An Essay Toward a Unified Theory of Special Functions
by C[lifford] Truesdell
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948. Very Good. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pages. Orange printed wraps. Annals of Mathematical Studies Number 18. Light wear to edges of wraps. Stained along spine with some general creasing and rubbing. Bookseller pencil price to front wrap and bookseller ticket to bottom of rear wrap. Starting at rear hinge but binding sound. Previous owner's inscription to inside of front wrap. Pages otherwise unmarked. ... Read More
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A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764; and to the Close of the Indian Wars, in Two Volumes
by Benjamin Trumbull
New Haven, CT: Published by Maltby, Goldsmith, and Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818. Very Good. New Haven, CT: Published by Maltby, Goldsmith, and Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818. Reprint of volume I and first edition of volume II. Two octavo volumes. 563 pp., with final page of volume I mispaged "567" as called for by Sabin & 548 pp. with errata, collated and complete. Full contemporary calf; black leather title label and gilt ruling to spine. Slightly ex-library... Read More
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Twelve Discourses, comprising a systematical demonstration of the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
by Benjamin Trumbull
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. Very Good. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine label; x,305[1]pp. (A-2B6 2C4, collated complete). Light shelf wear, endpaper margins quite browned, occasional spotting throughout textblock, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Collection of discourses "especially for the instruction and edification of young people; to...awaken their highest solicitude to walk with... Read More
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Kraków branch of the Polish Jazz Society - Genealogical tree of American jazz influences
by Edward Lutczyn; Jerzy Marek Trzeciak
1975. Very Good. Text on poster: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Jazzowe Oddzial w Krakowie + trumpet logo // 20 Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // 27-28.X.1975 // Parady Orkiestr 1899 // + 18 caricatural icons (à la R. Crumb) of American jazz influences, each labeled with year dates, artist names, and American jazz culture terminology. Note that the caricatures, although created in admiration, use imagistic stereotypes now considered culturally unacceptable and offensive in the United States. Date: 1975 (for festival), 1972 (for... Read More
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![The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Volume I: 1898-1922 Revised Edition; Volume II: 1923-1925; Volume III: 1926-1927; Volume IV: 1928-1929; Volume V: 1930-1931; Volume VI: 1932-1933 [Six volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/957/921/1690921957.0.l.jpg)
The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Volume I: 1898-1922 Revised Edition; Volume II: 1923-1925; Volume III: 1926-1927; Volume IV: 1928-1929; Volume V: 1930-1931; Volume VI: 1932-1933 [Six volume set]
by T.S. Eliot; Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton [eds.]
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Very Good/Very Good +. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011-2016. First American Editions. Six large octavo volumes. Photo-illustrated dust jackets; colored boards stamped in silver. Dust jackets lightly worn and creased along edges with a few short closed tears. Boards worn along edges with a few bumps and splits; a couple volumes with occasional white spotting. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good and handsome set.
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![Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan [ 响堂山石窟项目 ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/369/553/1390553369.0.l.jpg)
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan [ 响堂山石窟项目 ]
by Katherine R. Tsiang
Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. Near Fine. Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2cm); 271pp, including map, chronology, glossary, and bibliography. Color photographs, B&W historical images, and computer recreations on nearly every page. Photographic card wrappers with generous French flaps. Entirely in English. Volume shows only the slightest surface signs of shelving. Card spine uncreased... Read More
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![Ashtrays and Other Smoker's Items: Yozaburo Tsuchiya Collection [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/898/813/1701813898.0.l.jpg)
Ashtrays and Other Smoker's Items: Yozaburo Tsuchiya Collection [Signed]
by [Smoking] Yozaburo Tsuchiya
Tokyo: Gendaikikikushitsu Publishing / Fram Kitagawa, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. Tokyo: Gendaikikikushitsu Publishing / Fram Kitagawa, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Tshuchiya at front free endpaper. Oblong quarto; 434pp. Color photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; tan cloth boards stamped in light brown; gray endpapers. Text in English and Japanese. No slipcase. Dust jacket edgeworn with some creasing and rubbing. Boards bumped at extremities with mild shelfwear; a couple stray pen marks. Binding gives a little but overall holding... Read More
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![Yoshitoshi, kyōkai no kamigami [text in Japanese]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/714/564/1699564714.0.l.jpg)
Yoshitoshi, kyōkai no kamigami [text in Japanese]
by [Tsukioka Yoshitoshi] Tadanori Yokoo [ed.]
Tokyo, Japan: Ribun Shuppan Co, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. Tokyo, Japan: Ribun Shuppan Co., 1989. First Edition. Folio; publisher's wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; 185pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket and wrapper margins, else a Very Good and sound example. Beautiful monograph devoted to the life and work of the Japanese printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), text entirely in Japanese.
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![[Text in Russian] Atlas Trinadtsati Chastei S. Peterburga s podrobnym izobrazheniem naberezhnykh, ulits, pereulkov, kazennykh i obyvatel'nykh domov [WITH] Alfabitnyi ukazatel' k Atlasu 13-ti chastei S. Peterburga [An Atlas of the Thirteen Parts of St. Petersburg with a detailed image of its embankments, streets, alleyways, and town houses [WITH] An Alphabetical Index] [Inscribed and Signed to Dmitry Yegorovich Benardaki]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/792/043/1511043792.0.l.0.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Atlas Trinadtsati Chastei S. Peterburga s podrobnym izobrazheniem naberezhnykh, ulits, pereulkov, kazennykh i obyvatel'nykh domov [WITH] Alfabitnyi ukazatel' k Atlasu 13-ti chastei S. Peterburga [An Atlas of the Thirteen Parts of St. Petersburg with a detailed image of its embankments, streets, alleyways, and town houses [WITH] An Alphabetical Index] [Inscribed and Signed to Dmitry Yegorovich Benardaki]
by Nikolai Ivanovich Tsylov
St. Petersburg: s.i., 1849. Very Good. St. Petersburg: 1849. Two volumes; small quartos (26.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's blind-ruled purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines; atlas volume: 392 numbered street plans as well as one hand-colored map of the city and 13 hand-colored district maps (collated and complete); index volume: [6],279,[1],39pp. Cloth extremities rather faded, spines uniformly sunned to tan, a few plates trimmed a bit close, occasionally touching numbers, else a Very Good, internally fine set of the first... Read More
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Ellington: The Early Years
by [Duke Ellington] Mark Tucker
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Near Fine/Very Good. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvii,[3],343pp.; frontispiece, text illus. and music throughout. Jacket spine panel rather faded, Front board bumped near spine head, else a Very Good or better copy.
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The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh
by [Tudors, King Henry VII] The Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon]
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622. Very Good. London: Printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622. Mixed Edition per Gibson, published the same year as the first. Small folio; bound in early 20th century full dark brown calf with new endpapers; five raised bands and red leather label to spine; [4], 248pp., frontis portrait; lacking A1 blank, else collated and complete. Edgewear to boards; corners bumped; brief split... Read More
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Political Control of the Economy
by Edward R. Tufte
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in blue unclipped dust jacket; xi,[1],168pp.; graphs throughout. Light shelf wear, top textblock edge a bit dust-soiled, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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The Bruiser
by Jim Tully
New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1936. Very Good. New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cream cloth, black titling to upper cover and spine, blue topstain; [6],248pp. Boards a bit worn, especially at spine ends, corners bumped, top stain faded; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound, albeit lacking jacket. The author's novel of the boxing prize ring, dedicated to Jack Dempsey.
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![Peeter Sink: Maalid/Paintings [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/019/787/1333787019.0.l.0.jpg)
Peeter Sink: Maalid/Paintings [Signed]
by Tunne Kelam; Mari-Ann Kelam; Juta Kivimäe, Voldemar Ilja, Veronika Arder [Contributors]
Tallinn: Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda, 2006. Very Good/Very Good. Talinn: Tallinna Raamatutrükikoda, 2006. First Edition. Signed and dated by Tunne Kelam on the copyright page (15 September 2006). Quarto; 184pp. Over 150 paintings (full color) and photographs (B&W). Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth boards with Sink's signature reproduced within a copper-colored label on front panel. Dust jacket shows very faint scuffs to coating, slight edge bumps. Volume near pristine. Entirely in Estonian with the exception of painting captions and two... Read More
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![The Living Frieze [Limited Edition] [Publisher Monroe Wheeler's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/343/043/1511043343.0.l.jpg)
The Living Frieze [Limited Edition] [Publisher Monroe Wheeler's Copy]
by Mark Turbyfill
Evanston, IL: Monroe Wheeler, 1921. Near Fine/Good. Evanston, IL: Monroe Wheeler, [1921]. First Edition, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 33. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's decorative paper-covered boards in dust jacket printed in green; 83pp.; photographic portrait tipped to frontispiece. Jacket extremities quite chipped along folds, spine panel partly perished with old tape repair and contemporary reinforcement to verso, else Near Fine in a Good example of the rare jacket. Publisher Monroe Wheeler's ex libris to... Read More
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Ministers Should Carefully Avoid Giving Offence in Any Thing. Inculcated in a sermon preach'd at Cambridge, September 12. 1739. When the Reverend Mr. Samuel Cooke was ordain'd pastor of the Church of Christ newly gather'd in that part of town cal'd Menatomy
by Ebenezer Turell
Boston: J. Draper, for J. Edwards, 1740. Very Good. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1740. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); removed; 29,[3]pp. ([A]-D4, collated complete); decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces. Faint soil and toning to textblock, else a Very Good and sound copy. Congregationalist sermon providing the myriad ways in which one can give and receive offense as a minister and a member of his congregation. EVANS 4614; SABIN 97452.... Read More
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An Atlas of Bells
by Ron Johnston; Graham Allsopp; John Baldwin; Helen Turner
Oxford: Blackwell Referene, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (9" x 11.25"); 239pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Navy textured paper binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket has only minor rubbing and light edgewear on corners. Binding is sound. Corners are square. Inscription from previous owner written in black ink on upper right corner of front free endpaper. All other pages are clean and unmarked.
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Story of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
by T.A. Turner
Minneapolis: Lessard Printing Co, 1899. Very Good. Minneapolis: Lessard Printing Co., [1899]. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth; 170,[27]pp. Some shelf wear to cloth, chiefly at spine ends, light soil, else Very Good, internally sound.
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James Stirling: A Sketch of His Life and Works Along with His Scientific Correspondence
by [James Stirling] Charles Tweedie
Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1922. Very Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; no dust jacket; 213pp. Two facsimile fold-outs. Bumping and rubbing to boards; binding sound; bookplates to preliminaries; off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked; Very Good and sound. Quite scarce in retail.
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If Morning Ever Comes
by Anne Tyler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 265pp. Printed gray and orange dust jacket with $4.95 price and 10/64 code intact; book in gray paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket chipped at spine ends, with a few smaller tears along edges and some creasing down front spine fold. Tape repairs to interior. Boards faded along edges and tugged at head of spine,... Read More
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![The Japan-Russia War [Salesman's Dummy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/619/679/1632679619.0.l.jpg)
The Japan-Russia War [Salesman's Dummy]
by Sydney Tyler
Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905. Good +. Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (23 cm); mixed pagination + 1pp ad + 4pp order sheets; illustrated throughout; 51 plates + 15 full page maps. Boards full bound in navy blue cloth with white, red, and black stamping. Green leaf endsheets with leather spine example pasted to rear endsheet. Boards generally soiled, scuffed and rubbed, worn only spine ends and corners. Spine head chipped and... Read More
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City Whore
by Hogan Tylor
New York / Gardena, CA: E.L. Publishing Co., Inc, 1970. Very Good. New York / Gardena, CA: E.L. Publishing Co., Inc., [ca. 1970]. First Edition. 12mo (mass market paperback). 171 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations to ads. Illustrated wraps with $2.25 price intact. Covers worn and scuffed with some foxing and staining to surface. Spine a bit cocked with vertical creasing. Binding is sound. Remainder mark to top edge; pages toned but unmarked. Scarce work... Read More
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The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
by Henry Miller; Gordon Cook [illus.]; Jack Werner Stauffacher [typography]
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955. Very Good. San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Photographs of a busts of Henry Miller affixed to front and rear endpapers. Wraps lightly edgeworn with some toning. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions of a Jack Pieri to front and rear alongside photographs. Pages otherwise unmarked.
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Rugs & Carpets from Central Asia: The Russian Collections
by Elena Tzareva
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / New York / Leningrad: Allen Lane / Penguin Books / Aurora Art Publishers, 1984. Near Fine/Very Good. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / New York / Leningrad]: Allen Lane / Penguin Books / Aurora Art Publishers, [1984]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in white unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 223pp.; photographic illus. throughout, about half in full color. Light wear and curling to jacket margins, brief tape repair to jacket verso, corners nudged, else Very Good and... Read More
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They Are Still In Prison: A Report on the Arrests and Trials of Ukrainian Intellectuals 1965-1966
by [Ukraine] Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc
New York: Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc, 1967. Very Good. New York: Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Bifolium. Rubbed at edges; marginal stain to p. 3; vertical crease; Very Good. Report from the CIA-backed New York-based Ukrainian emigre organization Prolog Research and Publishing Association giving details on the unconstitutional arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals by the Soviet Union. Names and sentences of the prisoners are given with several teachers, novelists, and philologists... Read More
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