America and Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940
by Trachtenberg, Alan; Rosenblum, Walter; Rosenblum, Naomi
New York: Aperture, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. No additional printings listed. Near fine in a like jacket, unclipped ($22.50), lightly bumped across the top edge. Black buckram with silver ink lettering, a thin strip of fading to the top edge. Square and tight, a fresh and clean copy. A collection of black-and-white reproductions of Hine's work that "changed the way Americans looked at social conditions.
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20 Poems
by Transtromer, Tomas
Madison: Seventies Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Robert Bly. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), toned at the spine and edges, large closed tear at the bottom of the front panel, a small chip at the bottom-right corner. Blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a backward lean, clean internally. One of 1000 copies of the Nobel Prize-winner's first publication in English.
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The Carreta
by Traven, B.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine and edges of the panels, generally rubbed. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a brown top stain, stain at the fore-edge, clean internally. One of Traven's "Jungle Novels" that reveals the growing militancy among Mexican men leading up to the Mexican Revolution.
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Views from the Back of the Bus During WWII and Beyond
by Travis, Dempsey J.
Chicago: Urban Research Press Inc, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Truman K. Gibson Jr. Inscribed by Travis on the half-title. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.75), Quarter red cloth with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Travis' work about the Black solider experience during World War II drawn from over one hundred interviews and six hundred GI letters.
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The Liberal Imagination; Essays on Literature and Society
by Trilling, Lionel
New York: Viking Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($3.50), toned at the spine, bumped at the edges with some very shallow chips. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. Trilling's influential collection of critical essays about literature and culture, with discussions of Sherwood Anderson, Mark Twain, Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and even the... Read More
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The Rhythm of Being: A Study of Temporality
by Trivers, Howard
New York: Philosophical Library, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Trivers on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.50), lightly rubbed at the top edge. Dark blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. Trivers's work that "surveys how various cultures and philosophers through the ages have dealt with the problem of time.
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Conan Vol. 8: Black Colossus
by Truman, Timothy; Giorello, Tomas; Villarubbia, Jose
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Conan adventures.
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Washington Jitters
by Trumbo, Dalton
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Trumbo to his aunt Myrtle on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed and soiled, a few chips, creases, and closed tears. Green boards, bumped and frayed at the edges and corners, with purple ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, clean internally. Trumbo's novel... Read More
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The Zetetic Vol. 1 Nos. 1-2 [Two Issues]
by Truzzi, Marcello; Frazier, Kendrick
Buffalo: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 1977. Staplebound. Near Fine. Edited by Truzzi and Frazier. Near Fine. Wraps lightly bumped and toned. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Featured are articles about Dianetics, psychics, astrology, Uri Geller, transcendental meditation, cattle mutilations, among others. This publication was later renamed The Skeptical Inquirer. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson. [Eberhart 9902].
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The Neo-Fan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom
by Tucker, Bob
Prospect Park: Linda Bushyager, 1976. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Purple covers bound with one staple in the top-left corner with thirteen leaves. This edition was published in a run of 1,000 copies for the 34th World Science Fiction Convention with the purpose of "lead[ing] the sheep to the slaughter, to delight the older fans in their musty cellars, and to point up the ignorance of the younger ones." From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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The Totah Trilogy
by Tucker, Fender
Shreveport: Ramble House, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Complete with the CD in the rear pocket. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Tucker's stories that capture life in Farmington, New Mexico in the 1950s.
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The Year of the Quiet Sun
by Tucker, Wilson
London: Robert Hale, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Tucker on the front endpaper. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£1.20 net), rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, a few short tears at the head of the spine. Black board, bumped at the corners, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This copy is inscribed to noted science fiction fan and collector... Read More
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The American Mercury June 1933
by [Tully, Jim] Mencken, H.L.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, incredibly clean internally.
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Blood on the Moon
by Tully, Jim
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly rubbed at the edges, tidemark on the verso of the spine. Green buckram, lightly faded, with yellow and red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain. Tully's novel of "regeneration through impulse--not saved by God or by anything else save an innate longing to sit... Read More
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Beggars Abroad
by Tully, Jim
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges. Green buckram, faded at the spine, with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a red top stain and a slight forward lean, clean internally. Tully's travel memoir in which he "reports the sights, sounds, smells, sensations of historic Europe with a droll, fresh and... Read More
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Love and Death; Six Stories
by Turgenev, Ivan
London: Folio Society, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Freeborn. Lithographs by Elisa Trimby. Near Fine, no slipcase. Yellow cloth, lightly toned, with brown ink designs and silver gilt lettering. Square and firmly bound with a yellow topstain, clean internally.
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The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper 1754-1765
by Turner, Thomas
London: Folio Society, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edited by David Vaisey. Engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Quarter blue cloth with marbled paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Presumed Innocent
by Turow, Scott
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Turow on the half-title. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), faintly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Quarter black cloth with grey paper on the boards, a very thin strip of toning at the edges. Square and firmly bound, inscribee's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Turow's debut novel about a prosecutor accused of the rape and murder of... Read More
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Every Inch a King
by Turtledove, Harry
Deefield: ISFiC Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Turtledove's novel about a circus performer who leaves to reunite with his long-lost twin and become a royal.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Twain, Mark
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1900. Hardcover. Fair. Early Printing. Fair to Good. Brown publisher's cloth binding, some rubbing, scuffs, and fraying. Generally firmly bound though the front hinge is cracked and the final leaf is loosely laid-in, some stamps and a bookplate from the Fort Sheridan Library.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark
New York: Charles Webster & Co, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With the three first printing points present. All other first state points present except corrections to the frontispiece, caption on page 143, and illustration on page 283. Very Good in the publisher's sheepskin binding. Rubbing and scuffing throughout, professional repair to the joints and spine edges. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Twain's Great American Novel of Huckleberry Finn's... Read More
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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
by Twain, Mark
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. M-T" on the copyright page. Very Good in a Poor jacket, in pieces and with many larges strips of loss and chips. Red cloth, some rubbing, with rubbed ink lettering and designs. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise.
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Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old
by Twain, Mark
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Early Reprint. Very Good. Blue publisher's binding, toned at the spine and edges, rubbed. Square, front hinge a bit loose, firm and clean otherwise. Twain's classic novel about Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn.
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Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura
by Tyers, Kathy
New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, bumped at the bottom edges. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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