Search Results: Authors starting with R from Quill & Brush

London: Navarre Society Ltd., no-date [1921]. First thus. Two volumes with nearly 100 illustrations by Robinson including the two frontis pieces. Originally published by Grant Richards in 1904 in a quarto edition, privately reprinted for the Navarre Society in this reduced (octavo) format. Geoffrey Beale (Book Collector No. 40) notes: "To those who think of him as a gentle humorist, perhaps the most surprising of Heath Robinson's books is the edition of Rabelais....To the unprepared reader, finding here visions of hell that are truly horrific, and a raw power and earthiness that is exactly in tune with Rabelais' narrative style, might well ask whether this is the work of the same artist." Shimmering blue cloth (Blanck's AA) boards with gold stamped lettering, design and rule; page top edges gilt. Spines toned (gilt still quite bright), light unavoidable offset to endpapers, small stain and tiny hole in rear blank volume I which has also shows rear hinge repair. Still, an altogether attractive set.

Pompano Beach, FL: Exposition Press, (1985). First edition. Written by an educator, administrator and past president of the PW YWCA, this history of the independent Young Womens Christian Association of Washington DC founded by and for black women chronicles its struggles with the all-white National Capital YWCA at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. INSCRIBED BY RADCLIFFE on front endpaper, "To Helen,/ The sweetest fruit on/ the tree of life is friendship./ Love-/ Florence J. Radcliffe/ 27 January 1987." Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing and showing a few small creases, nicks, and tears. To this day and "in keeping with its mission, Phyllis Wheatley is the only YWCA in [DC] providing affordable housing to women regardless of race, creed or color [and serving] many women in transition" as well as its surrounding community. Scarce, especially so in dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition. Made into the 1928 silent Western film "The Grip of the Yukon" starring Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton. 8vo dusty rose cloth boards lettered in gilt on front and spine; front cover with snowshoes stamped in blind surrounded by snow-patterned design. Creases at spine ends otherwise near fine.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1929]. First UK edition. 8vo light blue cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine; 314 pages plus 6 pages publisher's ads. Near fine with few light splashes on rear board; in very good or better dust jacket foxed on verso. Scarce to rare in dust jacket.

(New York: The Objectivist, 1970 - 1971). First edition. The final 21 issues, January 1970 - September 1971, which was the last issue published under this title and in this format. "The Objectivist" was retooled and expanded from Rand's earlier 4-page "Objectivist Newsletter" to the 16-page small magazine format of these issues. Issues are overall very good or better -- each has mailing label on rear cover, some show light rubbing to covers, Vol. 10, No. 4 (April 1971) with coffee stain on back cover, and Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 1971) has bottom 2 - 3 inches cut from rear cover (where there was a small card printed inviting Objectivist readers to become "Charter Subscribers" to the next iteration of Rand's newsletter, "The Ayn Rand Letter"). Housed together in publisher's near-fine green vinyl binder lettered in gold on front and spine.

[No place]: Angelika Films, 1988. First edition thus. Italian film with English subtitles. Originally released in 1942 as two films, "Noi Vivi" and "Addio Kira," directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, and Fosco Giachetti. After their release in Italy during World War II, the films were banned by the Fascist government. Lost and forgotten for decades, they were finally found and restored with Rand's involvement and released for the first time in the U.S. in 1986. This 1988 VHS double-cassette set in its original clamshell case also contains material that tells the story of making the films, their loss, and re-discovery through photographic memorabilia, 6 informational packets, and "Ayn Rand's 'We the Living': New Life in a Restored Film Version" by Michelle Marder Kamhi in "Aristo: The Journal of Esthetics" (whole issue, Vol. 4 No.4, Dec. 1988)--all of which are housed in a pocket inside the case. Glassine envelope holding photos and stapled 8.5 x 11" informational… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001. First edition. SIGNED with a quote by the author on the title page. The unauthorized parody of that famous novel of the South. Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Random House, (1969). Later printing, INSCRIBED to Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman. Randall was a bookseller, head of rare books at Scribner's, and then head librarian at Indiana University where he helped put together the Lilly Collection. Near fine with light foxing in like dust jacket. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper. INSCRIBED TO DR. Z

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). First U.S. edition. Book four in the Inspector John Rebus series. Fine in near fine dust jacket with only the barest rubbing to spine ends and folds.

Gladestry: Scorpion Press, (2008). First edition, using sheets from the Orion trade edition, and published a week later, on September 25, 2008. Number 46 of 80 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. There were also 16 specially bound copies. Includes an appreciation by Denise Mina. Bound in dark blue quarter leather with marbled boards and top edge stained blue-green. Fine as issued in clear acetate wrapper.

Washington, D.C.: (Embassy of Austria), 1998. First edition. Edited by Roswitha Novak. Number 154 of 333 copies SIGNED BY RANSMAYR. From the short-lived "New Literature from Europe" series of readings at the Library of Congress, Presentation copy with Embassy of Austria greeting card from the cultural attache of the Embassy dated April 20, 1998, laid in, "Very kind regards, Teresa Indjein." Includes excerpts from Ransmayr's novels THE TERRORS OF ICE AND DARKNESS; THE LAST WORLD and THE DOG KING as well as bibliographical references. Illustrated. Fine in paperwraps.

New York: Leavitt & Allen Brothers, no-date. Later edition of this beloved collection of tall tales. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill with 10 hand-colored plates including the frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, as well as with numerous drawings in the text. Finely bound in 16mo 3/4 polished calf decoratively ruled in blind on front and back; 5 gilt-tooled spine panels, 5 gilt-ruled raised spine bands, gilt-lettered red leather spine label; marbled paper boards with matching endpapers and all edges marbled; 251 pages. Very good or better with names on front blank partially erased resulting in thinning to the paper, few mild scuffs to the covers, and boards just visible at corners.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1956). First edition. Edited by Julia Scribner Bigham. Bright and fine in near fine dust jacket with only subtle toning to the spine, a touch of faint soiling and aging, and a few inconspicuous nicks and tears. An attractive copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1956). First edition. Edited by Julia Scribner Bigham. Gilt at spine rubbed though readable, otherwise would be near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with light soiling, rubbing, and small closed tears, as well as light foxing and a small dampstain on verso, which are not visible from the front.

New York: Scribner's Sons, 1953. First edition. Name and small name label on front endpaper, otherwise fine in dust jacket with chipping on corners and spine ends, very slightly darkened spine, and rear panel with minor edge rubbing.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, (1950). First edition. The front of the dust jacket proclaims this black author's only novel as "the story of a man who betrayed his own people." Covers and page edges slightly foxed, otherwise fine in a bright dust jacket with subtle foxing to rear panel and two closed tears in upper front panel (barely visible).

(Leamington Spa): Sixth Chamber Press, (1985). First edition. Number 4 of 56 numbered copies SIGNED BY REDGROVE from a total edition of 62 (there were also 6 copies in marbled boards). 8vo handsewn green paperwraps; unpaginated (8 pages total). Fine.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First edition. "Here is a new tempo in murder mystery. Murder is practically set to music!" His second book featuring detective Dan Jordan (the only two books he wrote). Spine and edges toned otherwise would be near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with edges rubbed, few tiny nicks and tears, and rubbing to few letters on rear panel (still readable).

New York: Society of Illustrators, (1984). First edition. Number 36 of 50 copies with an original woodcut by John Held, Jr. (signed "72/100 Mrs John Held, Jr."). Additionally SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 355 pages with text for each decade by different illustrators (1920-1930 by Rockwell Kent, e.g.). Also includes Benjamin Eisenstat, Von Schmidt, Bernard Fuchs, et al. Profusely illustrated. Black cloth, a.e.g., 4to. Fine in fine matching cloth slipcase.

London: Heinemann, (1993). First edition. Not published in hardcover in the U.S. The third book in his "Royal Marines / Blackwood Saga" quintent. SIGNED by Reeman on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce signed.