Search Results: Titles starting with R from Keel Row Books

London; C Gilpin, [1851]., 1851. Hardcover. Octavo. Xii, 248 pp, 24 pp advertisement section to rear. Original blind-stamped brown cloth binding with gilt titles. Cover cloth patchily rubbed & faded with very minor loss at head & tail of spine. Inner hinge weak & front endpapers damp-stained. Name & address pencilled to ffep (dated 1902) and calculation inked to rear pastedown. Very scarce.

London; J & A Churchill, 1888., 1888. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 111 pp plus 16 page publishers catalogue to rear. Book Condition: Good. Original cloth gilt with bevelled edges and blind-stamped line decoration. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps etc and marks to cover cloth & endpapers where labels have been removed. A few marginal marks in pencil & some pages corner-creased; overall condition near very good. Scarce study of "flatulent distention of the stomach and bowels" and its surgical treatment.

North Shields; Simpson & Mustart, 1873., 1873. Softcover. Read at the sixteenth annual meeting, held on Thursday 217th February, 1873, with the balance sheets of receipts and expenditure, the Laws of the Institution and an Alphabetical List of Life Members and Subscribers, from January 1st to December 31st, 1872". Original stitched pictorial blue paper wraps with a few very minor fingermarks and creases - this is a remarkable survival and at first glance you would be forgiven for thinking it a modern reprint. Very clean internally with no annotation or inscriptions. The Sailor's Home was one of numerous charitable institutions, presented to the town in 1856 by the Duke of Northumberland who was also the Patron. Keel Row Bookshop welcomes customer inquiries - just email or telephone us to find out more.

London; Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858., 1858. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Xii, 647 pp. Sympathetically recased using original boards & spine in embossed & blind stamped green cloth. Illustrated - 12 plates showing costed farm plans ( of which 10 are double-page spreads) plus 12 companion double-page Isometrical Views showing the farms in a landscape setting. Spine sunned with skilfully repaired split and with 2 cm cloth insert at head above original cloth. Endpapers renewed otherwise all original. Sporadic foxing largely to page edges and endpapers. Handwritten name & date to half-title. In very good condition overall. The first and only edition of this valuable reference work which covers all aspects of estate management including soil improvement, crop rotation, farm buildings, the law of entail and many other fascinating subjects too diverse to mention. A very scarce copy - as far as we know it's the only one currently on sale.

London; George Bell and Sons, 1899., 1899. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 214 pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard plus eight plates. Original dark blue cloth gilt. Uncut and partially unopened. Signature to front paste-down but no inscriptions. Autobiography of the inventor of the collapsible Berthon Boat (as used to rescue survivors of the Titanic in 1912) who was also the Rector at Romsey, Hants.

London; Great Western Railway, 1935., 1935. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Quarto. 96 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Original pictorial card wraps with yapp edges. Yapp edges a little nicked, creased and rubbed as usual. Front cover lightly soiled to white areas, and a little scuffed. Very minor foxing to prelims (barley worth a mention) otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Volume of Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons produced to mark the centenary of the Great Western company.

London; Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1861., 1861. Hardcover. Octavo. 194 pp, [16] advertisements. Errata slip bound-in. Engraved title page showing a scene of industry with workers, horse-drawn wagons of coal and belching chimneys; 8 geological plates plus line drawings and tables in text. Book Condition: Very Good. Original reeded bottle green cloth with foliate decoration in blind to boards; gilt titles to spine and to upper board, the latter inside a gilt cartouche. Pale primrose-yellow endpapers. Cover cloth scuffed, rubbed and a little bruised to edges and corners; lower rear joint just starting. Inner hinges weak but holding; scattered light foxing, mainly to endpapers. Intended as an annual publication this was the only published work in the series, produced by Lever's of Manchester, with their catalogue of industrial equipment to the rear printed on pink paper. Subject matter includes tables of Railway Acts, Railway Officials Directory, fossils and classification of rocks, descriptions of… Read More

London; Folio Society, 2003-2014., 2003. Hard Cover. All of the volumes are First Folio printings except Lilac, which is a second printing. Large octavo. Each volume has pictorial endpapers, numerous line drawings within text and a varying number of colour plates, each by a different artist: "Blue", 2003, 17 plates by Charles von Sandwyck; "Red" 2008, 16 plates by Niroot Puttapitpat; "Green"2009, 14 plates by Julian Narvaez; "Yellow" 2008, 13 plates by Danuta Mayer; "Pink" 2007, 16 plates by Debra McFarlane; "Grey" 2013, 13 plates by Lauren Nassef; "Violet" 2010, 15 plates by Robert Venables; "Crimson" 2011, 16 plates by Tim Stevens; "Brown" 2010, 13 plates by Oman Rayan;"Orange" 2013, 16 plates by Tomislav Tomic; "Olive" 2012, 14 plates by Kate Baylay; "Lilac" 2014, 13 plates by Caitlin Hackett. Harlequin cloth blocked in colour and gilt to spine and upper boards, housed in plain variously coloured paper-covered slipcases. Minor surface scuffs to lower face of some slipcases and small area of… Read More

London; Folio Society, 2004-2014., 2004. Hard Cover. Six of the volumes are First Folio printings (Green, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown & Orange), four are Second printings (Red, Yellow, Olive and Lilac) and two are Third printings (Blue and Pink). Large octavo. Each volume has pictorial endpapers, numerous line drawings within text and a varying number of colour plates, each by a different artist: "Blue", 2004, 17 plates by Charles von Sandwyck; "Red" 2010, 16 plates by Niroot Puttapitpat; "Green"2009, 14 plates by Julian Narvaez; "Yellow" 2010, 13 plates by Danuta Mayer; "Pink" 2011, 16 plates by Debra McFarlane; "Grey" 2013, 13 plates by Lauren Nassef; "Violet" 2010, 15 plates by Robert Venables; "Crimson" 2011, 16 plates by Tim Stevens; "Brown" 2010, 13 plates by Oman Rayan;"Orange" 2013, 16 plates by Tomislav Tomic; "Olive"2014, 14 plates by Kate Baylay; "Lilac" 2014, 13 plates by Caitlin Hackett. Harlequin cloth blocked in colour and gilt to spine and upper boards, housed in plain variously… Read More

London; Saunders, Otley and Co, 1868., 1868. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Three vols. Small octavo: pp. [1] title, iv Contents, 295, [1] catalogue; [1] title, iv Contents, 292; [1] title, iv Contents, 274. Lacking half-titles. Black half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; all edges sprinkled red. Bindings lightly scuffed with a little wear and bruising to edge. Vol I split at inner hinge but very firmly holding. Small tea(?)-stains to pp 1-4 Vol I and single leaf corner creased; scattered light foxing mainly to prelims and endpapers; no annotation or inscriptions. From the library of Ballyarnett House, Derry, a late nineteenth century Arts & Crafts country house, with the address in gilt at tail of spine. In Gaye Tuchman's and Nina E. Fortin's analysis of male hegemony in 19th c. literature: Edging Women Out; The High-Culture Novel, Ralph Redfern is described as "a very fair novel of the second rank". Rare, COPAC locates no copies in UK libraries. WORLDCAT… Read More

London; Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1935., 1935. Hard Cover. First edition. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 242, [6] Muir catalogue, [8] forthcoming title catalogue. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine and upper board in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth bright; inner hinge cracked at p. 1 but holding well. Foxing to text-block edge and prelims, otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly soiled to lower white panel, with minor nicks & creases to edge. A very good copy in like dust- jacket. Scarce anthology of thirteen short stories introducing Dr Louis Raphael, a fashionable young doctor who gives up his practice in London's West End to study the scientific aspects of crime, acting as a consultant to Scotland Yard in cases such as 'The Kester Diamond Case, the 'Silver Mask' and 'The Terror of the Purple Room'. Charles Augustus Muir (1892 - 1989) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and historian best known for writing mysteries, many based in the Scottish… Read More

New York; Ace Books, Inc., 1959., 1959. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Ace Book No. D-363. Softcover pp 191, [1] advert. Pictorial card wraps with yellow page block edges. Soiling to covers and original price of 3/6 written in pencil to upper cover. Spine shows light rubbing. Small star stamped in purple ink to p1 and inside of rear cover. Very good condition. Complete and unabridged novel about Lieutenant Krahmer, a big city vice detective of the Morals Squad, as he hunts a sex fiend.

London; Printed for Carinton Bowles and Robt Sayer, [1760]., 1760. Second Edition, n.d. but circa 1760. Map approx 158 cm x 113 cm, dissected into 32 parts and mounted onto linen. Uncoloured. Large title cartouche to upper left corner with allegorical figures and putti, and second large cartouche for dedication to the Prince of Wales to lower left corner with figures and armorial crest. Five large engraved views of Carmarthen, Brecknock (Brecon), Haverfordwest, Swansey (Swansea) and Tenby each approx 21 cm x 10. Distance tables at foot for principal journeys and Explanation key together with Scale in border at lower right corner (scale 3 inches to 5 miles). Linen to rear lightly surface soiled and foxed; some wear at folds including single 8 cm length with very minor loss and associated fraying. Small corner crease; 3 very minor holes to Haverfordwest engraving. Map itself partially faintly toned with some creasing at section edges; overall a clean and well preserved map. Large scale map of six… Read More

London; Harper Collins Children's Books, 2012., 2012. Hard Cover. DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION of the author's fourth book. Octavo, pp. 319, [1]. Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards in unclipped pictorial jacket; red endpapers. Boldly SIGNED by both Walliams and Ross to title page. With Edinburgh International Book Festival 'David Walliams: Big Laughs' event ticket, dated 23rd August 2018. Slight bruising to board corners. Very Good book in Fine jacket. Just your everyday, average story of a girl and her best friend - a rat! An action-packed tale by the much-loved best selling children's author, brought to life with illustrations by Tony Ross.

London; T. & A. D. Poyser Ltd, 1997., 1997. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxii, 326. 39 monochrome photographs, 18 figures within text including distribution maps and drawings by Chris Rose, and 27 tables. Publishers' olive green cloth with gilt titles and motif to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also by Chris Rose. Clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. Monograph on one of the most spectacular birds of the British Isles, including habitat, distribution, feeding, social habits and breeding.

Rawdon; Privately printed, 1914., 1914. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Square octavo, pp. [6], 108. 40 captioned monochrome plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles to upper board, and triple border in blind to boards. Spine toned; spine tips and corners a little rubbed. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Scarce Yorkshire history, with numerous photographic illustrations including local views and personalities.

London; William Rider & Son, Ltd., 1922., 1922. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION THUS. Softcover, small octavo, pp. 75, [1], [2] publisher's catalogue, paginated to include front cover. Limp orange cloth with russet titles to upper cover and spine. Slight water damage to lower portion of upper cover and page block edges, with minor soiling. Light sunning to spine and previous owner's name written in pencil to upper cover. A neat, bright copy; Very Good condition. Part of the 'Mystics and Occultists' series. Rare biography of the life and work of the Catalonian author and polymath, Ramon Llull, who, amongst many other achievements, developed the esoteric philosophy Lullism.

London; Constable, 2020., 2020. Hard Cover. DOUBLE-SIGNED FIRST EDITION with additional double-signed laid-in leaf. Octavo, pp. viii, [2], 518. Colour images to plates. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Two identical promotional bookmarks for the book also laid-in with loose pictorial leaf signed by author and subject. Spine tips lightly rubbed. Contents clean and bright, with bookplate to ffep flat signed by author Heather Martin and subject Lee Child. Laid-in promotional bookmarks and double-signed loose leaf are crisp and bright. Jacket slightly creased to edges. A near fine copy in like dust-jacket. Biography of the author Lee Child, drawing parallels with his creation Jack Reacher, using conversations and correspondence over a number of years as well as interviews with friends and colleagues.

London; Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911., 1911. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix, [1], 234, 31 catalogue, [1]. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and gilt fillet border to upper board. Spine lightly sunned. Scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and text-block edge; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Based upon twenty years' experience in the treatment of speech problems by the Principal of the Institute for Stammerers.

London; Harpeer Voyager in association with Goldsboro Books, 2021., 2021. Hard Cover. SIGNED NUMBERED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, No. 24 of 250 copies only. Octavo, pp. [8], 439, [1]. Vignette to title page; double-page Map of Zoran to fore. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine and all edges stained orange, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A Fine copy in like jacket. Signed by the Author to title page, without dedication. Book Two in The Kingdom of Souls fantasy trilogy.