Search Results: Titles starting with T from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ / Good. Quarto. 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches. Original blue cloth over board, stamped in gilt and blind, top edge stained yellow. Intensely dramatic illustrated red and yellow pictorial endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows price of $10.00. 569 pages. More than 80 decorative drawings by Alberta Sordini, Design by Merle Armitage, text by Olin Downes, piano arrangements by Leonard Marker, and introduction by Dimitri Mitropoulos. Calibrated discography with rare "Musicator - BMI Music Locater" strip laid in. Cover cloth slightly faded along bottom edges of both boards. All tips sharp. Two small white flecks on front board. Front board slightly bowed. Binding solid and tight. Text block square with very light foxing on edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Grey, black, and red dustjacket has rubbing to leading edges, stains in various locations on all panels, and scattered chipping at extremeties. Presents a thorough, collaborative… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 240 pp. Fine / Near Fine. Three-quarter lime green paper over quarter beige cloth, spine bearing stamped foil copper titles; yellow top stain. Pictorial glossy unclipped dust jacket, showing price of $13.95, has 4.5-inch crease on top-inside corner of back flap, 1-inch crease on bottom-inside corner of back flap, and minor bump at the top-front corner of spine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Hiaasen's second novel. Co-written with Pulitzer Prize nominee and fellow Miami Herald staffer William Montalbano. Complimentary copy distributed by publisher prior to publication date, review material laid in.

Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Two volumes: xiii, [2], 646; xiv, [2], 724 pp. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in full natural calf on board. Four raised bands with red & black title panels. Gilt titles and ruling on spine. Marbled edges. Fold-out map in back of Volume I. Both volumes have frontis with tissue guards, plus 11 steel portraits with TGs complete. Extensive edge wear, rubbing, scraping, scuffing and fraying to boards. Tips rubbed through. Damage to Volume II front endpapers. Creasing to fold-out map. Volume II rear hinge cracked through 6 inches from heel up, albeit cords holding. Previous clumsy masking tape "repair" to rear inner hinge.

New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. First Edition. Wrappers. Thin folio. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good. Finely printed on rice paper. Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner. Paper title label laid on front wrapper. Original limitation slip laid in. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which 222 were for sale. 28 reproductions of chalk or brush line-drawing studies of the female nude. Green rice paper wrappers sunned at periphery, creased, stained in spots. Closed tears to bottom edge and leading corner of rear wrapper with no material loss. Damp stain to leading edge of flyleaf, title page, and contents page. Pages of drawings in fine, un-marked condition. Quite scarce. Only 14 copies located through WorldCat (OCLC # 3644188), 2 of which are publicly held. Ananda Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian and scholar of traditional iconography, served as curator in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until his death in 1947.