Search Results: Authors starting with R from Great Northern Books

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. The author's second book. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Slight shelfwear.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes pictorial frontis, illustrated endpapers, and fifteen pages of advertisements many listing other "boy book series." Color pictorial spine and front cover panel. Former owners' name on front free endpaper, else an otherwise unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Macmillan, 1930. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes a color frontis, 27 full page black & white photographs, and 13 pages of drawings and and index. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Plume , 2005. Centennial Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Seventh Printing. With a special introduction by the author and an afterword by Leonard Peikoff. Cover reproduces the iconic dustjacket design, with French fold covers. Spine slightly creased and front cover slightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. No printing indicated. "Night of January 16th was first published in an edition for amateur theater organizations in 1936, using a version edited by drama professor Nathaniel Edward Reeid. The play's title changed multiple times. Rand's working title was Penthouse Legend. The play was called The Verdict during the Hollywood Playhouse rehearsals, but opened there with the title Woman on Trial. Prior to the Broadway opening, it was considered renaming the play The Night is Young. [from Wikipedia] A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. Later printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. "Night of January 16th was first published in an edition for amateur theater organizations in 1936, using a version edited by drama professor Nathaniel Edward Reeid. The play's title changed multiple times. Rand's working title was Penthouse Legend. The play was called The Verdict during the Hollywood Playhouse rehearsals, but opened there with the title Woman on Trial. Prior to the Broadway opening, it was considered renaming the play The Night is Young. [from Wikipedia] A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Little Brown, 2013. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with small face image, on the title page. The nineteenth book in the "Inspector Rebus" series, A clean unmarked copy.

London: Orion Books, 2001. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page, "To .... - Hope this leaves you with memories of Edinburgh H....It's not such a bad place really! Cheers, Ian Rankin." Also includes a notes and crosses drawing. The thirteenth Inspector Rebus novel. Slight edgewear to dustjacket. Ships from USA.

New York: Little Brown, 2013. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with a tic tac toe image, on the title page. The nineteenth book in the "Inspector Rebus" series, A clean unmarked copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. The first full biography of Evans, the photographer for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "Rathbone does a superb job of describing Evans' elusive personality and unique vision." [from publisher] Includes 37 full page black & white photographs, bibliography and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

Hamburg: Verlag der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Vaterlandischen Schul und Erziehungswesens, 1967. 6. Aufl.. Trade Paperback. Good. Translated into German by Maria Honeit. Illustrated byAlice Geist Bechert. Abridged version for school use. Slight edgewear, former owner's stamp on title page else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1940. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Memoir of the daughter of a Vassar College president, published in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Vassar. Cloth spine, flower pattern decorative paper covered boards with paper label on front cover. Includes 3 full page black & white illustrations. Ex-library with minimal markings.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Includes a genealogical table. Ex-library with usual markings, still a good reading copy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Very Good +. This book is an attempt to explain what makes thinking about legal problems a special kind of thinking with its own limits and tensions. " [from the introduction]. Includes index. A clean unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1984- . v.27-. Hardcover. Like new/good +. v.27 (1984), v.29-35 (1986-1992), v.37-43 (1994-2000); v.45-55 (2002-2012), v.57-61 (2014-2018) A broken run of 31 volumes, all clean and unmarked, some still in shrinkwrap. In English, French, or German. Includes bibliographical references and index. Shipping at cost, from the USA. Individual vols. may be available on request.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of essays assessing American philosophy since WWII. Includes bibliographical references. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Good. One of 950 copies printed on Van Gelder paper, untrimmed. Type distributed. Red publisher's device on title page./ Headpiece, red initial. [Bishop: no.50] Includes two-color paper labels on spine and front cover. Front cover hinge beginning to crack, shadow on rear cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Ex-Library. One of 950 copies printed on Van Gelder paper, untrimmed. Type distributed. Red publisher's device on title page./ Headpiece, red initial. [Bishop: no.50] Includes two-color paper labels on spine and front cover. Ex-library with no external marking and book card and pocket in on rear pastedown.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. Third edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. One of 450 unnumbered copies. Bound in quarter white paper over a green decorative paper with a field of flowers and circular designs. Printed on Van Gelder paper with two Chiswick head-piece decorations, untrimmed. Type distributed. [Bishop: no.434.2] Ex-library with no external markings, bookplate on front pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, lacking paper label. Small newspaper poem clipping caused a shadow on title page.

New York: New Directions, 1970. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems. Rexroth was one of the major influences on the Beat generation. Slight rubbing to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.