MANIFIESTO DEL CONGRESO A LOS PUEBLOS
by [Thames, Jose Ignacio]
Buenos Aires: Gandarillas y Socios, 1816. Very good.. Rare pamphlet addressed to the populace calling for unity in the wake of the Congress of Tucumán's formal declaration of independence from Spain. On 9 July 1816, the Congress of Tucumán declared independence from Spain. The Congress, a body similar to the American Continental Congress, spoke for the United Provinces of South America - modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, and a few provinces of Bolivia - amid colonial conflicts, civil wars, and... Read More
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A NEW SPIRIT, A NEW COMMITMENT, A NEW AMERICA
by The 1997 Inaugural Committee; [Carter, Jimmy]; [Mondale, Walter F.]
[n.p.]: Duobooks, 1977. First printing. Very good in very good jacket.. Signed first edition of "the official 1977 Inaugural Book" for the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, and his vice president, Walter F. Mondale. 10.75'' x 8.25''. Original blue cloth, inaugural seal stamped in gilt to front board, lettered in gilt to spine. In original unclipped ($15.00) color photographic jacket. Red endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and in color. 128 pages. Signed by... Read More
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WINDSOR
by Theewen, Gerhard
Köln: np, 1977. First edition. Very good.. Understated artist's book visually demonstrating the process of tying a tie in a Windsor knot. 100 copies of this work were printed for the 1978 ARTWORDS-BOOKWORKS exhibition, held in Los Angeles. And though not noted, this copy from the collection of that exhibit's co-curator Judith Hoffberg, via Jim Hugunin of Grafix Artist Press (who printed many of the books featured). 8'' x 5.75''. Original cloth-backed wrappers. Nine black-and-white illustrations. [12] leaves,... Read More
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MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY
by Theroux, Paul
London: Alan Ross, 1969. Fine in near fine jacket.. Uncommonly attractive first edition of Theroux's novel about a worthless young man shipped off to a pointless war, and the elderly sentimentalists who set out to bloodily avenge him. Theroux's third novel is a grouchy Vietnam War-era satire concerning an unwilling draftee who talks himself into a measure of self-sacrifice for the only cause that really means anything: at least, he reasons, "my death will keep that television going."... Read More
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VISION AND REVISION: Hand Colored Prints by Wayne Thiebaud
by Thiebaud, Wayne; Berkson, Bill; Johnson, Robert Flynn
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1991. Near fine.. First edition, paperback issue, of this exhibition catalogue featuring Thiebaud's colorful prints. 10.5'' x 9''. In original unclipped ($19.95) blue pictorial wrappers. 70 color and 8 black and white illustrations. 110 pages. Wrappers with faint rubbing, trace shelfwear. Leaves lightly toned at margins, tiny spot of soil to half-title. Bright.
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WAYNE THIEBAUD PRIVATE DRAWINGS: The Artist's Sketchbook
by Thiebaud, Wayne; Glenn, Constance W.; Glenn, Jack
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1987. First edition. Fine in very good plus slipcase.. First printing, in the original slipcase, of this handsome facsimile reproduction of Thiebaud's notes, preliminary sketches, and watercolors from his original sketchbooks. 11'' x 8.5''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Printed 8-page leaflet in attached front pocket as issued. In original glossy pictorial slipcase. Edition of 2400 copies. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Unpaginated. Light wear and scuffing to... Read More
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NEDERLANDSCHE VOGELS
by Thijsse, Jacobus Pieter; Kuperus, Sjoerd
Zwolle: Erven J.J. Tijl, 1934. First edition. Very good plus.. Rare and gorgeous album of 12 color plates by Sjoerd Kuperus, with commentary on the birds of the Netherlands by famed naturalist and conservationist J.P. Thijsse. With striking Art Deco cover design featuring monumental captials and stylized birds within an orange and black frame. 12.25'' x 14.5''. Original brown cloth spine with pictorial boards. 49, [1] pages. Illustrated with twelve lithographed plates by Kuperus. Minor edgewear and scuffing... Read More
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SECRET LIVES
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1975. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of this collection by the acclaimed Kenyan author - thirteen stories from more than a decade of his career. Ngugi wa Thiong'o describes SECRET LIVES as a "creative autobiography," with stories spanning from his early years as a student at Makere University to his return to Kenya after a period spent teaching at Northwestern University. 8'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth,... Read More
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DOWNTOWN IS
by Thomas, Dawn C.; Browning, Colleen
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First printing. Very good plus.. Scarce first edition of this story about an uptown boy finding out downtown isn't all that it's cracked up to be - with gorgeous atmospheric black-and-white paintings by Browning. 9'' x 6''. Original brown and white pictorial boards. Light brown endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 48 pages. Lacking dust jacket. Gift inscription penned in blue to front fly leaf. Boards with some rubbing and light... Read More
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE FROM THE CRYPT
by Thomas, Donald
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. First edition. Near fine.. Uncorrected advance proof copy of these six new adventures of Sherlock Holmes by the prolific biographer, scholar, and mystery novelist. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. 339, [1] pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted Sherlockian, BSI member since 1973, and retired US magistrate judge Andrew Peck. Minor edgewear to wrappers.
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THE SECRET CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Thomas, Donald
(London): Macmillan, 1997. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of the prolific novelist and scholar's first collection of Sherlockian adventures. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original apricot cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£16.99) dust jacket. 343, [1] pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted Sherlockian, BSI member since 1973, and retired US magistrate judge Andrew Peck. Sunning to spine of boards and jacket.
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PHYSICIAN'S DAILY RECORD
by Thomason, Dr. John M.
(Florence, SC) / (Fort Dodge, IA): n.p. / (Kersten Publishing Co.), 1957. Very good.. A complete, two volume patient ledger covering the entirety of the year 1957 from the office of Dr. John Melvin Thomason, a general practitioner operating out of Bruce Hospital in Florence, SC. Blank logs marketed as Physician's Daily Record, published by the Kersten Publishing Co. of Fort Dodge, Iowa with manuscript ledger entries throughout the text containing information in three fields including patient name,... Read More
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TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING
by Thomas, Dylan; [Maurice O'Sullivan]
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1964. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Thomas's unfinished film script, based on the Irish-language autobiography of Maurice O'Sullivan. 7.25'' x 5''. Original orange cloth. In original unclipped (12s 6d) dust jacket. 91, [1] pages. Light edgewear, soil to jacket.
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LETTERS TO VERNON WATKINS
by Thomas, Dylan; Watkins, Vernon
London: J.M. Dent and Sons / Faber and Faber, 1957. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Thomas's collected letters to his friend and fellow Welsh poet. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (15s) red and green dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. 145, [1] pages. Jacket with light edgewear, toned spine, one small closed tear.
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ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE
by Thomas, Dylan; Vernon Watkins
London: Putnam, 1955. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition in book form of Thomas's unfinished semi-autobiographical novel, introduced by poet Vernon Watkins. With a stunning mid-century jacket design by Gross-André. 7.25'' x 5''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (9s. 6d.) pink and magenta dust jacket designed by Gross-André. Light edgewear and soil, spine toned, a couple closed tears to jacket. Tight.
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A PROSPECT OF THE SEA: Stories and Essays
by Thomas, Dylan
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1955. Very good in very good jacket.. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this posthumously published collection of Thomas's short works, selected by the author before his death. 7'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped (10s. 6d.) dust jacket. Edited and arranged by Daniel Jones. 136 pages. Publisher's review slip laid in. Some soil to boards and jacket. A few small closed tears to jacket edges, spine a... Read More
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QUITE EARLY ONE MORNING
by Thomas, Dylan
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. First edition in book form of Thomas's collected radio scripts, with both autobiographical scripts ("Memories of Christmas," "A Visit to America") and talks on literature and criticism ("Wilfred Owen," "Welsh Poets" et al.). 7'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped dust jacket. 181, [2] pages. Slight spine lean. Light wear and soil; minor scuffing to jacket edges.
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THE BEACH OF FALESA
by Thomas, Dylan; [Robert Louis Stevenson]
New York: Stein and Day, 1963. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Thomas's screenplay adaptation of the classic Stevenson short story, first issued as a novella ten years after Thomas's death in conjunction with a planned but never produced Richard Burton film. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original quarter rust cloth with yellow boards. Green topstain. Olive endpapers. In original unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket by Peretz Kaminsky. 126 pages. Jacket with light toning to spine and margins of... Read More
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UNDER MILK WOOD: A Play for Voices
by Thomas, Dylan
(New York): New Directions, 1954. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of Thomas's final completed work, a day of ghosts and villagers in a small Welsh coastal town, originally commissioned by the BBC as a radio drama and later adapted for theatre and film. 8'' x 5''. Original red cloth. In original unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket by Owen Scott. Black and white frontispiece photograph by Rollie McKenna. 107, [1] pages. Heavy toning to... Read More
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ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE: And Other Stories
by Thomas, Dylan
New York: New Directions, 1955. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First US edition in book form of Thomas's unfinished novel and 20 additional stories, including "The School for Witches," "The Map of Love," "The Holy Six," and others. "The object here," the publisher notes, "was to collect all pieces of fiction by Dylan Thomas not available in book form." 7.25'' x 5''. Original grey cloth. In original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket with photograph by Rollie... Read More
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BABES OF THE NATIONS
by Thomas, Edith; Humphrey, Maud
New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889. Very good plus.. First edition of this very scarce Humphrey book, magnificently illustrated of little children dressed in the national costumes of various nations from Russia to Scotland, and with one child representing Africa. 9'' x 7''. Original cloth spine, pictorial paper boards. Illustrated by Humphrey with 12 full-page chromolithographs. Printed on heavy stock, with one page of verse for each illustration, along with line illustrations. Edges and corners rubbed;... Read More
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TALKING WITH POETS
by Thomas, Harry
New York: Handsel Books, 2002. First edition. Near fine.. Advance uncorrected proof copy of these collected student interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Perry. 7.5'' x 5''. Original pink printed wrappers. 137, [1] pages. Short closed tear to rear wrapper; spine somewhat sunned.
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THE FRAGILE SPECIES
by Thomas, Lewis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First printing. Near fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of this dive into "some of the great medical puzzles of this era - cancer, AIDS, drug abuse, and aging" by the noted physician and writer. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter teal cloth, white paper boards, blind-stamped front board, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($20.00) color pictorial jacket. [12], 194 pages. Signed by Lewis on half title page. Book with touch of... Read More
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THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Thomas, Lewis
New York: The Viking Press, 1979. Very good plus.. Scarce uncorrected proofs of this National Book Award-winning essay collection by the noted physician and writer, primarily comprising of pieces published in THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original golden yellow printed wrappers. [16], 178 pages. Title inked to bottom edge. Touch of rubbing, front wrapper gently bowed, faint sunning to spine. Clean.
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FREE TO BE...YOU AND ME
by Thomas, Marlo; Steinem, Gloria; Pogrebin, Letty Cottin; Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of these collected stories and songs, a companion volume to the preceding album and Emmy-winning television special, a beloved and hugely influential feminist project of children's liberation from imposed gender roles. FREE TO BE... was first conceived by Thomas, and brought into being with the support of MS. magazine editor Pogrebin and producer Carole Hart: "Letty Cottin Pogrebin knew feminism. Carole Hart... Read More
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