Search Results: Titles starting with R from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Dubuque, Iowa: The Dubuque Times-Journal, 1923. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Octavo. The construction and operation of all the latest and most efficient circuits fully illustrated and described in simple language, including the neutrodyne, reinartz, armstrong kopprasch, ultra-audion, wood's, cockaday reflex, runed impedence and tuned plate and grid circuits together with instructions showing how to add. Two states of audio or two states of radio frequency to an of the above receivers. 64pp., illustrated throughout, bound in brown stiff wraps lettered in brown and blue. off-setting to title page from advertisement and telegram laid in otherwise a fine copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. A classified directory of the radio and allied industries published quarterly. Illustrated, 188(1)pp., illustrated endpapers are ads; bound in gray cloth stamped in black and red, spine lettering black; a few small spots to cloth. A very good clean copy.

Joliet, IL.(1931): P.F. Volland & Co. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. VHC #2 Format (9 1/4" x 6 1/8"). 95(1) numbered pages, last page is an ad for Raggedy Ann Books and Dolls, bound in color pictorial paper covered boards backed in blue cloth, previous owner's name on half-title; fine in original color pictorial box with 3 small closed tears to sides. [Hall, p.128] Very nice.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CLYDE EDGERTON ON TITLE PAGE. A Fine copy in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. $12.95 price on front flap of Dust Jacket. 227 pp. Author's First Book.

London: Bernard Lintott, 1723. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. Sixth Edition Corrected and Fourth Edition. Esdras Barnivelt pseudonym of Alexander Pope. Two volumes bound together in contemporary full vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved illustrations. A very good- copy with binding split at spine, boards and spine are intact. All pages intact.Title written in ink on spine. Previous owner inscriptions ffep and title page.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY RICHARD NIXON ON FFEP without personalization. 107pp. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Review copy with publisher's dated slip laid in. 302pp., bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt, some off-setting to endpapers; near fine in unclipped printed dust jacket with minor edge wear, some tanning and light chipping to spine ends and corners. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. This volume concludes, and sheds fresh light upon Santayan's Realms of Being series, one of the great contemporary philosophical systems.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Bound in black cloth pictorially stamped in silver, spine copper. 377 pp. A few light spots to covers otherwise fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1994. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. As New. Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 178. SIGNED BY JAMES A. MICHENER. As new in slipcase and shrink wrap.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 438pp. First Edition with the correct code on the copyright page (A.2.62.[H]). Bound in red cloth, spine lettered in black. A fine copy of the author's second novel, in a fine dust jacket.

London: John Sharpe, 1819. Half Leather. Very Good+. 24mo. Reminiscences; regular title, engraved portrait title, 166pp. Walpoliana; engraved vignette title, 168pp. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled covered boards, flat spine decoratively stamped in gilt, black morocco label gilt; internally clean, minimal wear; a very handsome little book. Walpole started his famous printing press at his beautiful home, a castle in which he remodeled to suit his personal taste, located on a forty acre estate in Twickenhama, named Strawberry Hill.

Washington: Blair and Rives, 1845. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. A very good copy bound in three quarter maroon leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine. Includes 22 plates, folding maps at p. 133 and 235, and maps "The Great Salt Lake" at p. 155 and "Bear Springs" at p. 135. The large folding Preuss map of the West coast is lacking. Covers with scuffs and edge wear. 2" x 1/2" piece of marbled paper missing at rear cover. Owner ink inscription title page. Internally clean and bright. 583 pp.

Washington; 1855-1861: Government Printing Office. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto, 12 volumes in 13, uniform bindings of contemporary 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards; marbled end papers and marbled edges. A COMPLETE COPY, having all the maps, charts, color and black and white illustrations, which are called for by Wagner-Camp. All plates and maps are very good to fine. These surveys were the government's first attempt to examine the vast compendium of vital information which detail the topographical, botanical, zoological, and the natural history aspects of a largely unknown West. This monumental work contains over 650 striking color (some hand-colored) and black and white illustrations, charts and maps. An excellent set, internally clean, in very good contemporary bindings, volume XII-I expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down; Muhlenberg Library stamp on some page edges, a few erased, neat owner name on FEP's; pockets unobtrusively removed from rear end papers, volume VIII with… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 268pp., 14 sepia toned lithos after photographs by famed photographer, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and 17 folding maps at rear (16 are listed in the map index) Short tear to map #1 near gutter; bound in original brown cloth, slight fading to spine; minor fraying at spine ends and ghost of label removal; bookplate, Rhode Island State Library on front pastedown and small stamp on title page; neat contemporary owner's name on title page. The present title, laid the ground work for the building of the Panama Canal. Internally, plates and text are clean and bright. Overall, a very good copy.

New York; (1953): Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First Edition First Printing, 276pp., bound in 1/4 green paper over pale green paper covered boards, spine lettering red; fine in Very Good+ unclipped pictorial dust jacket with mild edge wear. The author is African-American and a writer for Fireside Theatre; a number of TV producers left California to write books. This being his first of a number of mystery-detective books dealing with the life and times of Gregory George Athelston Keen.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. First edition in second issue binding. Bound in original dark green cloth stamped in black. Mild cover edge wear. 416 pp.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. 416pp. Bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt; a very nice copy in dust jacket with two small chips at head of spine.

Washington: Gale & Seaton (printers), 1825. First Edition. Unbound. Very Good. Octavo. (18th Congress, 2d Session) 4 pages; not bound. An important resolution, concerning emancipation, many years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1865; It reads in part: "STATE OF NEW JERSEY Resolved by the Council and General Assembly of this State, That the consideration of a system providing for the gradual emancipation of the people of color held in servitude in the United States." A very good copy.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1993. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED ON COLOPHON PAGE BY CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies and 26 lettered and signed copies. THIS COPY IS LETTER Z. Fine in a fine original slipcase. 222 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH to author Faith Baldwin: "For Faith Baldwin/Contemporary/from August Derleth/Contemporary/with the hope that the story will not seem too depressing/10/9/39" written on the half-title. Faith Baldwin (Oct. 1, 1893 - March 18, 1978) was an author of romance fiction. 514pp. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in light blue and gilt. In all a very good copy without dust jacket.