Search Results: Authors starting with T from Honey & Wax Booksellers

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition of Thackeray's comic masterpiece, illustrated by the author. "A novel without a hero," Vanity Fair follows the entangled adventures of two school friends, the gentle, trusting Amelia Sedley and the calculating Becky Sharp, as they come of age during the Napoleonic Wars. "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell-square party, and be off to the Gardens." First issue, with the heading on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of the debauched Marquis of Steyne on 336 (suppressed in later issues, as based too obviously on the late Lord Hertford), and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on 453. A fine copy, splendidly bound by Riviere & Son. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: xvi, 624. Early twentieth-century polished calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco spine labels,… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition of Kay Thompson's satirical account of a New York teenager's dating life, arranged alphabetically in Pooky Peckinpaugh's "secret private boyfriends book." A dreamier, less tyrannical presence than Thompson's famous Eloise, Pooky spends most of her entries venting her frustration with the unobtainable boys she meets, only to end each page with a plaintive call: "Oh GOOD GAG GIG You're GORGEOUS;" "Oh NEDDY NOD to me or I'll NEVER notice you again;" "Oh Willy YOU worm. . . What's with the WEEKEND? WHERE? WHEN?" A very good copy of a comic period piece, from the days when a telephone book was a genre of its own. Single volume, measuring 11 x 7.5 inches: [30]. Original pictorial boards stamped in black, original clipped pictorial dust jacket. Minor discoloration to boards; offsetting to endpapers; edgewear and faint tidemark to dust jacket, with a few tape repairs to verso.

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. Uniform edition of Henry David Thoreau's writings, illustrated with 165 photogravures after nature photographs by Clifton Johnson, who observes of Thoreau: "Each plant and tree had for him a story, though he was more attentive to the wild growths than to the cultivated." This set collects the two books published in the Concord Transcendentalist's lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden (1854), as well as three volumes published after his death: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), and Cape Cod (1865). This set was issued in New York by Crowell and in London by Harrap. The New York edition features a different decorative binding by pioneering book designer Margaret Armstrong for each title, while this London edition is uniform, featuring Armstrong's design for the American edition of Walden on all five volumes. A stunning set. Five volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: xii, 319, [1]; xiv, 423, [1]; xvi, 440; [4], xxii, 492;… Read More

New York: Philomel Books, 2000. First edition of this English adaptation of Philipok, a classic of Russian children's literature, collected in Leo Tolstoy's 1875 New Primer (Novaya Azbuka). Eager to go to school with his older brother, little Philipok slips out of the house one day to find the village schoolhouse: "there was nobody on the porch. Philipok could hear the voices of the children inside. He started to go in, but suddenly he was afraid." Russian-born illustrator Gennady Spirin, who loved the story of Philipok as a child, produced the detailed watercolors that accompany the simple story, and has signed this copy on the half-title. A fine signed copy of a beautiful book. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.

[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. First edition of this collection of six stories by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, originally published in Optic Nerve. Dealing with complicated experiences of marriage, separation, and parenthood, the emotional weight of the material is the more powerful for Tomine's precise draughtsmanship, which conveys the exact decrepitude of a rental apartment, the subtle details of cancer treatment. The more fluid graphic style in the final story, "Intruders," is a homage to pioneering Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1935-2015), to whom it is dedicated. Tatsumi's closely observed gekiga, "dramatic pictures," produced during the 1960s and 1970s, were a major influence on Tomine's work. A fine copy, signed by Adrian Tomine. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.