Search Results: Authors starting with T from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Newberry Honor picture book, with die-cut pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1; no medal sticker on the cover; and a $14.99 price on the dust jacket). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on copyright page and dated 3/21/1998.

San Antonio: Wings Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A signed, limited edition from the first edition sheets, bound in a new cover, a new errata leaf, and a tipped in limitation page. The book was originally published by Lalo Press in Santa Monica in 1992. A collection of poems, stories, and interviews by this Tejana poet, with selected literary criticism about her work by other writers. 287 pages. First edition (signed issue). A very good copy in wrappers (paperback). The covers are scuffed, a typical problem with this title. This is copy 100, signed by Tafolla.

San Antonio: Mexican American Cultural Center, 1985. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. This book provides a "historical background to illuminate current struggles of Chicanas for the full expression of their human potential"-introduction. 115 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good or better in wrappers (paperback).

San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004. Trade paperback. Fine. 115 pages. A volume of new and collected poems, including the "Sonnets to Human Beings" series, which won the National Chicano Literature Prize (commonly known as the Irvine Prize). Slightly expanded from the 2001 edition. Fine in wrappers.

Tokyo: Showatosho, 1942. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905-1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios; he was also the head of the US office of the Nippon News Film Corporation. In early December 1941, FBI agents arrested and questioned Taguchi. He was imprisoned on Ellis Island along with other Japanese, German and Italian nationals, all of whom had also been classified as enemy aliens. Taguchi was returned to Japan in 1942 as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange with the Japanese government. He published this blow-by-blow account of the indignities of the process in December 1942. Taguchi's experience at the start of the war was similar to that of many Japanese immigrants in the US. As far as I am aware, no other… Read More

London: Harper Voyager in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2020. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first UK editions of this acclaimed fantasy series, each issued in an edition of 250 numbered copies, signed by Tahir on the limitation page. The books all have dyed edges. First editions (first printings of the UK editions). Fine copies in fine dust jackets. This is a near matching set. Ember is copy no. 179; the other three are each numbered 37 of 250.

Sapporo, Japan: Ikeda Eisaburo, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A self-published Nisei memoir. The author was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1907. He moved to Japan as a boy, but came back to the US as a young man. He graduated from New York University in 1934 and returned to California soon after. He was interned at the beginning of the Second World War, but joined the military where he taught Japanese and worked in intelligence. After the war, he pursued accounting and real estate investing in Pasadena. This book was written when the author was in his eighties. The sixty years of the title refers not to his age, but to time he spent in the United States. [12], 173 pages. OCLC: 933302479 (University of Michigan only). First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket as issued. In a fine printed cardboard sleeve.

New York: Books of Wonder / Morrow Junior Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture book about King Arthur. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a wonderful inscription from the author, "I worked hard on the art & the text of this book-too bad they screwed up the layouts-please see correct version. Hudson Talbott." With a second copy (a later printing) for comparison to see the pages where the illustrations and text changed.

New York: Alfred Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's memoirs. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Glenn Goldman, the late owner of the independent bookstore Book Soup in Los Angeles. "For: Glenn with appreciation & best always, sincerely Gay Talese.

Kyoto: Bunsen Shoin, 1929. A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries. The book fits into a nationalist, imperialist narrative that was growing in Japan throughout the 1920s which argued for the inevitability of a US-Japanese conflict (several Western scholars also published books on the likelihood of a Pacific War during this time). Tamura's work is very little known, with just one library holding (in Japan), despite this copy being a fifth printing, published four years after the first. The cover of the book has a Japanese flag on the front and a map of the Pacific Rim on the back, with lines showing distances between key locations. [6], [2], 169, [2] pages. OCLC: 703696048 (National Diet Library). Fifth printing. Old… Read More

Sint-Eloois-Winkel, Belgium: (the author), 2000. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Poems and abstracted images of nude women, silkscreened in three colors. With 44 silkscreened images. The title translates to The Female Form: Handprinted Poems and Silkscreens, 1997 to 1999. Published in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. Tanghe (1941-2001) was a popular teacher, poet, and artist in Belgium. [64] pages. Text in Dutch. 8-1/8 by 10-1/2 inches. First edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback) with a bit of fading to the covers.

Tokyo: Kaizosha, 1929. First Edition. Very good. A sequel to Tekisasu mushuku ta sanjuichi pen [Hoboing in Texas and Thirty-one Other Stories] modeled after The Decameron. Hasegawa "spins stories about people's lives in an urban space, although the time and place are no longer the medieval Rome of the Decameron but twentieth-century New York. The main characters are 'Merican-Japs ["meriken jappu"] whose background and reasons for immigration and migration vary, but what is common to them is that they live in a poor, dark neighborhood in Manhattan. Living like hobos, they work as gamblers, acrobats, bootleggers, owners of illegal bars, poets, or assistants to tipsters."-Kyoko Omori, Detecting Japanese Vernacular Modernism, p. 239. These stories are set amongst the immigrants of Third Avenue in New York: "It may be said they happily established a country - a country that exists even if it does not appear on a map of the world... A Bulgarian marries a Turk and has an American baby girl. The American… Read More

Atlanta: Peach Tree, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A picture-book biography of the first formerly enslaved American poet. Winner of the Ezra Keats Book Award. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed, "To: Mary. Love words. Don Tate." Scarce signed.

Atlanta: Peach Tree, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture-book biography of the first formerly enslaved American poet. Winner of the Ezra Keats Book Award. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed, "For Bryce. Love words. Don Tate." Scarce signed.

Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 185 pages. Poetry and prose anthology with contributions from Luis Omar Salinas, Francisco X. Alarcon, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Juan Felipe Herrera, and others. The scarce hardcover issue; also issued in wrappers (paperback). First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.

Bryan, TX: Unicorn Press, 2009. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. [24] pages. Poems. Taylor teaches at Texas A & M and is the publisher of Slough Press. Published in an edition of 100 signed copies. Uncommon in libraries, with OCLC locating just three holdings, and only one in Texas (Texas A & M). First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers. Signed by Taylor on the colophon.

Spring, TX: Panther Creek Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 99 pages. Long poems, mostly in couplets. OCLC records copies at Texas A&M (where Taylor teaches), UT, and Chatham. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers.

Bryan, TX: Unicorn Press, 2009. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. [24] pages. Poems. Taylor teaches at Texas A & M and is the publisher of Slough Press. Published in an edition of 100 signed copies. Uncommon in libraries, with OCLC locating just three holdings, and only one in Texas (Texas A & M). First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers. Signed by Taylor on the colophon. With a one-page autograph letter signed (ALS) laid in.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds"-Robert McCrum, from the Guardian list of the 100 best novels. In 2021, Geoff Dyer wrote a review of the novel for the New York Times Book Review entitled, "Was Elizabeth Taylor the Best British Novelist of the Postwar Era?" This Booker shortlisted novel was made into a memorable film starring acclaimed British actor Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, the widow of Laurence Olivier. A very scarce first edition. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy (ownership name dated 1972) in a near fine, slightly spine-faded dust jacket.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1954. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine. His victims were drug-addicted teen-agers and desperate women." 158, [2] pages. Pyramid 126. 25 cents on the cover. Juvenile delinquent (JD) title. First edition (first printing; no later printings noted). A near fine copy; a touch of spine fading; minor edge wear.