Search Results: Authors starting with T from Butler Rare Books

London : printed by A. Maxwell for Edward Brewster, at the sign of the Crane in St. Paul s Church-yard, 1672., 1672. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First and only edition. 8vo. [16],544pp. Title page within ruled border. Pages generally very good, some marks and minor browning. Burn hole to 1 leaf, repaired and affecting a few letters. Otherwise collates complete and in original full C17th leather. A scarce title by an obscure C17th divine.

First edition. Hardcover. A fine dustwrapper protected in mylar cover on a fine book. Not price-clipped. With some newspaper cuttings.

Bickers and Son; London, 1874. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original Victorian blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and illustrated gilt block to front and rear boards. Folding frontis, folding map, and a folding plate showing the Square in 1874 plus 14 further illustrations. Rubbed and worn at extremities.

London: Printed by M.F. for R. Dawlman at the signe of the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Churchyard, 1633. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto. 285mm x 150mm. Portrait of Taylor facing title, frayed around the edges and browning at the edges of the first dozen or so pages. [16], 208, 219-855 [11]pp Wide margins, text within rules. Very good. Original leather boards sometime rebacked in full leather raised bands.

Imprinted at London: By John Dawson, for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the signe of the gilded Cup in the Goldsmiths Rowe in Cheapeside, 1623. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Quarto. 180mm x 140mm. Engraved title page, chipped and browned at edges. Typographic title page. Lacks paste-down and end pages. [18],128, 123-451, 451-452, [17]pp. 1 large folding table inserted. No rear end-pages. Pages are very good with some dog ears and browning at extremities. Full contemporary C17th boards recently rebacked in style with raised bands and label.

London: A. Millar, 1766. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Later Edition. 4 volumes. 1766. 17cm x 11cm. Full original C18th leather boards beautifully rebacked with raised bands, gilt lines and green label. Portrait of Thomson to first 2 vols and additional engraved plates throughout. The text is in very good condition. A complete and handsome set

First edition, first impression. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket.

Neat ink ownership of one W. Taylor dated June 1963 on front pastedown. Lower corners a touch rubbed, top edge foxed, one fingermark to front free endpaper. A near-fine copy in a near fine
dustwrapper, rear panel lightly soiled, short closed tear to one corner, others nicked, else very bright and striking.

Amos Tutuola was a Nigerian writer known for his unique and imaginative storytelling style. Born in 1920 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Tutuola began his writing career in the 1940s, publishing his first novel
'The Palm-Wine Drinkard' in 1952. His writing drew heavily from traditional African folklore, blending it with his own vivid imagination to create fantastical worlds and characters.

Despite initial criticism from some African intellectuals who deemed his work too "primitive" Tutuola's writing gained popularity and acclaim internationally, particularly in… Read More

Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt on red ground. With dust jacket.

With 8 full-page illustrations by Ben Enwonwu. Neat ink ownership inscription on front pastedown ("W. Taylor, June 1960"). Trivial bump to ends of front joint and one corner, edges faintly foxed with
a few marks, cloth clean and bright. A very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper, spine darkened with a few nicks to head, shallow chip to foot of rear panel, a few marks to front panel, one corner creased, not price-clipped, very bright.

First edition, first impression. Tutuola, the celebrated author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), was "among the earliest Nigerian fictional writers in English... who re-envisioned classic themes of African, particularly West African, storytelling and published them from the mid-twentieth century onwards in a written English that remains uniquely his" (Nyamnjoh).