Search Results: Authors starting with R from Bygone Books

New York: Merrimack Publishing. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Undated reproduction of the original Randolph Caldecott published by George Routledge in 1881 - this reprint by Merrimack Publishing, printed in Hong Kong, is numbered 1849-S. 8vo, illustrated stiff wraps, 32 pages, full page color illustrations and b/w drawings. Condition: VERY GOOD: slight edgewear, crease to bottom corner of front cover.

New York: Merrimack Publishing. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Undated reproduction of the original Randolph Caldecott published by George Routledge in 1880 - this reprint by Merrimack Publishing, printed in Hong Kong, is numbered 1844S. 8vo, illustrated stiff wraps, 32 pages, full page color illustrations and b/w drawings. Condition: VERY GOOD: slight edgewear, faint crease and a few faint spots to front cover.

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / Folger Shakespeare Library, 1965. First Edition . Soft cover. NF. 1st printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 38 pages plus numerous b/w illustrations, bibliographical essay. NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

NY: W.W. Norton, 1953. First American edition . Hardcover. G+/Fair. 282p. First American edition. GOOD+ / Fair - : edgewear; spine ends bumped; staining and crease to front end page; owner's name; sl. yellowing to pages. DJ: staining front cover; spine darkened; large (4" x 1") missing piece on back cover at fold; chips and tears at spine ends; chipped at top, price is on bottom... (in mylar)

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1964. Soft cover. NF. 2nd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 46 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

Ithaca Ny: Cornell University Press / The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1965. Soft cover. NF. 3rd printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 46 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE: faint stain on front cover, owner name inside front cover.

London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1969. Hardcover. VG+. 3rd impression 1969 [first published 1967]. 8vo, teal cloth, 415 pages, maps, bibliography, index. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: little wear, clean and tight, a very nice copy.

NY: Henry Holt, 1926, c1913., 1926. Hardcover. VG-. ... including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl." Later printing of the new and enlarged edition. 225p. photographs; frontispiece of the author; red cloth / black titles. VERY GOOD- book / no jacket: lt. edgewear, 3 sm. stains to front cover, spine lt. sunned, spine has a few sm. stains. The villages which the author writes of are all in New York State.

NY: New American Library, 1980. Soft cover. VG+. 3rd printing, 4to wraps, 322 pp, b/w illustrations [drawings and photographs], bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with minor wear. "The Periods, The Styles, The Form and Function of Historical Buildings from Colonial Times to Today - more than 450 Illustrations for easy identification." [from the cover]

Guildford, Surrey, UK: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Antique Pocket Guides. Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st ed, 16mo, stiff wrappers, 64 pages, b/w illustrations throughout (110 to be exact), listing of silversmiths known to have made card cases, index. Condition is NEAR FINE with just an old price sticker on rear cover. Nostalgia at its finest, now we just get a "beep" when someone leaves a text message or voicemail.

Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1936. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. DESCRIPTION: Special reprint from the Saturday Evening Post, © 1948 Curtis Publishing; this 1986 edition printed letterpress by The Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine is limited to 1500 copies. However, there is a bookplate on the rear paste-down saying "This special edition is limited to 50 copies. This copy number 36 (handwritten in)", and includes a business card from the Press. 8vo. green cloth with pictorial paste-on, gilt titles on front board and spine, b/w woodcuts as chapter headings. 25 pages. CONDITION: NEAR FINE / no jacket: small mark on front board, tiny brown stain on bottom page edge of last 5 pages, otherwise like new.

Southampton, NY: Cracker Barrel Press, 1970. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Undated reprint, circa 1970s, of the original edition published for the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut Committee on Historical Publications (Yale University Press, 1933). 8vo, stapled wraps, [16] Pages, b/w photographs of chairs. Condition: VERY GOOD, with some toning to edges of front cover, internally clean and tight. Nothing better in the world than a Connecticut-made Hitchcock Chair.

Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company [no date]. Soft cover. G+. 8vo, stapled wraps (linenette), illustrations by Gordon Robinson, cover illus by R.A. Burley. [12] pages including covers. Condition is GOOD+ : covers have lt. soiling and lt. edgewear; stain at fore edge of cover affects first 2 pages at margin (stain is 4" long)...does not affect reading.

NY: Payson & Clarke, 1927. Hardcover. G+. The Connoisseur Series of Books for Collectors; introduction by G. Reginald Grundy. 4to, red cloth / gilt titles, t.e.g., 50 pages of text, 48 colour plates, 2 monochrome plates. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket: lt. edgewear, sunning and staining to spine, a faint dampstain on front cover along spine gutter, lt.scattered foxing throughout the text, (the plates have only a lt. yellowing to the margins), book is tight with all 50 plates present.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-/VG-. 0819551317 1st edition [stated], 8vo, green cloth, 160 pages, index. VERY GOOD- book / in a VERY GOOD- jacket: some idiot [and this is NOT a library book] glued the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers, so there are remains of glue on the endpapers and on the jacket flaps, but it is now spearated and in protective mylar and is so much happier in this state; a remainder mark to top page edge, internally clean and tight; the jacket has light wear and the aforementioned glue. "In these nineteen critical and biographical essays about women, Rose celebrates the renaissance in writing by and about women....the book is deivided into 'Lives' [Willa Cather, Frida Kahlo, Djuna Barnes, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Isak Dinesen, Christina Rossetti, Helen Bannerman, Alma Mahler, and Diane Arbus] and 'Works' [Virginia Woolf, Colette, Jean Rhys, Margaret Drabble, Emily Eden, Miles Franklin, Cynthia… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st ed, 8vo, brown cloth, 270 pages, reading list, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket; very nice condition. Rosenthal focuses on Woolf's "preoccupation with form, her overriding artistic concern and the source of her greatest accomplishment."

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1965., 1965. Hardcover. VG-. 317p. 9th edition; Pocket size navy boards; map fep; fold-out maps maps and illus scattered. ribbon bookmark. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: minor wear; spine lightly sunned.

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / University Press of Virginia, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 1st edition, 8vo, blue cloth, 359 pages, index. Condition is NEW: still in shrink wrap, no jacket as issued. One of the three bibliographies Roth compiled to accompany the essential David Gilson. It includes an annotated list of books, essays, articles, doctoral dissertations, and mere mentions of Jane Austen between the years of 1973 and 1983. There are 1045 entries, followed by 3 indices: authors, Austen titles, and subjects. Essential Austen.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1939., 1939. Soft cover. VG. First edition, 8vo, stapled stiff wraps, 33 pages, folded map in pocket. Condition is VERY GOOD: light fading / discoloring to card stock covers, owner name in pencil on fep, internally clean and tight with map in fine condition.