Search Results: Authors starting with T from The Parnassus BookShop

U.S.A: Pantheon Books, 1989. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Black cloth binding with white titles, very clean, tight and solid. Jacket affixed to boards, is glossy black, clean, with a touch of edgewear, not price-clipped. Nest of Spies treats many aspects of Irangate not revealed in American investigations and provides the first full account of many other American covert operations between 1979 and 1987. 314 pages. Pantheon Books, USA

OR Books, 2021. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. OR Books, 2021. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. One page has been dog-eared, else Fine. Clean, bright, unmarked, solid book. 320 pages. 8vo (quarto). ISBN10: 1682194078, ISBN13: 9781682194072

Ontario, Canada and Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books Ltd, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Folio and Dust Jacket in AS NEW Condition. Mylar Cover. 9.5x12" tall. 352 pp. Lavishly illustrated . Beautiful decorative cloth laminated-type binding, in pristine condition. Internals bright and white, with glossy, heavy, art quality paper. A book devoted to the Great Players-they are profiled for their skill, nerve, achievements and also for the way in which they have worn the mantle of success. A perfect tribute to these legends--Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Severiano Ballesteros, Nancy Lopez, Tiger Woods, and many more--a selection of 275 of the greatest golfers, featuring the most notorious holes, the celebrrated matches,the records. In the Appendix there are exhaustive and accurate record tables. A great gift-- GIFT QUALITY BOOK. 1999, Firefly Books Ltd, Ontario, Canada and Buffalo, NY 4.6 pound book. No… Read More

U.S.A: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Large Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean wrappers, unmarked, tight & solid & square. Internals lightly toned, clean, no markings, no creases. This book offers an insightful look at America's history in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples in the United Sates -- Native Americans, Jews, Irish, Asian, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create America's rich mosaic culture. Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American. 508 pages with Notes and Index. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1993, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co, USA

U.S.A: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Large Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean wrappers, unmarked, tight & solid & square. Internals as new. This book offers an insightful look at America's history in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples in the United Sates -- Native Americans, Jews, Irish, Asian, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create America's rich mosaic culture. Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to ne an American. 508 pages with Notes and Index. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1993, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co, USA

Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 1982. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition, Library of Japanese Literature. Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. Ex-Library book with minimal marks. Green and yellow wraps clean and unmarked, Fore-edge of page block has pale brownish stains, with some of the rear pages having this on their edge, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. This is a story of a company of Japanese soldiers in the jungles of Burma during World War II who determine that they need to keep their spirits up somehow--and they discover that singing together does just this. Their story provides insights into the inner thoughts of Asians as citizen soldiers in conditions of severe hardships and danger. 132 pages. 4.25 x 7.25 inches. First printing 1966. This is the 15th printing, 1982, Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan

New York, New York USA: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1992. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition with Mylar Jacket Cover. The epic story of the millions who emigrated from Italy to America beginning at the turn of the 20th century, as told through the lives of the author's forebears, particularly his Italian-born father. Interweaving historic facts with information the author has gathered from family tales, interviews, lettes and diaries, he has juxtaposed his family's adventures with the dominant events and disasters that have affected their lives, encompassing three generations and two world wars Lower corner of page block is dusky and has a few scratch-like marks. otherwise Fine--very clean and unmarked, tight and solid and square in burgundy half cloth with bold, bright gilt titles, burgundy boards. Rough cut. Internals Fine-very clean and completely free of any… Read More

New York: Public Affairs, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. An eight page section of photographs on coated paper. Black and turquoise binding with silver titles, very clean and unmarked, light sunning along very edge of top of front and back panel; tight & solid; square with sharp corners although there is a whisper of wear to front top corner and rear bottom corner. Pages quite clean and free from any markings. Prev owner name on ffep. Unclipped jacket is very clean with light wear along top edge. 453 pages with Acknowledgments and Notes, and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. Public Affairs, New York, 2002.

USA: Scientific American Library, Distributed By Freeman and Co, 1995. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing, 1995. Number 57 in the Scientific American Library Series, Division of HPHLP. Distributed by W. H. Freeman and Co. Hardcover in AS NEW Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Filled with full color and b/w photographs, some full-page; charts; &, diagrams. In clean and unmarked gray full cloth with silver titles, Tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Text block edges clean and white. Pages of coated paper are in pristine condition. White, unclipped dust jacket in mylar cover; cover image: the painting by Th. C. van der Schuer, from the late 17th century, depictng a woman dying during an epidemic of the bubonic plague. Jacket is clean, unmarked, rubbed, with a small closed quarter-inch tear to lower front corner and top edge lightly ruffled. Epidemiologists are scientists who isolate the cause of disease and track the mode… Read More

Delta Book/Dell Publishing, 1996. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6. Delta Book, 1996. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the Italian by John Cullen. Clean, tight, unmarked book with light wear to extremities, spine creasing. Internals in Near Fine Condition. A death bed confession to her granddaughter heals several lives, and brings love and liberation. Tamaro offers wisdom and inspiration in this heartwarming novel. 208 pages. 12 mo.

USA: Ballantine Books, 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, bright, tight. No cover edgewear. Interior is Fine. Former owner short inscription on first page, otherwise Fine. The experiences of twelve American tourists who join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China and heads into the jungles of Burma. The mysterious death of the tour leader causes things to fall apart. 496 pages. 2006, Ballantine Books, USA

New York, New York, USA: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Archival protective cover. Lovely book bound in black half cloth gilt titled, with blue-green boards with blind-stamped design on front. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked, untorn. Unclipped jacket is blue-green/black with illus of Burmese river scene with small Burmese fishing boat and a woman fishing. Gilt lettering on spine and gilt embossed lettering on front of jacket. The experiences of twelve American tourists who join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China and heads into the jungles of Burma. The mysterious death of the tour leader causes things to fall apart. 474 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2005, G P Putnam's Pub., New York, New York, USA

USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Very Good Jacket. Octavo. 353 pages. Brown quarter cloth gilt lettered, over tan speckled boards; very clean, no edgewear, tight binding. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean and bright with slight wrinkling around spine ends and edges. Set in contemporary San Francisco and in the Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed. The story is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its hopes. The story of Chinese immigrants to America.

U.S.A: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Beautiful binding of bright orange half cloth gilt titled and decorated with red-orange boards. Green endpapers. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked, untorn. Amy Tan's first work of non-fiction in which she shares her thoughts on how she escaped her past and created her own destiny. She is the author of "Saving Fish From Drowning", " The Joy Luck Club", and others. A very handsome volume. 398 pages. 5.8 x 8.5 inches. 2003, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: William Morrow & Co, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Former owner inscription on back of endpaper, else Fine. IInternals also Fine. 386 pages. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. 1994, William Morrow & Co., New York, New York, USA

Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Fifth Printing, revised 1981. Large Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. No jacket. Lavishly illustrated, comprehensive survey of the New England Wilds, the Appalachian Mountains, the rivers, forests, trails, wildlife, plant life, geologic formations, with extensive explanatory text. . Bound in black half cloth with white titles, pictorial laminate boards, very clean and unmarked. Spine lightly sunned. Sewn binding tight and solid, square. Internals are pristine. 184 pages with bibliography and index. 9 x 11 inches. 1981, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA

China: Shaanxi Travel Tourism Press, 1980. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. World Cultural Heritage Trade Paperback. Heavy card pictorial cover is very clean and unmarked, bright and colorful. Pages are heavy coated glossy paper. Chinese written by Zhang Tao. Enclish translated by Liu Daoxuan and Zang Yun. English Proof read by Robert Dorning (Australia). Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is the tomb of the first Emperor in the Chinese feudal society. The vaults of Terra-cotta Army were discovered 1.5 km away east of the Mausoleum in March 1974. This discovery was called one of the great discoveries of archaeological history in the 20th century. This book is filled with magnificent color photographs and maps & diagrams of the archaeological site, the vaults, the Mausoleum and the Terra-cotta Army andother artifacts. It is in Chinese with English translation. 112 pages. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 1980, Shaanxi Travel Tourism Press, China

Rome, Italy: Gruppo Newton, 1997. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. La Compagnia Del Buongustaio--The Gourmet Cook Book. Paperback in the Italian Language. As New. Bright and clean, pages of cream paper, with brown print, illustrations in coppertina by Valentina Ambrosi. 64 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1997, Gruppo Newton Publisher, Rome Italy.

Rome, Italy: Gruppo Newton, 1997. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. La Compagnia Del Buongustaio--The Gourmet Cook Book. Paperback in the Italian Language. As New. Bright and clean, pages of cream paper, with brown print, illustrations in coppertina by Valentina Ambrosi. 64 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1997, Gruppo Newton Publisher, Rome Italy.

Rome, Italy: Gruppo Newton, 1997. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. La Compagnia Del Buongustaio--The Gourmet Cook Book. Paperback in the Italian Language. As New. Bright and clean, pages of cream paper, with brown print, illustrations in coppertina by Valentina Ambrosi. 64 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1997, Gruppo Newton Publisher, Rome Italy.