Search Results: Authors starting with R from Voewood Rare Books

Paris: de l'imprimerie de P. Didot L'Ainé 1813, 1813. Five volumes. 8vo. 215x135mm. pp. xxiii [i bl], 325, [3]; 369, [3]; 370, [2]; 416; 325, [7]. Red half morocco, orange morocco covered boards. Raised bands, compartments decorated with a single gilt flower motif, second and fourth compartment lettered and numbered in gilt. Some marking to boards and rubbing and wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Internally very good but with some foxing. Some pages unopened. Front pastedown of each volume has the armorial bookplate of Charles Bowyer Adderley, Hams Hall, Warwickshire and the label of Hams Hall Library. Charles Adderley was a nineteenth century politician who served in the Cabinets of Lord Derby and Disraeli. He married the eldest daughter of Chandos Leigh who created the great Stoneleigh Library. Perhaps Adderley, who had Hams rebuilt by James Wyatt, was trying to do the same. After Adderley's death, Hams was sold with the new owner dismantling and rebuilding it in the Cotswolds. Its original… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen Corner 1682, 1682. First edition. 8vo (175x114mm). pp. 128 (including initial blank A1). Contemporary black morocco, covers panelled in gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. The Heber - Britwell - Hayward - Bradley Martin - Edwards copy, with modern bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and J.O. Edwards. Lightly rubbed with some wear to corners, a little marginal browning, still an excellent copy.� Alexander Radcliffe trained in law but deserted his studies to become a soldier, reaching the rank of captain before turning to writing bawdy verse in the tradition of the poetic rake established by the 1680 edition of Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions. The title poem here, Radcliffe's best known work, starts with a knock at the door which the author is in bed with a whore. He embarks on a nightmarish low-life ramble through Restoration London, visiting theatres, gambling dens and… Read More

London Vizetelly and Co. 1887, 1887. First edition. 1887. Rebound in the late 19th century calf without the original paper covers - this edition was issued in paperbound format only. Full calf with gilt decoration around the edges of the front and back covers. Five raised bands on the spine with gilt decorated compartments. Dark brown leather label in second compartment with title in gilt (mistakenly written as "King Solomon's Wifes"). A fine copy. "This parody on 'King Solomon's Mines' was for many years attributed to Andrew Lang. In 1921, however, writing to the SKETCH in August concerning a caricature of Haggard by 'Maat' which had appeared in its issue for Aug. 3, Ernest Vizetelly gave the name of the author of 'King Solomon's Wives' as Sir Henry Chartres Biron who wrote it when he was a young barrister."

London: Thames and Hudson 1974, 1974. First edition. 264x234mm. pp. 14, 120 black and white photographs. Introduction by Ainslie Ellis. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt with publisher's device to upper cover. Light rubbing to head and foot of spine. Original black and white photo illustrated dust-jacket, text printed in black. Slight toning to spine but otherwise a near fine dust jacket. Internally excellent and overall a very good copy of a seminal work of social commentary. A Day Off was published posthumously in 1972. It is a part-finished study dealing with that favourite subject of the English - social class. Tony Ray-Jones uses images of the English at play - from beauty contests in Margate to the opera at Glyndebourne - to show how we divide along class lines. "I want my pictures to bite like the images in Buñuel's films which disturb you while making you think. I want them to have poignancy and sharpness but with humour on top...My aim is to communicate something… Read More

Paris: Charles Moreau [1925], 1925. First edition. [4], 48 black and white photographic plates of shop fronts and interiors. 323x250mm. The plates are loose and housed in a portfolio (337x255mm), backed with brown linen, boards covered with dark brown paper lettered and illustrated with a minimalist, modernist design. Ribbon ties. Lacks plate one but otherwise complete. The contents are in excellent condition, near fine. The front board has some wear and there is a tear to the linen spine. A superb collection of modernist shop designs some of which are by Herbst himself. Introductory essay by Herbst. Born in Paris in 1891, René Herbst studied architecture in London and Frankfurt from 1908. In 1919 Herbst began work in Paris as a furniture designer and interior decorator. He founded Établissements René Herbst to produce the pieces he designed. In 1925 René Herbst designed several exhibition stalls for the Paris "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1971. First edition. 226x146mm. pp. xi, [3], 305 [1bl]. Original quarter white cloth, black cloth covered boards, spine lettered in black and red. Original dustjacket, protected by plastic wrapper. Dustjacket with short closed tear to upper cover, slight creasing to top edge and some toning. Internally near fine. A very good copy of this cult classic about a psychiatrist who experiments with making decisions based on the roll of dice.

London: Grant Richards Ltd 1920, 1920. First edition. Presentation copy. 8vo. pp 318. Petrol-blue cloth with black-stamped titles and monogram to upper board and spine. In the very scarce illustrated dust jacket with chipping to edges, some slight loss at corners and loss to both head and tail of spine resulting in the loss of the very top edge of the first word of the title. With a small pen dedication by Richards to Isobel Jones, dated 1942, on the title page.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1973, 1973. First edition. 235x286mm. pp. [iv], 124. 110 black and white photographs by Richards with accompanying text for some of the images. Photographic illustrated paper boards. Some bumping to the corners and head and foot of spine but otherwise in very good condition and the contents are excellent. Lacking dustjacket. This is Eugene Richards's first book. It was born out of his work with VISTA, (Volunteers in Service to America) which he joined in 1968. This was a government programme established as an arm of the so-called" War on Poverty." Following a year and a half in eastern Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. This collection reflects the hardship of life together with the racial and political tensions in this desperately poor part of the southern states. An important document in excellent condition.… Read More

Norimbergae [Nuremberg]: Michaelis Endteri 1662, 1662. Quarto, 190x152mm. pp. [26], 832, 68. Red morocco, gilt with the arms of Jean-Baptiste Colbert at the centre of the upper and lower covers, spine with five raised bands, compartments with crowned monogram "JBC". Colbert was Louis XIV's Minister of Finance and the creator of one the finest private libraries of the seventeenth century, containing about 23,000 books and over 5,000 manuscripts. Title page has inscription "Bibliotheca Colbertina". Front pastdown has armorial book-label of Harriman, Lecomte du Nouy. This is Mary Harriman, the widow of the scientist Pierre Lecomte du Nouy. Edges sprinkled red. Some rubbing to joints and to the foot of the spine, corners and edge of lower board bumped but otherwise a nice copy. Internally excellent with some browning and foxing and a worm track to leaf N2. George Richter (1592-1651) was a lawyer from Nuremberg and later the Vice-Chancellor of Altdorf University. He corresponded with many of the leading… Read More

London Cassell's Colonial Library 1904, 1904. 1904. 1st Colonial edition Hardcover 8vo., red cloth, lettered & stamped in silver. pp342, 19pp publisher's advertisements. Overall an excellent copy.

London Longmans, Green and Co. 1894, 1894. 1894. First Edition, First Issue with misprints: p. vi misnumbered as ii, p. 1, l.21 with misspelling "auctoineers" for "auctioneers". 12mo. 16 plates by Arthur Layard. Original dark green cloth with some fading but otherwise fine.

London Longmans, Green and Co. 1903, 1903. First edition. Original navy blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. Some spotting but overall fine/near fine. 16 illustrations by Byam Shaw.

London Hutchinson and Co. 1907, 1907. First edition. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Fifteen black and white illustrations by J.R.Skelton.Some cracking and tears to the hinges. Some spotting to the edges. i-viii; 374pp. 32 pages of publisher's advertisements.

New York and London General Music Publishing Company Inc and Novello and Company Limited. n.d. [1964], 1964. First edition. 307x240mm. pp. 12. Illustrated paper covers. In fine condition. Inside rear cover has the label "From The Library of John K. Martin". The four Lawrence poems are Aware, Thomas Earp, December Night and Quite Forsaken. Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) began his studies in his native Italy. He had links with Berg and Schoenberg and his early work was influenced by their atonal experimentation. Between 1925 and 1940 he divided his time between Paris and Rome and adopted a more tonal, neo-classical style, writing ballet music for Diaghelev. In 1940, he moved to America where he remained for the rest of his life combining composition with teaching. These Lawrence settings were composed for and dedicated to the Queens College Choral Society where Rieti taught between 1955 and 1960. "Rieti's oeuvre stands apart in its specific clarity, gaiety and sophistication of a kind… Read More

London: Thames & Hudson 1968, 1968. Second impression. Large 4to. pp. 215. [160] pp. plates and various high quality black and white photographs of the artist. First major monograph. Includes a biographical note, a select bibliography, a section of writings by the artist and an appendix of smaller monochrome reproductions of major paintings and drawings which do not appear in a larger form in the book itself. Original black cloth and metallic dust jacket with large colour photograph of the artist's work. Several creases on jacket as well as slight wear to edges, an otherwise very good copy.

Paris: de l'imprimerie de Didot le jeune, 1827. 64mo. 65x40mm. pp. xxviii, 96. Nineteenth century red morocco, gilt border and spine decorated in gilt and with black morocco label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Verso of front free endpaper has book label of Emmanuel Martin. In beautiful condition throughout, this is regarded as "one of the most distinguished miniature books of the early nineteenth century".

London Grant Richards Ltd 1916, 1916. FIRST SEPARATE AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small 8vo. With four illustrations by ALBERT BUHRER. This is a slightly revised version of a tale of a girl who learns through her experiences what it means to grow up and how different life seems. Original pictorial brown printed wrappers, some minor foxing and darkening to covers, a very good copy. Rare.

1974. A original painted glass panel depicting Onan designed by Alan Rose for National Lampoon's December 1974 Issue, Vol. 1, No. 57, entitled "The Judeo-Christian Tradition. The Joy of Sects". 483x358mm. The panel, which is painted to look like traditional church stained glass, shows the figure of a man surrounded by a gothic niche which itself is placed inside a pointed arch. Beneath the human figure is the word "Onan" which identifies the man and explains the leery grimace on his face and the white splashes that surround him. In addition to the white, the glass is painted red, green, blue, yellow and mauve and pink. The edge of the pointed arch is painted with a thick black line. The edges of the glass are protected by tape. There is a small amount of scratching to the glass at the bottom resulting in a slight loss of paint but overall it is in very good condition. Alan Rose described how he made the panel from two sheets of painted glass to create the depth of image. For the Christmas 1974… Read More

Inverness Privately Printed 1976, 1976. Limited edition: 105 of 200 signed by the author. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Some damage and loss to the foot of the spine but otherwise a fine copy. 44 pages, 8.25x5.75. This is a short and rare study of collectors of cricket literature. Near fine

Paris: Librairie G. Baranger Fils. n.d. [c.1910], 1910. First edition. Folio. 323x250mm. pp. 83 leaves of thick cream paper. 3 leaves with title page, index and contents pasted on, 80 leaves on each of which is pasted a plate illustrating seven hundred different types of lamps and lighting from early Christian examples from the first century to the nineteenth century. Blue half cloth, white vellum covered boards. Illustrated and lettered paper labels on upper cover and spine. Small tear to top edge of the label on the upper cover. Some marking to vellum and bumping to head and foot of spine but overall in very good condition and internally near fine. Loosely inserted are two double sided leaves advertising books by L. Roger-Miles on the decorative arts. And there are two booklets (one of 12pp and the other of 48pp) advertising books on art and architectural history published by Librairie G Baranger. A very nice example of an early twentieth century French reference work on the decorative arts.