Search Results: Authors starting with T from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Illustrated by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Black leatherette with raised bands and gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound with gilded edges, clean internally.

New York: Covici Friede, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 70. Signed by Taggard on the page opposite the limitation page. Bound in the original publisher's binding, faded and soiled. Square and firmly bound. Bookplate on the front endpaper. Includes works from William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Webster, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and others.

New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp, 1951. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Good. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 13. Good. Wraps rlightly ubbed and soiled, a few creases. Square and firmly bound, a short tear at the bottom edge of the title page, a few tears at the fore-edges, clean otherwise. Writing as John Taine, Dr. E.T. Bell of the California Institute of Technology crafts the story of man evolved from experiments with atomic energy.

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Taine to fellow science fiction author Chad Oliver. Limited to 300 signed copies. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), generally soiled, loss at the edges and folds. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Writing as John Taine, Dr. E.T. Bell of the California Institute of Technology crafts the story of man evolved from experiments with atomic energy.

Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed at the back panel. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Taine's novel about a mysterious creature from a painted Easter egg, tracking the action from California to China.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. A scar from a removed sticker and some manuscript writing on the front, some other rubbing on the spine. Square and firmly bound, marked "Press Copy" on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned, rubbed at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned, rubbed at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Perigee Books, 1981. Paperback. Good. Translated by Howard Hibbett. Second Printing. Good. Wraps lightly toned and soiled, curled at the fore-edge, a crease and price sticker on the front. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.

New York: Perigee Books, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Edward Seidensticker. Later Printing. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.

New York: Perigee Books, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Howard Hibbett. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges, bumped at the top corner. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1987. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Later Printing. About Very Good. Rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, some pulling to the laminate. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name blacked out, a few creased pages. Advertised as "Japan's greatest post-war novel," the novel tells the story of Makioka family and its fall from grace during the onset of World War II.

New York: Berkley, 1960. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps faintly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound with red edges, a few pages with creases at the corners, clean otherwise.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good in a Fair jacket, clipped, missing sizable portions of the front and back panels and spine edge, rubbed and toned on what is present. Orange cloth with black ink on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned on the top edge, foxed on the outer edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board. Dubbed a "heartening portrait of young American womanhood." Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize and adapted into the 1935 George Stevens film starring Katharine Hepburn.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in Very Good jackets, unclipped ($10.00, $10.00, $7.50), rubbed and with some surface staining. Grey and blue buckram bindings with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper of Volume 1, foxed at the top edges, clean otherwise. A seemingly unread set of this work that compiles the papers written and published during the five-day Darwin Centennial Celebration at the University of Chicago.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, some creases and small closed tears. Green cloth with purple ink lettering and panels on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. An Asey Mayo mystery.

New York: Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, 1983. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. Red cloth with a black ink panel on the spine with gilt lettering. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A reissue of the 1950 novel from the Southern writer.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.50), bumped at the top edge. Beige cloth with blue and blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some foxing at the edges, clean internally. Taylor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a Midwesterner traveling to California during the Gold Rush, adapted into a television series starring Kurt Russell.

Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Translated from the French by Naomi Greene, preface by Lawrence Durrell. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Near fine in the grey wraps, faded on the spine edge. Square and tight with fresh pages.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, soiled and stained at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Grey boards, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound with a dusted yellow top stain, clean internally. A collection of twenty-one stories bringing together work from Saki, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and others.