Search Results: Titles starting with T from Classic Books and Ephemera

Ansonia, Conn: T. P. Terry, 1880. Cards. Very Good. 6 trade cards advertising T. P. Terry, dealer in stoves and house furnishings in Ansonia, Conn. Each was printed by Eureka Print Co., New Haven, and has a gilt background on the front and no printing on the back. Four are 12 x 5 cm. with illustrations in green or pink of a woman or a fairy. One is 11 x 7.2 cm. and advertises the "New Hub" range with an illustration of a child painting a portrait of a turtle; published by Sunshine Publishing co., Philadelphia. One is 6.8 x 10.4 cm. and advertises the "Empress" range with an illustration of a child surrounded by over-sized flowers; published 1880 by the Thomas W. Price Co. In Very Good Condition: slightly rubbed and lightly soiled; illustrations are bright and crisp.

Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Approx. 200 p.: illustrations, one folded; 31 cm. Black cover with blind-stamped spine title and cover illustration. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. This book documents the work following the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York to decide how to use the land. A study of "an extraordinary period of debate, reflection and struggle . . . that began September 2001 and ended in February 2003 with the selection of a master plan defines the scope of this book." -- p. [10]. It focuses on the four designers (Shigeru Ban, Frederic Schwartz, Ken Smith, and Rafael Vinoly) who worked together as THINK, which was selected as one of two finalist design teams for the master plan. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority international. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: upper edge… Read More

Fresno, CA: T N T Publishing Co, 1924. Paperback. Fair +. 96 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "Tim's Film Review" and "Hollywood Follies" -- front cover. Produced by three men who served during World War One: H. A. Van Dusen, A. E. F.; Vern F. Cox, Hawaiian Service; and F. K. Emich, 91st Division. Contains contemporary humor and news with a focus on flappers, Hollywood, and Prohibition. Includes a brief comment on Ku Klux Klan activity in the western U.S. indicated by "KIGY" written in public locations, meaning "Klan I Greet You"; and a poem, Evolution by Marion Hamilton Wood, which begins "When you were a flapper and I was a sheik." Extremely scarce. In Fair+ Condition: cover is detached and separated along spine; page edges are browning; otherwise, clean and solid; front cover illustration is clean and bright.

Fresno, CA: T N T Publishing Co, 1924. Paperback. Good +. 96 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with cover photograph of unidentified female nude. "Tim's Film Review" and "Hollywood Follies" -- front cover. Contains contemporary humor with a focus on flappers and Hollywood. Produced by three men who served during World War One: H. A. Van Dusen, A. E. F.; Vern F. Cox, Hawaiian Service; and F. K. Emich, 91st Division. Includes the text of Casey at the Bat, as recited by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. An extremely scarce publication. In Good+ Condition: some loss over spine and along edges of cover; browning along edges of pages; clean and solid.

Fresno, CA: T N T Publishing Co, 1924. Paperback. Very Good. 96 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "Tim's Film Review" and "Hollywood Follies" -- front cover. Produced by three men who served during World War One: H. A. Van Dusen, A. E. F.; Vern F. Cox, Hawaiian Service; and F. K. Emich, 91st Division. Contains contemporary humor and news with a focus on flappers, Hollywood, and Prohibition. Extremely scarce. In Very Good Condition: small closed tears in edges of cover; page edges are browning; otherwise, clean and solid.

Keulen, Netherlands: Pieter Hamer, 1700. Paperback. Fine. 40 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-E4. B3 missigned B5. (4to). Plain wrapper. Woodcut title vignette and initial letter. Knuttel, 14502. A debate over the Spanish succession in the form of a dialogue between Pasquin and Marphorio. In Fine Condition. A very scarce pamphlet relating to the Spanish succession, published shortly before the War of the Spanish Succession began.

Chicago: Quadrangle Paperbacks, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. xxiv, [2], 294 p.: 1 illustration; 21 cm. Paperback. First published in 1944; this is a reprint of the 1953 edition. David E. Lilienthal (1899-1981) served as chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1941 to 1946 and then as chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The TVA had been established in 1933 to control flooding and generate power along the Tennessee River. One of the most popular New Deal agencies, it became a model for regional planning, in spite of opposition by conservatives who called it "socialism." In the Author's Note to the 1953 edition, the author emphasizes that the "unprecedented rate of economic growth and development that occurred in the first decade of the TVA" had continued. In Very Good Condition: cover lightly soiled and rubbed; upper corner of front cover creased; pages are clean and tight.

Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741. Paperback. Near Fine. [46] p.: entirely tables; 26 cm. Contemporary dark green and black paste-paper wrappers. All page edges red. Signatures; A-F4 (4to). No publication information. Probably from Nouveaux Traités de Trigonométrie by Antoine Deparcieux (Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741). In Near Fine Condition: front wrapper is rubbed; pages are clean and tight.

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1831. Hardcover. Good +. Édition stéréotype, gravée, fondue et imprimée par Firmin Didot. 34, [205] p.: tables; 14 cm. Contemporary tree calf; black leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled decoration on spine; gilt-ruled floral border on each board. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Dark blue ribbon bookmark. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper verso: William W. Fisher. On half title in pencil: William W. Fisher, St. Mary's College, Baltimore. Every page printed within a plain border. In Good+ Condition: lacking leather at head of spine (1 cm.+) and tail (minor); joints rubbed; front joint starting to separate at each end; corners of boards rubbed; occasional light foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.

Dublin: Samuel Watson, 1779. Hardcover. Very Good -. "The Third Edition: with an Appendix of Exchange at Par. . . . Printed For Samuel Watson, . . . and Thomas Stewart." [224] p. (first leaf blank): tables; 14 cm. Signatures: [A]4 B-T6 (12mo). Contemporary full calf. Compiled by John Watson, 1729-1769; this edition by Samuel Watson. ESTC, T96632. Blank leaf following front free endpaper inscribed: "George Coulter, Drogheda 1816. Mr. John Dawson, Smithy Door, Manchester." Dawson's name also is written on the endpapers. A scarce copy of a compilation of exchange rates between English and Irish money in the 18th century. In Very Good- Condition: heavily used, as is typical of this type of publication; leather is very rubbed; modern professional joint and hinge repair with Japanese tissue (restorer's report available on request); old, faint dampstain along upper edges of first leaves; occasional ink stain; complete.

Jamaica Plain, Mass: YMAA Publication Center, 1996. Paperback. Very Good -. xiv, 363, [7] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. In Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; ink underlining on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

Roslindale, MA: YMAA Publication Center, 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. xx, 266, [2] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "Chinese internal martial arts" -- front cover. Includes appendices: Names of Qin Na Techniques -- Translation of Thirty-Seven Postures -- Translation and Glossary of Chinese Terms. In Near Fine Condition: cover curves up; a few page corners creased; clean and tight.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. xviii, 636 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. This is "a comprehensive collection of primary documents covering political, social and cultural aspects of the 1960's. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets and public speeches, this anthology brings together representative writings many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; clean and tight.

Alexandria, Va: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Full imprint: "Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, for Robert and John Gray, Alexandria; and for Conrad and Co., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington City." 2 volumes: 256, 248 p.; 18 cm. 12mo. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco spine label in second compartment of each volume. Gilt-tooled volume number in fourth compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled decoration in the first, third, and fifth compartments. All page edges yellow. This is the First American edition, after the British 1799 edition. Each volume has a label on the front fixed endpaper indicating that the volumes were given in 1855 to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College by Samuel M. Dickson (1837-1866) and John W. Cornelius (1835-1894), graduates of the college who became Methodist ministers. Dickinson College Library oval stamp also on front fixed endpapers and embossed… Read More

New York: Chatterton-Peck Co, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. iii, [1], 120, [4] p., color frontispiece and 5 leaves of color plates: in-text and full-page black-and-white illustrations; 20 cm. Green cloth with black spine title; white cover title; red, white, and black cover illustrations. Publisher's advertisements on 4 pages following text. No date of publication. Augustus L. Chatterton was in business with Charles Peck briefly, around 1907. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; slightly cocked; clean and solid.

Exeter, N.H.: J. & B. Williams, 1833. Hardcover. Good -. 249, [1] p., frontispiece and added engraved title page; 16 cm. Contemporary plain black paper over boards with black leather over spine with gilt-tooled decoration (most of which is lacking). Frontispiece is engraving of the meeting of the bishops of Dunkeld and Glasgow engraved by W. H. Lizars from a drawing by Wm. D. Smith. Added engraved title page bears imprint of Wm. Burgess, New York, dated 1831. Former owner's inscription on blank page following front free endpaper: Richard Morris Smith, 1836. Richard Morris Smith (1827-1896) was a Philadelphia architect and the author of The Burlington Smiths. In Good- Condition: lacking most of leather over spine; front board is partially detached; light foxing, heavier on 2 engraved leaves and title page; otherwise, clean and solid.

Philadelphia: William G. Wardle, 1848. Hardcover. Good. 192 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 6 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations; 14 cm. Publisher's grey linen with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Error in pagination: p. 165 misnumbered 167. Engraved armorial? bookplate on front fixed endpaper featuring a seated woman with a strange crown, holding an caduceus with a sailing ship in the background. Below the image the bookplate includes "No." on the left and "Yards" on the right. This is filled in by hand to read: "No. 5 -- 16 Yards." Contents: The Life of Washington --The Life of La Fayette -- The Life of Jackson -- The Life of Wellington. Very scarce. In Good Condition: boards are lightly stained; back board warped at upped edge; lacking upper corner of front free endpaper; small dampstain along upper page edges for first few leaves; larger dampstain in upper part of pages for last quarter of book; light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean… Read More

Ipswich, England: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Castellon, Federico. With an introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb and illustrations by Federico Castellon. This is number 167 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies printed by W.S. Cowell in Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng. The aquatints were etched in copper by Federico Castellon and the prints pulled by M. Beaune in Créteil. Signed by the artist, Federico Castellon. xxvii, [3], 369, [1] p.: frontispiece, 13 leaves of illustrations, in-text line drawings; 28 cm. Black leather spine with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; red cloth over boards. Top page edges gilt. Red endpapers. Red paper-covered slipcase matching the endpapers with a gilt and black paper spine label. Book is in Near Fine Condition: ends of spine very slightly rubbed; otherwise As New. Slipcase is in Near Fine Condition: solid but very slightly rubbed.

Blue Bell, PA: Hawkhurst, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. [156] p.: 70 full-page black-and-white photographic illustrations; 33 cm. Black cloth with silver spine and cover titles. Grey endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes essays by Arlene Love, and Helen W. Drutt English. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; clean and bright.

Avon, Mass: Adams Media, 2008. Paperback. Fine. iv, [4], 200 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.