Search Results: Authors starting with R from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1943). Early printing. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"), 754 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth, in second state dust jacket
Edges lightly rubbed, covers briefly spotted, gilt dull, faint small stain affecting the lower margin, a Good or better copy in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine, rubbed, with tears & small losses, still Good or so.
An early printing in second-state jacket with $3.00 price intact, Rand's photo & three blurbs on the rear panel
"An excitingly dramatic novel, this book is based on a challenging belief in the importance of selfishness, on the provocative idea that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain.
Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled, with edge wear including tears, small losses, & old tape repairs on the verso.
"Miss Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, after years of research, has now edited the the letters of Wise to his American friend Wrenn, proving further forgeries and involving in the guilt H. Bruxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse, distinguished menof letters." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Paris: Cahiers d'Art publies sous la direction de Gualtiere de San Lazzaro, 1952 First edition Small folio, 88 pp. & 11 plates including 4 original lithographs Publisher's printed card wraps. Most text in French
Covers lightly soiled, spine browned, brief edge wear Occasional modest toning internally, otherwise very good.
A lovely issue of one of the most significant art journals of the 20th century.

Hartford, [Connecticut]: H.E. Robins and Co., 1853. Later printing. Octavo (8" x 5"), x & [11] - 402 pages, with engraved half title & full page illustrations from woodcuts. Publisher's red cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt.
Spine gilt dull, edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, corners bruised, internally toned & foxed, light stain in the lower margin affecting early leaves, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the ffep, otherwise good.
Originally published in 1849. Author Hollis Read also wrote the influential Negro Problem Solved, or, Africa as She Was, as She Is, and as She Shall Be: Her Curse and Her Cure.

[Nashville, Tennessee: M'Kennie & Brown, 1855]. First edition. 8vo, 12 pp. Removed from a larger volume, lacking wraps. OCLC finds five copies under two accession numbers as of 8/12/2022.Moderately toned & foxed, last leaf detached, removed & lacking wraps, otherwise good or better."Theodore Clapp (March 29, 1792-May 17, 1866), an early Unitarian preacher in the southern United States who established an outpost of liberal religion in New Orleans and built it into a beacon of religious moderation, was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts … In 1823, his church established itself as the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans and associated with the Mississippi Presbytery. The financially troubled College of Orleans made him its President in 1824, but was able to keep its doors open only long enough for Clapp to create a scandal by holding balls at the school for As part of his conversion to his newly adopted city, however, he also became an enthusiastic apologist for slavery, which he regarded as less… Read More

Allentown: Gedruckt und zu haben bey H Ebner u comp, 1822 12mo (7.25" x 4.5"), xiv, 202, [2], 396 pp. Original full sheep with brass & leather clasps. Text in German, printed in fraktur. Arndt/ First Century German Language Printing, volume 2: 2524.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, losses mostly at spine extremities, lower joint cracking, one leather clasp becoming detached, stain diminishing over the first several leaves, foxed & browned throughout, several page corners with shallow diagonal crease, previous owner's name & date (1834) in old ink at first blank page, "No 14" in pencil at title page, Good or better & still quite serviceable Presented in two parts, the second having an additional half-title page A surprisingly uncommon Pennsylvania German Imprint, OCLC finds 17 copies under 3 accession numbers as of 1/31/2019

New York: Office of the American Temperance Union, printed by S.W. Benedict. Lot of three issues: Volume IX New Series, Numbers 10, & 12, October 1 & December 1, 1848 & Volume X New Series, No. 1, January 1, 1849. First editions. Small folios (12.25" x 9.5"), 4 pages each, illustrated. Original newspapers, single sheets folded once vertically. Removed from a bound volume.
Two issues lightly toned & foxed, with moderate edge wear, otherwise Very Good. One issue with more substantial edge wear & creasing including a two inch tear without loss along the fold (now with small archival tissue reinforcement in the gutter between pages two & three), soiled & foxed, otherwise Good & still quite useful.
As characterized in a 1850 article published in the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Youth's Temperance Advocate is "a lively, ably conducted sheet, filled with facts, calculated to interest not only the youthful mind, but the man mature, and in this way, do more to arouse the dormant energies of the fathers and mothers,… Read More

New York: Printed at the Conference Office, J. Collard, Printer, 1837. "Third edition, enlarged and improved by the author." 8vo, 32 pp. Removed from a larger volume, lacking wraps.Foxed & stained (heavy at times), edge wear, loss at last leaf costing a couple of letters, removed & lacking wraps, otherwise good & still quite useful.Rev. Sandford was pastor at the Ninth Methodist Church on Greene Street in New York (per New York as it is in 1834).

New York: David McKay Company, (1970) Fourth printing. Octavo (8.75" x 6"), ix & 342 pages. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with brief wear at the top of the spine.
"... a unique, lively, utterly candid guide to the facts of life that not only brings so-called "unmentionable" aspects of sex out into the open, but explores, explains, defines, and clarifies the almost unlimited range of human sexual behavior - and tells how actually to utilize your own physical capabilities to fullest capacity in order to achieve the greatest sexual satisfaction possible ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, 1910. First edition, one of 450 copies "for sale in Europe and the British Dominions," this out of series and unnumbered. Folio (14" x 11"), xix, 311, & [1] pages plus 127 plates of which 27 are in color. Publisher's bevel edged blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt Top edge gilt, the others uncutBinding moderately soiled, rubbed & spotted, previous owner's partially whited out name & address at front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, rear hinge just started, a good or better copy.An exhaustive & beautifully illustrated account, author George Woolliscroft Rhead is perhaps best known as the designer of Queen Mary's coronation fan in 1911 .Please note, international shipping is by quote only, shipping weight is 12 lbs, 8 oz.

No place [San Francisco ?]: no publisher [Taxipress ?], no date (ca. 2009). First edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5.5"), 50 unnumbered pages & covers. Stapled stiff paper wraps. Not located by OCLC as of 7/21/2023.
Soiled, edge wear, rubbing, sheets misaligned, staples replaced, a good or so example of a crudely produced pamphlet.
Ms. Argo was a member of the now disbanded Sister Split, a lesbian-feminist spoken-word and performance art collective in San Francisco. Among the vignettes presented here are "With All the Girl Skin Going By," "Sometimes Me and My Best Friend Accidentally Fuck," and "Swallow." Her other books include "The Creamsickle" which won a Lambda award, and "Girls I've Run Away With."

[Providence, Rhode Island., General Assembly, Committee on Abolishment of Capital Punishments], 1838. Folio broadsheet (13 inches x 7.75 inches), 2 pp.
Couple of short tears in the upper margin, lightly stained, otherwise very good.
"To the Honorable the General Assembly: January session, AD 1838 The subscribers, two of the Committee appointed to revise the Penal Code, Respectfully Represent, That it will appear by the Report of said Committee, which accompanies the bill presented by them, that they were divided equally on the abolition of capital punishments, and that it was agreed to report a bill that should not provide for their infliction in any case, that the point might be brought directly before the Legislature Hence, the subscribers, in this separate report, propose to lay before the Assembly some of the reasons why they think such punishments ought to be abolished in this State. "Among the reason these dissenters offer for opposition is the reluctance of many persons who will not complain… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1908. "Special Philadelphia Edition with References." Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), 159 & [1] pages. Publisher's light brown/ tan cloth lettered in black on the spine & upper cover.
Binding soiled, spine browned, edges lightly rubbed, brief wear at corners, text toned, Previous owner's name, address & presentation in ink & pencil at the ffep, a good or better copy.
A Russell Sage Foundation Publication by Ms. Richmond who, along with Jane Addams, is regarded as the mother of professional social work.
Originally published in 1907, this "Special Philadelphia Edition" adds local addresses, phone numbers & office hours for service providers.
Chapters include: The Child in the City; The Child at Work: The Adult Worker; The Tenant; The Man on the Street; The Family in Distress; The Invalid; The Contributors, & The Church Member.

South Benfleet, Essex, England: F Lewis (Publishers) Limited, 1932 First edition. Large folio (15.5" x 12"), 14 pages plus 60 tipped in color plates by various artists, with letterpress tissue guards interleaved. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt Top edge gilt.
Spine & margins of the covers a bit sunned, brief fraying at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed through, internally lightly toned (not affecting plates), otherwise Good or better.
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"One may safely assume that flowers were the earliest element of purely decorative designs - the "daisy-chains" of the childhood of art Floral designs occur in all the arts of all periods though they may sometimes be hidden in apparently purely geometric ornament. " ~Excerpted from the foreword

[Chicago]: Lanteen Laboratories, 1942. Sextodecimo (6.25" x 3.5"), 20 pages, illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's stapled pictorial paper wraps.
Modest edge wear including a small loss along the right side of the front cover & rubber stamp of Smith's Drug Store, Hanover, Pennsylvania at the verso, otherwise very good.
An uncommon pamphlet which describes Lanteen Laboratories' cap diaphragm & provides directions for use. The company was founded by Rufus Riddlesbarger in 1928. In 1948 he was prosecuted unsuccessfully for statutory rape involving a house servant. Shortly thereafter Riddlesbarger left the United States and passed away in Addis Ababa in 1968.
The final page offers advertisements with pricing for some of the company's other products including "Exteen" which "Stops your pain and headaches."
"Not only newly-wedded womanhood, but also other millions of wives and mothers are longing for a better solution to the age-old problem of Marriage Hygiene. Women are looking with open minds at… Read More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First edition. Duodecimo (7.25" x 5"), 48 pp. plus 8 unnumbered pp. providing the publisher's catalog of "Books on the Great War." Original printed & decorated blue paper over boards backed in tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly soiled, old price in ink at the ffep, brief offsetting/ toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in worn, torn, chipped, & soiled dust jacket with a substantial loss at the rear panel, fair only.
Known primarily for her mystery fiction, author Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, directs her appeal to the mothers of the United States noting that "Personal service is not rolling bandages for the other woman's son."
This title was published in April, 1917, the same month when the United States reversed its neutrality stance & declared war on the German Empire.

New York: Rinehart & Company, (1955) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink at the first blank page by Carl Carmer. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), 493 pages, illustrated Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt within black blocking on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket Brief wear at spine extremities, otherwise Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & tears, & an old tape repair on the verso, still Good or better. In addition to authoring The Susquehanna, Carl Carmer (1893 - 1976) was the general editor of the important Rivers of America series He is best known for his autobiographical memoir, Stars Fell on Alabama

New York: Wellfleet Books, (1989) Facsimile edition Folio, five volumes, variously paginated, bound in one: 1 Jerusalem -- 2 Galilee & Lebanon -- 3 Judea & Jordan River --4 Samaria & Idumea (Petra) -- 5 The Desert (Negev & Sinai). Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket & slipcase. A fine copy in like dust jacket Slipcase lightly rubbed & bruised at the corners, very good or better. "In this lavishly illustrated book, with over 120 color plates, the reader can retrace the artistic and courageous steps of Roberts on this adventurous eleven month journey from 1838 - 1839, through the Holy Land where he had permission to enter whichever sacred mosque or monument he desired ." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Richmond, Virginia: Offprint, originally published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1935. First separate printing, this copy with the author's presentation slip pasted to the verso of the front cover. Octavo (9" x 6"), 36 pages. Original printed, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Covers lightly sunned & soiled, otherwise Fine.
The author was the first state archivist in Virginia. He "worked to make the state's records more accessible and to ensure that local records were stored in fireproof buildings." (~Encyclopedia Virginia).
"The accompanying chart is a graphic presentation of how the Henrico "line" drifted along from county to county (e.g. King William), or along with them (e.g. St. Anne's), as population increased from decade to decade and pushed back the frontier ..." ~Excerpted from the first page.

London: Edward Moxon, 1839. Early printing of the first illustrated edition, originally published in 1830. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.25"), viii & 327 pages, with illustrations in text throughout. Later 19th century full green pebbled morocco lettered in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt.
Binding moderately rubbed, corners bruised, foxing mostly at pastedowns, endpapers, & early leaves, otherwise Very Good.
"Whatever may be the fate of this Poem, it has led the Author in many an after-dream through a beautiful country; and may not perhaps be uninteresting to those who have learnt to live in Past Times as well as Present, and whose minds are familiar with the Events and the People that have rendered Italy so illustrious ..." ~Excerpted from the Preface.