Search Results: Titles starting with T from Rare Books Honolulu

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Deluxe Issue, specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, printer, and the publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on a preliminary leaf. Hardcover. Fine/in clear acetate jacket. Moreh, Mordecai. THRICE CHOSEN - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Moreh, Mordecai (illustrator) Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of probably a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, printer, and the publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-137,[7]pp. Laid into this copy is an original signed etching by Israeli artist Mordecai Moreh, numbered "H.C. 5/6" at lower margin. Some scattered foxing to upper… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Pan Am Heritage Association, 2013. softcover. Pan Am Heritage Association, 2013, 1ste dition, limited to 2000 copies. 537 pages, 8.5 x 5.5". With dedication by a stewardess on front free endpaper.Softcover, with tight binding Binding has minor shelf wear. Pages bright and clean; no notes or markings. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. --- PAN AM history and stories and lots of photos and recipes, most with a Hawaii touch.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1914. Flexible boards. Audley B. Wells. A Tale From The Rainbow Land, Paul Elder and Company, 1914. Flexible Boards with dust jacket in same material with same title and decorations. 30 pages, 5¾" - 6¾". Text printed in two colors, black and blue, with blue border decorations on all pages. Pages clean, no ex-libris or writing. Dj with some very small paper loss in the folds. === Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. === From Yates' foreword: "The Menehunes are a mythical race of little brown people supposed to have inhabited the Hawaiian Islands in olden times. They were very tiny folk, measuring their stature by inches instead of by feet, and their mission seems to have been that of being helpful to men; but they could work only at night, and had to drop whatever they were doing when the elepaio bird called at dawn, and the task, no matter how far from completion, could never be taken up again by them. They are used in this little tale merely as… Read More

Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover Fine A rich, high-quality black and white photo book, exploring the continually evolving relationship between people & place Tanera (Ar Dùthaich) depicts the intricacies of living and working in a tiny rural community Exploring the continually evolving relationship between people and the landscape in such communities; Tanera takes its name from an island in the Summer Isles archipelago off the west coast of Scotland The few residents there have forged a thriving business, which not only values the heritage of the landscape itself, but also has an eye on modernity and ecological sustainability Though it sounds idyllic, managing the island is time consuming, weather-dependent and costly Having made this work whilst living and working on the island, my intention was to elaborate on these difficulties, exploring widely held romantic notions about the Scottish landscape, whilst also trying to get under the surface to the vernacular level The images attempt to show a 'portrait… Read More

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004. No. 70 of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Hardcover. Fine. William Hamilton. Hardcover Fine Tartuffe Arion Press, San Francisco, 2004 Translated by Richard Wilbur, Illustrated by William Hamilton. Folio format, red satin cloth, clear acetate jacket Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is # 70 Signed at the colophon by the translator and the illustrator Condition Near Fine Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail, not slow media mail.

San Francisco: Urban Reality Press, 2015. New, ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail America once had many Tenderloin neighborhoods Today, San Francisco's Tenderloin is the last Surrounded by Union Square s posh retailers to the north, upscale Hayes Valley to the west and the Twitter/Mid-Market tech scene and affluent SOMA to the south, San Francisco's Tenderloin remains a primarily low-income, ethnically diverse neighborhood in a city of vast wealth How has it survived? Randy Shaw answers this question in his long awaited new book Shaw, who has worked in the Tenderloin for 35 years and published four prior books including The Activist's Handbook, traces the mystery of the Tenderloin s survival from its post-quake rebuilding in 1907 through today What he discovers challenges longstanding assumptions about urban neighborhoods Not only does the Tenderloin show that residents can act to avoid the inevitability of urban gentrification, but also that low-income communities can enjoy the benefits of… Read More

New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. New. NEW, paperback, 96 pages The book was published for an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in 2018.br /> Tennessee Williams dominated Broadway in the 1940s and 1950s with masterpieces such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin RoofHis plays sent audiences "gowing to mad heights," and they brought him a "catastrophe of success" Published to accompany the exhibition Tennessee Williams: No Refugebut Writing at the Morgan Library & Museum, this publication illuminates the playwright's battle to find his voice Williams's plays-intimate, confessional, and autobiographical-emerged slowly from stories, poems, one-act plays, and journal fragments For Williams, writing was an indomitable need He found inspiration in his family and lovers, and mined his own life deeply-sometimes self-destructively-for his work, often identifying strongly with his heroines through whom he could explore a… Read More

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1987. 1st edition, 1st printing. Full leather binding with gilding. very good/verygood. Frontispiece by Jim Spanfeller. The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1987. Limited first edition, signed by the author. Bound in green leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. All gilding and the book in very good condition. == Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society.

Comedian Inc Enterprise, 2022. Limited Hardcover Edition of 300. Hardcover. NEW/no dj as issued. NEW, ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. As a dancer, singer, comedian and filmmaker, Rudy Ray Moore teetered on obscurity his entire life. Finally, with the creation of his "Dolemite" character and the release of several controversial and groundbreaking hit comedy albums and self-produced films during the 1970's, Moore achieved his short-lived success. As the decade changed and he struggled to survive, Moore's work fueled a new generation of fans and artists, who would help resurrect his career. He would become known as the "King of the Party Records" and the "Godfather of Rap," influencing comedians, musicians and pop culture, long after his passing. His tenacity and achievements were so inspiring, a part of his story was the basis for the hit Netflix film, Dolemite is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore. Throughout his life, Rudy remained a very private person. He would… Read More

New York: Abrams;, 2018. Hardcover. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap. New, still in shrink wrap/new. NEW, still shrink wrapped. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Please ask for international rates. For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work-portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies-is that it is all "bred of a place," the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, uses her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage to ask powerful, provocative questions-about history, identity, race, and religion-that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sections-Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What… Read More

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. One of 310 copies. Bound in marbled paper, backed in green morocco. very good. Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Octavo. 108pp. One of 310 copies, of which 275 copies were for sale. This is no. 76. With an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe. Printed in red and black on the sumptuous Italian handmade "Umbria" paper. Bound in paper marbled by Wolfe, backed in green morocco with orange lettering-piece. --- Condition very good, with slight abrasions to the f corners of the paper covered binding. Comes in slightly damaged mylar cover. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Includes as the third essay the interesting "The Marbler of Paper"; as published in the Diderot and D'Alembert Encyclopedie, 1765 (page 55 -82, incl. 4 plates from the Encyclopedie.

Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1918. all 1st. editions. in wrappers. very good. 3 volumes published by Bishop Museum Press in Honolulu 1899 (main work) and two supplements in 1903 and 1918. Illustrated with plates from black and white photographs. Each in original printed paper wrappers. Includes: -- Hawaiian Feather Work. 1899. With color frontispiece.81, ii p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) -- Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work. 1903. Vol. I - No. 5. With index to Volume 1. ; 19 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill ; 1 p. l. - Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work: Second Supplement.. 1918. Vol. VII - No. 1.69 p. : illus., IV col. pl. These volumes are part of the publication series: "Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History ";They are v. 1, no. 1; v 1, no. 5; v. 7 no. 1. of the series. Wrappers and edges worn, some wrappers and initial leaves separated or nearly so, leaves toned; still very good. The second Supplement is… Read More

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1987. Signed and limited to 176 copies. Like New/no dj as issued. Lord John Press, 1987 [1], 23, [1] pp. Poems printed on rectos only, but pagination counts blank leaves. 23x14 cm (9x5½"), bound by Marianna Blau in full green cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Designed and printed by Patrick Reagh. Signed by Oates at half title, as issued. From an edition of 150 numbered, plus 26 lettered copies;.

London: centrecentre, 2019. 1st edition. Flexible Hardcover. NEW. NEW, in publisher's shrink wrap. centrecentre, London, 2019, 192 pages 175x245mm, Limited to 500 copies. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. ---. To Evelyn is a collection of local entertainers posters from a working mens club in a small Yorkshire pit village. Originally collected in the 1990s by local personality Evelyn Short and now assembled by her grandson David, the posters are a celebration of a bygone era. Pre-internet and social media, this was one of the few ways to create another you, presenting an identity far removed from the day to day. The book explores national identity and sense of self, reminding us that with the right imagination we can transform into anyone or anything. The posters, many signed "To Evelyn" celebrate those identities, the weekend superstars, in all their glory.

Houston: Blake Wright Press, 2022. !st edition. oblong Hardcover. NEW, still in publisher's shrink wrap!! -- Toys That Time Forgot Volume 3 by Blake Wright, 235 pages, 12.5" x 9.5", A first-of-its-kind art book highlighting a series of "lost" toy projects, mainly action figures, spanning three-plus decades. Written by journalist Blake Wright. Stories are supplemented with supporting photographs of the production process Stories have come straight from the men and women that lived them Like VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2 before it - TOYS THAT TIME FORGOT VOLUME 3 is a 200-plus page, hardcover book will take an in-depth look at over 20 instances of toy lines that made it through to a certain point in the development process, but for one reason or another never made it to store shelves. Stories will be supplemented with supporting photographs of the production process, existing prototypes, control drawings used to create the sculpts, concept sketches and more. The stories (and supplemental materials) have… Read More

Houston: Blake Wright Press, 2022. 2nd edition. oblong Hardcover. NEW/NEW. NEW, still in publisher's shrink wrap!! @nd edition, 2st was published in 2019 -- Toys That Time Forgot Volume 1 by Blake Wright, 235 pages, 12.5" x 9.5", A first-of-its-kind art book highlighting a series of "lost" toy projects, mainly action figures, spanning three-plus decades. Written by journalist Blake Wright. Stories are supplemented with supporting photographs of the production process Stories have come straight from the men and women that lived them VOLUME 1 is a 200-plus page, hardcover book that takes an in-depth look at over 20 instances of toy lines that made it through to a certain point in the development process, but for one reason or another never made it to store shelves. Stories are supplemented with supporting photographs of the production process, existing prototypes, control drawings used to create the sculpts, concept sketches and more. The stories (and supplemental materials) have come straight… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Eberhardt Press, 2022. 2nd revised edition. in wrappers with French folds. New/no dj as issued. NEW, a beautifully printed book, signed by the author. Portland, Eberhardt Press 2022, 204 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Ships from Hawaii. The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeyman's card and a few basic tools, these "itinerant" typographers criss-crossed the continent for more than a century, train-hopping from newspaper to newspaper. To the tramp printer, personal autonomy and adventure were far more valuable than material possessions. Many of them were brilliant, literate individuals who were nevertheless compelled by a predilection for bacchanalian debauchery. The tramps helped each other over the hard places and spread the craft of printing, and always standing in solidarity with their fellow workers.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860. Hardcover. Good. Atkinson, Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. Hurst and Blackett, London 1860. Hardcover Good A sequel to Atkinson's narrative of Siberian travels while on his trip through Central Asia, this volume described his journey along the Russian-Chinese border Less commonly seen in the US than the First American edition of only 448 pages, published the same year (iii)-xiii, [1], 570 pp color frontispiece, folding engraved map of Central Asia by Arrowsmith; wood engravings in the text (8vo) half leather and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine First Edition Covers starting to detach, worn edges; lightly foxed, a few very short closed tears to map; very good A sequel to Atkinson's narrative of Siberian travels while on his trip through Central Asia, this volume described his journey along the Russian-Chinese border.

London: Printed for the author, 1778. 1st edition. Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. Printed for the author, 1778. [20], 543, [1] pp. A beautiful copy with 2 copper-engraved maps, frontispiece portrait of Carver and 4 additional copper-engraved plates. 23.3x15 cm (9¼x6"), rebound in burgundy 19th century half-morocco and gilt-ruled, marbled paper-covered boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt amidst raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition. Gilt fading on spine, light rubbing at extremities; title page trimmed slightly with small puncture near gutter, hints of foxing; minor stub tears to maps (not affecting images); ownership marks of Cha.M. Wallace on preliminary blank, dealer label on verso of front free endpaper; very good or better. --- Association copy with bookplate of noted bibliophile and collector of bookplates Clifford Nickels Carver. Scarce first edition of this important account of exploration into the interior of North America by an Englishman seeking a… Read More

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860. Hardcover. Good. Atkinson, Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. Hurst and Blackett, London 1860. Hardcover Good A sequel to Atkinson's narrative of Siberian travels while on his trip through Central Asia, this volume described his journey along the Russian-Chinese border Less commonly seen in the US than the First American edition of only 448 pages, published the same year (iii)-xiii, [1], 570 pp Lacking half title Chromolithographed frontispiece; folding map of Central Asia by Arrowsmith; wood engravings in the text (8vo) half leather and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine First Edition Covers starting to detach, worn edges; lightly foxed, a few very short closed tears to map; very good A sequel to Atkinson's narrative of Siberian travels while on his trip through Central Asia, this volume described his journey along the Russian-Chinese border Less commonly seen in the US than the… Read More