Search Results: Titles starting with T from Elk River Books

Seacaucus, NJ: Warner Bros., 1986. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (30 cm), pp. 108. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Includes scores with lyrics for 21 songs from albums including Fear of Music, Little Creatures, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Talking Heads 77, Speaking in Tongues, Remain in Light, and Attack of the Killer B's Vol. 1. Spine slightly cocked, light edge wear. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright.

Manitowoc, WI: Manitowoc Public Schools, 1961. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 90. Yellow wraps with brown spine cover. Previous owner's name and address on title page, smudging to wraps and flaking to spine wrap. Illustrated throughout with ink drawings. Plant descriptions interspersed with bits of poetry and religious-themed excerpts.

New York: Publicaffairs, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 268. Signed by both authors on half title page. Black boards, gray quarter binding with silver titling. Jacket and boards with very slight edge wear.

New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Unknown edition. Folio (31 cm), pp. 202. Signed by photographer James Yarnell on title page and signed and inscribed by dedicatee, Olive Ann Beech, on dedication page. Light blue boards with red quarter cloth, silver and blue spine titling. Photographic endpapers. Fully illustrated throughout with black and white arial photography from across the United States. Light fading and bumping to edges, slightly spine-cocked. Jacket with closed tears, small chipping and creasing.

Portland: Foxhead Books, 2012. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (21.5), pp. 187.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. 248pp. Minor bumping to dust jacket. Red boards with red quarter cloth binding and silver text on spine.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 360. Later printing. Black boards, pictorial jacket. Includes section on spelling of Tibetan names and terms, bibliography and index. Black and white photos throughout. Jacket and boards with very light edge wear.

New York: The Century Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (22.7 cm), pp. xiv, 288. Green cloth with gilt titling. Green endpapers. Numerous black and white photographic plates throughout. Spine-cocked. Damage to front pastedown from removal of a label. Minor rubbing and wear to boards. No jacket. A novelization of the life of Sacha Siemel who "killed jaguars for a living with a seven-foot spear of his own manufacture and read Tolstoy, Gogol, and Victor Hugo in the siesta-hour. In short, he charmed us, accompanied us, saved our lives." (from the Prologue)

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo (20.5 cm), pp. 480. Blue cloth with black spine titling and author's facsimile signature to front board. Deckle edge. Blue, faded publisher's stain to top edge. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To Nelle(?) and Billy Strall, my San Francisco friends, and fellow lovers of the West. With best regards, Gene Fowler 1947." Laid in is a vintage postcard by Olive Fell of her famous "Little Cub Bear" in a tree and the message "No Worries," postmarked May 25, 1947, to Mrs. Wm. Strall in San Francisco from Edna M. describing a visit to Yosemite. Binding is a little loose, bumping to text block and corners, no jacket.Originally published in 1933, Timber Line, a biographical novel of the founders of The Denver Post, is Fowler's sixth book. While writing for the Post, he gained notoriety for pressing Buffalo Bill Cody on his numerous love affairs during an interview. He later worked in the film industry, becoming friends… Read More

Philadelphia: Peterson's Magazine, 1881. Very good. 9" x 5 3/4" (23 x 14.5 cm). Single plate of highly detailed steel engraving. From a painting by E.U. Eddis, engraved by Illman Brothers. "Engraved expressly for Peterson's Magazine." Printed on lightweight paper. Minor edge wear. "Peterson's Magazine was published by Saturday Evening Post partners, Charles Jacobs Peterson and George Rex Graham. With a focus on the domestic and consumer lives of middle-class women, the pages of PetersonÂ’s featured fashion, embroidery patterns, sheet music, engravings, poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, recipes, remedies, housekeeping advice, puzzles, and more." (Wylie House Museum News and Notes, Indiana University)

Washington DC: James Conaway, 2022. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Signed, limited edition of 200. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 77. Lushly illustrated by the author, a journalist, novelist and former Stegner fellow.

New York: Warner Books, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 287. White boards with light gray quarter cloth binding and black text on spine. Includes black and white photographs throughout.

Bogotá: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1986. Hardcover. Very good/Fine. 12mo (19.5 cm), pp. [4], 281, [5]. Signed and inscribed by author on title page: "y algo mas [...]. Ted, Gabriel / 92." Gray boards with white titling, pictorial jacket. Boards have moderate edge wear. Twenty-six stories spanning two dozen decades. Bright pages, tight binding.

San Juan, Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, 2008. Paperback. Near fine. Slim octavo (21 cm), pp. 189. Later printing. Pictorial wrappers. Translation by Jean Steeves-Franco. Includes sections on vocabulary and critical works consulted. Cover has minor edge wear. Binding is tight, as though unread. Palés Matos is best known for creating the genre of poetry, Afro-Antillano, blending Afro-Caribbean culture with Spanish language (Wikipedia). This is a translation of his landmark 1937 book, Tuntún de Pasa y Griferia.

Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri, 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (27 cm), pp. [iv], v - vii, [i], 1 - 142, [4]. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author to Dr. Thomas Jefferson Murray on both front and rear endpapers: "To Dr. T.J. Murray, / with the compliments / of the author, / Peter Potter / Xmas 1911." Full leather boards with five raised bands and two red spine labels. Red publisher's stain sprinkled to edges. Marbled endpapers. Includes 35 illustrated plates, 29 of which are hand-colored cross-sections of the trunk of a human body, two are gravures from photographs of the entire trunk, and four are fold-out, two-color prints. Small tag with poinsettia illustration and the manuscript note: "Dr. Murry / Compliments of the Author / X.Mas 1911" laid in. Bumping and rubbing to boards, chipping to spine, with a 1.25" section to bottom missing. Rare in the trade."The first volume of the Science Series, entitled The University of Missouri Studies, is an excellently… Read More

New Haven, CT: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 65. Pictorial wraps. "A Synthesis of Insights and Recommendations from the 2007 F&ES Conference." Foreword by James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; afterword by Sephen R. Kellert, professor of social ecology at Yale.

Nashville: Winston-Derek Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 266. Light reading wear and bumping to wraps. Includes publishers marketing materials. "Inspired by a tombstone found in a canyon near Joliet, Montana, Trails of Destiny provides an historical account of the infamous European hunter Sir George Gore and the slaughters protested by the Crow Indians" (back cover).

New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. xi, [xii-xiv], 738, plus appendices. Beige cloth boards with tan dust jacket. Includes appendices A through G, introduction by the author and editorial note by the publisher. Jacket is sunned along spine, front flap dog-eared. Slight bumping at head of spine.

New York: Harper Collins, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed by author on title page. White boards with black spine titling. Orange illustrated jacket with $26.99 price. Light reading wear. Jacket with very light staining, creasing to back. A novel of the testing of the first atomic bomb.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980. Paperback. Good. Octavo (23cm), pp. 399. Cover has moderate wear. Previous owner has added tabs to mark the alphabet throughout, name on half title page in ink. Front hinge is cracked at cover.