Search Results: Titles starting with T from Biblioctopus

London: Nutt, 1704. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Ist edition Ist printing with the uncorrected text and the blank space on page 320 where the word "uterinus" was later inserted (a 2nd and 3rd edition were published the same year). His first major book, a classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified in the quarrels between Saint Peter, Martin Luther, and Jack Calvin. 19th century full, straight grain morocco. A near fine copy, clean, sound and complete with the Treatises leaf at the front and the final blank, and though it is not a scarce book, it is quite so in this splendid condition. Ref: Teerink-Scouten 217. Rothschild 1992.

New York: Liberty Magazine, 1934. First Edition. wrappers. Very good. 9 vols. 1st appearance anywhere in the original parts November 11 - January 6 (vol. 10, nos. 45-52, vol. 11, no 1.) Original wrappers. Burrough's satire of Hollywood. A very good set.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 1st edition of the 3rd Mr. Moto. Original cloth, near fine in a very good dustjacket with small chips to the spine's top and a very soft crease, and among bookselling's most pathetic lies is to call chipping, rubbing, unless the potential customer is both blind and lacking even a cursory sense of touch. Not a common 1st edition in any manner of jacket. RBH lists only 2 copies sold at auction since 1975, one of them with a hefty chip to the jacket's spine, and the other one better, and more recent, but still in a soiled and worn jacket. "Young Wilson Hitchings is ready to take his place in the venerable family firm of Hitchings Brothers, Bankers and Commission Merchants: Honolulu, Shanghai, Canton. His first real assignment is to travel to Hawaii and deal with the Hitchings Plantation, a gambling house started by a black sheep of the family and maintained after his death by his lovely daughter, Eva Hitchings. Wilson's… Read More

New York: The Fantod Press, 1970. First edition. Three volumes in stapled wrappers, in publisher's printed envelope as issued. Books are as new; the envelope is fine but for a touch of discoloration.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. Three volumes in stapled wrappers, in publisher's printed envelope as issued. Books are as new; the envelope is fine.

New Orleans: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition, 1st printing. Neatly inscribed by Slesinger to her editor at Vanity Fair on the front endpaper: "To Frank Crowninshield / with a sophisticated bush / Tess Slesinger / May 8, 1935." Upper front corner lightly pushed, else clean and fine, dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities, else near fine. This is Slesinger's second book and first collection of short stories. Known for her only novel, "The Unpossessed" (1939) and the adapted screenplays for "The Good Earth" (1937), "Remember the Day" (1941) and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1946). She was active with the leftist intellectual scene in 1930s New York and participated in founding the Screen Writers Guild. "Out-of-door shouts from another world floated, far-off and crazy, through the half-closed window; the veil of satisfaction trembled, shot through with sound." The Answer (page 338).

Springfield: Colliers, 1947. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. December 6 issue. 1st appearance in print, anywhere, of the story adapted by Carl Foreman for the legendary 1952 Western film, "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Original pictorial wrappers, very good, untouched, complete, clean, and integral. The 85-minute movie runs in nearly real time, from about 10:30 AM to just after Noon, serving as a reminder that, we are here, it is now, and all the rest is a dream. Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor, the A.F.I. ranked High Noon the 27th best picture of all time in 2007, and in 2008, they cited it as the number 2 Western.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/good. 1st edition, 1st printing. Fine in a good, but unrestored and scarce 1st printing dustjacket. Arguably the most important Oz book after the first one, at last telling the backstory, the creation of Oz as a fairyland in the time before Dorothy's arrival, followed by an adventure with most of the familiar characters and a few new ones. Witches, of a sort, in literature, trace to Circe in Homer's Odyssey and the likes of Morgana in King Arthur but the modern version began in Basile's Sleeping Beauty (originally titled Sun, Moon and Talia) from his Pentamerone (1634), however it was Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that gave the witch (the Wicked Witch of the West) some depth, and that was because Baum. developed his characters, better than most, by understanding that the reader goes from language to thought while the writer goes from thought to language.

London: Constable, 1932. Uncorrected proof of the English edition. Printed wrappers. A little sunning to the wrappers, a tiny split at the top of the front wrap, else near fine. For those desperate for a new film source, this was the basis for a 1976 Czechoslovakian television series, *Americk ° trag ©dia* ‚Äì don't even ask why we know this.

Lyon: Thibauld Payan, 1561. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2nd edition of Franco's most famous work, greatly expanding the 1st (1556) with 25 new woodcuts (22 instruments and 3 skeletons) and . Octavo, (32), 554, (2) pp. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to the title page, title with old paper restoration (30mmx40mm) to blank right margin, paper reinforcements to lower margin of G2 [‘F2'], T6, Bb8, Ii2), worming to the final 26 leaves not effecting text, errata with a 28mmx44mm piece of the lower blank margin removed and the whole page laid down, some very minor, sporadic foxing and browning, else internally clean very good. Bound in contemporary vellum remnants of from an old manuscript, chipped at the lower rear corner, lacking the ties, toned, else very good. Only 3 other copies at auction in at least 85 years. Norman 828. Franco was one of the greatest surgeons of the Renaissance, "[...] influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice,… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1950. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the author's second book, and first collection of stories. As nice a copy as you are likely to see of the English edition, which, unlike the U.S. edition, used leftover stocks of cheap wartime paper.

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition (in English despite the Paris imprint). 1st issue, but the price has been scratched out on front flap and spine, though a part of the ‘0' is legible on the front flap, so it was not stamped over and there is no ‘175.00' printed on the rear wrapper. Despite this, we will pretend it's a 2nd issue and price it that way. Extremities of the wrapper are a bit pushed from being larger than the page block, otherwise fine and bright in the original wrappers, with errata sheet tipped in before title page. Custom cloth clamshell box. Miller's semi-autobiographical prequel to Tropic of Cancer (there were actually 3 other books in-between the 2), set in New York in 1920, where the central character (Henry V.Miller) works for the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company, paralleling Western Union where the real Miller actually worked. But (other than some of the scenes with his first wife) this is the closest of the book's analogies, and… Read More

London: Boardman, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st edition. Offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps else fine in a very good dustjacket. A man's corpse is found on a hillside. 3 villagers each believe they killed him and they and a fourth man bury, move, and rebury the body trying to cover up the crime. Hitchcock's 1955 film captures the farce with an ending that harkens a Shakespeare comedy.

n.p., 1990. Very good. 3 pages of manuscript lyrics written in Idol's hand with pencil on lined and ruled yellow paper, 8.25" x11". Some stains (blood?), smudges, vertical and horizontal fold lines, else very good. No corrections, but there are a number of differences between this manuscript and the final studio version, i.e. the first stanza, order and many other examples—certainly an early working draft. Beautiful custom morocco chemise slip case. Ex-Julien's, donated by Idol for a charity auction. "Trouble with the Sweet Stuff" appeared on Idol's critically acclaimed fourth studio album Charmed Life. The album presents a more mature and developed musician, with sophisticated, edgy, thought-provoking and confessional lyrics. Parke Peterbaugh, writing a review for Rolling Stone, states: "The album is as viscerally exciting and driven as Rebel Yell but is pulled to greater depths by the countervailing forces within the singer." "I was just a baby boy when they told me, God love me, that's enough".

Miletus, Ionia, 650-600 BCE. Milesian standard 24th stater (full staters of Milatos were roughly 14 grams). Flattened striated surface with an incuse square punch, 5.81mm, 0.60 grams. Electrum (elektron in greek) is an alloy of gold and silver from natural ore found in nugget form in many rivers in Lydia and Ionia. While there's little archaeological evidence to provide a concise chronology of early greek coinage, this coin is among the first coins ever minted. Linzalone 1039; SNG Kayhan 682; Traité I 14-5 Cf. Weidauer 9.

[No place]: John Berryman, 1965. First edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. A trifle age-toned, thus near fine. Issued by John and Kate Berryman as a Christmas greeting. This copy Signed on the front wrap by Jean Stafford. Stafford was at one time the wife of Robert Lowell, and their friendship with Berryman is related in *Poets in Their Youth* by Berryman's ex-wife, Eileen Simpson. Why Stafford signed the card is a mystery, presumably it is her ownership signature.