Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Chicago: The Tower Press, Inc., 1932. Anti-communist screed, INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Paperback. Stated second Edition, 10th printing. Includes two foldout plates, one proving the plot in schools, the other showing known bolsheviks, including Albert Einstein. Covers lightly tanned, spine a bit faded; minor wear to lower front cover; text yellowed but not brittle. Text clean; 108 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 5" by 7¼".

La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1962. Discussion of Eliot's aesthetic "theory of poetry, its sources, and the issues it raises", which the author asserts is rooted in the ideas of F. H. Bradley, related to the Aristotelian & Kantian traditions, and to the criticism of Johnson, Wordsworth & Arnold. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, tiny stain to top edge; jacket shows light rubbing, a little tanning & light damage to spine where a masking tape label was removed. Text clean; xii, [4], 235 pages; index, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Small Octavo.

Leiden: [E.J. Brill] 25 plates of bits of orchid anatomy, from Smith's multi-volume set; it's not clear whether these are supplemental or part of the original set - it has been rebound, and the original covers are lacking. Apart from captions, the only text reads: "Die hier veröffentlichten 25 Tafeln bilden den Schluss der Figurenserie, die sich auf die 6 Nachträge zu "die Orchideen von Java" bezieht.", implying it's the last volume of plates, but if the last of six, why is it numbered 'II"? Each plate is titled "Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Série III, Vol. VI. J. J. Smith: Tafeln javanischer Orchideen II." Hardcover, rebound some time ago, brown cloth spine over lighter brown boards, gilt titling. General wear, corners bumped, top edge dented, some scuffing; rubberstamped name on free endsheet, minor staining; some writing on the closest thing present to a title page; other pages lightly rippled. One page, 25 b/w plates (96 species,… Read More

La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1944. Classic of Taoist piety & ethics, presenting the original Chinese, literal translation, prose interpretations, commentary. 1944 reprint; originally published in 1906. Hardcover, full ochre cloth, red titling, blue decoration. Light wear to book, minor rubbing, minor bubbling to cloth, pages tanned; no jacket - likely issued in plain glassine. Text clean; [4], 139 pages; index, illustrations from old Chinese paintings, b/w frontispiece plate.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

Sauk County: [Author], 1980. Rambling memoirs and notes on nursing home life & operation by 93-year-old woman, who also comments on her ailments, past careers & study in Wisconsin & briefly, Chicago; current activities. Includes section on the personnel, departments, & operation of the Sauk County Health Care Center, the author's residence for the previous ten years. INSCRIBED by the author to an acquaintance. Stapled pamphlet, brown covers, black titling. Light wear, irregular fading to covers.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 5½" by 8½".

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. In then-turbulent South Africa, an Afrikaans poet examines his life after significant changes. Schoeman was one of South Africa's most respected literary figures, frequently the subject of Nobel Prize speculation. First published in Afrikaans two years earlier; translated by the author. Blue hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine. . First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

London: Heinemann, 1969. Reprint of two novellas, one about a young woman introduced into a wealthy but tense household, the other of two actresses, one old, one young & perhaps in love with the wrong young man. Small hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor rubbing to jacket. Text clean. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.

New York: Viking Press, 1972. Orphan girl joins Quaker household in antebellum Philadelphia and becomes involved in the Abolitionist movement. Stated first edition (first printing) with complete number line. Hardcover, full color illustrated reinforced binding. Light wear to book; jacket price-clipped with some edgewear, short tears, chipping at the spine ends; minor staini g to a few page edges. Text clean; 190 pages + note on the author (she tutored Crown Prince Akihito of Japan!). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Abbeville, 1992. History of healthful waters, from sacred springs of ancient times to "the fabulous watering holes of elite society" today. Hardcover, full pale blue cloth. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page: "For Demaris & Theron - Go with the flow. All best, Alev". Stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book & jacket. Text clean, well illustrated in color & b/w; two b/w promotional postcards laid in.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7¼" by 10¼".

London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1941. Early Tudor, a delicate story about Easter anticipation. First printing. Hardcover, full pale green cloth, color half-circle title label on front cover. General wear, coffee stains on several pages, one page scrawled on. 34 pages, color illustrations.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Tasha Tudor. 6¼" by 6¾".

Chicago: F. T. Neely, 1890 Paperback, black lettering on fragile orange wraps. Paper browned and brittle, edges have some chipping and creasing, both covers some stains & rubbing. Unpaginated, but about 100 pages; plus 6 pages ads in front and 26 at rear. Scarce and fragile fiction "Giving the Experience of an Underwriter Visiting the Fair at Chicago, 1893". Blurb on the front reads "A high authority and critic says of this book: 'As a work of art, as a picture of the imagination, and for graphic description, I know of nothing that excels it in the English language.'" Neely's series Vol. 2 No. 15. Front cover now detached but present, due to careless handling.. First Edition. Paperback. Poor. 4½" by 6".

New York: Macmillan Company, 1962 Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Thus. Large Octavo. 437 pages. #17 of Macmillan Classics. Brief afterword by Clifton Fadiman. Illustrated boards; gray tops. Light wear to edges of boards; previous owner's name on front end sheet. Text is clean and binding is tight..

New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1922. Early printing of this later Beatrix Potter classic, based on Aesop's fable of the county mouse and the city mouse. First published in 1918, with a US price of 50¢, this example has a price of 85¢ on the jacket flap and lists two titles first published in French in 1921 on the back of the jacket - two more were added in 1922, and are NOT mentioned on the jacket. Early printings of any Potter title in jacket are scarce! Blue-green hardcover, white titling, color paste-down illustration. Light wear to book, minor rubbing to corners, some damage to rear endsheets from something sticky, light foxing to pages; jacket foxed with a few short tears, small chips. 85 pages, color illustrations. . Early Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Beatrix Potter. 4½" by 5-5/8".

Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1917. Retellings of Dickens stories, focusing on the children involved; subjects are Little Nell (Old Curiosity Shop), Little Em'ly & David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Sissy Jupe (Hard Times), Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol), the Fat Boy (Pickwick Papers), Caleb Plummer & his blind daughter Cricket on the Hearth). Hardcover, full navy cloth, gilt titling. Undated, circa 1925. Light wear to book, corners slightly bumped; jacket shows edgewear & chipping, short tears, creases; rubberstamped name & address, pencil note on free endsheet. Text clean; 96 pages, line drawings, 6 color plates as called for.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by A. M. Turner, Harriet Kaucher. 6" by 8".

New York: TOR Books; Tom Doherty Associates, 1987. First printings of the first four novels in Card's popular Alvin Maker series, set in an alternate America where folk magic works, and Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, Maker, fights the Unmaker. Hardcovers, showing light wear in jackets, minor foxxing to top edges; near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6½" by 9½".

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1905. Experiences & philosophy of the traveling salesman, mostly in clothing lines; at least some of it first published in the Saturday Evening Post. Hardcover, as pictured; stated second edition (second printing), October 12, 1905; a month after the first. Light wear, vivid cover art a bit rubbed; several leaves and one of the plates dog-eared. Text clean; 352 pages, 16 b/w plates, as called for. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by J. J. Gould. Duodecimo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Collection of scholarly but readable essays on popular misbeliefs about the workings of mental processes, how they are formed, and why they persist. Topics include paranormal beliefs, magic, lucky numbers, memory, eyewitnesses, brain size, race/IQ controversy, music for babies, intuition, foreign language & bilingualism, cold reading, graphology, lying, left/right brain, sleep paralysis, full moon, ouija & dowsing, out-of-body experiences, dreams, the gay gene. INSCRIBED on the title page by the editor, "To Colin". Paperback, as pictured. Some wear, corners beginning to curl. Text clean; xxxvii, blank, 509 pages; index, figures, references, 2 color plates. . Inscribed by the Author. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 6¾" by 9¾".

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. Scholarly study of military control of personnel, inspired by conversations with anti-war Army soldiers during the Vietnam War, but dealing with greater issues of social control throughout the US Army. Hardcover, no jacket, likely as issued; as pictured. Light wear, ink name, no other marks. Text clean; xii, [2], 276 pages + note on the author, then an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan at Dearborn; index, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, 1904. Wordplay: "The first stands in need of relief; And, far back in "Centennial Year,"; The last was the title, in brief,; Of a Royal guest, kind and sincere.;; Reversed, and a guide is the first; The last is a troublesome pest:; The whole, by all readers well versed; In the book, should be easily guessed." Small hardcover, full brown cloth, gilt & white titling & decoration. Light wear, corners rubbed, minor stains to front endsheets. Text clean; [viii], 140 pages.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4½" by 7".

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lightly bumped at head & tail of spine; jacket chipped. Nice c. 1930's reprint of novel originally published in 1911. 437 pages..