Search Results: Titles starting with T from Louise Aird

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
437 pages, scarlet boards with a brilliant gold design. Lovely dust jacket.
14 B&W illustrations--the originals, by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz).
Published by the Book of the Month Club 1998.
Its only flaw is in the photo: a faint red pencil mark on the cover. And there is some price tag glue residue on both covers--you can see a little bit of it on the cover image. It'll come off of course.
Unopened, unread, pristine.

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Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. His most famous works are Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub. He is still regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and his deadpan style caused the term 'Swiftian' to be embedded in the English language.
A Tale of a Tub, 'Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind', was Swift's first major work and his most difficult and masterly satire. It is a prose parody divided into sections, each delving into the morals and ethics of the English. Composed between 1694 and1697, it was published in 1704. It was attacked as being as a satire on religion. Leading the attack was the theologian William Wotton.
The title page of this copy states that it was published by Herbert B Turner & Co, Boston, 1902.
Confusingly, this copy contains 'explanatory notes' by none other than William Wotton.
It is 4 ¼" x 6 ¼", burgundy boards with a leaf… Read More

This is a near-perfect first edition of Tales of O. Henry, collected and published by Barnes & Noble in 1993. O. Henry (William Porter, 1862-1910) was the father of American short fiction; this book is 62 stories that cover the humor, irony and tragedy of his work.
This copy is in near-perfect condition. Its only flaw is that the spine of the dust jacket is a little faded; there are some price tag remnants on it as well and the tiniest bit of shelfwear.
The book itself is pristine.

This is a first edition of the Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Woodworking. It was written by a group of woodworkers and published in 2005.See table of contents photos.It's described as follows:"Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Woodworking, the quintessential one-volume reference, covers all the fundamentals woodworkers need to know.
The beauty of this comprehensive guide is that it brings you the most important information from six volumes of the acclaimed Complete Illustrated Guide to Woodworking series, including:
Detailed graphics fully explain every step of every process. Illustrated with over 1,200 photos and drawings, this guide shows how to accomplish essential woodworking tasks from outfitting your workshop and preparing wood to cutting joinery and finishing projects.
No dust jacket. 311 pages. 9 1/2" x 11". Weight is 4 lbs.This book does not appear to have been read, or even opened. It is in mint condition.

This is a newly-framed limited edition print of 'Team of Oxen Ploughing' by the Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970). I attach an image of the original.
It was produced by Somerville Editions and is reproduced at its original size of 15.75" x 20.75". It is 775 of 1917.
It is beautfully framed--mounted on white paper and surrounded by black wood. It's heavy, and large: total size is 37" x 32".

Tender is the Night is the last completed novel (1934) of the American writer F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). It is about alcoholism, mental health, badly-chosen relationships and general bad behavior. Fitzgerald considered it to be his finest work.Scribner's was Fitzgerald's publisher; after his death, in 1948, Scribner's reprinted all of his works, all in this black and blue theme. The set was again printed in the 60s; this one is dated 1962. The previous copies were in the glossy boards; this book's covers are matte fabric.Two versions of this book are in print. When he died, Fitzgerald was working on revising it. His friend Malcolm Cowley completed those revisions and that book was published in 1948. This copy is one of the original versions.It is in near-mint condition. There's a little bubble at the bottom of the cover, and a folded corner on page 32. Otherwise perfect.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a famous novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, then in book form 1891. It is about the life of a country girl who falls prey to an employer, falls in love and is abandoned, and has to make her way with disgrace hanging over her. It is now considered one of the major novels of 19th century England and has been adapted for the stage, screen and theatre innumerable times, with its most famous adaptation being Roman Polanski's 1979 film starring Nastassja Kinski.
This copy was published by Reader's Digest in 1985 and contains several full-page 4-colour illustrations, as well as a colour map. Grey boards with an imprinted burgundy design on the cover and a burgundy spine. Brilliant gold lettering on the spine.
It has not been read. The spine has not been cracked. There are no marks of any kind in it or on it.

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This Side of Paradise
was the first novel (1920) of the American writer F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). It is about the morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I; it explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. Scribner's was always Fitzgerald's publisher; after his death, in 1948, Scribner's reprinted all of his works, all in this black and blue theme. This copy is one of those books.It does not appear to have been read. It is in pristine condition.Note: From this set, also listed here, I have The Last Tycoon. I also have Tender is the Night, from the same year and in the same design but with a gloss finish. f you want them all, send me a message.

1. VARSITY DRAG, 1927
This is probably one of the most famous songs to come from a Broadway production. It was from the musical comedy Good News!, which was made into films in 1930 and 1947, and was revived on Broadway in 1974.
It was written by Lew Brown, Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson.
It is 4 pages of music plus covers and is in superb condition.

2. DID YOU EVER SEE A DREAM WALKING, 1933
From Sitting Pretty
Music Harry Revel, Lyric Mack Gordon
Sitting Pretty
is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical comedy film that tells the story of two untalented songwriters, played by Jack Oakie and Jack Haley. They are joined by Ginger Rogers and Thelma Todd on their trip from New York City to Hollywood to find their fortune. This film was directed by Harry Joe Brown and featured the Pickens Sisters.
4 pages of music, plus covers.
Excellent condition, minor wear at the edges.

3. SHOULD I, 1930
From Lord Byron of Broadway
Music by Nacio Herb Brown, Lyric Arthur Freed
Sung by Charles Kaley
Reprised by… Read More

Pearl S Buck (1892-1973) was an American novelist who, in 1938, became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.In this book, after her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. But her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter is a doctor. Things are not as easy for her daughter Mercy, a musician who is not in demand in the People's Republic, nor for her new husband who she has brought back to China with her. Watching her two daughters grow apart and knowing that her youngest daughter will never return, Madame Liang must also face the challenges of The Cultural Revolution, and keep herself alive. Book of the Month Club Edition, 1969.With dust jacket. The jacket has a few little tears, on the spine. Other than that, this book is pristine.
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This is a first edition of The Tibetans, by the Canadian photographer and academic Art Perry.
It is a moving collection of photographs of a culture under siege. More than 150 black and white photographs record every aspect of Tibetan life, from monks meditating surrounded by candles made of Yak wax to peasant people to landscapes.Kirkus Review: "Perry's black-and-white photographs of the Tibetan people have an instinctive freshness that casually takes in an expression or a mood, and his shots around and about the city of Lhasa are as intimate as a walking tour (the view from a balcony on the Potala is so far beyond magnificent it is comical). His landscape images have a formal, composed quality near overwhelmed by the prodigious sweeps, where the wind hurries over the ground, snapping at prayer flags. The text, on the other hand, is appalling. It swings between the exquisitely meaningless (``a distant land that points to a time of lost innocence'') to a spit-flecked, bilious rant against… Read More

This is an original ticket to the September 3, 1979 concert by Arlo Guthrie at the El Mocambo in Toronto. He was promoting his album Outlasting the Blues.
This image is a scan. As you can see, the ticket is in perfect condition. No folds or marks.

These are shelf-mates, part of the series of classics published by Collins Clear-Type Press c 1920. I can't find other copies of them for sale anywhere else.
Both are 4 ¼"x 6 ¼", both are brown-red cloth.
Both have book plates that can be steamed off. Shelf wear is minor.
They need cleaning; they don't have any stains, but they have a sort of accumulation of specks on them—someone needs to give them a good brushing.
Toilers of the Sea was published in 1866. It is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre; it is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island.
470 pages
One full-page black and white image.
From the endpapers to page 15, there are creases, plus an ink mark. Spine is very tight.
Otherwise fine; it doesn't appear to have been read.
Ninety-Three is Hugo's last novel. Published… Read More

LEO TOLSTOY SHORT STORIES
Edited by Ernest J Simmons, Modern Library 1964
This is 14 stories (plus a map)—it is a collection of the stories that Tolstoy completed before he started writing War & Peace. (see photo of contents)
Dark Blue Boards with a impressed design on the cover and bright gold lettering on the spine.
As you can see, there is a bump to the front cover and a very small ink mark to the front endpaper. The spine is starting to loosen a little.
Otherwise, perfect condition.

This is a copy of the 6th Edition of Tom Brown's School Days, the semi-autobiographical novel by Thomas Hughes about life at Rugby School. It has been a best-seller for over 100 years. (George MacDonald Fraser carried it on with Flashman).
This copy was produced in 1923 by the M.A. Donohue of Chicago.
5 1/8" x 7 1/2", 418 pages.
It's a plain book, red boards, with little age-related marks but nothing major. Gold lettering on the spine. Inside, it's perfect.

This is a perfect copy of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the Henry Fielding classic published in 1749. It is still considered as one of the world's greatest novels. This is the Wesleyan University edition, which is acknowledged as the best available, as it is an unmodernized text which presents the story in as close as is possible to Fielding's own final revision. It includes a chronology of Fielding's life and the 'Geography of Tom Jones' map (in color).
It is heavily illustrated, in color and black and white, by the American illustrator Warren Chappell, who created the illustrations in 1943. The editors' text was first released in 1975; it was all brought together in 1982; this is a first edition of that printing.
It is a thick, heavy book--1000 pages, including 2 maps, 18 color illustrations and 21 black and white illustrations. It has cream tweed covers, a bound-in burgundy silk bookmark and comes in a reinforced and illustrated brown slipcase.
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The is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is a comic novel, considered to be one of the finest novels in the English language. Written in 1749 by the English writer Henry Fielding (1707-1754), it is constructed around a romance plot. Squire Allworthy suspects that the infant he adopts is the illegitimate child of his servant. As Tom grows up, he falls in love with the unattainable virtuous neighbor, Sophia. Numerous obstacles have to be overcome before he can win her hand. In the course of this, various sets of characters pursue each other from one part of the country to another, giving Fielding an opportunity to paint an incomparably vivid picture of England in the mid-18th century. It has been adapted many times, most notably for the Oscar-winning 1963 film starting Albert Finney and Susannah York.
This is a lovely book. It is brown leatherette. It has a gilt design on the cover and spine and a… Read More

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is a comic novel, considered to be one of the finest novels in the English language. Written in 1749 by the English writer Henry Fielding (1707-1754), it is constructed around a romance plot.
Squire Allworthy suspects that the infant he adopts is the illegitimate child of his servant. As Tom grows up, he falls in love with the unattainable virtuous neighbor, Sophia. Numerous obstacles have to be overcome before he can win her hand. In the course of this, various sets of characters pursue each other from one part of the country to another, giving Fielding an opportunity to paint an incomparably vivid picture of England in the mid-18th century. It has been adapted many times, most notably for the Oscar-winning 1963 film starting Albert Finney and Susannah York.
This copy is undated but I believe it's from the International Collectors Library's 1979 printing. It is hunter green boards with an elaborate brilliant gold design on the cover and spine. It has a bound-in… Read More

This is a first edition (UK, not US) of Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918. It is superb and important book that tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. Of the six million men who served in the British army, nearly one million lost their lives and over two million were wounded. This is the story of these men – epitomized by the character of Sgt Tommy Atkins. Using previously unseen letters, diaries, memoirs and poetry from the years 1914-1918, Richard Holmes paints a moving picture of the generation that fought and died in the mud of Flanders. He follows men whose mental health was forever destroyed by shell shock, women who lost husbands and brothers in the same afternoon and those who wrote at lunchtime and died before tea. Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, this book tells the real story of trench warfare, the strength and fallibility of the human spirit, the individuals behind an epic event, and… Read More

This is Toni Onley's British Columbia: A Tribute, published in 1999. It is 24 watercolours of Onley's favourite wild BC places; each one is accompanied by his reflections on the location. Onley, who died in 2004, is known as one of Canada's preeminent watercolourists.This copy is in near-mint condition. It's only flaws are a small bump to the dust jacket and a crease to the front endpaper. The mark on the bottom right of the cover is remnants of price tag glue.Otherwise perfect. Lovely book.