Search Results: Authors starting with T from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Thrushwood, New York, n.d. most likely 1960s, hardback, pp. 249, 8+" tall, grey patterned boards in DJ, no price on jacket suggests a BCE, Good in Good - book has ding along spine, jacket has chipping at edges. Hilarious 60s cover art.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, 1970, staple-bound pamphlet, pp. 16, 9 x 6 inch, Johnston's illustrations are reproduced on cover and within book ( 5 full page, 2 within text), and (printed) handwritten additions to the catalogue. The book is in very good condition with light pencil tick marks the only fault. David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1799 – 8 November 1865) was a populat antebellum American cartoonist, print-maker, painter, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving. This is an essential work for serious students of American comic artists.

Mills Music, New York, 1942. HB, no DJ (as issued), 240 numbered pages, 12 x 9 x 1 inches. Large blue boards with embossed yellow titles and embossed marching band illustration, includes scores, photos, fingerings, lessons etc. In Very Good condition: Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, minor bumping at corners. An intensely practical progressive course for teaching full band, any combination of band instruments, or for individual use.

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1983, Official Publication Authorized by the Vatican Museums, pp. 255, 28.5 x 22 x 2 cm), maroon cloth with blind Vatican decoration and pictorial dust jacket, includes compliment slip from the Met. Fine in Very Good, book is scrips with sharp corners, jacket has light wear at spine top and bottom. Many of the Vatican's supreme art treasures are represented in the unprecedented exhibition that is the occasion for this book. These works are drawn not only from the Vatican Museums, but from Saint Peter's and its Treasury, the Apostolic Palaces, and the Vatican Library. Thus, this volume brilliantly illustrates the entire history of papal patronage and collecting—the single longest and most influential collecting tradition in the Western world. The objects range from ancient Greek vases and sculptures to modern works by Henri Matisse and André Derain.

Random House, New York, First American Edition 1991, Signed by author on title page. Hardcover (with jacket in protective mylar), pp. 196, 21 x 15 cm. Condition is Fine in Fine.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983. 1st Edition, 1st Printing 1993, Signed by author on title page. Hardcover (with jacket), pp.248, 21 x 14 cm, quarter bound (mid blue paper over boards, dark blue cloth over spine), jacket with Union Jack design. Condition is Very Good in Very Good - book has hint of lean, jacket has minimal edge wear/chipping, internal tanning on spine.

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, First Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Richard Thompson on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 296 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm. red boards, jacket has cover photograph of artists as a young man. In New condition. An intimate look at the early years of one of the world's most significant and influential guitarists and songwriters.

CAMRA Books, First Edition, First Printing August 1997, vintage cartoon format paperback, 21 x 14+ cm, pp. 72, B&W illustrations with occasional colour, foreword by "Kegbuster". Condition of book is Good+, clean pages, tight binding, some buckling of pages , and small ding on front cover, edge wear is minimal. Hilarious satire of 20th century British pub culture.

CAMRA Books, St. Albans, First Edition, First Printing August 1997, vintage cartoon format paperback, 21 x 14+ cm, pp. 72, B&W illustrations with occasional colour, foreword by "Kegbuster". Condition of book is Near Fine, clean pages, tight binding, edge wear is minimal. Hilarious satire of 20th century British pub culture.

Penguin Random House UK, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Colm Toibin on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 437 numbered pages, 24 x 15 cm, green boards with black title on spine, pictorial wraps of gondolas in Venice. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "No living novelist dramatized artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin, or conveys so well the entanglement of imagination and desire" (GARTH GREENWELL).

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED in a zany style by Mary L. Trump on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 193 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, navy blue boards with purple titling on spine, jacket has illustration of The Reckoning title revealed underneath a mock white jacket. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. A revealing blend of family lore, history, policy and anger casts light on the background and legacy of Donald Trump.