Search Results: Titles starting with R from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Book. Illus. by Mary Azarian Color Woodcuts, and SIGNED by her. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Illustrator(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Mary Azarian, who won the Caldecott Award for her wonderful color woodcuts in 1999. She deserves it for this book too, a fine Norwegian tale based on a Saga penned in 1264. No flaws and no prior owner marks on the book. The dust jacket has a water stain on the inside, upper corners not visible on the outside. Now protected by a clear, mylar sleeve. .

Syracuse University Press WITH dRYAD pRESS, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine, unread, inside and out. No stains or edgewear or prior owner marks. An engrossing novel of Jewish wandering from the Danube delta to Germany and the holocaust to disappearances in Argentina, through four generations. Beautifully written. .

London: R. H. Porter, 1892. Book. Illus. by photo portrait frontispiece, 20 plates plus text illustrations . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Title continues, "chiefly in the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney Mountains, ...from Journals written between 1844 and 1870". Original lime green cloth with hunting scene in gilt on the front board. Bright gilt title on the front and spine. Cloth hinges professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down. Very clean and tight , inside and out. New endpapers. Top edge gilt. No foxing or browning or prior owner marks. Czech p. 76 .

Kyoto: Reimei Kyokai, 1987. Book. Illus. by fine Japanese art and objects in color. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Light grey hardcover with silver titles on the front board and the unfaded spine. Text in Japanese and English. No edgewear. no damage or scuffs to the dust jacket. The slipcase has minor wear and fading, but still near fine. Works by Hom'ami Koetsu (1558-1637), Sotatsu (17th Century),Ogata Korin (1658-1716)and a few others of that vintage. Profuse iillustrations in an almost AS NEW condition. .

London and New York: Frances Pinter and Nichols Publishing, 1977. Book. Illus. by a few maps and graphs. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. fine copy, inside and out. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has no tears. Economic, opolitical, legal and organizational problems in management of natural resources. A case study of the North Pacific. The author had a long academic career at Univ of Maryland, Dartmouth, and Univ of California..

New York: National Travel Club, 1936. Book. Illus. by 32 pages of photos of Africans and wildlife, endpaper maps. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very good original black cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine and no fading. Only a hint of edgewear. Inside, clean and tight, with a stamp on the front free endpaper of a prior owner. This is Mary Akeley's journey through Transvaal, Natal and Zululand, attached to the American Museum of Natural History nearly a century ago. From the fine collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson. .

London: Saunders and Otley , 1838. Book. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three-quarter brown calf with marbled boards and matching brown-beige endpapers. Professional repairs to the corners, and volumes one and two have been rebacked. New spine labekls. Solid hinges and inside, very clean pages with no stains, no foxing. I see browning on one page where it appears a clipping left a slight browning scar. Top edges gilt. "Martineau, political economist, philosopher and journalist, was also a serious traveler. Her two-year visit to America (1834 - 1836) was a study tour." (Wayward Women, Jane Robinson). Sabin 44939 .

Boston: Little Brown, 1979. Book. Illus. by 4 Maps and Profuse Text Illustrations. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 8 Vo. Fine brown cloth spine with bright gilt title, no fading, beige boards with stamped Nineveh illustrations onto the front board. Fine dustjacket, protected in a brodart sleeve..

Stanford, Cal: Stanford University Press, 1985. Book. Illus. by tables. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, unread copy with no edge wear and no prior owner marks. Dust jacket is fine. Based on field research and 300 plus interviews, Chinese women are not doing so well. .

New York: Garden Cit Publishing, 1939. Book. Illus. by Everett Shinn, both color plates and large green margin drawings. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original green cloth spine with Shinn illustration of Rip and elves on the front of the book as well as the dust jacket. Slight edge wear. Very clean and tight inside, with no stains and no prior owner marks. Dust jacket has wear at the spine edges as well as the corners and spine ends. Three small closed tears. Spendid profuse illustrations on the end papers and each page of the book. First edition of this children's version. Unpaginated..

London: William Pickering, 1832. Book. Illus. by 58 fine Bewich woodcuts made for this 2 volume set, mostly by John Bewick. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Extant Relative to That Celebrated Outlaw, to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life". Fine inside, with no foxing or browning. Printed by Whittingham on laid paper, the Bewick illustrations are superior to the first edition of 1795. Volume two has been professionally rebacked. Both volumes are protected by clear, mylar dustjackets. Pages viii,cxxxc, 148 abd vikyne twi vi, 261. Ritson aspired to be an antiquary and collected old English ballads. The DNB lists this as his most important achievement. Publicationa was long delayed by his lack of funds. The tail piece woodcuts vary from the first edition. Both Thomas and John Bewick contributed. See details in Nigel Tattersfield, John Bewick pages 147 to 149. .

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. Book. Illus. by Profuse Photos By Antonio Martinelli. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S. EDITION. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An exceptional copy of Indian palaces, their courtly life and architecture, and the historical and regional traditions of the buildings. Pages 232 with index , glossary of Indian terms, and a nice bibliography. Red cloth with no edgewear and bright gilt title. Fine dustjacket NOT price clipped and protected in a brodart sleeve..

Boston: Little , Brown , 1901. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Title continued, "Comprising the Metrical Translations by Edward Fitzherald and E.H. Whinfield, and the prose version of Justin Huntly McCarthy". Introduction by Jessie Rittenhouse. Anexcellent pictorial cloth binding, blue/grey with elaborate gilt design and titl on the front and the unfaded spine. Top edge gilt. Some wear at the spine ends and corners. Inside, very clean and tightwith no stains or foxing or browning, and no prior owner marks. .

New York: Riverhead, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A wondrous farce, the immigrant experience in the U.S. A crease in the lower corner of the front cover. Clean and tight inside with no prior owner marks. .