Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bygone Books

London: Chiswick Press / Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. William Morris. A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris. London: Chiswick Press / Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the 28th day of January, 1901. Published by Longmans, Green and Co. of London, New York & Bombay. LeMire Bibliography of William Morris, A-47.04 (pp. 130-31) The House of Wolfings was the first of the unnumbered 8 volumes published by the Chiswick Press, edited by S. C. Cockerell and Robert Proctor. Limited edition of 315 with 300 for sale. Large 4to (Golden quarto), original ¾ mid-blue holland backstrip with light blue paper-covered boards with printed paper label (spare label tipped in), cream-white Kelmscott handmade paper, deckled edges, 162 pages, shoulder notes and all chapter titles… Read More

Haverfordwest, Dyfed, U.K.: Shire Publications, 1992. Soft cover. NF. 8vo, stapled wraps, 32 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. Hardcover. NF. Woodroffe, Paul (illustrator). Nursery songs" was first published in 1912; this new edition has been produced from the original watercolor illustrations, musical notations, and hand-lettered texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 4th printing of the reprint edition. [33p.] color illus. white glossy pictorial boards; illus. eps. NEAR FINE / no jacket (as issued) : no visible wear.

Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Farms, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. VG+. Bonnie Acker, Holly Brough. 1st edition of 1997, 4to, softbound, 502 pages, cover illustration by Bonnie Acker. Written and edited by Amy B. Demarest, illustrations by Bonnie Acker and Holly Brough, photographs by Lou Borie. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with a small crease to front cover, two large creases to rear cover, last few pages have a tiny crease at fore-edge, internally clean and tight. An indispensable guide to studying the Lake Champlain Basin, its history, geography, geology, ecology, complete with math and language arts exercises, field trips, and more!

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Number line reads 2; 8vo, gray boards, 486 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE book / FINE jacket: book has a remainder mark on bottom page edge, otherwise like new. Fabulous biography of Hardy.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. Hardcover. VG-. 13th edition, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 237 pp, b/w illustrations, ribbon bookmark. Condition: VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light edgewear; owner bookplate; front hinge slightly loose. Wharton covers such topics as: the Meschianza, New York balls and receptions, the American Philosophical Scoiety, the Wistar parties, old love letters, and Philadelphia dancing assemblies. See also Wharton's companion volume "Colonial Days and Dames.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American ed. 8vo, hardcover164 pages, b/w illustrations, index. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light spotting to pages edges. A stimulating mix of personal and literary history.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1931. Soft cover. Very Good. Gertrude Alice Kay. No. 860. Oblong 4to, illustrated stapled stiff wraps, [16] pages, color illustrations throughout by Gertrude Alice Kay. Condition: VERY GOOD with slight edgewear, 1" closed tear to first page top edge, some spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean and tight and filled with Kay's delightful circus characters and scenes.

Westminster London: Bancroft & Co, 1960. Hardcover. VG-. Vojtech Kubasta. Circus pop-up book illustrated by Vojtech Kubasta, no date but circa 1960. 4to, stiff front illustrated cardboard, stiffer rear board opens up to the pop-up, story inside "Tony and the Circus Boy" has 8 pages and 2 b/w text illustrations. Condition: VERY GOOD - : light rubbing all around, spine tail has a ¼" chip with a 1"tear, crease along bottom edge of front cover, rubbing along interior spine, old sticker residue on front cover; the lovely pop-up is in very nice condition.

Philadelphia, PA: Penn Publishing, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st edition [same date] in original glassine wrapper and box. 8vo, navy blue cloth with color illustration and gilt titles, 347 pages, color frontispiece (same illus on the slipcase), map, b/w photographs throughout. Condition: NEAR FINE book (a slight bump to spine tail); glassine wrapper is torn and tattered (but it did its job of protecting the book.); the box is edgeworn with 3 of the 4 corners to top of box starting to separate, some light soiling (see images). A lively account of six weeks travelling through Great Britain by motor car starting off in the "Cranford" of Elizabeth Gaskell's stories (well, close to Manchester) and then to Wales, the south of England and onward from there. illustrated throughout with the author's photographs. The Illustrations contents says the frontispiece is a color map of their route which is incorrect: the map is b/w and is found at the beginning of chapter I. The… Read More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. Soft cover. VG. Small 8vo, stapled wraps, 56 pages, b/w and color illustrations, fold-out plan. VERY GOOD: light edgewear.

NY: Harmony Books / Push Pin Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. Designed by Barry Zaid. 1st edition [stated and number line], square 12mo, red cloth, illustrated endpapers, 45 pages, color illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: book is like new. Includes illustrations of children and their toys dating from 1907 to 1932, representing the finest artists of the early 20th century, with some reprinted here for the first time.

Hartford: H.H. Hawley & Co., 1850, c1845., 1850. Hardcover. VG-. 162p. engravings, 16mo (6" tall), original green blind-stamped cloth. Book has been professionally rebound: a cloth reback w/ part of original spine laid-on. VERY GOOD- with corners edgeworn, free endpapers have been removed, some lt. scatterd spotting to pages, 2 owner names on fep. Nice copy, now with tight binding.

Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962. Soft cover. NF. 1st printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 35 pages plus 16 b&w plates, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Maud and Miska Petersham. 1st edition (no additional printings), INSCRIBED by the compiler on fep,12mo, green cloth with black titles, 328 pages, b/w full-page illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. Condition: VERY GOOD- book / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities, soiling to page edges, a few spots to front board, there is a "J" on the spine but no other library residue, internally clean and tight, book has been professionally restored at front and rear hinge, the Petersham illustrations being worth it - they are delightful. The inscription reads: "To 'Sister Mary' from hers affectionately A. C. T." The foreword from Tyler reads: "It has been suggested that the boys and girls who have so often listened to these stories in the clubs and story-hours of the New York Public Library, might like to have a few of their favorites in one book; that other boys and girls might be… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: American Sunday-School Union, 1850. Hardcover. G+. 24mo, marbled paper-covered boards backed in black leather / gilt titles on spine, 34 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is GOOD+ : edgewear to boards, scattered foxing throughout, the signature of pages 5-8 is detaching, but all is present tand the book is otherwise tight, penciled math notation on front endpaper. A moral treatise on the value of a neatly-kept home: "The misery and discomfort which families and individuals have to endure that live in the midst of dirt and untidiness, and the comfort and enjoyment found among those of opposite habits, are well shown in the following account given by one the parties who paid the visits there mentioned."....

NY: NY: Appleton-Century, 1965., 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, with LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR LAID-IN. 332p. bibliography, frontispiece, maroon cloth. VG+/VG+: owner name in pencil; DJ: lite edgewear, slight toning.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1963. Hardcover. VG+/VG. ...with an introductory essay by Stanley Morison and supplemental material by Kennth Day. Large 4to, black cloth, gilt titles, xiii, 66, 377 plates, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: dj has some lite edgewear, discoloring and rubbing to spine (in mylar) A must-have for your book arts collection.