La vie de Pedrille del Campo. Roman comique dans le gout Espagnol. Par Monsieur T*** G.D.T. avec les cantates & autres poesies du meme auteur. Le tout enrichi de figures en taille-douce.
by [ Thibault, Gouveneur de Talmont]
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene, 1720 First published in 1718, this edition features lovely copper-engraved plates. Both this and the first edition are rare. OCLC lists copies of the present edition at the University of Chicago and Texas A&M, in the English-speaking world. Of the first, it lists copies at the University of Maryland, Princeton, the University of Otago, and Oxford. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with brown calf label, blind-tooled ornament in center of front cover. . Twelvemo. Six copper-engraved... Read More
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Alarms and Excursions in Arabia
by Thomas, Bertram
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1931] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Spine faded, lacking d.j. A good, clean copy.
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Conversation About Christmas
by Thomas, Dylan
[New York:] N New Directions, 1954 First edition. Wrappers, stapled. 6" x 4 1/4". A little light toning near spine, but a fine copy. A Christmas keepsake for friends of the publisher.
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Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts Relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661
by [ Thomason, George ]
London: Printed by order of the trustees, Sold at the British Museum; and by Longmans & Co..., 1908 Original burgundy cloth with gilt spines. Top edge gilt. Two volumes, thick octavo. Top corners bumped, binding extremities lightly rubbed, a little spotting to spines. A very good set. Volume I: Catalogue of the Collection, 1640-1661. Volume II: Catalogue of the Collection, 165301661; Newspapers; Index.
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Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas
by [ Thomas, George C. ]
Philadelphia: 1907 Full contemporary red morocco, gilt, by Lippincott's, of Philadelphia. Octavo. Photogravure frontispiece, title-page in black and red. Minor rubbing to binding extremities. A near fine copy. This is a contemporary binding, and probably a special binding done for the publisher in a small number of copies.
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![Aggravating Ladies. Being a list of works published under the pseudonym of "a Lady," with preliminary suggestions on the art of describing books bibliographically. By Olphar Hamst [pseud].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/388/353/1457353388.0.l.jpg)
Aggravating Ladies. Being a list of works published under the pseudonym of "a Lady," with preliminary suggestions on the art of describing books bibliographically. By Olphar Hamst [pseud].
by [ Thomas, Ralph, compiler.]
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880 First edition. Original cream-colored paper boards, neatly rebacked, with modern paper spine label. . Octavo. Some dampstaining to boards. Toning to endpapers. Very clean inside. A very good copy. After a perusal of my list I think every gentleman will agree with me that Ladies really are very aggravating. It would be curious to hear the exclamation of any lady who has written as 'A lady,' upon looking it over. She would probably exclaim... Read More
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Tricia Guild in Town: Contemporary Design for Urban Living. Photography: Gilles de Chabaneix. Text: Elspeth Thompson
by Thompson, Elspeth
[New York:] Rizzoli, [1996] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Caxton: An American Contribution to the Quincentenary Celebration
by Thompson, Susan Otis, ed
New York: Typophiles, 1976 First edition. Cloth. Small octavo. Large folding plate, title-page in black and red. Fine in fine d.j.
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American Book Design and William Morris. Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain
by Thompson, Susan Otis
[London:] The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1996 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Image of War: The Pictorial Reporting of the American Civil War
by Thompson, W. Fletcher, Jr
New York: Yoseloff, [1959] Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket
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Eberhard Zeidler: In Search of Human Space
by Thomsen, Christian W
[ Berlin:] Ernst & Sohn, [1992] Cloth. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has 1" tear.
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The Seasons…To which is prefixed, A Life of the Author. By the Rev. J. Evans, A.M
by Thomson, James
London: Printed by J. Cundee…for T. Hurst, 1802 First Evans edition (Reverend John Evans, Baptist minister, 1767-1827) notable for its color-printed illustrations. . Contemporary tree calf, boards decorated with gilt key pattern borders, gilt spine with gilt-lettered green morocco label. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled green. . Small octavo. Illustrated with stipple-printed color frontisportrait of Thomson, four color plates, and four color vignette part-titles with engraved text. Binding extremities slightly worn, boards have minor scuffing. Less than " worn... Read More
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Acts and Other Events
by Thomson, Judith Jarvis
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1977] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Goodness & Advice. [Contributions by:] Philip Fisher, Martha C. Nussbaum, J.B. Schneewind, Barbara Hernnstein Smith....Edited by Amy Gutmann
by Thomson, Judith Jarvis
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, [2000] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Parnasus Biceps or Several Choice Pieces of Poetry 1656
by Thorn-Drury, G., editor
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1927 One of sixty-six copies printed on handmade paper. This copy is unnumbered and is marked: "Not for sale & out of series." A pencil note on the front free endpaper says: "The 1st copy." This is part of the Haslewood Books series. Quarter red linen buckram over brown paper boards, gilt spine. . Octavo. Spine a bit faded. Bookplate. Very good.
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The Aesthetic Theory of Thomas Hobbes. With Special Reference to His Contribution to the Psychological Approach in English Literary Criticism
by Thorpe, Clarence DeWitt
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1940 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. A fine, bright copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.
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The Other Hollywood
by Thorpe, Edward
London: Michael Joseph, [1970] Cloth. Octavo. Plates, reproducing photos of Hollywood in 1970. Near fine in bright d.j. with several short tears.
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Credos and Curios
by Thurber, James
New York: Harper & Row, [1962] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. A couple of tiny spots on back cover. Otherwise fine in lightly soiled d.j. This work was published posthumously, with a foreword by Thurber's widow, Helen Thurber, who has inscribed this copy: "For Eleanor with love and nostalgia. Helen. November 1962.
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A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
by Thwaite, Ann
New York: Random House, [1990] First U.S. edition. Terra cotta cloth over brown paper boards. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.
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Hometowns: An American Pilgrimmage. James Dean's Fairmount, Indiana. ronald Reagan's Dixon, Illinois. Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri
by Tice, George
[Boston:] A New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown, [1988] Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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Architecture for Art : American Art Museums, 1938-2008
by Tilden, Scott J., ed
[New York:] Abrams, [2004] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Joyce Country
by Tindall, William York
[State College, PA:] Pennsylvania State University Press, [1960[ Second printing. Cloth. Octavo. Photographic reproductions Former owner's ink inscription. Very good, without d.j.
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James Joyce: His Way of Interpreting the Modern World
by Tindall, W.Y
New York: Scribners, [1960 Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped d.j.
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Reflections Through a Murky Crystal
by Todd, Edwin M
Pasadena: [Printed for the author by Richard Hoffman], 1986 First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Boards. Octavo. Fine. Essays on Horsley, Hobbes, Hooke, Newton, and Chaucer's Doctour of Phisick by a Pasadena neurologist, book collector, and PhD.
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Violina; or, the Passing of the Old Adam and Eve.
by Todd, Mary Ives.
New York: Broadway Publishing Company, [ [n.d., copyright 1904] First edition under this title. Seemingly predated by an edition under the title Violina; or, Poland and Liberty (New York: John L. Strus, 1904). Both editions are scarce. OCLC records only six physical copies of the Strus edition (Howard, Michigan State, LAPL, Ohio State, Macomb Community College, National Taiwan University) and four physical copies of the Broadway edition (the Huntington, Allegheny College, University of Pittsburgh, and NYPL). Publisher's purple cloth stamped... Read More
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