The Purple Prince of Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1946. Reprint. 281pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners of jacket. Contains numerous illustrations by John R. Neill. This is the twenty-sixth book in the Oz series. Bienvenue p.114.
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Handy Mandy in Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1937. First edition. 246pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket shows light rubbing to corners and minor chipping to the corners. Contains numerous illustrations by John R. Neill. This is the thirty-first book in the... Read More
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Yankee in Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Dick Martin (Illustrator)
New York: The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1972. First edition thus. Paperback. Near Fine. Dick Martin. 94pp. Quarto [28cm]. Illustrated wraps. Small brown mark on the page edges, light toning to cover edges but otherwise in beautiful condition. Difficult to find soft cover edition of "Yankee in Oz" Illustrated by Dick Martin. This was the first title... Read More
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Pirates in Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly (Founded on the stories by L. Frank Baum)
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1931. First edition. John R. Neill. 280pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. The text block edges have the publisher's bright yellow stain. Endpapers illustrated in black and white. Jacket is not present. Binding 'A'. Good. The extremities are... Read More
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Grandpa In Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. John R. Neill. 271pp. Quarto [24 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title and vignette on the spine, and an illustrated paper label on the front cover. Black and white illustrated endsheets. Fair condition. The extremities are mildly rubbed, and the underlying boards are exposed... Read More
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Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development
by Thompson, R. Campbell
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc, 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 283pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Bound in tan cloth; title stamped in black ink on the spine. Illustration stamped in black ink on the front board. Spine a bit rolled. Head of spine mildly indented. In an illustrated dust jacket, which is subtly rubbed. Originally published in... Read More
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[Rock Formations] (U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West)
by [John Wesley Powell and A. H. Thompson]
Washington DC: J. F. Jarvis. Photograph. Good. Albumen stereoview on a yellow mount [11.5 cm x 17.5 cm] J. F. Jarvis label on rear. Photographer not identified. Dampstaining to top half of image. American photographer and publisher John Fillis Jarvis (1849-1930) was active in Washington D.C. Jarvis experimented with stereography and produced a set of stereoscopic images of... Read More
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Treasure Mountain Home: Park City Revisited
by Thompson, George A. and Fraser Buck
Salt Lake City, Utah: Dream Garden Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 141pp. Quarto [29 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title to the front cover and spine. Silver endsheets with Park City mining maps printed on them. In a matching silver stamped black cloth covered slipcase. Black and white illustrations. Near fine condition. There is a very faint 2... Read More
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Treasure Mountain Home: Park City Revisited
by Thompson, George A. and Fraser Buck
Salt Lake City, Utah: Dream Garden Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 141pp. Quarto [29 cm] Black cloth with silver stamped title to the front cover and spine. Silver endsheets with Park City mining maps printed on them. In a matching silver stamped black cloth covered slipcase. Black and white illustrations. Very good condition. The front board is a little... Read More
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Kabumpo in Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumy; Illustrated by John R. Neill
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 297pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. Yellow text block edges. Standard ampersand on spine. Illustrated endpapers printed in black. Illustration on p. [299] captioned "Princess Dorothy." Extremities moderately rubbed. Text block... Read More
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Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design
by Thomson, Ellen Mazur
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 177pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Slate gray cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "In the late nineteenth century, writers, artists, and bibliophiles expended great thought and energy on books as a category of things that might be made to express, by their very physical appearance, aesthetic ideals... Read More
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The Seasons
by Thomson, James
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co, 1809. Later printing. Leather Bound. Very Good. 262pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Mottled brown leather. Rebacked with gilt tooling and a red spine label. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. New endpapers and flyleaves. Moderate rubbing to the extremities. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and name stamped... Read More
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One Story: Letters in the Snow; For kind strangers and unborn children-- for the ones lost and most beloved
by Thon, Melanie Rae
New York: Maribeth Batcha, 2004. Paperback. As NEW. SIGNED -- 27pp. 17.5 cm. in pink wrappers. This is the 40th issue of "One Story" which is published monthy in Brooklyn, NY. A collection of short stories by the author, signed on the front cover below the title.
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Civil Disobedience
by Thoreau, Henry David
Poisoned Candy Press, 2024. Reprint. Pamphlet. New. 28pp. Octavo [22cm]. Pictorial wraps. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, was first published 1849 under the title “Resistance to Civil Government.” In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing... Read More
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Dionysus
by Thorp, Roderick
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG+. SIGNED - Black cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Gilt lettering on spine is faded, but still readable. Bright yellow endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page in blue pen. 319 pages. Dust Jacket - has a fair amount... Read More
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Tarnished Are the Stars
by Thor, Rosiee
New York: Scholastic, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 372pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Blue boards with title stamped in silver on spine. Blind stamped design on front board. "A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher’s chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog — donning the moniker Technician — to supply black market medical technology to the sick and... Read More
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Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
by Thunberg, Greta; Svante Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman
New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. First American edition. Paperback. New. 279pp. Octavo [21cm]. Pictorial wraps. "When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care... Read More
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The 13 Clocks
by Thurber, James
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Mark Simont. 124pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 red cloth with texturized light blue paper covered boards. Illustrated endsheets. Very good. The edges of the covers are faded and lightly bumped. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light rubbing. There are numerous short closed tears in the edges.... Read More
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Zion Town
by Thurber, Phebe; Gay Taylor
1976. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good. 183pp. Quarto [27 cm] Orange wraps. The wraps are a bit edge-worn, and there is a small chip to the bottom fore-edge corner of the front wrap. The rear wrap is just starting to tear at the base of the spine. The Mormon pioneer experience presented as a novel. The setting is... Read More
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The Naval Department of San Blas: New Spain's Bastion for Alta California and Nootka 1767 to 1798
by Thurman, Michael E.
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 382pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Publisher's red top stain. Very good. The extremities are gently rubbed. The endsheets are subtly discolored, and there is a short split in the front endsheet along the hinge. Spain in... Read More
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The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
by Thurman, Wallace
New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 262pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. There is a small open tear to the cloth along the front joint, and the underlying boards are just beginning to peek through at the bottom fore-edge corner of the front... Read More
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Infants of the Spring
by Thurman, Wallace
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 312pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with a 1/2 deep by 1/4 inch wide hole in the paper near the title of the spine. There is also a 2 inch... Read More
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The Blacker the Berry..
by Thurman, Wallace; Allyson Hobbs (Introduction)
New York: Penguin, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. NEW. 164pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Printed wraps. "Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a community where she will be accepted, she... Read More
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The Interne
by Thurman, Wallace; Abraham Furman
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth covered boards with blue ink stamped titles. Fair condition only. A bit of an eyesore. Numerous portions of the abraded original dust jacket are adhered to the covers, and the inside flaps of the dust jacket are mounted to the pastedowns. There are four splits in the cloth... Read More
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Infants of the Spring
by Thurman, Wallace
New York: Martino Fine Books, 2020. Later printing. Paperback. New. 175pp. Octavo [23.2cm]. Glossy illustrated wraps. From Publisher: 2020 Reprint of the 1932 Edition. Thurman is perhaps best known for this novel, which is a satire of what he believed were the overrated creative figures of the Harlem scene. Some reviewers welcomed Thurman's bold insight, while others vilified... Read More
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