Search Results: Authors starting with R from Sumner & Stillman

1910. Rackham, Arthur. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann | New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. Original light brown buckram pictorially decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First Arthur Rackham edition, trade issue (there were also 1150 signed copies bound in white parchment). A year later, the concluding volume of "The Ring" was published -- SIEGFRIED & THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS. This is one of Rackham's more outstanding achievements: the volume contains 34 color plates, each tipped onto heavy art paper with a printed tissue guard. This volume is in fine condition, with scarcely any soil or wear. Included is Heinemann's 1910 pictorial dust jacket, repeating the book's decoration: it is in very good-plus condition (light wear at the spine ends and upper edge of the rear panel, faint damp-mark on the latter). The front free endpaper bears a small "Xmas 1911" signature.

1884. With Illustrations by E.A. Abbey, Percy MacQuoid and Joseph Nash. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1884. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of fourteen short "good stories" -- about twenty pages each, on average. One of the more amusing -- or enraging, depending on one's point of view -- is "Exchange of Animals," where, opposite an illustration of a woman held with a leash on an auction block (this book was published two years before THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, which would open with a very similar event), a man says, Gentlemen, I have to offer to your notice my wife... It is her wish as well as mine to part for ever, and will be sold without reserve to the highest bidder. Gentlemen, the lot now offered for competition has been to me a bosom serpent. I took it for my comfort and the good of my house; but it became my tormentor, a domestic curse, a night invasion, and a daily devil. The Lord deliver us from termagant wives, and troublesome… Read More

1914. Benda, W[ladyslaw]. T[eodor].. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. 8 pp undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition of this collection of nineteen brief stories of the "other half," the poor immigrants scratching out livings in urban tenements. The first page of ads notes that the Danish-born Riis ("social reformer and civil worker, 'New York's most useful citizen'") had died the same year that this was published. Though not mentioned on the title page, this volume includes six illustrations by the noted Polish-American painter and illustrator W[layslaw]. T[eodor]. Benda. This copy of this handsomely-bound book is bright and just about fine, with scarcely any soil or wear.

1903. Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., (1903). Original navy blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. First Edition of this group of four lectures delivered by Jacob Riis, the Danish-American social reformer (and photographer), and muckraking journalist, who did much for the cause of the urban poor -- beginning with his landmark HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES in 1890. Riis had become a police reporter and photographer during the 1870s, which showed him first-hand the living conditions of the poor in "Hell's Kitchen"; he later was joined in this crusade by Theodore Roosevelt. This book includes 27 photographic plates illustrating the second and third lectures -- from the lantern slides Riis used to illustrate those lectures. An uncommon book, this copy is bright and close to fine.