Search Results: Titles starting with T from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [6], 152 pp. First American edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright binding with little in the way of wear; ghost of an old price sticker on the front pastedown else nearly fine; dust jacket is somewhat edgeworn with a chip to the bottom of the rear panel, now much improved in appearance with a new mylar cover; price intact on the front flap.

Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press Inc, 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. [10], 106, [4] pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by DuPlessis on the half title. Trade paperback. Light fading to the cover and a bit of shelf-rubbing, but generally a nice copy.

Athens, AL: Price Parker, 1969. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 84 pp., illus. First edition. As issued, stapled into stiff, printed wrappers; printed in two columns with several in-text illustrations. A very nice copy with little in the way of shelfwear. As noted in the Preface, this "is composed of a series of feature stories written by Price Parker, Sports Editor for the Athens, Ala. News Courier. Included in this book are many historic stories concerning individual foot troops who fought in the great conflict now know to history as the Civil War. Others concern boom towns and more than half a century ago which now are an important part of American folk lore" (p. 1). Remarkably uncommon piece of regional history. OCLC: 4138905.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. x, 134 pp. First Edition. As issued in paper over boards; a bright copy in fresh dust jacket; price intact on the front flap. Inscription by Komunyakaa on the title page. A nice collection by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet.

Palo Alto, CA: CCC Books, 2000. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Large octavo. xxxvii, [1], 301, [3] pp., illus. First English edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fairly bright, clean copy in a jacket with only trivial rubbing.

Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission, 1999. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. xviii, 469 pp., illus. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Bennett on the title page. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in a similarly sharp dust jacket. Extensive work, profusely illustrated.

Garden City: Crime Club | Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 12mo. First edition. Publisher's black cloth with title stamped in red on the front cover and the spine; light fraying to the spine ends and corners; spine a trifle sunned; top corner of the front free endpaper is chipped; contents are occasionally and lightly foxed else clean.

New York: Day-Nichols, 1928. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xvi, 271, [1] pp. First Edition, limited to 1000 copies. As issued, in dark cloth with gold titling on the front cover and spine. Covers are lightly stained; hinges are a bit loose; some toning to the page edges; previous owner name on the front pastedown else contents are clean.

Kamin Publishers. pp. x, 35. Bound as issued, in printed wrappers. Previous owner name on the top of the title page and the inside of the front cover; light shelfwear and soiling to the wrappers; small closed tear to the fore-edge of the final blank leaf. Uncommon.

New York: Random House, 1959. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [6], 240, [2] pp. First Edition. As issued, in full cloth. Binding is a trifle soiled with some rubbing and light fraying to the cloth on the bottom board edges; previous name in ink on the front free endpaper; dust jacket is generally rubbed with some soiling as well as some subtle staining to the back panel; price intact on the front flap. All in all, a presentable copy of the only novel written by the originator of cybernetics.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1862. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. 12mo. xii, 332 pp. First edition. In original cloth with embellishments and title in gold and blind; all edges gilt. Binding if quite bright and shows only light edgewear; front hinge has been effectively mended; previous owners' name and bookplate; only light and occasional foxing. A remarkably nice copy of a book that isn't often found thus. Fairly uncommon even in institutional holdings, OCLC identifies a 19 copies (OCLC 5947686). Clark remarks: "Mitchell claimed that he lived in the United States (mostly in Richmond, Virginia) for a period of ten years (1848-58). This book, which is based on his observations while a resident of the United States, is generally favorable to the South and to slavery. He thought the abolitionists did the Negroes an injustice when they made a moral issue out of slavery, and he asserted that eh Negro (who was regarded as a nuisance by Northerners and an economic necessity by Southerners) was and would be… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 230 pp. First edition, second printing; signed by Malmud on the front free endpaper. In publisher's orange cloth with dust jacket. A fairly bright copy; top corners softened; foxing to the fore-edge else clean; dust jacket is fairly fresh but has some vertical creases to the rear flap; price intact on the front flap.

Knoxville, TN: Privately printed, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. First edition, number 53 of 125 copies, signed on the limitation page and additionally signed and inscribed by Allen on the front free endpaper. As issued, in leatherette over boards with printed paper title label on the front. Light wear but generally a nice copy; clean throughout. Contains nearly 1200 entries with bibliographic data and prices. A useful reference for the scarcest books. Mounted leaves from 10 of the books included in this bibliography, each with a translucent identifying the leaf and the reference number in the bibliography.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [6], 190, [1] pp. First edition. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A very sharp copy with only trivial shelf-rubbing to the binding and jacket; price intact on the top of the front flap.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. viii, 89, [4] pp. First edition. Signed by Hollander on the title page. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Quite a nice, fresh copy.

Amsterdam: Chez henry Desbordes, 1689. Full Leather. Poor binding. 12mo. [2], 323, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, worn, leather dry and abraded; leather of spine and joints chipped with loss; one corner of front cover worn away; ex-library with all the usual markings, bookplate, and some pencil ones; textblock is largely free of toning or foxing. Whether Cardinal Richelieu wrote this "Political testament" or whether it was Paul Hay, marquis du Chatelet (as some have suggested), the work remains an important work on state craft and advice to a ruler on government. Text in French.

Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing Company, 1957. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. 12mo. 123 pp. First edition, limited to 450 copies. As issued, in stiff wrappers. A fairly sharp, crisp copy with just a bit of smudging on the front cover and a bit of sunning to the top of the rear cover; contemporary bookseller's ticket inside the front cover; contents are clean. Nevins describes this as "[t]he abridged letters (1862-1865) of Dr. Edward W. Cade, whose service as a brigade surgeon was in teh Trans-Mississippi department" CWB I, 51. Dornbusch II, 2633.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Oblong 12mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Wakoski at the colophon. Printed in black Palatino on handmade ivory-colored Shadwell paper sewn into Fabriano paper covers with jacket and acronym of the title:author stamped in blind on the front; "illustrated by an anonymous diagram of the mechnics fo the piano, key and wire, etc." Hamady notes in the bibliography, "This paper was couched on the 'magic felt' which was gratis from a papermill here in Wisconsin. It was loaded with pigment from its last job, so each pressing produced a different color in the sheet, beginning with a hot pink & lighter to an orange & on to Ivory & finally off-white with light tangerine deckles!" Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 24. A beautiful fine printing of Wakoski's haunting poem.

Limerick: printed by Salesian Press Trust for Treaty Publishers, 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. 69 pp. As issued, in pictorial, stiff wrappers. Light rubbing to the edges; a clean copy with bifolium map.

Los Angeles: Bombshelter Press, 1995. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 36 pp., illus. First edition. As issued, stapled in stiff, self-wrappers. Light soiling to the covers, but largely a clean, bright copy of this striking chapbook with striking color illustrations.