Search Results: Titles starting with T from Black Swan Books, Inc.

New York: Carrick & Evans, Inc, 1938. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The First American Edition of Sancier's first novel (published in England the same year as "We Things Called Women"). There are no marks in the book of any kind. The dustjacket has shelfwear and a small chip to the top of the front panel. It has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Philadelphia and New york: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Seven stories "across Irish town and country". The binding is clean, and really quite sharp. The dustjacket has shelfwear with minor creasing and loss. The dustjacket has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Del Mar, California: [Ettan Press], 1980. Portfolio with the text of a 19th century Sufi story from "Tales of the Dervishes", translated from the Arabic by Idries Shah, and accompanied by three signed and numbered color etchings by Cornelia von Mengershausen. Printed in an edition of 50, of which this set is #17. Housed in the printer's linen-covered portfolio, with pastedown image. Fine.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Half Leather. Near Fine binding. Selected works by ten Victorian era poets, complete in three volumes. A clean copy, with no marks of any kind. Portrait plates throughout of each author. Modern half morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands; lettering and decoration stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Near Fine binding.

New York: Association Press, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. From the flap: "[A] collection of twenty fantastic, whimsical, and impossibly tall tales of our national sport." Wee Willie Little is the ex-mascot of the Lightfoot Lillies. Uncommon boys' baseball book. Dustjacket has some minor loss at the extremities. It is not price-clipped. The binding is clean; there is a light stain near the top of the front board. Square and tight. The dustjacket is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1870. Hard Cover. Good binding. The first volume of The Technologist, an engineering monthly periodical, with twelve issues, index, and a large section of advertisements at the rear. Illustrated throughout, some full page illustrations. Two leaves with paper reinforcement to the fore edge. Fully rebacked with original spine laid down. Sunning to the spine and perimeter of the boards. Purple buckram, with gilt lettering and decoration. Good binding.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding ruled in gilt at the perimeter of the upper board, with gilt titling; xii, 135 pages, including the Index; with all photographic plates present as called for; with [6] pages of publisher's ads, followed by a 30 page publisher's catalogue; there is some scattered foxing but no prior ownership marks of any kind.~~A bright copy of this tennis memoir wich contains photos of tennis technique as well as advice on attire! Mrs. Chambers won seven ladies single titles at Wimbledon. ~~Uncommon in commerce, and not overly represented in institutional holdings.~~. Very Good binding.

New York: American Sports Publishing Co, 1908. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 16mo.; in the publisher's blue printed wrappers; 222 pages, followed by 18 pages of ads; there is corner loss to the rear wrapper; illustrated with an action half-tone of W. A. Larned as the frontispiece; the spine has some scotch tape repair but the booklet is generally holding well. Very Good binding.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1920. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 16mo.; in the publisher's faded red, blue and white printed wrappers (it was part of Spalding's "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks); 182 pages, followed by Part III Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual Rules of Lawn Tennis and Tournament Regulations with Explanations by Edward C. Conlin 1920 (in convenient detachable form for pocket use); the wrappers are intact, and in nice condition though there is a small amount of tape repair.; illustrated with a half-tone of Julius Myrick, President of the US National Lawn Tennis Association; with many half-tones including William Johnston, National Champion, and (of course) Bill Tilden. Very Good binding.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1917. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 16mo.; in the publisher's red, green and white printed wrappers (it was part of Spalding's "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks); 333 pages, followed by 13 pages of ads; the wrappers are intact, and in nice condition; illustrated with a half-tone of CR. D. Wrenn, President of the US National Lawn Tennis Association; Richard Norris Williams was the national champion that year. Very Good binding.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 16mo.; in the publisher's red printed wrappers (it was part of Spalding's "Red Cover" Series of Athletic Handbooks); 333 pages, followed by 9 pages of ads; the wrappers are intact and are bright; there is a small piece of scotch tape reinforcement at the top of the spine; with much on the Davis Cup for 1914; there is a previous owner name at the top of the first page. Very Good binding.

Hillsboro Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The publication date penned in red at the top of the front free end paper; otherwise a clean copy without any marks or writing. The dust jacket is bright, not price clipped and now protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Scranton: Internatoinal Textbook Company, 1903. Half Leather. Very Good binding. How to display in a commercial settings all manner of furnishings and items of clothing. Illustrated with hundred of black and white photographs. Many very interesting suggestions for store windows and counter display from the turn of the century. Brown half-leather over brown pebbled cloth. Very Good binding.

Scranton: Internatoinal Textbook Company, 1903. Half Leather. Very Good binding. How to display in a commercial settings all manner of furnishings and items of clothing -- dress, lace goods, draperies, fabric. Illustrated with hundred of black and white photographs. Many very interesting suggestions for store windows and counter display from the turn of the century. Brown half-leather over brown pebbled cloth. Very Good binding.

Boston: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, Cornhill, 1767. Full Leather. Good binding. Please note that the first volume of what would become a 4 volume set of Hutchinson's Massachuetts-Bay history IS LACKING THE TITLE PAGE. The title and publication information is by inference. The first leaf of Volume I is the Contents leaf. There is on the pastedown the plate of the Woburn Public Libary, about which is penned Vol. 1 Mr. Hutchinson's History. The collation following the Contents leaf is [iv], 566, [2]. ~~The second volume from 1767 is intact, though lacking the rear endpaper.. Title page is present, followed by the Contents leaf [with errata on the verso], [iv], 539 pages. There are two extraneous items (clippings) tipped in, at 106/107 and at 316/317.~~The front board of each volume has been reattached. Labels are lacking. (Howes 853; II Streeter 698, 699; Sabin 34076, Sabin 34078; Evans 9705; Evans 10658). Good binding.

Boston | New York: Woolworth, Ainsworth & Company | A. S. Barnes & Company, 1868. Hard Cover. Good binding. The Woodlawn Series by Harriette Newell Woods Baker, complete in six volumes. Engraved frontispiece, title page, and additional plates in each volume. Front hinge of Vol. VI cracked but holding, and closed tear to the front endpaper of volume IV. Significant silverfishing to the bindings, and sunning to the spines. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Good binding.

[San Francisco], 1976. 22 x 13 7/8"; theater broadside; modest shelfwear with a couple of short closed tears.~~Two main characters: a depressed actor (Jimmy) and a cat burglar (Vito). After a rocky start (Jimmy beats up Vito) the two find themselves attracted sexually, and ultimately run away together. The play, adopted from Kirkwood's novel of the same name, ran for only 16 performances on Broadway in 1976. The following year Kirkwood won a Tony Award for A Chorus Line and in his acceptance speech said "As A Chorus Line was previewing at the Newman Theater, I had a little diddy open on Broadway about a month before called P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. It was greeted by some of the critics as if I'd dramatized the Black Plague. It's been rewritten. It's got a whole new life on the coast, so it's alive and well."~~This poster is from the play's "whole new life on the coast" -- the West Coast premier at the Montgomery Playhouse in San Francisco. It seems that West Coast run was in a time and a place -- San… Read More

Chicago: Knight & Leonard, 1884. First Edition. near Very Good binding. A former Chicago Historical Society library copy, with the library plate pasted on the front pastedown and infrequent corrections penciled in throughout. The binding has wear and some rubbing to the spine and front board. Dark green cloth binding with titling and rules stamped in black. near Very Good binding.

London: C. Heydinger, 1773. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in contemporary paper covered boards, with titling penned at the top of the spine; [6], 104, [2] pages. Complete with the half-title page, and the advertising leaf at the back of the book. With copious notes in pencil regarding "Velthusens's Successor" Christian Ludwig Gerling on the pastedown, and on the recto and verso of the first blank leaf.~~A group of Biblical commentaries by the 18th century German Protestant theologian Johann Caspar Velthusen, "One of his Majesty's German Chaplains" [from the title page]. (ESTC T4913). Very Good binding.

London: T. Egerton, 1810. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; full speckled calf neatly rebacked in new calf with morocco label; with new endpapers; complete with 31 folding plates at the rear of the book. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Webber on the pastedown. Wear to the edges of the boards, especially at the corners.~~The First Edition of Martemont's "Theory of Field-Fortification" which was printed several times in the 19th century. Martemont's Treatise was used by him in preparing students at The Royal Artillery Institution in Woolwich. Martemont was "late a captain in the French royal artillery, and master of fortification and artillery in the royal military academy". Very Good binding.