Search Results: Authors starting with R from Glenn Books

Washington: International Railway Commission, 1898. MAPS AND PROFILES ONLY. The seven maps from the report; America, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, Part of Mexico, Part of Mexico, Bolivia Chile and Argentina. Back flap of Map 1 is browned. . All maps are colored and in nearly fine condition, without tears or soiling. Along with the five profiles in equally nice condition. . First Edition. Nearly Fine.

London: Privately Printed, 1954. Binders listed alphabetically. Sixteen full-page illustrations through out the book. 250pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Minor Edge and Cover Wear/No Jacket. Quarto.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. A fine copy of this anthology of twelve short mystery stories. The story by Sara Paretsky is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on contents page. 230pp.. Signed by Author. First Trade Edition. Brown Boards, Cloth Spine. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

New York, London, Tokyo: The Mysterious Press, 1988. A new series of 13 short stories by members of the Private Eye Writers of America, SIGNED BY MAX ALLAN COLLINS on title-page211pp. A pristine copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Blue Paper-covered Boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. This is the LIMITED, SIGNED EDITION. All thirteen contributors signed on a special limitation page. 250 copies were published, numbered and signed. This happens to be copy number "B". The letter designation usually denotes a special copy prior to the numbered copies. Twelve original short stories by Max Allan Collins, Wayne D. Dundee, Loren D. Estleman, William Campbell Gault, Sue Grafton, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Rob Kantner, John Lutz, Arthur Lyons, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, and Dick Stodghell. 230pp. A pristine copy in a custom box, one corner of the box bumped. . Signed by Author. Limited, Signed Edition. Green Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

New York, London, Toronto: Doubleday, 1992. An anthology of twenty mystery short stories, including Sue Grafton, Michael Collins, Robert Randisi, and many others.SIGNED AND DATED BY SARA PARETSKY on contents page next to her contribution, "Strung Out". 360pp. A pristine copy.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Black Paper-Covered Boards.. Fine/Fine. Demy Octavo.

St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati: F.B. Dickerson and Company, 1885. Front cover and spine decorated in black and gilt. Spine faded. Hinges weakened but remain intact. Book-plate front pastedown. Illustrated title-page, frontispiece portrait of the author. 528pp. Chapters on women in medicine, law, journalism, photography, art, telegraphygardening, poultry raising, cookerypoetry, friendship, unmarried women, the model girl, manners of our boys, and a whole lot more!! Full-page illustrations, illuminated first letters of chapters, some tail-piece illustrations. . Second Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thick Demy Octavo.

London: The Grolier Club TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards wqith matching endpapers. Top edges gilt. Panelled spines with gilt lettering and designs. This is the Autograph Edition, limited to 150 copies, this being #10. Each book has five illustrations, all of which are in two states with captioned tissue-guards. One of the two illustrations used as the frontispiece is HAND-COLORED in each volume. Some spines are sunned to tan. Pre4vious owner's book-plate on pastedown of each volume. We have found two copies of the Autograph Edition for sale in the last 30 years. Neither of the sets had an actual autograph, nor does ours. So we are assuming the term is in name only!! A very nice and cmplete set, with the spine fading being the only real flaw. Several of the novels are in two volumes. Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for "The Cloister and the Hearth".. Autograph Edition, Limited. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light edge and Corner… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. Spine lettered and vignette in gilt. Spine extremities are frayed with about 3/4" loss of cloth a foot. A bit squint. Frontispiece illustration and several more through the text. Occasional foxing, never heavy. Author's edition. 328pp.. First Edition. Red Embossed Cloth. Corner and Spine Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

London, New York Abelard-Schuman (1959). Very modest edge wear. In chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. Famous works of art with whimsical, sometimes bizarre captions. Closed tear bottom of one page. First edition..

New York Macmillan 1902. Original brown pictorial cloth. Illustrated by Remington. Spine and corners rubbed, dampstain bottom of rear cover. Pencil inscription front free endpaper. First edition..

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. A very clean copy throughout. This book was made for Representative Charles B. Landis of Indiana, a member of the investigative committee. The first 143 pages are entitled, "Election Case of Brigham H. Roberts". Pages 95-108 are repeated. This is followed by "Case of Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah", from the 56th Congress, 1st Session, January 1900, Report 85, Part 1, 77 pages. Following are printed speeches of the members of the committee;, Robert Taylor, Charles Littlefield, Charles B. Landis, R.H. Freer, S.W.T. Lanham, and David A. DeArmond. These are then followed by copies of the Congrsssional Record, Volume 33, from 12/05/99 through 1/30/00. These are carefully folded in bound-in. Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) was a historian, politician, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was a member-elect of the U.S. House of… Read More

Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1987. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in book mark. Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. A fine facsimile edition of the 1848 edition published for the Sydenham Society. 212pp.. Special Edition. Full Burgundy Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1907. Small spopt of cloth lightening rear cover. Inscription front free endpaper in very neat old hand. Illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson. 284pp. + 2 pages of adverts. . First Edition. Illustrated Brick Cloth. Very Minor Wear, Light Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Honolulu, Hawaii: Tongg Publishing Company, 1966. Slight toning rear cover. Brown stain lower margins pp.12-13.. Black and white photos throughout with text. 48pp.. Second Printing. Color Pictorial Wrappers. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Oblong Octavo.

Lawrence University of Kansas 1960. A fine copy in a tape repaired dust wrapper. A wealth of history about Kansas from a variety of authors from Samuel Clemens to Elizabeth Custer and William Allen White. First edition..

Topeka, Kansas: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1972. The Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society, Bulletin No,49, for November, 1972. With an illustrated history of the Smith Automobile Company, 1902-1912. Illustrated throughout. 136pp.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Nearly Fine. Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1967. Closed tear threel consecutive free edges without paper loss. General toning of the paper. Written by Newsweek correspondent who was in the first press bus in the Kennedy motorcade. "The answer to the Warren Report critics". 128pp.. Wrappers. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

New York: Harper Collins, 2007. The author begins his narrative where Sir Winston ended his fourth volume of "A History....". A crisp and clean copy 736pp.. First American Edition. Blue Boards, Black Cloth Spine. Fine/Fine. Thick Royal Octavo.

Northport, Alabama: Colonial Press, 1962. Autographed and dated by the authors on the front free endpaper. A short introductory biography of Miss Weeden followed by "Shadows on the Wall" and "Bandanna Ballads", "Songs of the Old South", and "From the Pages pf an Old Scrapbook". 54 poems in all. . A series of poems of the Southern plantation life, each poem accompanied by an illustration by Miss Weeden. 147pp.. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.