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

Washington, DC: World Bank, February 1994. Paperback. Fine. Slightly aged, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 104 pages. Report No. 12618-SL.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, March 1999. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight, ends bumped. Black remainder mark to top edge. Light foxing to edges. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. Not clipped. 254 pages. This is the journey of Meggie Singh and her father, a charming, befuddled professor of philosophy from Guyana. Every summer Meggie and her parents pack up their luggage, leave New York City, and move to the home of Aunt Inez and Uncle Tom in England. There, Professor Singh struggles to write a book that takes on one of the greatest paradoxes to confound thinkers of the twentieth century: the dual nature of light as both particle and wave. Each chapter in The Professor of Light is a summer spent in England as Meggie moves from childhood to the brink of adulthood and Professor Singh grooms his daughter in a rich mix of philosophy and Indian-Caribbean storytelling. But… Read more

New York & London: Chatham House / Seven Bridges Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. New. Slight damage to cover. xix + 244 pages. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Flushing, New York: Ultimate Publishing. September 1967. Digest-size Magazine. Good. Binding tight. Lightly tanned. Check marks next to titles on contents page, otherwise unmarked. Spine ends creased and chipped. Two half-inch tears to hinges. One-inch closed tear to front cover. Reading and shelf-wear. No mailing label. Not from a library. 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.

New York: Simon & Schuster, January 2015. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight curl. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 481 pages. The author documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.

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

New York: Arcade, August 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Full number line. Interior unmarked. Spine square and tight. Jacket clean and crisp. Suitable for gifting. Not from a library. 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.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2002. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated) / full number line. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 192 pages. A unique window on an extraordinary life lived with tremendous zest, discrimination, and intelligence. The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the famous brood that includes the writers Nancy and Jessica. Like them, she has lived an unusually full and remarkable life, and like them she has an inimitable expressive gift. In Counting My Chickens, she has gathered extracts from her diaries and other writings to create a multifaceted portrait of her life at Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire, that is pithy, hilarious, wise, and always richly rewarding.

Mount Vernon, New York: Consumer Reports, 1986. Hardcover. BOMC. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder marks. 242 pages. With first aid for carpet stains (blot with white clothes, immediately) and instructions on care for bronze, silver, and cast-iron, Consumer Reports continues its efforts to educate and protect the masses. There are details on house cleaning products, furniture care, clothes washers and fabric softeners, air cleaners and hand soaps, and a full appendix on stain removal. Next time you trip with your cup of coffee, you'll wish you had some fast answers.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, February 1986. Staple-bound pamphlet. Department of State Publication, 9457. Very Good. Prior owner's embossed stamp to title page. Text unmarked. Not from a library. 8.5 x 11 inches. 23 pages.

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

New York: Harper & Row, October 1965. First Edition, later printing. Red cloth over boards with box box and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top edge dyed green. A handsome Very Good+ book with No Jacket. Original owner's bookplate to front free endpaper, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Spine slightly faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x + 783 pages. In January 1953, freshman Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a 24-year-old Unitarian from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant - on a trial basis. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, Theodore Sorensen in the eleven years that followed became known as Kennedy's "intellectual blood bank," "top policy aide" and "alter ego." Three months to the day after Dallas, Sorensen left the White House to write the account of those eleven years that only he could write. He admits at the outset the bias of so personal a memoir. Yet he recounts failures as well as successes with… Read more

New York: Pocket Books, July 1970. Paperback. First paperback printing / no additional printings listed. Pocket Books 78507. $1.45 original price. Very Good. Bookstore stamp inside front cover. Text unmarked. Light crease to spine, chipping and hinge tears at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 570 pages.

New York: Signet Classics, 1995. Mass Market Paperback. With an Afterward by Irving Howe. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 828 pages. The story of a poor boy whose ambition for wealth and social prestige leads him to commit murder.

Richmond Hill, New York: National Council of Dance Teacher Organizations, 1981. Spiral-bound softcover. Near Fine. Light crease to front cover, otherwise as close to As New as could be expected of a 40 year-old book. Not from a library. Contents: Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Swing, Viennese Waltz, Polka, Peabody, Rumba, Cha-cha, Samba, Merengue, Mambo, Paso Doble.

New York: Paragon House / Washington Institute Press, December 1989. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Purple linen over boards with silver lettering to spine. A Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Label ghost to jacket rear panel. Spine lightly tanned. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 427 pages. The primary issue of American foreign policy from 1968-1976 was a response to an increasing Soviet military power. As a result of Watergate, Kissinger began to take over foreign policy matters more and more. This book is largely an account of how Kissinger was able to move the United States away from Nixon's traditional containment policy to "tri-lateralism" and a greater dependency on collective security organizations. He also argues that Watergate was a set-up to oust Nixon.

New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. 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. The author's experiences as U.S. vice consul in Belize when it was still British Honduras, including encounters with huge tropical roaches, a bordello run by the town's most respectable citizen, and a hurricane which killed four hundred people.

New York: Vintage, April 1986. Trade paperback. First Vintage Books Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 350 pages. An inside account of the Vietnam war and its aftermath.