Search Results: Titles starting with T from RC Books

Baltimore, MD: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Limited . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. William Sharp. The classic designed by George Macy and printed by Garamond Press. #934 of 1500 copies. Bound in full black buckram with silver gilt stamping. Illustrated with aquatints by Sharp. The silver gilt is rubbed, especially on the spine as is usually the case. No slipcase. Small stamp of an art museum on title page . SIGNED by the illustrator. 476 pages. Very attractive book with marbled page edges and wonderful illustrations.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1974. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Franklin Library limited edition. Twenty-one of Poe's best tales. Very handsome brick red leather covers with gilt titles and designs. All edges gilt. Hubbed spine. Moire fabric end sheets. Satin-ribbon page marker bound in. 322 pages. Four pages have mild foxing not affecting any text or artwork. Great collection of Poe's stories.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1933. Cloth. Fine/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Harry Clarke. The classic printed and bound by J.J. Little & Ives Company, New York. First Tudor Edition. Black cloth with spine titled in gilt. Pictorial paper label onlay to front cover. 412 pages with all 8 color plates and 24 black and white plates from the fantastic Harry Clarke. Interior very clean and fresh. Original, still-attractive dust jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover, has some serious tears with cello taped repairs. Lacking the original box. Truly an artistic triumph both in the book's art and production.

Boston, MA: Privately Printed, 1932. Reprint . Pictorial Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original copyright 1928; this copy reprinted 1932 by the Thomas Todd company, Printers (Boston). Inscribed to a previous owner and SIGNED by the author. Frontispiece of the dog Tessie. The book is written from Tessie's perspective. Torn glassine cover. 121 pages with superb pencil etchings by Marguerite Kirmse. A bright, beautiful copy of a warm, lovable story.

Berwyn P.O. PA: Privately Printed, 1929. Limited Edition . Cloth and Paper. Fine/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. One of 950 copies of this limited edition. Includes facsimiles of original letters in the "Oak Knoll" Library. Frontispiece portrait of Hardy. Paper titles on front cover and spine. About 40 pages. No box. Previous owner's discreet bookplate on inside front cover. Glassine dust jacket has significant tears and chips. Literary criticism from one of America's most famous bookmen.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Acclaimed biography of Jefferson by a Bancroft prize-winning historian. Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Genuine leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Light shelf wear. 1,072 indexed pages with about 16 illustrations. The publisher's "Collector's Notes" included. A handsome, comprehensive book.

Portland, ME: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press , 1941. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth and Paper. Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Keepsake" publication of three letters received by Edward F. Stevens, one from Emery Walker and two from Bruce Rogers. Introduction by Stevens. The letters discuss printing and the book arts with references to various printers and William Morris, among others. One of only 350 copies. Bookplate of well-known publisher David Godine on inside front cover. xvii (17) pages. Light soiling to boards. A beautifully produced book.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. SIGNED by President Gerald R.Ford. 654 indexed pages with 16 pages of illustrations. Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Includes publisher's introduction booklet written by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. Genuine leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Very light shelf wear. A handsome book.

Washington, PA: Washington and Jefferson College, 1976. First Edition . Paper Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Topic Volume XVI "A Journal of the Liberal Arts," Fall, 1976. This issue's topic: Edgar Allan Poe. Contains contributions from Burton R. Pollin, Eric W. Carlson, James W. Gargano, J. Gerald Kennedy, Joseph M. DeFalco, and Dwayne Thorpe. Six articles, including two on Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" and one titled " 'William Wilson' : The Double as Primal Self." 80 pp. in a tightly bound, bright paper wraps having only a mild touch of rubbing & soiling. No names or marks. Extremely scarce and a nice addition to any Poe collection.

Privately Printed, 1976. First Edition . Stiff Paper Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Belle Donohue, Jean Kuhns, and Judi Nielson. 44 page guide to the Stratford, Connecticut Great Meadows Marsh, now part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. Discusses salt marsh ecology, especially relating to the Great Meadows. Includes drawings of plants and animals, text, glossary and bibliography, as well as an original poem by the author. Ilustrated by Belle Donohue, Jean Kuhns, and Judi Nielson. Tightly bound with no names or marks. Light fading to cover edges. Extremely scarce.

Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions, Ltd., 1980. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately printed facsimile of the classic work from 1772. Part of "The Classics of Medicine Library" series. Full red, leather binding with decorartive endleaves. Cover stampings and all edges gilded in 22-karat gold. Attached ribbon pagemarker. 560 pp. An almost unnoticeable scar from bookplate removal on front endpaper. Additionally included is the publisher's "Notes From the Editors" 35 page introductory booklet.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1889. Third Edition . Cloth. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. European exploration in Africa. Red cloth, faded at spine, with insect in gilt on front cover. Six fold-out color maps in Near Fine condition. Map titles: East Central Africa, Equatorial Africa, Slave Trade Map, Geological Sketch Map, and two political maps showing Divisions According to Agreements and Divisions According to Claims. Three maps each have a half to one inch closed tear, either not touching the map proper or just touching the edge with no affect on type or graphic information. Bookplate of Arthur H. Lancaster on front pastedown with a gift inscription from his wife on f.e.p. Corners bumped. Some light spots to bottom front board. 228 pp. with 16 pp. of ads.A clean, very fresh, tightly bound copy with late 19th Century maps.

New York: Penguin Group, 2012. First Edition . Paper Covered Boards. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. English Christmas mystery. A Berkley Prime Crime publication. SIGNED by author in the orginal year of publication. Unclipped dustjacket has very mild wrinkling. 311 pages.

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press/Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1863. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Georgina Lowell Putnam (1836-1922) was a niece of James Russell Lowell and the daughter of the wealthy industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr. of the noted mill town of Lowell, Mass. This presentation copy signed, "CLS from GLP March 1885." The handsome book is also signed "Louise Dervey With happy memories from C L Shaw May 1919." C. L. Shaw probably refers to Carlotta Lowell Shaw (Shaw Lowell), daughter of reformer Josephine Shaw (herself a sister of Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw and the first woman to hold public office in New York City) and Civil War Major and fatal casualty Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864). Brown, full-leather with five raised bands on spine. Blind-tooled designs of Maltese crosses on boards and spine. A.E.G. Marbled eps. with gilt dentelle design. 71 Pages. Spine has been expertly rebacked by the… Read More

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A biography of John and Julia Gardiner Tyler."Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" included. 681 indexed pages. Genuine leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Light shelf wear to an attractive gray leather book.