Search Results: Titles starting with T from Pages Past Books

Good+/VG- Capehart Publ Fishkill 1936 1st hardcover 8vo, 396 pages, frontis and 3 b+w illustrations. "...gives in fiction the facts of current history...pictures the suffering of Catholics in Mexico and elsewhere..." Light soiling to binding and inside covers. Light dustjacket edgewear. Solid copy with dj in protective cover. Publisher's address at bottom of title page and copyright page is stamped over with different address.

G+ x-lib w/lt cover wear at extremities, incl short closed tear Fern Bissel Peat illus American Crayon Co Sandusky 1943 softcover 4to, unpaginated, X-Lib with 3 3/4x2 1/4"library label bottom left front cover and small date sheet with card attached to rear c Fern Bissel Peat color and b+w illustrations. (6 full-page color illus) A nice version of this beloved story.

VG/G+ AM Turner & H Kaucher illus MA Donohue Chicago (1917) reprint hardcover 8vo, 96 pages, b+w illustrations and 6 color plates. Part of the Children's Classics series. Christmas 1927 gift inscription on front endpaper. Light foxing inside covers. Shallow chipping to bottom front of dustjacket and 1/2" chip at dj spine base. Solid with dj bright in protective cover.

Good+ condition Frank Godwin illustrations John C Winston Philadelphia (1924) hardcover 8vo, 323 pages, b+w and color plates by Godwin, color paste on cover, pictorial endpapers. Shakespeare's tales for young readers. Award inscription for excellence in the 8th grade on front free endpaper. Some light fraying to spine head. Light corner wear and light rubbing. Solid clean copy.

VG-condition Sir John Gilbert illus George Routledge & Sons London no date hardcover 8vo, 372 pages, 184 b+w illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, decorated binding. Undated, assumed turn of the century with decorated binding in brown, red, gilt and black. Nice gilt gramed pictorial on front of Puck. Frontis illustration with light chipping at right border. Corners lightly worn and bumped. Solid clean copy with bright color.

Good+ Simpkin, Marshall & Co London 1848 hardcover 9 volume set. Green cloth bindings with gilt spine titles, engraved title pages and frontis engravings. There is light general agewear including chipping at spine extremities, foxing to frontis engravings and tissue guards. A few inside hinge papers are cracked, but all volumes are solid. This set belonged to Laura Astor Delano, daughter of General Armstrong and wife of Franklin Delano, great uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for whom FDR was named. 6 of the volumes have "Laura A Delano, from her husband, July 29th 1849" inked on the front endpaper.

Good+/Good+ condition World Publishing Cleveland no date reprint hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, dustjacket by Politzer. Text browned. Name inked front endpaper. DJ in Brodart prtoective cover. Probably c 920s printing.

VG/G+ Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs 1972 1st hardcover 8vo, 344 pages, b+w illustrations, bibliography, notes. "...fun, fully documented trip down the kitchen corridors of western history. " Includes menus from every era. Fore edge lightly soiled; light dustjacket edgewear. Solid and clean.

Good, no dj Gift Book Overbrook Press Stamford 1958 Limited Ed. Softbound 8vo, 18 pp, Limited to 1000 copies Christmas and New Year printed gift card laid in from Helen and Frank Altschul (founder, 1st President and Chairman of General American Investors Co.) Front cover soiled and waterstained at 3 corners; shallow dampstaining at top rear cover. The interior is unaffected and the book is solid.

Fair (1891) hardcover 8vo, 168 pp, bIw illustrations, indexed. Monograph on tannins with an indexed chronological Literature of the tannins. The title page is missing, the inside front hinge is cracked and there is some pencil doodling on the reverse of the front endpaper. Still, otherwise complete with light agewear. there is a name and 1893 date pencilled on the front endpaper.

Good+ Tell City Chair Co Tell City Indiana 1968 vol. 68 hardcover 4to, 104 pages, color and b+w illustrations. Hardcover catalog of the Tell City Chair Co. products including chairs, tables, bedroom furniture, accessories, upholstered pieces, etc. Pocket at rear holds instructions on how to make a floor plan and uncut furniture cutout sheet. White of rear cover soiled. Covers rubbed and lightly worn at extremities. Name, address, and date inked on front cover. Small inkout on front endpaper.

VG/no dustjacket Thomas Wrenn illus Robert M McBride NY 1916 1st hardcover 8vo, 258 pages, 4 color plates, pictorial cover. "...how some great discoveries might have been and others were really made." Solid clean copy.

Good/Good condition Ives Washburn NY 1943 revised hardcover 8vo, 390 pages, b+w photos, index, foreword by Jack Dempsey. Revised and enlarged edition of history of the prize ring. General agewear with chipping and edgewear to dustjacket. Solid copy protected in Brodart.

Good condition Government Printing Office Washington DC 1893 hardcover 4to, 822 pages, color and b+w illustrations, index, bibliography, gilt titling and decoration. 1290 illustrations including numerous color plates. This report to the Smithsonian Institute includes the Battle of Little Bighorn. Binding was reglued with some foxing inside covers and some taping along inside front hinge. A couple of signatures protrude slightly. Some wrinkling of spine cloth. Some discoloration of bottom right rear of spine cloth. Vertical streak mark on front cover. Some light speckling to front cover. Still Very Good interior and a solid copy.

VG/G+ condition Reinhold Publishing NY 1965 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 118+ pages, color and b+w illustrations. Comprehensive guide. Dustjacket price clipped with some wear at spine ends and rubbing at folds. Bright and nice in Brodart protectie cover.

Good+ condition Grosset & Dunlap NY (1919) reprint hardcover 8vo, 350 pages + ads, 9 b+w photos, index. Light wear to cloth at spine head. Solid clean copy.

VG condition Clarendon Press Oxford 1979 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 298 pages, subject and author indeces, references, appendix. Solid clean copy. Gilt spine titling.

VG/VG- various illustrators Farrar Straus Young NY 1954 annual hardcover 4to, 408 pages, color and b+w illustrations, index. 423 exhibits from the 33rd national exhibition. Light dustjacket edgewear and soiling with diagonal 2 1/4" closed tear. Solid bright copy with dj in protective cover.

VG/G Percival C Wharton illus Frederick A Stokes NY (1927) early printing hardcover 8vo, 156 pages, color and b+w illustrations, maps, pictorial cover. A picture geography of the earth and its people. Dustjacket has edgewear and 2 chips at rear top. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

VG-/VG- Oxford Book Co NY 1941 1st hardcover 8vo, 124 pages, index, maps, b+w illustrations. The background and early events of World War II. Dustjacket price clipped. Light dj edgewear. Dustjacket shows family threatened by approaching tanks and airplanes. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.