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Rare first edition, first state of Jane and Ann Taylor's Little Ann; inscribed by Louisa May Alcott
TAYLOR, Jane and Ann. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. [Louisa May Alcott].
Little Ann and Other Poems.
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1882].
First edition, first state of this children's classic. First state with the half green cloth binding, all edges stained blue and bright yellow endpapers. Schuster & Engen 109a. Octavo, original half green cloth over pictorial boards, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Association copy, inscribed by Louisa May Alcott on the front free endpaper, "Aubrey, from his friend L. M. Alcott Aug. 1884." Louisa May Alcott remains best known for her beloved children's classic, Little Women, published in 1868. One of the most popular juvenile books ever published, “Little Women is an outstanding achievement of 19th-century…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142318
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First Edition of Mildred Taylor's Let the Circle Be Unbroken: Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Inscribed by Her in the year of Publication
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
New York: The Dial Press, 1981.
First edition of this sequel to the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Betsy, My best wishes to you! Mildred D. Taylor December 16, 1981." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 123733
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"You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you": First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award Winning Novel
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
New York: The Dial Press, 2001.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the author's classic Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146375
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First edition of Thomas Griffith Taylor's With Scott: The Silver Lining; from the library of American Polar Explorer William Davies with his ownership inscription
TAYLOR, Thomas Griffith.
With Scott: The Silver Lining.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916.
First edition of Antarctic explorer Griffith Taylor's firsthand account of his experience as part of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition. Quarto, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated penguin vignette to the front panel, illustrated with engravings including frontispiece. From the library of American geologist and polar explorer of William E. Davies with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "William E. Davies Dec. 30, 1938." Davies explored the Appalachian Mountains, Greenland, and Antarctica, where the Davies Escarpment is named after him. In near fine condition. A nice…
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 106851
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"THE KING OF PHILOSOPHERS": Exceptionally Rare First Edition of the First Complete English Translation of The Works of Plato
TAYLOR, Thomas. [Plato].
The Works of Plato, Viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated From the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the Late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: With Occasional Annotations on the Nine Dialogues Translated by Sydenham, and Copious Notes, by the Latter Translator.
London: Printed for Thomas Taylor, By R. Wilks, Chancery-Lane, 1804.
First edition of the first complete English translation of the works of Plato. Quarto, five volumes bound in full pebbled cloth retaining contemporary black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, half-titles, engraved frontispiece to volume I. In the words of the Prometheus Trust, "Taylor's Works of Plato, has two outstanding features which make it an essential component to the genuine philosophers library. Firstly, Taylor himself translates Plato's Dialogues from within the ancient Greek Tradition. No English translator, before or since, has been so completely at one with the Greek philosophical and religious world view: Taylor fulfills, to the highest degree,…
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 131256
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Rare Autograph Note Handwritten by Zachary Taylor as President
TAYLOR, Zachary.
Zachary Taylor Autograph Note.
1850.
Rare autograph note handwritten by the 12th President of the United States. Duodecimo, one page on a folded sheet, blind stamped in the upper right corner. The note reads in full, "The President would be glad to see Mr. [Gales] this morning at 12 o'clock if in town, if not Mr. Seaton - Washington [?] May 12, 1850." In near fine condition with mail folds.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146904
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First Edition of Charles Tazewell's The Littlest Angel
TAZEWELL, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans.
The Littlest Angel.
Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.
First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133161
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Peter Tchaikovsky's Symphonies I-VI; Finely Bound
TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Ilyich .
Symphonies I-VI.
Quarto, 6 volumes. Bound in full red morocco, gilt titles, gilt ruling to the spine, front and rear panels. In near fine condition. Mixed early editions. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 51080
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; Signed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146105
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; inscribed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146178
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The Structure of Matter; inscribed by "the father of the hydrogen bomb" Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward O.; Francis Owen Rice.
The Structure of Matter.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1949.
First edition, secondo printing of this introductory volume on the properties of matter and their systematic interpretation by quantum mechanics. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with charts and graphs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stan in memory of a spectacular appreciation of the application of the theory of atomic structure, Edward Teller." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with small loss to the crown of the spine. Bookplate to the pastedown. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146896
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Rare Edition of Templar's The Poker Manual
TEMPLAR,.
The Poker Manual. A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game… Together with the International Code of Laws.
London: Frederick Warne , 1895.
Early edition of Templar's Poker Manual. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout with colorful red and black diagrams, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 69033
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Limited Librarie Dardel Edition of Lucien Tendret's La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin
TENDRET, Lucien.
La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin.
Chambery: Librairie Dardel, 1934.
Limited Librarie Dardel edition of Tendret's best-known work, published posthumously by his direct descendants as a strict reproduction of the original 1892 printing. Octavo, original wrappers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tendret in 1885. One of 1750 numbered copies, this is number 1390. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 110841
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College
TENNYSON, Alfred.
Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1869.
Finely bound example of Tennyson’s “long-meditated great task” which brought him to fame; decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bound in full pebbled green morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise bands, gilt ruling and scrolled cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a highly detailed concealed fore-edge painting of the Great Court of Trinity College. Ownership inscriptions. In good condition with the fore-edge painting very crisp.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 139645
