Search Results: Authors starting with T from Uncommon Works

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good first edition [Zempel & Verkler] in a very good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black Republic of Haiti motif and black title stamping on spine. map endpapers. Heavy foxing to fore edge and rear edge of dust jacket. Minor loss at foot of jacket. 407 pp. : illustrations . Octavo Driven By A Desire To See The Land Described In The Fragmentary Records Of An 18th Century New England Ancestor Who Transported Negroes From The African Slave Coast, This Modern Young Puritan Visits The Mysterious Voodoo Land Of Haiti. The First Time A Complete Picture Of This Magic Island Was Offered The Public. Here Is The Very Atmosphere Of The Exotic Black Republic, Its Beauty And Horror, Including The Strange, Prehistoric Monster That Is Found Only On The Island Of Haiti.---inside flapTable of contents:Winter wonderlandAttending a dusky dancePort-au-Prince panoramaEast side,… Read More

Berkeley: Turtle's Quill Scriptorium, 1974. First Edition Thus, Limited. Stiff wraps. Fine. Joyce Alexander; Dorsey Alexander. A fine limited edition. One of 75 numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered. Green stiff paper wraps. Sienna end papers. Illustrations by Joyce Alexander. Calligraphy by Dorsey Alexander. [16] pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. An as new (fine) first edition in an as new dust jacket. Appears unread. Orange cloth boards. 199 pp. 5 3/4 x 9 inches tall, octavo. An introduction to the core of Buddhism by its greatest teacher, An Open Heart is the successor to the bestselling The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama's clear and simple guide to finding compassion and happiness.

Tübingen: R. Wunderlich, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two fine books by Heuss included in this offering, one a first edition (Würdigungen : Reden, Aufsätze u. Briefe aus d. Jahren 1949 - 1955). In original, fine dust covers. Duodecimo.

Berkeley: University of California, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Copyright and title page both say 1961, Previous owner's gift inscription to first free endpaper. Unclipped jacket with original 5.95 price. Jacket has loss at crown (missing top 1" of jacket) descending into a short tear on the front cover. Minor loss and tears at foot of jacket, short tear to back cover and edgewear on top edge. Jacket now protected in a clear, removeable, archival cover. 255 pp. illustrations, portraits, maps. Octavo. Tells the story of Ishi, the last member of the lost tribe of Yana, who wandered out of the hills on August 29, 1911 and was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California where he spent the last years of his life. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a… Read More

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Fine first edition in a very good plus, original, unclipped dust jacket. Blue quarter cloth under green cloth boards. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket creased at top edge and showing a tiny chip on back cover. Fold out map intact and pristine. 152 pp. Octavo 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/missing. A very good plus first edition. Blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy, tight and square. All corners bumped. Painted top edge. 197 pp. including index. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan ---wikipediaPeninsula, and played an important role in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been reported by various Native… Read More

Hong Kong: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Black cloth board, black endpapers. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with full color photographs on glossy paper. 112 pp. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall. An award-winning journalist, Scigliano has written for Harper's, Outside, Discover, and many other publications.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Very good plus first edition, as stated. Rust cloth with black and gilt title stamping on spine. Binding is sturdy and square. Mild offsetting to end papers and pastedowns from older Brodart cover. Small bookstore label on front pastedown. Extensive marginalia pencilled on last free end paper. In a very good plus, original, price clipped dust jacket which shows sunning at spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black and white plates, photos, and maps. xvi, 405 pp. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall.

New York: Hurst & Co., 1891. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good copy in original publishers bright blue ornate book cloth; title and centerpiece in silver with burgundy accents. All wood engravings present. Text block is solid, hinges have been repaired with archival quality white cloth tape. Cover rubbed, head and tail of spine worn. Previous owner's name in pencil. One corner bumped. 197 pp. + index Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.

St. Louis, MO: Woodward & Tiernan, 1907. Sheet. Very good +. A very good plus color promotional art bas relief depicting two "Tom Sawyer-esque" boys, the one snacking on an apple, and the other barefoot and carrying newspapers advertising the "Calendar News" bas-reliefs. From the verso: "We are offering in 1909 a most extraordinary collection of new and beautiful designs in chemigraph and color bas-relief calendars and souvenirs." Matting shows damp satins, but bas-relief only shows one small spot above second boy's hat. See photo. 6 x 8 inches tall

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition, inscribed by the author on a laid-in plate on half-title. Grey buckram boards. Map endpapers. Showing rectangular bleed from previous bookplate on first free endpaper and verso of same, Previous owner's embossed stamp on half-title. Dust jacket shows a one inch tear on back cover, otherwise fine. 219 pp. including index. Octavo/ Barrett Tillman is a widely recognized authority on air warfare in World War II and the author of more than forty nonfiction and fiction books on military topics. He has received six awards for history and literature, including the Admiral Arthur Radford Award. He lives in Mesa, Arizona."-- US Naval Institute"This is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend--with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as a dive bomber and… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition,as stated. Red paper-covered boards over black quarter cloth. Map endpapers. In a very good plus unclipped dustjacket. Short 3/4" tear at crown of jacket and slight wear to inner flap top corner of jacket. xvi, 366 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 2 maps. Octavo. Pulitzer prize-winning author. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr."One of the master storytellers of modern war." The Wall Street Journal "Mr. Toland has written a thriller. He recounts the attack dramatically and then reviews the investigation in a way that raises doubts and questions." New York Times Book Review "An ambitious book written with revisionist vengeance." National Review "John Toland has been fearless in his pursuit of truth ... Infamy is not only readable and suspenseful; it is probably his most… Read More

New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first edition, complete ten volume set. Blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine. Shelf wear on head and tail of all volumes. Top edges gilt. Bindings slightly shaken, otherwise a very good set with minimal wear. Portrait endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Small tear to page 32 of volume one; long tear to photo on page 37 of volume two. Maps and thousands of period black and white photographs. 8 x 11, quarto. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities. Foreword by President William Howard Taft. Part I - The First of the Great Campaigns. Part II - Down The Mississippi Valley. Part III - The Struggle for Richmond. Part IV - Engagements of the Civil War Up to July, 1862. A vital primary resource for anyone interested in the "War between the States."This multi-volume set requires extra postage, billed at actual cost.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in an equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line. xviii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. Octavo. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call "a decade of debauchery of group selfishness," but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s." -- WorldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.