Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bygone Books

Orange, MA: Minute Tapioca Company, 1927., 1927. Soft cover. G+. 32p. Color illus; 12mo stapled pamphlet. GOOD+ : light soiling; small tear at fore-edge throughout book.

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. William Boxall, W. Hamilton, George B. Ellis. Engraved frontispiece and title page from the first edition (Philadelphia: Key and Biddle / Edward C. Biddle, 1833). Frontispiece engraving "Meditation" by William Boxall / engraved by George B. Ellis ; title page engraving "Sunday Evening" by W. Hamilton / also engraved by George B. Ellis. Title page for this 1836 edition follows, published by Desilver, Thomas & Co. 24mo, ribbed leather, title in gilt on front board, ribbon bookmark present but detached, 320 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD: binding is tight, light rubbing to extremities, toning and light foxing to endpapers, foxing to engravings around edges, light scattered faint foxing throughout. A nice copy. Covers "the practical part of Christianity" while discussing topics such as poverty, self-deception, self-denial, fortitude, forgiveness gentleness,… Read More

Bruceton Mills, WV: Scotpress [ no date ]. Soft cover. VG+. No edition statement, oblong, stapled wraps, 43 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : sl. edgewear, clean and unmarked.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1767. Hardcover. Collecitble, VG-. 16mo, full calf with 6 raised bands, red spine label, 301 p., [12] (index), frontis engraving. Dedication to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Wharton. Condition is VERY GOOD-: boards are slightly loose, textblock is tight; head and tail chipped, corners rubbed, all edges lightly rubbed, light toning to endpapers, internally clean, closed tear page 73, owner name on fep, owner name on title page [ Samuel Tracey's book,__1771 ]. The usual lively commentary on a sundry of topics: beards in former ages, the consequence and benefit of candour, chocolate and women, dancing as a necessary accomplishment, Sir Roger Coverley visiting the tombs in Westminster Abbey, faults of grammar schools, epitaph on the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Female Rakes described, and much more!

New York: Mayflower Books,, 1978. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thomas H. Shepherd. Metropolitan Improvements; or, London in the Nineteenth Century with a Series of Views of the New and Most Interesting Objects, in the British Metropolis and Its Vicinity. From Original Drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd, with Historical, Topographical and Critical Illustrations by James Elmes. Reprint edition of the original published in 1827 by Jones & Co. New York: Mayflower Books, 1978. 4to, red cloth boards, 172 pages, 2 pages index to engravings, b/w engravings throughout. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book Is like new, jacket has light edgewear.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, red cloth, 216 pages, bibliographical notes, index. Condition: FINE book / FINE jacket: book is like new. Thompson writes on Austen's language of real feeling; clothing; proposals of marriage; the limits of language; character and interpretation; courtship, marriage, and work; and intimacy.

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / Folger Shakespeare Library, 1964. Soft cover. NF. 2nd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 34 pages plus 12 b/w illustrations, bibliographical essay. NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Paperbacks/ The University of Michigan, 1959., 1959. Soft cover. G+. 1st pb edition, 8vo, 407pages. Condition is GOOD+: light edgewear; spine creased.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0231042620 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, 283 pages, bibliographical notes. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

Weston, VT: Countryman Press, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/G+. F.W.P. Tolman. Book designed by Vrest Orton of Vermont. 1st edition [NAP], 12mo, blue plaid cloth w/paper spine label in gilt, 912 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD book / GOOD+ jacket: board edges faded; spine faded; owner bookplate and name on front endpapers; jacket is edgeworn, spine toned, in protective mylar.

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Number line reads 2; 8vo, gray boards, 486 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE book / FINE jacket: book has a remainder mark on bottom page edge, otherwise like new. Fabulous biography of Hardy.

NY: NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974., 1974. First American edition . Hardcover. VG/VG+. 0151515395 1st American edition 9stated, letter line], 8vo, purple boards backed in black cloth, 316 pages, b/w illustrations, chronology, bibliography, family tree on endpapers. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: light sunning to board edges at top and bottom, faint spotting to top page edge, slightly cocked, internally clean and tight; jacket has slight edgewear.

New Haven: S. Babcock [no date]. Soft cover. VG. 32mo, wraps, 16p, 9 engravings. Condition is VERY GOOD with lt. edgewear, scattered foxing; a yellow page listing other little books for children is laid-in. One of Babcock's Toy Books: "Babcock's moral, instructive and entertaining Toy Books, beautifully embellished with superior engravings for the mind and the eye.

Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st ed [number line], 8vo, blue cloth, 202 pages, select bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: no wear, appears unread, lovely copy. A collection of 13 essays, plus an introduction by the editors, by leading Austen scholars on the phenomenon of adapting Jane Austen for the screen: Essays by Rachel Brownstein, Cheryl Nixon, Rebecca Dickson, Carol Dole, Amanda Collins, H. Elisabeth Elllington, Lisa Hopkins, Suzanne Ferriss, Nora Nachumi, M. Casey Diana, Kristin Flieger Samuelian, Devoney Looser, and Deborah Kaplan.

NY: Henry Z. Walck, c1952., 1952. Hardcover. VG/Fair. Tasha Tudor. 1st thus edition. 48p. color and b/w illus; blue cloth boards / gilt titles on spine; 24mo (5 1/4" tall;) Condition is VERY GOOD book /FAIR - GOOD jacket: book has some lt. spotting on bottom edge of boards, spotting to top page edge, otherwise like new; jacket has some edgewear and is stained quite a bit; front panel is sl. rippled from probable tea staining, corner clipped but not the price. Jacket now in protective mylar, so looks better than all this sounds....and what could be better than a Tasha Tudor book and a nice cup of tea?!

Chicago: John C. Winston Company, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Robert Lawson. Not the Winston edition with the pictorial paste-on, this is copyright 1937 with no additional printings noted. 8vo, red cloth with black illustration and gold shield with black titles, repeated on spine, blue and turquoise illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, 10 other 2-color full-page illustrations and additional text drawings throughout, 274 pages to include 6 pages of notes at end, preface by Robert Lawson. Condition is VERY GOOD- / no jacket: rubbing to edges and corners, a few small tears at spine head, both front and read hinge are cracked with webbing exposed but the textblock remains tight and is internally clean throughout. Better than all this sounds, and a delightful tale by Twain with Lawson's incomparable illustrations. Uncommon binding.