The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Four volumes. Plus, Miguel de Cervantes, His Life and Works, new edition revised and enlarged with a complete bibliography and index
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Henry Edward Watts [translator]
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1895. hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth boards with gilt decorations and lettering, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, frontis to biography. A few minor discolorations to covers but a lovely, solid set. Begun in collaboration with Alexander James Duffield, this is the second revised edition. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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The Middle of the Journey
by Trilling, Lionel
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Blind stamped blue cloth with yellow titles on spine, 8vo, 310 pages; interior clean and unmarked, binding sound; dust jacket is creased and chipped on head and tail of spine, now protected in mylar cover. From the jacket: "The novel is a flashing comedy of manners, a moving love story, and a drama of suffering and death".
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Interurban Railways of the Bay Area: Interurban Electric / Key System / Market Street Railway / Peninsular Railway / Northwestern Pacific / Petaluma & Santa Rosa / Sacramento Northern
by Trimble, Paul C,
Valley Publishers, Fresno, 1977. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. Red cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket. A standard history, well illustrated.
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Thongs: A Novel
by Trocchi, Alexander
Blast Books, 1994. 1st Thus. Soft cover. Fine. 8x5x0. Trade paperback, 8-1/4" tall, 172 pp. Fine copy, no flaws found. A nice reissue of the underground novel.
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The Mott Street Poker Club: The Secretary's Minutes
by [Trumble, Alfred] M. Woolf
New York: White & Allen, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. Woolf, M. Red cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards with black & red lettering & illustrations, 8vo, 50 pp. Light wear & discoloration to covers, free front endpaper removed, generally a clean & solid copy. Racist portrayals of Chinese and Southern Blacks as they play & cheat at poker. "Humor", it was called.
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Les Priapees. Traduites du Latin par A. T'Serstevens
by T'Serstevens, A.; Gorvel, Georges (illus); Bousquet, M. (designs)
Paris: Editions du Trianon, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Georges Gorvel. Full green leather binding with gilt lettering to spine, housed in wood veneer slipcase, wood veneer endpapers, engraved frontispiece & plates (large penises all around) with suggestive or graphic headpieces to all text pages. Toning to spine, rubbing to joints, else a fine copy in very good slipcase. A classic of erotic and homoerotic books. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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Drawn from New England: Tasha Tudor A Portrait in Words and Pictures
by Tudor, Bethany
New York, New York, U.S.A: Philomel Books, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Signed by Author(s). Oblong. Green paper boards backed by cream cloth spine. Very light bump to top rear corner. Boards ever so lightly faded along edges. Mild rubbing and edge wear to dust jacket. Spine sunned. Jacket now in protective mylar cover. 96 pages. Signed by Tasha Tudor and dated 1981 on title page. Bethany Tudor relates the story of her mother's... Read More
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Mother Goose
by Tudor, Tasha
Oxford University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Tudor, Tasha. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and decoration on front board; square 12mo; 87 pp. 3rd printing, 1944 stated. Minor turning-in at corners and spine ends, dust jacket retains $2.00 price, long tear along rear flap hinge, small chip to rear panel, some discoloration to front panel. Full color illustrations by Tasha Tudor along with some black & white; a great presentation of 77 Mother Goose verses... Read More
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The County Fair
by Tudor, Tasha
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. First edition, hardcover in dust jacket, 4
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The Twenty-Third Psalm
by Tudor, Tasha
Achille St. Onge, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tudor, Tasha. Green leather boards under pictorial dust jacket, all edges gilt. Fine press miniature book. Multiple copies available at time of entry. All appear unread.
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Shadows of Men
by Tully, Jim; Gropper, William (illus.)
Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bright orange cloth stamped in black, green topstain, under jacket illustrated by William Gropper, 330 pp. + ads. Small chip to front edge of jacket, minor toning to spine panel. Fine/Very good. Tully fled an orphanage to live an early life as a hobo. In his twenties, he found himself in Hollywood and became one of the first writers to cover the film scene there. At the same time, he wrote about his... Read More
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Midnight
by Tun, Mao
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Grey cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket with wrap-around art; plate illustrations. One page corner bent, minor edgewear to jacket. A striking Mao-era book, set in 1930s Shanghai. First published in 1933, it was praised as "the first successful attempt at realism by a Chinese writer.
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Zodiac Town, The Rhymes of Amos and Ann
by Turner, Nancy Byrd
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Bromhall, Winifred. 1921 with no indications of later printings, blue cloth with titles and decorations in gilt, 8vo, 131 pages, illustrated profusely by Winifred Bromhall; boards lightly edge worn, top edge of rear board is mottled; the top of the text block shows similar waves, although it is not severe and affects only the latter half, writing in pencil on front end papers and front matter. A sweet children's... Read More
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The Oregon Question Examined: In Respect to Facts and the Law of Nations
by Twiss, Travers
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green cloth with blindstamped borders and central device, title in gilt to spine panel, light yellow endpapers, large folding map frontis, 391 pp. + 32 publisher's ads. Old label to spine, "Bound by Westleys & Clark" label to rear endpapers, previous owner has written their name/address on first page & rear endpapers. Map looks great, some pages unopened. "Published in January of the year that England and... Read More
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Narada Bhakti Sutras: Aphorisms on The Gospel of Divine Love, with Sanskrit text, word-by-word meaning, English rendering of the text and elaborate explanatory and critical Notes
by Tyagisananda, Swami
Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1985. paperback. Good. 4x0x6. 8th printing, undated but with 10-digit ISBN, light blue cover. Some wear & light creasing to covers, but a clean & unmarked text with a solid binding.
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Inscribed by Author(s). Green cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 327 pages, inscribed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy, head and tail of spine turned in; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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If Morning Ever Comes
by Tyler, Anne
London: Severn House, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6. Signed by Author(s). Maroon cloth, gilt stamped titles, 12mo, 187 pages, signed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy, head and tail of spine show slight evidence of wear; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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Saint Maybe
by Tyler, Anne
New York: Viking, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Inscribed by Author(s). First edition with full number line, pink boards backed in navy blue cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 337 pages, inscribed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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Morgan's Passing
by Tyler, Anne
New York, NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Signed by Author(s). Cream boards backed in brown cloth, gilt stamped titles, signed by the author and inscribed to previous owner on front free endpaper; faint and tiny spot of soiling at top of front free endpaper, dust jacket spine lightly sunned, now in protective mylar cover.
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If Morning Ever Comes
by Tyler, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Grey paper-covered boards with blindstamped decoration over black cloth spine; 8-
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Earthly Possessions
by Anne Tyler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Signed by Author(s). Stated first edition, green boards backed in cream cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 200 pages, inscribed by Anne Tyler on front free end paper, signed again on title page; a well kept copy, top of front board is a bit toned; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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Ladder Of Years
by Anne Tyler
New York: Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7. First trade edition, cream boards backed in light blue cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 326 pages; a well kept copy; small smudge on top right cover of dust jacket, which is now in protective mylar.
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Earthly Possessions
by Tyler, Anne
London: Chatto and Windus, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6. Signed by Author(s). Brown cloth, gilt stamped titles, 12mo, 200 pages, signed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy; price clipped dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
by Udall, Brady
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010-05-03. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. Signed (name only) on title page. First printing with full number line. Fine in fine slipcase, issued as part of Powell's Indiespensable series.
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Lieutenant Bertram: A Novel of the Nazi Luftwaffe
by Uhse, Bodo; Hutter, Catherine (trans)
Simon & Schuster, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Full dark green cloth under illustrated dust jacket priced at $2.50. First edition NAP. Book itself fine but for owner's emboss (Guiles Davenport, who wrote a book on a WWII arms dealer). DJ has moderate edgewear, a few scrapes and some toning to spine panel.
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