Search Results: Titles starting with R from Old Bookshelf

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 398p. Blue cloth, pictorial spine label. Spine sunned, light chipping to head of spine and spine label, text is clean and binding is sound. SIGNED by author, and dated Jan. 29, 1925 on front free endpaper. A nice clean copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Dugald Walker. 267pp. Blue cloth, balck lettering and decoration. Book is clean and sound inside and out. Familiar and unfamiliar poems selected by Sara Teasdale attractively illustrated by Dugald Walker.

Chicago: Rand, Mcnally & Co., 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 44pp, 20 x 13 1/2 inch colored folding map. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Light wear, text is lightly age-toned, no front free endpaper, former owner's name in pencil on rear endpaper, folding map is very good condition, in a very nice lightly worn hardcover binding.

Boston: H.B. Humphrey Company, 1913. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. John Albert Seaford. 92pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and gilt decoration, illustrations all with tissue-guards. A very sound copy, contents age-toned but clean and book appears to be unread. Tasteful illustrations of familiar Boston scenes a century ago.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Tall blue card stock galley proof. Light soil and fading to cover, first 2 pages slightly loose, contents clean, brief editing notes on front free endpaper. Uncorrected proof for advance readers.

Kansas City, Missouri: Frank Glenn Publishing Co., Inc., 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 274pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering. Sound copy, slight loss of spine lettering, contents mildly age-toned. Dust jacket is age-darkened, chipped, and missing a 1 x 2 inch piece along top. Introduction by Thomas Hart Benton.

Boston: The Stratford Co., 1919. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 46pp. Dark blue cloth, paper label to cover and spine. Spine half missing, contents age-toned and complete, and the binding is tight. This is the FIRST EDITION, published in 1919, NOT a recent reprint. The condition of thes book is only fair, however laid-in is a typed poem dedicated to Ruthy, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, "Rut" and dated June 5th, 1925.

Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 124pp. Brown mottled leather, gilt-stamped spine. Boards edgeworn and barely attached, spine ends chipped, contents are age-toned and occasionally foxed.

London: Suttaby, Evans, & Fox, 1825. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 184pp. Full calaf, leather spine label, gilt decoration to spine, engraved frontispiece and title page, 4 additional full page engravings. Covers worn, cracking to inner hinges but binding holding tightly, contents tanned and lightly foxed a one inch clean tear to page 3-4 (with no loss), former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper.

New York: F.M. Buckles & Co., 1899. Fourth Edition . Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 296pp +ads. Grey printed wraps. Small tear at foot of spine, ohterwise sound and clean, pencilled name on front free endpaper. An early reprint as a paperack of a classic novel,published in 1899, not a recent reprint.

Lexington, Kentucky: Self Published, 1962. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 95pp. Printed pictorial card wrqps, SIGNED by EDITOR. One of 500 copies of a Limited First Edition also SIGNED by Allen F. Brewer, Sr.(Brother or nephew of William M. Brewer?) Light soil and wear to cover, text is lightly toned. The author's account of his experiences and adventures throughout the American West, after having come to the United States from England as an 18 year old in 1870.

Oswego, NY: R.J. Oliphant/Oswego Starch Factory, 1877. Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 64pp. Grey wraps. Cover lightly soiled, contents are sound and in unmarked condition. Numerous recipes and a section on carving with detailed illustrations. A very early publication of this food processing company.

Oswego, NY: B.J. Oliphant, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 411pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Extremities lightly rubbed, contents age-toned, front inner hinge cracked, binding holding. Clean copy.

Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 322pp. Light green cloth, gilt spine lettering. Spine sunned, slight toning to endpapers. Laid-in is a "Review Copy" notice from the publisher requesting "two clippings of your review.

New York: C. Wiley & Co., 1818. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 340pp. First American Edition. Original green paper over boards, original spine label, uncut edges. Boards chipped, overall handling soil, spine chipped and missing 2" piece at bottom, joints loose. Contents age-toned and foxed but otherwise unmarked. Owner's name on front endpaper and title page.

New York: Privately Published, 1917. Sixth Printing . Flexible Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 97pp. Blue flexible baords, gilt lettering. Very light wear, endpapers partially darkened, text is clean, owner's stamp on front pastedown. An early publication of this title.

New York: Samuel Whiting, 1823. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 335pp. Quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Corners and spine chipped, one inch piece missing from head of spine, first and last few pages foxed, text only occasionally foxed, library label on front pastedown is only library identification, binding is tight. Howes - 560.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii, 263pp. Brown morocco, double gilt border, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Light wear to corners and spine edges, original spine lettering still on spine, free endpapers darkened, text is mildly age-toned, and there is a faint 1/2 inch stain slightly visible on some page margins, text is otherwise clean and binding is tight. This book was evidently rebound using the morocco binding of the previously bound book, which still has its original title on it. The text block and marbled endpapers have been expertly re-attached to the original binding. The edges of the original marbled endpapers have been left are still visible along edges, and the foredges of the boards extend 1/2/ inch beyond the text block foredges,l and the spine lettering Both the binding and the interior of this early printing has been well-preserved.

New Haven: S. Converse, 1824. Second Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 443pp. Full leather. Spine rebacked, some splitting to rear hinge but boards holding firmly, contents age-toned and occasionall foxed, endpapers soiled, binding is tight. The author's report of the tour with his obsevations on the geology of the region.

Cooperstown, NY, 1936. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 56pp. Stiff wraps. Inscribed on title page by author (grandson of James Fenimore Cooper). He was president of Otsego Count Historical Society. Light creasing to cover, contents toned but clean. SIGNED by the AUTHOR.