Search Results: Titles starting with T from Neil Pearson Rare Books

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1885. 8vo, pp. 164. Three-quarter marbled boards, red title and date labels to calf spine, decorated with hunting images in gilt between raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A little scuffing to board edges, very light wear to head of spine, but a very well preserved, tightly bound copy. Nine plates, with smaller illustrations at beginnings and ends of chapters, all by Georgina Bowers. First edition. A volume of anonymous sporting tales, largely notable for the presence of the work of the Victorian comic illustrator Georgina Bowers [1836-1912], one of the first female professionals in the field -- hence the use of only her initial in her title page credit. Bowers was a regular contributor to Punch of material of this kind, but also wrote and illustrated her own comic productions, including Hollybush Hall (1870), Idyls of the Rink (1877) and Leaves From A Hunting Journal (1880). An excellent copy.

Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1975. Square 8vo, pp. 105. Original pale pink boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Photographic detail to front panel. Original bookseller's unprinted protective film wrapper (now split) and card slipcase. Corners very slightly bumped, but a near fine, well preserved copy in the original bookseller's slipcase with price label (160.00). Sepia photographs by Baron de Gloeden to rectos. First edition, trade issue. An edition of 40 numbered copies, with an original de Gloeden photograph laid in, was published simultaneously. Wilhelm von Gloeden [1856-1931] first arrived in Italy in 1877, looking to improve his health. By the end of his life he'd immeasurably improved Italy's tourism economy with his sumptuous landscape photographs of Naples -- and especially Taormina, where he made his home. He is now best known for his decorously erotic photographs of (mostly) male nudes in pseudo-Classical compositions. This collection of many of those photographs is… Read More

Amsterdam: Sombrero, 1986. 4to, pp. 48. Original illustrated card wrappers. Dutch text. A fine copy. First edition. A suite of graphic short stories -- graphic in both senses of the word. The text is in Dutch, so I have no idea what they're saying. But what they're doing -- even the nuns -- is not in doubt.

London: Faber, 1969. 8vo, pp. 62. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Publisher's price label [£1.00] to foot of front flap. a fine, unread copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little sunning to rear panel and the lightest of wear to top edge. First edition of Dunn's first collection.

London: Faber, 1974. 8vo, pp. 57. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to blue spine. A fine, unread copy. First edition. A fine copy of Auden's last collection.

New York: Random House, 1974. 8vo, pp. 61. Original ecru boards, lettered in gilt to spine, author's initials embossed to front panel. Top edge tan, leading edge uncut. A fine, unread copy. First US edition. A fine copy of Auden's last collection, published posthumously.

London: Gollancz, 1955. 8vo, pp. 254. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A little spotting to top edge of text block, but a near fine copy in a better than very good dustwrapper, slightly darkened, some faint spotting to spine and just a little wear to the spine head. First edition of the author's second novel. Amis père is currently out of literary favour -- which makes now a good time to gather him up, since he is far too important a figure and far too good a writer to be forgotten permanently. A superior copy of an early title.

Burbank: NBC TV, 1959. 41pp. in blue paper wrappers, secured with staple to top left corner. A little edgewear and toning consistent with age, but a very well preserved copy. Original script for Episode 328 of the US version of This Is Your Life, featuring the band leader Ted Lewis. T. LESLIE JACKSON'S COPY, WITH HIS PENCILLED SIGNATURE TO FRONT WRAPPER. T. Leslie Jackson [1910-1992] was the BBC TV producer responsible for many of the Corporation's early Light Entertainment successes. In 1951 he directed the first series of What's My Line?, which ran for 149 episodes. The show was hosted by Eamonn Andrews, and together they imported the hit US show This Is Your Life. The UK version was first broadcast in 1955, and ran for the next fifty years: Jackson was Executive Producer on more than 250 episodes. A rare survivor, and a wonderful association.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, N.d.. Small 8vo, pp. 96. Original illustrated card wrappers. Slight scuff to head of spine, otherwise a near fine copy. Later, softbound edition. JOSEPH LOSEY'S COPY, SIGNED, AND MARKED UP BY HIM WHILST ON A LOCATION RECCE. Given the vintage of this little travel guide, it seems likely that Losey used it while scouting locations for his 1970 film Figures In A Landscape (which was eventually shot in Spain). The book has many underlinings, presumably by Losey, and a number of pages have been folded over at the corners.

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930. 8vo, pp. 369-554, 10pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve. Some foxing to early pages, oversized wrappers chipped and worn with a little loss to lower edge of front wrapper, spine chipped at foot. First edition of the Winter 1930 issue of the (mostly) Parisian modernist magazine, This Quarter. This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh [1895-1926] and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead [1869-1955]. Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one, and after a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over by Edward Titus of the Black Manikin Press, a highbrow expatriate imprint based in Paris. Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited. It ceased production in 1932 after a run of just eighteen issues, having… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1932. 8vo, pp. 559-751, 8pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve. Oversized wrappers rubbed and worn with loss to foot of spine and front wrapper, spine worn and chipped at head. First edition of the Spring 1932 issue of the (mostly) Parisian modernist magazine, This Quarter. WITH A STORY BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV, HERE WRITING AS VLADIMIR SIRIN. This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh [1895-1926] and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead [1869-1955]. Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one, and after a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over by Edward Titus of the Black Manikin Press, a highbrow expatriate imprint based in Paris. Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited. It ceased production in 1932 after a run… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930. 8vo, pp. 197-379, 12pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve. Oversized wrappers rubbed and worn with a little loss, spine worn and a little chipped. First edition of the Autumn 1930 issue of the (mostly) Parisian modernist magazine, This Quarter. This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh [1895-1926] and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead [1869-1955]. Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one, and after a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over by Edward Titus of the Black Manikin Press, a highbrow expatriate imprint based in Paris. Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited. It ceased production in 1932 after a run of just eighteen issues, having published work by most of the leading Paris expatriates… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1930. 8vo, pp. 195, 10pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve. Spine worn with loss, tape markings to spine, wrappers worn and a little chipped. First edition of the Summer 1930 issue of the (mostly) Parisian modernist magazine, This Quarter. This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh [1895-1926] and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead [1869-1955]. Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one, and after a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over by Edward Titus of the Black Manikin Press, a highbrow expatriate imprint based in Paris. Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited. It ceased production in 1932 after a run of just eighteen issues, having published work by most of the leading Paris expatriates of the… Read More

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1929. 8vo, pp. 187-367, 9pp. advertisments bound in at rear. Printed stiff paper wrappers. Lacking the scarce original glassine sleeve. Oversized wrappers chipped and worn with loss to spine ends, spine worn and chipped at head. First edition of the Autumn 1929 issue of the (mostly) Parisian modernist magazine, This Quarter. This Quarter was founded in 1925 by the American expatriate poet Ernest Walsh [1895-1926] and the English suffragette Ethel Moorhead [1869-1955]. Only two issues of the quarterly had been published when Walsh died of consumption at the age of thirty-one, and after a period of turbulence and only sporadic publication, This Quarter was taken over by Edward Titus of the Black Manikin Press, a highbrow expatriate imprint based in Paris. Under Titus's stewardship the magazine was more professionally run but less adventurously edited. It ceased production in 1932 after a run of just eighteen issues, having published work by most of the leading Paris… Read More

New York: Privately printed, 1942. Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Stitched binding. A fine First edition. One of 250 copies. Printed as a Christmas greeting card for the social circle of Caroline Newton. Bloomfield and Mendelson A-25

London: The Times Publishing Company, N.d. [1930s]. Folding linen-backed map, 47 x 62.5cm when opened. Yellow wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers marked and scuffed, small pinhole-sized loss at some folding points, otherwise very well preserved. First edition.

London: N.p. [BBC] 1953. 35 mimeographed pp., secured by split pin to top left. Occasional revisions throughout, front page a little marked, near fine. First edition. Episode 9: transmitted 27 December 1953. NO RECORDING OF THIS EPISODE SURVIVES. Terry-Thomas' first radio 'lead' was in To Town With Terry, which he co-wrote with Talbot 'Carry On..' Rothwell. The show was transmitted in 1948 but, although popular, Terry-Thomas was unhappy with it, and it was shelved after a single series. It took five years for this follow-up to appear. The show's regular co-stars were Joan Sims and Leslie Mitchell, and each show featured special guests. This episode featured Donald Houston and Albert and Les Ward. This copy of the script has 'STANLEY' written in blue pencil across the front page. The show's Musical Director was Stanley Black, a fixture of 1950s radio who, among much else, wrote the theme tune for The Goon Show. Extremely scarce.

New York: Pantheon, 1957. 8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt. Price-clipped dustwrapper, with slight wear to edges and spine ends. A near fine copy. First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous year. 'Julian Green has chosen as his theme one of the gravest of moral problems and explored it with the greatest of subtlety: the guilt and responsibility of a man who through his nature is forced to live a lie that cruelly affects the life of others. In the natural world of men and women, he is the transgressor, caught in an insoluble dilemma.' A tight, bright copy.

New York: Pantheon, 1985. 8vo, pp. 271. Original blue three-quarter boards, author's initials in red to front panel, title in red to pale blue spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just a little wear to spine ends. First US edition, INSCRIBED BY RENDELL TO HER NEIGHBOURS: 'To Pat & Douglas -- love from Ruth'. First published in the UK the previous year. Douglas Brown [1917-2003] was the BBC's first religious affairs correspondent, and held that position until his retirement in 1977. He and his wife Pat were Ruth Rendell's neighbours in the village of Polstead, Suffolk. Much of her work is set in the county, and when made a life peer she chose the title Baroness Rendell of Babebergh, of Aldeburgh, in the County of Suffolk.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1992. 8vo, pp. . Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. A fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition.