Search Results: Authors starting with R from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lexington: Washington & Lee University, 1907. Original issue in wrappers of the monthly magazine of Washington & Lee University. Octavo; pictorial thick-paper wrappers; pp82+ads; illus, plates. Covers rubbed and chipped at edges; internally complete and fresh. In addition to Adams' address, contents George Hutcheson Denny's speech at the same event; essays by Alexander L. Nelson, C.A. Engle, and others.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale blue-grey pictorial dust jacket; v,[3],203pp. Jacket spine toned and slightly chipped at crown, bottom corners lightly bumped, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Persian Heritage Series.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. First Edition. The first issue of this periodical, which published Raab (four years before his first collection), Norris (three years before her first), Ross Talarico, and others. Back cover ads for Wesleyan U.P. new titles, including Levine's NOT THIS PIG. The blue and black cover is rubbed, and lightly worn.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers; xv,732; 733-1196; maps, illus. Mild rubbing and soil to covers, but straight and tight; mild toning to the text - a Very Good set. Lacks the supplementary atlas volume.

Pretoria: Government Printer, [1954]. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (25cm.); original blue printed paper-covered boards; viii,1364pp.; folding color map plates, folding brochure titled "History of the Kruger National Park" bound in between pp. 54 & 55. Spine slightly sunned, else Very Good or better.

New York: Pantheon, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); yellow and red paper pictorial boards, backed in blue publisher's cloth with gilt on spine, with full color pictorial dust jacket; [30pp]. Galdone adapts the classic tale from Rabelais, through full color illustrations on each page. Text block is clear and sound, with very minor wear and creasing throughout; front and rear endpapers are also illustrated with a Parisian street map design. Boards lightly worn and faded. Tight binding. Near Fine. Dust jacket has some surface wear and scratching, with closed tears along the spine, front, and back panel extremities. Spine is also lightly stained, else Very Good.

London: Boriswood, [1934]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original rust cloth, spine lettered in yellow; 615pp. A touch dust-soiled; rubberstamp "hae" to half title and copyright page, else About Fine. German novel portraying adolescent life during the depression of post-WWI Germany. Publisher's announcement laid in.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 346pp; illus. Clean, unmarked copy bright dustwrapper; Near Fine.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002 [but 2001]. Uncorrected Proof. Quarto (27.75cm.); cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[5],374pp.; illus. Fine. Uncorrected, advance page proofs, reproducing manuscript notes to the printer.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934. First Edition. First impression. Two large octavo volumes (26cm). Original black cloth hardcovers, titled in gilt on spines; dustjackets; xii,[1]-408; viii,[1]-388pp. Mild bumps to board corners; attractive printed bookplate of the Romanian-American Jewish scholar Shalom Spiegel (1899-1984) inside each front cover; texts clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. In the original printed dustwrappers, chipped at edges, toned and with some closed tears into margins; just VG. The second of the renowned Latinist's major works, following A History of Christian-Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages (1927). Seldom found in such nice condition, especially with the original dustwrappers.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1984. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 105 pp. Signed by the translator into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Wilbur's translation from the French of Racine's version of the Greek myth. Small remainder mark on top edge else virtually as new in like dust jacket.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue price-clipped dust jacket lettered in white; 242pp. Chips and tears with subsequent creasing to jacket extremities, none approaching text, shallow loss at spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good in a Near Very Good copy of the uncommon jacket. Collected lectures first delivered at the University of Calcutta in December, 1942. Radhakrishnan would served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962, and the President of India from 1962 to 1967.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1959. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound hole-punched card wrappers; [2],5pp.; printed from typescript. Extremities rather unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Committee Report no. 2 and Publication no. 647.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1961. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vi,78pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Publication 848.

Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1956. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's cream hole-punched card wrappers; mixed pagination.; illus., text printed from typescript. Wrappers a bit worn and slightly soiled, else Very Good overall. Publication no. 452.

Tromøy, Norway, 1939. Octavo (20.5cm.); contemporary blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; 145,[4]pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn, spine a hint sunned, shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge, shallow creasing to three leaves, else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout. German-born author, poet, editor, and translator, Max Barth began his career as an editor of the pacifist socialist paper Sonntags-Zeitung before founding his own radical socialist paper Die Richtung, in 1932 at Stuttgart. The paper only survived a few issues before being confiscated by the Nazi-infiltrated Stuttgart populace the following year after which Barth fled to Switzerland. Found guilty of "High Treason" by the Third Reich, Barth found himself exiled, making his way to Norway, from which this collection was compiled, and finally the United States where he remained until after the end of World War II. The present collection… Read More

Atlanta: Georgia Commission on Education, [1957]. First Edition. Bifolium (37cm); single offset printed sheet (measuring 22.5" x 14.5"), folded once to create a 4pp tabloid. Old folds smoothed out, with some light wear and toning; Very Good+. A tabloid intended to warn citizens about the seditious intentions of the board and faculty of the Highlander Folk School, founded by Don West and Myles Horton in 1953 as a training facility for southern civil rights workers. This poster-sized brochure is printed and illustrated on both sides, with the recto opening to a large photomontage of supposed "communist training activities" at the school during Labor Day weekend, 1957. These include an address by Martin Luther King; visits by Rosa Parks and Rev. Ralph Abernathy; a performance by Pete Seeger; and a large central image of an African-American man hugging and kissing an older white woman on the lips - clearly intended to arouse outrage among segregation-minded citizens in Tennessee and North Georgia. Verso… Read More

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white, green, and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[7],8-412,[4]pp, with frontispiece and three plates of illustrations by A.B. Shute. Spine ends nudged, light wear to extremities, with mild dust-soil to cloth, and a faint forward lean; some offsetting to endpapers, with a touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustjacket, printed in black on thick sage green paper; sunned at spine and extremities, with light wear and a few tiny tears; Very Good+. Labor novel set in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania during the 1890's, depicting "the exact living status of the parties concerned, who the miner is and what his home life is like, the opinions and lives of honest officials, the ruling spirit of operators, the principles put in practice by unscrupulous hirelings, principles that are the generators of strikes which… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First American Edition of this translation. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and red on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; vi,[2],3-394pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with only a few faint creases to note. "A magnificent fantasy reflecting the author's bitter frustration at the stifling of his career. A poet becomes briefly involved with the enigmatic Professor Woland; his is incarcerated in an asylum where he meets the self-styled Master, who has written a philosophical novel about Pontius Pilate, and who recognizes that Woland is Satan, come to wreak havoc in the world of men. While the novel-within-the-novel tells the "true" story of the Crucifixion, the devil, having granted Moscow a well-deserved taste of Hell, offers consolation (salvation being beyond his scope) to the despairing Master and his innocent inamorata. A masterpiece of tragedy and grotesquerie; one of the finest… Read More

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-314pp. Mild offsetting to endpapers, a few tiny indentations at mid-spine, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, with the topstain bright and unfaded. In the correct first printing dustjacket, with five blurbs on the rear panel; unclipped (priced $2.50), showing modest wear and dust-soil, a few tiny nicks and tears, four tiny punctures on the spine panel, and five pieces of clear tape reinforcement on verso; a solidly Very Good, unrestored example. The final volume in Fuchs's Williamsburg Trilogy, published by Vanguard between 1934-37, which together paint a witty, sad, and faithful picture of Jewish Brooklyn during the early 1930s. The story is centered around a soda parlor in Neptune Beach (a fictitious version of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach), "where gangsters and whoremasters compete to control a string of houses… Read More