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

Liberty, TN: Short Mountain Collective, 1989. Wraps. Fine. 8-1/2 x 11" stapled glossy wraps printed in red and grayscale. 72 pages exclusive of the covers, illustrated throughout in b/w. But for a single scratch on the rear wrap, clean, bright appearing as new. Founded in 1974 as a publication for gay country-living and alternative lifestyles, RFD has been edited by different communities in various locations since its inception; the title originally evoked the well-known abbreviation for Rural Free Delivery, the residential mail service provided by the USPS beginning in the early 1900s, reflecting the "country living" aesthetic of the magazine. Later, as the magazine came to be associated with the counterculture Radical Faeries movement, the name became widely presumed as an abbreviation of Radical Faerie Digest (itself an ironic take on the mainstream Reader's Digest). In reality the publishers have adopted the practice of assigning a new expansion of the initials to each issue, such as Really… Read More

Stamford: Overbrook Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Red cloth, with gilt lettering on front, spine is darkened so gilt lettering is obscured. Limited edition of 650 copies. Pasted on half title page is a slip of paper typed on one side reading, "This edition of radical literature in America has been printed at the Overbrook Press for the members of the Grolier Club & a copy is sent you here with with the compliments of Frank Altschul." 61 pp. Address by Adams. (35 pp) listing of items in the exhibition (22 pp). Red slipcover, has water stains and wear to extremities, top two inches of cardboard is starting to separate.

Exton PA: Brilliant Studio, 2009. Paperback. Very good. 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 29 cm) Dark blue paperback. Very minor chipping at top and bottom of pages. Auction catalogue of Freeman's auction company. Descriptions of books etc. Photos throughout. 100pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First Edition. Boards. Very good/very good +. Red boards with 1/4 brown boards. Gilt lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. First full length biography of Ray Charles. 436 pp., photos throughout.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Boards. Very good/very good. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dustjacket in very good condition. Personal essays. 198 pp. First Edition.

Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Black cloth with paste down on spine. Some spotting to cover. Signed by the author with inscription. Illustrated with 6 photographs. 167 pp. Laid in is a brochure dated 1919, saddle stitched, with a picture of Welsh announcing the Lilian Welsh professorship. First edition.

Seattle: Freedom Socialist Publication, 1968. Stapled wraps. Very good.. 8 x 5 1/2 inches (21 x 14 cm), stapled wraps, peach colored cover, top edges foxed, otherwise tight clean copy. "Special Issue on American Women the Radical Movement". 56pp.

Leipzig: Carl Baedeker, 1906. Sixteenth. Cloth. Very good. Small drop of white paint on bottom of front cover. Previous owner's name with date 1935 on front free endpaper. 16th edition. 52 maps, including all the fold-outs, 461 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Boards with cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Minor discoloration on bottom of book. 254 pp.

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1883. First Thus. Cloth. Very good. Gustav Doré, Birket Foster. Floral cloth with 1/2 spine linen cloth with gilt illustrations on cover, words in black, no printing on spine, spine is stained, and some staining goes on to front and back for about 2 inches. Page edges are silver. Illustrated by Gustav Doré, Birket Foster, et al. 27 black and white illustrations. Unpaginated. 7x 9 inches.

London: George Allen, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (16.5 x 11.5 cm), black cloth with red bands around top and bottom, gold lettering on front and spine, red tinted page edges. Small label from "The Galignani Library, Engl. & Americ. Books Paris." 67 woodcuts. 210 pp., plus 4 pages listing works by Hare. First Edition.

Stelton, NJ: Road to Freedom Publishing Assoc, 1926. Newspaper. Good. 15 x 10 inches (38 x 25.5 cm), newspaper, pages 2 & 3, 6 & 7 not trimmed at top. Edges small rips and chips, closed tear along fold, but not obscuring wording. Top story is the Anarchist Revolution. Road to Freedom was a monthly anarchist political journal published between 1924-1932.

Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Inscription by author dated 1991. Artist, teacher, and natural-born storyteller Al Allen grew up along the lower Mississippi River. Comprised of stories from his boyhood and young adulthood. 208 pp.

New York: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Robert Mapplethorpe. 9.5 x 12 (24 x 30.5 cm) Purple cloth with minor fading on bottom front. Mapplethorpe embossed in black on front and black lettering on spine. Unclipped dust jacket. First edition. 130 photographs, 45 in color from an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fine condition.

Winona Lake, Indiana: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company, 1943. Later printing. Wraps. Fine. 6-3/4 x 10" stapled pebbled peach wraps. Unpaginated, but 51 spirituals on [46] pages. But for a single drop of damp-staining on the upper wrap, fine, without flaw. Spirituals "discovered" during Rodeheaver's stint as music director for Billy Sunday's evangelical campaign (he served in that capacity from 1910 to 1930) at Columbia, S.C. in 1923, and arranged by Herbert. First issued in 1923 under the Rodeheaver Company imprint.

New York: New Directions, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Black with yellow embossed bird and lettering on spine, dj has minor rips and tears and some staining.148 pp.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Cloth. Good +. Ivan Bilibin. Cloth, pictorial gilt and color front cover and spine with gilt lettering. Twelve color illustrations by artist and designer Ivan Bilibin. 334 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Privately Printed, 1984. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Red cloth, with gilt lettering on front and spine. Number 21 of 350 numbered copies. Laid in is a brochure containing a letter from Eudora Welty praising the book as well as a bio of the author. 89 pp.

New York: General Chemical Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Boards. Good. Cream-colored boards with blue and gold design on front and back cover, spine is blank, some wear to edges of top, bottom, and side covers. 6-1/2" x 8-1/4" (16 cm x 20-1/2 cm). Front endpapers have tinted photographs of famous restaurants and hotels, rear endpapers have tinted photographs of the Ryzon plant. Front and rear pastedown endpapers have scraps of tape. Binding is a little loose. Colored illustrations of food throughout. 81 pp.