Search Results: Authors starting with T from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1992. Fine in very good dust jackat.. Signed first printing of this hilarious guide to dinosaur ownership, by one Dr. Rex of The Museum of Relatively Natural History. Hudson Talbott's talent for depicting dinosaurs with big personalities landed another of his dino tales, WE'RE BACK! A DINOSAUR'S STORY, on the big screen, with Steven Spielberg at the helm. 10'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($15.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Talbott to title page. Jacket with to short closed tears to lower edge, with tape repairs to verso. Book sharp and bright.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this Victorian mystery following Sarah Woolson's rise as a lawyer in 1880 San Francisco, and her first case: the murder of an abusive husband that is less simple than it appears. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original boards. Original unclipped ($23.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 280 pages. Signed by Tallman to front flyleaf. Jacket with a bit of soil to spine, faint dampstaining to verso. Book sharp and clean.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this Arizona murder mystery, in which ex-history professor David Mapstone picks up a temp job at the police department only to find some of the cases he's working on are not as cold as they seem. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original navy blue boards. Original unclipped ($22.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 212 pages. Inscribed by Talton to title page "To Steve & Theresa, with warm regards." dated 10/21/01. Small owner label to front flyleaf. Jacket with a touch of edgewear. Firm.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this intergenerational novel built upon the game of mahjong, following the lives of Chinese-American women in San Francisco - a beautiful copy. Tan explores mother-daughter relationships, communities of women, the experiences of Mandarin Chinese immigrants, and the struggles of their second-generation children. The women's lives weave in and out of the structure of their mahjong club, which also plays a role in the thematic elements of the novel. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter dark green paper, lighter green paper boards, gilt-stamped vignette on front board, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($18.95) color pictorial dust jacket with illustration by Gretchen Schields. Green endpapers. 288 pages. Inscribed by Tan on title page: "Joy + luck! / Amy Tan / 21 April 1991 / Denver." Very shallow, faint crease to front flap, close inspection only. Trace shelfwear to book extremities. Minor toning to… Read More

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first American edition of this surreal assemblage of illustrations and tales of a deceptively familiar suburb. Shaun Tan's uncanny prose and illustrations have earned him an array of accolades, including two Hugos, the Kate Greenaway Medal, and an Oscar for the film adaptation of one of his picture books. 9.54'' x 7.25''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($19.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 96 pages. Signed by Tan to half-title page. Sharp.

New York: Harlin Quist, 1977. First edition. Fine.. First printing of this lovely and slightly surreal collection of rhymes about a pair of children and their dog. Publisher Harlin Quist had an eye for the unusual, and an affinity for the avant-garde. Before his series of picture books began in 1967, "few books published for children had collectively raised such consistent debate and discussion, applause and criticism" (Paley, 111). He worked with a variety of artists to create a spectrum of attractive illustrated titles, from the delightfully spooky penwork of Gorey to vibrant and rather psychedelic watercolors of Etienne Delessert and everything in between. 7.5'' x 7.5''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Clean and tight.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1914. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition, first state of this classic of US American boyhood, featuring coming of age adventures in the midwest - in the scarce original dust jacket. PENROD is often compared to Mark Twain's tales of boyhood, especially THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. This is an excellent copy, rarely found in such a nice dust jacket, and with highly desirable provenance. 7.25'' x 5''. Original white-lettered blue cloth. In original unclipped ($1.25) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Grant in black and white throughout. "viii" present on the appropriate page; "sence" on p. 19. x, 345, [1] pages. Doheny's gilt goatskin bookplate on front pastedown. Book with slight soiling to boards and small repair to spine head. Jacket beautifully intact with light soil and a few shallow closed tears primarily at spine ends.

Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, 1990. First edition. Fine.. Uncorrected page proofs of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black and beige pictorial wrappers. 55, [1] pages. Trace shelfwear. Overall, bright and sharp.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First printing. Fine.. First edition in wrappers (simultaneous with hardcover) of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original magenta pictorial wrappers designed by Cathy Saksa. 63, [1] pages. Trace edgewear. Else bright and sharp.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. First hardcover edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, issued as Volume 28 in Ecco's American Poetry Series. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth. In original unclipped ($13.50) dust jacket by Cathy Saksa. 63, [1] pages. Trace shelfwear. Else bright and sharp overall.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. First printing. Near fine.. Inscribed first softcover edition (simultaneous with the hardcover) of this early collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. 8'' x 6''. Original wrappers designed by William Van Saun. The Wesleyan Poetry Program Volume 82. 78, [2] pages. Inscribed by Tate on front free endpaper. Light wear and scuffing to wrappers.

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1981. Fine.. Scarce signed limited hardcover first edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, issued as No. 4 in the Metacom Limited Editions Series. 8.5'' x 6''. Original quarter brown cloth with decorative red and cream boards. Edition of 26 hardbound copies lettered A-Z; this is copy D. Designed, printed and bound by Nancy King and William Ferguson. Signed by Tate at colophon. 15, [3] pages. Minimal edgewear.

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1981. Fine.. Signed limited first edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, issued as No. 4 in the Metacom Limited Editions Series. 8.5'' x 6''. Original khaki wrappers, hand-sewn into pale grey Ingres Antique dust jacket with paper label to front panel. 15, [3] pages. Edition of 300 copies in wrappers; this copy no. 49. Designed, printed and bound by Nancy King and William Ferguson. Signed by Tate at colophon. Minimal edgewear.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1979. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition, review copy of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, with original publisher's publicity photo of the author laid in. 8'' x 5.5''. Original tan cloth. Green endpapers. In original unclipped ($7.95) dust jacket with stonecut by Luktak and jacket typography by Cynthia Krupat. Volume 18 of The American Poetry Series. Original publisher's review card, with Tate's "Sloops in the Bay" printed on verso, with original 7'' x 5'' black and white author photograph, both laid in. 68, [2] pages. Light edgewear and minor toning.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Uncommon first hardcover edition of this early collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. 8'' x 6''. Original grey cloth. In original dust jacket designed by William Van Saun. The Wesleyan Poetry Program Volume 82. 78, [2] pages. Minor edgewear and rubbing to jacket. Bit of faint offsetting to endpapers. Else clean and sound.

Victoria, Australia: The Images Publishing Group, 2003. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing of this beautifully-illustrated volume on six of classical architect Ken Tate's residential projects, exhibiting a sophisticated blend of styles. Extensive monograph on Ken Tate who was predominantly self-taught and whose elegant designs show his eclectic mix of inspirations. 11'' x 11''. Original black cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color with several tipped-in plates. 424 pages. Trace shelfwear. Else bright, sound, and clean overall.

(Syracuse, NY): (Syracuse University), 1970. Near fine.. Inscribed pamphlet containing two brief articles on the 19th century American comic artist, including a checklist of his works. Originally published in the Syracuse University Courier and here reprinted with addenda and additional illustrations. This copy inscribed to Civil War historian and archivist Manuel Kean. 9'' x 6''. Original saddle-stapled beige wrappers. Black and white illustrations. 16 pages. Inscribed by Tatham inside front cover: "To Manuel Kean with best wishes / June 1971 / David Tatham." Light edgewear, minor soil to wrappers.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first printing of Taylor's historical children's fantasy, by a onetime punk roadie turned Anglican vicar. 9'' x 6''. Original purple boards. In original unclipped ($17.99) pictorial dust jacket. 259, [1] pages. Signed by Taylor on title page. Minor wear to jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Uncommon signed first printing of this vibrant story of how Wolf gave the birds their colors (with no help from Raccoon) - with an original drawing of Wolf watching a bird. 11'' x 8.5''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($15.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [28] pages. Inscribed by Taylor to title page "Here is a tale about / Wolf, brother to the / birds and animals. / Happy reading!" dated 2001, with original drawing of Wolf and a bird. Jacket with light edgewear. Bright.

Augusta, ME: Kennebec Journal Press, 1909. First edition. Very good plus.. First and only printing of these curious scientific tall tales of Maine inventors and eccentrics, mixing the art of the yarn with the developing genre of science fiction. Taylor, a Maine writer for various local-interest periodicals, presents a miscellany of speculative inventions and regional whimsy: most notably, a doctor sets up a carrier pigeon messaging relay to bring down the exploitative phone company, in "Dr Lunt and His Telebird System"; and a lazy farmer invents an electrical contraption to secretly broadcast Sunday sermons directly into his private home, in the title story. A rare and intriguing amateur exploration of turn-of-the-century technologies in the traditional tall-tale format, wherein the canny old Maine farmer fulfills his trickster function through the use of wires, tubes, levers, and transmitters. 7'' x 5''. Original red cloth with bright gilt lettering. Photographic frontispiece with intact tissue… Read More