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Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers

By: Trigg, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Phaidon: 2018

Seller ID: 2309276

ISBN: 0714876275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Faint spots on front board. 2018 Hard Cover. 351 pp. A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles. As every book tells a story, every book in art is part of an intriguing, engaging, and relatable image. Books are depicted as indicators of intellect in portraits, as symbols of piety in religious paintings, as subjects in still lifes, and as the raw material for contemporary installations. Reading Art spotlights artworks from museums and collections around the globe, creating a gorgeous, in...
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All the Stars in the Heavens

By: Trigiani, Adriana

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Harper: 2015

Seller ID: 2201435

ISBN: 0062319191

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends slightly pushed. 2015 Hard Cover. 453 pp. 8vo.Adriana Trigiani, theNew York Timesbestselling author of the blockbuster epicThe Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a true story and filled with her signature elements: family ties, artistry, romance, and adventure. Born in the golden age of Hollywood,All the Stars in the Heavenscaptures the luster, drama, power, and secrets that could only thrive in the studio systemviewed through the lives of an unforgettable cast of players creating magic on the screen and behind t...
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A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

By: Trillin, Calvin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2006

Seller ID: 2204384

ISBN: 1400065569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. Near Fine. 2006 Hard Cover. 116 pp. Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004 bestseller in verse, George W. Bush is still in the White House. Taking a philosophical view, Trillin has said, We werent going to know whether you could bring down a presidency with iambic pentameter until somebody tried it. Now Trillin is trying again, back at his pithy and hilarious best to comment on the Presidents decision to go to war in Iraq (Then terrorists could count on...
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The Whale

By: Tryckare, Tre

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1968

Seller ID: 2274405

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket stained. 1968 Large Hardcover. 287 pp. An extensively illustrated history of whales and whaling, including mythology and biology of whales, the beginnings of commercial whaling, scientific investigations of the various species and their habits, and an account of modern whaling and associated products, with an extensive bibliography of books about whales.
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Dreaming Water

By: Tsukiyama, Gail

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2282559

ISBN: 0312206070

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 288 pp. Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lifelong friends. Hana is suffering from Werner's syndrome, a disease that makes a person age at twice the rate of a healthy individual: at thirty-eight Hana has the appearance of an eighty-year-old. Cate, her m...
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The Language of Threads: A Novel

By: Tsukiyama, Gail

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2282560

ISBN: 0312203764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest friend, Lin. Now we finally learn what happened to Pei, as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care. Her first job, in the home of a wealthy family, e...
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Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up: A Novel

By: Tuck, Lily

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2278470

ISBN: 0394589351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 148 pp. Two middle-aged women reveal the emptiness of their lives during the course of a midnight-to-dawn telephone call initiated to discuss the death of a mutual friend.
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Woman Who Walked on Water

By: Tuck, Lily

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Riverhead Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2281552

ISBN: 1573220213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Page ridges very faintly foxed, faint odor of smoke. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 241 pp. A champion swimmer gives up her comfortable married life in an exclusive suburb in Connecticut to follow a guru to India, where she immerses herself in the wisdom of the East and achieves a deepening spirituality--at a price.
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The Silk Road: Art and History

By: Tucker, Jonathan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Art Media Resources: 2003

Seller ID: 2262803

ISBN: 1588860221

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1/2 inch closed tear on rear jacket corner. 2003 Large Hardcover. 391 pp. A celebration of the cultural heritage of the countries along the Silk Road, this book is a detailed, lavishly illustrated exploration of the the ancient trade route between Europe and Asia, more specifically between Rome and the old Chinese capital of Xian. The author provides a comprehensive history of the Silk Road and examines many of the most celebrated works of art discovered in each country, and sets them in their historical and geographical context. Drawing freely on anecdotes, and literary and his...
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Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College

By: Tucker, Louis Leonard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Williamsburg / Chapel Hill, Institute of Early American History and Culture / The University of North Carolina Press: 1962

Seller ID: 2161082

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor tears to corners and light crease along top edge. Good. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 283 pp. 8vo. The first biography published about the first president of Yale College (1740-1766), who was a Congregational clergyman and intellectual. This book also serves as a glimpse into intellectual life in colonial America.
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Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

By: Tucker, Nicholas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, iBooks: 2003

Seller ID: 2204297

ISBN: 0743498194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Near fine. 2003 Trade Paperback. 207 pp. Philip Pullman is one of the world's most popular and original authors, read by young adults and adults alike. Containing an astonishing cast of characters, from scholarly Oxford dons to armored bears, witches, angels, murderous Spectres and hideous harpies drawn straight from Greek mythology, Pullman's fiction can be read at many levels. DARKNESS VISIBLE looks at the world of Philip Pullman from the flamboyant Sally Lockhart series and the award winning Clockwork and I Was a Rat!, to his epic and internationally bestselling DARK MATERIAL...
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Throttled! The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters in the United States

By: Tunney, Thomas J.; Hollister, Paul Merrick

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard & Company: 1919

Seller ID: 2260974

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few light spots on boards, front hinge slightly weak. 1919 Hard Cover. xvi, 277 pp. 8vo. A World War I era work on the detection and investigation of bomb plots and other acts of organized violent crimes - what we would today call domestic terrorism - focusing on German and anarchist perpetrators.
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English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century

By: Turberville, A.S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1926

Seller ID: 2308315

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Board corners rubbed, smudge on bottom page ridge, minor pencil marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxiii, 531 pp. 8 x 5 3/8. Gilt titles & decoration. Numerous illustrations. CONTENTS: I. Introduction; II. Outline of Events; III. The Social Scene; IV. Whigs and Tories in Queen Anne's Day; V. Walpole and the Opposition; VI. Pelhams and Yorkes; VII. The Great Commoner; VIII. Rockingham's and Radicals; IX. The Divines; X. Two Philanthropists; XI. Grub Street; XII. The Artists; XIII. Drama, Stage and Music; XIV. Empire Builders; XV. The Soldiers; XVI. The Admirals; Index.
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On the Eve

By: Turgenev, Ivan; Budberg, Moura (Translator)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Cresset Press: 1950

Seller ID: 2197643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First English translation. Includes original jacket. Pages toned, boards, jacket reverse and endpapers foxed. 1950 Hard Cover. 118 pp. First appearance in English of Turgenev's third book. Translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg. Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our...
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Red Friday

By: Turner, George Kibbe

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1919

Seller ID: 2299310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink name and address on front endpaper. 1919 Hard Cover. 253, [3] pp. 8vo. A propaganda novel written during World War I, which warns of the dangers of Bolshevism, and focuses on a conspiracy between a devious Russian and a New York City speculator. Publisher ad for The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution follows text.
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Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart

By: Turtledove, Harry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, ROC Book: 2013

Seller ID: 2201233

ISBN: 0451465687

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark. Quarter-inch surface tear along top edge of jacket front, bottom edge of jacket spine rubbed. 2013 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 394 pp. Book three of the Supervolcano trilogy. An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. ...
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The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War

By: Turtledove, Harry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992

Seller ID: 2309715

ISBN: 0345376757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light stain along bottom edge of jacket reverse, top edge of jacket bumped. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 516 pp. January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited qua...
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Report from Paradise [Containing Cpatain Stormfield Visit to Heaven; Letter from the Recording Angel]

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1952

Seller ID: 2305279

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped, jacket toned. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1952 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 93 pp. Drawings by Charles Locke. Contains Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, here published in full for the first time; Letter from the Recording Angel, a hilarious and savage satire which has never before appeared in book form. ...Taken together, these two stories provide a remarkably full statement of Mark Twain's views on the the religious doctrine of his time.
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Roughing It

By: Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Hartford, American Publishing Company: 1872

Seller ID: 2288764

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, first state (BAL 3337) with ad on p. 592. Edges rubbed (fore edge exposed), single gathering sprung, a few pages faintly foxed. 1872 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 591, [7] pp. 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces, six plates in text. Numerous engravings throughout. Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 187071 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innoc...
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Roughing It

By: Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Hartford, American Publishing Company: 1872

Seller ID: 2288765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, first state (BAL 3337), one of two variants, this example including the ad on p. 592. Corners exposed, 1 inch tear on spine head, dime-sized spot on front board,. 1872 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 591, [7] pp. 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces, six plates in text. Numerous engravings throughout. Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 187071 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to h...
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Breathing Lessons (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society)

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1988

Seller ID: 2279749

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. 1988 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 327, [3] pp. 8vo. Sea foam full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled Color frontispiece by Lane Smith. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning nove...
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Saint Maybe (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society)

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1991

Seller ID: 2289787

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. Signed without inscription on front flyleaf. 1991 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 337, [3] pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Joanie Schwarz exclusive to this edition. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. In 1965, the happy Bedloe fam...
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Clock Dance: A Novel

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2018

Seller ID: 2304128

ISBN: 0525655522

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2018 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 300 pp. Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a marriage proposal; and in 1997, as a young widow trying to hold her family together. So she is surprised when in 2017 she is given one last chance to change everything, after receiving a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding why, she flies across the country to Baltimore to help a young woman she's never m...
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A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel

By: Tyler, Anne

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2015

Seller ID: 2309658

ISBN: 1101874279

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light general wear to jacket, bookplate on front jacket flap. Spine slightly cocked. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 357, [1] pp. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Re...
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Takao and Grandfather's Sword

By: Uchida, Yoshiko

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 2306698

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Chips along bottom edge of front jacket panel, jacket spine lightly toned. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 127 pp. Illustrated by William M. Hutchinson. Takao longed to be allowed to help his father work at the potter's wheel and to fire the kiln. When his chance came, however, his thoughtless boasting and a quarrel with his little sister lead to a disastrous fire
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Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King

By: Underwood, Tim; Miller, Chuck; King, Stephen; Romero, George A.; Straub, Peter; Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn; Herron, Don; Leiber, Fritz; Warren, Bill; Notkin, Deborah L.; Grant, Charles L.; Indick, Ben P.; Ryan, Alan; Winter, Douglas E.; Ketchum, Marty; Levack

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Underwood-Miller: 1982

Seller ID: 2308145

ISBN: 0934438587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tiny smudge on page base. 1982 Hard Cover. 255 pp. A collection of short essays about Stephen King's horror writings, published rather early in his career (Carrie, his first novel, was released just 8 years earlier). Features a foreword by Stephen King, an afterword by film director George Romero, and an introduction by Peter Straub.
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Illustrated Catalogue of United States Cartridge Company's Collection of Firearms

By: United States Cartridge Company

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lowell, Mass., United States Cartridge Company: 1903

Seller ID: 2304500

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Price list circa 1910 laid in. 1903 Soft Cover. 140 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. The most complete collection in the United States, embracing crossbow guns, match-locks, wheel-locks, snaphaunce locks, flint-locks and percussion-locks; specimens of the different muskets, rifles, carbines, revolvers and pistols used by the United States government and its opponents during the French, Indian, Revolutionary, Civil and Spanish-American Wars. The latest types of military arms of the different countires, including the new U. S. model of 1903 magazine rifle, and a few rar...
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The Howitzer 1930: The Annual of the United States Corps of Cadets [West Point]

By: United States Corps of Cadets; Broom, Thad. A.; Heitman, Charles S.; Whipple, William

Price: $80.00

Publisher: West Point, United States Military Academy: 1930

Seller ID: 2056729

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Ink name (Lt. Cole, '31) on ownership page, computer print-out laid in identifies this as Loren Fletcher Cole (1909-1997), who graduated in 1931 and continued to serve until 1942. Edges lightly rubbed. 1930 Large Hardcover. 496 pp. Black & white photographs and color illustrations throughout. A student yearbook for West Point Military Academy, which includes portraits and lists of administration and students for the class of 1930, including members of sports teams and other extracurricular groups. Numerous advertisements follow text.
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The Rage of the Vulture

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Granada: 1982

Seller ID: 2199098

ISBN: 0246114169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Pages toned, jacket spine slightly faded, jacket flap edges lightly foxed. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443 pp. 8vo.It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian w...
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The Rage of the Vulture

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Granada: 1982

Seller ID: 2199099

ISBN: 0246114169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages toned, jacket spine slightly faded. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443 pp. 8vo.It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's hidden life is about to make itself known as he forgets familial and patriotic ties in order to absolve a deep-seated guilt. Twelve years before, he had been involved with an Armenian woman. On the evening of their engagement, the Armenian massacres erupted. Saved by hi...
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