Search Results: Titles starting with T from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with a slight crease near head of spine. Signed by Rice on the front free endpaper. Book four of the Vampire Chronicles; 9.5 X 6.1 X 1.6 inches; 430 pages. Scarce signed. A beautiful copy.

First edition. Illustrated in black-and-white by Timothy Basil Ering. Fine in original pictorial boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. A Newbery Honor book. Octavo. 270 pages. A wonderful copy of this famous tale.

First English Edition, First Printing (published immediately after the American edition). Near fine, dark blue cloth just a little marked and bumped and some slight foxing, else a very nice, bright copy with spine gilt and top edge gilt. First English edition of Conrad's first collection of short stories, published in both America and England in 1898. The book marks the first stage of Conrad learning to write for popular magazines: "in that book I come nearer to the popular notion of tale-telling than in any previous work of mine." (writing to Unwin, Collected Letters, II., p.48). A great copy of this rare tome.

First Edition. Deluxe, in 2 volumes. Each volume fine, in a fine pictorial dustjacket, both housed in publishers original slipcase mirroring the beautiful covers. A fine set of this monumental work.
Profusely illustrated through with over 400 illustrations, photographs, designs, etc. Schwaller's masterwork is the culmination of his exhaustive 12-year study at the great temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor, which is revealed to be an architectural encyclopedia of humanity and the universe. The work represents the most important breakthrough in our understanding of Ancient Egypt since the discovery of the Rosetta stone. This exhaustive and authoritative study reveals the depths of the mathematical, medical, and metaphysical sophistication of Ancient Egypt. Schwaller de Lubicz's stone-by-stone survey of the temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu at Luxor allows us to step into the mentality of Ancient Egypt and experience the Egyptian way of thinking within the context of their own worldview. Indeed, Schwaller… Read More

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Good+. Octavo, pp xiv, 275. Frontispiece portrait of a bison hunt, 16 pages of publisher's ads. Bound in publisher's tan cloth, beveled boards, with blind cover decoration and gold spine titles, small adhesion on back cover. Pages toned with occassionbal foxing. Binding tight, slighly cocked. Overall, a very nice copy and one of the best in its condition. Captain Frederick Trench Townsend (1838-1924) was a British Army officer in the 2nd Life Guards. He was hunter and traveler who came to North America to hunt for 10 months in the late 1860s. Townsend journeyed more than 10,000 miles across America, not counted his sea voyage from England. He landed in New York, went to Rhode Island, and then hunted deer and wolf in the Adirondacks. He shot wild fowl on the Nebraska plains and re-armed for the west in Omaha. On the northern plains he shot buffalo, antelope, and black-tailed deer. In the Rocky Mountains Townshend hunted big-horn… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Very good in original beige cloth and very good pictorial dust jacket, worn and chipped. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. viii, 112 pp.

First Edition, First Printing. Just about fine in yellow boards with pictorial endpapers, with very slight nick on hinge.

First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed on the title page by O'Brien. First state dust jacket with the slight offset. A fine clean copy, without flaw. As new. O'Brien's collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. Considered one of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature. Octavo. 273 pages. A beautiful copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket: Very Good. First American Edition, First Printing. Red cloth with white and gold lettering on the spine. Binding and cloth in very good condition, clean and tight and sharp cornered, with floral decoration on the cover, stamped in dark orange. Slight ____ on board edge and head and tail of spine. Dustjacket is white with colorful lettering and decoration, also in very good condition, with only two small closed tears and top edge wear, otherwise beautiful. Original price of $5.95 on the front flap. Translated from Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. 238 pages. First published in 1962 in Brazil. The Third Bank of the River was published just after his masterpiece (Grande Sertao: Veredas). Rosa died in 1967, and Knopf worked quickly to publish his works in the United States. While he is still not well read here, his reputation continues to grow internationally. A lovely copy. Used/Very Good.

First Edition thus. Special Limited Edition, this being number 63 of only 250 copies. Signed by Styron. Fine in a fine publisher's slipcase. Essays discussing American history, slavery, the Holocaust, prisons, the military, and American authors original burgundy cloth binding with gilt titles. A lovely collector's item.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket: Fine with two small closed tears. Special Edition. 623 pages. First edition, first printing. Originally published in 1947 by Doubleday. This edition has a new Introduction by Max Westbrook. The story of An American Farmer who struggles against the depression in Siouxland. Inscribed by Manfred on the first sheet and signed again on the title page. A beautiful copy! Used/Fine.

First Edition, First Printing. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of photographs by Richard Barnes. "Showcas[ing] three architecturally important private residences now owned by and housing the expansive art collections of Max Palevsky. Each house has been built, restored or reworked by a well-known contemporary architect. Presented in significant detail are the Palm Springs House, by renowned mid-century modernist architect Craig Ellwood; the extravagant Malibu Spanish-style House, with interior renovations by renowned Italian architect Ettore Sottsass; and the opulent Beverly Hills House, by the most famous of the 1920s Mediterranean-style architects." Very neat previous ownership signature on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in original tan cloth and just about fine pictorial dust jacket. Binding very mildly cocked. Quarto. 23.5 x 31 cm. 159 pp. A lovely copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine. White parchment boards in mylar protected dust-jacket, boards somewhat dull per age and color. Gilt titles and gilt embossed vignette of Alice on front board. Gilt topstain. First Edition illustrated by Newell (published October 1902). Illustrated with tissue-protected portrait frontispiece of Newell and 40 full-page beautiful plates by Peter Newell, all present. Interior pages and boards fine and unmarred. All pages surrounded with decorative borders in green by Robert Murray Wright. 211 pp. A wonderful first edition of the acclaimed Peter Newell edition.

First Edition, First Printing. Finney's celebrated novel of time travel, which has developed an incredible cult following. A beautiful copy.Fine in a fine dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt titling on spine and on front board. Stated first printing, not the BOMC edition, this copy has all the correct first edition points: Priced at $7.95, caption beneath front flap photo reading 'Fifth Avenue from 34th to 14th - is enchanted,' and code of 20497 printed at base of lower rear panel.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a slight crease near head of spine. Signed by Rice on the front free endpaper. Book four of the Vampire Chronicles; 9.5 X 6.1 X 1.6 inches; 430 pages. Scarce signed. A beautiful copy.

First Edition, First Printing. First Title in the beloved Tinker and Tanker series. Contents near fine, with pages and illustrations bright and clean. Very good in original blue pictorial cloth covered boards and a good price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, chipped with edgewear and mild toning, and penciled word on rear board. Quarto. 8.5 x 10.25 in. Overall, a lovely collector's copy.

First Edition Library (1988); First Edition Thus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with very slight closed tear at top of the jacket spine. An exact facsimile of the original in every respect. Flap price $3.95 and Capote's blurb top of front flap. A wonderful copy in slipcase.

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original black cloth and near fine pictorial dust jacket, lightly worn at the corners and head of the spine, and with a short tear at the top of the front panel, hardly visible. Inscribed by Wellman on the front free endpaper. Very scarce signed. With occasional black & white reproductions of illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. Illustrated endpapers. Duodecimo. 202 pp.

Limited Editions Club. One of only 1,500 copies, this copy being unnumbered. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton. Benton illustrated three Twain Limited Editions Club titles, of which this is one (and we presently have the other two). Fine in publisher's blue cloth with only the slightest wear. Spine label unmarred and clean. Yellow top stain rich. Interior fine, with text and wonderful illustrations by Benton bright and clean with no dulling. One of the best copies of the book we've seen in quite some time.
Thomas Hart Benton was one of the central artists of the 20th century and is associated with the American Regionalism movement. He is famous for his grand-scale murals depicting everyday life with real people at the center. A native of the American Midwest, Benton made paintings and drawings depicting the realities of agrarian life and the pressures of industrialization. Benton regularly incorporated quintessentially American icons of progress in his images, including railroads, cars, and factories.

First American Edition, First Printing. Two volumes (complete when published, a supplement was published a few years later). Quite rare thus. Swedish explorer and travel writer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) made four expeditions to Central Asia, studying the topography and geology of the region, as well as both the prehistoric and modern culture. Painstakingly dedicated to his research, Hedin documented his travels thoroughly in numerous published volumes; 'Trans-Himalaya' is an account of Hedin's exploration of Tibet, particularly the Trans-Himalaya, a 1,600-kilometre long mountain range in China, and the sources of the Indus and Brahmaputra Rivers. Hedin is credited as being the first European to reach the Kailash region, and his discoveries paved the way for major scientific and cultural documentation of the Asian region by European scholars. Profusely illustrated with black & white plates, including photographs and sketches by the author, as well as 10 maps (complete), including 2 large color folding… Read More