Search Results: Authors starting with T from Fine Editions Ltd

New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing of the author's first novel, inscribed on fly-leaf: "'Well the old Triangle knew the music of our Tread, / How the peaceful Seminole would tremble / in his bed. / Newton Booth Tarkington." First State of text (with correct points on pp. 245, 291, and 342) "probable" later state binding (see discussion in Russo & Sullivan) with ear of corn on spine pointing down. Crown 8vo (200 x 128mm): viii,[2]384pp. Publisher's green mesh cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gold and scarlet, top edge stained dark green, others untrimmed, manuscript ex-libris (apparently of a family member) in elegant script on front paste-down: W. S. R. Tarkington / Christmas 1900 [overwritten on "1899"]. Spine slightly darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, but Near Fine or better. Russo & Sullivan, pp. 3-6. Johnson (High Spots), p. 71 ("Politics and love in a growing mid-west town of the pre-Babbit era when moonlight still… Read More

London: Empire Printing & Publishing Co, 1888. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine+. Second Edition of this angling title. Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): [6],58,[6]pp, with fascinating illustrated angling advertisements bound front and backs. Original olive green pictorial cloth, covers paneled in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt with gilt trout vignette. An excellent example, securely bound and general clean throughout. Hampton, p. 91. Taylor was secretary of the Gresham Angling Society, founded in 1881. The title refers to a style of wet trout fly created in England more than 350 years ago. Thomas Barker described the first Palmer fly in The Art of Angling, in 1651. Over the centuries, materials have evolved, but the basic profile of a Palmer fly remains true to Barker's original: widely spaced spirals of hackle wrapped along the length of a hook shank. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All… Read More

London: Philip Allan & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-. First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) and Tennant's mother. Blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, paper title labels printed in black to front board and spine, decorative end papers. Wanting the rare dust wrapper. Royal 8vo (244 x 185mm): [8],64pp, with 32 tipped-in black-and-white plates reproducing pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors by Tennant and decorative end piece. Trivial wear to binding, else about Fine. Pamela Grey contributed the short poems and morality tales for modern life, Tennant, the accompanying illustrations, peopled with a mix of Regency courtiers, nymphs, and fairy tale characters reminiscent of Beardsley. Despite positive reviews, sales were disappointing, and copies are now scarce. N. B. With few exceptions… Read More

[London]: Published by Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street, 1831. Marbled Wrappers. Near Fine+. Rare issue of this fascinating and fragile pictorial and written record of the first tunnel constructed successfully beneath a navigable river: OCLC records no 1831 edition (but several, dating 1828, '29, and '30), and RBH lists only one copy at auction. Oblong foolscap 8vo (96 x 131mm): 28 unnumbered pages (including title page; some printed one side only as explanations to illustrations), with two steel-engraved plans (one folding, one double-page) and ten plates (two folding, one tinted, one with overlay). Plates by Silvester & Co., Engelmann & Co., M. Dixie, and T. Blood; text printed by the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields. Original marbled wrappers, red paper title label to upper cover printed in black. An excellent copy of this fragile production, tightly bound (very skillful restoration to spine; corner of upper cover imperceptibly reattached), text generally clean throughout, some… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression, signed by Theroux on title page, his second novel (after Waldo). Small 8vo: [8],199,[1]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine stamped in gilt, dust jacket illustrated by Michael Foreman. Price-clipped and repriced on sticker £8.50, else a virtually pristine unread copy. From the author of The Mosquito Coast and The Great Railway Bazaar, a comic morality tale featuring a Chinese storekeeper in East Africa. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. True First Edition, preceding the American edition, of the author's best novel, "clever, superbly composed, also terrifying." (Burgess) Filmed by Peter Weir, with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix, and awarded both the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Demy 8vo (210 x 130mm): [8],392pp. Publisher's forest green finely woven cloth, spine stamped in gold, illustrated dust jacket priced £7.95. Signed by Theroux (without inscription) on title page. A Fine example, without apparent flaw. Burgess 99. "Theroux's subject is a fine traditional one—dealt with less expertly and realistically in Lord of the Flies: the dream of the return to innocence always turns into nightmare. The physical impact of the style, the exact observation, the occasional intrusion of the hallucinatory make this a remarkable work of art; its philosophical content is profound." (Burgess) N. B. With few… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very Fine copy. Crandell A17.I.c. "For a number of years Elia Kazan, the director of several of Tennessee Williams's play on Broadway as well as films, had been urging Mr. Williams to weld into an original film story two of his early one-act plays which were, roughly, concerned with the same characters and situation. And in the summer of 1955, while he was traveling in Europe, Mr. Williams wrote and dispatched to Mr. Kazan a proposed script, quite different from the two short plays. With some changes this was filmed the following winter mainly in the Mississippi rural area which had been the original setting of the two short plays." (from the Publisher's Note). The film, Baby Doll, is the story of a… Read More

London: printed for the author, and to be had of him at his house in Worcester; and of John Clarke, [London], Bookseller, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, near Little-Britain, 1737. Full Calf. Fine. Reissue of the 1736 edition (with cancel title page printed in red and black) of this account of the bishops of Worcester. Demy 4to (252 x 191mm): [2],vi,124; 222; [2,blank],8,210pp, with 27 full-page and five half-page plates of monuments and tombs (including four folding) and three woodcut headpieces (one signed 'FH'), three woodcut tailpieces (one signed 'FH'), and three woodcut factotums. Some words and inscriptions in black letter. "An Account of the Bishops of Worcester" and "Chartæ originales ex registris sedis episcopalis Wygorn" (including Index, which references the whole work) with separate title pages, pagination, and register. Engraved Chippendale armorial book plate of George Kenyon of Peel Esq. Contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments separated by raised bands,… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings 188, Fleet Street, 1876. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First (and only) Edition of this documentary record of six important country houses, featuring 24 Woodbury-type photographs mounted on card stock. Royal 8vo (288 x 203mm): viii,215,[1]pp, with illustrated with 15 exterior views (including parks and gardens), 8 interior views, and facsimile of a letter. Original publisher's green elaborately decorated cloth, blocked in gilt and black, thick beveled boards, all edges gilt, black end papers. A superb example, tightly bound and clean throughout, with rich renditions of the plates. Van Haaften, NYPL Bull. 80, p. 393, else notably absent from the photography literature; the Truthful Lens lists two titles by Thompson and Gersheim more than ten. Not in Margolis & Moss. The medieval halls and manor houses shown here are Ightham Mote, Hever Castle, Penshurst Place, Knole, Hampden House, and Stoke Poges, along with views of some of the villages… Read More

London: [none given], 1730. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine-. Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest, longest, and finest nature poems in the English language." (Literary Encyclopedia) Large 4to: [8],250,[4, half title and Argument for Spring, final page of subscribers list, and errata misbound],251-252,16,8pp, with title page in red and black with engraved vignette, five full-page allegorical plates by William Kent (one for each season and one for the valedictory to Newton),and head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials by Samuel Richardson. Contemporary full speckled English calf, flat spine in seven compartments divided by gilt rolls, red morocco lettering piece gilt, board edges gilt-tooled, armorial engraved bookplate of James Grove Wood, Castle Grove, on front paste-down. Wood (1803-1891) lived at Castle… Read More

New York: Cos Cob Press, 1933. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine-. Text, in French, by Max Jacob. Crown 8vo (180 x 133mm): 9,[1]pp. Publisher's original tan wrappers printed and decorated in red and black. Front wrapper inscribed: "love & faithfulness / Alfred / from / Virgil." "Alfred," according to a notation to front cover verso, is Alfred Barr (1902-1981), who was named director of New York's newly founded Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) at age 27, in 1929. About Fine, fresh and bright (miniscule light stain to gutter throughout. Quite scarce, especially so inscribed. Stabat Mater is a medieval Latin hymn to the Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. According to the composer Ned Rorem, Thomson's rendition is one of his most moving pieces, with "a lean and ambiguously modal counterpoint and a heartbreaking coda." The text is not from the Stabat Mater poem, but a 15-line exchange among an angel, Saint John, Mary at the cross, and Jesus, and was… Read More

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. Fine. First Edition of this charming tour of Boston's colonial and pre-industrial neighborhoods. Royal 8vo (240 x 154mm): xii, 282pp, with frontispiece and 23 full-page plates and seven folding maps on tissue. Publisher's quarter black cloth lettered in gold, brown paper-covered boards, decorative label printed in black to front cover, fore- and bottom edges uncut. Vintage bookseller's ticket to front paste-down (Chas. E. Lauriat, Boston). A superior example, tightly bound (hinges skillfully reinforced with Japanese tissue, several leaves roughly opened with no loss of text) and clean throughout. According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Annie Haven Thwing turned her massive collection of nearly 125,000 index cards into this beloved and highly informative 1920 publication. Thwing used colony records and Suffolk deeds to paint a picture of Boston's neighborhoods—the North End, Government and Business Centre, South End, West… Read More

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 400 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. Crown 8vo (188 x 130mm): [6],8,[2]pp, with line-drawn portrait frontispiece of Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868). Publisher's black cloth-backed gray decorative paper-covered boards, cream paper title label printed in grey to front cover, map end papers (of 1815 New Orleans), text printed in black and lime green on handmade paper. An exemplary example, tightly bound and clean and bright throughout. This brief treatise is dedicated to Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868), a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, and planter, who was also president of the Louisiana State Senate between 1822 and 1823. When Bernard de Marigny was 15 years old, his father died, and Bernard inherited his father's plantation just east of New Orleans's Vieux Carré. According to historians, his every whim was indulged while his father was… Read More

London: Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, 1898. Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened. Faint creasing to rear wrapper, but a spectacular survival, securely bound and clean throughout. Read at a meeting of the Sette at Limmer's Hotel on Friday, January 14, 1898, and presented to the Sette by Todhunter, Irish poet and playwright. Ye Sette of Odd Volumes was a London bibliophilic club, founded in 1878 by bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Members included a wide-ranging cross-section of notable men, including literary figures, artists, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and eccentrics. The original Sette disbanded on the eve of the Second World War, in 1939, but rebanded in 1950 with a new group of members. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified),… Read More

Boston / New York: Benj. R. Tucker / Thomas Crowell, 1899. Card Covers. Fine-. First American Edition (later printing) of this translation of Tolstoy's fictional account of imagined infidelity followed by brutal murder "that amounts to a tendentious diatribe against sexual passion of any kind." (Literary Encyclopedia) Offered with the sequel [epilogue], published in 1899. Sonata: Foolscap 8vo (168 x 116mm): 143,[1,advertisement for The Rag-Picker by Felix Pyat] pp. Publisher's orange card covers stamped in black. A rare survival of the less common wrappers issue, about Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Sequel: First separate American edition. Crown 8vo (188 x 125mm): 155-160pp. Tan stapled card covers printed in black. Absolutely pristine and quite scarce. Line 72. After the Russian censors forbade publication of this novella in 1889, at least three mimeographed versions circulated. The New York Times reported from Russia, "The Kreutzer Sonata is copied and recopied from manuscript by… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Edition (so stated) in English of this posthumously published novella, translated by Aylmer Maude. Crown 8vo (203 x 120mm): x,[2],104pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over scarlet paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed; color illustrated dust jacket, priced $2.00. Board edges lightly shelf-rubbed, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, the scarce jacket Near Fine or better. Not in Line. Written in 1889 and given an alternative ending in 1909, but first published in 1911. Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, written around the same time, The Devil deals with the consequences of sexual desire and lust. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. Only printing, from an edition of approximately 300 copies. Slim 8vo (217 x 138mm): 23,[1]pp. Publisher's marbled paper-covered boards, cream paper label printed in black to upper board. A superb survival, completely unopened, binding square and tight without fading, chipping, or tears; light spotting to end papers and title page, else clean throughout. Woolmer 78. NCBEL IV, 370. Trevelyan was the second son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet. "Described as a 'rumpled, eccentric poet' . . . close to the Bloomsbury Group, who called him 'Bob Trevy'. He had a wide further range of social connections: George Santayana, Isaac Rosenberg, Bernard Berenson, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, [and] E. M. Forster with whom he and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson travelled to India in 1912." (Wikipedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the Irish author's second collection, including "A Choice of Butchers" and "O Fat White Woman." 8vo: 269,[1]pp. Publisher's olive-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. An excellent example (apparently unread) in a virtually pristine jacket. William Trevor was one of the most acclaimed writers in English of the twentieth century, above all in the short story form (he published eleven volumes). "The Ballroom of Romance" shows Trevor's art "at its most characteristic and best. It concerns Bridie, a woman in rural Ireland, a feature of whose monotonous life is the regular dances at the ballroom, places that were once a familiar part of the country. The night in question will be the last, as Bridie realises in a moment of epiphany that the man she has been waiting for can never be hers. . . . Resignation is seen through the eyes of someone ordinary and left behind by life,… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of this master storyteller's eighth novel. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, priced £3.50 and illustrated by John Walsh. Exceptionally Fine, tight, square and apparently unread, in a vibrant, unfaded jacket. Set on the Dorset coast, The Children of Dynmouth is "one of Trevor's best" novels, and won the Whitbread Award. "The book tells of the interconnected lives of the residents of a small seaside town, and how Timothy Gedge, a teenage boy, spies on them and brings about disaster; it is a reflection on evil and on marriage." (Literary Encyclopedia) Trevor adapted the novel into a screenplay for BBC television. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1862. First Edition. Half-Calf. Near Fine+. Complete in two octavo volume: viii,320; viii,320pp, with 40 full-page wood-engraved plates that Trollope considered the "best he had seen 'in any novel in any language.'" (Ray) Contemporary green polished half-calf spines in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, marble paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, edges speckled red. Short tear (repaired) to plate opposite p. 49, vol. I. Ink manuscript name and date (1863) to fly-leaf of voI II, with same inscription upside down to back fly-leaf of vol. I, as well as a further ink name and date (1890) inscribed to front blank. A truly excellent set, bindings square, tight, and barely worn; pages clean, fresh and mostly free of foxing; plates in deep, rich impressions. Sadleir 13. NCBEL III, 882. Ray (England) 168. Muir (Victorian Illustrated Books), p. 135. Trollope considered this lengthy book, a version of the crime, or "sensation," novel in vogue during the… Read More