Search Results: Authors starting with T from Chanticleer Books

[San Francisco]: S. Tachibana, 1994. First edition, limited to 20 copies. Hardcover. Fine. Issued in decorative clamshell box covered in gray checkered Japanese paper; portfolio bound in same material, text in English and Japanese with 10 text pages and 10 illustrations on facing pages printed on one side of a continuous strip folded accordion style to make 22 leaves (including title and colophon) and attached at the end to the decorative cover. Colophon reads: "Numbers is a book dealing with phonetics. This book was designed and printed on a handmade Japanese paper, of eleven silkscreen prints by Seiko Tachibana at SFAI printmaking studio in April, 1994. The Japanese characters are handwritten by the artist. The English words are typewritten. This proof was hand bound by the artist." Signed by the artist and numbered 17/20.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. [8], 114 pp., small octavo, original yellow cloth. The account of experiments conducted in 1957-1959 on subjects who, under the influence of hypnosis, were enabled to "travel" via extrasensory means to various planets in our solar system. Fairly detailed descriptions of several planets, gained thus, are related here.

Nuits-Saint-Georges: Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, 1959-1972. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 25 numbers in all, original wrappers, quartos, various pagination, illustrated with photographs, advertisements Nice run of the French oenophilic journal. These apparantly ex-libris Maynard A. Amerine with his full signature to front cover of 2 copies, initials "MAA" to 3 copies, and 1 copy signed "Amerine" on front.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1907. First edition, No. 26 of 65 copies printed on Alton Mills handmade paper.. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to boards, else fine. Original plain boards with paper spine label; quarto; [xiii], 159 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Inscribed on front endpaper by the author to "Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Kollmyer, with regard of Eward Robeson Taylor. June 5, 1907." W.B. Kollmyer was at one time Taylor's law partner. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) practiced law in San Francisco and was mayor of the city 1907-10. Printed by the Stanley-Taylor Co., San Francisco.

San Francisco: Taylor, Nash &Taylor Co., 1911. Revised edition. Fine, entirely clean and unworn.. Original plain charcoal gray boards with gilt cover title; 12mo; [30] pp. Inscribed on front endpaper by the author to Samuel M. Shortridge, Esq., with regards of Edward Robeson Taylor. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) practiced law in San Francisco and was mayor of the city 1907-10. Samuel M. Strobridge (1861-1952) was a San Francisco lawyer and Republican Senator from California, serving 2 terms in Washington from 1920 to 1932. Title poem was originally published in 1902, this 1911 edition of the poem "has been carefully revised . . . the revision including the deletion of three and the addition of fourteen stanzas.

San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1906. First edition thus. Spine label a bit worn, else fine.. Original plain boards with paper spine label; octavo; xv, [2], 156 pp. Inscribed on front endpaper by the author to "Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Kollmyer, with affectionate regards of Edward Robeson Taylor. San Francisco, April 6, 1906." W.B. Kollmyer was at one time Taylor's law partner. Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) practiced law in San Francisco and was mayor of the city 1907-10. Printed by the Stanley-Taylor Co., San Francisco. Title poem was originally published in 1902, this 1906 edition adds many more of the author's verses. Scarce.

Zurich: Bibliophile Druck, 1970. Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, gray decorative cloth boards; [15] pp., 93 leaves, colophon. Facsimile of the 1486 Conrad Dinckmut edition published at Ulm in 1486. Terence's comedy was written in 161 BCE.

[Paris]: [H. Ernst], no date (circa 1910). Scuffing and fading to portfolio, some chipping to edges of mounts, plates fine. Cloth and boards porfolio with paper title label to front board; 11.5 x 15 inches; 2 leaves (introduction, table); 48 mounted color plates A fine record of ancient Coptic textile designs

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn. 2 volume set, octavo, original blue cloth; xviii, 1, 372; x, 403 pp., profusely illustrated with plates and text figures.Publisher catalog at back of first volume. Accounts Thackeray's 2 trips to the United States, including many letters by the author and excerpts from his writing.

New York: Rand McNally, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. Minor darkening to covers, else very good. 140 pp., many full-page plates from photograps, octavo, original red leahterette cloth, pictorial endpapers. Secrets of stage magic explained by the McElhones. This copy inscribed and signed on half-title page "To Dot and Lynn with best wishes from Peg and Fritz."

New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1990. Limited edition. Paperback. About fine. [11] pp introductory text + 50 leaves monochrome facsimile; printed wrappers, 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Edition of 250 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. This copy un-numbered.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Slight wear to spine ends and shallow bump to front lower corner, else about fine, very clean and free of previous owner markings of any kind; jacket is lightly with a few shallow tears to edges, slight chipping at jacket spine ends and with light soiling to white portions of jacket. $3.75 jacket price intact on front flap/very good. Original orange boards with title and decorations in black, quarto (7.75 x 11 inches), unpaginated. Illustrations by Hillary Knight throughout printed in yellow and black and with double gatefold at center printed in colors, pictorial endpapers.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Spine faded, else near fine. xxi, 198 pp., 5 copperplate engravings with pochoir coloring; quarto, marbled boards. Limited to 1500 copies printed at the Kynoch Press.

Chicago: Foster-Munger Co., 1908. Original edition. Paperback. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Original decorative wrappers, 6.5 x 3.25 inches, 160 pp.,, illustrated. Scarce, no copies listed on OCLC/WorldCat

San Francisco: California Saw Works (Neal, Straford, & Kerr, print), 1924. Original edition. Paperback. Faint stain at top of rear wrapper penetrating to last 4 leaves, else very good. Original pictorial wrappers, 6.5 x 3.5 inches, 218 pp., illustrated. Tools and machinery for sawmill and lumbering. Company established in 1886

Portland Oregon: International Bible Publications, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine (as new) in lightly scuffed slipcase. Typeset xxix pp introduction followed by unpaginated facsmile (about 600 pages), orginal red buckram book cloth, all edges gilt. First complete facsimile of the first English language translation of the New Testament. Reproduced from the Rawlinson Mss. 259 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK. The manuscript dates from the 15th century and was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by RIchard Rawlinson in 1755. Edition of 999 numbered copies, this #346. Autographed on the iimitation page by Donald L. Brake.

San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1915). First edition, limited, this #133 of 176 . Faintest spotting to vellum spines, else very fine in near fine jackets, partly unopened. 2-volume set, original vellum spines and corner tips and brown boards, quartos (8.25 x 11 inches), xviii, 232; vi, 233-482 pp. 192 monochrome plates. Jackets. An essential reference work to the Fine Arts exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Includes catalogues of contributors from all countries in all catagories along with a complete listing of the thousands of artworks exhibited.

London: Macmillan, 1893. First edition thus, limited to 250 copies, this #104. Hardcover. Spine moderately faded, lower corner of front board bumped, short split to cloth at bottom of front joint, spine label worn, internally fine. xv, 376 pp., 214 engraved illustrations, quarto, publisher's brick-red buckram, paper spine label. Nicely printed large paper issue. Edges untrimmed.

London: Folio Society, 1979. First Folio Society edition . Hardcover. Fine in worn slipcase. Original maroon cloth and decorative boards; octavo; 586 pp., map endpapers, slipcase.

London: Folio Society, 1980. First Folio Society edition . Hardcover. Near fine in lightly worn slipcase. Original yellow cloth and decorative boards; octavo; 772 pp., map endpapers, slipcase.