Search Results: Authors starting with R from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1929]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Some light foxing to yellow cloth at spine. Else a near fine copy in a dust jacket slightly faded at spine panel with restoration at top and bottom of spine. The first appearance of Radiguet in English, much better known for his novel, The Devil in the Flesh. Uncommon.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Near fine in dust jacket with some very minor restoration at edges. Crime Club.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Some light foxing to page edges. Cloth crisp but somewhat spotted at spine. Near fine book in a bright near fine dust jacket with a half inch tear at top of rear panel. Nice copy of this collection of 11 short stories. Decorations by Edward Shenton.

New York:: G.P. Putnam's Sons,, [1940].. FIRST EDITION.. A fine bright book in a very good to near fine dust jacket, bright and unfaded, with some minor restoration at edges. The third Great Merlini mystery, set against the background of the circus.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1950]. FIRST EDITION. Some scattered light foxing. Minor offsetting to free endpapers (from reaction to pastedowns). Else a near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket with only a faint crease at spine panel and some minor rubbing . Particularly bright copy. "The Story of the American Negro from Africa to the present--told from the inside.."

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, [1931]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Very good to near fine in fine bright dust jacket (neatly price-clipped). A Detective McKee mystery.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a superb fine dust jacket. Hubin does not list a UK edition for this title. Crime Club.

New York: John Day / Reynal and Hitchcock, [c.1937]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Small chip to top of page 185. Else a clean near fine book in a superb fine dust jacket. Preface by Jawaharlal Nehru. Front panel of jacket prints a blurb by Pearl Buck. An 'objective" history of British imperialsim in India.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine copy in a lovely fine dust jacket slightly faded at spine panel (few tiny tears at bottom of rear panel). Crime Club.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, [1932]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine copy in dust jacket with some minor restoration at corners; spine panel of jacket very slightly faded/soiled. Crime Club.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine in dust jacket with some minor edgewear.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Superb copy of the autobiography of the editor of the Everyman series of books.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a very good dust jacket with a chip and a couple tears at bottom of spine panel. Some creasing to rear panel of jacket.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket slightly faded at spine panel with a couple tiny closed edgetears.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Fine in a dust jacket rather faded at spine, but with only very minor edgewear.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1959]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Minor foxing to page edges else a fine tight copy in an unusually bright dust jacket which bears an illustration by Leonard Baskin. Richler wrote the screenplay for the 1974 film starring Richard Dreyfus.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very fine in dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Unusually fine copy in dust jacket. Author's second book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy inscribed on front flyleaf: "To Helen and Matt Pearce / whose Reading is just over / the mountain from Pine Mills. / Conrad Richter / Pine Grove / March 11, 1947." Some offsetting to a couple leaves at rear of volume, otherwise a fine copy in a beautiful fine dust jacket, completely unfaded.

New York: Random House, [1937]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Some spotting to front pastedown and to front cover of book. Very good copy in a fine bright dust jacket (faintly creased at edge of spine panel). Particularly nice copy of Riding's first novel, a Greek counterpart to her husband, Robert Graves' novels of the Roman Empire. Scarce in this condition.