Promotional Poster: The People's DOONESBURY; Notes from Underfoot
by Trudeau, G. B.
No Place: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. Poster. Fine. Poster. First Printing. 17 3/4" x 24". SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, printed 1981 and distributed at the ABA trade show in limited numbers. Fine, as issued, 17 3/4" w x 25 1/2" h. Features the same artwork as the cover of the book. Well suited for framing, and will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube..
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Doonesbury; Ninety Original Drawings: Exhibition Poster
by Trudeau, G. B.
Nashville, TN: The Fine Arts Center, 1982. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 35 1/2" w x 24"h. SCARCE exhibition poster, 35 1/2" w x 24"h, for Trudeau's 1982 showing of Ninety Original Drawings, The Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN Aug.5 - Oct 31, 1982. Features a full color strip depicting Roland Hedley giving a report from war-torn Lebanon. Near fine, a few faint creases. A poster wonderfully suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a... Read More
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Jarnegan
by Tully, Jim
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1926. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. 2nd Pinting. SCARCE in dustjacket, states "Second Large Printing" on spine of dustjacket, title and copyright pages state 1926. Book is Very Good Plus in green cloth boards with a black cloth spine and lettered in gilt, pageblock edges lightly dusted and endpages a bit toned. Great period bookplate front pastedown. In a Vey Good, later issue dustjacket that is pink with green lettering. Dustjacket darkened at spine,... Read More
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Family Records; Containing Memoirs of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B., Lieutenant E. W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel William De Vic Tupper, with Notices... To Which are Added The Life of Te-Cum-Seh, a Memoir of Col. Havilland Le Mesurier &c
by Tupper, Ferdinand Brock
Guernsey: Printed and Published By Stephen Barbet, 1835. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With half-title, 2 (plate), [vii]-xii, 218 pp. Bound in original tan cloth, paper label at spine, original buff end papers. About Very Good, 3/8" loss of cloth top edge of spine, 1/4" loss at base, half-title page with top 1/3 neatly excised, Contents page detached, foxing mostly associated with 3 lithograph plates and end papers. Frontispiece plate of... Read More
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Three Poems from the German
by Turner, Frederick ;Translated by
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH: Pot-Hanger Press, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Author(s). Limited First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED by the translator, Frederick Turner. Additionally SIGNED by Peter Newman, who designed and hand-printed the book, and by cover etching artist Martha Schulman. SCARCE, SIGNED by all three. Near Fine, 2 tiny spots front wrapper, tiny corner curls rear wrapper..
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Turner's Celebrated Landscapes; Sixteen of the Most Important Works of J. M. W. Turner, R. A.; Reproduced from the Large Engravings in Permanent Tint By the Autotype Process
by Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William)
London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. Book. Very Good Plus. Three Quarter Morocco. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Contemporary fine binding by Birdsall & Son Bookbinders, Northampton in three quarter red crushed morocco over red pebbled morocco, gilt back, top edge gilt, marbled end papers, the armorial bookplate of Cyril Flowers front paste down. 108 pages 16 plates 39 cm . Chiswick Press - Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins. Each plate includes a mounted autotype plate,... Read More
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The Epicurean, a Tale. With Vignette Illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, Esg. R.A., and Alciphron, a Poem
by ( Turner, J.M.W., Illustrator ) Moore, Thomas
London: John Macrone, 1839. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Finely bound by Riviere & Son for Edmund D. Brooks (Minneapolis publisher and bookseller) in polished red calf, back ornately gilt, gilt rules bordering covers, ornate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Near Fine, scant rubs at edges. light toning to text. First edition containing the Turner engravings, which are quite nice. Four fine plates engraved by Goodall after drawings by... Read More
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HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS D'ANGLETERRE pour servir de suite à celles du Père d'Orléans. (Two Volumes)
by Turpin, M.
Paris: Leclerc, Knapen, Savoye, Cussac, Desenne, 1786. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Uncommon. Two volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf, morocco labels and ornate floral gilt backs, marbled end papers, edges dyed red, some leaves printed on blue paper, ribbon markers. Near Fine, small rubs at corners, light soilng at end papers. ..
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The Career of the God-Idea in History
by Tuttle, Hudson
Boston: Adams & Co., 1869. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Brown pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt design to front and gilt lettering to the spine. 216 p. + 1 p. advertisement. Dark brown end papers. Very Good, 1/8" loss of cloth at spine ends, small rubs at corners. Spine gilt lettering faded yet legible. Prior owner book plate to front paste down. Small abrasion to front end page, old... Read More
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( Outhouse Humor in Fine Binding) Fireside Conversation (Twain) with Little Willie (Fields) with The Old Backhouse (Riley)
by Twain, Mark; Field, Eugene; Riley, James Whitcomb
No Place: No Publisher Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printings. Thin 8vo. 31, [3] pages (the last 3 pages blank) ; 24 cm [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], No date, circa 1920s. Contains three classics of "outhouse" humor. Bound in quarter red morocco over pale green buckram, gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, authors and titles in gilt front cover, Near Fine, the buckram with sun spotting. "Backhouse" has been attributed to... Read More
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( J.K. Lilly's Copy) Mark Twain's Autobiography. In Two Volumes
by Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine
New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1924. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, then H-Y. Ads at back of Vol. II. BAL 3537. State A. Both volumes with ownership signature in ink of J. K. Lilly - "JK Lilly His Book" - at front paste downs, and uncommon thus. Near Fine, light wear at spines, gilt tops dulled. ..
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Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1901, Vol. CIV, No. DCXIX
by Twain, Mark; Harte, Bret; Jewett, Sarah Orne; Wilson, Woodrow; Pyle, Howard; Sterner, Albert
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. Very Good in brown printed wrappers, wrappers are chipped at corners of rear panel and worn at spine tips while contents remain remarkably clean and tight. Contains the 1st printing of Mark Twain's story "The Death-Disk", which was made into a silent film in 1909, directed by D.W. Griffith. Also contains "A Ward of Colonel Starbottle's", a story by Bret Harte, "The Coming of Peace" by... Read More
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion)
by Twain, Mark; Edited, With an Introduction, by Bernard DeVoto; Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1994. Book. Illus. by Thomas Hart Benton. As New. Full-Leather. Limited Edition. As New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Brown leather boards. Gold decorations and tiling all boards and spine, with gilt edging. Silk book mark and silk moire cloth endpapers. From the "100 Greatest Books" collection..
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An Epitome of Niebuhr's History of Rome: With Chronological Tables and an Appendix
by Twiss, Travers
London: D. A. Talboys, 1836. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE, especially in lovely contemporary binding. xliii, 358. Two volumes bound as one with continuous pagination, Chapters I - XXXVIII, pages 1-157; Chapters I - XL, pages 158 - 313; Appendix pages 315-358. In contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, back with gilt rules and lettering and with five raised bands, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Very Good, end papers... Read More
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Needle to the North; The Story of an Expedition to Ungava and the Belcher Islands
by Twomey, Arthur C. ( in collaboration with Herrick, Nigel)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Tan cloth covered boards with blue lettering and design to front and spine. Near Fine in a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with more than 50 black and white photographs. Map end papers. Edges minimally rubbed. Dust jacket old internal tape mends at spine and assorted other modest edge wear. SCARCE in such lovely condition and with the... Read More
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Earthly Possessions
by Anne Tyler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Basis for the 1999 made-for-TV movie starring Susan Sarandon..
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Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers.
by Tyler, Rev. Josiah
Hartford, Conn.: Mutual Publishing Company, 1873. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Half red morocco over purple moire silk covered boards gilt lettering and rules to the spine, hand-made end papers. Very Good. "With over one hundred illustrations and maps". Spine top front joint has a 1" closed tear with 1/2" diagonal closed tear, both with old repairs, small rubs at corners, hinges reinforced and tight, scattered light foxing throughout.... Read More
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Anthropology; An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization
by Tylor, Edward B.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898. Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Authorized Edition, 1898. Near Fine in Half-Leather over marbled boards, leather a few small rubs, most pages yet uncut. A quite handsome copy..
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Program Toward Black Liberation
by Tyner, Jarvis
New York: Communist Party USA, 1976. Newspaper. Very Good. Newsprint. First Edition. 11 1/2" x 16". No Date (1976) Contains Tyner's speech to the Communist Party USA's 20th National Convention and the Party program for the 1976. SCARCE. 4 page centerfold newspaper, Very Good, corners small creases..
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To F.W.G. At LXXVII (Typophile Monographs : II )
by C.P.R. (The Typophiles)
Utica, NY: Howard Coggeshall, 1942. Book. Near Fine. One Page,Folded Twice. First Printing. Near Fine, with slight corner curl and small stain inside lower corner. "The occasion was a Typophile visit to greet Fred W. Goudy the day before his 77th birthday." One Page, Folded Twice to make a greeting card..
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A Five-Syllable Sentence Meaning Adolf Wo Bist Du ?
by The Typophiles
No Place: Typophiles Book. Fine. Handmade Paper Wrappers. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. No date ( printed sometime during WWII ). One of an unnumbered edition of 350 copies published as a not-so-playful poke at America's enemies during WWII. The original glassine dustjacket has 2 tiny closed tears at spine tips. Great drawings of Hitler and Tojo, and a quite scarce Typophiles item..
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History of Bridge Engineering
by Tyrrell, Henry Grattan
Chicago: The Author, 1911. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Tall 8vo. Presentation Copy, inscribed at title page -"Given to you by the son of the author ( see page 4)" and with the name stamp of Henry G.K. Tyrrell at title page. Very Good, rebound in later green cloth boards, paper label at spine, front hinge cracked and holding nicely, rear hinge just starting. Profusely illustrated with 328 illustrations, 478, (2) pp..
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England Under the Reign of Edward VI and Mary, with the Contemporary History of Europe, Illustrated in a Series of Original Letters Never Before Printed. With Historical Introductions and Biographical and Critical Notes. In Two Volumes
by Tytler, Patrick Fraser
Londini: Richard Bentley, 1839. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes in contemporary maroon polished calf, the backs with five raised bands, two black morocco labels with gilt lettering. Engraved steel plates of Edward Vol. I and Mary Vol, II. Very Good Plus, a few small rubs to calf, moderate toning at end papers up to title pages, old bookseller's description pasted to front end page Vol. I, the interiors... Read More
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UBAC, Galerie Maeght (Lithograph Poster)
by Ubac, Raoul
Paris: Galerie Maeght Poster. Very Good Plus. Poster. First Printing. 30 1/4"h x 22"w. Lithograph poster, 30 1/4"h x 22"w, published by Galerie Maeght, 13 Rue de Teheran, Paris 8e. No date, circa 1973. Printed by Arte Paris. Very Good Plus, faint creasing, small spot near top right corner. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube..
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Remembering Harold Percy Ullman 1899-1976; October 17, 1976, UCLA Faculty Center
by (Ullman, Harold Percy); Zeitlin, Jake and Several Others
Pasadena, Ca: Grant Dahlstrom, 1977. Book. Fine in Wraps, as Issued. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 300 unnumbered copies printed for the occasion. Fine, pages uncut. Uncommon..
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