Search Results: Titles starting with R from Uncharted Books

New York: Norton, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Maroon quarter cloth over black boards. Pictorial dust jacket. 267 pp. Edge wear and some scuffing to jacket. Signed by author on title page. This is a signed first printing of Mosley's novel about blues legend Robert Johnson.

New York: Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 8vo. Brown cloth. Dust jacket. 467 pp. About 1/3 of rear jacket cover and header of jacket spine is torn away and laid inside. Book is very good. This is a stated first edition of Updike's bestselling sequel to Rabbit, Run.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1963. Paperback. Very good. 12mo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps. Cock to spine. This is an early paperback printing of Updike's classic novel.

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 2015. First Thus. Cloth. Fine. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and Lakeside Press device in gilt on front cover. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece and photographic plates. 355 pp. Spine uncracked. A fine, unread copy. This is a limited edition Lakeside Press printing of Bly and Bisland's memoir.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Paperback. Very good. Large 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. A few page corners creased. This is a collection of essays regarding zombies in the media.

Glasgow: Fontana / Collins, 1975. Paperback. Very good. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. Chip on top edge of front cover. This is an uncommon vintage paperback novel by Guinean author Laye. UK import.

Paperfilms, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Boards. Full color. Inscribed with a sketch by Palmiotti. This is a signed hardcover comic. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee, to whom it is inscribed.

New York: Avon, 1943. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback copy of Lawrence's classic novel.

London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1835. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. 8vo. Contemporary cloth with floral design in blind. Vol. I: xi, 321. Vol II: viii, 336. Binder's copy. Spine coverings removed, so boards detached. Scuffing to edges and corners. Interiors excellent, clean and complete. This is the first edition of a significant contribution to American ethnography. Latrobe (1801-1875; technically "La Trobe") was something of a Renaissance man, described by his friend Washington Irving as "a man of a thousand occupations; a botanist, a geologist, a hunter of beetles and butterflies, a musical amateur, sketcher of no mean pretensions. a very indefatigable, if not always a very successful, sportsman." Later, "beloved governor of the Australian territory Victoria" would be added to his list of accolades. This book was written during an 1834 trip to the American West and prairie territories with Irving, to whom the work is dedicated. The result is Latrobe's best-known book, a highly readable (and… Read More

Carl Hirsch, 1904. Cloth. Good. In German. Front hinge cracked, and cloth is a bit rubbed around edges. Stray pen mark on title page. This is a very rare copy of Schmidt's exciting exploration of the "deathly grasp" that "Hindoo heathenism" has maintained over millions.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1963. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Some scuffing and chipping to jacket spine, and a sticker on rear jacket cover. This is an early printing of Zinsser's surprisingly lively biography of the disease Typhus.

West Chester, PA: Riverstone, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. Thread-bound wraps. 25 pp. Shelf wear and scuffing to wraps. Top right corner curling a bit. 7 copies in OCLC. This is an uncommon poetry collection by American poet Stever, published in a limited run by Riverstone.

New York: Chautaqua Press, 1887. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Cloth. Minor shelf wear. Front hinge overopened. Notations and an embossment inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is a small antique book of the selected writings of Irving.

Garden City: Garden City, 1955. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Many illustrations throughout. This is vintage illustrated children's book about birds.

New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 186 pp. Very minor scuffing to jacket edges. A fine copy which appears unread. This is a stated first edition of Morris' modernist story collection.

New York: Pyramid, 1964. Paperback. Very good. Who murdered the model in the model murder?" Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback Nero Wolfe mystery book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Dust jacket. 87 pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Endpapers are pasted to jacket flaps. Scuffing to jacket. This is a signed first printing poetry collection by Stern.

Tucson: First Peoples / University of Arizona Press, 2012. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon book about indigenous healing traditions.

Detroit: Red Times, 1972. Near fine. Folio. 8 pp. Minor shelf wear to edges. This is an uncommon Communist newspaper by the Detroit organization Youth Against War and Fascism. This issue features articles on McGovern, Busing, several unions and strikes, rising food prices in Detroit, and more.

New York: Library of America, 1983. Cloth. Fine. 8vo. Navy cloth. Silk ribbon attached. Fine condition. This is an attractive volume from the long-running Library of America series.