Search Results: Titles starting with R from Brillig Books

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1980. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, beige cloth covered boards. 187 pp. Generously illustrated throughout with line drawings, black and white and color illustrations and reproductioins of magazine and book covers and illustrations. Introduction by Maurice Sendak. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright and unmarked volume in a crisp, tight, clean dust jacket with light crimp/crease at top forecorner, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

London: Edwin Arnold, 1916 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth covered boards. 194pp. including index, plus ads. A tight, sound copy. Ex-library with the usual marks but no card pocket. Spine top lightly frayed and offsetting to frontispiece from tissue guard. About very good..

San Francisco, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1989. Book. Illus. by Aaron Siskind. As New. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Smal square quarto, (9.5" X 9.%"), black and grey photo-illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). Unpaginated. One page preface by Editor David Featherstone and 5 page Introduction by Charles Traub. Followed by 41 full-page black and white plates. Square, stiff, crisp, flat, glossy, unmarked and unblemished, with a flat uncreased spine. AS NEW. Uncommon..

New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1979. Book. Illus. by Sal Buscema. Fine. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. Original color illustrated stapled wraps 31pp. The FABULOUS 1st ISSUE of this series from Marvel Comics. Story by Billl Mantlo and illustration by Sal Buscema. A fiine, fresh, flat, glossy, unblemished collector's copy. Perfect. FINE..

Poitiers, FR: La Licorne, (1998), 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated white stiff wraps (paperback). 417pp. A symposium of essays and articles exploring Racine's dramatic works through the lens of his poems. A very tight, fresh, bright, clean, square, crisp, stiff, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine..

New York: Sterling Publishing, 1986. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Quarto, black illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). 352 pp. incluiding index. Generously illustrated throughout with 9664 black and white photographs illustrating the full range of radial arm saw techniques. A very tight, clean, brigh, fresh, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE..

Boston: A.Williams, 1895. Magazine. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. 10 bound volumes in octavo, 1/2 cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt spine titles. All ten semi-annual volumes of this Transcendentalist magazine, 1866 t0 1872. Includes articles and poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Matthew Arnold and Amos Bronson Alcott, inter alia. A very well preserved complete run of this short-lived religious and philosophical magazine. Very gently ex-library, with almost no interior markings and no exterior markings at all. All volumes, tight, complete, unmarked and unblemished with clean bright interiors and exteriors marred only by some abrasions to some of the gilt title labels on spine and occasional very minimal edge rubbing. (Short closed tear on title page of first volume near middle of hinge). Very good plus. A very attractive set and SCARCE COMPLETE RUN..

NY: Coward-McCann, (1946). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Thick octavo, blue cloth covered boards with white decoration of train. 430pp. including extensive index. Very generously illustrated throughout with numerous black and white photographs of engines, locomotives, locomotive interiors, passenger trains, freight trains,interiors and every detail of railroad operation. Fine in dust jacket with slightly frayed spine top and one closed edge tear to rear top edge. A fine, very tight, fresh and clean volume in a very good plus or better dust jacket..

Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth spine over charcoal grey cloth covered boards. 142pp. including index. Facsimile invitation card to the Librarians Convention of 1876 laid in. A very tight, very fresh and unread copy without dust jacket as issued. Fine..

New York: Cooper Square Publisherws, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo (6 7/8" x 5 1/4"). Olive green cloth covered boards with black title and spine titles. 178 pp. including Index of Proper Names. An unusual medieval epic in the form of a "chanson de geste", which tells the story of a minor noble rather than other poems of the form which deal with famous or legendary figures. This copy is very tight and sound with fresh cloth and clean, bright white, unmarred interior pages. No defects whatsoever but for a faint stamped number in the upper forecorner of the ffep, else fine. Very near fine. A very attractive copy..

New York.: Schirmer Books, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition, first printing. Quarto photo-illustrated stiff wraps. 339pp. including extensive index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of the leading performers of Rap. An exhaustive, comprehensive alphabetical listing, with short biographies of each Rap performer(s) and photographs of leading artists. A very tight, bright, fresh, clean copy with very tiny rubbing at forecorners and a very slight sign of stain at the extreme lower edge of the last six pages of index. Near fine. Uncommon..

Chicago: American Library Association, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Octavo, tan printed stiff wraps (paperback). 128pp. including selected bibliography. A very tight, square, unmarked volume with flat uncreased spine. Minor bump to top of spine, a couple of very minor touches of soil, else fine. Very good plus to near fine..

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black paper covered boards with gilt spine title. Pages untrimmed. 242 pp. including chapter notes. A fascinating contemporary history of American urban zoology and anthropology describing the symbiotic relationship of mans oldest and most persistent vermin. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling, very tight dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pristine. BRAND NEW..

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978., 1978. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards. 157pp. with extensive notes and index. A critical review of the Isherwood, Auden, Spender constellation which came up in the thirties in England. Fine in a fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1990. Book. As New. Soft cover. Octavo, burgundy red stiff wraps (trade paperback). 384 pp. including index and bibliography of Rorty's works. A collection of essays on Rorty by such leading philosophers as Quine, Taylor, Yolton, Davidson, Hollis, Malachowski et al. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, glossy, stiff, square, crisp, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. AS NEW..

Yellow Springs, OH:: Antioch Press, 1928. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards with gilt title and spine title. 130pp. plus index glossary and notes. After the 15pp. of introduction the text is all excerpts IN LATIN of key texts for the study of the elements and structures of Roman Law. A very handy anthology for an introduction and basic reference. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume. No defects. Fine..

Westport, CT: Arlington House, (1981). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, red cloth covered boards. 240pp. including index. Also includes a very humorous appendix highlighting some of the anomalies of the history of the award including the leading multiple nominees who never won and why. A witty history and period piece holding The Academy's feet to the fire. A fresh, tight and pristine copy in a dust jacket with minor edgewear and a couple of very short closed edge tears. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1987). Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printing. Octavo, grey glazed paper covered boards. 568pp. including index. An introductory design methods text for industry standard microcomputer boards ahnd high level programming languages. A very tight, fresh, clean, bright, unmarked and apparently unread volume in a crisp, bright, sharp, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1974. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Small folio, illustrated stiff wraps. Approx. 12 pages of text followed by 88 color and black and white plates plus notes on the plates. Catalogue of an exhibition of still life and trompe l'oeil paintings. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Minor rubbing. Near fine..

Berkeley, CA: Shared Living Resource Center, 1994. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue stiff wraps. 406 pp. including index and glossary. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, diagrams and plans. A guide to planning for a community centered urban planning ecology in a post oil world. A clean tight, bright, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Prior owner first name on ffep and some very minor spots to top edge not affecting interior. Near fine..