Good with prior pagination to all pages and light stamp to title verso, otherwise clean, bound into modern boards of which the front is detached.. First edition of a British patriotic screed against a potential French invasion and the threat of "Gallic oppression." Scarce. 12mo. 20pp. ESTC T59443.