Search Results: Titles starting with R from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Another re-telling of human history, as in The Flounder, with the rather more sinister Rat dynasty acting as a lens through which to see all of recorded time from Noah's ark to a chilly future, where rats rule.

Signed by the author, without inscription, on the title page.
Bellow's last novel, after the author had received three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1976, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Book is fine. Jacket is clipped and has a Harvard Book Store Signed sticker to front cover.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Written when Roy Strong was Director of the V. & A. Museum and mounting his famous campaign to re-assess the legacy of the nineteenth century. In this study, he examines how Victorian historical paintings, having been neglected as beneath contempt, deserve to be recognised for their perfect visons of a mythic past that was central to England's vision of herself. 176 pp.

First printing, first state, with dark gray topstain.Unclipped jacket has $3.00 price and M. McKnight Kauffer instead of E. McKnight Kauffer as the designer. Choctaw is misspelled as Chocktaw on page 21. This play, adapted to the stage by Ruth Ford, opened at the John Golden Theatre on January 30, 1959. The production was staged by Tony Richardson and starred John Dorman and Christian Flanders. Slight wear to jacket edges.

Paperback. Near Fine. This monograph on Bonington is intended to be an introduction to his life from the Wallace Collection, which holds the biggest collection of his works, culled from a tragically short career. He died at the age of 26, but not before astounding his contemporaries with the fabulous assurance of his powers in oil and more particularly, watercolour. 95 pp. with many colour reproductions.

A selection of Betjeman's religious verse, spanning his career, and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Betjeman can drop into a conversational reverie, where his confessions about his own snobbery, faith and the finer side of English life seem charged with eternal relevance.

This is Bryson's second book devoted to finding obscure places in Britain to be rude about.
He adopts a tone not unlike P. G. Wodehouse at times, rejoicing in the eccentricities and occasional rare beauty of British ways.
Hardcover.

Five autographical 'memory exercises' about Calvino's life and working methods, collected for the first time.
Hardcover, in perfect condition.

First French edition. This huge 341 page tribute to Rauschenberg's combine paintings is the catalog of an exhibition at MoCA and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The minimal text is in French, but the titles are in English and the reproductions of hundeds of Rauschenberg's most influential paintings from the 50s and 60s are phenomenal.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1978. First UK edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 234pp. This biography and selection from Searle's many works up to the 70s acts as a good introduction to the UK's pre-eminent cartoon satirist of the time. His bleak war experiences, at the hands of the Japanese, leads Searle to invest his creations with a desperation that is funny as well as being sad; even the humour of St. Trinians is based on torture and death.

This was only Nicholson Baker's second novel, in which he refines an early, signature style of entering someone's mind and following their drifting thoughts. In this case, a sleepy father muses over the aspects of his childhood, as memories randomly occur to him during his own baby's feeding time.
Hardcover, now somewhat rare.

In this celebrated book, a companion to the author's earlier 'Mani', Leigh Fermor explores the minority communities of Northern Greece and observes the conflict between post-war Greece and the classical Greek world. Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell, dustwrapper by John Craxton. Darkening and minor loss to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely copy.