Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bazaar of Books

"Tidefall" by Thomas H. Raddall. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, [1953]. First edition. pp. 309. Hardcover, grey cloth with green titles (corners straight, top & bottom of spine browned, top edge of front and back covers also browned, browning to end papers and all edges). dw., unclipped (browning in general, top of spine chipped and worn, bottom of spine also worn). Dust jacket now covered with mylar.Good condition.Size: 8 1/4" x 5 5/8". (21cm x 14.5cm).

"Rendezvous with the Wild: The Boreal Forest." Edited by James Raffan. [Erin, Ontario]: The Boston Mills Press, [2004]. pp. 192. profusely illustrated in colour. Hardcover, illustrated boards with white & yellow title on spine. (lower corners bent and dented, few dents along cover edges, interior clean & unmarked). d.j. (corners bit worn, spine faded).Very Good condition.Size; 10 1/4" x 11 7/8" (26cm x 30cm).

"Recipes from a 3 Star Chef" by Gordon Ramsay. London: Quadrille Publishing Limited, [2007]. pp. 256. many colour illus. Hardcover, white with silver titles on spine (corners square, interior clean and unmarked, covers unmarked). dw., white with silver titles (unmarked, spine slightly yellowed). In a silver slip case with white titles (a few scratches, otherwise clean). Size (book): 13 3/8" x 10 1/4" (34cm x 26cm).Very good condition. Fifty recipes by Gordon Ramsay, that you might have in one of his Michelin starred restaurants. Illustrated with fantastic, mouth watering photographs.

"Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945" by Nicholas Rankin. [London]: Faber and Faber, [2008]. pp. 466. 26 b & w illus. Hardcover, black cloth with silver title on spine (corners square, spine bumped, covers & interior unmarked). dw., unclipped (slightly worn, retail sticker on front).Size: 9 1/2" x 6 3/8" (24cm x 16cm).Very good condition.

The Complete New Yorker and all issues [up to 2005] and database contained on 8 disks (DVDs). Includes a book entitled "Highlights from The Complete New Yorker." Introduction by David Remnick. First edition. pp. 123. profusely illustrated (some colour). [New York: The New Yorker, 2005]. Paperback (some wear). Book and 8 disks are enclosed in a hardback folder (corners bent, wear to top & bottom of spine and edgeworn, some scuffing and scratches also). Book is glued into the folder and is not separate.Very good condition.Size: 12 3/8" x 9 3/8" (31.5cm x 24cm).*Note: This is a large and heavy book. Please contact us for a shipping quote, even if in Canada or the United States.

"The Street" by Mordecai Richler. Toronto/Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Limited, [1969]. pp.128. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine (corners square, notations on front free endpaper, interior clean and unmarked). dj., unclipped (some wear, few small tears, darkened and foxed on inside).Very good condition.Size: 8 3/4" x 5 5/8" (22.5cm x 14.5cm).

"Swan People: A Study of the Dunne-za Prophet Dance" by Robin Ridington. (National Museum of Man Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 38). Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1978. pp. 132, Bibliography. 20 b. & w. illus. Paperback (spine foxed, corners worn, interior clean & unmarked). Very good condition.Size: 11" x 8 1/2" (28cm x 21.5cm)

"Dublin Phoenix" by Olivia Robertson. Illustrated with line drawings by the author. London: Jonathan Cape, [1957]. pp 224. Hardcover, green cloth, blue titles on spine, red phoenix on cover, and top edge red (corners square, spine bumped, foxing to fore-edge & bottom edge, interior unmarked). dw. (unclipped, bit worn, chipped, back browned).Size: 8 1/8" x 5 3/4" (20.5cm x 14.5cm).
A memoir of Dublin.

"An Atlantic Album: Photographs of the Atlantic Provinces, before 1920" by Scott Robson and Shelagh Mackenzie. [Halifax, Nova Scotia]: Nimbus Publishing Limited, [1985]. pp. 168. numerous b. & w. illus. Paperback (interior is clean & unmarked, covers undamaged).Very good condition.Size: 8 1/2" x 11" (21.5cm x 28cm).

"Proof: The Science of Booze" by Adam Rogers. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]. pp. 273. Paperback. As new condition.Size: 8" x 5 3/8". (20.5cm x 13.5cm).

"Patton's Gap: Mustangs over Normandy" by Richard Rohmer. [Toronto]: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, [1998]. Second edition. pp. 225, Bibliography, maps. some b. & w. illus. Hardcover, green boards with gilt title on spine (corners square, interior clean and unmarked). dj. (shelf wear).Near fine condition.Size: 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" (23.5cm x 16cm).

"Henri Matisse" by Alexander Romm. Translated by Chen I. Wan. [Moscow]: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1937. pp. 74, Bibliography. colour frontis., 3 colour plates & 41 b. & w. illus. Card wrappers with attached pink cover (worn, loss to both top & bottom of spine, spine faded, piece at top of front cover missing, lower corner creased, front flap is detached & inserted, inscription & owner's signature on front free endpaper, all pages toned, interior is unmarked, wrappers detached from text block, dampstain in margin at top of illustration pages in rear and to colour plates, and dampstain to back wrapper).Good- condition.Size: 8 1/2" x 6" (21.5cm x 15.5cm).

"Frankenthaler." Text by Barbara Rose. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1971]. pp. 274, Biography, Bibliography. 205 b. & w. illus. and 54 colour plates (1 fold-out). Hardcover, illustrated cloth, title in black on spine, white on cover (bottom of spine is worn & frayed, top & fore edge are toned, margins in text are yellowed, extremities are worn, price stamped on half-title page, otherwise interior is unmarked). dj., original plastic (jacket is cracked and has several short tears, torn in a few places at both top & bottom of spine, has a tear and is folded down at top of front cover, the surface of the jacket is scuffed). Good+ condition.Size: 11" x 11 5/8" (27.75cm x 29.5cm).
"The physical design of this volume is the result of close collaboration between Helen Frankenthaler and the artist Robert Motherwell, who developed its basic concept. The painting reproduced on the cover was made especially for this publication." (from the dust jacket).
++PLEASE NOTE: This is a large and heavy… Read More

American Cinematographer Hand Book and Reference Guide. Fourth Edition, Fifth Printing. Written and Compiled by Jackson J. Rose. Hollywood, California: American Society of Cinematographers, [1942]. pp. 251. diagrams and tables. Softcover (covers creased & marked, spine quite frayed at top & bottom, top of spine split from back cover- 1 1/2 inches, hinge cracked, endpapers toned & stained, previous owner's name on front endpaper, very edgeworn, various pages dog-eared, 1 page- creased & chipped, detached but present).Fair condition.Size: 6 3/4" x 4 1/4" (17cm x 11cm).

Petite Portraits: Miniature Dolls by Contemporary American Doll Artists by Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh. Cumberland, Maryland: Hobby House Press, Inc., [1982]. pp. 200, Glossary, Index. numerous b. & w. illus., some in colour. Paperback (small mark on front cover, some wear to corners, interior clean & unmarked).Very Good condition.Size: 10" x 7" (25cm x 18cm).

"Pink Floyd" by William Ruhlmann. [London: Bison Books Ltd., 1993]. pp.96. many colour illustrations. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine (price sticker on front free endpaper, tears to both front & back endpapers with tape repairs, spine and corners worn, owner's signature on endpaper, interior is otherwise unmarked). No dust jacket.Good condition.Size: 13" x 9 5/8"" (33cm x 24.5cm).

"The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie. [Toronto:] Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [1995]. pp. 437. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover, black cloth, gilt stamped title on spine (all edges browned, a few marks to fore edge, inscription on half-title page, interior clean & unmarked). dw. (unclipped, tear near top, at spine). It is also covered with a library archival plastic jacket. Very good condition.Size: 9 1/2" x 6 3/8" (24cm x 16cm).Rushdie's first novel following "The Satanic Verses".

"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Two: Forty Six Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines by Angus Evan Abbott et al. Selected and Introduced by Alan K. Russell." [Secaucus, New Jersey]: Castle Books, [1979]. pp. 502. text in column format, as in magazines. many b. & w. illus. Hardcover, red cloth with black title on spine (corners bumped, gift inscription on front free endpaper, staining on the endpapers, from tape formerly attached to plastic covered d.j., interior clean & unmarked). d.j. covered with plastic (2 chipped pieces, one replaced, at spine, bit tattered, short tear on cover corner). Good condition.Size: 9 1/2" x 7" (24cm x 18cm).