Search Results: Authors starting with R from Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 260pp. Quarto [25 cm] in boards with title stamped in silver gilt on spine. Light rubbing to jacket, small dampstain on jacket verso; corresponding small dampstain very faintly to front board, boards are crisp and unworn; tiny dampstain to textblock fore-edge, else interior is clean, tight, and bright. B&W photographs and illustrations. From the jacket: "This book presents a series of viewpoints on courtyard houses from different periods and in different regions around the world. . . Together, the essays illuminate issues of particular relevance in architectural, art historical, and conservation discourses today.

Santa Fe: Privately printed. Paperback. SIGNED. 51pp. Light blue wraps. Good only. The wraps are darkened and lightly stained. The front wrap has a bit more moisture staining. The title label on the front cover is absent, revealing the applied glue beneath it. The edges of the wraps are bumped, and have multiple short closed tears. There are a couple of small stains on the front endsheet, and again on the title page. Bookseller's tiny label on the front pastedown. The rear free endsheet is beginning to detach and there is a 2 inch long closed tear in the paper of the rear pastedown. The pages are mildly yellowed. The top edges of the pages are moisture stained. Inscribed by the author on the half title page.

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 2005. First edition thus. Paperback. NEW. Quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wraps. 86 full color illustrations.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1923. Original edition. Hardcover. 560pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Olive cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and gilt stamped emblems on the spine and front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The title has been written in faint pen on the spine. There are multiple barely perceptible splash stains on the rear cover. There are also six or seven very tiny paint stains on the bottom edge of the rear cover. The top edge of the front free endsheet has a former owner's ink stamp. Pages mildly browned. The book is sturdy. The pages are clean. Subjects include Origin Myths, The Wnnebago Tribe, and The Peyote Cult.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1871. Second edition. Hardcover. 391pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and embossed designs on the covers. Fair. The covers are faded, soiled and rubbed. The spine is rolled back. There are numerous small splits in the cloth of the spine. The longest split measures 1/2 inch. There is a paper label at the head of the spine. The edges of the covers are bumped. The underlying boards are exposed at the corners. There are a couple of labels on the front pastedown. The text block is cracked multiple times. The pages are very slightly browned. There may be occasional small light stains on the pages. With a new introductory chapter.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 391pp + 26 pages of advertisements. Octavo [20.5 cm] rebound in modern beige cloth with gilt-stamped black leather spine label, new endpapers and flyleaves. Color frontis map. Spine rolled. Brief notation on the verso of the title page. Sporadic light foxing to the pages. Flake 6810. The author stayed in Salt Lake City for a couple of weeks in 1869. He used this stay as his basis for the lengthy section on Mormonism (pp. 98-184).

Chicago: P. F. Volland Company, 1917. First P. F. Volland edition with illustrations by John Rae. Hardcover. Good. 157pp. Quarto [24.5 cm] Tan cloth with pictorial paper over boards. White and gold pictorial endpapers. Twelve color plates. With some moisture staining and fading to the covers. The text block is cracked several times. The plate at p. 137 is detached, but present. John Rae's spin-off of Lewis Carroll's hugely popular tale. John Rae (1882-1963), an illustrator from New Jersey, studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. Although a well-known author and illustrator of children's books, he also illustrated adult books for publishers including Harpers, Macmillan, and Dodd Mead. He is also recognized for his portraits of Albert Einstein and Carol Sandburg. This is one of the more significant "Alice imitations.

Yellowstone Park Company, 1911. Ephemera. Fine. 15pp. 23 cm. Saddle-stitched wraps. "Unity without harshness, great size without ostentation, strike the beholder with his first view of the new Canyon Hotel. Without yielding anything of its own well-contained individuality of its own well-contained individuality, its surrender to the vast nobility of the scene in which it is placed, is complete, natural and captivating. Not of great height, of uniformly warm, bright color, never in ornate competition with the landscape about it, expressive of repose and strength, innocent of fantastic pretense or ornate frivolity, the new hotel by the Yellowstone in the National Park is an architectural triumph of singular and striking symmetry with its natural environs." - p. 6.

Ogden, UT: David E. Larkin, 1954. Original edition. Paperback. Twenty-fourmo [11 cm] Green and tan wraps bound at the head of the covers with 1/4 brown cloth. Very good plus condition, with unmarked pages. A nice, clean piece of Larkin Railroad ephemera for trainmen and enginemen from the 1950s. Each page keeps track of such things as Station and Departure, Hours on Duty, Overtime, Engineer, Brakemen, Loads, Empties, Tonnage, Trip Expenses, and more.

Omaha, Nebraska: W. S. Basinger, Passenger Traffic Manager, Union Pacific Railroad, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. 47pp. Very slim octavo [25 cm] Green and brown pictorial saddle-stitched wraps. There is a small black stain to the rear wrap, which is bleeds through to the inside margins of the terminal leaves. A richly illustrated booklet covering prominent touristic sites of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News, 1893. Paperback. Very good. [12pp.] Oblong sextodecimo in stapled blue wraps. Light crease to covers and to each page of textblock, else very light wear. B&W photos. Souvenir pamphlet from the railway line (joint owners, with the church, of Saltair) advertising Salt Lake's newly built recreation pavilion.

Boston: A Bullfinch Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 132pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. Lightly rubbed and scratched. Chris Rainier's photographs have been displayed in major collections around the world, such as the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 275pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light orange cloth over boards. Map endpapers. Light rubbing to the extremities. Very small tear in cloth of the spine. No dust jacket. With illustrations by Charles Owens. A woman's view of cattle ranching in Arizona.

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1962. Limited edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED. 36pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue leather with a gilt stamped title on the front board. Decorative ensheets. Very good. There is a tiny loss from the head of the spine. Ranaivo's work centers on a synthesis of formal French and traditional Malagasy verse. His œuvre is made up of just three small volumes: L'Ombre et le vent (1947), Mes chansons de toujours (1955), and Le Retour au bercail (1962). This is number 27 of 500. Inscribed by Ranaivo on the limitation page.

New York: Signet, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. New. 704pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. "The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2013. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Victoria Vebell. 741pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Full blue leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Collector's Notes laid in. Complete in one volume. Howard Roark, a young architect driven to create a revolutionary building, must battle envious colleagues, repressive bureaucracies and even the woman he loves- anyone trying to compromise or destroy his vision.

London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 147pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in original mottled red cloth. Recased. Major restoration to jacket; label removed from front board; ink stamps washed from free endpaper, foxing to front matter and rear endpapers. In custom red cloth clamshell case. A first edition of Ayn Rand's dystopian fiction novella, one of her earliest works.

New York: Signet, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. New. 1070pp. Duodecimo [17.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. "Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.

New York: The Century History Company in collaboration with the John C. Rankin Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo [25 cm] 3/4 red leather with marbled paper covered boards. The spines have been amateurishly rebacked with simple red cloth tape. Each volume has a circular gilt illustration of a sunrise over a wheat field on the upper part of the front leather. Top edges gilt. Pale red marbled endpapers. Fair condition only. The covers are rubbed, and the underlying boards are exposed along the edges. The corners are rounded. Some of the red cloth tape, on the spines is curling back and separating. Hinges are all cracked with the exception of the rear hinges of volumes three and four, where they are starting. Some of the boards are fairly loose; free front endpaper in volume 1 is separated entirely and laid in. Some of the text blocks are pulling away from the covers. There may be other detached pages and loose gatherings. As is. Illustrations throughout. Extra charges apply due to size and weight. Read More

New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 273pp. Octavo [24cm]; black paper boards with gilt title on spine. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin--a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide. To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable--or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that… Read More