Search Results: Titles starting with T from Evening Star Books

London: Jonathan Cape (1955), 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Small 4to. [4], 3-206 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of 17s. 6d. net on the rear flap of the dust jacket. O'Brien A173. Lawrence's recollection of his time in the Royal Air Force under an assumed name. Two small spots of fading to the boards; jacket has a chip to its spine panel and general toning.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. Publishers [1949], 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 2-201 pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. A small strain to the rear hinge, binding is secure and strong; jacket has a touch of edge wear.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 4-293, [1] pp. Navy cloth with silver and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good+ book with light foxing to the top textblock and a name on the front pastedown; jacket shows a bit of toning.

New York: Routledge [1993], 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [1], 2-211, [1] pp. Pink cloth with black lettering on the spine. Jacket shows two small scratches to the rear panel.

London: Hutchinson (2001), 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 3-437, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of UK £14.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by Peter Standley. A small dampspot on the reverse of the dust jacket.

New York: The Viking Press (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 9-226 pp. Quarter green cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text photographs. A history of the interactions between European explorers and Tahitians. Two of the corners mildly bumped, overall a sharp copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [14], 5-331, [11] pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine, author's name stamped in silver on the front board, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns.Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 023d. A sharp copy of this later Le Carre novel.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. [13], xvi-xviii, [3], 4-307, [3] pp. Purple faux-leather boards with gold borders and decorations on each board, spine in five compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges in gold. Beige moire silk endpapers and pastedowns. With a beige silk-ribbon bookmark bound in. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Yamamoto Shunsho. Translated into English by Edward G. Seidensticker, with an introduction by the same. This edition contains the final chapters of the Tale of Genji, a revered and ancient Japanese novel.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press (2003), 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [11], 12-267, [5] pp. Red paper boards with an illustration on the front board, with yellow lettering blocked in black on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. With the original price sticker of $17.99 on the jacket's rear panel. With numerous full-page illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering (black and white). Winner of the 2004 Newbery Medal. DiCamillo's heart-warming story of an unlikely hero, and his quest to save his true love, Princess Pea.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1981], 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 8vo. [26], 13-371, [1] pp. Bound in black leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine; all edges gilt. Copper decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Orange silk ribbon bookmark bound in. With a color frontispiece and several in-text drawings by Rene Ben Sussan.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company [1929], 1929. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Unpaginated. Bound in red cloth with pictorial boards, endpapers, and pastedowns. Dust jacket is illustrated. With twenty-eight colored illustrations throughout the text. A nice example of one of the earlier unauthorized American editions of this beloved children's classic (gift inscription reading "Xmas - '29" on the second free endpaper). A Very Good+ book with a name on the second free endpaper and a few hints of wear to the edges of the boards; dust jacket is Very Good with a few traces of wear and rubbing and two tiny tears to the rear panel.

New York: Grove Press [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [10[, 132, [2] pp. Bound in brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on front jacket flap. ANB, Komozi Woodard, "Baraka, Amiriun". LeRoi Jones was founder of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960's and had a long and controversial career as a playwright and writer of essays and fiction. Jones embraced black nationalism and adopted the name Amiri Baraka after the assassination of Malcolm X . The present work is his first collection of short fiction. A sharp copy of this early work by an extraordinarily influential African American writer.

New York: Harcourt, Inc. [2001], 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [13], xii-xv, [4], 2-296, [2], pp. Purple textured paper-covered boards quarter-bound in blue textured paper with silver lettering on the spine. Color map of Earthsea on endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A very sharp copy of this collection of five tales of Earthsea. Just a touch of crimping to the spine's crown.

London: Houghton & Scott-Snell (1934), 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Small 8vo. [8], 9-70, [2] pp. Red cloth with decorations in black on the front board and black lettering on the spine. With a story about King Arthur and a tale of St. Cuthbert. A contemporary gift inscription on the free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped with a small crease on the rear flap.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds out, and a full-page illustration. Arctic Bibliography 14629. Wickersham 2672. Dr. Rink was a prolific author and scholar of the Pacific Northwest and the Arctic. In this publication, Rink discusses the cultural practices of a few different Inuit peoples, including their languages, laws, social hierarchies, religious traditions, livelihoods, arts, music, and medical knowledge. Rink's book includes 150 tales and legends from this region's peoples. Difficult to find in nice condition, this is an exceptional copy. A few flecks of wear to the extremities; a Sotheran's booksellers ticket on the verso of the front flyleaf.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [12], 1-142, [6] pp. Red cloth with decorations in blind on the front board, blue lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page black and white drawings done by the author. A fictionalized account of the education of the Dalai Lama, with psychedelic jacket art to complement the drawings.

London: J. Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. Small 8vo. [11], ii-iv, [1], 2-242, [4] (2 pages of publisher's advertisements) pp.; [7], 2-249, [5] (2 pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Later nineteenth century green calf, boards with borders in blind and in gilt, spines in six compartments, red morocco labels with lettering in gilt on each spine, spines densely gilt; gilt turn-ins with marbled pastedowns and endpapers; all edges gilt. Frontispiece and two additional plates in volume one; three plates in volume two, all are woodcuts from drawings by Cruikshank; plate called for following page 208 in volume one used as the frontispiece by the binder. Cohn 841; Marchmont 495. A striking example of this set. Minor abrasions to front endpaper and pastedown (presumably from bookplate removal) of volume one and another to the front pastedown of volume two, some occasional light foxing, otherwise quite beautiful.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press [1975], 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 8vo. [7], vi-xix, [3], 3-366 pp. Brown leather with gold decorations on the boards and spine; all edges gilt. Brown textured endpapers and pastedowns. Orange silk bookmark bound in. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and a few black and white plates by William Sharp. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. A touch of rubbing to the bottom textblock, else Fine.

New York: The Macmillan Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 11-253, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a small scratch to the reverse.

New York: Hill and Wang (1967), 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Slim 8vo. [8], 3-121, [1] pp. Purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes several full-page black and white illustrations by Dorothy Maas. A Near Fine book with mild rubbing to the boards in a Very Good+ dust jacket with age toning and a small discoloration to the rear panel, spine panel shows some fading.