Search Results: Authors starting with T from Boyd Used & Rare Books

Santa Cruz, California: [printed by the UCSC Duplicating Center], 1971. Soft cover. Fine. Staple-bound in card wrapper. Fine. 30 pages. Four copies located on OCLC. A collection of poetry, prose and art from the Indian Affairs Communications Workshop held at UC-Santa Cruz in 1971, led by the U.S. poet laureate William Stafford and Howard University professor Glenda Dickerson. Includes a preface and two pieces by Stafford (''With new friends at the beach'' and ''On the Santa Cruz campus'') and pieces by Cal E. Rollins, C. Fayne Porter, and T. D. Allen. Participants were drawn from Indian schools and reservations from across the country, from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a few from UC-Santa Cruz. Full contributor list: Ferrin Allen, Patty Allen, T. D. Allen, Gaye Armstrong, Evelyn Bauer, L. Benner, Harry Berendzen, Patricia Boyette, Anne Cathcart, Carolyn Cone, Hazel E. Constance, Kathleen Eagle, Joan E. Fisher, Phil… Read More

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Book has wear to head and tail of spine. Board edges are worn with exposed edges and corners. Rubbing/soiling to boards. Some writing in pencil and 3 Fleischmann's yeast stickers on front end papers. Pencil drawings and writing on rear end papers. Page numbers have been written on pages in pencil. Pages are age toned and brittle. Only a few have closed tears. Book has loose rear hinge. 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Unpaginated. Approx. 63 pages. A collection of short stories, poems and nursery rhymes with accompanying line drawing illustrations. Color frontispiece.

Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, 1871. Soft cover. Good. Sewn in original printed wraps. Covers edge-tattered. Previous owner's name in pencil at top of front cover. Little bit of soiling. Illustrations. 30 pages [pp. 73-104]. 7.5 x 5.75 inches. "The Editor, who gives his most earnest work to this magazine, striving to make it the purest, most attractive and most beautiful, offers it to all who love their children, and who desire to fill their tender minds with things pure, and true, and good, as a wise counselor, loving friend and pleasant companion." Publisher and editor of The Children's Hour, Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885), was a popular nineteenth century American author who also published Arthur's Home Magazine and contributed several stories to the monthly periodical Godey's Lady's Book. He is additionally remembered for his temperance novel, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. One of the other contributors is poet and writer, Hester A.… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company, 1948. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Kurt Wiese. Blue cloth boards stamped in orange (lettering on spine and seahorses on front cover). Some discoloration along the spine and fading around board edges. Spot of soiling in the upper corner of the ffep and half-title pages, else pages are generally clean, though showing some signs of handling. Dust jacket has some soiled spots, one-inch chip at bottom of spine; a few closed tears; not price clipped ($2.00). DJ in archival sleeve. [68] pp. 8 x 7 inches. Daisy and Dobbin were a couple of curious seahorses who lived at the bottom of the sea. In the front yard of their home were the wrecks of ships, castles of coral, and jungles of seaweed where sharks, whales and other monsters lived. They set out to satisfy their curiosity about what lies on the other side of the great chasm. They meet a Chinese mermaid, end up getting caught by a young fisherman off of the coast of New England, and then taken to Boston and beyond. Gladys… Read More

[Salem, Oregon]: [Capital Journal], 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Papered boards with pictorial on front cover. Black taped spine. Minor spot of damage to two pages (where they had stuck together), else interior is clean and unmarked. [26] pages. Oblong format. 17 x 26 cm. Four institutional copies located on OCLC. Uncommon. Album of caricatures of members of the 1913 Oregon Legislature, drawn by Murray Wade (1876-1961), a prominent west coast editorial cartoonist and publisher. Foreword by Graham Paul Taber (1877-1951), a native of Indiana who was the co-owner, Editor and Manager of the The Capital Journal (Salem) between 1912 and 1914.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Boards in orange cloth stamped in black and burgundy. Faint blemish on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edgewear and has a bit of chipping; not price clipped ($3.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. ix, 316 pages. Scarce in dust jacket. The autobiography of Tan Shih-hua, son of one of Sun Yat Sen's lieutenants, describing his first twenty-six years (1900-1926), from boyhood in a Szechuan village to university life in Peking, documenting his family's ups-and-downs as well as his father's political troubles. At university, he meets Tretyakov, a Soviet professor, and comes under his revolutionary influence and to whom he dictates his story.

Grapevine, TX: International Porcelain Artists and Teachers (IPAT), 2018. Hardcover. Fine. Three volumes in slipcase. Fine. Clean and unmarked. 645 pages total, fully illustrated in color. A lavishly illustrated presentation of porcelain art by 350 different artists, representing 32 countries, and covering a wide range of styles and aesthetics. Produced in 2018 by the International Porcelain Artists and Teachers (IPAT) to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Includes color portraits of each of the artists.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Boards in red cloth, lettered in brown and black. Head of spine shows some wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else interior clean. Illustrated with frontispiece and three plates showing movie stills. Dust jacket chipped at foot of spine; shallow chipping at head of spine; closed tear to top edge of front panel; light penciling on front flap; in an archival mylar sleeve. 378 pages. Photoplay edition of Booth Tarkington's Bad Sister (1913). This 1931 film adaptation featured the Hollywood debuts of both Bette Davis and Sidney Fox (seen in the stills). The cast also starred Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Nagel, and ZaSu Pitts.

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bookplate on front paste down. This is a bound excerpt from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. LXXII, p. 501-728). The last 80 pages consist of the table of measurements. Illustrations. 227 pp. 9.75" x 6.5".

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and decorative crescent moon and stars on front cover. Call number on spine. Bookplates and sticker on front pastedown; no pockets. Pinhole library stamp on title-page and one additional leaf. Some pencil marginalia, else pages bright and generally clean. 19 x 12.5 cm. Octavo. pp. 157, plus [46] publisher's advertising. Uncommon. Placed in an archival mylar wrapper with a small, loose slip of acid-free paper to mask the call number. Isaac Taylor's work in this volume consists of his notes based on conversations with Egyptian Muslims about politics and religion, his travel observations, investigations of Islamic culture, the British administration, reforms, and the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Isaac Taylor (1829-1901) was an Anglican priest, philologist, author, and Canon of York. Contents: I. Street-Life in Cairo. II.… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth shows general soiling and wear. Spine faded; loss at spine ends; board corners exposed. Cloth cracked along front outer hinge, though inner hinges are intact and the binding is solid. Pages foxed. A few instances of pencil underlining on a couple of pages in the fist chapter, and one or two appearances of penciled marginalia elsewhere, otherwise unmarked. Small bookseller label on front pastedown for Scrantom & Wetmore Booksellers and Stationers of Rochester, N.Y. pp. 678, 200 [878 total]. 9.25 x 5.8 inches. Detailed descriptions from 1868 of the resources of the states west of the Rockies with a focus on mining and mineral resources, but also describing topography, population, water resources, agriculture, and industry. Largely arranged by county or state district, the material covers California (pp. 1-298), Nevada (299-442), and Arizona (443-481), and has… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Winepress Publishing Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Signed by Author(s). Flat signed by author. First edition, first printing. Book has a tiny bit of bumping to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has edge wear with a little curling to top and bottom edges. A couple of closed tears to bottom edge of dj. Bumping to head of dj spine with a few tiny closed tears and chips. Upper fore edge corners also have a little wear and tiny closed tears. Rubbing to surfaces of dj. A few tiny spots of discoloration on front of dj. Not price clipped. Has both first price through 1969 and second price still intact. 160 pages.

Sieburg, Germany: Seitenblick, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear. Covers rubbed; one scratch on back cover. 241 pages.

New York: Pageant Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by the author on ffep. Stated First Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Interior clean. Dust jacket has minor chipping at spine ends and corners; other light edgewear and minor soiling; not price clipped ($2.50). 103 pp. 8 x 5.25 inches. A personal narrative (the first 43 pages) combined with an analysis of Marx's economic and social theory with a view to its possible future application. Eduard Heinmann, the noted German economist and critic of capitalism, said of Shirley Weston's book, "The author claims to have a new key to the understanding of Marxian economics, which would pull the rug from under the dictatorial meaning attributed to it by friend and foe and would establish it as a genuinely democratic system of workers' cooperatives ... it is interesting to see the author produce a very large number of Marx quotations which show that Marx had in mind… Read More

London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated First Edition. Green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. A tad spine cocked. Minor wear at extremities. Top fore-corner bumped. Interior is unmarked, pages show some light foxing and age. 28 plates showing illustrations from photographs and several maps. pp. 289 plus [2] ads. 8.7 x 5.5 inches. Personal memoir of Lt-Col. John Edward Tennant (1890-1941) describing the activities of the RAF and the events of the Mesopotamian campaign, 1916-1918, in the First World War.

Budapest: Dovin Muveszeti Kft / Dovin Arts Ltd, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good+. Softcover. Very slight edge and corner wear. Interior is clean and unmarked. Color reproductions of paintings and a few photographs of installation pieces. Introductory essay by Istvan Margocsy in English and Hungarian. [44 pages]. 12.5 x 9.6 inches. From the one-man show of El Kazovsky (1948-2008), held in Budapest in March-April 1990.

London: Peter Davies, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fifth printing, February 1959. Red cloth with white lettering on spine. Lightly erased pencil on ffep, else clean. Dust jacket shows light surface wear near head of spine; slight general soiling to rear panel; not price clipped (12s 6d); in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. 278, [2], plus [7] ads for Tey's novels. An attractive copy.

Basel, Switzerland: Faunus-Verlag, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The Sigloch limited and numbered edition (no. 1817). 96 large color photographs of Germany's castles. A very nice production on quality paper and the photographs, which are gorgeous, have very good color. An over-sized book. Cream colored, illustrated boards. All edges gilt. Comes with original clear plastic jacket (which has a couple chips around the corners of the spine and a closed tear to the upper left corner of its front panel). Boards show some light discoloration. Bright, tight, and square. Clean inside except for a gift inscription on the title page. 31 x 27 cm. 207 pages. All text in German, French, and English.

Boston: James French / Printed at Coolidge's Steam Power Printing Establishment, 1847. Hardcover. Fair. Third Edition (1847). Publisher's brown boards stamped with gilt on spine, blind stamped boards. Corners exposed; spine ends worn. Previous owner's inscriptions on front paste down (dated 1853 & 1868). Heavy soiling to some of the pages. The poem at the top of Chapter XIV has been torn out (replacement text for both sides of this leaf is laid in). Five illustrated plates, including frontispiece (each is hand watercolored by a previous owner). 233 pp. 6.25 x 3.75 inches. Mrs. J. Thayer states in the preface that this novel was written with the intention of cultivating in young hearts the beauty of an unselfish, amiable character and a loving spirit, to impel children to endear their mothers with love and to lift their hearts higher, to love the whole human race and God, and incite them to good actions.

Centralia, Washington: Gorham Printing, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps. Pages clean and unmarked. Illustrations. 203 pp. 9 x 6 inches. Two copies noted on OCLC (including one at the Washington State Library in Tumwater). An account of the community of Stehekin, Washington, located on Lake Chelan as remembered and recorded by members of the Buckner family. Describes life on the family's ranch and in the surrounding area during the era primarily from the 1920s through the 1940s. Illustrated with many historic photographs. Fifteen pages are given to the history of the settlement of the Stehekin Valley and there is a map showing the location of the original homesteads in Stehekin Valley, as well as property ownership information collected for the 17 original homesteads. In addition, the Bucknell's neighbors are each given some coverage (ranging from a single paragraph to a couple pages): the Merritt, Wilson, Courtney, Byrd, Oliver, Maxwell, Lesh, McConnell, McLean, Imus, and… Read More