Search Results: Authors starting with T from Alembic Rare Books

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Tall quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. Colour frontispiece. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, pencilled notes in the same hand to the front pastedown. Cloth rubbed and with a few small marks and spots, spine and edge of upper board tanned, edges of contents spotted. A very good copy. Third printing, published the year after the first. With the ownership inscription, pencilled notes, and December 1944 report card of Eva Bernice Simmons, a student at the North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University. Author Clara Mae Taylor (1989-?) attended Columbia University Teacher's College and then taught at the Rhode Island Teacher's College and at her alma mater. She earned her PhD in nutrition science at age forty after spending a year in research at Oxford. "During World War II, Taylor directed a research project under the Department of Agriculture that investigated… Read More

Hildesheim, Zürich & New York: Georg Olms, 1987. Quarto. Original tan and white boards with text in black and white. Minor bump to the lower corner. Excellent condition. First edition, first impression. A very attractive copy in fresh condition. This important study analyses the philosophical milieu and influences of Maupertuis, "one of the greatest scientists and original thinkers of the 18th century. His contributions to mathematics (the Principle of Least Action), and his refutation of preformationist theories alone would have justified his pre-eminence. However, of particular interest was his study and interpretation of pedigrees of genetic traits, the application of the concept of probability to genetic problems, the introducing of experimental breeding as a means of studying the transmission of inherited traits in animals, and his proposed theories of inheritance, all ideas which were far ahead of their time" (Emery, "Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis )1698-1759)", Journal of Medical… Read More

Japan: [Masudaya] Modern Toys, [c. 1960]. Enamelled tin toy, approximately 19.5 x 12 x 14cm. Opaque backlit "scope" with moving airplane silhouette on the interior, red and green lights, red signal key button, and on/off button. With the detachable beacon tower in tin with red light, the plastic radar dish, and the paper with signal key in morse code. The battery compartment accommodates two D batteries. All together in the original card box (20.5 x 14 x 13cm). Price of 39/6' in ink to the box lid. Some scuffs and wear commensurate with use, some loss of the green and red paint from the lightbulbs, occasional tiny spots to the tin, on/off button slightly cracked, morse code card torn at the top where there was originally a string, light wear and some creasing and toning of the box. This toy has been tested and is only partially functional, possibly due to loose connections. Both the red light on the body and the light at the top of the tower are not working, and the interior wheel with airplane… Read More

Peterborough, 1939-1941. Quarto (230 x 175 mm). Ready-made journal, burgundy pebble-grain cloth backstrip, blue moiré boards, lined paper. Approximately 86 pages of manuscript text, plus loosely inserted manuscript leaves. Ephemera and documents both pasted in and loosely inserted. 65 photographs, primarily 85 x 60 mm with white borders, though a handful are slightly larger and without borders. Most of these are pasted-in, but a handful are loosely inserted. Early in the diary there are glue spots where 4 photos were once attached, and at least two of the loosely inserted prints also have glue on the back. 4 modern white label stickers pasted over some text on the final left, presumably to hide it. Significant wear to the spine and boards, contents shaken, occasional light spotting to contents which are clean and legible. Very good condition. A dense, detailed, and revealing diary chronicling the first two years of the Second World War by Marjorie True of Peterborough's Cathedral precinct, who was… Read More

London: Arrowsmith, 1932. Square octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs by the authors and others. Spine very slightly faded, cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities. A very good copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with some creases, small chips, and short closed tears. First edition, first impression of this memoir of a red squirrel saved and reared by the author, the pioneering wildlife photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner (1867-1940). This volume was published in the Arrowsmith series The Library of Animal Friends, which also featured books by fellow photographers Frances Pitt and Cherry Kearton, and included another of Turner's books, My Swans the Wylly-Wyllys. Uncommon in the dust jacket. Turner became interested in wildlife photography after meeting Richard Kearton in 1900. She joined the Royal Photographic Society the following year, and by 1904 was giving talks illustrated with… Read More

London: Country Life, Ltd., 1924. Quarto. Original green quarter cloth, green boards, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in white, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 double-sided plates from photos by the author. Spine very slightly toned, boards with mottled fading as usual for this book, spotting to the contents and edges of the text block. First and only edition of this beautifully illustrated work by pioneering bird photographer Emma Louise Turner (1867-1940), which includes the first publication of her award-winning photo of a great crested grebe on its nest. This copy from the library of prominent bird photographer Eric J. Hosking (1909-1991), demonstrating the strong influence that Turner had on later generations in her field. In the introduction to their 1947 book, Masterpieces of Bird Photography, Hosking and co-author Harold Lowes lamented that they were unable to include her image of a water rail because no prints or negatives could be located. This copy contains Hosking's owl… Read More

London: Arrowsmith, 1932. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board blocked in green. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs by the author. Contemporary gift inscriptions to the front free endpaper. Dampstain and loss of size affecting the boards but not the contents, what may be a little light brown mildew on the lower board and corresponding area of the jacket verso. A good copy in the rubbed, spotted, and dulled jacket with a chip and closed tear to the upper panel, a small chip at the head of the spine panel affecting the name of the series but not the title, and some smaller nicks and creases. First edition, first impression of this charming memoir of a family of mute swans by the bird photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner (1867-1940). As Turner explains in the introduction, the swans lived near her houseboat at Hickling Broad and the name she gave them, the "Wylly-Wyllys", "arose out of the swan cry, 'Wulla, wulla, wulla,' repeated… Read More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1935. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white. Frontispiece and 7 plates from photographs by the author. Ownership signature of E. H. Stevenson to the title. Spine tanned and rolled, some small marks and bumps to the cloth, text block shaken and with spotting on the edges, light offsetting to the title. Very good condition. First edition, first impression. A rare guide to gardening and managing outdoor spaces for wild birds, by the pioneering wildlife photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner. The prominent American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) reviewed this volume for the journal Bird Banding in July, 1936, writing that, "The title of this book is an inspiration in itself. In this sane, readable little volume, Miss Turner, well-known bird photographer and student of life-history of birds, gives excellent advice, not only for garden sanctuaries, but also for woodland and marsh sanctuaries. She points out the ruthless advance… Read More

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 1935. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates from photographs by the author. Plate II detached and loosely inserted. Spine rolled and partially faded, shallow dents affecting the upper board and spine, edges of the boards a little rubbed and faded, spotting to contents and edges of text block. A very good copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with chips from the head and tail of the tanned spine panel and ink gift inscription to the upper panel. Second impression, published the year after the first. A rare guide to gardening and managing outdoor spaces for wild birds, by the pioneering bird photographer and conservationist Emma Louise Turner. The prominent American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) reviewed this volume for the journal Bird Banding in July, 1936, writing that, "The title of this book is an inspiration in itself. In this sane, readable little volume, Miss Turner, well-known… Read More

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Octavo. Original yellow boards, black paper backstrip, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A little light rubbing at the edges, minor bump to the upper corner of the boards. An excellent copy in the jacket with a little creasing at the head of the spine panel and a minor vertical crease near the top of the spine panel. Sixth printing, published in the same year as the first. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in elaborate calligraphy on the half title, "To: Ravonne, Welcome to the Universe, Neil D. Tyson, May 2007". Uncommon signed. The present volume is a collection of forty-two essays originally published in Tyson's "Universe" column in Natural History Magazine between 1995 and 2005. Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's (1958 - ) interest in astronomy began during childhood, when he viewed the Moon's surface through a friend's binoculars. Tyson studied at Harvard, the University of Texas, and Columbia, then joined the faculty of… Read More