Search Results: Titles starting with T from Yesterday's Muse Books

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press, 2020. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11x0x9. Nordstrand, Torstein. New. An exceptional copy. 2020 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Otherworldly landscapes, thundering soundtracks, epic battles between superhero gods and monsters--current movies and book series have turned Norse mythology into popular commercial entertainment in recent years. But there's a lot more to this mythic universe than trickster Loki and his hammer-wielding god of thunder brother. T is for Thor: A Norse Mythology Alphabet takes readers beyond the movie screen and into the world of Scandinavian mythology, history, culture, and religion. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan not only examines Thor, Odin, Heimdall, and the famous Valkyries, but she also explains and introduces other inhabitants of this nine-realm universe. From learning about Ymir, the first frost giant, to Yggdrasil, the world tree holding everything together, mythology and fantasy fans of all ages will enjoy this alphabetical… Read More

New York: Abrams, 2019. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x1x10. First edition. Front jacket panel smudged. 2019 Large Hardcover. 253 pp. Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cinéastes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC’s adaptation of Woolrich’s The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: W.O. Crosby, 1903. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fourth edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper. Fold-out tables laid-in. 1903 Hard Cover. 106 pp. The chief distinctive feature of this edition of the Tables is the placing of the important properties of streak, hardness, and specific gravity on a more satisfactory and definite basis by suitable provision for their more ready and accurate determination, and the addition of the Supplementary Tables, embracing one hundred of the less common minerals.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Bookplate and ink name on front endpapers. 1911 Hard Cover. vii, 254 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction: Physical Properties; Luster, Color, Streak, Hardness, Crystallization, Structure, Cleavage, Parting, Fracture, Specific Gravity, Tenacity, Transparency, Taste, Odor, Feel or Touch, Magnetism; Glossary; General Classification and Analytical Key; Minerals with Metallic Luster; Minerals with Non-metallic Luster; Index.

Washington, D.C: United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office/Government Printing Office, 1940. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Ink stamp, some pencil notes. 1940 Large Hardcover. x, 263 pp. These tables consist of tabulated solutions of the navigational triangle, so arranged as to yield computed altitude and azimuth angle by inspection. The scheme of precomputing such values for ready use is a long-established one. It is in the scope, arrangement, and convenience of interpolation, developed by the Hydrographic Office, that these tables are unique. The tables are applicable equally to observations of the sun, moon, planets, and navigational stars, whether observed in north or south latitude. For convenience, the values for only 10 degrees of latitude are included in each volume. This series of tables, commonly known as H.O. Pub No. 214, is intended primarily for marine navigation.

Epernay: Veuve Fievet, 1853. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards and new endpapers and flyleaves, with original printed wrappers bound in. Ink name and brief note on front wrapper, minor loss from wrapper corners, scattered faint foxing to text. 1853 Hard Cover. 332 pp. A 19th century French-language guide to Rome, by a journalist and historian who also worked as a printer, and was a member of the Societe des gens de lettres.

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1912. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Boards soiled, gilt title rubbed. 1912 Hard Cover. 194 pp. Color frontispiece, woodcuts. A collection of sports related stories for children.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. A fine copy. 2022 Trade Paperback. viii, 320 pp. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising―which became known as Tacky’s Revolt―featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. That certitude would never be the same, nor… Read More

New York: Daw Books, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x1x5. Spine and covers creased, light stain to bottom page corners. 1971 Mass Market Paperback. 222 pp. The Dorsai, that planet of people who are bred, live and die as the toughest, most expert mercenary soldiers mankind has ever seen.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Printing and Binding Company, 1908. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1908 reprint. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, ink gift note on front free endpaper. 354 pp. Berkshire Hills, segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., mainly in Berkshire county, western Massachusetts. Many summits rise to more than 2,000 feet (600 metres), including Mount Greylock (3,491 feet [1,064 metres]), the highest point in Massachusetts. The scenic wooded hills are a continuation of the Green Mountains of Vermont; they include the Hoosac Range and Taconic Range (Massachusetts and New York) and the Litchfield Hills (Connecticut). The chief streams are the Deerfield and Westfield (east) and the Hoosic and Housatonic (west). Crossed by the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (for hikers) and the Mohawk Trail scenic highway, the Berkshires have long been a favourite year-round vacation spot. Among the wilderness and recreation areas in the hills are Beartown State Forest,… Read More

Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x1x7. 3rd printing. Wrappers rubbed. 1969 Trade Paperback. 401 pp. Selected writings by the Hindu poet covering such subjects as the arts, education, and religion.

Albany: Joel Munsell, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First thus. Light 2 inch stain along top margin of some pages, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1867 Hard Cover. x, 204 pp. "The war leader Logan, of the Mingo Indians, accused Cresap of murdering his family. Logan's wife and pregnant sister were among those murdered. In fact, the killings were almost certainly perpetrated by Daniel Greathouse, yet Cresap was immortalized in Logan's speech — quoted in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) — as the murderer of Logan's family. As a result of the murders, Logan waged war on the settlements along the Ohio and in western Pennsylvania, killing, perhaps, nearly thirty men, women and children. Lord John Murray Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, raised an army and appointed Cresap to the rank of Captain. The decisive battle of Lord Dunmore's War was the Battle of Point Pleasant… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Top corner of front board stained, 2 inch taped tear on top of front dust jacket. 1995 Hard Cover. 327 pp. Chronicles the 1991 Tailhook affair involving the U.S. Navy and traces its effects on the role of women in combat, focusing on the struggle of women fighter pilots for equality with their male counterparts.

New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Inc, 1931. Reissue. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5x4x0. 1930s reissue. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears. Board edges lightly faded. 1931 Small Hard Cover. 85 pp. The tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter.

Rabbit Ears Books, 1988. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10x0x8. Jorgensen, David. First printing. Top corner of rear jacket bumped, jacket spine base bumped, smudge on rear jacket panel. 1988 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Illustrated by David Jorgensen. When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him.

New York: Grand Central, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Remainder mark, faint edge wear to jacket. 2018 Hard Cover. Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But above all, he has a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious black box to a Dr. Lambert, he doesn't ask questions.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket spine base lightly bumped. 1994 Hard Cover. 272 pp. A "Wall Street Journal" editor and reporter exposes the self-interested conclusions and unreliable statistics of industry-sponsored studies that influence public policy.

Carlsbad, California: Hay House, 2013. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "Susan--Ever forward as you journey on." Jacket spine head and spine base bumped. 2013 Hard Cover. xxi, 304 pp. "Life changes on the way to happily ever after, doesn’t it' I mean, sometimes you don’t even see it coming until one day you wake up and say, 'Wait - this is not where I was supposed to end up!' It doesn’t matter if you got divorced, got fat, got fired, got sick, or just got stuck - you can always call for a 'redo.' "See, you’re the author of your own book and it’s time for a dramatic plot twist, so let’s get working on that. This is not the end of your story; this is where you learn about second acts, second chances, and new beginnings... ’ll share… Read More

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips. 1955 Hard Cover. 247 pp. A tough, racy story about a used car salesman and his girl.

New York: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2020 Hard Cover. 358 pp. Author's first novel. A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity. When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother’s work and personal effects. As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda's private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing… Read More