Search Results: Titles starting with T from The Book Shed

Keller TX: Purple House Press, 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Remainder mark to lower page edges,one very short closed tear to the rear panel of the jacket else like new in all respects. First printing, full number line. " Great-grandson of James, Paul Fenimore Cooper tells the story of an orphaned boy's fantastical journey in Tal, His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom. A foreword by Paul Cooper's nephew notes that Paul Cooper was a contemporary of A.A. Milne, Hugh Lofting and L. Frank Baum and that Tal, published in 1929, enjoyed modest success. Gorgeous b&w woodcuts by Ruth Reeves illustrate the text."--Publisher's Weekly. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Blacksburg, VA: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, 1994. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Signed by 3 of the author's on the title page; light wear to tips and corners and to back cover. First printing, full number line. The case for heritage breeds and genetic diversity. "Attractively produced, this book can serve as a reference publication to all those involved or interested by the conservation of farm animal genetic diversity but also as a good text book for university students." -- Livestock Production Science, 42, 1995. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Random House Value Publishing, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very light wear to the book and jacket, top edge dusty, else clean and unmarked.First printing, full letter line. 43 stories, 65 illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father), 25 pages of explanatory notes by R. C. Temple. Flora Annie Steel lived in India for 22 years, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected. She grew deeply interested in native Indian life and began to urge educational reforms to the government of India.She also worked with John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's father, to foster Indian arts and craft. A prolific writer, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica places Tales of the Punjab among her best work .Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket which is rubbed with creases.First printing, no others noted. A collection of fairy tales and fables from around the world. "Through the superbly illustrated stories--"Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snowdrop," and "Sleeping Beauty"among them--another generation of children will find the key that opens the door to that magic world."--from the flap. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Garden City: International Collector's Library, 1969. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. Lightest wear to the book, no jacket as issued. Clean and unmarked. Blue and gilt binding, Rafael Palacios Tree of Life binding,silk page marker. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Charingworth: Evergreen Press, 2006. Limited Edition . Wraps. Near Fine. slightest shelf wear. A letter from Anthony Powell to William Claire. Printed in a limited edition of 200 copies in Centaur type on Zerkall mould made paper. Each copy is numbered. Plum colored wraps with a pastedown of the title. Includes an introduction and bio notes on Powell and a photograph of the author. Having to with a proposed BBC dramatization of A Dance to the Music of Time. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Privately Printed. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: John Tallis and Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 2 only, 96 plates-3 folding, 304 pages of text. Ex-library in a library binding, usual marks and stamps. Page edges marbled. Includes the Great Exhibition chapter. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Atria Books, 2011. Har/DVD. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. A bit of creasing to dust jacket tips else about As New in all respects.Includes DVD sealed in rear pocket. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Stoeger Pub. Co., 1990. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, slight sunning to the spine, clean and unmarked. Fourth printing of 1984. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. light wear to the book and jacket, spine sunned. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/good. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and prieced jacket; jacket spine sunned, a closed tear. A major work by an American philosopher / longshoreman. Second printing. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: The Modern Library, 1935. Later Printing. Hardcover. VG/Good+. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket; jacket spine sunned, chipping, rear panel soiled, 5 cm tear to front gutter. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.

New York: Crown, 1954. First U.S.. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. lightest wear to the book; jacket spine sunned. First printing, no others noted. Tenzing gets his due in this account of the expedition which succeeded in reaching the summit of Mount Everest. Originally published in France as "La Conquete de L'Everest par Le Sherpa Tensing" literally the conquest of Everest by the Sherpa Tenzing. We sometimes forget that Edmund Hilary did not stand alone on the roof of the world. More than a porter, Tenzing spent a lifetime preparing to conquer the highest peak in the world. Uncommon in this state. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book,; no jacket; spine sunned but legible, covers rubbed, offsetting to the endpapers, pictures of Collins (probably from a magazine) taped to the front endpaper, previous owner's name, else clean and unmarked. First edition stated no others noted. Collins was test pilot, primarily for the Navy. His career ended in 1935 at the age of 31 while testing a Grumann F3F the last biplane fighter. "The prototype, BuNo. 9727, was delivered and first flown on 20 March 1935 with company test pilot Jimmy Collins making three flights that day. Two days later, six dive-recovery flights took place; on the 10th, the aircraft's pullout at 8,000 ft (2,438 m) registered 14 g on the test equipment. The aircraft broke up in midair, crashing in a cemetery and killing Collins."--Wikipedia. In the book Collins provides a chilling description of the death he expected to suffer.… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. NF/VG+. light shelf wear to book and jacket, jacket panels rubbed. Jacket is priced and intact. O'Brian's first novel, originally published in England in 1952 as Three Bear Witness. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First Printing. Light crease to upper corner of the front jacket panel else clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. From the flap: "Acclaimed Texas historian Stephen L. Moore’s new narrative history tells the full, thrilling story of the Texas Revolution from its humble beginnings to its dramatic conclusion, and reveals the contributions of the fabled Texas Rangers—both during the revolution and in the frontier Indian wars that followed." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Scranton: International Textbook Co., 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Lightest wear to tips, corners and edges, numeral stamped to the title page. 3/4 maroon leather over green cloth. A handsome volume, clean and unmarked. 1906 printing, first published in 1903 in London. No. 64 in the International Library of Technology. Edwardian shop display and window dressing. From the preface: consists of a collection of the most eminently practical method of draping and folding textile fabrics, arrangement of merchandise, and its proper assembling in the most appropriate backgrounds; it is the most complete treatise on this subject that has ever been published." Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

Castleton, VT: Castleton State College, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. spine sunned. A scarce history of the Vermont state college which has since become a university. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First printing, no others noted. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Viking Press, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, covers rubbed, top edge dusty; no jacket. Reprint. Nineteenth century economic analysis whose findings are quite appropriate to the 21st century. To wit:"That the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society; while it is the middle class and the working class who are usefully employed in the industrialised, productive occupations that support the whole of society."--Wikipedia. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when… Read More

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2015. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine/near fine. lightest wear to the book.About As new in all respects. First printing, no others noted.Susanna H. French is a Thetford resident and writer with a passion for heritage and preservation. Her own Upper Valley roots reach back to 1754. Using photographs primarily drawn from the archives of the Thetford Historical Society, French hopes to inspire readers to learn more about their own history and sense of place. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.