Search Results: Authors starting with R from Island Books

James Nisbet,, [c.1905]. 8vo., Fourteenth Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 3 plates; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered and blocked in colours and black, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. With handsome prize bookplate on front paste-down. A lovely copy of a scarce edition.

Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.,, 1887. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 4 plates and a full-page map on cloth; handsomely bound in contemporary green half morocco gilt, pebble-grained cloth boards, back gilt with five raised bands ruled in gilt, two compartments lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, back very lightly faded else a near fine copy in period binding. With the nineteenth century engraved pictorial bookplate of William John Robertson. A lovely copy.

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Collins,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photograpgsm and numerous charts and diagrams throughout; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

Folio Society,, 2000. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette and 14 plates; pictorial blue cloth blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, covers very lightly rubbed else a bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case. The text follows that of the twentieth (illustrated) edition of 1883.

Bowker & Beetram, Chichester,, n.d.. 8vo., Second Edition, 144pp. with tables and charts; printed ring-binder; blue padded rexine, a near fine copy.

Bowker & Bertram, Old Bosham,, 1978. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, illustrations and tables in the text, front endpaper plan and rear endpaper map; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Bell,, 1971. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges. Published in the series 'Writers and their Work'.

Saint Catherine Press,, [1947]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy in unclipped cartographic dustwrapper.

Hale,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Ancient Mouments Society,, [1976]. 8vo., with numerous illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Vol. 13.

Ancient Mouments Society,, [1979]. 8vo., with maps in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Vol. 23.

Herbert Jenkins,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with some loss (affecting letting) at upper edge of front panel.

Herbert Jenkins,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, 4 sepia-toned plates and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, signature erased on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and sunned at backstrip.

1897. Sm. 4to., on laid paper, contemporary signature on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed; pictorial buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, a very good, clean copy. Eight seasonal sermons delivered by the much-loved Dean of St. Paul's.

Hamish Hamilton,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, covers a little dulled else a good, sound copy

Harvey Miller and OUP,, [1991]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with over 2,300 coloured illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Monumental study and a standard reference.

Oxford,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers lightly spotted as often; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. First published in India the previous year.

Simon & Schuster, New York NY,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Barbosa.

The Light Infantry Office (Shrewsbury), Shrewsbury,, [1999]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.