Search Results: Authors starting with R from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lexington: Washington & Lee University, 1907. Original issue in wrappers of the monthly magazine of Washington & Lee University. Octavo; pictorial thick-paper wrappers; pp82+ads; illus, plates. Covers rubbed and chipped at edges; internally complete and fresh. In addition to Adams' address, contents George Hutcheson Denny's speech at the same event; essays by Alexander L. Nelson, C.A. Engle, and others.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale blue-grey pictorial dust jacket; v,[3],203pp. Jacket spine toned and slightly chipped at crown, bottom corners lightly bumped, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Persian Heritage Series.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. First Edition. The first issue of this periodical, which published Raab (four years before his first collection), Norris (three years before her first), Ross Talarico, and others. Back cover ads for Wesleyan U.P. new titles, including Levine's NOT THIS PIG. The blue and black cover is rubbed, and lightly worn.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers; xv,732; 733-1196; maps, illus. Mild rubbing and soil to covers, but straight and tight; mild toning to the text - a Very Good set. Lacks the supplementary atlas volume.

Pretoria: Government Printer, [1954]. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (25cm.); original blue printed paper-covered boards; viii,1364pp.; folding color map plates, folding brochure titled "History of the Kruger National Park" bound in between pp. 54 & 55. Spine slightly sunned, else Very Good or better.

New York: Pantheon, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); yellow and red paper pictorial boards, backed in blue publisher's cloth with gilt on spine, with full color pictorial dust jacket; [30pp]. Galdone adapts the classic tale from Rabelais, through full color illustrations on each page. Text block is clear and sound, with very minor wear and creasing throughout; front and rear endpapers are also illustrated with a Parisian street map design. Boards lightly worn and faded. Tight binding. Near Fine. Dust jacket has some surface wear and scratching, with closed tears along the spine, front, and back panel extremities. Spine is also lightly stained, else Very Good.

London: Boriswood, [1934]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original rust cloth, spine lettered in yellow; 615pp. A touch dust-soiled; rubberstamp "hae" to half title and copyright page, else About Fine. German novel portraying adolescent life during the depression of post-WWI Germany. Publisher's announcement laid in.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002 [but 2001]. Uncorrected Proof. Quarto (27.75cm.); cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[5],374pp.; illus. Fine. Uncorrected, advance page proofs, reproducing manuscript notes to the printer.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 346pp; illus. Clean, unmarked copy bright dustwrapper; Near Fine.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934. First Edition. First impression. Two large octavo volumes (26cm). Original black cloth hardcovers, titled in gilt on spines; dustjackets; xii,[1]-408; viii,[1]-388pp. Mild bumps to board corners; attractive printed bookplate of the Romanian-American Jewish scholar Shalom Spiegel (1899-1984) inside each front cover; texts clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. In the original printed dustwrappers, chipped at edges, toned and with some closed tears into margins; just VG. The second of the renowned Latinist's major works, following A History of Christian-Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages (1927). Seldom found in such nice condition, especially with the original dustwrappers.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1984. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 105 pp. Signed by the translator into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Wilbur's translation from the French of Racine's version of the Greek myth. Small remainder mark on top edge else virtually as new in like dust jacket.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue price-clipped dust jacket lettered in white; 242pp. Chips and tears with subsequent creasing to jacket extremities, none approaching text, shallow loss at spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good in a Near Very Good copy of the uncommon jacket. Collected lectures first delivered at the University of Calcutta in December, 1942. Radhakrishnan would served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962, and the President of India from 1962 to 1967.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1956. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's cream hole-punched card wrappers; mixed pagination.; illus., text printed from typescript. Wrappers a bit worn and slightly soiled, else Very Good overall. Publication no. 452.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vi,78pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Publication 848.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound hole-punched card wrappers; [2],5pp.; printed from typescript. Extremities rather unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Committee Report no. 2 and Publication no. 647.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 139pp. Clean, tight and unmarked copy in moderately rubbed jacket; Very Good.

New York: Small, Maynard & Co, 1916. First Edition. Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge (internal); bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: "...young bank employee, falsely convicted of embezzlement, spends two years in Sing Sing before being cleared." Octavo.

Brooklyn: Writers' Publishing Co, [1915]. First Edition of 1,000 Printed in September, 1915," octavo (19.25cm.); original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; [10],240,[4](ads)pp. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to noted Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin, with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. Popular history of the laboring class, here personified in the figure of "Dennis Hathnaught." Composed within a loosely fictional framework by MacCarthy in order that the presumably working-class reader, "may be taught to judge more intelligently of his own time and its problems if he has some idea of past times and their institutions." The "history" begins with "Dennis Hathnaught's Lowly Origin; His Biological Ancestry; Primitive Man; Ancient Contempt for Labour, Effects of Evolution and Suggestion of Human Progress," and proceeds through the various eras of English-speaking Hathnaughts, starting with… Read More

New York: House of Field, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); tan linen boards stamped in fuchsia; red top-stain; 382pp. Hint of dusting to text block edges, else a Fine, tight copy. In pictorial dustjacket, slightly spine-darkened, with a few nicks and brief closed tears to extremities, VG or better. Strike novel, set in the fictional industrial center of "Rollinsburg." The author, described in the jacket blurb as "a worker in those phases of the momentous labor movement that in 1933 were launched as the New Deal's noblest advenure," offers a grim view of both labor and company, seeing both sides as riddled with ideology and hucksterism. Rare; not in Hanna or Blake; OCLC gives just 8 locations as of December, 2018.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Third Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and embossed onto front cover; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; viii,703,[7]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to a pair of California booksellers: "For Lloyd & Gladys Severe / Best wishes / Upton Sinclair." Spine ends gently nudged, topstain a bit dulled, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with several small nicks and tears, shallow loss to lower front panel, and a longer tear along the lower front joint; Very Good+. The sixth installment in Sinclair's sweeping eleven-volume series, covering world events from World War I through the beginnings of the Cold War, and featuring his recurring character Lanny Budd. Dragon Harvest covers the period 1938-1940, where Lanny Budd travels through Munich and Dunkirk, and finds himself in Paris under the occupation. AHOUSE A74a.