TREVOR, William.
The Silence In The Garden.
London: The Bodley Head, (1988). Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Wrappers. Near fine.
London: The Bodley Head, (1988). Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Wrappers. Near fine.
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TREVOR, William.
The Story of Lucy Gault.
(Toronto: Knopf Canada/Viking, 2002). Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. About fine.
(Toronto: Knopf Canada/Viking, 2002). Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. About fine.
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TRIPP, William H.
A Guide To West Point and the United States Military Academy Giving the Location and History All The Public Buildings, Monuments, and Principal Points of Interest, Together With the Hours for all Drills and Formations....Illustrated with Fifty Half Tone Plates. NP: no publisher, nd. (190-?) Oblong 8vo., orig. pictorial wrappers, approx. 64pp. Some wear to spine ends o/w near fine.
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TROLLOPE, Mistress. (Mrs. F).
Moeurs Domestiques Des Americans, Par Mistress Trollope; Ouvrage Traduit de L'Anglais Sur La Quatrieme Edition.
Paris: Librairie De Charles Gosselin, 1833. In two volumes. First French edition. Tall 8vo., rebound in later red morcoo spines, marble boards, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in, 356, (iii)pp.index, (8)pp.ads; 358, ii pp.index. Bookplate, there is a one inch strip across the upper board of volume two o/w a fine copy.
Paris: Librairie De Charles Gosselin, 1833. In two volumes. First French edition. Tall 8vo., rebound in later red morcoo spines, marble boards, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in, 356, (iii)pp.index, (8)pp.ads; 358, ii pp.index. Bookplate, there is a one inch strip across the upper board of volume two o/w a fine copy.
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TRUEMAN, Stuart.
The Ordeal of John Gyles. Being an account of his odd adventures, strange deliverences & c. as a Slave of the Maliseets. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1967). Second printing. Signed by the author. Cloth, 155pp. Fine in a rubbed d/w. Story of John Gyles who was captured by the Maliseet Indians and taken from his home in Maine to New Brunswick.
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TSCHIFFELY, A.F.
This Way Southward A Journey Through Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego.
New York: W.W. Norton, (1940). First edition. Cloth, xvi, 354pp. Fine in d/w with some wear to spine ends but certainly very good.
The author rides in a Ford V-8 far to the south over the seas of grass to Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego, through deserts, mountains, frontier posts---over seven thousand miles of a rough and remote world.....
New York: W.W. Norton, (1940). First edition. Cloth, xvi, 354pp. Fine in d/w with some wear to spine ends but certainly very good.
The author rides in a Ford V-8 far to the south over the seas of grass to Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego, through deserts, mountains, frontier posts---over seven thousand miles of a rough and remote world.....
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TUCKER, John Montgomery.
The Life of Field-Marshal The Duke of Wellington; Compiled From His Grace's Despatches, and Other Authentic Sources and Original Documents; By.....Embellished by Numerous Engravings and Plans of the Battle of Vimeiro and the Battle of Waterloo. London: Willoughby & Co., nd. (186-?) Tall 8vo., orig. blindstamped tan cloth, viii, 446, (8)pp.ads. Inscription, inner hinges cracked, cloth soiled with some wear to spine ends but still a very good copy.
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TUPPER, Charles.
Recollections Of Sixty Years In Canada. London: Cassell, 1914. Tall thick 8vo., orig. dark blue cloth, viii, 414pp. With illustrations. Some light rubbing o/w near fine.
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TURNBULL, Colin M.
The Lonely African. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition. Cloth, 223pp. Fine in d/w.
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TURNER, George.
Samoa A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before. Together With Notes on Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, xvi, (396), 56pp.ads. Dampstain along the lower edge of both covers near the spine with a little bleeding of colour on to the pastedowns, spine faded but o/w a very nice unworn copy.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, xvi, (396), 56pp.ads. Dampstain along the lower edge of both covers near the spine with a little bleeding of colour on to the pastedowns, spine faded but o/w a very nice unworn copy.
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TURNER, George.
Samoa A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before. Together With Notes on Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, xvi, (396), 56pp.ads. Inner hinges cracked, spine a bit faded, a few small holes in upper cover but still a very good copy.
An anthropological look at Samoa.
London: Macmillan, 1884. First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, xvi, (396), 56pp.ads. Inner hinges cracked, spine a bit faded, a few small holes in upper cover but still a very good copy.
An anthropological look at Samoa.
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TURNER, Samuel.
Siberia A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration. With An Introduction by Baron Heyking. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. red cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on the upper cover, xxiv, 420pp. Lacking rear blank and rear free e/paper, inner hinges cracked but o/w an unworn, near fine copy. "English businessman and sportsman surveys the dairy industry and climbs in teh Ural Mountains. Includes much information on travel conditions.
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TURNER, Samuel.
Siberia: A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1911). Second edition. (first published in 1905). 8vo., orig. black cloth, 320pp. Lacking the front free e/paper, slight staining on lower edge of rear cover (damp) but still a very nice, certainly very good copy. "English businessman and sportsman surveys the dairy industry and climbs in teh Ural Mountains. Includes much information on travel conditions.
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TUTTLE, Charles E.
Our North Land: Being a Full Account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson's Bay Route, Together With A Narrative of the Experiences of the Hudson's Bay Expedition of 1884. Including a Description of the Climate, Resources, and Characteristics of the Native Inhabitants Between the 50th Parallel and the Arctic Circle.
Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1885. First edition. Tall thick 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, xvi, (17)-589pp. Folding frontispiece map torn without loss, mark on upper board, some light rubbing o/w near fine.
Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1885. First edition. Tall thick 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, xvi, (17)-589pp. Folding frontispiece map torn without loss, mark on upper board, some light rubbing o/w near fine.
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ULLENS de SCHOOTEN, Marie-Therese.
Lords of the Mountains.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Cloth, 128pp. Spine a bit faded o/w a near fine copy in a very good d/w.
An account of the Kashkai, a nomadic tribe that came to Persia in the 13th century. She gives "a fascinating account of her privileged journey and of the life of this tribe..."
London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Cloth, 128pp. Spine a bit faded o/w a near fine copy in a very good d/w.
An account of the Kashkai, a nomadic tribe that came to Persia in the 13th century. She gives "a fascinating account of her privileged journey and of the life of this tribe..."
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ULLMAN, James Ramsay.
The Age of Mountaineering. With a Chapter on British Mountains by W.H. Murray. London: Collins, 1956. First edition. Name o/w nera fine in a near fine d/w. An account of the mountains and the men who climbed them.
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(UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO).
University of Toronto Faculty Fifteenth Annual Dinner. Gymnasium Dec. 2nd, 1901.
Printed stiff cards, tied. 8pp. including covers, with original ties. The first and last leaves (covers) are printed and decorated in colour. The 6 inside leaves, printed on the rectos only include the "menu" and "toasts" with a small drawing and appropriate quotation. For example, Potatoes, French Peas" are accompanied by two quotations from Shakespeare relating to potatoes or peas. Near fine.
Printed stiff cards, tied. 8pp. including covers, with original ties. The first and last leaves (covers) are printed and decorated in colour. The 6 inside leaves, printed on the rectos only include the "menu" and "toasts" with a small drawing and appropriate quotation. For example, Potatoes, French Peas" are accompanied by two quotations from Shakespeare relating to potatoes or peas. Near fine.
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UP DE GAFF, R.W.
Head Hunters of the Amazon. Seven Years Exploration and Adventure. New York: Garden City Publishing, (1923). Rebound in green cloth, xviii, 337pp. Fine. Adventures in the upper Amazon jungles.
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UPHAM, Thomas.
Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madame De la Mothe Guyon: Together With Some Account of the Personal History and Religious Opinions of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. In two volumes. Later edition. (first published 1846). 8vo., orig.brown cloth, xviii, 431, viii, 377pp. Touch of wear to spine ends but in fact a fine copy. Jeanne Marie De La Mothe Guyon [1649-1717] French mystic and quietist writer. As a young girl Mothe spend much time in convent schools where she "went through all the religious experiences common to neurotic young women; these were turned in a mystical direction by the Duchesse de Bethune." In 1664 she married the rich, invalid, Guyon, many years her senior. After his death she left her family and turned to mystical attractions, joining a monk, Father Lacombe. The two rambled through southeast France spreading their mystical ideas which eventually aroused the suspicion of the authorities. Madame Guyon was arrested as a heretic and confined to a convent and then imprisoned in the Bastille. When she was released, she retired to Blois, which became a place of pilgrimage for her admirers.
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UPSON, William Hazlett.
Keep 'Em Crawling. Earthworms at War.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1943). First edition. Signed by the author. Ownership inscription o/w about fine in a d/w with a bit of wear to the top of the spine and a 2? closed tear in the upper panel.
William Hazlett Upson [1891-1975] American author of the series featuring Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor Company. Told through a series of letters and telegrams exchanged between Butts and the company, the stories relay his adventures as a salesman. Butts relies on a combination of 'wits, determination and luck' to extricate himself from various difficulties.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1943). First edition. Signed by the author. Ownership inscription o/w about fine in a d/w with a bit of wear to the top of the spine and a 2? closed tear in the upper panel.
William Hazlett Upson [1891-1975] American author of the series featuring Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor Company. Told through a series of letters and telegrams exchanged between Butts and the company, the stories relay his adventures as a salesman. Butts relies on a combination of 'wits, determination and luck' to extricate himself from various difficulties.
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