Search Results: Authors starting with T from Classic Books and Ephemera

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. xii, 478 p.: maps, tables; 20 cm. Paperback with blue cover, produced by UMI. Gift inscription from the author to Professor Ken Kusmer. The author's middle name is spelled both "Philip" and "Phillip" in this work. The finding aid to his papers at the American Jewish Archives spells it "Philip." He was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1977, has served in numerous congregations, and was the associate director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia from 1990 to 1998. In Very Good Condition: title label is taped on the front cover; cover is slightly creased; a few marginal marks, presumably by Ken Kusmer, otherwise, clean and tight.

Lugduni [Lyon]: apud Franciscum Savy, Bibliopolam [Francis Savy, bookseller], 1808. Hardcover. Very Good +. [4], 475, [1] p.; 17 cm. Modern dark brown cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine label; original plain boards. Woodcut headpiece on first page of text. Contents: Annalium -- Brevarium. Several former owner's names on preliminary blank leaf, title page, and final blank leaf. Upper corner of front free endpaper removed and replace with plain paper, presumably removing another former owner's name. Marginal notations on a few pages in an old hand. In Very Good+ Condition: light foxing; occasional marginalia; solid.

Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Originally published in Italian in 1989. [6], 338, [2] pages: illustrations; 29 cm. Black cloth with yellow spine title. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. A thorough examination of the work of Italian painter and architect Giulio Romano (1499-1546). A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: spine is sunned with small faded spot; edges are rubbed; clean and bright.

Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Français, 1924. Paperback. Very Good -. 44, [2] p.; 16 cm. Plain wrappers printed in black. Front wrapper reproduces title page; back wrapper bears series list for Répertoire du Vieux-Colombier, of which this title is no. 22. "Acheve d'imprimer le 7 Juin 1924 par F. Paillart a Abbeville (France)." -- colophon. A few pages are unopened. The author, Bengali author, artist, and composer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1913). This is a translation of his 1912 play Dak Ghar, known in English as The Post Office. This edition is scarce. In Very Good- Condition: wrappers are lightly creased; some pages were opened carelessly; clean and tight.

London: Historical Publications, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 144 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Dark blue cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. A well-illustrated history of the London district of Southwark, located on the south bank of the River Thames. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co, 1917. Pamphlet. Good +. 15 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Brown wrapper; wrapper title and illustration in dark brown and orange. Title page reads: Beethoven: The Story of a Little Boy Who Was Forced to Practice. The pages are neither stapled nor stitched in but loose within the wrapper as issued. Each page of text contains one or two spaces for cut-out illustrations to be glued in. The former owner did that very nicely, but did not fill in the space on the title page that would have told us who that child was. This is a nice bit of advertising by the music publisher Theodore Presser Co., which encouraged child musicians. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled; minor loss at upper corners of front and back wrapper; p. 14 slightly scraped where glue from the facing illustration touched it; pages are lightly soiled.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good -. Copyright 1929 by Doubleday, Doran & Co. No date of publication by Grosset & Dunlap. x, [2], 321 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Green cloth with dark green stamped spine and cover titles. Green endpapers. Top page edges green. Illustrated dust jacket in lined jacket cover. Grosset & Dunlap issued this with several different dust jackets. This one shows Penrod sitting and holding a book while he looks at some handwritten pages by his feet, with a dog next to him. Publisher's catalog on back section of dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: minor damage to fore-edges of 2 leaves; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: chipping and minor loss at spine ends; scrape on front section near upper edge; several closed tears of 2 cm. or less from upper and lower edges; color is bright. 0.

Naples, Italy: Giuseppe-Maria Porcelli, 1786. Hard Cover. Near Fine. One volume containing both books with separate title pages and pagination. 260, 254 p.; 16 cm. 20th-century polished calf spine with five spine compartments between raised bands. Black morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Small white oval label in upper right-hand corner of title page of book one with an embossed image of a bird holding a branch. Stamped at head of book one title page: Discarded Sold. The two books of Gierosalemme Libberata make up volumes 13 and 14 of Collezione di Tutti i Poemi in Lingua Napoletana. Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered translated into the Neapolitan dialect by Gabriele Fasano. The poem tells a romantically fictionalized story of the First Crusade with Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, fighting to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. In Near Fine… Read More

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970. Hardcover. Fine. xx, 253, [1] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Orange cloth with black spine title. No dust jacket (as issued?). Includes index. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. Very Good. [2], 9, [1] p.: tables; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 21 (1916)." In continuation of "Miscellaneous, no. 18 (1916)." Contains 6 documents, most from or to the United States Ambassador in London, Walter Hines Page (1855-1918). Two are supplementary reports by Dr. Alonzo Englebert Taylor (1871-1949), who had visited the Ruhleben camp earlier and reported on the food being given to the men. Includes information about 23 British societies sending food to groups of internees. In Very Good Condition: exterior lightly soiled; "ABH" in ink at upper edge of front cover; staples are slightly rusty; two horizontal folds; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. Very Good. 12 p.: tables; 34 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 18 (1916)." Alonzo Englebert Taylor (1871-1949) was an American doctor and a staff member of the United States War Trade Board from 1917 to 1919. He visited the Ruhleben internment camp to examine the food available to the men, mainly British citizens being held there. He made recommendations for changes in the food provided by both the Germans and the British to improve the prisoners' diets. In Very Good Condition: exterior lightly soiled; staples are rusting; two horizontal folds; otherwise, clean and solid.

New York: City Club of New York, 1929. Pamphlet. Very Good -. 8 p.; 21 cm. Stapled pamphlet. No date of publication; reprinted from Vanity Fair, Nov. 1928. A slightly humorous protest against the rapid increase in the construction of skyscrapers in New York City in the 1920s by Deems Taylor (1885-1966), the "dean of American music." Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: slightly soiled; p. 8 is browned; first page and last are starting to separate.

Philadelphia: Taylor & Smith, 1928. Very Good -. [4] p.; 24 cm. Contains lyrics to 22 popular songs. No date of publication; many of the songs were copyrighted in 1928. Presumably handed out at events where people wanted to sing along with a piano or orchestra. In Very Good- Condition: creased; minor loss at one corner; clean and solid.

London: James Moyes, 1824. Hardcover. Very Good -. Vol. 7 only. xxviii, 511 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment: "Taylor's Works." All page edges speckled red. Green endpapers. No date of publication. The imprint states "J. Moyes, Greville Street, London." James Moyes was located on Greville St. from 1807 or earlier until a fire in 1824 forced him to relocate to Bouverie St. From a scarce edition of the works of the 17th-century English cleric known as the Shakespeare of Divines. In Very Good- Condition: spine is sunned, with some loss of gilt; minor loss at ends of spine; boards are rubbed; back joint starting at lower edge; pages are clean and tight.

North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Clamshell case holding 1 volume and 1 portfolio with 18 examples of Bird & Bull printing ephemera. 108, [2] p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Original yellow morocco spine with light grey paper over boards printed in a pattern of birds and bulls. Gilt-tooled spine title. Light grey endpapers. Fore-edges and lower edges untrimmed. Title page printed in blue, brown, and black. Contents: Books printed by and for the Bird & Bull Press; Books printed by the Bird & Bull Press for others; Selected ephemera; Articles by or about Morris. This is #150 of a limited edition of 350 copes printed on handmade Roma V.E. paper at the Bird & Bull Press; bound by E.G. Parrot. The index "was compiled by that sterling bookman, raconteur and man about town, Howell J. Heaney" (from the colophon). clamshell case and portfolio are covered in grey linen, with an orange morocco spine label bearing a gilt-tooled title. Morocco… Read More

New York: Arno Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good -. viii, [4], 703 p.: portraits; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. "The complete chronological record -- Washington to Nixon." -- dust jacket. Includes index. Book is in Near Fine Condition: top page edges are dusty; internally clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: rubbed; chipping along upper edge of back section; lower edge of back section creased; otherwise, clean and bright.

Utica, N.Y.: John W. Fuller & Co, 1850. Hardcover. Fair +. 378, [6] p.; 16 x 25 cm. Original calf spine with light green paper over boards. Cover title; publisher's advertisement for Taylor's Choral Anthems on back cover. Imprint includes many additional publishers in various cities. Virgil Corydon Taylor (1817-1891) was an organist in Hartford, Conn., for many years, as well as a composer. In this book, as in others he published, he writes the melody in a staff marked with his own invention as a tenor clef (the notes are the same as in the treble clef, but sung an octave lower by tenors). Many of the songs in this work are by Taylor. In spite of the many publishers involvement in this book's sale, a very scarce cork of antebellum church and social music. In Fair+ Condition: lacking pp. 3-6 and 11-14 (parts of Elements of Vocal Music); cover is heavily rubbed with loss along the front joint and the board edges; 7-cm. tear from fore-edge of title page, with loss along edge but no impact on printing;… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/very good. xviii, [2], 203 p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title; blind-stamped "L" on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Alice Roosevelt Logworth (1884-1980), eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, talks about her long and fascinating life, inspired by the 170 personal photographs included here. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: rubbed and lightly soiled; not price-clipped.

S.l.: Mitchell Information Services, 1986. Paperback. Very Good -. [2], 510 p.: illustrations, diagrams; 28 cm. Paperback with holes for storing in 3-ring binder. In Very Good- Condition: cover rubbed and lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.