Search Results: Authors starting with R from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Reykjavík: Heimskringla H-F, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth with gilt titles, gilt & white decorations, frontis., [vii], 139 pp. Spine ends frayed, else very good. In Icelandic language. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . G+/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

Reykjavík: Útgefandi Þórhallur Bjarnarson, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in sky blue printed paper wraps, 198 pp, uncut. Wraps browning around the edges, some foxing to rear cover, mostly unopened, presentation inscription signed by 'Utgaf.' (publisher) on front cover. Icelandic-language poetry. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Wraps. VG/No dj. 22 X 13½ cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black textured paper covered boards, maps on endpapers, 409 pp. Top rear corner lightly bumped and spine end turned in. DJ nicked a bit at corners and ends of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Raban, an English writer, buys a 16-foot aluminum fishing boat in Minneapolis and heads down the Mississippi to New Orleans, observing American life as well as the river along the way. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, mustard-colored paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine & initials on front board, maps on endpapers, 344 pp. A few small spots on edges, gift inscription on preliminary blank, else fine. Price-clipped DJ has slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Raban brings his keen powers of observation to the Arabian peninsula, Jordan, and Egypt. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey boards, dark blue spine with gold foil titles, endpaper maps, [ix], 435 pp, 1 drawing. DJ in Gaylord cover. From the DJ: "The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep--an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races. ... When Jonathan Raban set out alone in his own boat to sail from his Seattle home to the Alaskan Panhandle, he wanted to decode the many riddles and meanings of the sea: in Indian art and mythology, in the journals of [George] Vancouver and his officers and mishipmen, in poetry and painting, in the physics of waves and turbulence. ... In this seaborne epic, Raban brings the past spectacularly alive and renders the present in a prose of sustained brilliance and humor." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, foil titles on spine & decoration on front board, xv, 265 pp, 8 ff b & w plates, many illustrations in text, index. Previous owner's name & address on ffep, else fine. DJ extremities lightly rubbed, in Brodart archival cover. Focuses on the business of automobile manufacturing rather than on technology or social consequences. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on title page. Minnesota Voices Project No. 51. Sewn in mostly white pictorial wraps with blue titles & goldenrod endpapers, xii, 118, [1] pp. Some creasing to covers, else fine. Author's fairly long inscription is dated in year of publication. Raeburn, a Minnesota native, writes about her ten years spent living in Greece. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

Bologna: Zanichelli, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This edition copyright 1997. Dark blue laminated boards with white titles, 1248 pp incl. 32 pp color plates. Original bookseller's sticker on title page, corner of one section folded over before pages were trimmed (so some extra paper left on edge of four leaves), else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. In addition to the bilingual dictionary, color endpapers present 196 flag arranged alphabetically by country and an atlas of colors, and center color section is a brief pictorial dictionary. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 3rd Ed, 7th ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 21½ X 15½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth with red and white decoration and titles on front board and spine, xiii, 449 pp, 65 figures, references, index. Boards soiled, bumped, edges rubbed, pencil notes and underlining scattered throughout. Contents: definitions, elimination of arbitrary constants; equations of the first order and first degree; elementary applications; orthogonal trajectories; hyperbolic functions; linear differential equations; linear equations with constant coefficients; nonhomogeneous equations--undetermined coefficients & operational methods; variation of parameters and other methods; applications; systems of equations; electric circuits and networks; existence of solutions; equations of order one and higher degree; special equations of order two; the power series method; solutions near regular singular points; equations of hypergeometric type; numerical methods; partial differential… Read More

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light grey simulated leather, red & black titles. Still in shrink wrap. "Latest approved methods of treatment for the practicing physician," according to BIP. Shipping weight 7 lbs.. . New/No dj, as issued. 28½ X 22½ cm.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark green simulated leather, peach titles. Still in shrink wrap. "Latest approved methods of treatment for the practicing physician," according to BIP. Shipping weight 7 lbs.. . New/No dj, as issued. 28½ X 22½ cm.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1962, but this is a later printing (after ZIP codes, but before ISBNs). Brown cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, 1,472 pp, numerous drawings & photos, bibliography, index. Cloth at bottom of rear board is rubbed through at corners, small water stain near bottom of rear board, else very good. DJ edges torn & chipped, small stain near bottom of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. This standard reference on antiques contains sections on: arms & armour; barometers, clocks, & watches; books & bookbindings; carpets & rugs; coins & medals; furniture; glass; jewellery; metalwork; mirrors; needlework & embroidery; painting; pottery & porcelain; prints & drawings; scientific instruments; sculpture & carving; silver, list of museums & galleries. Shipping weight 8 lbs.. 7th ptg. . G+/G+. 25½ X 19 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt titles, ix, 331, [1] pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Randal gives us a clearer explanation than any we have had of the whys and wherefores of the world's most prominent and feared terrorist." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Cincinnati: The W. H. Anderson Company, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red simulated leather-covered boards, title & arms gilt-stamped on front board, xvii, 478 pp, index. Spine slightly faded, notary's stamp on recto of ffep, else as new. Contents: the office of the notary public; oaths and affidavits; acknowledgements; conveyances; depositions; negotiable instruments; commercial paper under the Uniform Commercial Code; Commissioner of Deeds. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). 4th ed. . Fine/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

New York: Columbia University, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind device on front board, top edge dyed grey, xviii, 786 pp, bibliography, name index, subject index. Fore-edge foxed, spine ends a bit rumpled, date stamped on front paste-down. DJ spine browned, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Papers by Narciss Ach, Karl Buehler, E. Clarapède, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Herbert Silberer, Karl Schroetter, Gaston Roffenstein, M. Nachmansohn, Stefan Betlheim, Heinz Hartmann, Wilhelm Stekel, Sigmund Freud, Otto Fenichel, Eugen Bleuler, J. Varendonck, Ernst Kris, Paul Schilder, Hans Buerger-Prinz, Martti Kaila, and the editor. Papers originally published in German were translated into English by the editor, with additional translations and assistance from Elvira Rapaport, Walter Kass, William Gibson, and Merton Gill. General topics are: directed thinking (7 papers), symbolism (6 papers), motivation… Read More

New York & London: Basic Books, Inc, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burgundy cloth, gilt titles & red foil rules on spine, blind monogram on front board, frontis. portrait, x, 943 pp, footnotes, chapter bibliographies, supplemental bibliography, index. Top edge slightly sunned, faint soil to boards, else fine. DJ has slight edge wear, a 1-cm tear to head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Contains a memorial essay by Gill, a review of Rapaport's contributions to psychology by Gill and George S. Klein, and 65 papers by Rapaport, who died in 1960. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

London: Violette Editions, 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Buff boards, red & black titles on spine, red titles on front board, silver endpapers, 544 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else fine. DJ is cut in one of Gehry's typical swoopy curves, folded, with names of projects printed on recto & a sketch printed on partially visible reverse. For each of 29 projects, there is a photograph of the finished building, a brief explanation of the project, and models & sketches from various phases of the design process, with comments by Gehry, Edwin Chan, & Craig Webb. There are also essays on Gehry's architecture by Horst Bredekamp, Rene Daalder & Mark Rappolt. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Frank Gehry. 25½ X 20 cm.

New York: Literary Guild of America, Inc., 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth w/debossed device on front board, xix, 442 pp. Boards lightly damp stained, top corners bumped, owner's address label on fpd, else VG. DJ has all four corners clipped, worn at edges, with closed tears, the largest of which is 1½ inches; in Brodart archival cover. Autobiography of Chicago Tribune literary editor and critic. In the course of his engaging account of his years on the staff of the Tribune, Rascoe provides what is now social history of the United States during WW1, and Chicago before prohibition. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . G/G. 22 X 15 cm.

Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Aqua boards, gilt titles on spine, 128 pp, color photos on most pages. 1-cm tear to head of front joint, else fine. DJ fine in Brodart archival cover. Picture book of glitzy 1950s American cars, with all photos by Rasmussen. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Illus. by the Author. 23½ X 23½ cm.

Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, gilt titles on spine, blue endpapers, 128 pp, color photos on most pages. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Picture book of Caterpillar tractors from about 1920 to 1986, with all photos by Rasmussen. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Fine/Fine. Illus. by the Author. 23½ X 23½ cm.