Search Results: Authors starting with R from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1924 31 printed pages. Collection of 15 poems. Loosely inserted a printed 56 line poem "In Lambing Time" on antique-woven paper, signed by author "Patrick R. Chalmers" [1872-1942] above a 4.5 cm lamb's profile in gold at the bottom right corner. The insert is folded down the middle and, showing two indistinct stab marks along the crease, was probably the inside of a Christmas card, retained for the otherwise unpublished poem and author's signature. 14.5 x 22cm. Publisher's orange and blue checquer-board hand-printed & hand-made paper covered boards. White printed paper label on upper cover with black lettering within scrolling border. Chalmer's poetry was widely taught to and commited to memory by a huge number of children in Primary schools throughout the UK in the early 1950's.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited, London, 1890 Three volumes bound in six. All six divisions have title-pages and four pages of publisher's adverts at the end. 348; 352; 352 printed pages. Three chromolithographed title-pages with vignette illustrations (one for each volume). 43 tissue-guarded chromolithographic full-page colour plates by William Christian Symons and William Frederick Mitchell, tissue guards are foxed but most plates are clean. The final volume contains the preliminary leaves for each of the three volumes (xii; x; vii). All plates present. No date (but 1890 according to COPAC). All edges gilt. Scattered foxing and extremely mild and very marginal staining. 23 x 28.5 cm. Original publisher's pebbled navy blue buckram. Spines with gilt lettering. Upper boards with red lettering (title in "rope" stylised font), within red borders. Back covers with publisher's cypher in the centre. Lettering of final division feint. Bindings generally in very good condition, except for… Read More

Wiley-Blackwell, 1989 viii, 199 pages. Text block very slightly sunned. Top of dust-wrapper has some extremely mild creases. "Relevant Logic" describes the philosophical basis and the formal theory of logical argument. The notion of relevance required for this theory is obtained by analysis of the grounds for asserting a formula in a proof. Stephen Read's proof-theory embraces classical, relevant and modal logics and is consistent with the appropriate semantics. "Relevant Logic" also contains a philosophical analysis of the notion of meaning as it relates to logical theory.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Manchester : Co-Operative Union Limited, 1920 107 pages. All edges gilt.Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Original paper label on rear paste-down endpaper, "Bound by Co-operative Printing Society, New Mount Street, Manchester". Additional illuminated manuscript dedication leaf pasted in, reminiscent of the earlier Arts and Crafts era, which in turn harked back to the art form's medieval origins; privately commissioned by the Co-operative Union Limited (Scottish Section) as a presentation to Lord Provost Duke on behalf of the Royal Burgh of Brechin. Signed by the Chairman J. Downie and Secretary W.T. Laing. 14 x 21 cm. Contemporary, full, presentation, signed, forest green morocco binding. Spine with gilt lettering in 2 compartments and four compartments of Lotus flowers arranged in arabesque around central marigold gilt tooled decorations within pointille and single line gilt fillet borders, & the date at the bottom (very lightly rubbed at top of spine). Bevelled boards with… Read More

Johann Grüneberg Verlag, Marburg/ Lahn, 1932 German text. 368 printed pages. Top edge yellow. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs, some full-page. Includes International Championship results and facsimiles of very many of the Champions' signatures. 21.5 x 28.5 cm. Original blue decorative cloth. Bevelled edges. Spine with wooden tennis racket motif, lettering and head & tail decorative rules in gilt. Slightly faded, toned and a little foxed. Upper board with identical embossed gilt tennis racket motif below gilt lettering. Boards also slightly age toned and very slightly marked. Corners very slightly worn. This was a golden age of the pre-Open Era, when all the Major Tournaments and tours had been established and public popularity for tennis was booming. The book weighs over two Kg. that will effect the cost of postage.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

n.p., 1840 224 printed pages. Slight damage and small hole in title page. Lacks front free endpaper. Leaves evenly age-toned. 35 x 53 mm. Contemporary black roan. All edges gilt. This is a miniature edition of the original moral tale that was later followed by sequels, The Dairyman's Cottage and The Conversion of the Dairyman's Daughter. It had a remarkably wide distribution and influence. It was a narrative of the true experience of Elizabeth Wallbridge, who was the person after whom the book was named. Elizabeth Wallbridge was born, lived and died in the Parish of Arreton, Isle of Wight, England. Her parents although worthy were of the lowly ranks of the poor, and their children were put to service at an early age. The author of the narrative was Rev. Legh Richmond, a religious writer of the period, who was the curate of the neighbouring parish of Brading. According to the account in the book, Miss Wallbridge's life until the age of 26 was of the most worldly character. Never immoral,… Read More

Cassell [1893]. Some peripheral foxing, contemporary 3/4 green calf, slightly rubbed. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

R. Nutt, for the Company of Stationers., 1752 48 unnumbered printed pages, A12-B12. Printed in red and black, some interleaved with blanks. Ink marginalia on preliminary and final blanks, red ink duty stamp on title page (historical inking-over in cursive script on some of the printed titling). Empty marble paper-lined pocket at rear (some wear). A few minor ink spots and mild marks. 8 x 12 cm. Contemporary olive goatskin wallet-style binding. Beautifully patinated with unadorned original vernacular brass clasp (very minor damage). Provenance: William Johns. Born in Kilkhampton, Cornwall (on the border of Devon and Cornwall), England on 6 Sep 1723 to Thomas JOHNS and Elizabeth Stanbury. William Johns married Elizabeth Trick and had 3 children. Rider's British Merlin was one of the first published almanacs, first printed in the mid-17th-century. Cardanus Rider, a pseudonym for astrologer Richard Saunders, began publishing his calendar records, weather patterns, and astronomical data. A compendium… Read More

Aperture, 1998 New in original publisher's shrink-wrapping. 25 x 30 cm. Born in 1946, Miguel is a Magnum photographer and director of photography for movies; when he embarked on documentary photography he was admired for the dramatic quality of his colour work.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New.

1986 One of only 200 printed. The label on the front is missing but otherwise it is in very good condition.From the library of Sir George Bishop C.B., O.B.E. who was the youngest ever Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Food from 1945-1949.. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Nishen, 1987 Beautiful book of photographs by war correspondent George Rodger, with an introduction by Martin Caiger-Smith. Book is in very good condition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828 FIRST EDITION. xxiii, 182 pages, 1, 68 pages (Appendix), frontispiece aquatint plate (an illustration of an armoured paddle-steamer "James Watt, Steam Packet, Propelling against a storm."). 31 text figures including engraved full-page plate. List of authors on the subject of steam: p. 174. Errata inserted after page xxiii. Somewhat foxed on frontispiece and tissue guard, otherwise exceptionally clean. Marbled edges and marbled endpapers. 23 x 28 cm. 4to. Contemporary calf bound by Henington, Ingram Court, Fenchurch St. [London] with original rose binder's label on front paste-down endpaper. Boards with gilt hand-tooled borders (light wear to spine and edges). Spine with black lettering-piece and with gilt hand-tooled decoration (rebacked sympathetically). Provenance: neat ownership inscription in ink of R.T. Creighton, dated April 1844 on title page. Also gift inscription from Lady Rivett-Carnac, 1st April 1844 (James Rivett-Carnac had… Read More

Glasgow: Alison & Ross, 175 Buchanan Street., 1872 xlviii, 583 printed pages. Very slight browning at the preliminary and final pages. All edges gilt. Cream straight grained, textured endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. 18.5 x 13 cm. Red morocco spine with five raised bands, each compartment with gilt scottish thistle embossed tooling within circles, stars and dotted line decorations. Solid sycamore boards (possibly from the woods at Abbotsford, as seen before), with Mauchline ware decoration, made in the town of Mauchline by William & Andrew Smith as a tourist souvenir. Decorated on the upper cover in each corner with litho transfers of Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott's [Edinburgh] monument, Holyrood Palalce & Edinburgh Castle; the central oval black and spiral strung inlaid border contains a photographic transfer litho portrait of Sir Walter Scott. On the rear cover in a similar central oval black and spiral strung inlaid border is a photographic transfer litho of Edinburgh Castle and… Read More

Fouque London Publishing, 2003 vii, 299 pages with 2 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. 150 x 210mm. Text in English and in German.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

East African Standard Limited, 1918 Broadsheet on thin paper (folded creases and patches of foxing; some edges slightly worn). 21 x 34 cm. The African Standard, the oldest newspaper in British East Africa or Uganda, was established as a weekly by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, a very rich Parsee contractor, general merchant, & immigrant businessman in 1902. In 1905 Jevanjee, sold the paper for £50 to Maia Anderson (1874-1936) & Rudolf Franz Mayer (1874-1934), who changed the paper's name to the East African Standard. On Aug. 19, 1905 it became a daily paper and in 1910 moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi. The East African Standard declared strongly colonialist viewpoints & spent the first few months of the First World War proclaiming the need to keep peace in the colonies & not encourage Africans to seize the opportunity to revolt. Mayer, arriving in East Africa in 1900 from Germany with nothing but an old hand printing press and five pounds, had become by 1914… Read More

London : Macmillan & Co.,, 1900 1st edition, 2nd reprint. [4], 278 printed pages with 2 pages of publisher's adverts at the back. 12 full-page line illustrations in circular borders by J.L.K. [John Lockwood Kipling]. Decorated, lily pad pattern endpapers. All edges yellow. Printed bookplate of John and Maggie Phillips on front free endpaper. Pages evenly toned. Completely clean copy with no notes or handwriting throughout. 10 x 14 cm. Original pale green cloth. Spine with gilt lettering and single lily pad motif in olive green. Boards with repeat lily pad pattern, in fine condition. Binding covered in bespoke, vellum, professionally hand-drawn and hand-painted upper cover featuring a bugler from a Second Boer War line regiment, dressed in khaki service dress uniform (introduced by the British Army for use in the field from the early 1900s, following the experiences of a number of imperial wars and conflicts, including the Second Boer War, 11 October 1899 31 May 1902. Numerous khaki drill… Read More

George Allen, London., 1902 The Complete Edition: (Fifty-sixth Thousand). xxxvi, 228 printed pages. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Former owner's signature on blank preliminary page, dated "The Study, 1904". First and last few leaves lightly foxed. 13.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemporary half vellum binding signed by Riviere and Son. Spine with inlaid gilt-lettered, brown morocco panel with pointille and leaves in gilt tooling surrounded by single fillet curved border. Below lies a similar rhomboid design of tulip flowers that extends above and below in stylish naturalistic gilt tooled design (very slightly rubbed and dust stained in some places). Green cloth boards a trifle marked and extremely slightly worn on the leading edges). Includes index. Contents: Lecture 1. Of king's treasuries. -- Lecture 2. Of queen's gardens. -- Lecture 3. The mystery of life and its arts. { Subject: Social problems. Conduct of life. Books and reading. Women } Provenance:-Marjorie Brown Douglas (1890-1947)… Read More