Search Results: Authors starting with T from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

[Montreal]: R. Stanley Weir, 1909. Good. Pamphlet. 22 cm; 20 pages and printed self wraps. Vertical fold, lower wrap dog-eared. A screed against prostitution and the consumption of alcohol in Montreal. Financed and printed "for gratuitous circulation" by Weir, the text consists of an extensive judicial opinion by Taschereau first handed down in 1904 in the case of Montreal v Legault (chief of police accused of accepting bribes from sex workers). Taschereau singles out prostitution "among the plagues of humanity" and goes on to argue forcefully against any notion of a legalized or tolerated sex trade.

Paris: Didot, Anno VIII (1800). Acceptable. 12mo (14 cm); 100 pages. In full polished calf with gilt-tooled border, spine decorated in gilt, with red leather title label. Bright pink pastepaper endleaves! Edges and corners worn, upper board a little scuffed, but in all a very pleasant little book. Reference: Bergamo, Raccolta Tassiana, #1239. Tasso's pastoral romance, printed in pocketbook format by the great Parisian house of Didot.

Crispoli [i.e. , Parma]: Impresso co' carratteri Bodoniani, 1793. Fine. Large folio (45 cm); xxxv, 117, [2 blank] pages. Engraved head-piece by Lucatelli. Richly bound in recent polished brown half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, borders double ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments ruled and titled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Protected in 20th-century (?) marbled paper-covered slipcase. References: Brooks 514; De Lama II,89; Bergamo, Raccolta Tassiana, #1232 ("edizione di particolare bellezza ed eleganza"). See also Gamba 958 ("suntuosa edizione"). Giambattista Bodoni quite adored this rather light pastoral romance by Torquato Tasso. It was the second book he printed on his own private press (before he had permission to work on his own in addition to running the Royal press) in 1789, in a quarto format. Once his private He revisited the text twice more, again in smaller formats. The 1793 edition is the first and only folio production of the… Read More

Urbana: State of Illinois Natural History Survey Division, 1942. Fine. 19 cm; 307 pages. Color frontispiece, numerous line drawings in text. Cloth. Unmarred.

Prague: Borový, 1938. First edition. Buckram. Good. 30 cm; 200 pages, 180 half-tone figures of surrealist photographs. Bound in later black cloth, original wraps (designed by Karel Teige) bound in. Some finger soiling on half title, marginal stains near figures 82 and 83, but clean overall. Important and influential publication of the major figures in the Czech school of surrealist photography. Foreword by Nezval, afterword by Karel Teige.

Venice: Steffano Curti, 1672. soft cover. Very Good. 12mo (16 cm); 596 pages. Half title present. Typographic and woodcut ornaments. Bound "alla rustica" in pasteboard, worn. Shaken. Title in ink on spine. Pages untrimmed and generally clean. Vinciana 2661. The classicist Fulvio Testi worked diligently to oppose of the baroque excesses of Marino and his followers, and to maintain Horatian decorum. After a brilliant diplomatic career he died--or was murdered--in prison. His poems were admired and went through many editions.

London: A. and C. Black, 1908. First edition.. Fair. 23 x 31 cm; [40] leaves and [36] color plates after paintings by Thackery. Preface by George Ade. Bound in pictorial cloth, somewhat discolored. A little shaken. Hinges repaired. Occasional light foxing. Caricature sketches of travel in Egypt, with descriptive letterpress.

Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1928. First German edition, signed and inscribed. Wrappers. Acceptable. 23 cm; 65 pages (numbered 365-430). Bound in original printed wraps bearing the series title, inscribed by Thalbitzer to fellow Danish polar ethnologist Hother B. Simon Ostermann. Both wraps loose but present. 4cm section of backstrip perished. Text block sound and entire. The principal philologist of the languages of Greenland first drafted this study of Inuit totems in Danish in 1926 as "Eskimoernes kultiske guddomme." He has inscribed the German translation (that is, the translation into the prevailing lingua franca of science) to his colleague H. Ostermann, who did much field work in Greenland.

New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1893. First edition. Very Good. 19 cm; 179 pages, and 34 half-tone plates and vignettes. Bound in green decorated cloth, attributed to Margaret Armstrong. A good, tight copy with minor surface blemishes only. Alice French, writing as "Octave Thanet," gained literary fame for her socially perceptive fiction, while she and her partner Jane Allen Crawford hosted the literary and artistic life of Eastern Iowa at their home in Davenport. Ever expansive, French became fascinated with the art, techniques, and chemistry of photography. She set up a darkroom in her home and went on several photo expeditions. "An adventure in photography" is a travelogue as well as a manual, including darkroom formulae, advice on framing and shooting photographs, and copious reproductions of her own photos. The Alice French house in Davenport is now landmarked on the National Register of Historic Places

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1989. Very Good. 34cm; 424 pages, including 273 plates, mostly in color. Cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG, with shelf wear only.

New York: The New York Historical Society, 1975. Fine. 24 cm; 386 pages, 6 leaves hors texte. Green cloth binding. But for a bit of dust on top edge, as new.

New York: Printed for the Society, 1872-1873. First edition. Very Good. 2 volumes. 26 cm. Green pebbled cloth. Light shelf wear. Pages unopened.

Paris: Honore Champion, 1972. Good. 129 p. Wraps, unopened. The text of Branch 1, accounting for the birth and formation of Reynard.

Halle: Druck von Ehrhardt Karras, 1902-03. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. 32 cm; 2 volumes bound as one, continuously paginated, 25 plates (including folding map). Bound in sturdy fresh boards. Some pale foxing in upper margins, but hardly considerable as a blemish. Part one: Reisebercht. Die polynesischen Inseln an der Ostgrenze Melanesiens (The Polynesian Islands at the Eastern Edge of Melanesia); part two: Die westlichen Inseln des Bismarck-Archipels (The Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago). In 1900, Georg Thilenius, became a professor of anthropology and ethnology at the University of Breslau, and several years later (1904) was appointed director of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. Thilenius coordinated the 1908-1910 Südsee-Expedition, a scientific expedition to German administered territories in Micronesia and Melanesia. Over 15,000 objects and artifacts from the South Pacific were brought back to Hamburg.

New York: New Directions, 1954. Not stated. Cloth. Good.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Second Printing. Very Good. 29 cm; Red paper-covered boards in original dust jacket (priced $3.50). Drawings by Hillary Knight. Dust jacket a little wrinkled and discolored, while book and text are very good indeed.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition. Very Good. 29 cm; Orange paper-covered boards in original dust jacket (priced $3.75). Drawings by Hillary Knight. Dust jacket a little spotty, while book and text are very good indeed.

London: PRC, 1999. Pictorial Cover. Good. Folio. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Bottom edge of dust jacket shelf worn. Extra shipping charge applies.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915-1916. First trade edition. Very Good, with library markings as described.. 4 volumes, 33 cm. 80 color plates with tissue guards. 1 leaf publisher's ads laid in. In original red cloth, spines somewhat darkened and scuffed. Top edge gilt. Ex-library, with shelf marks in manuscript on spines and library bookplate on pastedowns. No other library markings. Some text leaves show light foxing, few and far between. Reference: Wood, p. 597 ("a series of beautiful and accurate plates..."). Trade edition issued simultaneously with a limited large-paper edition. Extra shipping charges will apply at cost.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1939. First edition. 348 pages. Original gray cloth. Fine condition.