![A Summons to Memphis [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/347/881/1669881347.0.m.jpg)
A Summons to Memphis [Review Copy]
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with two publisher's typed review slips, promotional photograph of author, and two typed promotional handouts laid in. Octavo (22cm); black cloth spine over beige paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 209pp. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced... Read More
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![The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: Stories [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/645/1619645158.0.m.jpg)
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court: Stories [Review Copy]
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); beige cloth spine over tan paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in tan on spine and gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [x],[4],5-323,[3]pp. Publisher's Review slip laid in; Fine. Book is in two unclipped dustjackets (priced U.S.A. $22.00, Canada $27.50), with the photograph by Olivia Parker and dustjacket design... Read More
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Tennessee Day in St. Louis: A Comedy
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue paper and beige cloth-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [x],177,[5]pp. Hint of sunning to board edges, with some faint foxing to text edges, and a faint patch of label residue to front... Read More
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![In the Miro District and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/107/453/1505453107.0.m.jpg)
In the Miro District and Other Stories [Signed]
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],204,[8]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $7.95). Sharp copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's fifth short story collection.
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![The Old Forest and Other Stories [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/453/1505453162.0.m.jpg)
The Old Forest and Other Stories [Review Copy]
by TAYLOR, Peter
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip and 2pp of publicity materials folded and laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); white paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [11],12-358,[2]pp. Faint scratch to front cover, tiny indentations to lower... Read More
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![A Woman of Means [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/433/034/1673034433.0.m.jpg)
A Woman of Means [Review Copy]
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1983. First Edition. First Printing, with 'Review Copy' stamped to front endpaper. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and navy blue on spine and front cover; [6],7-96pp.Tiny soil mark to upper front corner, foxing to edges of textblock, and occasional pencilled marginal notes; Very Good. Taylor's novel explores... Read More
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Happy Families Are All Alike
by TAYLOR, Peter
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Teal cloth in black dust jacket, yellow topstain; [x],305,[3]pp. Minor marks to top and lower edges of textblock, discoloration to pastedown, else Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.95), rubbed, with minor dustsoil to rear panel and subtle spotting to rear flap and verso: Very Good. Third... Read More
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The Early Guest [Limited Edition, Signed
by TAYLOR, Peter
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, 1992. First, Limited Edition. One of 140 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.44. Slim octavo; printed sheets sewn into plain black wrappers; dustjacket; 28pp, [2]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. A one-act play.
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IN THE TENNESSEE COUNTRY
by Taylor, Peter
New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in plain gray wrappers of this great Southern writer's last novel. Creasing to the top front cover, and ink smudging on a stamp-sized area on the back cover, otherwise fine.
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The Old Forest and Other Stories
by TAYLOR, Peter
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [11],12-358,[2]pp. Tiny indentations to lower and upper board edges; small inconspicuous marks to lower edge of front board; upper board corners gently tapped (though still sharp); Near... Read More
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![Profit-Sharing Between Capital and Labour, Six Essays [...] To which is added a memorandum on the industrial partnership at the Whitman Collieries (1865-1874) [...] together with remarks on the memorandum](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/691/196/907196691.0.m.jpg)
Profit-Sharing Between Capital and Labour, Six Essays [...] To which is added a memorandum on the industrial partnership at the Whitman Collieries (1865-1874) [...] together with remarks on the memorandum
by TAYLOR, Sedley; Archibald Briggs and Henry Currer Briggs, memorandum
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown black-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black glazed endpapers; xiii,[1],170,[2],44(ads)pp. One-inch split to upper joint cloth, additional light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped; stock rather brittle with a number of very short closed tear to top edge of title page, none affecting text, else Near Very... Read More
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William Taylor of California, Bishop of Africa: An Autobiography
by TAYLOR, William; C.G. Moore, ed. & pref
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's olive cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,411pp.; photo-engraved portrait frontispiece. Some general shelf-wear, tiny vertical tear to spine crown, not touching text, faint spotting to rear cover, else Near Very Good and sound. First published in the United States in 1895 as Story of My Life.
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![Illusionen - wie Schwanensee [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/916/1108916663.0.m.jpg)
Illusionen - wie Schwanensee [cover title]
by [TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Illyich]; [NEUMEIER, John]
Hamburg: Hamburgische Staatsoper, [1976]. First Edition. Small square quarto (20.25cm.); publisher's cream staplebound card wrappers; [20]pp.; illus. Light soil, else Very Good to Near Fine. Photo-illustrated program of the premier performance run of John Neumeier's ballet based on "Swan Lake.
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The Bolsheviks on Trial
by TCHERNOMORDIK, S.
New York: Workers Library, 1932. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 46pp. Fine. History of persecutions and injustices perpetrated against Bolshevik agitators before the Revolution. "Prepared under the supervision of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow.
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The Chemistry of the Bessemer Process
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] DUTTON, C[larence] E.
Troy, NY: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1870. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green printed wrappers; 23pp. Wrappers a bit soiled with some shallow creasing and dog-earing to textblock, else Very Good and sound. At head of title page: "Metallurgical Papers No. 15." Scarce published edition of the author's first scientific paper, read before the American Association... Read More
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An Introductory Discourse Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, on the Fourth of May, 1814
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] CLINTON, De Witt [alt. spelling DeWitt]
New-York: David Longworth, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 148pp. Top third of first few leaves quite darkened, title page (serving as upper cover) somewhat chipped with a few tiny losses, none approaching text, else Good to Very Good overall. From the DAB: "...considered a lucid account of the current state of American scientific research." The discourse (pp. [3]-38)... Read More
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Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] [WHITNEY, Eli] OLMSTED, Denison
New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1846. First Separate Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pale yellow wrappers printed within decorative border; 80pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and one additional plate, pink tissue guards. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and worn with shallow loss at spine crown, general dust-soil, else Very Good, internally fine. Lengthy biographical article first published in the "American Journal... Read More
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![A Sketch of the Life and Works of Loammi Baldwin, Civil Engineer, Read before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Sept. 16, 1885 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/952/1356952813.0.m.jpg)
A Sketch of the Life and Works of Loammi Baldwin, Civil Engineer, Read before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Sept. 16, 1885 [Inscribed and Signed]
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] VOSE, George L.
Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1885. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan printed wrappers; 28pp. Upper cover separated but present with a few small losses to extremities, some toning and light dust-soil, else Good, internally sound. Inscribed and signed at head of upper cover "Dr. Bowditch with the regards of G.L. Vose." Possibly inscribed to the physician and abolitionist... Read More
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The James Means Control for Flying Machines. Based upon the principle of Mental Automatism
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] [TRADE CATALOGUES] [AVIATION] MEANS, James
Boston: James Means, 1913. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound printed wrappers; [10pp]. Trivial external soil, else Near Fine. James Means (1855-1920) is best remember as the publisher and editor of the influential Aeronautics Annuals that appeared in 1895-7, providing a clearing-house for the latest trends in aviation engineering and providing a basis for the innovations of Orville and Wilbur Wright. The... Read More
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A Defence of the Experiments to Determine the Comparative Value of the Principal Varieties of Fuel Used in the United States, and also in Europe. Containing a correspondence with a committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; their report, and remarks thereon; and animadversions on the manner in which the trust confided to the Academy by Count Rumford has been managed
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] BULL, Marcus
Philadelphia / London: Judah Dobson / John Miller, 1828. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 51pp.; illus. in text. Some foxing to textblock, small damp spot at top fore-edge corner of first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. First edition for a British readership. Missed by Sabin.
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![Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the Year 1849. Part I. -- Arts and Manufactures [All Published in this Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/952/1356952751.0.m.jpg)
Report of the Commissioner of Patents, for the Year 1849. Part I. -- Arts and Manufactures [All Published in this Edition]
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] [EWBANK, Thomas] Horace Greeley, intro
New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); removed; 102,[10](ads)pp.; text illus. throughout, publisher's advertisements in rear printed wtihin decorative border. Some foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking wrappers. Much of the contents are devoted to an article on the propulsion of steamers, with detailed and generously illustrated observations on animal propellers, including that of... Read More
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Electric Toy Making for Amateurs. Including Batteries, Magnets, Motors, Miscellaneous Toys and Dynamo Construction
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] SLOANE, T. O'Conor
New York: Munn & Co, 1899. Early reprint. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's blue cloth board, title decoratively stamped in silver on front board; viii,[9]-140pp; illus; 4pp publisher's ads. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and board corners; text clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. A highly technical treatise, and possibly the first manual of its kind. First published... Read More
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The Story of Oil
by [TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY] [EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES] TOWER, Walter Sheldon
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's terracotta cloth lettered in gilt; xi,[1],270pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, slight spine lean, contemporary ownership signature, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Time and the Highland Maya
by TEDLOCK, Barbara
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 245pp. Clean, unmarked copy, about Fine, in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, VG.
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![Amulet Anatomy [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/077/430/1689430077.0.m.jpg)
Amulet Anatomy [Limited Edition, Signed]
by TEJADA, Roberto
Buffalo, NY & Amherst, MA: Phylum Press, 2001. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 numbered copies, this being copy no.98. Slim octavo (21.5cm); binding designed by Thomas Glassford, comprised of offset printed sheets (measuring 7" x 8.5"), sewn into unprinted black card covers, with a pink zipper stitched into the front wrapper; [24]pp. While not called for, this copy... Read More
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