Search Results: Authors starting with R from Magus Books

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Very good with small name written on inside of rear cover and spine mended with clear archival tape, otherwise fresh and clean. A very nice copy.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus, professionally rebacked with original spine laid down and subtle repair to hinges. A bit of color re-touching to boards. 224 pages with 16 full-page black & white plates including frontispiece; interior bright and clean. A very nice copy of this scarce title.

Mysterious Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Number 173 of 250 numbered copies signed by editor Randisi and all sixteen contributors. In addition, this is Robert Randisi personal copy--he has signed at the end of his introduction, and Lawrence Block has signed to him at the top of his story. A unique copy thus. Near-fine with a touch of rubbing to gilt lettering on spine, otherwise clean and tight. In a fine slipcase as issued.

Houghton Mifflin, 1985. 1st Edition . Fine in a near-fine dust jacket ($19.95 price intact) with a touch of edgewear. An excellent copy.

Rather Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Number 79 of a printing of 100 copies. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with a couple of small soil spots. An excellent copy of a scarce title.

Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus in dark green boards with gilt titles. Some rubbing to the spine and edges of boards; interior clean and unmarked. A beautiful copy of a scarce title.

Horace Liveright, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Extremely rare English-language edition of one of Reck-Malleczewen's early novels, in dust jacket. The book itself is near-fine in purple boards with silver titles and gold decorations; a touch of rubbing to the corners. Name and date on flyleaf, otherwise pages are bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket ($2.50 price intact) with light chipping to the spine ends and corners, a few closed tears, and slight edgewear. The front panel illustration by Paul Wenck is in a somewhat art deco style. Reck-Malleczewen was a Polish novelist who had many of his books banned by the Nazis. He denounced the Nazi regime and was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he was executed in 1945.

Cornell University Press, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. very good plus/Very Good. Fine in gray boards that are bright and clean; interior unmarked and apparently unread. In a very good plus dust jacket ($5.95 price intact) with slight rubbing to the extremities. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. An excellent copy of a very scarce title.

University of North Carolina Press, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fine (clean and tight) in a very good dust jacket with light chipping to the spine ends and extremities. An excellent copy of a title that is very scarce in dust jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. 1st Edition . Near-fine with very faint soil spot to fore-edge, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with light wear and a small chip at the lower outside corner of the front panel. A very nice copy of a title that is extremely scarce in dust jacket.

London: B.A. Moore & Son, 1896. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Third revised edition. Very good in brown boards with slight loss at spine ends and corners. Ownership plate on front pastedown and two advertisement pages in rear with edge tears repaired with clear tape, otherwise bright and clean. This edition is scarce.

David McKay, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fine in a very good dust jacket ($2.00 price intact) with slight chipping to the spine ends and corners. INSCRIBED ON THE FLYLEAF by chess master and famous blindfold chess player Georges Koltanowski.

New York: Doubleday Doran & Company / The Crime Club, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with slight foxing to top page edges, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket ($2.95 price intact) with a touch of edgewear and slight fading to spine. An excellent copy of an extremely scarce title.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with a couple of small chips to the top of the rear panel and minor edgewear. Volume One of the "Regional Murder Series" published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce, with contributors including Charles G. Booth, Mary Collins, Guy Endore, Erle Stanley Gardner, Geoffrey Homes and George Worthing Yates. A beautiful copy of a very scarce true crime title.

Cambridge University Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very fine in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this scarce title, an evolutionary study of Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval Spain.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in original quarter red leather with black speckled cloth (ads for "Books on Rural Sports" on front and rear pastedowns, confirming this is original binding). Professional repair to spine ends and to small loss at midpoint of spine. Interior clean and unmarked, with tiny London bookseller label at bottom of rear pastedown. With five steel-engraved plates. An excellent copy of a scarce title.

Little Brown, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very good plus in brown boards with slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. Interior clean and tight with slight offsetting to rear endpapers. A nice copy of a scarce book.

G. P. Putnam's, 1954. 1st Edition . Near-fine with a touch of rubbing at the corners and small ownership stamp at top corner of flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($3.50 price intact) with slight wear at the spine ends and a touch of edgewear. An excellent copy of Richler's scarce first novel.

Estes and Lauriat, 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. The scarce first printing published in 1884 (most copies show 1885 or later). Very good in dark blue boards with gilt titles. Slight rubbing and wear at spine ends and corners and minor shelf wear. Book plate on front pastedown, othwerwise clean and tight. Includes over 100 illustrations; 493 pp. A very attractive copy.

George H. Doran, 1919. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Very scarce early Rinehart title, featuring the short stories Twenty-Two, Jane, In the Pavilion, God's Fool, The Miracle, "Are We Downhearted? No!" and The Game. Very good plus in red boards with light wear at spine ends and minor soiling to boards. Interior clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.