Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi. Authorized translation from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf
by [TOLSTOI] GORKY [GORKI], Maxim; S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf (transl)
London: The Hogarth Press, 1920. First Edition. First impression; edition of 1,000 copies. 12mo; green marbled-paper wrappers with printed paper title label; 71pp. Spine paper perished; covers slightly rubbed and worn; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good only. Ownership signature of Henri Fink [Grinet?], dated Zurich, 1922. An early issue of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth... Read More
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Don Juan: The Life and Death of Don Miguel de Mañara
by TOMAN, Josef; Edith Pargeter, trans
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; [4],445pp. Light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, else Fine. Czech historical novel of Don Miguel de Mañara and Spanish Inquisition.
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The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici
by TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi; Gretchn A. Hirschauer
Washington DC: National Gallery of Art; Lund Humphries, 2002. Folio (30cm). Green cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; 132pp; color illus. throughout. A straight, clean copy, Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket.
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A Mythic Obsession: the World of Dr. Evermor [Inscribed by Tom & Eleann Every]
by [TOM EVERY aka Dr. Evermor] KUPSH, Tom
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Elaborately inscribed, with an original drawing, on front endpaper: "Keep powing now and forevermore - Thank you - See You," signed, dated 7-11 [2010]; further inscribed: "Laey Eleann Every," dated 7-19-2010. Both inscriptions are surrounded by small drawings of leaves, eyes, and abstract faces. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; x,198pp;... Read More
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The Pursuit of the Apache Chief: A Story of the Campaign Against Geronimo
by TOMLINSON, Everett T.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1924. Second printing (first published 1920). Small octavo; red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 283pp. Straight, unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and edgeworn, still Very Good. One of Tomlinson's many juvenile western stories.
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All Our Yesterdays
by TOMLINSON, H. M.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 539pp. Shelf-soil on covers, with tanning to edges of textblock; Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 8/6 net), tanned, with foxing, and tiny tears, chips and creases to extremities; Good. Tomlinson's works are often anti-war,... Read More
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Gallions Reach [Signed]
by TOMLINSON, H. M.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Limited Edition. One of 350 copies signed by the author (250 intended for sale), of which this is no.73. Octavo (20cm); oatmeal cloth spine over light blue paper-covered boards, with numbered (no.73) paper title label on spine; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; glassine dustjacket; 283pp; tipped in black and white illustrations... Read More
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The Snows of Helicon
by TOMLINSON, H.M.
London: Heinemann, 1933. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's royal blue cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Dustjacket. 279pp. Clean and sharp, a little wear and discoloration to the spine ends, a handsome copy in a bright, strong dustjacket with some light soiling of the white areas and a little incidental wear and shallow chipping to the edges,... Read More
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All Our Yesterdays [Signed Copy, from the Library of Frank Capra]
by TOMLINSON, H.M. [Henry Major]
London: Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper. From the library of Hollywood filmmaker and noted bibliophile Frank Capra (1897-1991), with his pencil signature to front endpaper, with additional annotation, apparently in his hand, noting two errors in the text. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket,539pp. A few faint specks of foxing to upper... Read More
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Out of Soundings
by TOMLINSON, H. M. (text); H. Charles Tomlinson (illustrations)
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. First Edition. One of 110 numbered copies signed by author, of which this is no.89. Octavo (25cm); green bukram spine over marbled paper-covered boards, with paper title label on spine; edges untrimmed; 282pp; black and white illustration at frontispiece and throughout. Text unopened. Spine-faded, with tanning and shelf-soil, rubbing to... Read More
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Goleta: the Good Land
by TOMPKINS, Walker A.
Goleta, CA: Goleta Amvets Post No.55, (1966). Second printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 347pp. Tight, square, Very Good copy, with text clean and unmarked. Presentation inscription mounted inside front cover from "Cathedral Oaks PTA", dated 1973. Small ownership stamp to front endpaper ("C.P. Shanklin"). Jacket price clipped and worn, with chips to edges and moderate rubbing; just Very... Read More
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Vom Ursprung und Ende der Metaphysik: Eine Studie zur Weltanschauungskritik
by TOPITSCH, Ernst
Wien: Springer, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth titled in blue; [iv],320pp. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Gently rubbed, faded along spine and edges of front board, but clean: Very Good.
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Topolski's Chronicle - No.13-16 (265-268), Vol.XII
by TOPOLSKI, Feliks
London: Topolski's Chronicles Ltd, 1965. First Edition. Two broadsheets lithographed in colors on gray-green stock, each measuring 58.5 x 92cm (23 x 36.25") and connecting at center to create a full-length poster with two scenes, printed on recto and verso, measuring 58.5 x 183.5cm overall (23 x 72.5"). Light wear to extremities, with occasional toning along folds, a few... Read More
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Port Chicago Poets: a New Voice in Anthology
by TORGERSEN, Don Arthur (ed); Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Carroll, Stuart McCarrell, Robert Burleigh, et al, contributors
Chicago: Chicago International Manuscripts, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 207pp. Tight, clean and unmarked, about Fine in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.25 on front flap), slightly rubbed on front and rear panels, Very Good. Collects the work of thirty Chicago poets, many now forgotten but notably including a dozen works by Gwendolyn... Read More
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Velvet Fist: Women's Liberation Paper. Vol I, no 1 - Vol 2, no 3 (Sept. 1970 - April 1972, unbroken run)
by [TORONTO WOMEN'S CAUCUS] CUSTANCE, Diane (et al, eds)
Toronto: Velvet Fist, 1970-72. Twelve tabloid issues of 8pp each. Horizontal folds (as issued); light wear; Very Good. Bi-monthly publication of the Toronto Women's Caucus, which emerged as a feminist wing of the League for Socialist Action and the Young Socialists' Alliance in 1970. Despite a tiny circulation, Velvet Fist was notable for its advocacy of direct mass actions... Read More
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After The Chinese
by Torra, Joseph
Boston: Pressed Wafer Pr, 2004. First edition. 96 pages, perfect bound. Tangy poetry, worth carrying with you. A lovely copy.
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Ensayos sobre Literatura Latinoamericana (2 vols)
by TORRES-RIOSECO, A.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953-58. First Edition. First printings, issued under the auspices of the Fondo de Cultura Económica de Mexico. Two octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers in dustjacket. Primera Serie (1953), 208pp; Segunda serie (1958) 204pp. Ink ownership signature to each half-title, else clean, tight and unmarked in the original dustwrappers, lightly toned and edgeworn, still Very Good... Read More
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Blackouts: A Novel [Signed]
by TORRES, Justin
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xii],[6],7-305,[5]pp. Signed by the author on a preliminary leaf. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $30.00), showing some trivial external wear. The author's second book, winner... Read More
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The Wounded Mattress
by TORREGIAN, Sotère (poems); LAMANTIA, Philip (introduction)
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. First Edition. Cloth issue, one of 250 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. A few foxed spots to lower board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), with moderate scattered foxing; Very Good+. Early collection by the French surrealist poet, born in Newark, New Jersey but of... Read More
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Épaves: Récit Véridique
by TOULANMANCHE, Karl
[Paris]: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1972]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white card wrappers printed in brown and black; 85pp. About Fine. Haitian tales, published shortly after the death of dictator Papa Doc (François Duvalier).
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Toulouse-Lautrec
by [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC] NÉRET, Gilles
Paris: Éditions Nathan, 1991. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 191pp. Old price stickers to front and rear covers of jacket. Six tightly creased dogeared pages interspersed throughout slightly age-toned textblock. Bottom edge corners mildly bumped, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor shelf wear. Very Good.
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FOR A DOUBLE TIME
by Toulson, Shirley
Frensham, Surrey: Sceptre Press, 1970. First edition. Pamphlet. Number 29 of 74 numbered copies of a total edition of 100. Single piece of paper folded twice. Early publication from this press. Light toning to the paper else fine.
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The Charles
by TOURTELLOT, Arthur Bernon (author); DONNELLY, Ernest J. (illustrations)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, titled and blocked in gilt and red; red topstain; dustjacket; 356pp; illus. Topstain faded with a few faint splash marks, and cello-tape stains to half-title page (possibly from a review slip, or similar); Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly sunned at spine, with several shallow edge... Read More
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MULTIPLES PRÉSENCES
by Toutounji, Samia
Tokyo: Peter Brogren, The Voyagers' Press, 1968. First edition. Limited edition to 250 copies. 8vo.; 50pp; uncut edges throughout; deckled paper; printed paper wrappers, with paper label. Minor sunning to upper edge and spine, small stain; Fine. The sole collection of verse, written in French, by Lebanese writer Samia Toutounji. The poet wrote in Beirut and died... Read More
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Nouvelles Lettres a Seydou: Mieux vivre dans notre région
by TOUZE, R.-L.; M. Mamadou Dia, pref
Dakar: Éditions Clairafrique, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in red and black; 147pp.; illus. Minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Community development in rural Senegal.
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