Search Results: Titles starting with R from Austin's Antiquarian Books

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo; pp; (viii), 512, (vi); blue cloth, top edge stained purple, lettered in silver in a price unclipped dust jacket; previous owners private stamp on a preliminary;. Rabbit breathes his last.

New York: Viking Press, 1944. Third printing, October 1944. Hardcover. Good/a good or better. Octavo; pp; (6), 7-127, (i), Illustrated by the author; decorated green cloth in an unclipped jacket with the $2.00 price and the remains of the Newbery Medal sticker; illustrated endpapers; Good, cloth faded. Life in rural Connecticut from the Rabbit's point of view. A delightful read and a classic.

(Cedar Rapids: Torch Press), 1945. Offprint. Wraps. Near fine. Octavo; pp; 171-194; two maps; original printed blue paper wrappers;. Reprinted from the Mississippi Valley Historical Review.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; pp; unpaginated (142); illustrated with six inserted color plates and numerous black and white plates and text line drawings by Louis Wain, Kidman and others, color endpapers by W. Heath Robinson; quarter red cloth and pictorial paper covered boards; spine cloth faded, shelfwear at extremities else very good. Quite scarce.

Chicago: Kingston House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/light wear, a good or better. Octavo; pp; 190; illustrated in color by Robert Boehmer; blue cloth and blue paper covered boards lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. A biography written for young adults;.

Boston: Cupples, Upshaw, And Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Large octavo; pp; xviii, (ii), 439, index; Illustrated with full page views, folding map; green decorated cloth, blue coated endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Map has seperations at folds, A good or better copy with some edge wear, still a solid binding on a heavy book. One of the more scarce pieces on old Boston, nicely illustrated with a large folding map.

Spokane: The Eastern Washington State Historical Society, printed by the Inland-American Printing Company, 1923. Limited edition, Np. 551 0f 1000 copies. Hardcover. Spine head chipped and cloth separating from the board edge at right,; the book block is tight and all plates and maps are present; overall a good copy;. Octavo; pp; 333, (iii), index, list of subscribers; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and fifteen additional photographs and three maps including one in color; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt;. This copy is inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper to John G. Carter and dated at Washington D.C., January 14, 1928. John Galen Carter, the son of Senator Thomas Henry Carter and Ellen L. Galen Carter, was born in Washington. He was educated in Helena and Georgetown Prep School. He received his BA from Georgetown University in 1914 and his MA in 1915. He graduated from Georgetown Law School in 1918. In 1921, he joined the A. R. Serven law firm, and worked… Read More

New York: Readex Books, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xviii, (ii), 401, index; frontispiece portrait; red cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. A life in Library work, New York Public, Oberlin & Harvard. When librarians dealt with books and not computers.

London: Mitchell Beasley, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (London: 2004). Quarto (8.25" x 10.25"), pictorial glossy boards in dust jacket. 192pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs in color by jason Lowe.

London & Chicago: C. F. Cazenove and Chicago: States Publishing Company, 1910. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 205, (v), with index, ads; Frontispiece portrait of Theodore Roosevelt plus twenty-eight additional black and white plates; green cloth, lettered in gilt;. Anti-Roosevelt polemic. Miles Image makers # 888, it originally appeared in 1904, this edition is greatly expanded.

(New York): P. F. Collier & Son, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Small quarto; pp. (vi), 278; portraits, black and white plates; tan cloth lettered in brown, pictorial label at center of front board; moderate wear;. In depth profiles of six military adventurers, H. K. D. MacIver, James Harden-Hickey, Philo N. McGiffin, William Walker, F. K. Burnham and Winston Churchill.

New York: G. Gregory, 1861. Wraps. stained in the margins, with a circular embossed library stamp, no other markings, some pencil underlinings else a good or better copy. Octavo; pp; 48; original printed string tied wrappers;. Presentation copy from Federal Judge William D. Shipman of Connecticut to a Roger Willis Esq., no doubt a legal colleague. At cataloguing date, 2/8/17, this was the only antiquarian copy among a mass of POD travesties.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, no date. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. (1909). Square octavo, green pictorial cloth, gilt. 99pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Very good with light edgewear and soil. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1881. Augustus Hoppin (1828-1896), with humor, describes his life as one of eleven children in the Auton House. After passing the bar, he decided against the law and turned to illustration, cartooning and satire for publications like Harper's Weekly. He was also a book illustrator.

New York: New York Public Library, 1951. Limited Edition, 1/1000 copies. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo; pp; 187, colophon; frontispiece portrait of Lenox and nineteen additional black and white plates; blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with a gilt coat of arms at center of the front board;. Henry Stevens emigrated from his native Vermont to London and became a legendary bookseller. He supplied the great libraries and collectors with Americana and other remarkable rare books. Lenox was one of his clients. Steven's memoirs should be in every bookseller's library.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1911. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Seventh impression. Octavo, terra-cotta cloth in a dust jacket. (iv), 248pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece plus sixteen plates by J. Charlton and H. Tunaly. Very good in a good jacket. Jacket worn at extremities. This is a volume of Longmans' Silver Library. Reprints of better writer's works. Well made and nicely printed.

Chicago: Triumph Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x, 195; illustrated with black and white photographs; red cloth and black paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; Very good in very good dust-jacket. A one-stop record containing everything Red Sox fans want to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics, trivia, and photos.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes; Octavos; pp; I; (viii), 386; II; (vi), 370 with index; green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt; Very good, a nice set with edge wear and a small waterstain to one corner of a rear board.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. From The Twenty-Second London Edition Revised With An Original Preface and Notes By the Authors. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 191; brown cloth decorated in blind, gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; Besides the previous owner's inscription there are no other notes or marks on this very clean copy. Very good, a bit of wear at spine ends. Ticknor first published an edition of this book in 1840 at the suggestion of his clerk, Mr. Fields. A parody of contemporary leading poets; It was very successful. Pye #16 100 Most Significant Books Published by Tichnor & Fields. This is an interesting example as it has two bookseller's tags present, one from W. B. Clarke in Boston and another very stylish one from the Metropolitan Book Store, Philp & Solomons, Washington D. C. It is signed by a "D. W. Lee, Washington, Mar, 1864. Read by G.D. to F.C." Given the geography this could be a member of "the" Lee family of Virginia.

London: John Murray, 1833. Eighteenth edition. Hardcover. Front board detached. Internally very good. George Cruikshank. Duodecimo; pp; xxxi, 170; Illustrated, Cruikshank illustrations, six wood engravings in the text, and frontispiece portrait after Harlowe; three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt;. Cohn 759. "...carefully revised, with an original preface and Notes by the Authors." Parodies of Byron, Wordsworth, Scott, Southey, Crabbe, and others. Scarce edition.

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints started but the binding is holding well and is still quite supple; a previous owner has written a long note in a faint pencil on the page preceeding the title page and on the title page, else very good;. Duodecimo; pp; iv, (ii), 353; three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt;. "Late in his life, Peter George Patmore, the periodical essayist, Regency man of letters and father of Coventry Patmore, recalled walking arm in arm through the streets of London with William Hazlitt. Hazlitt, he remembered, was overjoyed: not only had Patmore (then Secretary of the Surrey Institution) secured him a commission to deliver a series of lectures, but he had also promised him a positive review in the last place he expected it, Blackwood's Magazine. Recent criticism has drawn a polarized image of the magazine culture of the period, with the culturally, politically and socially conservative… Read More