Search Results: Authors starting with R from RC Books

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Walter Brooks. A Limited Edition.". Part of the the Franklin Library's "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. The classic in a handsome bright red leather with gilt titles and designs. Soft, fabric endpapers with attached pagemarker. All edges gilt. 773 pp.

New York: Random House, 1957. Fifteenth Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The brilliant novel of a philosophical revolution of the human spirit. Price-cut dust jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover, has edge wear with a half-inch chip at the spine head and a one-inch closed tear on the rear panel. 1,168 pages. Who is John Galt?

Bloomington, Indiana: Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1964. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece photograph of Poe tipped in. Fascinating stories of how one of the greatest Poe collections came to be - exciting for Poe fans and those interested in book collecting. Includes a facsimile of a poem "The Musiad or Ninead" which may or may not have been written by Poe. See BAL Volume 7 (Poe) References and Ana. 62 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers. Boards somewhat rubbed - especially on rear. Clean, tightly bound copy.

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Insightful and scholarly essays by Steven G. Reinhardt, Clarke Garrett, Roderick Phillips, Nancy Fitch, and Donald Sutherland. Introduction by Robert Forster. 130 pages. An immaculate unused copy.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. Leather and Paper. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Author's Edition." (Original copyright date was 1887.) Two volumes. Blue-green leather and marbled paper boards matched with identical marbled endpapers. Gilt rules on covers and gilt titles and decorations on spines. T.e.g. Printed at the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Frontispiece photograph of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Volume I. This item is a collection of the complete poems as prepared by the poet's brother William M. Rossetti, who has also written the preface and notes. Volume I xxx, 293 pp. Volume II xiv, 336 pp. Both volumes rubbed with loss at corner tips.Previous owner's bookplate in both volumes. Overall the gilt remains bright and both volumes are tightly bound. Volume one has some wear to the gilt top edge of text block. Quite an attractive set.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1988. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Triumphant and tragic story of the 29th President of the United States. Includes publisher's "Collector's Notes." 691 indexed pages. Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Genuine leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Light shelf wear. A handsome book.