Frog Life in America
by Richard Thomas
Postdam, NY: Racquette River Print Shop, 1979. Very Good +. Potsdam, NY: Racquette River Print Shop, 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing. Quarto; publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers printed in red and green; [80]pp.; chiefly illus. Light wear and soil to wrapper extremities, contemporary gift inscription to title page, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. ... Read More
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Statue of Colonel Thomas Knowlton Ceremonies at the Unveiling
by [Colonel Thomas Knowlton]
Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1895. Very Good. Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1895. First Edition. Octavo. 53 pp. Frontis and map. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities and spine ends a bit nudged; brief split to top of front joint. Binding sound. Contemporary... Read More
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The Defense of Galileo
by [Galileo] Thomas Campanella
New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1975. Very Good. New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1975. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [4],xliv,93pp. Very light dust-soil to boards, gilt a bit dulled, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Series title "History, Philosophy and Sociology of... Read More
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Pushkin's Rhymes: A Dictionary
by J. Thomas Shaw
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Very Good. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Quarto. 673 pages. Ex-library with usual markings. Blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Introductory text in English and Lexicon and Concordance in Cyrillic. No dust jacket. Boards show some light scuffing with institutional markings to front and... Read More
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The Cold War Swap
by Ross Thomas
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth-backed textured boards in original blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 222pp. Dust jacket a bit faded along spine panel, upper panel wrinkled along top margin, corners bumped, else a Very Good, bright and... Read More
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Essays on Warren Hastings
by Thomas Babington Macaulay; Allan Abbott [ed.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1910. Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1910. 12mo; 223pp +xxvi notes. Full leather with gilt lettering and borders, leather turn-ins, marbled endpapers, and gilt page edges. Binder's mark of The Riverside Press on verso of front free endpaper at top. Front board separated down joint, but... Read More
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Les Oeuvres Spirituelles de M. Thomas Becasse, Prieur de la Chapelle-la-Reyne, Cure de Brie-Comte-Robert, & Doyen du vieil Corbeil
by Thomas Becasse; Edme Couterot [print.]
Paris: Edme Couterot, 1676. Very Good. Paris: Edme Couterot, 1676. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo (16 cm); [xx],475,[1]; [12],394pp. Collated complete. Boards full bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt stamping to spine. Edges speckled red. Front board corners worn, shelfwear to bottom margin and tail of spine has minor loss and is pulling away from book... Read More
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Forma Sacra, Or, A sacred platform of natural and revealed religion; exhibiting a scriptural and rational account of these three important heads..
by Thomas Blackwell; Simon Williams [intro.]
Boston: William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Windham, 1774. Very Good. Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine, for the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Windham, 1774. Presumed First American Edition. 16mo; full contemporary calf, unadorned spine in six compartments; xvii,[1],xviii,vi,[i.e. vii],8-339,[1]pp. (B8 2B8 C-P8 Q4 R-2A8, collated complete). Leather a bit scuffed at extremities, a few surface scratches... Read More
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Queens Walk in the Dusk
by Thomas Burnett Swann; Jeff Jones [illus.]
Forest Park: Heritage Press, 1977. Very Good. Forest Park: Heritage Press, 1977. Limited First Edition, numbered 940 of 2000 copies on colophon at back. Octavo; 139pp. Nine tipped-in full color illustrations, all present. In slightly-too-short clear jacket. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Boards lightly shelfworn with a few faint scuffs to cloth and a bit... Read More
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The French Revolution: A History [Limited Edition, Signed by Lamotte]
by Thomas Carlyle; Cecil Brown [intro.]; Bernard Lamotte [illus.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1956. Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1956. Limited Edition, signed by illustrator Bernard Lamotte and numbered 432 of 1500 copies on colophon at back. Quarto; 648pp. Illustrations throughout. Blue linen cloth-covered boards and red morocco spine with gilt lettering. LEC Monthly Letter laid in. Housed in gold paper-covered slipcase... Read More
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Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Thomas Gray; Hugh Walpole [intro.]; Agnes Miller Parker [illus.]
London: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 659. Octavo; publisher's pictorial blind-embossed cloth stamped in silver foil, clear celluloid dust jacket,... Read More
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The Three Wayfarers
by Thomas Hardy; William Cotton [illus.]
The Fountain Press: New York, 1930. AML. New York: The Fountain Press, 1930. Limited Edition, numbered 140 of 542 copies on colophon at back. Quarto (10" x 7.5"); 34pp. Four full-color illustrations including frontis, all present. Blue cloth-covered boards with red faux leather spine and gilt lettering. Publisher's printed slip on the play's prior printing and revision history... Read More
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The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California
by Thomas Hardy; Thomas Pinney [ed. & intro.]; Robert Mondavi [fwd.]
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. Near Fine. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994. Limited Edition of 450 unnumbered copies. Folio (32.5cm); [xxvi],64pp. Color photos & illus. Publisher's decorated boards with purple cloth spine and paper spine label. Housed in gray slipcase. Boards are sturdy and square with light rubbing at spine ends. Binding... Read More
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The Works of Thomas Hood [Six Volume Set]
by Thomas Hood; Epes Sargent [ed.]
New York: George P. Putnam, 1862. Very Good+. New York: George P. Putnam, 1862. First American Edition. Six volumes; octavos; publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth, marbed endpapers; engraved frontispiece at head of five volumes, four volumes with added engraved title pages, woodcut illus. throughout. Minor shelf wear mostly affecting spine ends, textblocks a shade toned, else a Very Good,... Read More
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A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina: Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1778
by Thomas Hutchins; Frederick Charles Hicks [ed.]
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904. Very Good. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904. Limited Edition of 245 numbered copies, this being #14. Tall octavo. 143 pp. Black and white plates, complete; folding map to rear. Maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Boards lightly edgeworn and patchy discoloration to spine. Binding is sound. Smudging... Read More
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G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys
by Thomas Hughes [ed.]
London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 228 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Missing printer's notice on final page. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, and light spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Foxing to preliminaries but overall pages clean and unmarked. ... Read More
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![Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display'd: Or, the Folly of their Teaching Discover'd, from their Books, Sermons, and Prayers: And some Remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the Kirk, Interspers'd with Some genuine Adventures, in Love &c. [with] English Presbyterian Eloquence: or, Dissenters Sayings Ancient and Modern](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/884/688/1582688884.0.m.jpg)
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display'd: Or, the Folly of their Teaching Discover'd, from their Books, Sermons, and Prayers: And some Remarks on Mr. Rule's late Vindication of the Kirk, Interspers'd with Some genuine Adventures, in Love &c. [with] English Presbyterian Eloquence: or, Dissenters Sayings Ancient and Modern
by Jacob Curate [pseud. Gilbert Crokatt & John Monroe]; Lewis Thomas
London: Printed for J. Johnson in Rotterdam, and Sold by J. Cooper in the Fleet-Street / Printed for T. Bickerton, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, 1738. Very Good. London: Printed for J. Johnson in Rotterdam, and Sold by J. Cooper in the Fleet-Street / Printed for T. Bickerton, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, 1738 & 1722. Two octavo... Read More
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Mythology and Humanism: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Karl Kerenyi
by Thomas Mann and Karl Kerenyi; Alexander Gelley [trans.]
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [1975]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],231pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, faint residue to upper panel from removed price sticker, spine panel lightly sunned, corners bumped; overall Very Good and sound.
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Protocol for a Kidnapping
by Oliver Bleeck [pseud. of Ross Thomas]
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in cream paper and rouge cloth with white and black lettering to spine; 254pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with bumping at spine ends, a bit of fading to spine,... Read More
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Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set]
by Thomas Roncallius [ed.]
Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. Very Good. Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. First Edition. Two volumes; large quartos (29cm.); contemporary parchment over block-printed paper-covered boards, tan gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges speckled red; collated complete; text printed in double columns. Ex-St. Charles Seminary Library with spine shelf labels and rather... Read More
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Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films
by Thomas Weisser and Yuko Mihara Weisser; Naomi Tan [intro.]
Miami, FL: Vital Books Inc. / Asian Cult Cinema Publications, 1998. Very Good-. Miami, FL: Vital Books Inc. / Asian Cult Cinema Publications, [1998]. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 637pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Wrappers rather rubbed, spine creased, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Comprehensive guide to the... Read More
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Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and Its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States
by Dorothy Thompson
New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Original dust jacket with $1.25 price. Publisher's red cloth binding with text in black on cover and spine. 120 pp. Dust jacket worn on edges with some small chips and tears. Boards bumped on corners with some shelfwear. Binding sound.... Read More
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The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose]
by Francis Thompson
London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. Very Good. London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo; full contemporary polished calf by Riviere, gilt-tooled margins, gilt spines in six compartments with crimson and tan spine labels, marbled endpapers; engraved portrait frontispieces (tissue-guards). Leather rather rubbed and dried at margins, small loss at spine crown of Vol.... Read More
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The Prison Bard: or Poems on Various Subjects
by George Thompson
Hartford, [CT]: Printed by William H. Burleigh, 1848. Very Good. Hartford, [CT]: Printed by William H. Burleigh, 1848. First Edition. Octavo. 215pp. Bound in contemporary black leather spine over navy speckled paper-covered boards with "Prison Bard" in gilt to spine; peach endpapers. Boards worn with exposure to edges and general scuffing. Binding sound. Contemporary female ownership inscription to... Read More
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Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America. Being a concise record and digest of the events connected with the struggle--civil, political, military and naval--with the dates, victories, losses and results--embracing the period between April 23, 1860, and October 31, 1865
by Thompson Westcott [attr.]
Philadelphia: A. Winch, 1867. Good. Philadelphia: A. Winch, [1867]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, brown glazed endpapers; 136pp.; text in double columns. Margins quite rubbed at extremities, top quarter of spine cloth missing with additional smaller loss at spine foot and rather extensive exposure at corners, textblock uniformly toned, ownership signature of a member of the... Read More
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