Search Results: Titles starting with R from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

London: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. Very good in original gray-green printed wrappers which are a bit browned at edges and with a few small chips. Now housed in a custom chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase.. First Edition. With crest on wrapper, title page, and with woodcut on the last page. Wilde's first book. Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878, presented at Oxford University for best poetry. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 [Wilde] started from Greece, [and] visiting Ravenna by chance on the way, he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city, and singularly enough, Ravenna was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." (Hamilton, The Aesthetic Movement in England, as quoted by Mason, pg. 243). 8vo. 16pp. Mason, pg. 241.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. Very good but somewhat cocked, wear to edges.. Joseph Conrad's copy with the Hodgsons 1925 auction dispersement label. Volume II only, the first volume's whereabouts remain a mystery despite our attempts to locate the same.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1824. First Edition. Good plus in original blue paper boards backed in drab paper, later printed paper labels to spines, soiling, spotting and wear to boards, spines repaired at some point, some insect damage to boards of vol. III, flyleaf to vol. I excised, with bookplates of O.C. Skinner to pastedowns covering earlier bookplates, ownership signatures of C. Davenport, Welford Rectory, to surviving endpapers. Nevertheless, desirable given the original boards.. Triple decker first edition in publisher's blue boards. The novel chronicles the start of a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes Wandering Willie's Tale, a short story which frequently appears in Scott anthologies. This work has been argued to be the most autobiographical of Scott's novels. 8vo. 3 vols. [4], 319pp., [1]; [4], 328pp.; [4], 331pp., [5, ads]. Todd & Bowden 178Aa (with comma in the title of volume 1, corrected to a full stop in volume 2. "Some copies" of the first edition may… Read More

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1824. Very good, without half-titles or catalogue, all edges marbled, half leather over marbled boards, bookplate on all volumes which browns flyleaf, gift inscription to title page of all volumes, corners worn.. First Edition, Worthington's second state. One of the later Waverley novels about the Bonnie Prince contemplating waging a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion. This book also contains and includes the first appearance of Scott's meandering ghost story "Wandering Willie's Tale." 3 vols. 12mo. Todd & Bowden 178Aa. Sterling 738. Worthington 17. [4], 319pp., [3]; [4], 328pp., [2]; [4], 331pp., [3].

London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. Very good with prior ownership inscription and some foxing/soiling.. Limited edition. Vellum spine and cream boards, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Boards lightly soiled. One of 500 copies.

London: Dodsley, 1765. Good plus in contemporary rebacked leather with some edgewear, few short closed tears, endpapers with light chipping, staining to pastedowns, prior owner bookplate and ink signatures, light to moderate foxing in various places.. First Edition. A collection of ballads, songs, sonnets, and romances that captivated the British public, and influenced many of the most notable authors over the subsequent century. Walter Scott ready Percy's Reliques in his youth, stating "and henceforth I overwhelmed my schoolfellows, and all who would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy." (Millgate, Walter Scott: the Making of a Novelist, 1987; Mahoney, Some Antiquarian and Literary Influences of Percy's Reliques, 1964). The work is also attributed to influencing Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carroll, and Wilde. (Groom, The Making of Percy's Reliques, pg. 3). Groom even declares Reliques as "the seminal, epoch-making work of English Romanticism." 8vo. 3 vols. xxiii,… Read More

Collingswood, New Jersey: Christian Beacon Press, 1945. First Edition. Very good./Fair.. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. A curious work laying out the Biblical basis for market economies in post-WWII. 8vo. xv, 260pp.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Slipcase and jacket not present; spine darkened, small pull to head of spine, light spotting to binding, front hinge cracked but still very good.. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. First Edition, limited, this being number 104 of 377 copies. Frontispiece portrait from an etching by Muirhead Bone with printed tissue-guard. Original parchment over boards, gilt-stamped rover vignette to front board and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, untrimmed The Rover, which originally began as a short story, was later serialized in the Pictorial Review, September-December, 1923. Keating 178. 8vo. [11], 370pp., [1].

London: William Pickering, 1847. First thus. Leather rubbed, rebound with original boards with some loss to leather. Internally contents are very good with previous owner's name on half title. Overall good plus.. First Pickering edition of these popular 17th century English devotional works, featuring a detailed examination of the ways which lead to a charitable and pure Christian life. A visually appealing volume printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press with engraved frontispiece, woodcut initial letters, and the use of an old face font which Whittingham introduced in 1843. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, xvi, 424pp.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, 1870. Very good with some staining to wrappers and some penciling.. 32mo. [2] 3-13pp., [3]. In publisher's pictorial wrappers.