Search Results: Titles starting with S from TristanBooks

Sacrarum Caeremoniarum sive rituum ecclesiasticorum s. rom. ecclesisae. libri tres. Hac postrema editione magno studio ac vigilan tia recogniti aucti locupletati. Universis Eclessiastici, non tam jucundi, quam utiles & necessarii. Venetiis apud Juntas, M. D. LXXXII Loosely translates: The Sacred/Holy Ceremonies and Rituals of the Roman clergy in three books. This last edition has been expanded with great care and vigilance. Necessary and useful for all clergy of the Roman Church. Printed in Venice (Italy) by Juntas, 1582. A religious book on the clerical and ecclesiastical ceremonies of the Roman Church, probably post Council of Trent under Pope Gregory IX (1517-1586). Probably a counter-reformation ceremony book. Numerous in-text woodcut illustrations of Roman Catholic ceremonies and Holy Orders and one full-page (frontispiece). Size, Binding: Small folio, measuring 10x7x1.5" (25.5x18x4 cm), limp beige vellum binding (i.e. animal skin) probably dating from close to the time of its printing.… Read More

NOTE: This is the trade edition equivalent of the Centipede Press limited edition issued in 2004, the first illustrated edition of this novel, the latter edition fetches about $2500+ these days.
Salem's Lot by Stephen King (The Gunslinger, Drawing of the Three, Wizard and Glass, etc. Carrie, The Shining, etc.) Hardcover First Trade Edition - First Printing NY: Doubleday US, 2005 $35.00 cover price 594 pages. Interior photographic illustrations by Jerry N. Uelsmann Lee, unique cover and interior artwork for this edition originally appearing in the Centipede Press limited edition in 2004.
Published by Scribner's in 2004 and in a limited edition by Centipede Press. Features a wonderfully spooky artwork. In my humble opinion, a more pleasing book than the first US trade edition which can easily fetch about $1500+.
Fine- in Fine Dust Jacket, a beautiful copy with some signs of aging, and two tiny spots on the left-hand side of the text-block, else a beautiful copy. NO tears and NO chips to the jacket, only… Read More

NOTE: This is a later trade edition which looks nearly the same as the first edition which fetches about $1500+ these days.
Salem's Lot by Stephen King (author of Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, etc.) Hardcover Trade Edition - Later Printing NY: Doubleday US, 1975 (but probably issued circa 1980) no cover price 594 pages. Dust jacket artwork by Dave Christensen. 9 1/2 5x 6 1/4.
Originally published by Doubleday 's in 1975 in a slightly smaller edition, this larger trade size hardcover probably was published circa 1980. The larger size is a slightly more pleasing book than the first trade edition which can easily fetch about $1500+.
Fine- in Near Fine Dust Jacket, a beautiful copy, the book itself appears like new and unread, NO tears and NO chips to the jacket but some crinkling to the lower back edge and top spine. Relatively uncommon in this edition.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale.… Read More

Beautiful small folio book covering the International Panama-Pacific Exposition aka World's Fair which took place in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. A must-have for San Francisco history buffs!
San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 by Laura A. Ackley Hardcover First Edition - Second Printing Heyday and California Historical Society 2015. Beautiful book with numerous photographs and illustrations, some of them originally black and white photos colored. SIGNED and Dated 9/28/2015 on the Title Page with Inscription "Enjoy the Fair!". Fine as NEW without Dust Jacket as issued. 382 Pages.The Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a world's fair held in San Francisco, in the United States, between February 20 and December 4 in 1915. Its ostensible purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. The fair was constructed on a 635… Read More

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Shon the Taken by Tanith Lee (author of Castle of Dark, Winter Players, East of Midnight, Claidi , Piratica, Lionwolf series, Night's Master, Death's Master, etc.) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Macmillan UK 1979. £4.50 cover price, blue boards inside dust jacket with wrap-around art by Bridie Page. (No hardcover edition of this book has been released in the US to my knowledge.) Extremely uncommon copy of one of Tanith Lee's early novels, one of about a dozen give or take Gothic-Fantasy novels by Lee in fantasy settings published by Macmillan UK from the 1970's to the early 1980's.
Fine in Fine Dust Jacket, a near-perfect copy, appears UNREAD. NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

The Short Reign of Pippin the Short A Fabrication by John Steinbeck (author of Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and Cannery Row) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Viking 1957. Fine- in Near Fine- price-clipped Dustjacket. A really nice copy of one Steinbeck's more humorous offerings. Book itself is just about as close to fine as you could desire, corners straight, inner pages clean, spine lettering very bold, very slight toning to pages edges which is to be expected. The dust jacket is in really nice shape, very bright at the front, price-clipped and slight chip to lower rear corner, very slight fading to spine, and typical fraying to lower spine edge, else essentially all there. A very nice smart copy.
NOTE: This is NOT the book club edition.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - First State. London: Allen & Unwin UK, 1977. (Also released in the US by Houghton Mifflin) No cover price, indicating the export market state which apparently was released prior to all other editions. Includes a map opposite page 121 and map on the back. Also includes several pages of genealogies. Also there are several first state/first printing errors: On page 330, missing the period after Feanor near the top, and page 352, "and" is italicized between "Lord of the Waters" and "King of the Sea" towards the bottom. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. A superb copy, nearly perfect in conceivable facet: corners straight, boards clean, pages white and clean. Only shortcomings are a tiny hint of edge-wear to the jacket, top and bottom spine, nearly unnoticeable else a nearly perfect copy.Edition Information: "The Lord of the Rings", essentially one long novel issued in three parts, was a kind of sequel to "The Hobbit" (1937). It was first… Read More

NOTE: The book is in its original shrink-wrap. The first book of the actual copy and the other pictures are from Cemetery Dance's website
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King (SK wrote The Gunslinger, Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, etc., and Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot, etc.) Hardcover First Edition - Deluxe/Gift Issue Forest Hill, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2019. Dust Jacket artwork and interior illustrations by Jana Heldersdoff. (released also in a signed-limited issue which runs about $100, and trade editions by Scribner's and Hodder and Stoughton UK.) Very Fine as NEW in original shrink-wrap.)
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IMPORTANT NOTE: All sales are generally FINAL. I do NOT accept returns because of buyer's remorse, "it was a gift but the recipient already… Read More

The Spy Who Loved Me (the Ninth James novel) by Ian Fleming Hardcover First Edition - First Printing- Second State Dust Jacket
Jonathan Cape UK 1962. (released simultaneously in the US by Viking)
Black boards with etched dagger and silver blade on the front, 16s cover
price (the first state is 15s), state "First Published 1962" without
any indication of subsequent printings, indicating a first printing.Near
Fine in Near Fine- Dust Jacket. A very nice smart copy, the book itself
is mostly clean and solid with just a hint of age-toning, and a former
owner signature on the front end-paper. The dust jacket is all there,
slit to top back edge, smudges to lower bottom edge and upper right-hand
corner, and a tiny nick to corner with typical toning to the back,
common with books printed prior to circa 1970. Still overall a very
clean presentable copy, for about half the price of a perfect copy which
runs $1000+ with many booksellers asking $2000+. Priced to sell.PLUS Bonus Book:The Man with the… Read More

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Hardcover First Edition - First Printing London: HarperCollins Voyager UK, 2000 (issued simultaneous to the US edition) with spectacular dust jacket art by Jim Burns. £17.99 cover price. Printing number-line on copyright page, staggered, with "1" the lowest number present indicating a first printing.
Near Fine in Fine- Dust Jacket. A fairly nice copy, by no means perfect, with some faint soiling to the boards and shelf-wear, but in a nearly perfect well-preserved jacket with some edge-wear here and there. Still a nice presentable copy for much less than a fine example.
Edition Note: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin was first published in hardcover in the UK by HarperCollins/Voyager and Bantam in the US in 1996. Some controversy exists regarding which edition appeared first. The release date of the UK edition was before the official release date for the US edition, but some copies of the US edition were made available at a science fiction convention.… Read More

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (author of "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Rocket Ship Galileo", and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") Limited Hardcover Artist Edition Suntup Press 2021 illustrated by Thomas Canty in a limited edition of 750 copies in slipcase. Fine as NEW in shrink-wrap.
NOTE: The original first edition of Stranger in a Strange Land was published in 1961 by G.P. Putnam's Sons US. It is regarded as one of a handful of science fiction novels which pushed on the boundaries of sf from being merely an escapist genre into higher literature. (Dune by Frank Herbert, some of the work of Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin also pushed the genre creating a sub-genre of literary science fiction.) First edition copies in fine condition generally fetch about $4000+ so this is a wonderful alternative and probably the best edition of this book ever published. This title is regarded as one of quite possibly Heinlein's best novel and one of his most popular.
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Sunset Pass by Zane Grey (author of Westerns, notably for shaping how the genre would develop and be popularized in the 20th century, notably his book Riders of the Purple Sage) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First edition stated with the appropriate printing code K-F which indicates November, 1931 (According to Harper & Brothers printing codes, K=November, and F=1931.) $2.00 cover price on the front dust jacket flap. NOTE: (This is NOT the later Grosset & Dunlap edition which would not be a true first edition even though some sellers are characterizing such as copies as being firsts.) Made into a Hollywood film in 1933 starring Randolph Scott and directed by Henry Hathaway.
Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. A beautiful copy overall, the book itself is essentially fine, corners straight, pages clean. The main shortcoming of the dust jacket is a half-dime size chip to the upper front and fraying to the upper and lower spine, but overall it's much nicer and… Read More