Search Results: Authors starting with R from Kama’aina Collection

London: Grant Richards, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. W. Heath Robinson. None. None White boards, clean, has some damage caused by bookworms, both volumes were treated with long term freezing lasting 6 weeks. No foxing on pages. Crisp, clean illustrations. Some pages have a deck led edge, tight strong binding. Bug damage is primarily in the covers gutter with the spine. See photos. pp. xliv, 350; xlii, 377. Heavy 4to. Bound in cream woven cloth with gilt embellishments to front board and spine blocked in gilt rules. W. Heath Robinson illusts. The endpapers are illustrated (both volumes bearing the bookplate of the former owner). The engraved frontispiece of volume I is loose but present. All other illustrations present, as called for. The cloth shows some soiling (unfortunately quite easy to do with such a light cloth binding), and the spines are a bit darkened. All corners are a bit bumped. Hinges a trifle tender, but endpapers tight (if a bit foxed). Occasional very light foxing to margins.… Read More

USA: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/One is very good, the other is fair. None. Both volumes are red cloth covered with gilt on cover and spine. End papers are red with peacock feather design. Pages are bright and clean, binding is tight. We are happy to send additional photos. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Both have toning on the back side, one has a split along the fold, the other is in good condition

London: T. Heptinstall , 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. In black ink: I. D. Colendge, B Southwick Crescent 1860. Below that, in black ink: To Wm R. Kensfer and his bride Francis E. Witter, 2721 No. Lake [?] Milwaukee, Wis. with wishes that useful thoughts interest you. Mr & Mrs. J. A. O. Preus, Chicago Ill. June 19, 1936. None Several pages heavily foxed. Professionally rebound in leather years before entering this collection in the 1960’s. Much of the book is clear and remarkably clean given the age of this book printed in 1797; 225 years old. [p. xi: Printed by C. Whittingham] First edition with these illustrations. The second section here ( New Idyls with a Letter to M. Fuslin, on Landscape Painting; and The Two Friends of Bourbon, a moral Tale, by M. Diderot , p. [151] to the end) reprints Hooper s translation from 1776. Adams DD48. This edition not in Morgan. Tall 8vo (226 × 141 mm) in half-sheets, pp. xi, [1], 275, [1], plus a stipple-engraved title-page, frontispiece, and 7 plates… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gustave Dore. None. From the French Circa 1890s. Decorated binding, design not attributed. Covers and spine damaged by old worm trails; corners bumped; front hinge weakened. Age-related browning of the page edges, Beautifully illustrated with numerous drawings by GUSTAV DORE. Inside is tight and crisp. This wold be a great book to have rebound. A beautiful and important edition. Francois Rabelais (also known under the pseudonym of Alcofribas Nasier, anagram of Francois Rabelais, or even under that of Seraphin Calobarsy) is a French humanist writer of the Renaissance, born at La Deviniere in Seuilly, near Chinon (in the former province of Touraine), in 1483 or 1494 according to sources, and died in Paris on April 9, 1553. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Paris: La Librairie de Publication, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. None. None Half Leather Binding with marbled covers front and back. Front cover has a small area of torn marbled paper. Inside cover has a reinforcement repair tape, some foxing, two pages with severe foxing. crisp illustrations. Tight binding. Francois Rabelais (also known under the pseudonym of Alcofribas Nasier, anagram of Francois Rabelais, or even under that of Seraphin Calobarsy) is a French humanist writer of the Renaissance, born at La Deviniere in Seuilly, near Chinon (in the former province of Touraine), in 1483 or 1494 according to sources, and died in Paris on April 9, 1553. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: Cassell & Co., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Gustave Dore. None. None First edition. Very good copy with bright text. Very good cloth with minor bumps on spine edge. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR Like new

-. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. None. None Former library book; Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Scuffed dust jacket with clipped corner, no tears, but slight crunching on top of spine area. Toning on the back side of jacket

New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. None. None Original Pictorial Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo. There are no library markings on the binding or in the text.This book has been rebound using the original covers and spine. Gilt and illustrations on covers and spine. Clean pages, tight binding. Beautiful Illustrations that are not blending to posit pages. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: Pleiades Book LTD, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gustave Dore. None. None James Laver, Editor. Light foxing throughout. Covers and spine show edge discoloration. Crisp illustrations. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Nederlands: The MIT Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. None. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages. First U.S. edition. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Three small tears along bottom, some sun toning.