Search Results: Titles starting with R from Itchen Books

Near Very Good condition with a brief note in pen to the corner of the front cover "Visited with EGB Saturday, 17 November 1923". No other inscriptions. Includes cast list and period advertisements.The play introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. It premiered in Prague in 1921 and was translated from Czech into English by Paul Selver in 1922. The American première was at the Garrick Theatre in New York City on October 9th, 1922, where it ran for 184 performances, a production in which Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien played robots in their Broadway debuts. London first saw the play at St. Martin's Theatre on April 24th, 1923, a production that included Basil Rathbone as "Harry Domain". Capek first utilised the word 'robot' (from the Czech robota) to refer to a mechanical humanoid machine, displacing older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world. Karel Čapek named his brother Josef as the true inventor of the word. Isaac Asimov,… Read More

Scarce original 1957 student Rag Magazine. Illustrated in black / white, with many jokes / short pieces, and advertisements of the time. Vertical crease, split to head of spine and staples rusting. No inscriptions.

55pp. Scarce. Soiled wrappers with loss to fragile paper covering of spine and corner crease to rear. Foxing, mainly to prelims.

Text block separated from card wrappers. Inscribed 'WANAMAKER' to the front cover, and to rear panel in similar writing 'MARY HALISON Secy'. Frontispiece + photographic internal illustrations. From the library of Sam Wanamaker, actor and director.

Florin Books 3rd Impression, 1935. 256pp +20pp publisher's catalogue to rear. Very Good condition with neat ownership name/date in pencil to front endpaper and small "Dublin Bookshop, Bachelors Walk, Dublin" inkstamp to front pastedown. In scarce original dustwrapper which has marks and edge wear/minor edge loss. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped (Published price 2s net).

160pp. Good+ condition with sunning to head/tail of spine and neat owner's name to front endpaper. Pages toned and few spots of foxing on fore-edge.The author's first detective novel and winner of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Contest. Cornelius Warren Grafton (1909-1982) was father to 2 daughters, one of whom was the mystery writer Sue Grafton.

3x consecutive issues of "Reality - The World's Searchlight on Germany" (Numbers 146, 147, 148). Undated, but November 1918. Illustrated with black/white cartoons. Good condition, with some edge war / marginal tears to issue 148. Scarce.

Centre pages bear the printed date "11th Oct, 1920". Very Good condition with no writing. Early rusting to staples. The first stage adaptation of H De Vere Stacpoole's romance "The Blue Lagoon", written for the stage by Norman MacOwan & Charlton Mann and presented for the first time at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London, on Saturday, 28th August, 1920.(On the 28th December 1920, a young Eric Arthur Blair, later better known as George Orwell, mentioned going to an afternoon performance of The Blue Lagoon in a letter to Prosper Buddicom).

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with correct numberline 001 to copyright page. Handsigned by the author to the title page and dedicated "To Vicky love, Nina xx". Very Good+ clean, tight, unread condition. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. A comic novel, winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

Frontispiece by the author, engraved by H Adlard. Near Very Good condition. Some bumping to edges of boards/rubbing to spine edge. Inscribed 'from the author' in ink to the title page. Ex-Westminster Library with bookplate to front pastedown/blindstamped front board, otherwise no other library markings.John Evans (1767 1827, Welsh Baptist minister).

1st Edition, 1946 (title-page states June 1, 1945, with date code to final page stating 12/2/46). English language, with 7 page supplementary offprint/printed notes in German. Very Good condition with solitary "Royal Society of Edinburgh 16 Apr 1946" inkstamp to cover. No inscriptions. A rare original post-war report issued by the U.S. Industrial Intelligence Committee into the work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research Cyclotron facility at Heidelberg, assisted by the nuclear physicist, Walter Bothe. Includes Appendix German language article by W. Bothe "Kunstliche Radioaktivitat durch thermische Neutronen bei den seltenen Erden" offprint originally published in 1944.

2x original theatre programmes in Very Good condition;Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman, Production designed by Rex Whistler. Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. (1937). 32pp programme, with illustrations of cast members, production details, advertisements etc.Love for Love - A Comedy by William Congreve. Produced by (and starring) John Gielgud. Settings by Rex Whistler. Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. (1944). Single sheet folded to 4pp. Includes production details.

Original 1932 Trade Catalogue issued by Reynolds & Branson Limited, Leeds. Extensively illustrated, with index to rear. Near Very Good condition with minor wear to wrappers.

23pp. Very Good condition indeed. No inscriptions aside from the author and artists signatures. Red endpapers with limited edition bookplate handsigned by author and artist. Also signed/numbered by the artist to the reverse of the title page. A most attractive production, designed and illustrated by Tom O'Reilly, M.A.

8pp including cast and advertisements. Original theatre programme for "Richard the Third". Undated, but June 1945. Near Very Good condition with a little thumbing to the covers. No writing.Scarce programme from this war-time production in Belgium, for which the company were all granted the honorary army rank of Lieutenant and had to wear uniform at all times offstage. Starring Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harcourt Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson among others.

Undated 1st Edition (1899). Illustrated title page and chapter headers. Good (or better) condition with spotting to the wrapper. Internally clean/tight, with 2 small tears to the edge of the front endpaper.

Complete set of 6x postcards depicting Ronnie Wood drypoint portrait illustrations of the Rolling Stones. Limited Edition of 150:'Keith Richards''Keith Richards' (different image)'Charlie Watts''Bill Wyman''Mick Jagger''Ronnie Wood'.Very Good, crisp, unused condition. In original card wrap-around folder with embossed 'RW' initials. The folder has a small stain to the upper right corner.

200pp. Very Good condition with neat owner's name / date (June 1945) to front pastedown. In original unclipped dustwrapper which has 3cm sections of loss to the head and tail (partly affecting title and publisher's details).The author's second detective novel. Cornelius Warren Grafton (1909-1982) was father to 2 daughters, one of whom was the mystery writer Sue Grafton.

Original CDV dating from c1860 of the French artist Rosa Bonheur. By Disderi, 8 Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. (Andre Adolphe Eugene Disdéri (1819–1889)). Near Very Good condition with some speckling to image.

Handsigned by the author to the verso of the title page in black pen "To Ronnie & his Princess with love Alun 59/86". Good condition with a corner crease to the final page and rear cover and browning to the rear cover. The page edges are beginning to tone. The usual inkstamp referring to the agent for the performing rights is to the preliminary page detailing the first production."Ronnie" is Sir Ronald Harwood, and his Princess is Lady Natasha Harwood (nee Riehle). Sir Ronald was an Oscar winning screenwriter/playwright/actor and Lady Natasha was a descendant of Russian royalty. The number 59 is in reference to the 59 Theatre Company, for which, Ronald Harwood acted in this play. The Rough and Ready Lot was Owen's second full length play. It was originally performed as a Third Programme radio play in September 1958, was performed on stage for the first time at the Olympia, Dublin in May 1959, received it's London premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on the 1st June 1959 and went on to be… Read More