Search Results: Titles starting with T from Magus Books

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with neat gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise clean and bright inside and out. In a near-fine example of the scarce dust jacket, fully intact with two closed edge tears. A beautiful copy. This publisher was known to keep the copyright date on later editions, so this copy likely published circa 1914 (the year of the inscription).

New York: Gnome Press, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First state binding in red cloth with black titles. Near-fine with slight rubbing to board edges and usual tanning to pages edges, otherwise bright and clean. In a near-fine dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with a touch of wear at the corners, two closed edge tears, and sunning to orange title on spine. A very attractive copy of this rather scarce title.

Harper and Brothers, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus in dark blue boards with very light shelf wear. Interior clean and unmarked. An excellent copy of this very scarce title.

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1938. First Thus . States 1938 on copyright page, but this is the 1948 reprint edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Near-fine in tan boards with a trace of soiling to bottom page edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a near-fine dust jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine and corners. A beautiful copy.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Madison Square Wartime Edition. Very good plus in red boards with black lettering; neat gift inscription on flyleaf and small bookseller label at bottom corner of rear pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket with a touch of wear at the spine ends and corners. An excellent copy.

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1948. First Thus . The 1948 reprint edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Near-fine in tan boards with a touch of foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket with slight wear to spine ends and corners and minor wear to bottom of front panel. A very attractive copy.

Honolulu: Advertiser Publishing Company, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very good plus. Very good plus in wraps with slight edgewear; interior clean and unmarked. Seventy pages with many illustrations. Scarce.

Little Brown, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus in brown boards with slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. Interior clean and tight with slight offsetting to rear endpapers. A nice copy of a scarce book.

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Number 26 In The Series of Limited Edition Keepsakes Issued By The Friends Of The Bancroft Library For Its Members." A fine copy, bright and clean in stiff card wraps, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on the title page. Quite rare signed. Contains an introduction, a copy of a corrected manuscript page, and three short stories by Didion that had not previously appeared in book form: "Coming Home" (originally published in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post); "The Welfare Island Ferry" (originally published in 1965 in Harper's Bazaar); and "When Did Music Come This Way? Children Dear, Was It Yesterday?" (originally published in 1967 in the Denver Quarterly). A beautiful signed copy of this Didion rarity, now protected in mylar and suitable to give as a gift.

New York: Alice Harriman Company, 1910. 1st Edition . Very good plus with some rubbing to title on spine and tiny bump to one corner; interior clean and tight. In a good only dust jacket with significant chipping to edges and two pieces missing from middle of spine (each about an inch by quarter-inch). Clear archival tape repairs to interior folds.

Random House, 1961. Near Fine. Early printing with price of $2.50 on dust jacket flap and list of Beginner Book titles on back panel beginning with My Book About Me. Near-fine with a touch of rubbing to the edges of the boards, in a very good plus dust jacket with slight edgewear and one closed tear. A very attractive early edition of this rather uncommon Seuss title.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 1st Edition . Near-fine with bookseller label at bottom corner of flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket (price clipped) with one closed edge tear. SIGNED BY ED McBAIN on the page following the flyleaf. A beautiful copy, scarce signed.

San Francisco: Simon J. Lublin Society of California, 1938. 1st Edition . Fourth printing from December 1938, published seven months after the first printing. Very good in wrappers with small rubbed area at top left white space of front cover, and minor soiling to a few other spots of cover (none particularly obtrusive). Light rubbing to corners and small clear tape repair to inside edge of rear cover, otherwise clean and tight. A very nice copy of this important Steinbeck item.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early printing with $2.00 price on dust jacket flap. Very good with minor wear to extremities and some fading to spine. Neat name written at bottom of flyleaf and some offsetting to pastedowns, otherwise clean and tight. INSCRIBED BY MAXWELL on the half-title page. In a very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners, and piece of tape near top of spine on reverse. Scarce signed.

Regal Publications, 1989. 1st Edition . Fine (clean and tight) in a near-fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing at the corners and one tiny closed tear. INSCRIBED BY TATUM on the title page. A beautiful signed copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Fine. Second printing of the first Everyman's Library edition, housed in variant dark blue boards with title box on front cover (unlike the common red boards with front cover blank). A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out, SIGNED AND DATED BY ACHEBE on the flyleaf. A beautiful signed copy of Achebe's famous novel.

McDowell Obolensky, 1959. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing of the first edition, featuring gray boards, reviews on rear panel of dust jacket, and $3.95 price on front flap (the first printing shows $3.75). Near-fine with slight foxing to endpapers and top page edges, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to extremities and a touch of soiling to rear panel. A beautiful copy of this scarce title, one of the most important novels to come out of Africa in the 20th Century.

Harper & Brothers, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the limitation page. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine example of the original slipcase with slight sunning to the top of the rear panel. A beautiful signed copy of Roosevelt's memoir which covers the 1920s up through her husband's death in 1945.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with gift inscription on reverse of flyleaf, in a near-fine dust jacket ($3.75 price intact) with slight wear at the spine ends and minor fading to the spine. A beautiful copy of a very scarce title.

San Francisco: William Stout Publishers , 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. Brand new, still in the original shrink wrap. Suitable to give as a gift.