Search Results: Titles starting with R from Uncommon Works

Washington DC: Department of the Air Force, 1951. Screw Post Binding. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine edition from 1951. Original hard plastic cover in triple screw post binding. Foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and bright. No torn or missing pages, no writing. Filled with graphs and illustrations. Unpaginated, includes a section-based index. 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall. quarto.

Radcliffe, Iowa: Radcliffe Publication Committee, 1978. 1st Edition. Leatherette. As new. Near fine first edition. Embossed leatherette, rear top corner bumped. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedown. Illustrated enpapers. Local history and genealogy research of interest to Scandinavian and Iowan families. 360 pp. Folio, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/near fine. A fine first edition, first printing in a very good plus dust jacket. Complete number line. Navy cloth boards over black quarter cloth. Gilt title stamping on spine. Binding tight and square. In a very good plus, price clipped dust jacket, showing a crease along top front edge, otherwise fine. 363 pp. including index. Reaganomics" was the most ambitious attempt to change the course of American economic policy of any administration since the New Deal. In this lively, well-informed account, William Niskanen describes in fascinating detail the formulaton of the Reagan economic program, the internal debates, the effects of this program on the economy, and the probable future of Reaganomics. A distinguished economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1985, for nine months as acting chairman, Niskanen was at the forefront of the Reagan economic program--as a supporter and… Read More

London: Henry Stevens & Son, 1886. First Edition. Three quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus first on large paper. Rebound. Three quarter leather with gilt lines, five raised bands, gilt title stamping. Some shelfwear, bottom right corner badly bumped. Top right corner worn heavily. Marbled endpapers. Pages are clean and bright on heavy paper. Deckled edges, wide margins. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. 211 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 inches tall, octavo. Includes the story the Mr. Lenox's pursuit of the Bay Psalm Book. "James Lenox (August 19, 1800 – February 17, 1880) was an American bibliophile and philanthropist. His collection of paintings and books eventually became known as the Lenox Library and in 1895 became part of the New York Public Library.'" ---Wikipedia

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A fine, 1957 second printing of the revised edition, as stated on the jacket and copyright page. Beige buckram with brown title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge and copyright page. In a very good, original, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing 1 x 1/8 inch loss on back cover and shelf wear to head at spine of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. x, 331 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4" tall.

Chicago: The Werner Company, 1898. First Edition. Paper covered Boards. Very good. Frederick Remington. A very good first edition [Howes R206]. Beveled beige paper covered boards show smudges and uniform staining from much handling. Joint starting about 2 inches from bottom. Mild bowing. All edges gilt. Previous owners' names on first free endpaper and title page. previous owner has made two small, fine sketches on rear pastedown. Semi-neatly inked date of 1900 appears to the right of the word "Remington" on the title page, written on it after the book was printed ---- not a publication date. All onionskins and plates present, with some waving. Oblong quarto 12" x 9 1/4" talla The first edition (and only edition published by Werner) appeared only in 1898 due to copyright challenges. No later Werner editions listed in Worldcat or on the market. See Publisher's Weekly, Nov. 19 1898: "INJUNCTION AGAINST " REMINGTON'S FRONTIER SKETCHES." Judge Lacombe, of… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good/none as issued. A very good, full leather first edition. Blind stamped cover and edges. Four raised bands showing rubbing. Gilt, black, brown and red title stamping on spine. Binding is sturdy, strong and square. Foxing to top edge. Off setting to endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink and impressed on first free endpaper. Text is clean. 563 pp. including index. The Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903 was a naval blockade imposed against Venezuela by Great Britain, Germany and Italy from December 1902 to February 1903, after President Cipriano Castro refused to pay foreign debts and damages suffered by European citizens in recent Venezuelan civil wars. Castro assumed that the American Monroe Doctrine would see Washington intervene to prevent European military intervention. However, at the time, US president Theodore Roosevelt and his Department of State saw the doctrine as applying only to European seizure… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus later printing by the Knickerbocker Press. Red cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. head and tail of spine folded lightly. Very light scratch to back cover. Mild rubbing to corners. Foxing to page edges. Binding is sturdy and square. No markings of any kind. 395 pp. plus 8 pp. catalogue ads. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall.

Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1960. Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine/missing. A fine facsimile of Thompson & West's 1880 edition. Black cloth with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy and square. Gift inscription on front pastedown. Pristine color foldout map of Sacramento County. Missing dust jacket. Long folio, 14 x 11 inches tall.

Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología, 1962. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Good +. A good plus first edition in original stiff paper wraps. Cover is chipped and has a tear along spine. Text in Spanish. Contents: Archaeological investigations on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. II - A cultural sequence of the lower San Juan riverGerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia Reichel-Dolmatoff11-62Evidence of the barrancoid series in northern ColombiaCarlos Angulo Valdes75-88Analysis of the cultural level in the basins of the Bogotá and Suárez riversJosep De Recasens91-134New observations on the Waunana of ChocóManuel Lucena Salmoral137-142Myths, uses and customs of the Pixa IndiansManuel Lucena Salmoral145-152Visit of the Governor of Chocó, Don Carlos de Ciaurriz, practiced in the territory of his command in the years 1804 - 1807Victor A.… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Stated first edition with complete number line. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Blue paper boards under black quarter cloth. "1114 on rear of dust jacket. 403 pp. Octavo.

New York: Russell & Russell, 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine. A very near fine 1960 reprint in a very good, unclipped, original jacket. Original was listed in Howes, 587. Blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine. Bookplate on front end paper. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket shows several small closed tears. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. All fold out maps intact. Plates and facsimiles. 644 pp. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Eusebio Francisco Kino, (10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711) was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. For the last 24 years of his life he worked in the region then known as the Pimería Alta, modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States. He explored the region and worked with the indigenous Native American population, including primarily the Sobaipuri and other Upper Piman… Read More

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Pictorial cover. Near fine/none as issued. A near fine first edition, soft cover. Wear to front lower corner, shelf wear to bottom edge of back cover. 220 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. 81/2 x 11 inches tall, folio. Contains all the audience participation scripting!The Rocky Horror Picture Show : it was great when it all beganThe cast : superherosThe cult : my favorite obsessionRocky Horror and the critics : I didn't make him for youMusic and lyrics : The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Chicago: W.E. Wroe , 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Three quarter leather. Fair/none as issued. James Blomfield. A fair first and only edition of "Less than 25 printed for the participants" [Bruns,(5)3, p.32] [Smith's, 30]. The infamously poor leather (3/4 pigskin) on this edition is flaked and missing on the spine and corners, much as other copies on the market.This copy's leather has been treated with Kucel-G. Stain to front cover. VG+ internally. 116 pages, [4] leaves of color plates : illustrations. Octavo. Mr. Blomfield made some twenty-three studies in oil and water color, besides a book full of pencil sketches during the month he was with us, all ofwhich were most satisfying to one who knows and loves the country at the time late fall, as chief femme du chambre, arranges the morning gowns andevening robes for Mistress Earth.He was vacationing at his work, and the country and the air at the 6,700 and 8,000 foot elevations, at which it was done, were both… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A very good plus copy in a fine dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gold foil title stamping on cover and spine. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown, and embossed owner's seal on title page. Otherwise fine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket showing original price. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. A lovely, well-cared for copy. 320 pp. including index. Quarto, 10 x 12 inches tall. Due to size and weight, may require additional shipping.

New York: Viking Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/as new. This first edition, first printing, and its dust jacket are in as new condition with absolutely no soiling, markings or tears. Number line is complete. Black paper boards with black quarter cloth spine. Red rose foil stamped on cover and red foil stamp of title on spine. Orange endpapers. Embossing on DJ is unmarred, not flattened, and shining. A bright, tight, and very clean copy. As new dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover 420 pp Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 1999. First Edition; Signed edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Vince Natale; Keith Minnion. A fine true first edition, limited, and SIGNED copy in a fine dust jacket and leather traycase. Letter "O" of 26 copies printed. Signed by Brandner (author of "The Howling") on the limitation page. As new, appears completely unread. 183 pp. Octavo. Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery. But their budding romance is snuffed one dark night when they are brutally attacked by three hoodlum brothers. With his life unraveling around him, Kyle accepts an offer of help from a mysterious carnival Gypsy. And soon after that things really go to hell...In Rot, his first new book in many years, Gary Brandner, the author of The Howling and some thirty other novels, combines his knowledge of California life with his Midwest roots to create his latest masterpiece… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine, first American edition, with complete number line. In a very good plus, original, unclipped dust jacket showing one small closed tear to front top edge.ix, 490, [8] pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; index. Octavo. A generation-spanning chronicle of the German-Jewish merchant-banking clan, which falters badly after a strong start. Wilson, a British journalist, secured the cooperation of many living family members. In the case of contemporary Rothschilds, he has made unfortunate use of his access, recording their activities in fawning fanzine prose: Baron Edmond, readers are assured, "finds the title. . .rather absurd and is at pains to put people at ease"; Baron Elie is characterized as becoming "most animated, not over matters financial or vinicultural, but on the subject of his family's charitable institutions." If Wilson is… Read More

Cleveland, Ohio,: Argus Press, 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good first edition (1946 on title page). Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on front cover and spine. Fighter plane endpapers. No dust jacket. Two bumped corners. 320 pp. Octavo. The 92nd Group sometime after arrivial in the UK converted to the role of in-theater combat crew indocrination and training. For this role, the Group traded its B-17F complement and obtained the B-17E, mostly from the 97th BG which was departing for Africa.Circa May, 1943 the Group made preparations for its return to the combat bombardment role and was re-equipped with F series B-17 and modified YB-40 escort Flying Fortress. YB-40s were B-17s modified to fly as a heavily armed escort for other bombers. These conducted escort missions between May and July, 1943. The escort bombers composed the Group's 327th Bomb Squadron. It was the only Eighth Air Force squadron to fly YB-40s in combat.Between May 1943 and… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good +/near fine. A very good plus first American edition, as stated, in a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to bottom edge of cloth 1/8". xviii, 524 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, Octavo. A biography of Charles II, 17th century British king whose reign after Cromwell's death brought about a return to peace and order.TOC:pt. I. The hopeful prince. Heaven was liberal'I fear them not!'Present miseriesDependenceThe King's sonpt. II. Nothing but the name. A candle to the devilRavished at WorcesterHeroical figureA difficult gameThe courtesies and the injuriesAt the watersidept. III. This golden age. Noah's doveThe best of queensThe Dutch businessBlack dayThis revolutionA very near allianceVirtues and imperfectionspt. IV. The monarchy in danger. Subsisting together?The knot… Read More