Search Results: Titles starting with T from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: John Lane, 1914. First edition. Original blue cloth, spine slightly tanned, joints slightly rubbed, small spot on fore edge. An attractive copy, with the gilt bright.

New York: Rider, 1950. First edition. Blue cloth, near-fine in chipped and worn jacket.

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1997. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers, fine.

New York: Scribners', 1910. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth. Garrison A18.1.a.

Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Pink and purple marbled boards backed in tan cloth, spine label; lacking the wax-paper dust wrapper. A very good copy with moderate extremity wear and a hint of sunning. Kirkpatrick B4; Woolmer 32.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977. Folio, original cloth covered boards with calf spine. One of 950 copies, signed by Adams, printed by Lawton Kennedy, the photographs printed in duotone by George Waters at Pacific Litho. This edition, an excellent facsimile of the rare 1930 first edition, contains a new afterword by Weston Naef. Fine condition with slipcase, as issued. With a laid-in autograph of Ansel Adams on an insert from a roll of Tri-X film.

London: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Marbled boards, spine label, 43 pp. Instead of the usual black slipcase, the slipcase on this copy is covered with the same marbled paper as the book. A fine copy of this fragile book. One of 150 copies, designed by Stanley Morison and Frederic Warde, printed at the Fanfare press, using, for the first, and one of the few times in a book, Morison and Warde's original Arrighi type.

Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1986. Boards, fine. Second printing. Inscribed by Pacheco to an important Nicaraguan poet.

Palo Alto: 3 EP Ltd, 1981. First edition. A portfolio of six colored etchings and aquatints, drawn by the artist on copper and zinc plates, printed by Ikuru Kuwahara, signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Overall size 22-1/2 inches x 27 inches, plate size 17-1/2 in x 22 in. Copy 19 of 20 numbered sets on Arches plus six proof sets of which 3 were on Stonehenge paper. Fine condition in publisher's folding linen case. Fred Martin's works are held by numerous institutions, including The New York Museum of Modern Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The National Gallery, Washington, etc. An account of the development of his Tarot images is on the artist's web site (fredmartin[dot]net).

Hadley, Mass: Bird Press, 2000. First edition. Dennerline, Thorsten. One of 55 copies (including 15 special bindings or artist proofs). Cloth with vellum spine, the binding designed by Thorsten Dennerline, and executed by Peter Verheyen. Eight poems written by the Danish poet in 1999, typeset by Michael Bixler, letterpress printed by Daniel Keleher. The etchings were hand printed by Thorsten Dennerline.

Paris: [s.n.], 8212. Original wrappers, very good and fine copies.

New York: Constable, 1910. First edition. Original gray cloth lettered in dark blue. Extreme corner clipped from front endpaper, but a fine copy. An American edition was published the same year.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1953. First edition. Cloth, 700 pp. Good copy, notes on endpapers.

New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press, 1950. First editions, vols 3 and 4 are third printings. Six volumes, 1 and 2 in publisher's printed wrappers, 3-6 in publisher's cloth. Wrappers are worn and have some tape mends, otherwise a very good set.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945. First edition. Cloth, 330 pp. Very good.

New York: Murray Hill Books, 1945. First edition. Publisher's cloth, very good. Ownership signature. Frequent pencil annotations.

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First edition of the first book on television. Original red cloth, gilt on the front cover. This now uncommon book is more frequently found in printed wrappers, priced 2/- for popular distribution, bound copies cost 2/6, and probably only a very few were made, for libraries. The bound issue contains a double flyleaf at the front, and a single flyleaf at the back, both of (coated) text paper, while the wrappered issue has no flyleaves nor endpapers. January 1927 ownership inscription. Slight rubbing to extremities; very good condition. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John Logie Baird and a print of the first photograph ever taken by (i.e. transmitted by) television. "On January 23, 1926, Baird gave a demonstration of his television apparatus to some 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory in Frith Street, Soho. This was the first public demonstration of true television ever witnessed. The images of human faces,… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1927. First edition. Boards, a little browning to first and last leaves, spine slightly faded but a fine copy.

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. The first book in English devoted to television. Original printed wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, the wrappers in fine condition, the jacket with some light soiling and small closed tears to the lower edge. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John Logie Baird and a print of the first photograph ever taken by television. "On January 23, 1926, Baird gave a demonstration of his television apparatus to some 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory in Frith Street, Soho. This was the first public demonstration of true television ever witnessed. The images of human faces, not as outlines or silhouettes but complete with tonal gradations of light and shade and detail were transmitted between two rooms," A. Abramson, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941 (1987), p. 84.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945. First edition. Cloth, 330 pp. Very good in worn dust jacket.