Search Results: Titles starting with T from Aardvark Rare Books

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Beige, paper over boards with black sillhouette of Theodore Roosevelt, and black lettering to front board and spine. Soiled, bumped, frayed, and chipped at top of spine. Solidly bound, nonetheless. "Four hundred illustrations by leading cartoonists of the daily and weekly press all over the world." Covers are none too pretty, but content is both informative about Roosevelt's "reign" and at the same time, hilarious.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good in like Dustjacket. Quarto. 11 1/4 in. x 9 in. Handsome dark blue cloth-over-boards, with inset rectangular title label to front board, lettered in green. Light rubbing to extremities, and bumped corners. Essentially a mid-1930's spreadsheet of handy, easily retrievable reference points on composers and their works and lives, arranged historically. 13 large, multi-paneled foldout sheets with tabulated information. Simple green dustjacket of thick card stock, printed in black. Edgewear and several closed tears to dustjacket, with one 1.5 in. x 3 in. chip missing from bottom of dustjacket; only the publisher's full name (Harcourt & Brace) is missing, and at that, only partially; the dustjacket has done a creditable job in protecting this lovely (if a bit quirky) quick reference for those who need to know and don't want to take the deep, slow dive into more "analog" research. 104 composers, covering the period A.D. 995 through time of… Read More

Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First American edition. Rust orange cloth with titles stamped in gilt and gilt decoration of a canoe on front cover. Thick octavo.Corners bumped, light soiling to cover. 341 pages, index. Binding sound. Frontis photo, 31 pages of photos. Fodout map at rear. Small library rubber stamp on title page and dedication page, four numbers in ink to inside margin of first page of preface. Text bright and clean with some light toning. Pocket scars to rear pastedowns. Elaborate bookplate of Lawrence "Pete" Crane Woods, who served as "trustee and officer of Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and trustee and chairman of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He was a participant in biggame hunting expeditions for the museum's collection"

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1969. Limited, [Not Numbered], Edition, (1/1750). Leather-bound. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket and Very Good Plus Slipcase. Louis le Broquy. Folio. Black boards with white vignette to front board, as well as to spine, along with lettering. Special limited edition, 1 of 1750 copies. Translation from the Irish by Thomas Kinsella, from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge. With 131 brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Plates and maps. 14 point Pilgrim type with Perpetua and Felix titling. Dust jacket shows two half-inch-wide bands of fading from top to bottom, on either side of the spine. Price clipped from bottom of front dustjacket flap. A wee bit of shelfwear to one of the corners of the slipcase, where the le Brocquy illustration has been affixed by the publisher to the slipcase. 294 [2] pp. "Táin Bó Cúailnge (Modern Irish pronunciation: [ t a n bo ku l ]; 'the driving-off of cows of Cooley'), commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin, is an epic… Read More

London, England: John Westhouse, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. 12mo., 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. 182. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to dustjacket edges; chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Age-toning to pages. Slight spine lean. Protected in mylar. R.T. Campbell is the pseudonym for Ruthven Campbell Todd. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest… Read More

New York: 37 Ink/Atria Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.5 in., pp. xxvi + 259, Designer white paper boards over white cloth spine. title in gold to spine. Signed by author on 4 x 5 inch bookplate, printed with "Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart," affixed to half-title page. Text is presented in both English and Spanish (translated into Spanish by Manuel Garcia Verdecia).

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Hugh Thomson. Octavo, 8.3 in. x 6 in. pp. xxiv, [2], 412. Illustrated with fifty full-page engravings. Red cloth boards with title and moother and child scene in gilt to front. Gilt title and child to spine. Gilt top-edge. Rubbing to bottom of spine; half-inch gouge near of spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Clean, unmarked interior. PSine and hinges tight. Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849,) was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.

London, England: J. Robins and Co., Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Slipcase. George Cruikshank. Small octavos. 6 3/4 in. x 4 1/4. Appear to be original boards with paper labels[11] ii-iv, [1], 2-242, [4] (publisher's advertisements) pp.; (Vol. II:) [7], 2-249, [5] (publisher's advertisements). Six black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank (all but the first -- "Affray in a Village Inn" engraved by J. Thompson; "Affray..." was engraved by G.W. Bonner. The first 33 pages are age-toned, and the remainder of pages, in both volumes, are clean and bright. Much of Volume II is unopened. Housed in a fairly recent buckram-over-wood beige slipcase. Certain bibliographers state that this set is occasionally found with color illustrations; At least one rare copy has surfaced with both color and black and white illustrations bound in. Irish born author Michael James Whitty made his way to Liverpool where he worked as a journalist and a Superintendent of the… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 184. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Rust-red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to edges. Quarter-sized water stain to front board. Rubbing to edges and corners of dustjacket. Two two-inch closed tears and creases to bottom of dustjacket front cover. Spine and hinges are tight. Protected in mylar. "I was raised in a south-western Nebraska soddy... 10 miles south of Stockville, 13 1/2 miles north of Indianola, and 3 1/2 miles northwest of the now-vanished Post Office and store of Freedom...." Vernam (1896-1980) wrote comprehensive histories of man on horseback and western saddles. Also known for his Westerns. (Nebraska authors site).

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1900. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo. Grey cloth-covered boards. Pages lightly age-tanned. James is considered the "father" of modern psychology. Chapters include Psychology and the Teaching Art; The Stream of Consciosness; The Child as a Behaving Organism; Education and Behavior; Native and Acquired Reactions; What the Native Reactions Are; The Laws of Habit; The Association of Ideas; Interest; Attention; Memory; The Acquisition of Ideas; Apperception; The Will. (Followed by three Talks to Students": "The Gospel of Relaxation"; "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"; and "What Makes a Life. Significant?"

New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Dustjacket. Octavo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2." pp. 471. Original illustrated dust jacket in protective mylar. Mild wear to edges, top and bottom spine of DJ; some mild sunning to rear cover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Binding sound. Interior pages very clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. The Canadian inventor and entrepreneur Frank Morse Robb authored Tan Ming under the pseudonymn Lan Stormont (Wikipedia). The novel follows a display artist in a department store who falls in love with a mannequin he names Sheba. Through a magical spell, Sheba comes to life as Tan Ming. The story takes place in a "world gone mad with abuse of atomic power" (rear flap). At once fantasy and satire, the author "wields a powerful pen when he writes of the strange land laid waste by atomic blasts...in this bizarre world there is no science, no clocks, no calendars" (rear flap).

Hibbing, Minnesota: Wimp Press, 1970. Early Pirated Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Tri-stapled mimeographed pamphlet. 11 in x 8.5 in., pp. 54. A pirated edition. Paper cover with black title and tarantula drawing. Light age-toning to pages. Small creases to front bottom left corner of first three leaves. Two quarter-inch tears, and a quarter-inch open tear in top corner, on right side of back page. Previous owner's name and address to top of front cover. Printed on cover: "Author's royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Caladan Free School. Publisher's profits will contribute to furtherance of Woodstock Nation." The reference to Woodstock Nation indicates the publication date is 1970. Previous owner was noted author and historian Bruce Levine (Mendocino, CA).

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. J. Allen St. John. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.3 in., pp. vii, [1], 301, [10] (advertising). Black and white frontis plate by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth boards with black title to front and spine.Light shelfwear to edges. Bottom corners lightly nudged. 1/2 in. dark stain to fore-edge. Rubbing to dustjacket edges with several small chips to top/bottom of spine, corners, and foredges - wrap-around cover picture bright and clear. Advertising to verso of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. The thirteenth title in the Tarzan legacy.

Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington & Co, 1875. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 6 in., pp. 623, [1] (advertising). Illustrated with tissue-guarded steelplate engravings of the author and Brigham Young, and twenty-seven other engravings by Chas. Spiegle. Full calf boards. Gilt title on black panels, and four raised bands, to spine. Rubbing and scuffing to boards and spine. Two corners showing. Preliminary pages partially disbound. Spotting to tissue-guards and light age-toning throughout. Fanny Warn Stenhouse (1829 - 1904) was an early Mormon pioneer who defected from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was most famous for her 1872 publication Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady's Life among the Mormons, a record of personal experience as one of the wives of a Mormon elder during a period of more than twenty years in the mid-1800s.

New York: Cupples and Leon Company. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Matching Volumes: Octavo, 8.75 in. x 7 in., pp. 93. Gray-green boards with copper title to front. All three have very light rubbing to extremities. All three have small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine and corners and creasing to bottom two inches of dustjacket front. "Days We Celebrate" has light splotching to rear dustjacket cover. Three titles: TELLING TOMMY ABOUT MOTHER NATURE'S CURIOUS CHILDREN (1939) TELLING TOMMY ABOUT DAYS WE CELEBRATE (1941) TELLING TOMMY ABOUT OUR GOOD NEIGHBORS (1957).

Ithaca, New York: Mack, Andrus & Co, 1848. First Edition (First Issue). Hardcover. Octavo. Stamped maroon-gone-brown cloth. (19.5 x 12.5 cm.). Rebacked in black cloth with remaining portion (lettered in gilt) of original spine laid down. With frontis portrait of Dr. and Mrs. White, often missing. Previous owner's address label affixed to top right corner of front free endpaper. Spotting throughout but not to obscure. Pages supple. Previous owner's stamp to top edge. pp. 399. Good, solid copy of the first issue, scarcer than the more common second issue (which had 430 pp. and lacked the frontis portrait). Howes A-131.

Chicago, IL: Thomas W. Jackson Publishing Company, 1898. Hardcover. Good Only. Decorative burgundy cloth cover in VG condition. Pages age-browned (cheap paper). Previous owner's inscription and name to both front endpapers. Rear hinges separating and loose, but still holding well.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUSTJACKET. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), red cloth with gilt titles. Review slip from FSG & G. dated Sept. 27, 1971, laid in. Beautiful tangerine endpapers. Publisher's black topstain. Binding is clean, bright and solid. Dustjacket undamaged and intact with orignal $6.95 price. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper. The sixth novel by the American novelist and short story writer, one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. From Wikipedia: "Malamud was well aware of the social problems of his day: rootlessness, infidelity, abuse, divorce, and more"

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Good Plus Dustjacket. 8vo. Green cloth-covered boards with black and white design to front board and white lettering to spine. Vierick won the Pulitzer Prize for this first book of his poems (he had previously written history, politics, literary criticism), Terror and Decorum, in 1949. Very light sunning and fading to extremities of book. Dustjacket, with price intact, shows sunning and some edgewear and light chipping to top of spine and flap folds. Yellow band which, judging from its folds, was issued wrapped around the dustjacket. On the front is printed in large black letters "Awarded the Pulitzer Price for Poetry 1949" and on the reverse, a quote from poet Karl Shapiro: "Peter Viereck has already taken his place as one of the few poets worth reading closely. He is the first one in years who has said something new ---He has the courage to be wild, and he brings a true excitement through his lines. I find more… Read More

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1898. Leather-bound. Very Good. Wide quarto, 11.25 in. x 14.75 in., pp. 47, [2] (index). Half calf morocco over pebblegrain cloth, double ruled in blind. Gilt title to front. Light rubbing to extremities. Chips to top/bottom of spine. Decorative endpapers. Discrete ink stamp "677" to title page. Spine and hinges tight. This volume is entitled on the cover "A Textbook on Mechanical Drawing : Plates and Text : International Corrrespondence Schools". Copyright of the plates and drawings are from The Colliery Engineer Company.