Search Results: Authors starting with T from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; vi,353pp. No dust jacket issued. Minor rubbing to bottom edge and spine of boards, light superficial 3" scratch to back cover board. Slight toning to margins of text block, otherwise a clean, tight, and unmarked copy. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Near Fine.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1922. Second edition. Small octavo. Red cloth gilt; xi,174pp; plates. Front endpaper excised, moderate wear and fading to cloth; Good only, but a sound and complete reading copy. Somewhat uncommon memoir of John B. Tabb (1845-1909) aka Father Tabb, the widely-published "Poet-Priest" of Virginia.

New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers might infer from the title an allusion to a sexual relationship between these poets. Light toning to the edges, else fine.

New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers might infer from the title an allusion to a sexual relationship between these poets. Light toning to the edges, else fine.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1907. First American Edition. 12mo. Russet linen boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xi (i.e., ix), 120pp. Originally published London, 1906, by Burns & Oates. A small number of copies were issued in America with a cancel title page bearing the Longmans, Green imprint. The American issue is a rarity, with only five holdings noted in OCLC.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Second printing. Red paper, stamped in black, with original pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; 219, [5]pp; 3pp of publisher's ads at rear, further ads to jacket rear and rear flap. A straight copy, lightly rubbed, foxing to edges of text block not affecting interior: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, wrinkled at spine, lightly soiled and damp-stained, with detached section at head: Good. Murder mystery set on an ocean liner. HUBIN p.397.

New York: New York State Council of the International Association of Machinists, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.25cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 38ppl illus. Light soil, wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny tears, Very Good+. The author was a machinist and Chief Shop Steward in New York - the pamphlet aimed at fellow workers.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); 3/4 brown paper over black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],306pp; text illustrations after woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Wear to lower board edges and upper right corner of front board, resulting in some occasional exposure; brief penciled notations at upper front pastedown; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), spine-sunned, with light dustiness and toning to panels and extremities, with a few tiny nicks and a small rectangular chip to lower front joint; Very Good+. Major anthology of left-wing verse, chosen from the pages of The Masses and its successor publication The Liberator. Contributors include a long roster of major left-wing authors of the period: John Reed, Max Eastman, Louis Ginsberg, James Rorty, Max Bodenheim, Arturo Giovannitti, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and many others. The present copy belonged to author, artist, and bookplate… Read More

Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd, 1895. Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets, numbered and specially bound, this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes (23.75cm); full black crushed morocco, spines in six compartments, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines, and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv,225,[5]; xiii,226-433,[5]; x,238,[4]; x,239-447,[5]; xii,238,[4]; xii,239,462,[4]; xii,226,[4]; xiv,227-476,[4]pp, with frontispieces and 58 plates. Light wear to joints and extremities, touch of dustiness, finger-soil and a few scuffs to covers, with faint foxing to text edges; contents relatively clean, with hinges sound; Very Good+. Handsome edition of the French critic and historian's landmark work on English literature, published first in France in 1863, and translated into English in 1871. Gebbie published this set in a variety of issues, the Connoisseur Edition representing the smallest available limitation.

New York: Henry Holt, 1874. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's deep blue cloth, with titles and decorations in gilt; brown coated endpapers; 186pp. Light wear to board edges and corners; tape repair to bottom margin of dedication leaf; neat ink ownership signature to flyleaf; a sound, unmarked, Good or better copy. Reprints the substance of two lectures originally delivered at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, providing what is essentially a distillation of Taine's larger work, The Philosophy of Art (1865). A volume in the uniform edition of Taine's Works, issued serially from 1872-75 (approximate, based on OCLC cataloguing data).

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 21cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's brick red cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in green to spine and front board, sharp and clean, some light minor edgewear, in a bright and dramatic priceclipped pictorial dustjacket with some edgewear and creasing, a semi-circular closed tear to the upper front panel and some shallow chipping and loss to extremities. A very presentable copy, not often seen in dustjacket. 247pp. Internally clean and fresh,decorative endpapers with the bookplate of D.E. Frye to the front pastedown. This copy has the added distinction of being signed by Tallant to the title page. A fascinating, if neccessarily sensationalist, evocation of the history and significance of "Voodoo" in New Orleans, from the earliest traces to the domestic realities via Marie Laveau, and the difficulty of separating the myth from the truth. Robert Tallant, a white collector and preserver of Louisiana folklore and cultural… Read More

Sioux Falls, SD: Brevet Press, 1974. Octavo (24cm). Gold cloth stamped in black, in white dust jacket; [xxx],563,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly tapped at spine ends, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $11.95), lightly rubbed with a few small smudges and tiny marginal tears, neatly mended three-inch tear along rear flap fold: Very Good. Annie Donna Tallent followed her husband, a member of the Gordon Party, into the Black Hills for gold in 1874. Her memoir was first printed in 1899. [62044].

New York: Howell, Soskin, Publishers, [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, grey topstain; viii,296pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and flap folds, the whole rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Includes contributions by Malcolm Cowley, Eugene Lyons, Bertram D. Wolfe, and others.

La Habana: Editorial ORBE, 1978. First Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 18,[62]pp.; chiefly photographic illus., many in color. Some wear from handling, else Very Good. Promotional pamphlet for the City of Havana. U. Maryland and Ohio U. only in OCLC as of May, 2020.

New York: Geo. H. Richmond & Co, 1894. First Edition. 12mo. Sage cloth boards with paper spine label; viii,242p. Boards yawning slightly; spine and label a shade sunned; internally unmarked and mostly unopened; Very Good. A treatise on bossism and machine politics, with a critical emphasis on New York and Tammany Hall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy, comprised of bound uncorrected proofs. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; 278pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Touch of curling to wrapper edges; publisher's typed labels affixed, internally about Fine. Uncommon advance issue of the Chinese-American author's first book, which would go on to be an enormous publishing success and basis for the 1993 film directed by Wayne Wang.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase. Fine and unread, still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. Handsome edition of the author's fourth novel.

New York: New Century Publishers, 1947. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; 64pp. Pencil date impression to cover, light foxing to pages, else near fine. SEIDMAN T13: "...communist attack on Trotskyite [sic] activities, with emphasis on ballot steaing, racketeering, stooling for the bosses...

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xiv, 263pp. A few superficial scratches to rear wrapper and bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Near Fine.

London: Allen Lane, 1973. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 411pp; illus. Tight and clean in slightly tatty dustwrapper; Very Good.