Search Results: Titles starting with R from Black Paw Books

Hyannis Port: Richard A. Bourne Company, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Catalog presents 987 lots with black & white photos throughout. Quarto, unpaginated. In wraps. From private collection. Sticker scuff, small nick to bottom of front wrap and edge curls up slightly. Pages remain clean and unmarked. Includes prices realized list.

Privately Printed for the Followers of Robert E Howard, 2005. Softcover. Very Good+. No. 133 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Quarto, 36 pp. Illustrated. In stapled wraps.

London: Printed for Randal Taylor and John Williams, junior, at the Crown and in Cross-Keys Court in Little Britain, 1673. Very Good. Disbound from volume. "1678" written in ink at the bottom of title page, but research indicated publication was printed in 1673, 8vo (19 cm tall x 15.5 cm wide). [2], 38 pp. From private collection of historian Frederick A. Hagar. Edges of leaves show a little chipping and wear. Ink drawing of pointing hand in margin of third page.

Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume in the official history of the Medical Department of the US Army in World War II. Work presents a detailed history of the use of x-rays in military medicine during the Second World War, with contributions on radiology and the development of the atomic bomb. Heavy book. Octavo (26 cm), xliii, 1087 pp. Maroon cloth binding. From private collection. No ownership ink. Clean copy.

Privately Printed, n.d.. Softcover. Paperback. Fine. Volume I: South & West. Self published work (no publication date). Book is in beautiful condition. Pages remain clean and unmarkes. Wraps show no noticeable wear.

Asia Publishing House, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon biography of one of the founders of Bengali socio-religious reform movement. The First Phase, Volume 1. Octavo, pp. 328. Burgundy cloth. Cloth is faded along spine. Binding is a bit limp. No dust jacket, if issued.

London: The Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Councils, 1970. Softcover. Very Good. A lecture to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Ramón Menéndez Pidal in 1869." Octavo, 30 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps are lightly agetoned and show a minor sticker scuff.

Raynor Inventory Mangement Service Publications, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine. Historically accurate reference guide for the Confederate enthusiast, with complete autographic and holographic exemplars of the leading Confederate Commanders both civilian and military. Each with detailed military biography accompanied by period photograph. Biographies for service with the Confederate States of America include dates of promotion, participation in key battles, casualty records and more. This reference book also provides the collector with autograph collector lists that will assist the Confederate autograph enthusiast to better define their unique collecting interest." Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. Limited edition (no. 32 of a limited edition of 100 copies). Quarto (11" tall), 260 pp. Leatherette binding with decorative gilt-stamping to upper board. From private collection. Clean, unmarked copy. No dust jacket (presumed as issued).

Macmillan, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Scholarly work examines the progress and nature of the English Civil War in the 1640s. Octavo. 257 pp. Gray cloth binding. Prev owner's name printed on ffep and blind stamp on title page. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In clean dust jacket.

Softcover. Very Good+. Back by popular demand, Doyle has again been stirred by the Omniscient One - this time to confront Devlin who's scheming to murder the kind rector who had taken him in seven years earlier, so that he can assume autonomy over all church matters and funds. Does Doyle arrive in time to save the rector? Who are the survivors, and does Devlin again squirm free? In this epic novel, the sailboat is ultimately returned to Ireland, and two new clairvoyants emerge. Eventually, it becomes apparent that anyone who's traveled in the vessel seems affected in some profound way. But that realization isn't gained until the sailboat is navigated all the way to the Indian coast, where it's abandoned so that its operator can reach a treasured destination. Is that same operator Haimish Devlin? Does he reach his destination, and what becomes of the people he encounters? Those who have yet to read Naked Brunette needn't worry because the short story "Beware Father Time" has been incorporated into The… Read More

Borthwick Institute Publications, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, 27 pp. Stapled wraps. From private collection of Boston-area historian. Name stamped inside book. Booklet's pages remain clean and unmarked.

Yale University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In this book Sharpe charts the reading of one seventeenth-century gentleman, using a spectacular archive (Huntington Library CA, Folger Library DC, London University) of 50 volumes of his reading notes from the 1620s to the 1660s; the book investigates how through his negotiations with books he came to 'fashion' himself socially and politically. In doing so he advocates the need for a broader understanding of 'political thought' and civil identity, calling for interdisciplinary study and closer correlation between theory and archival scholarship." Octavo, 358 pp. Black cloth. From private collection of Boston-area academic. Bookplate on front pastedown, else Fine. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In handsome dust jacket.

Chanakya Publications, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Select articles by Shore critical of British rule, first published in the India Gazette in the early 1800s. Shore's writings were controversial in their time and largely ignored by his contemporaries. Octavo, 304 pp. Black cloth. Indian imprint. From private collection. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In clean dust jacket.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1910. Hardcover. Fair. Memoirs of Indiana author who published a popular account of his time in the Confederate Army in the Atlantic Monthly. Octavo, viii, 354 pp. Burgundy cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Gift inscription to earlier owners on ffep. Several pages show penciled check-marks and marginalia in Donald's hand. Back hinge cracked; front hinge starting. All said, a serviceable reference copy.

Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Self-published work. Octavo, 81 pp. Black cloth binding. Author's memories of a childhood spent in Chiltonville (Plymouth), Roxbury, and Beverly. Scarce.

Paris: Bureaux de l'Administration du Recueil, 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. Two-volume set (1831 and 1832). French language. Quarto. Quarter-bound in leather with marbled paper boards. From private collection. Leather scuffed and worn. Light wear to corners and edges of boards. Pages remain clean and unmarked; bindings, tight.

Geneva: Successeurs Bonnant, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. Octavo, 428 pp. Quarter-bound leather over marbled paper-covered boards. From private collection. Printers error in pagination following gathering 19 (with no loss of text). Boards show some rubbing. Minor foxing, mostly limited to edges of book block and endpapers.

Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 255. In stiff wraps. Clean, unmarked copy.

Orient Longmans, 1970. Hardcover. Good+. Overview and history of India's civil services, with chapters on recruitment and training, organization, discipline, and suggested remedies. From the collection of Frederick A. Hagar. Octavo, 344 pp. Gray cloth binding. Cover shows some soiling from shelf wear. Prev. owner's name on ffep. Faint spotting to edges of book block. Pages remain clean and unmarked (no underlining); binding, square and tight.

Latimer House, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Memoirs and thoughts of Anglican Christian bishop and author. Octavo, 96 pp. Blue cloth binding. From the Frederick A. Hagar collection. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. No dust jacket, if issued. Scarce.