Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

Hudson-Kimberley, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. 1899. 207 pages, with four pages of advertisements at the rear. Original dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to front. Spine has been repaired/reinforced with black cloth tape, and a tan label with "Machine Guns (Tactical) Parker" nearly handwritten has been placed on the spine. Green and white floral design endpapers; small label with previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Two maps present: one full page, and one foldout. Shows disposition of forces during the Battle of Santiago in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Author held the tank of 1st Lieutenant 13th Infantry, Commander of Machine Guns in the Santiago Campaign.

Thames & Hudson, 2008-09-17. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x1x10. Large format paperback. In Very Good+ condition. Clean inside and out with no underlining or other making. No creasing to spine. Bonding is solid and square. Very minor surface wear - barely noticeable, but mentioned for completeness. "Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West". Presents findings related to remarkably well-preserved mummies recovered from modern Western China, in a region that would later become part of the Silk Road. The mummies and grave goods demonstrate an association with early Indo-European genetic and linguistic stock, suggesting that Western interaction with China was far more substantial than previously thought. 352 pages, with 190 illustrations, 13 in color. Includes two appendices, with one presenting a concise but deep dive into the evidence identifying cultures that produced the Tarim mummies as "Tocharian"; the other summarizes all of the radiocarbon… Read More

Preservation Society, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Comb bound with illustrated hard covers. 2009. A publication of the Fell's Point Preservation Society, collecting close to 300 recipes in a variety of categories: libations, appetizers, soups and stews, salads and dressings, seafood, poultry, meats, vegetables and sides, sauces and gravies, breads, desserts, and cookies and candy. "A Collection of Recipes From Residents, Friends and Restaurants of Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland". Fell's Point and Baltimore have a long history as a port on the Chesapeake Bay, so the seafood recipes collected here are particularly strong. Features three separate crab cake recipes (!), including Senator Barbara Mikulski's favorite.

Moscow, Planeta Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, 1991, Planeta Publishers. Near Fine hardcover, in Fair only dustjacket. Book is fullbound in cream cloth bloards, with gilt insect design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Dustjacket shows wear with small tears and chips to corners and head and heel of spine, lamination starting to lift on front at foredge and along gutter. Text in Englsih and Russian, with a wealth of photos and history of amber. Includes pieces from the Kremlin Armoury, the Leningrad Hermitage, the Menishikov and Pavlovsk palaces and the museums of Kaliningrad and Palanga, as well as the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace and the mystery of its disappearnce in the final days of WWII.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arbor House Pub Co, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Fine/NF first printing, signed by author (no inscription) on front free endpaper. Lightly pencilled price from previous bookstore, minor wear to heel of DJ spine.

Recorded Books, 2007. Audiobook. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 20 cassettes, approximately 23.75 hours. Read by Suzanne Toren. Ex-lib with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. From The Washington Post: "Jane Smiley's new novel, Ten Days in the Hills, [is] a work modeled in part on Boccaccio's Decameron. Instead of fleeing the plague, however, the ensemble in Smiley's book is hoping to exist for a short while in a world free of newspapers, television and reports from the front.... " From Publishers Weekly: "Smiley delivers a delightful, subtly observant sendup of Tinseltown folly, yet she treats her characters, their concern with compelling surfaces and their perpetual quest to capture reality through artifice, with warmth and seriousness.

University of Delaware Press, 2004-04-01. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Hardcover, 2004, 500 pages. With numerous editorial appendices, bibliography, Amhurst's index, and a general index. The book is in Fine condition, full bound in brick red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine; clean inside and out with no markings; binding is solid and square. The unclipped dust jacket is in Fine condition. From the front flap: "In his Terrae-Filius essays of 1721, Nicholas Amhurst describes and satirizes Oxford life as he saw it during the 1710s and early 1720s. Although academic and intellectual issues receive abundant attention, Amhurst devoted even more space to the political, religious, social, and moral issues that often worked to undercut the university's academic goals. Written in an energetic, personal prose style characteristic of the best eighteenth-century essay periodicals, the Terrae-Filius essays provide accessible, entertaining reading for anyone interested in the history of Oxford… Read More

Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 10x0x11. Large format hardcover, in Very Good condition with no dust jacket, as issued. Only fault is a two inch linear impression to front board above the "F" in Frontini - barely noticeable unless held at an angle to the light. A monograph of the works of Thomas Frontini. 144 pages, with bibliography. Features 64 full page color plates, and many more in a thumbnail gallery. Quarter bound in pebbled red boards, with blue cloth to the spine. Clean inside and out, with no markings of any kind. Binding is solid and square.

Recorded Books, 2007. Audiobook. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 11 cassettes, approximately 12 hours. Read by Atossa Leoni. Ex-library copy with typical markings, including several stickers to rear and one on spine. Case has partial split to inner hinge, wrinkling to clear case cover, offset from print to inner surface of clear cover on rear. From the author of The Kite Runner, this tells the story of two women in Afghanistan, who are brought together "by fate and war on the perilous streets of Kabul.

Recorded Books, 2007. Audio Cassette. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 11 cassettess, approximately 12 hours. Narrated by Khaled Hosseini. A retired library copy, with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. The followup to Hosseini's stunning The Kite Runner. Set in Afghanistan, this is story of two women born a generation apart. Divided by their different generational views, they find themselves united by three decades of experience in the war-torn city of Kabul.

Books on Tape, Inc, 2005. Audiobook. Good. Audiobook, 20 hours unabridged on 13 cassettes. A retired library copy, clamshell case is in good condition with typical wear, stamps, stickers, etc. "It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as seemingly overnight it becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and Italian citizens trying to survive. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas and history. Mary Doria Russell's third novel [after The Sparrow and Children of God] will introduce to an even larger audience the authentic drama… Read More

Thomas Nelson Inc, 2004. Audio CD. Fine. ISBN 0962962090. 2004. From Andy Andrews, author of The Traveler's Gift. "Timeless Wisdom From the Traveler: The 7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life!" A box set of 8 CDs, plus a special Reader's Guide on CD-ROM to run on a computer. Each CD explores in greater depth one of the seven decisions originally outlined in the author's bestseller The Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success: 1) The Responsible Decision "The Buck Stops Here"; 2) The Guided Decision "I Will Seek Wisdom"; 3) The Active Decision "I Am A Person of Action"; 4) The Certain Decision "I Have A Decided Heart"; 5) The Joyful Decision "Today I Will Choose to be Happy"; 6) The Compassionate Decision "I Will Greet This Day With A Forgiving Spirit"; and 7) The Persistent Decision "I Will Persist Without Exception". Disc 8 is a bonus recording of the author Reading The Seven Decisions. Hailed by a… Read More

Easton Press, 1989. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Robert Silverberg. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Bob Eggleton. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in black leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Rand McNally, 1930-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1930, Rand McNally. This is the very scarce original 1930 hardback first edition and not the slightly less scarce 1938 reprint. With 91 numbered pages and collects four stories (Pigtails, Valentine Box, Easter Bunny's Eggs, and Christmas Tree) of the black-stocking doll who lives with her family in the "Comical Doll House down by Crooked Lane". Full bound orange cloth boards, with large illustration pasted down to front board and black lettering to front and spine. Black and white illustrated endpapers. No DJ. Illustrated by Esther Friend. Binding is solid and square, with some rubbing to edges and corners. Spine somewhat faded/darkened. Very small chip to pasted down illustration on front board, touching the cow's tail. Numerous black and white; red, black and white; and blue, black and white illustrations.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 6x0x9. Total War and Twentieth-Century Higher Learning: Universities of the Western World in the First and Second World Wars. Hardcover, 1991. 133 pages, with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. Fine hardcover, full bound in black cloth with bright guilt lettering to spine. Clean inside and out; binding is solid and square. Dust jacket is Good, with some color loss from a sticker removal at the lower left front panel and wrapping around to the bottom part of the spine. Else Very Good to Near Fine. From the front flap: "When world war erupted in 1914, the university had existed in the Western world for nearly 800 years. In all those years, from the founding of the first universities in Bologna and Paris to the twentieth century, these institutions faced no challenges more threatening than those presented by the two world wars.... In this study, Today vividly describes the rule of the university in modern… Read More

Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 8x6x1. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by James Morrow. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Alan M Clark. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in brick red leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Easton Press, 1990. First Edition. leather_bound. Fine/No Jacket. 10x6x2. Signed. As New in original shrinkwrap. Part of the Easton Press Signed First Edition series. Personally signed by Vonda McIntyre. Full color plate frontispiece illustration by Jill Bauman. Introduction by James Gunn. Fully bound in dark grey leather. 22kt gold designs and lettering on the hubbed spine and both boards. Smyth sewn pages, with bound satin-ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Printed on archival quality paper especially milled for this edition. It is acid-neutral and conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute. No jacket as issued.

Barnard, Roberts and Co, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 11x8x1. Signed. VG+ hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Some sunning to spine, with color faded from chocolate brown to an off-olive. Signed in full by the author (Charles S Roberts) above his name on the title page. No other markings, inside or out. Binding is solid and square. 399 pages, profusely illustrated. "The first in the three book series on the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, this volume focuses on the amazing engineering feats that allowed the railroad to cross the Allegheny Ridge and created the Pittsburgh Division. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With decorative end papers. 399 pages with index.

Center Point Large Print, 2007-08. Hardcover. Good/Fine. Hardcover in Dustjacket, large print, 2007, ISBN 9781602850293. Ex-lib with no external markings; library stamps and sticker to title page. Binding is solid and square. Part of the Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper mystery series. Harper investigates the death of a member of the exclusive 49 Club, whose members number exactly 49 - a new admission only occurs upon the death of an existing member. "Ms Fowler combines just the right combination of warm-hearted openness, quilting and faith.