Search Results: Authors starting with R from Old Saratoga Books

Tours, France: Maison Alfred Mame Et Fils. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned.. 1926. Hardcover. Illustrated adaptation of Rabelais' classic novel, Gargantua. Color plates and many other black and white illustrations by Pierre Conselles. Black cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in French. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 156 pages .

NY: Columbia University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on endpapers and minimal . marking to front and rear matter. Jacket rubbed and mildly toned.. 1967. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth. xii, 243pp. Abbreviations listing, bibliographies, acknowledgements, and index. A survey of the novelists of the 1950s with an additional focus on Kingsley Amis, Angus Wilson, and C. P. Snow, who typified the traditionalist revival. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned and tattered, price-clipped.. 1958. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0870330098 . Photos, plans, illustrations. A comprehensive, well-illustrated guide for the backyard boat builder. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages .

Putnam, CT: Frank Racette, Antiquary. Very Good. 2004. Softcover. Softcover with black plastic spiral binding. Inscribed by the author on the front cover. Many color photos. Describes the author's research and recreation of the studio of famed American landscape painter Thomas Cole. This studio is noted as being the first American purpose-built artist's studio, and is now part of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

Putnam, CT: Frank Racette, Antiquary. Very Good; Owner name on title page.. 2006. Softcover. Softcover with black plastic comb binding. Many illustrations and photos. Describes the author's research and recreation of the parlor in the house of American landscape painter Thomas Cole, now part of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 42 pages .

Sand Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled.. 1982. First Printing. Hardcover. 0151070520 . Translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Orange paper quarter-bound in maroon cloth. xv, 104pp. Black and white illustrations by Igor Tulipanov. This fascinating, moving drama is the only significant English translation of Andromache in half a century. (rear jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Norman W. Henley & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and stained, some bubbling to . cloth, owner name on front free endpaper.. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on front boards. viii, 171pp + [18] pp of ads for tools, books, and supplies. 125 illustrations. Early telephone engineering reference manual for telephone technicians, electricians, architects, etc which covers the wide field of telephony from telephone poles to wiring inside the telephone units. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

NY: Burt Franklin. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner name stamped on front free endpaper.. 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. xvii, 478 pages. Black and white illustrations and index. Reprint edition of a 1921 comprehensive work studying all aspects of fishing throughout history. ; Research and Source Work Series; Vol. 377; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner bookplate on front . free endpaper.. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth. x, 171pp. Notes and index. This book in main is made up of the lectures delivered in April, 1940, at the Yale Law School on the Storrs Foundation, from preface. ; Storr Lectures on Jurisprudence Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Atlanta: High Museum of Art and Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 2007. Hardcover. 0300126158 . Monograph on the bronze panels on the "Doors of Paradise" designed for Florence's Baptistery in the Piazza del Duomo by Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Ghiberti. Many photos. Essays by various contributors. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that debuted at Atlanta's High Museum of Art in 2007. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 182 pages .

Edinburgh: The Cramond Association. Very Good; Covers rubbed.. 1974. Reprint. Softcover. Offprint from Britannia, Vol. V, 1974, pages 163-224. Introduction by Professor S. S. Frere. 17 plates and other illustrations. Describes archaeological excavation of a Roman fort at Cramond, Edinburgh. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Very Good; Covers lightly scuffed.. 1965. Softcover. 0918016169 . Off-white stapled wraps. Owner name on title page. 22 plates following text. Library of Congress number 65-24989. ; Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization; 38 pages .

Morristown, NJ: Self Published. Very Good; Some page edges lightly toned.. 1980. First Printing. Softcover. viii, 192 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations, map, and appendix. A study of Victorian illustration with chapters on Arthur B Frost, Thomas Nast, and others in the industry and their connections to Morristown, New Jersey. #517 of this limited edition signed by the author on the title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Waltham, MA: The Chronica Botanica Co. Very Good; Boards worn, owner name stamped on front free endpaper and . front wraps.. 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. Printed blue softcover rebound with blue cloth spine and red cloth sides. Foreword by Elmer D. Merrill, critical index by Francis W. Pennell. Reprint of 1836 memoir by French naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) about his travels in North America and South Europe. Several illustrations. Photocopy of 1996 Natural History Journal article about a Rafinesque literary hoax. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Pages lightly toned, jacket soiled and . chipped.. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 311pp. Burgundy cloth binding. Index, bibliography.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Girona: Dalmau Carles, Pla.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, pages toned. 1933. Color lithograph illustrations over olive cloth. Gorgeous front cover illustration of seated literary muse with books and shield. Illustrations, short biographies and literary samplings by various Catalan authors. Text in Catalan. ; Biblioteca Pedagógica Catalana; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages .

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket very lightly scuffed.. 1973. 1st Revised Edition. Hardcover. 0718111176 . Grape-colored boards. Index, glossary, bibliography. "A practical and realistic wine guide" for the "newcomer to winemanship" adorned with Searle's wonderful illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages .

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket tattered and missing sections at . head and foot of spine, spine cocked.. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth binding. Great color jacket art by Eggenhoffer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum of Westchester and Lyndhurst. Very Good; Covers lightly soiled and rubbed.. 1988. Softcover. Stapled softcover. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs, foreword, checklist, and acknowledgment. Exhibition catalogue of photos of the historic Hudson River landmark. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Charlottesville, VA: Department of Rare Books, University of Virginia Library. Very Good. 1986. Softcover. Keepsake of an exhibition held Feb. 9 - March 28, 1986. Printed stapled brown card covers. One of 1500 copies. Embellished with numerous illustrations. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages .