Search Results: Authors starting with R from Black Swan Books, Inc.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Good dust jacket. Signed. This First Edition copy has been Signed with a personal inscription by Rachel Field on the front endpaper. The dustjacket is present. It has loss to the entire top 1" of the rear panel and bit of the top of the spine. The front panel has only a small bit of loss and presents nicely in a new mylar cover. The binding itself is bright, and very nearly crisp. Near Fine binding / Good dust jacket.

Morgana Edizione: Florence, 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Signed. Test in English and Italian; clean and tight binding. With an inscription to art historian Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances [Francesca] "con GRANDE amore Mikulas. GRANDE piu delle tutte nostre grandizie". Very Good+ binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Binding sound; light foxing and very small (1/8") chip to top spine of dust jacket; previous owner bookplate to front pastedown; previous bookstore stamp to front free endpaper otherwise no markings to text. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. ~. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket.

London: Daedalus Press for the Enitharmon Press, 1974. First Edition, 85/200 copies. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. With Julian Trevelyan's frontispiece and 17 additional plates. Backed in a heavy cream colored burlap with marbled paper over boards; bottom of the spine is slightly bumped only really visible in very light creasing to the pages; else light shelfwear; dust jacket is a little toned at the extremities and is now protected in a mylar cover; a nice copy of a scarce book. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1884. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo; in the publisher's blue cloth binding with beveled boards, titled in gilt with a red device in the center of the upper board; [iv], 472 pages; portrait frontispiece; front hinge is cracked at the bottom, but holding; previous owner blindstamp on the front endpaper. Very Good binding.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth with titling in gold to the spine, and with dustjacket; xxi, [xxii, xxiii], 136 pages, including Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Ramsdell; there are no marks of any kind; the dustjacket has not been price-clipped.~~A study of homefront problems during the Civil War which the Nevins bibliography considers to be "suggestive, rather than definitive".~~ (Nevins II, 200). Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1918. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. First Edition of Lieut. H. C. Ramsey's Elementary Naval Ordnance and Gunnery. Folding diagram of an artillery piece. With in text illustrations. No marks. Flexible black cloth with gilt lettering. Minor chips and wear to the edges of the dustjacket. With the publisher's glassine wrapper, over the printed paper dustjacket. Very Good with Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Robert E. Peterson, 1851. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Published in the form of 21 letters on the subject concluding with a lengthy dialogue in verse between Mr. A and Mr. B on the distressing nature of church debt (Mr. A convinces Mr B of the horrors entailed by church debt and, gratifyingly, Mr. B concludes: "I see the evil of the plan/ And will exert what power I can/ To have God's house forever free/ From this church debt iniquity." With engraved ttitle and r additional plates: "The Parsee Cemetery"; "Gunesh"; "The Yogee" and "The Sale of Pews" near Very Good binding.

New Bedford, Mass: Vining Press, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding; 236 page, followed by xviii pages of Index, followed by [iv] unnumbered pages of black and white photographs; the binding is a bit fly-specked to the upper board; there is a previous owner name on the front endpaper; there are a few scattered markings in the text, mostly in pencil.~~Rather uncommon in the first edition printing. Very Good binding.

1900. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in publisher's gray printed wrappers; 15 pages; there are no ownership or other marks in the book; there is a small stain to the bottom edge of the front cover.~~As a Preface, this nice introduction: "In the spring of 1810, when we were preparing to leave our residence in Prince Edward County, Virginia, for Rhode Island, Mr. John Randolph, who was on a visit to us, observed that we intended to leave Virginia, perhaps never to return, it was best our children should know who their ancestors were, and who were their relations. Accordingly, on his return to Roanoke, he wrote this account, gave it to me, and I have carefully preserved it." Anne Marie (Lyman) Randolph.~~Uncommon in commerce; and not much better in institutional holdings. Very Good binding.

Privately Printed for Raswan, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. With bookplate signed by Raswan and color frontispiece. There are no marks of any kind in the book; the fold out map is present at the rear of the books. The dustjacket has a bit of edgewear, but all in all an attractive First Edition copy with dust jacket now protected in a mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Arno Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Two volumes bound as one, and printed in facsimile, along with a reprint of Paul Scheips' article in Civil War History, "Union Signal Communications: Innovation and Conflict". A clean and sturdy copy with no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding.

[Cairo, Egypt]: [Zeitouna], 2004. Very Good binding. Oblong portfolio with pastedown and ribbon ties, containing 8 photographic prints; from the series Zeitouna folio no. 5; all photows with printed handwritten caprtions; the pastedown has a tiny spot, and the ribbon ties are frayed at the ends.~~Rau was popular in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. His stereo cards of views around the world were popular. In 1904 he was the official photographer of the St. Louis World's fair.~~Uncommon. We find no copies in commece and a single copy on OCLC. Very Good binding.

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Genealogical Society, 2009. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Substantial volume, with 251, [1] pages, including Index. Illustrated with charts and maps. There are no marks of any kind in the book. Fine binding.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. One of the scarcer Miss Read titles. A clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large quarto; binding neatly rebound in green cloth with a morocco title label to the spine; with the original wrapper for Part I bound in the front, and for Part XXX bound in the rear of the book; with 90 full page chromolithographic maps, with full page accompanying text.~~Most uncommon in commerce.~. Near Fine binding.

Leipzig: Baumgartner's Buchhandlung. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Photocopied reprint. No markings to text. Top of plastic spine tends to pop. Very Good binding.

Akron, OH; New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1949. Hard Cover. Good+ binding/no dust jacket. Edith Reichman. Pictures By Edith Reichman; Papoose paper doll in pocket on front of book. Previous tape repair inside front page at spine and at rear page at spine. No pencil or ink markings in text. Paper at lower half of rear board missing. Good+ binding / no dust jacket.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1886. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Red cloth binding. Spotting on bottom edge of text block and bottom edge of front and rear boards as well as to bottom of rear endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Spine has darkened. Some silverfishing to spine. Very Good binding.

G. F. Hopkins & Son, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Gift Book. Charming little book in green embossed cloth with gilt titling to the spine and a morocco ownership label affixed to the front board. With 5 lovely hand-colored lithographic botanical plates, and 15 blank pages, some tinted. Lacking half of one leaf (1129/30) which is text only. Title [865-867], 868 - 1152. Mylar has been custom cut to protect the book. Very Good binding.