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Tacoma: Lowman & Hanford Co, 1915. Oblong 4to, 21x26cm, [24]pp. Sepio photographs with some captions, and an introduction. Brown paper wraps, illustrated in gilt, black, and white, with embossed lettering. Slight crease to front wrapper, some light edgewear, bit of soiling in the margins, else a near fine copy. Nice viewbook of Tacoma with photos printed by the Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. OCLC shows two similar publications with this title, with this particular printing located in just 5 libraries.
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Tacoma: The City with a Snow-Capped Mountain in its Dooryard
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North Pacific Coast. A Semi-Monthly Journal: Devoted to Home Life, Schools, Agriculture, Horticulture, Commerce, Mines, Manufactures and other Resources of Washington Territory
by [Washington Territory]; [New Tacoma]
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New Tacoma, W.T.: North pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1880. First Quarterly Issue, Containing Six Semi-Monthly Numbers. 4to, 29.5x23cm, 96pp, printed in triple column. Original printed wrappers adorned with advertisements. Some light chipping along spine and at corners, soiling and toning to wraps else remarkably well preserved. First six issues collected in a quarterly format of this early and short lived New Tacoma periodical, consisting of December 15, 1879; January 1 and 15, 1880; February 1 and 15, 1880; and March 1, 1880. The publisher's advertisement on the inner front wrapper states: "The 'North Pacific Coast,' will hereafter be issued Quarterly and Semi-Monthly. The North Pacific Coast is gaining favor with the public at home and abroad, and its circulation is constantly increasing. It is therefor an excellent advertising medium." The first newspaper in Tacoma appeared very shortly after the Northern Pacific announced the site as its choice for the line's western terminus, when Thomas…
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Tacoma and Vicinity
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Tacoma, W.T.: Allen C. Mason, 1888. First Edition. Oblong 16mo, 6 x 9," [50]pp., blue illustrated cloth with gilt and black stamped lettering, page edge stained red. Original promotional viewbook for the city of Tacoma, Washington Territory, incorporated some 13 years prior. This version published by Allen C. Mason, prominent real estate agent and loan broker in the city. Contains 24 full-page, photomechanically reproduced, tinted photographs of streetscapes, theaters, hotels, public buildings, mills, railroad stations, storefronts, landscapes, mountains, parks, colleges, schools, trains and residences, including that of Mr. Mason. Also includes promotional literature opposite each photograph. Very good with soiling to covers with corners and edges worn. Cloth at spine chipping. Hinges a little weak otherwise clean internally with former owner's name and date of 1889 to front pastedown. More uncommon than the Nuhn and Wheeler printing, worldcat locating 7 holdings. Smith 6585.
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Sonnets and Salsa
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San Antonio: Wings Press, 2001. First edition, limited to 50 signed and dated copies, this being #39. 8vo, 107, [5]pp. Signed by Tafolla at colophon. Light edgewear to illustrated wraps else nearly fine. Bilingual poetry collection from the San Antonio native, Chicana writer and educator, Carmen Tafolla. Tafolla has received several literary awards for both her poetry and works for children, including for Sonnets to Human Beings, which comprises the second half of this collection. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2004.
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Le Poème de la Chapelle Rothko
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France: Royaumont, 1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. French language translation of Taggart's Rothko Chapel poem. Limited to 750 copies. This one is inscribed with author's first name only on title page. Near fine in red wraps. Beautiful edition.
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Into the Woods
by Talbott, Hudson; Sondheim, Stephen; Lapine, James
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Crown Publications, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing of this beautifully illustrated adaptation of the musical from Sondheim and Lapine. Near fine hardcover with owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Jacket very good and shows little wear, save some light rubbing at extremities. Head of spine reinforced with a couple small pieces of tape.
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The Chinese Siamese Cat
by Tan, Amy
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New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994. First printing. 4to, unpaginated, signed by author and illustrator on title page, picture of both at book signing mounted on ffep, blue cloth, lettered in gold, fine in fine jacket with mylar cover. Schields, Gretchen. Second children's book by Amy Tan, author of the bestseller "The Joy Luck Club." A beautiful double signed copy with picture of Tan and Schields at the signing in San Jose, CA.
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The Joy Luck Club
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U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Uncorrected advance proofs. Very good in wraps with some curving, slight creasing to spine, and some fading.
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Shakspere Forgeries in the Revels Accounts
by Tannenbaum, Samuel A.
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. First edition, limited to 500 copies on all-rag paper, this copy unnumbered. Folio, 109pp. Facsimiles, index. Red cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Damp stain to bottom edge of page block, light wear to boards, clean internally. Very good. Tannenbaum's discussion and examination of the "Revels Accounts of 1604-5 and 1611-12," also known as the "Cunningham Papers." Nicely printed at the Strawberry-Hill Press in a limited edition. .
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The Advocate Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1983
by Taxel, Joel (ed.); L'Engle, Madeleine; et al.
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Athens, GA: Southeastern Advocates for Literature for Young People, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo, pages 69 - 139 continuing from vol. 2 no 1. Perfect bound periodical published three times a year at the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia, for those involved with young people and their literature. Contains an article by Madeleine L'Engle entitled "A Sense of Wonder," in which she discusses various issues and themes that surface in conversations about children's literature. This copy from L'Engle's library and stamped as "Complimentary Copy" on the front cover. Near fine with some toning to spine, else clean.
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Under Hawaiian Skies
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Honolulu, Hawaii: Advertiser Publishing Co, 1926. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good second edition hardcover, the boards of which have been covered in some sort thin animal skin, decorated with a tribal pattern. A very unique copy of this book.
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Strange the Dreamer
by Taylor, Laini
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Very scarce uncorrected advance proofs (ARC) for this young adult fantasy work from Taylor. Sticker on front cover states "Coming March 28, 2017," but underneath the sticker can be seen "2016 BEA convention sneak peek," so this would have been a excerpt (only 119 pages) released at the 2016 Book Expo America. Near fine in wraps with light curling to corners.
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Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, 2)
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of this follow up to Strange the Dreamer, signed by Taylor on a blank, tipped-in page. Fine copy in fine jacket with "signed copy" sticker to front panel.
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Bookways: A Quarterly for the Book Arts: Number Two, January 1992
by Taylor, W. Thomas
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Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1992. 4to, 56pp. Gray printed wrappers, original printed order envelope laid in. Fine condition. Second issue of this finely printed book arts periodical from Tom Taylor.
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Plain Talks on Alcoholics
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Bellingham: [The Quick Print?], 1908. First edition. 6 x 4 1/2", [36]pp. Facsimile, advertisement. Attached to verso of title is a compliments slip signed "the author." Laid in is a folded sheet titled "Wake up Sane People!" which reprints an 1886 Idaho Democrat newspaper article. Stiff brown wrappers, stapled. Nearly fine with single correction of the typesetting in pencil, ownership signatures also in pencil on dedication page and front cover. Rare regional temperance booklet, this being a sample copy "sent out in the hope of eliciting interest that will result in orders and increased circulation." The work is dedicated "To the wives and children, the innocent victims of the liquor traffic." Griffith was a Civil War veteran and Bellingham, WA pioneer who arrived there in the late 1880's. His booklet reproduces four of his own articles on temperance reform from the daily press: "Citizen Makes a Plea for Prohibition Cause" (March 14, 1908); "Temperance Advocate Cites Scripture to Prove His…
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From Texas to Mexico and the Court of Maximilian in 1865
by Terrell, Alexander Watkins
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The Book Club of Texas, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. #187 out of 200 copies of this original publication from The Book Club of Texas. Printed under supervision of William Kittredge at the Lakeside Press. Near fine with some bumping to edges of boards and corners. Former owner's name to ffep. Scarce original yellow cellophane jacket is present but brittle, chipped, and worn.
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A Way of Knowing
by [Texas Fiction] Porterfield, Nolan
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New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1971. First edition. 8vo, 312pp. Signed and inscribed by Porterfield to Dick Bosse and dated in 1975, Nacogdoches opposite the tile page. 1/4 purple cloth, beige cloth boards in illustrated jacket. Some toning and soiling to boards, jacket with light edge wear and a small tear to top edge of front panel. Very good+. Nice association copy of this novel from Texas writer and broadcaster, Nolan Porterfield (1936-2020). Inscribed to Dick Bosse, Dallas bookman and owner/manager of the historic Aldredge Bookstore. Laid in is a commemorative Bosse collection bookplate.
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Dark Pearls
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Nacogdoches, TX: LaNana Creek Press, 2009. First edition, #9 of 20 copies. 24x33cm, unpaginated. Photo and black and white woodcuts by Charles Jones after drawings by Corinne Jones. Signed by both artists at the colophon. Half tan Harmatan goat leather, brown book cloth over boards with silhouette illustrations of crows. Few scuffs to leather, perhaps from binding, else fine. Beautiful production from the LaNana Creek press at Stephen F. Austin State University, an illustrated collection of 16 poems from Larry D. Thomas (b. 1947), Texas Poet Laureate. From the colophon: "Printed from photopolymer plates and the original wood blocks, cut by Charles Jones from drawings by Corinne Jones. Designed and printed by Charles Jones on Somerset Book Wove, white paper. Assisting in layout, printing, and binding were, Anne E. McCabe, Kristina N. Grauke, and Terri Goggans." A very small limitation of 20 copies, 2 of which are held by institutions, and both in TX according to OCLC. .
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My Secret Fish-Book Life
by [Texas Fine Press] Lyons, Nick
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[Barksdale, TX]: W. Thomas Taylor, 1996. First edition, deluxe issue #39 of 50 copies from a total edition of 550. 8vo, unpaginated. Hand-colored frontis and additional illustrations by Mary Lyons. Holograph manuscript leaf of legal paper bound in at rear as issued. Signed by Nick and Mary Lyons and W. Thomas Taylor at colophon. Quarter turquoise morocco stamped in gilt, marbled paper boards in gray cloth clamshell case. Laid in are an invoice and TLS from Taylor to the original owner discussing the publication and price of the book. Fine condition. A very nice Tom Taylor publication, a series of bibliophilic pieces from Nick Lyons (b. 1932), angler and writer for Field and Stream, Fly Fisherman, AB Bookman's Weekly, and others. Printed by Bradley Hutchinson on Zerkall paper and specially bound by Priscilla Spitler. Though not called for, this copy is additionally signed by Taylor. .
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This Stubborn Soil
by [Texas Fiction] Owens, William A.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First edition. 8vo, 307pp. Signed and inscribed by Owens to his editor, Richard Kennedy, and dated in 1966 on the title page. Publisher's green cloth in illustrated jacket. Near fine copy in like jacket with a few small edge tears and rubbing. Sharp copy of this autobiographical work from Texas author, William A. Owens (1905-1990). Owens recounts his growing up in poverty in Pin Hook, Lamar County, in a one parent household after the death of his father just after his birth.
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