The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, & The Return of the King
by Tolkien, J. R. R.
London: Readers Union George Allen Unwin Ltd, 1960. First Book Club edition, approx. 3000 sets produced for members of the Readers Union, and not for general sale. 423 pp., with folding map; 352 pp., with folding map; 416 pp., with folding map. 8vo. Brown cloth-textured paper-covered boards. Grey dust jackets with sunning to spine: Fellowship's jacket with some wear... Read More
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Chromolithograph, Number 43
by Tolman, Fred S.
Brockton, Mass: Tolman Job Print, 1903. Chromolithograph on green paper. 22-1/4 x 28-1/4 inches. Generally near fine, with some light edgewear. Chromolithograph on green paper. 22-1/4 x 28-1/4 inches. "The Kill
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Chromolithograph, Number 31
by Tolman, Fred S.
Brockton, Mass: Tolman Job Print, 1900. Chromolithograph on red paper. 22-1/4 x 28-1/4 inches. Generally near fine, with some light edgewear and slight loss to left-hand top and bottom corners. Chromolithograph on red paper. 22-1/4 x 28-1/4 inches. Untitled two-toned (black and yellow) print of horses pulling a carriage.
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The Complete Works of Count (Lev) Tolstoy. Translated from the original Russian and edited by Leo Wiener Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University
by Tolstoy, Count Leo
Boston: Dana & Company Publishers, 1905. Connoisseur edition, Number 48 of 150 copies. Illustrated with each plate in two states, on paper and on Japan paper. 24 vols. Royal 8vo. Original blue buckram, title labels, some fading to spines and labels, t.e.g. With bookplate of St. Paul's School and small blind stamp on title pages. One volume with significant... Read More
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![What is Art? [Title in Russian:] Что такое искусство? (Chto takoye iskusstvo?)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/531/577/1537577531.0.m.jpg)
What is Art? [Title in Russian:] Что такое искусство? (Chto takoye iskusstvo?)
by Tolstoy, Leo
Moscow: I. D. Sytina (И. Д. Сытина), 1898. First Edition. 20pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed wrappers, fragile, front wrapper starting, rear wrapper detached, spine mostly perished. In blue cloth dropbox. First Edition. 20pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tolstoy's most forceful essay puts forth a powerful moral vision for art as a necessary part of human experience. He began thinking... Read More
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Novels and Other Writings
by Tolstoï, Lyof N.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. No. 122 of 150 sets on Ruisdael paper. Plates in 2 States, on Japan vellum and van Gelder. 24 vols. 8vo. Original paper over boards, uncut, paper label, some binding wear, some volumes with waterstaining, bookplate of Norma (Terris), famous actress and Zigfield girl. No. 122 of 150 sets on Ruisdael paper.... Read More
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The Sea and the Jungle
by Tomlinson, H. M.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1912. First edition. Frontispiece. 354, [20, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, else very good in matching cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition. Frontispiece. 354, [20, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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The Sea and the Jungle [with a new foreword by the author for this edition]
by Tomlinson, H. M.
London: Duckworth, 1930. Number 467 of 515 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Camelot Press, signed by the author. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts by Clare Leighton. 343 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters crimson morocco and marbled boards, red leather title label. Fine. Leighton, Clare. Number 467 of 515 copies printed on hand-made paper by... Read More
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All Our Yesterdays
by Tomlinson, H.M.
London: William Heineman Ltd, 1930. Limited edition, Number 1017 of 1025, signed copies. With a Portrait Frontispiece from a Drawing by Percy Smith.539 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cream cloth, t.e.g.. Fine in slipcase, spine sunned. Limited edition, Number 1017 of 1025, signed copies. With a Portrait Frontispiece from a Drawing by Percy Smith.539 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ... Read More
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The Sea and the Jungle
by Tomlinson, H. M.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1912. First edition, first issue, with the 10 ad leaves in back. Frontispiece. 354, [2], 14, ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, else fine in half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition, first issue, with the... Read More
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The Sea and the Jungle [with a new foreword by the author for this edition]
by Tomlinson, H. M.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. Number 93 of 325 copies printed from newly-set Granjon type on special Holland mould-made stock, signed by the author. Illustrated with woodcuts by Clare Leighton. 333 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original beige cloth-backed blue boards. Faint offsetting from woodcuts, glassine tattered, some spotting of spine. Original publisher's box. Some light darkening of... Read More
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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands
by (Tonga) Martin, John
Edinburgh: Constable, 1827. Folding map. xxxiv, [35-340] ; vi, 234, cviii pp. 12mo. Half brown modern polished calf and marbled boards. Fine. Folding map. xxxiv, [35-340] ; vi, 234, cviii pp. 12mo. Martin's account of William Mariner's four years in Tonga between 1806 and 1810.
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Portrait photograph of Kristians Tonny (1907-1977)
by (Tonny, Kristians) Van Vechten, Carl
1937. 1 vols. 9-3/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Atelier stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission. Holograph notations in ink giving the subject of the photograph and the number of the negative. 1 vols. 9-3/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Dutch surrealist.
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Eπea ∏tepoenta. Or, the Diversions of Purley
by Tooke, John Horne
Philadelphia: Printed by Wm. Duane [Wm. Duane & Son, Printers], 1806. First American edition from the Second London edition. The first volume had been published in 1786 with the second appearing (with the second edition of the first volume) in 1805. Frontispieces engraved by William Kneass. 2 vols. 8vo. Full polished contemporary American tree calf. Fine. First American... Read More
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The Loves of Othniel and Achsah. Translated from the Chaldee
by [Tooke, William]
London: Printed by W. Tooke for J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1769. First Edition. lxii, [ii], 207; [ii], 270 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in nineteenth century half vellum and marbled boards, edges marbled. Bottom portion of leaf [B7] in Volume II torn away, with consequent loss of text to pp. 13-14. First Edition. lxii, [ii], 207;... Read More
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by Toole, John Kennedy
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First Edition, one of only 2500 copies printed, in first-state dustwrapper without the Chicago Sun-Times blurb. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Near fine in publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First Edition, one of only 2500 copies printed, in first-state dustwrapper without the Chicago Sun-Times... Read More
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by Toole, John Kennedy
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1980. Uncorrected proof. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine,. Uncorrected proof. 1 vols. 8vo. Uncorrected proof. Foreword by Walker Percy. Printed mustard-color wrappers. Author's name ("Toole") written on the spine else fine. Posthumously published novel that was the first work of fiction published by LSU, and which had a very small first printing (reportedly 2500... Read More
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Essentials. Definitions and Aphorisms
by Toomer, Jean
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1931. First edition, No. 411 of 1000 copies. [64]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth with blue paper label on the front cover and spine, fine copy with a fine dust jacket. First edition, No. 411 of 1000 copies. [64]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's second book, printed by the Lakeside Press under the direction of... Read More
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Histoire de Mr. Pensil
by Töpffer, F.
Paris: Garnier fréres [Lithographie de Caillet, Paris], 1860. 72 pages, usually with three sections each page, of sketches telling the story, illustrated title and flytitle. 1 vols. Oblong sm. 4to. Half black morocco. Some rubbing. Original illustrated wrappers bound in, stitchmarks, each sheet on a stub, some light spottin and browning, generally in good condition. 72 pages, usually... Read More
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Eléments d'Anthropologie Générale
by Topinard, Dr. Paul
Paris: Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1885. 229 figures, 5 plates. x,1157 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Half brown morocco. Joints tender, else a sound clean copy. 229 figures, 5 plates. x,1157 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Signed on flyleaf "Ashley Montagu 1932." Garrison-Morton 175; Heirs of Hippocrates 1966
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The Old Regime and the Revolution
by Toqueville, Alexis de
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. First American edition. x, 344pp. 8vo. Original cloth, in red morocco slicpase. First American edition. x, 344pp. 8vo.
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Los Tapices de la Casa del Reys N. S. Notas para el Catálogo y para la historia de la Colección y de la Fabrica. Edicion dirigida por Pedro Miguel de Artiñano. Traducción francesa de Albert Mousset
by Tormo Monzó, Elías y Francisco J. Sanchez Cantón
Madrid: Artes Graficas "Mateu, 1919. First edition. xxxix, 161 pp, (in Spanish) LIII Planches, 1 Marques; xxxix, 178 pp (in French). 1 vols. Small Folio. Embroidered cloth and paper spine. Almost fine. First edition. xxxix, 161 pp, (in Spanish) LIII Planches, 1 Marques; xxxix, 178 pp (in French). 1 vols. Small Folio.
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The Alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara (1517). Followed by a comparison with the Alphabet of Fra Luca Pacioli. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig
by Torniello, Francesco
Verona: [Officina Bodoni], 1971. Number 69 of 160 copies. Engraved portrait, woodcut initials, and geometrically constructed alphabet re-cut after the originals. xxviii, 106pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter blue morocco, vellum colored linson boards printed in Torniello's letters. Fine in slightly rubbed slipcase. Number 69 of 160 copies. Engraved portrait, woodcut initials, and geometrically constructed alphabet re-cut after the... Read More
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A Mental Museum for the Rising Generation. In Three Parts..Designed for the Junior Classes of Readers
by Torrey, Jesse
Poughkeepsie, [New York]: Printed for the Author by Jackson & Schram, 1835. 132pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf and boards. VG. 132pp. 1 vols. 12mo.
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Mémoires du Baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et Les Tartares
by Tott, Francois de, Baron
a Maestricht: chez J.E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1785. Same year as the 4to Second edition and a Paris 12mo edition. 4 parts. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary German half mottled calf, gilt spine paste paper boards. Stamp of the "Terschner Bibliothek" in red on verso of 2 title pages. Fine set. Same year as the 4to Second edition... Read More
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