Search Results: Titles starting with T from LaCelle Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914 (1910). Good. Hinges cracked else tight binding; exlibrary with some marks; some wear; lacking the very scarce dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Barron's, 1938. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. New York: Barron's, (1938). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 167 pages + ads. Good+. Tight binding; front blank endpaper excised; 10 written on half-title page; pencil underlining and a few notes else clean pages; spine lettering a bit rubbed; moderate wear. A nice mid-depression guide to speculative investing in the stock market.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Concord, New Hampshire: The New Hampshire Temperance Society, 1834. Wraps. Fair. Concord, New Hampshire: The New Hampshire Temperance Society, 1834. 4 pages. Fair. Tears and small chips along folds (affecting a few words); worn with some foxing. A rare early temperance paper.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Chapman and Hall, 1889. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. London: Chapman and Hall, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 333 pages + ads. 9" x 6". Fair. Hinges reinforced with tape; lacking front blank endpaper; a few small tears and light creases; several blindstamps; covers stained. "Of Asian interest are his chapters on hunting barasingh near Mt. Kotwal in Kashmir and antelope in India's Bikaner region."--Czech Asia p. 182. Also includes takes of hunting reindeer in Norway, ibex in Corsica and Sardinia, fly-fishing for trout in Sweden and Finland, stalking mule deer in the Rockies, hunting mountain goats in the Cascades, etc.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. Hardcover. Fair. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 321 pages. Fair. Hinges reinforced nicely with booktape; tight binding; pages generally clean; a few dogears; name on front endpaper; covers soiled and worn. "A personal narrative, containing accounts of the difficulties and gun fights along the old stage routes. The author came to Texas in 1845. He gives a sketch of San Antonio, with a list of those who lived there between 1845 and 1857."--Goodspeed. "The author came to San Antonio in the early 50's, drove the U. S. mail coach from that place to Eagle Pass and, in 1867, established the first stage line between the U. S. and Mexico, later operating a freighting business from San Antonio to Chihuahua."--Eberstadt. .

London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING          with correct publisher and imprint as well as the 1894 date on title page, etc. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket.  Hinges a bit cracked else tight binding; a few marginal notes; moderate wear; light old smell; dust jacket worn but intact; paper backing on reverse at bottom of spine. Very scarce in dust jacket. Thomas Preston (1860 in Kilmore, County Armagh - 1900) was an Irish scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy. He established empirical rules for the analysis of spectral lines, which remain associated with his name. In 1897 he discovered the Anomalous Zeeman Effect, a phenomenon noted when the spectral lines of elements were studied in the presence or absence of a magnetic field. Preston reported, in an important paper published in The Scientific Transactions of The Royal Dublin Society, read on 22 December 1897, and… Read More

Portland: Smith & Sale, Printers, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor Box. Portland: Smith & Sale, Printers, 1916. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated. Very Good in Poor Box. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; appears to be lacking two illustrations; box is very worn and torn. RARE. .

Brooklyn: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vivas, Julie (Illustrated by). Brooklyn: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, (1989). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; slight wear and light bumping; no jacket (seems to be as issued). Classic children's book, winner of a number of awards.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1902. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Boston: Dana Estes and Company, (1902). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF CASEY AT THE BAT. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 407 pages. Illustrated. Good+. Rear hinge slightly cracked else tight binding; clean pages; contemporary owner's inscription and bookplate on front endpaper; front endpaper has browning; a couple of light spots to topedge; some wear; no jacket. The first book appearance of the famous baseball poem, Casey at the Bat. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1839. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 363 pages + ads. Very Good. Tight binding; light foxing else clean pages; previous owner's name on front endpaper; moderate wear. "The author was Superintendent of the Morodendron Silk Company of Philadelphia. His exhortation on the title: 'Look to the Silk Culture for the true Gold Mines of the United States, leading to Independence, Wealth and Power.' How wrong he was!"--Charles Wood. Quite scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1957. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1957). 1959 printing. Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; pages yellowed; newpaper clipping on front endpaper; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with a few small chips and tears; label on spine.  Scarce in jacket.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, for the Author, 1747. Hardcover. Fair. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, for the Author, 1747. FIRST EDITION. Leather. 239 pages. Fair. Textblock tight; covers detached; clean pages; several old signatures of noted nineteenth century ministers on front endpaper - Thomas F. Davies, H. Brittan, and James J. Woolsey; covers very worn.  First and only edition of the English theologian and Hebrew scholar's earliest work, published when he was but an undergraduate at Oxford.  Very scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: William Heinemann, 1921. Hardcover. Good/Good. London: William Heinemann, 1921. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 369 pages. 6 1/2" x 4 1/2". Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean text; exlibrary with usual marks; one page has a crease; light foxing; some wear; chipping at spine ends; dust jacket worn with stains and a small chip. Scarce in dust jacket.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING AND COLLECTIBLE TITLES.