Search Results: Authors starting with T from Books of the World

Washington, DC: World Bank. 1994. Paperback. Fine. World Bank Report No. 12618-SL .

Flushing, New York: Ultimate Publishing. September 1967. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Binding is tight. Check marks next to titles on contents page, otherwise interior is unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine is creased and chipped at the ends. Two half-inch tears to the covers. Reading and shelf-wear. No mailing label. 164 pages. Edited by Joseph Ross. Includes: The Longest Voyage (novelet) by Richard C. Meredith; Same Autumn in a Different Park (short story) by Peter Tate; The Green Splotches (short novel, 1920) by T. S. Stribling; The Ivy War (novelet, 1930) by David H. Keller; Beware the Fury (novelet, 1954) by Theodore Sturgeon; No Charge for Alterations (novelet, 1953) by H. L. Gold. Illustrations by Frank R. Paul; Gray Morrow; Gambee; Leo Morey; Louis Priscilla; Frosty; H. Sharp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, March 2003. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with light wear at corners and spine ends. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 441 pages. During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, revolutionized spying and warfare. In great secrecy and beyond the prying eyes of Congress and the press, they built exotic new machines that opened up the Soviet Union to surveillance and protected the United States from surprise nuclear attack. Secret Empire is the dramatic story of these men and their inventions.

New York: W. W. Norton. Trade Paperback. December 17, 1975. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Large dog-ear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 201 pages. Temin challenges Friedman's "money hypothesis" and sharply criticizes many features of the Keynesian "spending hypothesis."

Garden City, New York: Doubleday / SFBC. March 1980. Hardcover. Black boards with orange lettering in dust jacket labeled "Book Club Edition" at the bottom of the front flap. Gutter code "V4" on page 455 indicates first book club printing (in January 1980). Good+ book in a Good+ jacket. Unmarked. Spine is straight and tight with 3/4 inch tear at top rear hinge. Shelf and edge wear to jacket, including short tears and creases along top and bottom edges. Not from a library. Not clipped. Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 classic kinds of mystery story. Contents: The Universe of Science Fiction (1979) essay by Isaac Asimov; The Detweiler Boy (1977) novelette by Tom Reamy; The Ipswich Phial [Lord Darcy] (1976) novelette by Randall Garrett; Second Game [Kalin Trobt] (1958) novelette by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet; The Ceaseless… Read more

London: Allen Lane. 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. As New. 592 pages. This work brings to life thousands of years of history, tracing India's evolution before contact with modern Europe was established: its prehistoric beginnings; the great cities of the Indus civilization; the emergence of mighty dynasties such as the Mauryas, Guptas, and Cholas; the teachings of the Buddha; the creation of heroic epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; and the creation of regional cultures. Thapar introduces figures from the remarkable visionary ruler Ashoka to other less exemplary figures. In exploring subjects as diverse as marriage, class, art, erotica, and astronomy, Thapar provides an incomparably vivid and nuanced picture of India. Above all, she shows the rich mosaic of diverse kingdoms, landscapes, languages, and beliefs.

New York: Arcade. 1997. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine. First Edition (stated). Full number line. Spine is square and tight. Interi or is unmarked. Cover is clean and crisp. Suitable for gifting. 392 pages. One of India's foremost writers assesses the country's achievements and failures over the first fifty years of its independence from British rule and notes India's importance in the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century. .

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company. 1982. Paperback. Very Good. Binding is square and tight. Interior is unmarked. Not from a library. 359 pages.

Berkeley: The Committee to Support the Revolution, 1985. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. First Edition. First Printing, May 1985. Good. Would be Near Fine except for some underlining. 48 pages. This pamphlet presents the Communist Party of Peru, better known as the Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path, in a positive light. It briefly explains it's history, aims and reasons for its armed struggle.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Westminster Presbyterian Church Women's Association. September 1976. First Printing (stated). Comb-bound. Very Good. 208 pages of recipes including index. The recipe for carrot cake has pen & ink notations from a prior user, otherwise the interior is clean. Contents include Appetizers and Beverages; Bread, Rolls, Coffee Cakes & Muffins; Cakes, Frostings & Candy; Cookies & Bars; Pies, Desserts & Pastries; Meats, Poultry, Fish & Casseroles; Salads & Dressings; Vegetables; Potpourri; and Best of the Past.

New York: Ballantine Books, October 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Ninth U.S. Printing, February 1975. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but tanned. Spine straight and tight, but creased. Reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 188 pages.Winner of the 1954 International Fantasy Award. One of the nine classic novels of the 1950s and one of the 100 best science fiction novels. In this genre-bending work, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts; Janie, who moves things without touching them; and the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution -- or the final… Read more

Los Angeles: University of California Center for Afro-American Studies, and Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Institute of Social and Economic Research, August 1984. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Sun fading to spine and very top of front cover. Reading crease to top front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xviii + 214 pages.

New York: Touchstone, May 1998. Newly Revised and Updated. Trade Paperback. New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. 240 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. November 1997. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Light foxing to edges, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 340 pages. Conroy vividly and hilariously recounts his adventures as U.S. Vice Consul in British Honduras.

New York: Ballantine Books, October 1965. Mass market paperback. Fifty-second printing, April 1975. SBN 345-24827-9-175. Cover painting, The Hills: Hobbito-across-the-Water, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Good. Lightly tanned. Unmarked. Spine creased, but straight and tight. Covers chipped, creased and secured with tape. See photo. 527 pages.

New York: Doubleday. Hardcover. 2007. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. viii + 369 pages.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1984. Hardcover. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Binding is square and tight. Interior is pristine. Cover is clean and crisp, but spine is a bit faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 286 pages.

New York: Pantheon. Hardcover. March 14, 2006. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 603 pages.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read more

Freetown, Sierra Leone: People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. Staple-bound pamphlet. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Securely bound by two rusted staples. Original price penciled to front cover. B&W photos. 47 pages. Stories collected at Towaama village, Bo District, Southern Province, May 1st, 1986 and later translated by Frederick Bobor James.