Annual Catalogue. Theatre School School of Dramatic Arts Founded by Norman Brace. Started as the Theatre Group School of the Theatre
by [THEATRE SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS] [BRACE, Norman]
[New York: Theatre School of Dramatic Arts, ca. 1930s]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original blue printed staplebound wrappers; 28pp.; illus. Fine. Curriculum for the School located at Carnegie Hall. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, including that of the "Children's Dress Rehearsal," in which one of the young students is in black face. Among the noted alumni listed... Read More
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Make Haste To Live
by THE GORDONS (Gordon, Mildred and Gordon)
Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in ivory on spine; dustjacket; 223pp, [1]. Text edges darkened, else Fine. Dustjacket deeply price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with a tiny nick at the crown; Very Good+. The couple's second book, and the first to be adapted to film. Basis for the 1954... Read More
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Louis Simpson. Great Experiments: The Poetry Of Louis Simpson
by The Hollins Critic. Vol, XXVII, No 3. June 1990
Hollins College, 1990. In near fine condition. Slight crease front cover. Special Issue on the poet Louis Simpson with drawing on the cover of Simpson. 19 pages and a bibliography of Simson's work. Simpson article by Henry Taylor.
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With Young Bruce on the Indian Frontier (A Story of General Sullivan's Expedition)
by THEISS, Lewis E.
Boston: W. A. Wilde, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Red cloth titled in gilt; cartographic endpapers; [350]pp; black and white illustrations. Inscribed by author on title page to Dr. John Lott Boyer. Sound and upright, rubbed at corners and pushed at spine ends, slight spotting to top and fore-edges, but internally clean: Very Good.
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The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era
by The Menil Foundation; Dominique de Menil, foreword; Walter Hopps, intro., et al.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 25cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; soiling to back end-page and paste-down; slight sun-fading to top and bottom extremities; slight soiling to bottom textblock, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight rubbing to... Read More
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An Excerpt From A Code
by THEMERSON, Franciszka and Stefan
[Stroud, England]: Downfield Press, 1965. First Edition. One of 500 copies, this being copy no.327. An elaborate folding object, resembling a narrow chapbook while closed (measuring 23.5cm x 11.5cm), with the upper half opening into a line drawing of a cryptic figure by Franciszka Themerson, and the lower half opening into a concrete poem ("Shooting at doves is strictly... Read More
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Schroeder - the Public Excuser. A Biographical Outline to which are added some published opinions concerning his personal traits
by [THEODORE SCHROEDER] MADDALONI, Arnold
Stamford, CT, 1936. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp; portrait. Very Good. Prospectus, disguised as a biography, for Schroeder's speaking tours, with a brief biographical essay followed by several pages of press opinions. Schroeder (1864-1953) was a prominent lecturer on free speech, freethought, and pacifism, a co-founder with Lincoln Steffens of The Free Speech League, known for his vocal... Read More
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OPUS 31, NO. 3
by Enslin Theodore
Markesan, WI: Pentagram, 1979. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; square 12mo. Letterpress printed at the Morgan Press in Milwaukee, in an edition of 250 copies. his was the first publication of the Pentagram Press, in Autumn 1979. There were 250 copies printed. Inscribed by the poet to his father: "For Dad, Off the top of my head. / Love, Theodore".... Read More
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Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence but Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
by THEOHARRIS, Athan
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 307pp. A few page-corners turned down; one page with brief pencil underlining; else a fine, tight, unworn copy; Near Fine.
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The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. A Handbook of Mental Training based on the Buddha's 'Way of Mindfulness'
by THERA, Nyanaponika; E. Graham Howe (fwd)
Colombo: The Way of the Buddha Publishing Committee, 1956. Second edition (originally published 1954). Octavo. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards (hardcover); 96pp. Mild offsetting to endpapers; still a tight, clean, Near Fine copy in the original publisher's boards. Uncommon.
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Einstein's Beets: An Examination of Food Phobias
by THEROUX, Alexander (text); Gary Groth (editor)
Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 2017. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); mauve paper-covered boards with titling in white on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-792pp. Designed by Keeli McCarthy. Modest rubbing to paper of spine ends and corners, with trace soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Theroux's prose explores food trivia, including aversions and... Read More
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![The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems [Advanced Uncorrected Galley]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/412/407/831407412.0.m.jpg)
The Lollipop Trollops and Other Poems [Advanced Uncorrected Galley]
by THEROUX, Alexander
[Elmwood Park, IL]: Dalkey Archive Press, [1992]. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (21cm.); original yellow pictorial wrappers; xvii,[3],172pp. Fine. Upper cover gives publisher's address in Naperville, IL.
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The Schinocephalic Waif
by THEROUX, Alexander; Stan Washburn, illus
[Boston]: Godine, [1975]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (14x21cm.; original cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; purple pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, very faint offsetting to front jacket flap from previously removed sticker, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket.
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![The Great Wheadle Tragedy [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/417/407/831407417.0.m.jpg)
The Great Wheadle Tragedy [Inscribed & Signed]
by THEROUX, Alexander; Stan Washburn, illus
[Boston]: Godine, [1975]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (13.75x21.5cm.); original cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover repeated on dust jacket; unpaged; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Very Near Fine. Compliment card from the publishers laid in. Signed and inscribed "For Burt" by the author on front free endpaper.
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Sailing Through China
by THEROUX, Paul; Patrick Procktor, illus
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First American Trade Edition. Slim 12mo (18.5cm.); simulated cloth in cream pictorial price-clipped dustjacket; 64pp.; frontispiece, text illus. Fine.
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Waldo: A Novel
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [x],[3],208pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, hint of foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), with some light wear and rubbing, faint foxing to verso,... Read More
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The Consul's File
by THEROUX, Paul
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a small spot to title page; very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Sequence of 20 short stories set in a small Malaysian town, narrated by the resident American Consul.... Read More
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Dr. DeMarr
by THEROUX, Paul
London: Hutchinson, 1990. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); black and red cloth-covered boards, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],94,[4]pp, with illustrations by Marshall Arisman. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £6.99). Novella centered around a set of twins, one of whom has been living a double life.... Read More
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Saint Jack [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by THEROUX, Paul
London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); blue-gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-250,[6]pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Lower right board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), tiny indentation to lower rear board edge; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £2.25 net), with... Read More
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The Old Patagonian Express
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; 404pp. Hint of sunning at crown, else a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $11.95), with two tiny nicks at crown and some trivial wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Narrative... Read More
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Sailing Through China [Limited Edition, Signed]
by THEROUX, Paul; Patrick Procktor, illus
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First American Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 33. Slim 12mo (18.25cm.); original cloth, pictorial plate printed in brown mounted to upper cover, in cream pictorial dust jacket; 64pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Near Fine. Signed by the author and illustrator, the latter's signature with limitation in his hand of... Read More
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Fong and the Indians
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue-gray cloth, titled and blocked in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 199pp. A few faint spots of discoloration to spine, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly rubbed dustjacket. An attractive copy of the author's second novel.
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![Kowloon Tong [Signed First Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/906/493/620493906.0.m.jpg)
Kowloon Tong [Signed First Edition]
by THEROUX, Paul
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1997. First Edition. Limited Issue, printed privately for members of the Signed First Edition Society. Octavo; red leather, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt; all edges gilt, with marbled endpapers and silk bookmark; 243pp, [2]. Signed by Theroux on a special limitation page. Fine and unread, with a special introduction by the... Read More
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World's End and Other Stories
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); olive green paper and blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],211,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $9.95), with some trivial wear to extremities. Collection of 14 short stories by the world renowned travel writer.
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Jungle Lovers [Signed]
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige cloth, with titles stamped in brown and yellow on spine and front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; 307pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a lightly-rubbed, else Fine dustjacket. An attractive copy of the author's fourth novel.
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