Search Results: Authors starting with R from Dark and Stormy Night Books

835 Broadway, New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1905 Hard cover, 32 mo, in blue cloth , the titles blocked in gold to the top board and the spine, (8) 84 pp., First Edition in book form. Condition: Very Good. Some water damage to front board, browning to paste-downs. Foxing opposite photograveur illustrations. Otherwise clean. **This is a biographical sketch of the father of the Outdoors Movement, William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904), as told by Harry V. Radford , editor and publisher of "Woods and Waters Magazine," in which this was first serialized beginning the Autumn of 1904. (p.3.) Radford describes his friend Murray as "The Great Evangelist of Outdoor Life for the People." This is a psychological look at the forces which shaped the life of an extraordinary man; early poverty, self-sufficiency, the hard farm work from a young age used to pay for his own education; all these character-building ways the young man was led to his later callings as an original thinker, orator, and… Read More

Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1971 283pp. Reprint of 1909 edition. Illustrated stories of voyages to the Middle East, including Sir Richard Burton, Joseph Pitts et al. Condition: About Fine, with two old tape marks to front pastedown.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980 Hard cover, quarto, 144pp. Text in 3 languages including English. The University of Tartu is the largest university in Estonia, founded in 1632. This book catalogs rare items from the scientific library of the university, with many color and monochrome plates. Condition: Very Good in a Good dust jacket which shows shelf-wear and some tears on the back.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Stirling: C. Randall, 1812 pp xi, 303. Inscribed: "[Bought] at Stirling 29 July 1812 for 4/-. No. 1026". Includes folding plate frontispiece. Condition: Front board detached. Spine backstrip missing. Top half-inch of title page cut off. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair.

New York: Robert M.McBride & Co., 1938 Hard cover, 8vo, in tan cloth, titles in blue to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, 341pp. Printed by R.& R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Printed on laid paper, with frontispiece and many other illustrations and maps. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good, un price-clipped d/j. Outer rear joint shows some staining in the gutter; matched by browning along corresponding interior rear hinge--could be from gluing during manufacture? (Not seen on the front joint or hinge.) Text block edges a bit dusty, just a hint of foxing to top outer edge and fore edge of text block. Interior with mild age-toning. D/j with minor crimping, one half-inch closed tear, and a couple of marks to rear portion.** As much a travelogue as a scientific work, this highly readable title helped bring the topic of conservation to the consciousness of the Commonwealth.**Indian-born zoologist, entomologist, and early conservationist Francis Ratcliffe, OBE (1904-1970) was best known for his… Read More

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1996 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp [12] 307 [1]. In half buckram with paper-covered boards featuring a manuscript text, gilt titles to spine on red labels, and end papers featuring facsimile autographs. With color photographic plates. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. Condition: Near Fine. *** An account of the Uruguayan rugby team's 72-day fight for survival, after their airplane crashed in the Andes in 1972. The 16 survivors of the crash were forced to take shelter in the wreckage of the aircraft, and for sustenance had to ea the bodies of the dead. The original rescue mission was abandoned after eight days, and so two of the survivors eventually made a ten-day journey over 32 miles of mountainous terrain to fetch help. This account by Piers Paul Read has been widely praised as being a "classic in the literature of survival". *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the… Read More

Chicago: American Publishing Company, 1876 Hard cover, 8vo, in black decorated cloth gilt with titles to spine, undated, 175pp. Author H.V. Reed is known for having visited Latter Day Saint leader James J. Strang, discoverer of The Voree Plates, thought to be the final testament of an ancient American ruler, Rajah Manchou of Vorito. Reed published an addition to the official translation of the plates. Condition: Very Good. OCLC 79417527. Scarce.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Harrison and Sons, 1881 British Parliamentary Report[C3057]; bound with Report [C3058] containing "Further Papers " relating to the same. Hard cover, folio (measuring 8 ¼ x 13 inches), in brown cloth boards with title in gilt, 29pp. and 115 pp. plus foldout map. In English, Spanish and French. SIGNED in pencil on ffep.: "Lewis Baker , Bluefields, May 8th 1894." Lewis Baker was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, appointed by the American President Grover Cleveland to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador, serving from May 13, 1893 to December 9, 1897. As such, he reported his observations on the "negro insurrection" at the Caribbean port city of Bluefields to the State Department in a series of letters, now accessible at the Foreign Relations website of the State Department. The 1860 Treaty of Managua, established the "Mosquito Coast" as an autonomous region from the former British colony of Nicaragua, thereby maintaining British trade access to the lucrative port of… Read More

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1958 Hard Cover, quarto, 128pp + illustrations. German text. Condition: Very Good Minus. Covers show patches of staining. In cardboard slipcase. ** Extensive catalog of the coinage of Hungary. With 49 full pages of illustrations. OCLC 2689557.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

London: Joseph Thomas, Finch Lane, Cornhill; and Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court, 1837 First Edition Thus. (with the Cruikshank illustrations). Hard cover, 16 mo (4 x 6 3/8 inches), in three-quarter calf with tan cloth-covered boards, calf edges ruled in gilt; the spine in six raised compartments with elaborate gilt banding and foliate designs, the titles in very small gilt lettering thereon, 34 pp. Printed by J. Unwin, St. Peter's Alley, Cornhill. All edges gilt. Condition: Very Good Plus. Slight soiling to cloth, and old polish offset to the marbled paste downs. Corners slightly rubbed. Gently age toned text. Gilt still bright. This delightful gem is small but elegant, containing a play illustrated by six full page, and a number of smaller, engravings by the renowned English book illustrator George Cruikshank (1792-1878). First authorized printing in 1822, this title was extremely popular in the nineteenth century and was reprinted a number of times. This 1837 edition was the first to use… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., [1925] Hard cover, 8vo., in half red cloth over tan cloth-covered boards, with a paper labels to the top board and spine, printed in black. lxxx, 256 pp. This work is partially based on the 1880 translations of V. Fausböll of the estimated 550 tales forming the birth-stories, of interest to the western student of the history of Indian literature. Extensive new introductory material includes a number of essays on Buddhist belief, its translation to the West, including the relation of the birth-stories to Greek and Roman myth, and connection to biblical stories. A number of the estimated 550 Jataka Tales, said to form the "Buddhist canonical scriptures," are translated into English by Thomas William Rys Davids, (1843-1922), an expert in the ancient Pāli language founder of the London School for Oriental Studies, and Professor at the University of London from1882-1904 and founder of the London School for Oriental Studies. A review of the13-volume Broadway… Read More

London and New York: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. and E.P. Dutton, 1930 Printed at the Westminster Press, bound at the Temple Press. Hard cover, quarto in brown cloth with gilt titles, 100pp. Condition: Very Good. Striking woodblock prints by Thomas Derrick illustrate the text taken from the Everyman's Library issue of Everyman (no. 381) Rhys has translated the original fifteenth century morality play from the Middle English. He was the founder and editor of J.M. Dent's Everyman's Library Series of nearly one thousand, affordable, titles. Here the art does the talking. Thomas Derrick(1885-1954) was an English artist trained at the Royal Academy of Art employed primarily in book illustration. Condition: Very Good. A couple of gently bumped corners. Otherwise clean and bright. . First trade edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Oxford, England: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, 1909 Hard cover, 4to, finely rebound by [John] "Fazakerley of Liverpool," (stamp signed to verso of ffep.) with the original tan wraps bound in at rear bearing a note in old ink on rear wrap: " cat. bought May 1909. H. J. F." Handsomely re-bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, with marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, and a ruled gilt line at edge of corners. The spine has rolls of gilt decoration to either side of the raised bands, and at head and foot, with titles and the date 1909. 196 pp. Printed by Horace Hart, M.A., Oxford Press on heavy laid paper. Ex-Library with an engraved bookplate to the front pastedown from the (relatively local) Wigan Free Library. Condition: Very Good Plus (or better, internally): externally showing some rubbing to the faces of corner pieces with wear through to the board. Very minor shelf wear along bottom edges. The spine shows no wear on face,… Read More

New York: The North American Review, 1887 Hard cover, in original black three quarter leather with gilt, 656 pp. Ownership stamp of Maine laywer and politician Isaac Watson Dyer (1855-1937.) The NAR was the first literary and cultural magazine to be published in the United States, begun in Boston during 1815 and continuing to this day. The item here, Vol. CXLIV of 1887 contains the compiled contents of the six monthly releases, Nos. 362 to 367, January to June. This particular compendium features a number of articles on important topics of the day, which would be of great interest to anyone wishing to dip into the milieu of Gilded Age thought. Among others, John Jay Knox writes about "The Future of the National Banking System." Walt Whitman submits "Some War Memoranda Jotted Down at the Time." George Sand pens a column on "Assumption and Pretension." Articles concerning constitutional reform, suffrage, working women, and the fallout of the Civil War, as well as literary reviews abound in these pages.… Read More

Trenton, N.J.: The John L Murphy Publishing Co., Printer, 1890 Hard cover, 8vo (measuring 5 1/2 x 9 inches), the first volume rebound in modern blue buckram, titles to spine in white ink. (xi), 580 pp. The second volume in the original blue cloth, blindstamped boards and title to gilt on spine, (ix), 567 pp. Both volumes include include Errata and Index. Both are ex-library, with identical discard stamps, pocket, stickers, and stamp to top edge. Condition: Overall, Very Good. Mild toning. Bindings firm. Vol. 2 has moderate wear to corners and edges and soiling to back cover. Original source material consisting of Minutes reported on the governance of the Province of East Jersey, beginning in 1682. The first order of business being the oath of allegiance to the King of England. This journal begins during the period of the partition of New Jersey into two separate administrative districts by the Crown, not reunited until 1702. It covers the rule, therefore, under Lord Proprietor (and later… Read More

Zürich: Universität Zürich, 1980 Soft cover, 8vo, in pictorial printed wraps, 156pp. In Swiss German. "Contributions to the Behavior of Snow Leopards in Zoological Gardens (Schreber, 1775)." The Inaugural Doctoral Dissertation of Herr Dr. Rieger von Fischenthal (ZH) presented to the faculty of the University of Zürich.** Condition: Very Good Plus. Light foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock, and to title page. Otherwise, clean and tight and with Ownership stamp to title page.** The German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber described the snow leopard in the current Linnean classification in his seminal work begun in 1774 entitled, Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, (Mammals in Illustrations According to Nature, with Descriptions) Prof. Rieger has gone on to publish numerous zoological articles on subjects ranging from bats, glow worms and Swiss beetles, amongst others. This copy belonged to Mammalogist Duane A. Schlitter, Curator of Mammals at the… Read More

Paris: Jules Renouard, 1859 Hard cover, 2 vols. Octavo (8 ¼" x 5 ¼"). In quarter-leather bindings with marbled boards. Condition: About Good or better, with some chipping/loss to heads of spines and edgewear over boards. Scattered foxing to text. Some pencil annotations. *** Athanase-Louis Torterat Clément de Ris (1820-1882) was a French art critic and curator of the Palace of Versailles from 1876-1882. ** The book contains descriptions (in French) of the museums at Nancy, Mayence, Strasbourg, Valenciennes, Lille, Rouen, Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Angers, Mans, Tours, Orléans, Dijon, Besançon, Lyon, Grenoble, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, and Bordeaux.. Hard Cover. Good.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1938 Hard cover, first trade edition (third printing), octavo (measuring 5 3/4 x 9 inches), in tan cloth with green pictorial decoration and titles, lacking dust jacket, 394pp. Condition : Near Fine. No signs of outer wear. A few light spots of foxing to decorative end paper at front only. One half inch closed tear along edge of final (uncut) page. Still bright, tight and clean. This travelogue was one of Author Kenneth Roberts's ( 1885-1957) later works. Earlier in his career, he had written a series of historical novels set around his birthplace of Kennebunk. The seventeen bright, full page color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth enliven the text. . Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Wyeth, N.C..

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1909 Hardcover, 8vo, 520pp. In publisher's navy cloth binding with gold lettering. Condition: Very Good. Some bubbling to covers and a tiny tear at the top of the spine. ** A sweeping survey of the British sailor in literature, art and in songs. Chapters on: "Sea Language and the Poets", "Smollett and the Naval Novel", "Sea Poetry: Its Origin and Uses", and "The Sailor's Life and Loves". ** With 81 full-page plates of illustrations, titles including: "Sailors Carousing", "The Sailor's Farewell", and "The Pretty Waterwoman. Admiral Purblind Just Run Aground by Peggy Pullaway".. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: B.T.Batsford, 1947 184pp. Publish date marked as "Winter 1947-8". Illustrated description and histories surrounding the great rivers of England. Condition: About Very Good, with light foxing and a coouple of pages with dog-ear corners, which appear to be from manufacturing error. Dust jacket about Very Good but wiht tiny pieces missing from corners, now protected in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-.