Search Results: Authors starting with T from Biblioctopus

Gainsville, 2001. fine. Digital color pigment print, 2005, 14 1/2" X 13" (the image 9" X 9"), this issue for the Halsey Institute, College of Charleston. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 3 of 10, in pencil, in the margin. Light foxing (verso only), else fine. Framed and UV glazed. Ex-Gay Burke, acquired by her from Taylor. The tension between art and technology is almost over, though a few crusty traditionalists linger. Maggie Taylor was there at the beginning, a surrealist photographer of mysterious narrative riddles, and a major one, if not "the" major one (you can look her up). I think Southern Gothic is her best, and the association is a good one too, being that Gay Ann Burke (1946-2017) became the first female full professor at the University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History, where she developed a distinguished fine art photography program, and became the "Mother of Alabama Art Photography" before retiring in 2015. You're not a perfected artist until you have learned to cheat… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1853. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 2 vols. 1st edition, preceding the London edition by 3 years. Publisher's brown cloth, a scarce deluxe binding, the sheets 3/8" taller than on the binding in boards, wear to spine tips, a 7/8" chip to vol. II mended, else a good set. Thackeray spins a darkly plotted coming of age novel, a picaresque satire that's harder than braided steel and more athletic than a verb. Barry is a lucky rogue, a grifter and gambler, handsome and fearless, yet fatally flawed. He benefits from the most favorable of circumstances, but is ultimately overcome, because he burdens his good fortune, with more personal baggage than Mariah Carey on safari. Thackeray's minor theme is that the chief advantage of being born into society is that one can see what a tawdry public play it is. Thackeray's major theme is that villainy is revealed through self-justification. Narrated by the title character himself, chapter I opens with the line, "Since the days of Adam, there… Read More

New York: Appleton, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. 1st edition, preceding the London edition by 3 years. This is one of the scarcer 1st state sets with vol. I dated 1852, maybe issued tenuously, or not, but certainly published singly before vol. II, and even the more usual sets, with both volumes dated 1853, are not seen on many shelves. 19th century 3/4 morocco, both half-titles, very good. Barry is a lucky rogue, a sybaritic grifter and gambler, handsome and fearless, yet fatally flawed. He benefits from the most favorable circumstances, but is ultimately undone because he burdens his good fortune, with more personal baggage than Lady Gaga on safari. Thackeray's minor theme says the chief advantage of being born into society is that one can see what a tawdry public play it is. Thackeray's major theme (from the first sentence) says villainy is revealed through self-justification.

San Francisco: Bill Graham, 1976. Very good. 1st printing. Original poster (20 1/2" X 28"), wavey (not hard) creases from being rolled, else very good. The grand finale of their farewell tour, in a concert called The Last Waltz, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Guests included Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Neil Diamond. The event became a 1978 UA film (same name) directed by Martin Scorsese. The last copy we tracked at auction did $239, HA, in 2018. Sellers who don't have one for sale say it's only worth $50. We point out that when we don't have one for sale, it's only $25.

Los Angeles, 1969. Very good. Original, 3 page, handwritten, working manuscript for The Beach Boys' Soulful Old Man Sunshine, composed by Brian Wilson and Rick Henn. 1 page of lyrics (8 1/2" X 11"), 2 pages of music (9 1/2" X 12 1/2"), both handwritten in black ink, and a contemporaneous printed lead sheet for the track (9 1/2" X 13"). All the writing is by Henn (thus the price). No other concurrent drafts, by Wilson or Henn, are recorded. A few creases and signs of age, a staple hole at an upper corner of the lyric sheet, else very good. Recorded in November 1969, but its release was delayed at the insistence of lead singer Carl Wilson who missed a word in his vocal. It was finally issued, 29 years later, on the band's 1998 Endless Harmony Soundtrack compilation.

United Artists, 1968. Very good. 6 original production drawings for the animated feature film, Yellow Submarine. All 6 show The Beatles in their Sgt. Pepper band uniforms, Paul, and John with beards, each on an individual 16" X 12 1/4" sheet of 16 field paper, all in black graphite, and 5 of the 6 with parts of the drawings or the numbering in red. All are very good. 1. George: The image (head and shoulders) is 4 1/2" tall, in black, his beard has not been added but space has been left for it, there are 4 numerical notes in the margins, another by the image, his tuba is behind him, and a borderline is in red. 2. Paul: The image (half length) is 9" tall, in black and red, with 6 numerical notes in the margins, one of them deleted (2 pieces of clear tape on the reverse). 3. Paul: The image (half length) is 9" tall, in black and red (he is saluting), with 4 numerical notes in the margins. 4. John: The image (head) is 2 1/2" tall, in black, with 2 numerical notes and a scale in the margins, and another… Read More

1967. Near fine. Paul McCartney's handwritten, working manuscript (as Beatle) for "Lovely Rita," from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. the most famous album in the entire panorama of modern music. This is the very first (rough) draft, 10 lines (in ink), all in Paul's handwriting and all written on a single side of an irregular scrap of lined paper (7 1/2" X 5") torn from a spiral notebook. 7 lines in black are Paul's first concept. 3 lines of changes have been added later in blue, such as, "writing all the numbers in her little black book" changed to "filling in a ticket with her little blue pen" and still later recorded as "filling in a ticket in her little white book." Near fine condition. Lavishly matted, and framed with a full size, uncorrected, 1st state proof photograph of the album cover, varying in that McCartney is kneeling, the band instruments have been passed around, and 2 people are among the onlookers who would not sign releases, and therefore did not appear on the… Read More

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, the Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 1st edition. Near fine, in a dust jacket with edge chips and some spotting, else very good. A book of stories by Thomas Mann, Sherwood Anderson, D.H. Lawrence, James Stephens and others.

California: The Brotherhood of Light, 1968. Fine. 3 color printed cards (a double heart and 2 rectangles, the smaller rectangle printed on 1 side, the heart and the larger rectangle printed on 2 sides, the latter with Merry Christmas wishes) each meant to contain (may have once contained) 300 micrograms of L. S. D. There were 2 red herrings. Printing on 2 of the cards attributes them to "The Sunshine Family" and indeed this acid came to be called Sunshine (Let Sunshine Do), but these were manufactured for and distributed by The Brotherhood of Eternal Love (The Brotherhood of Light). The reputed place of origin was Sonoma but after busts, manufacturing was fragmented and this L. S. D. came from an isolated residential cabin, converted to a factory, in Garner Valley, once a tableland of timber adjacent to Mount San Jacinto. Fine condition. Rare.

New York: New Directions, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 100 copies), inscribed by Thomas. Original greenish-blue boards, corners lightly pressed, else fine, in a jacket with minimal wear to the extremities and some general toning, else very good. Custom ¼ morocco slip case. Thomas's most famous single poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (pp. 18-19), first appears in this book.

London: The Sunday Referee, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 1st edition, 1st issue (flat spine, no tipped in advertisement leaf, 1934 date on the title page verso—one of only 250 copies), of Thomas' first collection of poems. Inscribed presentation copy to his bookseller/friend, Ralph Wishart of ‘Ralph the Books' in Swansea, Wales: "Ralph the Books again from Dylan again". Some foxing, cloth a little dusty, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with splits, small chips and stains from removed tape. Custom ¼ morocco slip case. In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of light Abstracted all the letters of the void;.

London: Burns & Oats, 1909. First Edition. Full morocco. Very good. 1st edition. Full red-orange morocco and gilt, with restoration to the hinges else very good.

Los Angeles: California Emergency Defense Committee, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition, 1st printing, limited, no. 683 of 750 signed by Trumbo in red ink. There was also an unsigned issue for those who used the request form at the back of this issue to purchase more. Staple bound, stiff printed wrappers with some toning to the edges, else near fine. This is an essay by Trumbo inwhich he describes the conviction of 14 California Communists under the Smith Act of 1940. The 14 defendants were not accused of any illegal act, but rather of conspiring to "teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States." Though they had not actually done this, but it was alleged that they were planning the revolutionary education at some future date. In the Late 1940s Trumbo was in the first group of Hollywood blacklistings, and among the first from Hollywood to be called to testify before HUAC.

New York: Doubleday, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 1st American edition (in English) of the all-time best selling Chinese novel. A laid-in clipping has offset at page 208 else very good in a price clipped dustjacket with chips, tears, and neat strengthening, but a good jacket, and yes it's flawed, but the old anvil laughs at many broken hammers, and it's the only one I've had (the cleanest shirt in the hamper) because this book has been hard to find in jacket since the ark docked. A novel written in, and set in, the 18th century (Qing dynasty) about conflicts undermining a sizable household, their rise and fall, contrasted alongside their loyalties to, and their plots against, one another, a microcosm that often mirrors the macrocosm of Qing Imperial politics, its ethics, customs, education, religion, economics, laws, culture, and intrigues, during the last period of China's feudal era. Our 1st American edition is preceded in English by a quirky 1892-1893 Hong Kong edition, but… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. Uncorrected proof. Tall octavo. Spiral bound. Very good or better with two small tape remnants on the front wrap. Rare format of the first important biography of Fitzgerald.

London: Thomas Bennet and Daniel Brown, 1699. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition. Tyson's groundbreaking treatise, the first significant study in post-renaissance comparative morphology, the forerunner of all the science that connected man to his earlier ancestors, and the underpinning for Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863) and Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). It is in this book that Tyson established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man, and though the results he deduced from his anatomical descriptions proved misguided, he was the first to recognize that man was a close relative of certain lower animals. Tyson did not foresee the theory of evolution, but this work stimulated others to ponder the possibility over the next 160 years, and thus contributed meaningfully to its formulation. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski (typically plain binding, as was Sangorski's custom on science books), title page foxed and… Read More