Search Results: Titles starting with R from Walkabout Books

Italia, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 206 pp. 10 x 16 cm. Later cloth binding with title stamped in gilt on the spine, decorative endpapers. Front hinge weak, some scattered foxing. A scarce, posthumously published collection. Porta is best known for his use of the Milanese dialect and portrayal of Milanese life.

Paris: Unesco, 1968. Softcover. Near fine. Fifth impression. 47 pp. Light toning and a few small scuff marks on wrappers, else fine. As cited in WorldCat: "This work presents a challenge not only to mid-20th-century zoological theories of racial difference, but more radically to the very idea of human progress that underlies racism. Lévi-Strauss's goal was to assert that cultures are in fact not equal, but unique, and that these differences must not be read as inferiority, as if a culture has yet to arrive at some crucial developmental stage of mass production and consumption. Rather than products of history, cultures are accidents--and therefore incommensurable. From Lévi-Strauss's perspective, the UNESCO rhetoric that all cultures are equal, while well-intentioned, only invites comparisons that could bolster racist ideas about biological inferiority and cultural backwardness. (Adapted from Carolyn M. Rouse, "Claude Lévi-Strauss's Contribution to the Race Question: Race and History.")

Louisville, KY: John P. Morton, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. 144 pp, with maps, illustrations, in original wrappers Front wrap starting to separate at spine ends (but still firmly attached); contents clean. Revised, with material not contained in earlier editions. A prefatory section titled "Announcement" noted that the original purpose of this publication was to desribe for the nation's youth how steam engineering evolved and "what advantages have been given to them by the makers and owners of railways," but that the present purpose is "to bring about a better understanding between labor and capital--to demonstrate that the very vastness of our territory suggests the necessity of aggregations of capital--corporations; that without these it would be improssible to have so great a country, so enlightened a people."

Washington DC, 1947. Softcover. Near fine. vii, 155 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light toning to spine and edges, else clean and sound. A survey of trends in employment and wages in the railroad industry by a representative of the Association of American Railroads. Includes information on collective bargaining, cost of living, and basic compensation rates for workers at all levels of the railroad industry.

Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in brown cloth boards. Light spotting to top edges of pages, binding is tight, text is clean. Dust jacket has very small chip to top edge of front panel. From the dust jacket: "One weekend in 1974, Jerome Baumgartner sat with his father and listend to stories of his childhood on the Santa Margaritz Ranch. Jerome had heard these stories many times before, but this time was different: this time there was a tape recorder going. That weekend was the first session of what was to become a remarkable oral history of one of the biggest and most important ranchos in California history, a quarter-million acre ranch with tens of thousands of cattle and hundreds of horses, not to mention vaqueros, Chinese cooks, and a vast extended family of remarkable people. But Rancho Santa Margarita Remembered is not just a history of a Southern California cattle ranch. More important, it is the recorded memory of a… Read More

Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1956 edition. 151 pp, with index, map endpapers. Fine copy. No dust jacket. Includes names and brief descriptions of ranchos along with lists of unnamed ranchos, grantees, claimants, counties, grant dates, and governors.

Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1903. Soft cover. Very Good. 82 pp + ads and folding map, in original brown paper wrappers. Some tape repairs to spine, one small chip to rear cover, all else very good or better; map in fine condition. Title continues: "The Express Company doing business over each road, and accurately locating all cities, towns, post offices, railroad stations, villages, counties, islands, lakes, rivers, etc. The special features of this pocket map are: locating the branch or particular division of the railroad upon which each station is situated; the nearest mailing point of all local places; designating money order post offices; telegraph stations; and naming the express company doing business at the points where the several companies have offices. Population is given according to the 1900 official census."

Tacoma: Cromwell Printing Company, 1891. Softcover. Good. 5.25" x 3.25", 13 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Staples rusted, text detached from wrapper, moderate soiling; good. A rare consumer information pamphlet from the Tacoma Light and Water Company, which was founded in 1884 by Charles B. Wright, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Having acquired a franchise from the City Council to provide drinking water and electricity in Tacoma, Wright built wooden flumes w from Spanaway Lake and Clover Creek, which filled a reservoir at Hood Street. This booklet opens with a reminder to both consumers and their architects, contractors, plumbers, etc., that the Company must inspect and approve all work done on pipes and fixtures before water can be turned on, and that such work must conform to the rules and regulations printed on the following pages. Several pages of regulations are followed by a list of monthly water rates for baths, water closes, urinals, and hose at residences and a range of… Read More

New York: Summit Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. 379 pp, indexed and illustrated. Fine copy in fine dust jacket protected by a new mylar cover. A well written and engaging study of raven behavior in the woods of Maine. Publisher's description: "Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other during winter? On the surface, there didn't appear to be any biological or evolutionary imperative behind the raven's willingness to share. The more Bernd Heinrich observed their habits, the more odd the bird's behavior became. What started as mere curiosity turned into an impassioned research project, and Ravens In Winter, the first research of its kind, explores the fascinating biological puzzle of the raven's rather unconventional social habits.

New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8 x 10 inches, approximately 30 pp, with illustrations, chronology. Introductory text in the original French laid in. Light soiling/handling wear; interna;s clean and sound. Undated, circa 1968.

Paris: Bibliothequede l'Occident, 1908. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 53 pp, in original wrappers. Light dust soiling and wear to wrappers, scattered foxing internally. Number 367 of an edition of 400. Text in French.

Real photo postcard showing the interior of a Western railroad depot with considerable character and detail. Very mild crease to one corner, a touch of wear to the edges; near fine. Although someone has written "Texas RR" on the back, and there are signs posted relating to the Denver & Rio Grande and to the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, we suspect this station was actually in southern Colorado, given that there is a print of Sheridan's Ride on the wall (a Union general on a Texas wall seems unlikely at this time). Among the objects visible in the photo are an elkhorn chair, footstool and table; at least eight taxidermy specimens (elk, deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, buffalo calf, eagle, owl); photographs and prints; and a railroad map, ticket agent's sign, and rack of timetables.

Toronto: Star Printing and Publishing, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original blue cloth puckered in spots, rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Binding sound, contents clean. 353 pp, with 51 gravure plates, but lacking the folding map. The author traversed the Marotse country and visited the Gonye and Victoria Falls, and continued to Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Mashonaland (Mendelssohn I, p. 788). "Despite Johnston's hunter-like attire and pose in the frontispiece, this work is primarily one of travel.... He does embark on hunts after hartebeest, impala, and ostrich, and describes a lion hunt near Salisbury" (Czech p. 146).

Bejing, 2004. Softcover. Very Good. Artist catalogue. 8.5 x 10 inches, 75 pp, with color illustrations, artist's card and contemporary article laid in. Light handling wear (one corner creased), previous owner's note on the exhibition written on rear free endpaper; else clean and sound. Possible artist's signature/inscription in Chinese on front endpaper. Text is in Chinese. Extensively illustrated in color.

Little Rock, AR: Pioneer Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, 328 pp, with references, index. Fabricoid board. Prior owner's name on front free endpaper, very light wear to edges, split to cloth at front joint (superficial, not affecting integrity of binding); text clean. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, price clipped. A detailed history of one of the "real fighting outfits" of the Confederate Army, a regiment that fought in twenty-two battles and major engagements and included two future Governors of Arkansas.

London: Marshall Brothers, Ltd, 1921. Hardcover. Good+. 282 pp + publisher's catalogue, with folding tables, indices, handwritten letter from author to publisher laid in. General wear to boards including tears at spine; contents clean. The letter pertains to Macinlay's cost for ordering additional copies of his book, some of he will be giving away to various people who helped in the preparation of the manuscript, a library, etc. It appears he has been offered copies at a price higher than that charged to the book trade, and he protests that this is unfair.

Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. 109 pp, bound in original gray cloth with paper spine label. Fine copy. One of 300 issued. Publisher's description: "When brothers William and John Wright arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1850 and could find no other suitable employment, they joined the U.S. Army's Regiment of Mounted Rifles, which served on the Texas frontier. Their description of their experiences is unusual on several counts: it is a view of Texas in the 1850s, when personal accounts were rare, and it is written from the point of view of visitors to this nation. And because the Wrights published their book in 1857, only three years after they left the army, their story has an immediacy lacking in many memoirs.

Brown Printing Co, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18 pp, in stapled cardstock wrappers. Fine copy. Personal reminiscences of the author, who was born in Holly Springs in 1883, followed by historical tidbits about the Depot Hotel, Illinois Central Railroad House, Market House, Holly Springs Marble Works, Holly Springs Newspapers, Hill Crest Cemetery, National Hotel Company, and more.

New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922. Softcover. Very good. An address delivered before the Fifth Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, May 11, 1922. 64 pp, staple-bound. Edgewear to wrappers, internals fine. Hillman, who was President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, visited Russian in 1921, where he visited clothing factories and met with Lenin and other Soviet leaders to discuss issues relating to the economic reconstruction of the country. Here he proposes formation of a cooperative commercial venture between an organization of American shareholders and various Soviet state manufacturing trusts. The Americans would contribute capital in the form of money and machinery as well as production know-how; the Russians would contribute already existing workshops in need of capital infusion, a ready labor force, and access to local markets. The Soviet Government guaranteed the principal of a proposed $1 million dollar investment as well as… Read More

London: Gale & Polden, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7.5 x 10 inches, oblong, flexible boards. Full leather binding with titles stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers. [30] pp, including 8 pages of text and 22 photographic plates. Leather starting to crack at spine, old water damage visible on endpapers,with mild rippling to the pages. Includes a roll of past and present members of all battalions of the regiment who attended the regimental reunion at Chelsea Barracks on Sept. 1928. Images include a group portrait of the officers, the battalion marching past Big Ben on the way to Chelsea; an informal inspection by the Prince of Wales, changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, roll call, marching past the Cenotaph, and more. Rare.