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290. THOMSON, Virgil. the musical scene. the musical life of America as seen by the profound and witty critic of the new york herald tribune. New York. Alfred Knopf. 1945.
£148
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. small chip to head of spine of wrapper otherwise a near fine copy.
first edition inscribed by the author “A. c. lutz cordially virgil thomson”.
291. THUBRON, Colin. in siberia. London: Creative Print and Design (Wales) Limited for Chatto & Windus, 1999.
£30
8vo (234 x 150mm). original blue boards, lettered in silver on the spine, map endpapers, original dustwrapper, retaining price; pp. [10 (half-title, works by thubron on verso, title, publication details on verso, dedication, blank, contents, verso blank, fly-title, verso blank)], 287, [7 (blanks)]; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges, otherwise a fine copy.
First edition. thubron’s account of his 15,000-mile journey through siberia: ‘up the great yenisei river to the Arctic, into the mountains abutting mongolia, eastward to the Amur, the pacific and the abandoned gulags of kolyma, he journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the collapse of communism and the breakup of the soviet union. he travelled among animists, radical christian sects, reactionary communists and the remnants of a so-called Jewish state; from the site of the last czar’s murder and rasputin’s village, to the ice- bound graves of ancient scythians, to baikal, deepest and oldest of the world’s lakes’ (blurb). this is the issue printed by creative print and design with the endpaper maps printed on white stock (as opposed to the issue printed by biddles limited, with the maps printed on light blue/grey stock).
292. THUCYDIDES. the history of the peloponnesian
War.in the richard crawley translation, revised by r.c. feetham, introduced by peter pouncey. Avon Connecticut. The Limited Editions Club. 1974.
£98
8vo., 2 volumes in original two tone cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, with glassine wrappers preserved in slipcase. illustrated with woodcuts by A tassos. A fine set.
limited edition of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator.
293. THUDICHUM, J.L.W. A treatise on Wine. their origin, natures and varities with practical directions for viticulture and viniculture. George Bell and Sons, 1894.
£498
8vo., recently bound in half green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, central tooling in gilt to compartments, top edge gilt; a very nice copy.
“A revised and much abridged edition of drs thudichum’s and dupre’s work published in 1872. most of the scientific data contained in the 1872 edition have been omitted, but the majority of the errors have bee retained” (simon Bibliotheca Vinaria p.14).
simon comments on the first edition “thudichum was a medical practitioner and dupre a professor of chemistry; their work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the Wine trade, chiefly as a rseume of all that had been written in england during the sixties, in favour of “natural Wines”, and also of what had been published in france and germany
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about viticulture and the art of wine making. there are many blemishes in the book, due to the fact that the two authors lacked all practical knowledge of wine, and were too ready to ignore or deny what they failed to understand or were unable to explain scientifically. With all its faults, this book is nevertheless the most comprehensive modern treatise on the vine and its fruit in the english language.”
294. THURBER, James. the last flower. A parable in pictures. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1939.
£248
oblong 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Just a little fading to wrapper otherwise a near fine copy.
first edition.
295. TIFFANY. 1939 Almanac. New York. Tiffany & Co. 1939. £198 65 x 85mm, original brown morocco with elaborate gilt design. A fine copy.
An attractive and stylish 1939 Almanac published by tiffany & co. contains: page for each month of 1939, with memoranda page facing each — Anniversaries and festivals — legal holidays in new york state — birth stones — Wedding anniversaries — chronology of tiffany & company — sterling silver marks used by tiffany & company — calendar for 1939 — calendar for 1940.
296. [TIFFANY]. KUNZ, George Frederick. the curious lore of precious stones. being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans…J.B. Lippincott Company. 1913.
£360
8vo. original blue cloth, with gilt and white decoration and lettering to upper and spine, t.e.g; pp. xiv + 406, 6 coloured plates, 44 b&w plates, numerous text illustrations; a little rubbing to extremities, light marks to upper, very good.
first edition. this classic book on the folkloric properties of gems is one of the most important works of george f. kunz (1856-1932), a self-taught mineralogist who was a gem expert at tiffany at 23. As much a gentleman scholar as a commercial dealer, he assembled the morgan-tiffany collection of gems in the American museum of natural history and led the us mining and mineralogy exhibits at several world’s fairs.
297. TOLSTOY, Leo. War and peace. translated and with an introduction by rosemary edmonds. The Folio Society. 1971. £300
8vo., 2 stout volumes in original full dark blue publisher’s leather lettered in gilt on spine, top edges gilt. illustrated by feliks topolski. A fine set in original slipcase.
first topolski illustrated edition, this one of 2000 copies in the special full leather binding. “there are a little over 600 drawings, printed from line-blocks and mostly arranged in groups to form full pages. “ (folio 60 no. 298).
from the library of the film director and writer bryan forbes with his bookplate.
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