Search Results: Titles starting with R from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Ottawa. Published by R.L. Crain Inc. 1985. 27.5cm, 72p., appendix, illustrations from photographs, black wraps, very good to fine. (On).

Harrisburg. The Military Service Publishing Co. Hardcover. 1940. tall8vo. 24.5cm, sixth edition (revised), many illustrations, maps, diagrams, colour folding plate of insignia, brown cloth, spine titles faded, board wear, internally very good (s7.6) A textbook prepared for the use of college students in a four years' course of military training with the object to qualify selected students for commissions as reserve officers in the United States Army.

Knoxville. The University of Tennessee Press. 1975. 25.5cm, xxii,118p. with frontis, 22 plates, 2 text illustrations, a Catalogue of Illustrations containing c120 illustrations, chronology, exhibitions, index, beige cloth, gilt titles, a fine copy in illustrated jacket. (agc).

Montreal. RCA Victor Company Limited. Ca. 1941. 27.5cm, 272p., diagrams and illustrations, wine fabrikoid with black titles, faint damp stain on upper board, continues through first few pages, otherwise a very good to fine clean copy. (gr).

Vancouver and London. The University of British Columbia Press. 1982, 1982. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 23cm, xxx,373p., with 12 maps, 105 plates and illustrations, 2 charts, blue cloth, fine in fine jacket (s8). - Surveys the history of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Paris. Editions Jean Budrey & Cie. 1927. crown folio, 50.5x 33cm, (19.5"x 13"),36 text pages & 137 mounted toned photographic plate illustrations, limited edition 1120 sets, this is #416, loose in tied folio cloth backed burgundy cloth marbled boards binding, text paper is slightly toned, faint dust shadow on some fore edges on the paper, a fine set considering its production, rare thus the images are fine clear strikes.(mt). Notre-Dame de Reims, UNESCO World Heritage Site, thought to have been founded in the 5th century, the present building is dated from the 13th century. The Cathedral and town, suffered extensive damage during WW1. The portfolio documents devastation and restoration.

London: Bickers and Son. 1878, 1878. Hardcover. Folio. 34.5cm, xi,373p., with 60 full page plates illustrations with tissue guards and 365 illustrations from wood engravings, In the original elaborately decorated green cloth, black and gilt stamped borders, decorations, block titles and pictorial illustrations on the spine and upper cover, bevelled boards, some early and late slight foxed, expertly restored, a fine copy (tgc).

London. Champman and Hall. 1872, 1872. folio, 34.5cm, 552p., with 340 wood-engraved plates and illustrations, disbound, except of the bottom margins on the last few leaves internally near fine (breaker). As is . (bkds).

Brooklyn, New York. Richard Lebenson and Kathleen Creighton. 1989. Soft cover. 21.5cm, 279, (21)pp., over 800 illustrations including extensive colour, indexes, illustrated glazed stiff wraps, fine (art). ~ The work of 230 artists, illustrators, designers and photographers throughout the United States are featured.

London & Edinburgh. T.N. Foulis. [Nd -1910?]. Hardcover. 16mo. 17cm, 47[1]p., ad., with 6 tipped-in colour plates, light grey cloth, gilt spine and cover titles with colour illustration laid done on the cover, very good to fine copy (gar) ~ First title of a series of dog stories by an Edinburgh physician and featuring "Rab and his Friends". Delightfully illustrated from watercolours.

London. Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1929. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. 24.5x 18.5cm, first English edition, 285p., with 26 illustrations, beige linen, maroon morocco spine label, gilt title, fine in dust worn jacket (s1) The present volume constitutes the first English edition of the lectures delivered by Anatole France at Buenos Aires in 1909. These lectures were first published in French in 1928, and formed the seventeenth volume of the complete illustrated edition of the works of Anatole France issued by Calmann-Levy.

New York. Coward-McCann, Inc. 1940. oblong tall8vo, 17x 25cm, the First Edition, [42]p., half title, title-page and each page & endpapers illustrated in black and one colour (green), in colour illustrated paper over boards, some slight wear on the edges else a very good to fine copy, Rare, no copies located on line. (Ho1.1). ~ Kurt Wiese (1887-1974), was an award-winning German-born book illustrator, who moved to American in 1927 , his first critical success began with the illustrations for Felix Salten's Bambi in 1928. He wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300. This is the story of rabbit's revenge On Old Man Shivers' who plans to make a coat out of rabbits' fur. A delightful book both in story and illustrations.

London. Oxford University Press. 1959. Hardcover. 18.5cm, 175p., orange cloth with silver titles, a very good copy. (Atl).

New York. Henry Holt and Company. 1960. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21cm, first edition, xv,240p. with 14 portraits and illustrations, mapped endpapers, some slight foxing on the binding else a fine copy in frayed tired jacket.

New York. Dix, Edwards & Co. 1856, 1856. Hardcover. 12mo, 18cm, 2nd edition, xiv,404p., original green blind stamped decorated cloth, spine sunned & chipped across the top one inch include some title stamping loss, dark library number on the spine, the boards and interior are fine, a good to very good working copy (tds). Sabin 4210. The travels through New York, Boston, Philadelphia , Florida and Cuba in 1856 of the great French actress, Rachel Felix. Written in a humorous vein, the author intended the writings to be published in the French daily "Le Figaro

Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. 1982. Soft cover. 4to. 28cm, xiv,136p., 22 figures, 19 tables, bibliography, appendices, printed stiff wraps, fine (ds7). A Diamond Jenness memorial volume. A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba.

Washington, D. C. Railway Accounting Officers Association. 1926. Hardcover. 23.5cm, 885p., bibliography, index, ex-library stamps on endpapers, original brown cloth with gilt titles, a very good copy (eds).

London. Printed by Truscott, Son, & Simmons. 1866, 1866. Soft cover. 8vo, 21cm, ii,92p., charts, quarter cloth backed blue printed wraps, wraps quite dust worn, good to very good, rare (Tds). - With 2 pages of exceptions to the 1866 classification by the North Eastern Railway. The book also includes a list of stations throughout Britain and a table showing the British railway lines with maximum dimensions of a carriage or waggon load.

Vancouver. Centre for Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia. 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 23.5cm, xii,344p., appendices, brown cloth, fine (s10.11) A study of the results of the 1967 enacting of the National Transportation Act by the Parliament of Canada whereby the Canadian railways were freed of restrictive regulation of their pricing.

Cambridge. W. Metcalfe and Son. c.[1890]'s, 1890. Soft cover. 12mo. 16.5cm, 7th edition, viii,iv,152pp., around text engravings, advertisements, colour illustrated stiff wraps, city plan on rear cover, spine chipped along fore-edge, very good to fine (Tds). - Primarily a guide to the seventeen colleges comprising Cambridge University.