Search Results: Titles starting with T from johnson rare books & archives

Tralee: The Kerryman Ltd, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With eight drawings by A.N. Jeffares. Tralee, Ireland: The Kerryman Ltd., 1945. First edition. A collection of prose and verse from T.C.D., the second oldest independent college magazine in the world. Some mild dust staining to the top edge. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some rubbing and light edgewear; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Malcolm Brown. Two maps. First American edition. Approximating the closest work to an autobiography by the enigmatic British military hero, archaeologist, and writer, this collection of 470 letters written between 1905 and 1935 includes correspondence by T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) to Lady Nancy Astor, Robert Graves, E.M. Forster, John Buchan, Winston Churchill, Bernard Shaw, and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, the confidant with whom Lawrence revealed a great deal about his feelings concerning women and sexuality. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16 plates. An essential reference, covering not only the canon of Lawrence's work but all literature about him as well. Octavo. Original rust cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild bump to the bottom corner of the front board. The dust jacket is lightly faded along the spine; otherwise a crisp and clean, very good copy.

University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by Herbert Salzer, who was also a Staff Specialist at General Dynamics Austronautics in San Diego, California. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The hinges are cracked. The dust jacket is rather shelfworn, with some minor chips and tears. Inscribed by Author.

New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Frontispiece portrait, with 23 textual illustrations. New York: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc., 1934. First edition. Attentive biography of Horace Austin Warner Tabor (1830-1899), the Colorado silver king whose vast fortune was built by the Matchless Mine in the Leadville Mining District. The mine is perhaps best known, however, as the home of Horace Tabor's rags-to-riches second wife, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor (1854-1935), who lived there on and off for more than three decades after Horace's death, hoping for a return of the mine's boom days. Signed by Gandy on the title page, with a lengthy typed letter signed from his wife laid in. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Very light rubbing to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is particularly fresh, with a small scuff and a piece of tape to the front flap; else near fine.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Several photographs and half-tone illustrations by the author. Following service at the front with the U.S. Army in World War I, Biddle traveled to Tahiti in 1920, settled in a native village, learned the local dialect and painted for two years. His journal documents his development as an artist and furnishes valuable insights into Tahitian culture. Faint erasure to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn; otherwise very good or better.

Covelo, California: Two Thumbs Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with block prints by the author. [Covelo, California]: Two Thumbs Press, 1985. First edition. "Printed on Arches text in Veronese and Greco bold types in an edition of 99 while serving as an apprentice at The Yolla Bolly Press, Fall 85. This is copy number 59." Original tan paper-covered boards (3 1/8" x 4"), with green stamping. A fine copy. Signed by Author.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Right Reverend Paul Moore, Jr. (1919-2003) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church and served as the 13th Bishop of New York. During his lifetime, he was perhaps the best known Episcopal clergyman in the United States, and among the best known Christian clergy in any denomination. Widely known for his liberal activism, he was also the first Episcopal bishop to ordain an openly homosexual woman as a priest in the church. In this controversial book, he defended his actions by arguing that many priests were homosexuals but few had the courage to acknowledge it. Inscribed by Moore on the title page. Small remainder mark to the bottom edge. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lighty edgeworn, with some mild sun fading along the spine, a bit of very faint staining to the top edge of the front panel, and a small tape repair to the verso. A very good copy. Inscribed by Author.

New York: Bantam Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Dean Koontz on the half-title, with a handwritten note from Koontz on his personal letterhead laid in. "...the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps." Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Later printing. "Eleven stories of shipwreck, peril and adventure among the hardy fishermen of Labrador, and of the life, love and hunting of their simple-hearted Eskimo neighbors, told by the missionary doctor whose name is a household word for courage and devotion." 240 p. with a frontispiece illustration by Charles Livingston Bull. Inscribed, with an original sketch of a fox, on the front flyleaf, with a contribution envelope from the Grenfell Association of America laid in. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with dark blue titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped and chipped, with a bit of minor mottling and some white paper reinforcement to the verso; else very good.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition, a volume in The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Signed on the title page by artist Patrick Jones, who created the color frontispiece portrait. This collection of 29 works of short fiction reveals Poe's pervasive influence upon the American short story, including The Gold Bug, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Octavo. Full brown leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, five raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Tony Hillerman on the title page. Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate the connections between a robber of ancient Indian graves and a recent murder victim. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Accompanied by the Advance Reading Copy, which is also fine.

London: William Heinemann, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by James Dillon White to Eileen Cond on a decorative bookplate affixed to the front flyleaf. Cond was a noted English book collector who sent her bookplate to favorite authors, who signed and returned them by mail. A battered old sailing ship attempts to run a Royal Navy blockade in this nautical adventure by the author of the Roger Kelso novels. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of foxing to the top edge. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some moderate sun fading along the spine; otherwise very good.

London: Viking, 1999. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Second printing. A collection of new and updated recipes for Middle Eastern dishes which are simple to prepare and healthy without losing any of their exotic flavours and aromas. Illustrated with photographs in both color and black-and-white by Gus Filgate. Tall octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild bump to the spine head, with some occasional minor edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise crisp, clean, and very good.

Xlibris, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 475 p. Frontispiece portrait, with 53 textual figures. N.p. First edition. Inscribed by Taylor on the title page. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1994. Trade paperback. Fine. Octavo: 238 p. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

New York: Design Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Using philosophical concepts derived from ancient Taoist and Confucian thought, Wong explains the Chinese landscape painting tradition, its materials, and its brush-and-ink techniques. Bridging cultural gaps between East and West, he provides an introduction to Chinese aesthetics before delving into specific methods of understanding nature and of depicting its forms. Profusely illustrated, partially in color. Quarto: 176 p. Original yellow cloth binding, with silver titles. A near fine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A second imprint (Southern Materials Center, Inc.) suggests this is a Chinese pirated edition. "This book is a translation of Le Taoisme et les Religions Chinoises, which was posthumously published in France in 1971. It it the first English translation of most of the seminal works on Chinese religion of the great sinologist Henri Maspero. Maspero (1883-1945) was the first Western scholar to study the vast and recondite compendium of Taoist writing, the Tao-tsang." Octavo: 578 p. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Bookseller's label to the rear flyleaf. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, J.J. Augustin Publisher, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Volume XXXIV. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A very good copy.