Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric
by Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, editors
1983. Dallas, TX: The Federation Press, 1983. 8vo, 47pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Light browning to spine. Very good. § Contains "Description as Cosmos: Blake's Settings in Milton" by Kay Parkhurst Easson. Not found in Bentley.
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Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric
by Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, editors
1983. Dallas, TX: The Federation Press, 1983. 8vo, 47pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Light browning to spine. Very good. § Contains "Description as Cosmos: Blake's Settings in Milton" by Kay Parkhurst Easson. Not found in Bentley.
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Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric
by Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, editors
1983. Dallas, TX: The Federation Press, 1983. 8vo, 47pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Light browning to spine. Very good. § Contains "Description as Cosmos: Blake's Settings in Milton" by Kay Parkhurst Easson. Not found in Bentley.
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Wir Leben Zwischen Wänden
by Rasch Tapeten
1966. Bramsche: Rasch Tapeten, 1966-67. 8vo., [iv], 25 full-page screen-printed wallpaper samples, some embossed, with two pages of text introducing the collections and 11 color plates with text printed to either recto or verso. Pictorial paper wrappers with titling printed in black. A very good copy. § Rasch wallpaper collaborated with the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and were the first to bring their wallpaper designs to the market. This collection features four Bauhaus papers, a selection... Read More
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Monsieur Beaucaire
by Tarkington, Booth
1900. New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1900. 8vo, 127, (1), pp. frontispiece and five other illustrations by C.D. Williams in two colors with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, faint spotting to the cloth, front free endpaper splitting at hinge but holding. Custom quarter leather slipcase. § First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel which was adapted twice into film, the first starring Rudolph Valentino... Read More
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Thomas Carlyle. A Descriptive Bibliography
by Tarr, Rodger L.
1989. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Thick 8vo, 543 [1]pp. Original dark blue buckram, stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text. Photocopy of a review from the Bibliographical Society of America loosely inserted. Near fine. § First edition. While more limited in scope than Dyer's earlier work on the subject (Tarr restricts himself to the writings of Carlyle, with a few exceptions), Tarr's volume is... Read More
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Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains de la Castrametation & discipline militaire d'Iceux. Des bains & antiques exercitations grecques & romaines. Illustré de médailles & figures retirées des marbres antiques, qui se trouvent à Rome & parfois par notre Gaule. Discours sur la Castramatation et discipline militaire des anciens romains, des bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques et Romaines
by [Tattooed Binding]. Du Choul, Guillaume. Hemmersbach, Aarom von (binding)
1952. Lyon: Guillaume Roville, 1581. 2 vols. in one, thick 8vo, 339, 54 index; title-page, 154, [10 index]pp. Title-page with the printer's device, verso arms of Du Choul, 602 figures of which 4 are full-page, in the first part and 37 full-page illustrations in the second. Woodcuts by Pierre Eckirsch also known as Pierre Vase or Cruche. In a custom, tattooed binding by by Aarom von Hemmersbach depicting Romulus and Remus and the mother wolf. ... Read More
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Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray
by Tayler, Irene
1971. Princeton UP: 1971. 4to, 169 pp. Color frontispiece, black and white reduced facsimile after the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition, a nicely produced study of the watercolors. Bentley, Blake Books, 2824.
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Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray
by Tayler, Irene
1971. Princeton UP: 1971. 4to, 169 pp. Color frontispiece, black and white reduced facsimile after the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket. § First edition, a nicely produced study of the watercolors. Bentley, Blake Books, 2824.
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Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray
by Tayler, Irene
1971. Princeton UP: 1971. 4to, 169 pp. Color frontispiece, black and white reduced facsimile after the text. Original cloth, dust-jacket, very good. § First edition, a nicely produced study of the watercolors. Bentley, Blake Books, 2824.
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City Scenes or a Peep into London
by Taylor, Jane, and Ann Taylor Gilbert
1828. London: Darton Harvey and Darton Gracechurch Street, 1828. Small 8vo, 79 pp., with an engraved title-page and 87 numbered engraved plates three to a page. Original dark green cloth,gilt stamp on upper cover, backstrip titled in gilt,, a little worn, some foxing and spotting in the margins of the plates and text, generally a good copy of a very scarce book. Early ink and pencil signatures of Amelia Nutter, Wellington Road, 1842. § First written... Read More
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The Gold Digger's Song Book
by Taylor, M.
1975. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1975. [Marysville Dailey Herald, 1856.] 8vo, xii, 34 pp. Quarter brown leather, map illustrated paper boards gilt lettering to backstrip. Plain dust jacket, discolored from leather, gilt lettering to backstrip. Bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. Very good. § Edition of 450 copies. An attractive new edition of this Gold Rush era song book, first published in 1856 with the full title "The Gold Digger's Song Book.... Read More
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Ballads and Songs of Brittany. By Tom Taylor. Translated from the "Barsaz-Breiz" of Vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué. With Some of the Original Melodies Harmonized by Mrs. Tom Taylor..
by [Taylor, Tom, translator]
1865. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Square 8vo, xxxiv, 240 pp. Original brown cloth, backstrip lettered & ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind. Frontispiece & title-page vignette engraved on wood by C. H. Jeens after sketches by Joseph James Jacques Tissot; eight additional wood-engraved plates. Rubbed along edges; W. H. Smith embossed stamp on front free endpaper; offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page; but a sound copy. § First edition, evidently in a remainder... Read More
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Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
by Tennyson, Alfred
1852. London: Edward Moxon, 1852. Thin 8vo, 16 pp. Original stitched blue paper wrappers, with maroon string. Two water stains on front cover, minor foxing and strain to hinges; good. § The first edition, and the first independent publication of Tennyson's after being appointed poet laureate by Queen Victoria. "His Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (published on the day of the funeral, 18 November 1852) is a noble four-square paean, much called... Read More
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis Esqre. Illustrated by Richard Doyle
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
1853. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1853 - August 1855. 8vo, 24 parts in 23, with etched titles, frontispieces, 44 etched plates, 43 wood-engraved vignettes, and 76 wood-engraved initials, all by Doyle; original yellow printed wrappers, three with early ownership names on uppers, all more or less worn at edges and heels, no.22 with loss to lower wrapper, plates uniformly aged. Text and plates complete and with the majority of the numerous bound ads observed by Van... Read More
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The Virginians, a Tale of the last Century..
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
1857. London: Bradbury and Evans, November 1857 [to October 1859]. 8vo, 24 monthly parts. Original yellow pictorial wrappers restored, a little soiled and frayed as always. Some parts with ink or pencil signatures (i.e. a mixed set). Green cloth folding slipcase. § First edition, first issue, with the first word on page 207, line 15 from the bottom (in No. 7) misprinted "actresses" (corrected in later editions to "ancestresses"); in part 12, chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered XLVIII-XLIX.... Read More
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Vanity Fair
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
1848. London: Bradbury and Evan, 1848. 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Engraved title and 38 of 39 plates (lacking final plate) and numerous woodcuts. Bound without ads in modern quarter calf and early blue paper boards, new endpapers. Preliminaries through contents leaf rehinged, boards a little worn and toned, offsetting from the plates; a sound copy. § First edition in book form of Thackeray's comic masterpiece; early issue lacking the rustic title, and the woodcut of the... Read More
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Two Volumes
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
1869. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. 22 vols., 8vo. Uniformly bound in handsome full tree calf, delicate floral gilt border on covers. Gilt backstrip with red and dark-brown morocco labels. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, bookseller ticket on front pastedown of each volume. Occasional rubbing to hinges, some old and expert repair to backstrips of select volumes. Very good. § An excellent set of Thackeray, the first collected works to include... Read More
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Twenty-Six Poems
by Thomas, Dylan
1949. London: Dent, 1949. Folio, 75, (2)pp. Original patterned boards, cloth backstrip, paper label, original gray-board slipcase, slight wear to slipcase, otherwise a fine copy. § No. 34 of 50 copies for the UK on Fabriano hand-made paper, printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni, signed by Dylan Thomas (out of a total edition of 150 including 10 copies on Japan vellum).
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Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition
by Thomas, Mary Augusta (curator)
2001. NY: Grolier Club and Smithsonian, 2001-2003. Small 8vo, 63 pp. Blue pictorial wrappers. § Catalogue of exhibition held at the Grolier Club and at the National Museum of American History.
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly. [Illus. by] John R. Neill
1926. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Company, [1926]. 4to, 261 pp. Dark green cloth with colour plate on upper cover,yellow-stained edges, black and white illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to plate on upper board, a few light marks on the lower board, hinges a bit weak and cracking, "This book belongs to page" completed with the name "George R Sneath." A very good copy with the small ticket of Paul Elder & Co. of... Read More
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The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. The Poetical Works of James Thomson
by Thomson, James. Nicolas, Sir H. [ed.]
1847. London: William Pickering, 1847. Two vols., 8vo., cxxxvi, 234; 292 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints and corners of boards have some slight rubbing, minor foxing to outer margins; otherwise very good. Bookplate of Thomas Lee Marshall to... Read More
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Horizon. Autumn, 1972. Volume XIV, Number 4
by Thorndike, Joseph J., Editor
1972. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., 1972. 4to, 111pp. plus 8 pages of full-color, full-page Blake illustrations. Yellow cloth covered boards with laid in illustration. Gilt to front and backstrip. Light soiling. Very good. § Two articles of Blake interest: 'Quotations from Chairman Blake', by Frederic V. Grunfeld; and 'Blake: Lost and Found', by Arnold Fawcus. The former relates Blake to communism and socialistic idealism (Mao and Marx e.g.). In the latter, Fawcus... Read More
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William Blake: The Power of the Imagination
by Thorpe, James
1979. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1979. 8vo, 24 pp, with illustrations on cover and internally in black and white and color. Near fine with dedication by Thorpe on endpaper. § An interesting "beginner's" study with excellently chosen illustrations from the Huntington's holdings. Presentation copy inscribed. Bentley, BBS, 660.
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William Blake The Power of the Imagination
by Thorpe, James
1979. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1979. 8vo, 24 pp, with illustrations throughout (some in color). Original wrappers, inscribed by Jenijoy and Bob "for Kay and Roger" [Easson]. Very good. § An interesting "beginner's" study with excellently chosen illustrations from the Huntington's holdings.
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