Titles starting with T from Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB

Paris:: Les Editions G. Van Oest,, 1930.. First Edition. Softcover. Softcover quarto in gray wraps printed in red and black. 56 pages plus 88 photographic plates, most containing several photos of boxes. An impressive collection of tobacco boxes in the collection of the Louvre. Text in French. Clean but lightly toned inside; one page more severely toned from an inserted piece of newsprint; front hinge more than starting, but the perfect binding still intact. The covers are lightly worn and soiled; th... more information

London / Tel Aviv:: Soncino Press / Melechet Hamishkan,, 1969.. First Edition. Hardcover. Squarish quarto, about 12 inches tall, in black cloth spine and rear cover, and illustrated gold cloth front cover. 143 [144] pages illustrated by photographs, many of which are tipped-in color. Text in Hebrew and English. A lovely book showing the construction of a model of the tabernacle within the temple in Jerusalem as detailed in the Old Testament. The book has very light extremity wear and very light edge t... more information

New York:: Harcourt Brace,, 1925.. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, just over 7.5 inches tall, in light blue cloth stamped in black. 260 pages. The taboo of the title is a sympathetic look at an interracial love affair. Text a bit toned; covers with light edge wear; book store tag on rear pastedown; but otherwise clean and sound. The jacket is nearly complete with just a few very small chips, but there is a messy tear at the top front panel with minor loss of material and a clean tape repair to ... more information

Naarden Holland:: Hagemeyer N.V.,, Ca. 1975.. 1st ed English. Hardcover. Hardback. Quarto, Company history of the Hagemeyer company. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on back endpaper as though he received the book up side down. Virtually unworn. Jacket with minor extremity wear and a couple of 1 inch tears adjacent to spine top. Photos. ... more information

Aspen:: Future Journey Publishing Co.,, 1988.. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback quarto in off-white cloth stamped in blue. 147 pages illustrated by black and white period photographs and many recent color photographs. Considerably more literary than most railroad books, this details the history of the Roaring Fork Valley, not just Aspen. As much a travel book as local history. A clean, unworn copy in a lightly rubbed jacket without chips or tears, but with a dog-ear to the bottom front flap. ... more information

Centreville MD:: Tidewater Publishers,, 1983.. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, about 10 inches tall, in red cloth stamped in gilt, spine title on a blue field. 386 pages illustrated by photographs, reproduced period drawings. A solid local history of this Maryland Eastern Shore county. Many such histories are short on history and long on family histories. This one is not; rather it is a sound, well written, scholarly work that credits some secondary sources. The book is clean, bright and unwor... more information

Boston:: S.G. Goodrich,, 1827.. Later Edition. Hardcover. Hardback 24mo, about 5.75 inches tall, in recent quarter brown leather and marbled boards. 209 pages plus an erratum noted on the following page. Illustrated by frontis engraving. Pencilled prize notation (from Mrs. Green's school, 1828) on the frontis recto. Expected light toning and minor transfer from the frontis to the title. Binding sound, covers clean and minimally rubbed. ... more information

London:: MacGibbon & Kee,, 1969.. First UK Edition. Collection of short stories. A lovely copy. The personification of 1960's black power. ... more information

Muleshoe TX:: Bailey County History Book Committee,, 1988.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, about 12.25 inches tall, in medium brown faux leather stamped in gilt with an impressive embossed gilt emblem on the front cover. A very impressive production of a local history for a rural west Texas county. Plenty of family history, lots of photographs, map and outline on the front endpaper. Bright, crisp, unworn, soundly bound. ... more information

Garden City NY:: Doubleday, Page,, 1925.. 1st edition. Hardcover. Hardback. 12 mo, Blue cloth with just the faintest extremity wear; very slight toning to text; top edge lightly soiled. The jacket is lightly soiled with the spine slightly but noticeably darker than the covers. Edge and extremity wear. Three closed edge tears of less than inch -- one on top of front panel; the other two on back panel. The interior of the book is clean and unmarked with a sound binding. The jacket is unchipped. ... more information

London:: Hurst and Blackett,, 1877.. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes complete. 12 mo; half brown morroco, spines with five raised bands and double ruled compartments, on marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Binding by Morrell. Light extremity and owner bookplate on front endpapers. ... more information

[Denver]:: Published by author,, 1937.. First edition, First printing. Softcover. Softcover octavo in bluish green wraps stamped in black. 148 pages. A collection of anecdotes collected by the author about early medical practice in Colorado. Signed presentation card laid in. Inside is clean, bright and soundly bound. The wraps, larger than the book, predictibly have several short edge tears. The covers are lightly soiled. ... more information

Norman OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1992.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 9.25 inches (23.5 cm) tall, in black cloth. 250 pages illustrated by photographs, maps. Jacket blurb by Barry Goldwater. A collection of transcribed oral recollections of the Gouldings who operated a trading post near the Utah / Arizona line in the Navajo reservation. Both the book and jacket are clean, crisp and bright. Binding is sound. ... more information

Bismarck ND:: Bismarck Tribune,, 1917.. First Edition. Hardback octavo. Red cloth stamped in gilt on cover with a teepee and a column of smoke pictured on a pastedown along the foredge of the front cover. 186 pages with photographs by the author and drawings byFrancis Zahn (Holy Star). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A SIMPLE PERSONAL INSCRIPTION, IN A SHAKY HAND, DATED 1951. Howes, F155A. Shifflet, p. 162. A short but important look at the end of the Indian Wars in the Dakotas and the period thereafter i... more information

Denver:: Vicious Dog Press,, 1993.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, about 12 inches (30 cm) tall, in a black cloth cover, black paper covered slipcase. Limited edition, #9 of 22 sets. Twelve black and white lithographic prints by 12 artists from the Art Department of Metropolitan State College at Denver: Rachael Amos, Barbara Baer, David Clark, Eldon L. Cunningham, Carlos Fresquez, Kathy Hutton, Susan Josepher, Thomas Logan, Robert Mangold, Jean Schiff, Craig Marshall Smith, and Andrew Speer. Nicely ... more information

Boston:: New York Graphic Society,, 1980.. First Edition. Hardcover. Squarish quarto, about 11.25 inches tall, in brown cloth titled in white. 321 pages illustrated by 60 color plates and 225 black and white illustrations. The jacket blurb calls this "the only complete book about the first generation of Taos painters." This covers the 10 painters belonging to the Taos Society of Artists. The book is flawless but for some barely detectable rubbing to the extremities. The jacket is bright and ... more information

No place (South Bend IN):: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame ,, 1999.. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quarto in gilt stamped beige cloth. 400 pages. An impressive and beautifully produced catalog of an important exhibition of the works produced in the Taos art colony. Illustrated by 251 plates, many in color, and photographs. Included are biographies of the artists discussed, a bibliography, index and notes. Both the book and jacket are bright and crisp. However the jacket has some ligh... more information

Albuquerque NM:: University of New Mexico Press,, 1973.. First edition. Hardcover. Small hardback quarto in white linen. Signed on the half title by the author with a simple inscription. Also signed by the photographer Laura Gilpin. Morrill writes about the art colony's famous like Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Lawrences, and about penitentes. Illustrated by Gilpin's glowing photography. A bright, clean, unworn copy in a crisp, but priced clipped and lightly soiled, jacket with a one inch tear at ... more information

New York:: E.P. Dutton,, 1943.. First edition. Hardcover. Hardback octavo in rust cloth. True first with jacket illustration by Ishmael. Very minor extremity wear and a very light corner bump; light toning to wartime paper. Nice jacket with light sunning to spine; light extremity wear with tiny chips to spine corners; a couple of very small edge tears. ... more information

New York:: Canaveral Press,, 1964.. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback octavo in green cloth. 236 pages illustrated by Reed Crandall with frontis and seven plates, and dustjacket art. A posthumous Tarzan story. A bright, clean copy but for some evidence of an erasure on front endpaper. The jacket is complete and crisp with barely detectable darkening of the spine. ... more information