Search Results: Authors starting with R from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, stickered at $19.95. Red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of articles and criticism spanning the entirety of the Holmes cannon, including a 58-page Introduction by Richard Lancelyn Green.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, toned at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This double issue features works by Wendell Berry, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, among others.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($15.95), a few shallow chips and tears at the edges. Green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, many dog-eared pages with pencil marginalia. A collection of Rand's essays that reveal "the hidden philosophic premises at work in the human soul.

New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally rubbed and toned, a close tear across the front panel. Blue cloth with black ink panels and gilt lettering. Square, bound with a dark blue top stain and some reading wear, clean internally. Rand's debut novel, one that introduced a theme relevant to most of her work: the individual against the collective. "WE THE LIVING is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings, what kind of men are able to survive and which of them remain as the ultimate winners.

Marina del Rey: The Ayn Rand Institute, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rumpled but without major creases. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Excerpt's from Rand's longer writings on the "propaganda of the ecologists.

Marina del Rey: The Ayn Rand Institute, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. About Very Good. Wraps rumpled and with a few small creases. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A collection of two Rand essays trending toward libertarian ideas.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Edited by Dudley Randall. Eighth Printing. About Very Good. Wraps toned, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, stains at the edges, some wavering to the fore-edge, clean otherwise. A poetry collection featuring the works of Phillis Wheatley, Dunbar, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Nikki Giovanni, among others.

Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Edited by Tom Rankin. Foreword by Larry Brown. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00 on the back panel). Faintly rubbed. Pictorial boards, bumped at the bottom corners. Square and firmly bound, a stain at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. A collection of photographs taken between 1961 and 1962 that capture the inspiration for Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.

New York: Three Rooms Press, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Introduction by Samantha Fuller. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and curled. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price) generally toned, a few stains at the spine, a closed tear at the top spine fold. Green cloth with a gilt panel on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Rayer's post-apocalyptic novel in which a super-computer has to save humanity. This copy comes from the collection of science fiction fan, artist, and publishers Jon Stopa.

New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), faded and with a stain on the spine, lightly rubbed otherwise. Black buckram with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a black stop stain, clean internally. A romanticized history of the establishment of the Cistercians at Gethsemani, Kentucky in 1848.

St. Louis: St. Louis Book Co, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Red buckram, bumped and rubbed at the corners and edges, toned and lightly soiled on the pastedown. Endpapers and pages toned, fold-out complete. Read's account of "kings, great men and chief events of any year between 1000 A.D. and 1920 A.D.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from the French by Sabine d'Estree. Preface by Jean Paulhan. Note by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues. Twenty-seventh Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly soiled, a few short closed tears at the edges. Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some wavering to the text block, clean otherwise.. Reage's novel about "the progressive, willful debasement of a young Parisian fashion photographer," adapted into the 1975 film of the same title.

Riverside: Hillacre, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Good slipcase, completed, faded at the edges, and partially split at one of the joints. Dark grey paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front panel. Square and firmly bound with a frontispiece of Lincoln Stevens, two publisher's subscription cards laid-in, clean internally. A separate appearance of Reed's poem printed for friends by Frederick C. Bursch.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Early Reprint. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, toned, chipped and with some closed tears and creases at the edges. Blue buckram, faded at the head of the spine, with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A Craig Kennedy novel.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed and soiled, shallow chips along the edges. Purple buckram, rubbed and faded at the edges, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, front hinge over-opened but firmly bound otherwise, tide mark on the top edge. The final Craig Kennedy mystery.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00), faintly rubbed at the top edge. Quarter blue paper with white paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Reich's "guide to confronting and dereailing what he sees as the mounting threat to American liberty, prosperity, and security posed by radical conservatives.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), toned, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Quarter grey cloth with blue cloth on the boards, bumped at the bottom corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Reinchenbach's work that traces the development of philosophy in the age of modern science and how philosophy "is no longer a battle ground of contradictory opinions, but a science discovering truth step by step.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, chipped at the edges. Brown cloth, lightly bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Repplier's penultimate collection of essays about war, peace, humor, medicine, film, among other topics.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and soiled, rubbed and with a few small chips and closed tear at the edges. Blue cloth, toned at the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. A collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from Puritans and American culture to writing autobiographies and dogs.