Search Results: Authors starting with T from Yesterday's Muse Books

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x1. Shenton, Edward. Second printing. Jacket rubbed with minor chips and minor tears. 1962 Hard Cover. 287 pp. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. The author shares a year of discovery and adventure spent in her 1690 Connecticut farmhouse.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. Johnson, Pamela. First edition. Large tear on front jacket panel, chips and tears to jacket, jacket lightly foxed. Front free endpaper missing, highlighting. 1976 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Taber shares memories of her childhood in the Southwest and Mexico as well as her married life and early pursuit of a writing career.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8x5x0. Book club edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears. 1959 Hard Cover. 256 pp. "Gladys Taber, beloved author of The Stillmeadow books, columnist for "Ladies Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Later, she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley and her M.A. from Lawrence. Marriage and a baby interrupted her academic career, then for more than 20 years, she lived in her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University. She passed away on March 11, 1980, leaving 50 published books as her legacy.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Shenton, Edward. First edition. Jacket spine stained, jacket rubbed, jacket reverse taped. Bookplate on front endpaper. 1959 Hard Cover. 282 pp. Day-to-day leisurely living on the author's Connecticut farm. "Gladys Taber, beloved author of The Stillmeadow books, columnist for "Ladies Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Later, she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley and her M.A. from Lawrence. Marriage and a baby interrupted her academic career, then for more than 20 years, she lived in her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the time to teach creative… Read More

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1971. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Second printing. Minor chips to jacket, jacket foxed. Page ridges foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. 251 pp. The author of the Stillmeadow books invites her readers to Still Cove, on the Cape. For many years Gladys Taber has shared all the warmth and charm of Stillmeadow, her Connecticut home, with her thousands of devoted readers. Here she opens the doors of her Cape Cod home and invites her readers to share another part of her life.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8x5x1. Shenton, Edward. 2nd printing. Very good in worn jacket. Tape tear on front jacket corner, jacket spine ends worn with minor loss, jacket lightly toned and soiled. 1984 Hard Cover. 273 pp. Illustrations by Edward Shenton. The author portrays her experiences through the seasons living with a friend in an old country farmhouse in Connecticut. "Gladys Taber, beloved author of The Stillmeadow books, columnist for "Ladies Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Later, she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley and her M.A. from Lawrence. Marriage and a baby interrupted her academic career, then for more than 20 years, she lived in her… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1959. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Shenton, Edward. Book club edition. Jacket rubbed with some chips. Pencil name on front free endpaper. 1959 Hard Cover. 256 pp. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Essays for each month of the year at Stillmeadow, the author's vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut, farmhouse.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. Johnson, Pamela. First edition. Tape ghost on boards, smudge on front board. Jacket stained, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1974 Hard Cover. 220 pp. Illustrated by Pamela Johnson. "The ancient house speaks to us. Footfalls sound on the steep stairs, doors open softly, floorboards creak, echoing lives lived here long, long ago. And I think echoes of the lives of our family will be here too.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Cloth spine soiled, page ridges lightly foxed. 1966 Hard Cover. 239 pp. Stories include: Matchmakers; Impetuous Wedding; Honey and the Home Front; Dear Bachelor; Look Homeward, Dusty; Money of Her Own; Letter to the Dean; Just a Little Havoc; When the Wood Grows Dry; Portrait of a Gentleman; The Legend of Lavinia; Miss Fenella's Story; Little Goat Goes Up.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Taber, Ralph Graham; Ravelle, M.; H.D.W. First edition. Ink owner stamp on front endpaper, boards faintly rubbed. 1915 Hard Cover. 273, [5] pp. 8vo. A fictional narrative based on the author's own experiences traveling in Mexico, illustrated from photographs by the author and his friend M. Ravelle. Initial H.D.W. printed on front board design, artist unknown.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 10x8x0. Rockwell, Norman. Faintly rubbed. 1977 Large Hardcover. A clever way to get kids counting to twenty and higher. Filled with wonderful illustrations by the legendary Norman Rockwell.

Philadelphia: Impensis M. Carey, 1808. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper ('The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00, No. 77'), edges of endpapers toned, top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv, 256 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin, taken primarily from the Brotier's edition, with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D., whose histories provide an authoritative account of various events within the Roman Empire, with the unique insight of a politician living at the time.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998. 9th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. Ninth printing. Pages lightly toned. 1998 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Has Your Heart Been Touched by Silver' Joni Eareckson Tada peers into the treasury of Scripture -- pure as refined silver, cleansing what it touches. More Precious Than Silver reveals surpassing wealth in the subtle things we overlook as we chase life's golden glitter. This year's worth of wise, insightful devotions will show you why nothing can compare to the riches of a heart that's known the silver touch of God's Word. Includes photos and illustrations by Joni.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Jacket edges rubbed with small chips and small tears, front jacket flap creased. Page ridges and some pages foxed. 1953 Hard Cover. xvii, 400 pp. "A survey of the pictures and illustrations of the Western United States during the period 1850 to 1900 and the men who made them.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1953. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 0x0x0. Multiple tears to jacket edges, jacket spine lightly toned. 1953 Hard Cover. xvii, 400 pp. "A survey of the pictures and illustrations of the Western United States during the period 1850 to 1900 and the men who made them.

New York: Osprey, 2003. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 7x0x9. White, John. Second printing. Minor edge wear. 2003 Soft Cover. 64 pp. The fateful attack on Pearl Harbor forced the Western world to revise its opinion of Japan's airmen. Before the war, Japanese aviators had been seen as figures of ridicule and disdain; yet the ruthless skill and efficiency of their performance in December 1941 and the months that followed won them a new reputation as a breed of oriental superman. This book explores the world of the Imperial Japanese Naval airman, from the zenith of his wartime career until the turning of the tide, when the skill and experience of the average Japanese airman declined. Cultural and social background, recruitment, training, daily life and combat experience are all covered.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x1x7. 3rd printing. Wrappers rubbed. 1969 Trade Paperback. 401 pp. Selected writings by the Hindu poet covering such subjects as the arts, education, and religion.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine labels lightly toned, otherwise an exceptional set. 1896 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. xvi, 433; xii, 447; xiv, 462; xviii, 476 pp. Green cloth, paper spine labels. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, and Lord Byron. Taine was a major force in the history of literature: 'the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's' (Britannica) He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.

Bonn: Verlag von Emil Strauss, 1880. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Authorized German edition, after the third French edition. Pencil name and date on front endpaper. 1880 Hard Cover. Two volumes in one. 320; 370 pp. 8vo. German text, translated from the French by L. Siegfried. Taine was a French critic and historian, a chief influence in French naturalism, an advocate of sociological positivism, and an early historicist (perhaps the first). This works provides an analysis of the human mind, discussing brain physiology, knowledge, sense perceptions, images, etc.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Mixed edition (vol. 1 first, vol. 2 second). Edges rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1870 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. Half-leather: leather spine and boards, pebbled cloth boards, gilt titles and rules. 492; 508 pp. 8vo. Taine was a French critic and historian, a chief influence in French naturalism, an advocate of sociological positivism, and an early historicist (perhaps the first). This works provides an analysis of the human mind, discussing brain physiology, knowledge, sense perceptions, images, etc.