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RADFORD ARCHITECTURAL COMPANY. THE RADFORD AMERICAN HOMES. (Riverside, Illinois: 1903.) Square 8vo. Publisher's 3/4 red morocco, gilt green cloth. 255 pages. First edition. A catalogue of one hundred middle sized house designs--views and plans with measurements and prices. Illustrated throughout in line and in air-brush halftones. A good copy.

(RADFORD) THE RADFORD IDEAL HOMES. 100 HOUSE PLANS.... Chicago: The Radford Architectural Company, 1904. 8vo. Cloth pictorial cover stamped in red and green. 112 pages. Seventh edition. OCLC records several editions with from three to eight copies for each. But there are no copies of this edition on OCLC. Each home is illustrated with a floor plan and an elevation. Most drawings are signed by William H. Schroede Architect. Small ownership stamps of E.J. Barry, contractor and Builder, Canandaigua, NY." Some rubbing and soil, else good copy only.

(RAFFET) LHOMME, F. RAFFET. Paris, Librairie de L'Art, 1892. 4to. Half-morocco, with original wrappers bound-in. 206 pages. First edition. Illustrated. Very good.

MEEKS, Carroll L. V. THE RAILROAD STATION, AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxvi, 203 pages, 231 plates. First edition. Describes the construction of English, European and American passenger railro stations, 1830-1930, with two hundred and thirty-one illustrations. Meeks's book remains the best history of the subject. Very good.

(AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE) THE RAMBLER MAGAZINE. Number Twenty-nine. Kenosha, Wisconsin: Thomas B. Jeffrey & Co., 1906. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers pages 726-750, (6) pages. Early auto magazine which began publication in 1905 and came out monthly. Th issue is complete. Articles of interest include, "a Family Tour in a Rambler from Fresno City to Monterrey," and "Through Illinois in a Rambler." With man in-text half-tone photographs of the automobiles and travel. With six pages auto based advertisements in back.

SEDDON, John P., Architect. RAMBLES IN THE RHINE PROVINCE. London: John Murray, 1868. 4to. Publisher's cloth. xv, 156 pages, 14 albumen plates, 2 chromolithographs, and 4 tinted woodcuts. First edition. [Gernsheim 425]. Illustrated with a curious mixture of photographs, chromolithographs, and woodcuts. The English architect Seddon's two trips down the Rhine with its numerous mediaeval and Gothic castles as well as his friendship with Ruskin heavily influenced his architectural designs for Gothic revival in England. photographs are by Cundall and Fleming, in addition there are seventy illustrations in the text. The publisher's green and gilt binding was most probably designed by Seddon. Recased, else very good.

WHITAKER, Charles Harris. RAMESES TO ROCKEFELLER. New York: Random House, (1934.) 4to. Cloth. First edition. Very good.

(JARRELL) ADAMS, Charles M. RANDALL JARRELL A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1958. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards, 72 pages. First edition. Fine.

(RAPHAEL) (SUIDA, W.E.). RAPHAEL. New York: Oxford University Press, (1941). Folio. Cloth. 40 pages, 109 illustrations. Phaidon edition. A largely illustrated survey of the works of Raphael of Urbino. Most of the illustrations are full page plates, with eighteen colorplates tipped-in. The introduction is by W.E. Suida. Bookplate. Browning to edges, else very good.

Raphael. (RAPHAEL) FISCHEL, Oskar. RAPHAEL. Two volumes. London: Kegan Paul, (1948). 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xi, (i), 387 pages; xi (i) pages, 302 plates. First edition. [Freitag, 7863.] The original two volume edition, translated by Bernard Rackham. Clean tear along leaf xi, margin of leaf ix cropped, not affecting text, minor, sporadic pencilling, light foxing on endpapers, spines sunned.

PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES. RARE AND WAVLUABLE BOOKS IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MSS DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1951. 8vo. Wrappers. A catalogue of the 602 items involved in the "Final Liquidation of the Stock the Late Gabriel Wells." Wrappers sunned and slightly chipped, else very good.

(MANUSCRIPTS) SWANN'S. RARE BOOKS. New York: 1983. 4to. Wrappers. Sale 1294, 210 lots. Estimate list laid-in. Two-thirds priced by hand.

SCHREYER, Alice D. (editor). RARE BOOKS, 1983-84. TRENDS, COLLECTIONS, SOURC New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1984. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 581 pages. First edition. An excellent collection of facts on the book world as well as essays by G. Thomas Tanselle, William Matheson, John Feather and others. Light stain to t edge, else very good.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL TOURS - EUROPE) RAYMOND-WHITCOMB COMPANY. THE RAYMOND-WHITCOMB AUTOMOBILE TOURS THROUGH EUROPE. Boston/New York/Philadelphia/Chicago/San Francisco/Los Angeles/London/Paris: 1914. 8vo. Printed decorated wrappers. 47, (1) pages. Scarce travel booklet not found on OCLC. A travel booklet promoting seven automobile tour options in Europe. Each tour itinery is listed with price an photographs of some of the sites to be visited starting June 2 to July 12 to final tour package from July 12 to September 24. (40054).

LOMPERIS, Timothy J., and John Clark Pratt. "READING THE WIND" THE LITERATUR OF THE VIETNAM WAR. Durham: Duke University, 1987. 8vo. Wrappers. First edition. An interpretative critique, with bibliographic commentary by John Clark Pratt Very good.

ROSWELL, Florence, and Gladys Natchez. READING DISABILITY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT. New York: Basic Books, (1964). 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Forward by Katrina de Hirsch. Ex-Library, else very good.

(TRADE MAGAZINE) THE REALTYOR. THE REALTYOR. Volume I, Number 1. June, 1922. Upland, Indiana: A.D. Freese & Son, June, 1922. Oblong 8vo. Printed wrappers 34 pages. First edition. A rare item not recorded on OCLC. "A magazine devoted to real estate, the fa its problems and operation; the buying, selling and exchanging of farm property." The first issue of this rare real estate monthly periodical which features farms for sale in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, etc., as well as ranches in the Dakotas, etc.

JOHNSON-MARSHALL, Percy. REBUILDING CITIES. Chicago: Aldine, 1966. Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 374 (16) pages. Fi American edition. An excellent and well illustrated account of the theory and practice of post- planning, including the rebuilding of Coventry, Rotterdam and London. With a introduction by Lewis Mumford. Very good in a lightly chipped and browned du jacket.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) WOOD, & SON, LTD. RECENT WORK. (London?): 1935. Oblong folio. Wrappers. 48 pages. [Abbey, Scenes, 252-3]. A quality catalogue containing "photographs of good garden, and some of the things that will help make them good." Illustrated with views that include a variety of landscape work from the 1930s for country houses and suburban dwellings. Wood's also provided swimming pools, stone bridges, lawn tennis pavilions and glasshouses. The final pages include illustrations of gates an fencing in both wood and wrought iron. Originally founded as coal merchants at Wood Green in London, the company diversified into supplying horticultural sundries in the 1890s. By 1914 the firm had developed into horticultural specialists and in 1924 moved to Beechw Works at Taplow, Buckinghamshire. By the time the present work was published they had gained the appointment of both George V and the Prince of Wales together with the sobriquet of "The Harrods of landscape designers.