Search Results: Titles starting with R from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Cumberland, MD: Reverie Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1994). First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1-932485-15-5 . Navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, all edges polished gilt, blue decorative endpapers, first leaf after front endpaper is limitation page noting the edition size and being signed by both R. John Wright and Susan Wright, well-illustrated in color, ribbon bookmark. Brown illustrated dust jacket. Book comes in a matching navy blue slipcase also lettered in gilt. ; 9-1/2" x 9-3/4"; 208 pp; A well-preserved copy of the Deluxe First Edition; one of 500 such numbered copies, signed by the Wrights. ; No wear of note to book (minor wear seen to edge gilt), bookmark undisturbed. Jacket lightly edgeworn. Slipcase with a bit of rubbing, little wear. .

Cambridge, England: At The University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. "A brief and vivid account of the intermingling of the peoples in the making of the American nation - an entirely new nation based, not upon racial foundations, but upon a political idea, the liberal notion of freedom." Off-white paper boards, black lettering, gray dust jacket. ; 5 x 7.5"; 48 pp; Book has lightly bumped corners and toned endpapers, otherwise nice. Jacket is toned but shows little wear, not price clipped (2s. 6d. net). .

Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1940. Hardcover. Printed by Johns Hopkins, also lists London: Oxford University Press and Societe d'Edition "les Belles Lettres,: Paris as publishers. Originally issued in wrappers, this copy is bound in a period red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Chiefly bibliographic entries, detailed index at rear, text in French. This copy bears a warm inscription penned and signed by the author: "For Miss ______, who taught the author what he knows of bibliography, and who will not, he hopes, be disgraced by the result- Edwin E. Williams." ; 6-3/4" x 10-1/4"; 279 pp; Issued as The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra Volume XVI.; VERY slight wear to covers, toning to edges of endpapers, pages partly unopened. .

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Publishers gray cloth with black spine lettering. White dust jacket with gray and black lettering. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/2"; 109 pp; Faint stain to bottom of spine, otherwise little wear, clean and unmarked within. Jacket with light toning, light rubbing to front cover, light wear along edges, in clear protective cover. .

New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, many b&w illustrations.; 6" x 9"; viii, 332 pp; Cloth soiled and worn along edge, at corners and top/bottom of spine. Spine rubbed with loss of gilt. Prior owner name stamped to FFEP. Spine with lean and slight cracking to front hinge. Paper somewhat toned, a few pages have spots of soiling including one area where a paperclip was once attached (one leaf with closed tear as a result), pages are free of writing. .

New York: Newman & Ivison. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, black cloth spine, covers with embossed decoration including publishers initials, gilt spine lettering. Uncommon. ; 5" x 7-1/2"; 408 pp; A copy in need of repair to spine. Boards worn, corners bumped, DETACHED SPINE COVERING with label portion of spine cover laid in, foxing - heavy to first and last few leaves, scattered elsewhere, prior owner name in light pencil to front free endpaper, text block free of tears or writing. .

New York: Prentice-Hall. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Publishers brown cloth, spine with black lettering, a few illustrations. Book has 1922 on title and copyright pages with no mention of additional printings. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; x, 342 pp; Binding lightly edgeworn, spine dulled, solid binding, no inscriptions, pages are clean and unmarked. .

Los Angeles, Calif.: Hubbard Association of Church of Scientology, of California. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Softcover. Stapled self wraps, 16 pp per issue. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; The Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International, of Calif. offered courses, books and guidance from their 971 S. Westmoreland address. These early issues are rare. There are two holdings for this publication, limited to considerably later issues.; Issues were mailed, with address and postal markings, minor edgewear and some light spotting. Issues were held closed with side staples; #3 remains unopened. .

[Petaluma, California]: Petaluma Printing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1936]. Softcover. Cookbook, Brought to You by HOME-OWNED BUSINESSES of Petaluma and Vicinity, one of the Home Owned Business Associations of California. Light green wraps, stapled, recipes, Association objectives and Membership in Home-Owned Business of Petaluma and Vicinity, many advertisements for local businesses. Scarce, OCLC reports but one institutional holding, at the Sonoma County Library. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; 32 pp; Covers sunned at edges, with light wear and soiling. Clean and unmarked within. .

[San Francisco]: Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. Softcover. Gray stapled wraps, color frontispiece map, 49 pages of text with illustrations, remaining pages (about 50) are photographs of damage to specific structures from earthquakes. A later printing; OCLC notes editions from 1934, 1935 and 1950.; 4" x 6-1/4"; Covers splitting at spine (2" or so at top, 1/2" at bottom), prior owner name on front cover, covers and pages show wear/creasing at corners, one page with tiny stains, remaining pages clean and unmarked. .

Juneau, Alaska: Division of Subsistence, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Off white stiff wraps, perfect bound, cover drawing by Tim Sczawinski, map of North Slope Region, typescript text lists 665 items.including keywords and abstract for each. ; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; xiv, 172 pp; Slight soiling to covers, little wear, unmarked within. .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Softcover. Tan wraps, perfect bound, text, 24 b&w plates, map. 1927 printing of document first issued in 1922. ; 5-3/4" x 9"; 75 pp; Mild cover wear and soiling, clean and unmarked within. .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Violet pebbled cloth, decorations in black, gilt lettering, brown endpapers, guarded frontispiece and additional illustrations (some full page), folding map at rear. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 529 pp; Spine rubbed and discolored, spot of staining to spine, a number of discolored spots on rear board, worn at spine ends, fraying at corners, sound hinges (must have been repaired?), prior owner bookplate inside front cover, text block generally clean and free of foxing, map with splits and loss of about 2 square inches along top. .

Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Softcover. Estratto dall' Archivio italiano per la storia della pieta, vol. V,1968. Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, sewn, text in English. Publishers adverts laid in. ; 10" x 13-3/4"; 40 pp; Lightly bumped at corners, lightly soiled, text clean and unread as pages remain unopened. .

Concord, California: Amazing Experiences Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Softcover. San Francisco Bay Area poetry. Includes prize poems from last 25 years of Poets' Dinners (starting in 1976). Red wraps, perfect bound, index of names at rear, #213 of an edition of 400 copies.; 5.5 x 8.5"; 146 pp; The first dinner was in 1927. Since 1974, dinners have been hosted by the Bay Area Poets Coalition (BAPC) and are usually somewhere around Berkeley. ; A few tiny spots of soiling to otherwise unworn covers, clean and unmarked within. .

Montreal: International Civil Aviation Organization. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Softcover. Issued by ICAO as Doc 8857. NOISE (1969). J. H. Harper was Chairman of the Meeting. Blue wraps, perfect bound, typescript pages, tables, graphs. Separately numbered sections, about 150 pages. ; 8" x 10-1/4"; Spine worn at top/bottom, covers lightly worn, pages have some faint creasing and are clean and unmarked. .

Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Softcover. Tan wraps, stapled, index at rear. ; 5-3/4" x 9"; 82, ii pp; Minor wear to corners, toning - more pronounced on some pages, one dogeared page. .

Cambridge and Woods Hole, Massachusetts: Institution. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Softcover. Papers in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, Vol. IX, No. 1. Gray wraps, perfect bound, maps, charts. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 88 pp; Lightly toned cover with little wear, prior owner stamp and initials on front cover, a few pages with a small nick along the top edge otherwise text is clean and unmarked. .

Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960, 1961. Softcover. On April 20, 1959, the Senate established the Select Committee on National Water Resources, authorizing it to study water resources activities in the United States ... The committee solicited the States for their views on water resources issues, holding extensive hearings throughout the country, from Montana to Florida and from Maine to California. Included is the final Report of the Committee (from the hearing January 30, 1961) and most transcripts from the hearings which were published in separate parts by location in 1960 (lacking Part 7 and Part 23). The Report is 147 pages; the additional parts comprise over 3,000 pages, with a number of maps, charts, fold-outs, etc. Stapled self-wraps. Uncommon.; 5-3/4" x 9"; First page of each document has ownership stamps or marks, staples are rusted, a few creased corners and a few first pages soiled along the edge. Appears little… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated from the photographs and maps of the relief expedition. Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, guarded frontispiece, additional illustrations on plates, three folding maps at rear.; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; 277 pp; Ex-library (withdrawn), spine marking excised, library bookplate, blindstramp to title page, pocket at rear. Spine with lean, rubbed along edges, a few marginal spots, one creased corner, generally clean and unmarked, maps remain in sound condition.. .