Search Results: Titles starting with T from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Philadelphia: J. & J.L. Gihon, [circa 1848 - 1850s]. 16mo. 288 pages, plus frontispiece. Several woodcuts, some full-page, printed with the text. 12-pages publisher's ads. Original embossed brick red cloth with title and decorations in gilt on the spine. 16 x 10.5 cm. Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light internal markings: tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on frontispiece, title, and one other leaf, and ink number stamp on verso of title and in the margin of one other page. Else fair only, but uncommon in any condition. Spine ends chipped and frayed, corners worn, spine faded to tan. Sporadic but sometimes heavy foxing and staining, affecting some text and images with no loss of legibility; two short marginal tears; lacking rear free endpapers. One of two editions found, both undated Philadelphia imprints, priority unknown. The date of the earliest possible publication is based on two works on the Mexican War advertised in the publisher's catalog at the rear which… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1947. 247 pages. Original cloth. [21.8 cm.] A fine copy in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly rubbed on extremities and has several tiny nicks, but is bright and attractive. A nice copy. Fourth printing, following the first of 1941.

London: Ernest Benn; New York: David White, [1968]. 76 pages. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith with a number of drawings, some full-page (included in the pagination). Original red cloth. [22.1 cm.] Fine in very nearly fine dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The book and jacket were printed in England, but the jacket is priced in dollars. A biography of the composer.

London: The First Editions Club, [printed by Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Ltd., Chiswick Press], 1926. Quarto. xii, 68 pages, plus thirty full-page photographic plates, some printed in color. Original maroon cloth with gilt borders and lettering; top edge gilt. [32.6 cm.] Sun-fading to spine and, to a lesser degree, outer areas of covers; light spotting and speckling to cloth. Hinges are sound and the volume shows little wear. Free endpapers a little tanned, a few minor traces of marginal foxing, light offsetting from color plates to facing pages. Near very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 600 copies, this copy unnumbered. The tenth book of the First Editions Club. Most of the bindings depicted in this volume were made in England or France and the majority date from the 16th and 17th centuries, with one 15th century binding and a few 18th-century examples. Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949) was a leading authority on early English bindings and a longtime employee of Sotheby's in London.�

New York: The Century Co., [1927]. xvii, 227 pages. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original quarter gray cloth over patterned paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and black title piece on the front cover. 20.5 x 13 cm. Very good in good plus dust jacket. Minor wear, tanning to front endpapers and half-title from previously laid-in materials, light offsetting from the frontispiece to the title, a few small traces of marginal foxing. The jacket shows small chips to the ends of the spine panel (up to 1 cm deep), several other tiny edge chips, and a little sun to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. Essays on the history, purposes, and pleasures of smoking. The author also discusses the moral and medical arguments against smoking. These he treats with both consideration and with a good deal of skepticism, though he includes one chapter explicitly denouncing smoking by juveniles. In "Our Ladies' Nicotine," he discusses the growing use of tobacco by women, the… Read More

Paris: Jouve & Cie, 1950. 154, [1] pp. Original printed green wraps. [25.3 cm.] A very good, unopened copy. Spine is a little sun-faded and creased; lower corners are bumped. Text is clean and bright. FIRST EDITION. A bit scarce in the trade. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and index.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 336 pages. Illustrated with a few plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] Near fine in very good dust jacket. Slight bump to head of spine; book is otherwise fine. Jacket has bump at head of spine panel and a short tear where the spine panel meets the front panel, the latter repaired with archival tape on the verso. FIRST EDITION. Mabel Wolfe Wheaton was Thomas Wolfe's sister. This account was assembled by Legette Blythe from Mabel's written notes and tape recordings.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. On jacket: "Harvard Health Talks, 17." 69 pages. Original maroon cloth. [17.3 cm.] Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket is browned on spine, but shows almost no wear. FIRST EDITION. Walter Leslie Mendenhall (b. 1881) was the first professor of pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine (1921-1946). He here describes the physiological effects of smoking tobacco, its addictive nature, and the chemical analysis of the nicotine content of various tobaccos. He regards tobacco as generally harmful, both physiologically and economically. However, he does not decry its use in moderation and states, "As far as pregnancy is concerned, smoking apparently has no effect on the course of the pregnancy or upon the offspring." On the other hand, he does suggest that it be "withheld from the younger children" (pp. 44, 46).

Boston and N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [printed by] the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1896. [6], 246, [1] pages, plus one page ads. Complete with frontispiece and 18 plates (inserted, but reckoned in the pagination), with tissue guard for frontispiece. Original green cloth with cover illustration in red, white and black against a gold background, and gilt lettering and triple rules on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. [19.1 cm.] Near fine. A few tiny spots to cloth, traces of faint marginal foxing to some plates and facing pages, still a nice copy. Second printing. BAL binding A (no priority established).

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant… Read More

Lincolnton, N.C.: L. B. and T. C. Wetmore, June 4, 1886. Vol. I, no. 9. Four-page newspaper printed on two integral leaves, with each leaf measuring 28.2 x 20.1 cm. Good plus with light edge-wear and some creasing and tanning. FIRST EDITION. A weekly from a small North Carolina town. The lead item is an editorial in support of prohibition, which discusses the local option and recent criticisms of the movement based on the involvement of women. The remaining contents are the usual local briefs, notices of property sales, a list market prices, a few literary items, and various ads.

New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1888 [c.r. 1887]. xxiv, [2], 684, [1] pages, plus xx pages ("Opinions of the Press") and [1] page author's advertisement. Frontispiece and 47 full pages plates (of 48 called for), mostly portraits and a few views. This copy was bound without the portrait plate of Chauncey M. Depew. Original dark green, gilt-stamped cloth. 23.5 x 16 cm. Embossed binder's stamp of E. Walker's Son, Brooklyn and New York, on the rear flyleaf. Light rubbing to extremities, very slight rippling to the spine, a few tiny spots and some light soiling to cloth. Hinges are intact and the binding of this large, heavy volume is sound. Text leaves are tanned throughout. A few minor traces of marginal foxing. Good plus. Early printing. The title page of the scarce first printing is dated 1887. An important account of Wall Street during the Gilded Age. Henry Clews (1834-1923) emigrated from England to the United States as a teen and made a fortune on the stock exchange. He was an… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903. xxviii, 313 pages, plus [8] pages ads. Original red cloth stamped in black and gold. [19.4 cm.] A bright, near fine copy. Slight rubbing and some minor evidence of soiling to cloth. Early, neat gift inscription on front free endpaper. A few tiny marginal spots to introduction; interior otherwise clean. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. William Edwards Tirebuck (1854-1900) was an editor, journalist, and novelist from Liverpool. A longtime friend of Hall Caine, he participated in the Notes and Queries Society and helped found the Liverpool branches of the Shakespeare Society and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Boston: Printed for S. Hall and Manning & Loring, 1801. 8vo [signed in fours; 21.6 cm.] [3]-38 pages. Lacking half-title and terminal blank. Removed from bound volume; stitching failing. Else good plus. A little edge-wear to title, some tanning, especially to first and final pages, light to moderate foxing. FIRST EDITION. Posthumously published. BAL 943.

Nashville, Tenn.: Confederate Veteran, 1901. xv, [i], 404 pages, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. Numerous full-page portraits and maps printed with the text. Errata slip tipped-in. Original dark red cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial flag centerpiece stamped in red, white, and blue. 24 x 17 cm. Good. Spine sun-darkened, worn at ends, and with small chip at base; corners worn. Front hinge started but holding; binding cracked after frontispiece, also holding; front free endpaper cleanly detached and present. Frontispiece and the portions of the title page not protected by the tissue guard are tanned; mild age-toning throughout; a few traces of marginal soiling or foxing. Provenance: Signature of T.C.M. Thompson dated Aug. 1902 on the front pastedown and that of his brother, Waddy Thompson, on the front flyleaf. [They were both sons of Hugh Smith Thompson (1836-1904), the Citadel instructor who led the attack on the Star of the West and who later served as governor of South Carolina. Thomas… Read More

Lexington, Virginia: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University, 1937. 18 pages. Original beige cloth spine and brown paper covered boards with gilt cover lettering. [17.1 cm.] Near very good in original glassine dust jacket. Slight gouge to the head of front board at the joint, else a nice, clean copy. Spine just a trifle cocked; mild tanning to endpapers due to contact with dust jacket flaps. Fragile dust jacket is browned as expected, chipped at the head of the spine, and has a few small tears. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Charles Harold Lauck, Sr. (1896-1975). A keepsake prepared for distribution to members of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Printing Education, Chicago, June 28 - July 1, 1937. The preface, being "A Tribute" to Goudy, was written by J. Henry Holloway (pp. 7-8). Scarce.�