Search Results: Titles starting with R from Rulon-Miller Books

London & New York: Oxford Univ. Press, printed for the author at Buffalo, N.Y., 1929. First edition limited to 500 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, spines of dust-jackets partially perished, else a very good set in original blue cloth lettered in gilt, of an important and beautifully printed catalogue, with numerous facsimiles, plates, portraits, etc. A fourth, supplemental volume consisting primarily of mss. material was issued the following year.

London & New York: Oxford Univ. Press, printed for the author at Buffalo, N.Y., 1929. First edition limited to 500 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, spines of dust jackets toned, the back panel of the jacket on vol. I with small piece (3" x 2") torn away (no loss of any letterpress); else near fine set in original blue cloth lettered in gilt; original brown cloth slipcase. An important and beautifully printed catalogue, with numerous facsimiles, plates, portraits, etc. A fourth, supplemental volume consisting primarily of manuscript material was issued the following year.

Providence: William A. Mowry, publisher, no. 9 Washington Buildings, 1858. Volume IV, no. IV (June), volume IV, no. VI (August), and volume V, no. II (February), each approx. 50 pages, each with adverts at the back offering books and educational supplies; all near fine in original printed gray, tan, and terracotta wrappers, each bearing a wood-engraved vignette of the Narragansetts greeting Roger Williams. Among the contributors are S. S. Greene, J. B. Angell, and Daniel Goodwin. William Augustus Mowry (1829-1917) studied at Brown University 1854-57, from which he received an honorary Master of Arts in 1866. He also served as Superintendent of Schools in Salem, Massachusetts. For many years he was engaged in educational work in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Begun in March, 1855, The R. I. Schoolmaster united with other journals in January 1875 to form the New England Journal of Education, later the Journal of Education (Boston) of which Mowry was also editor.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [2], 385; fine copy in a slightly worn jacket and with a small abrasion in the upper right corner of the front panel.

London: Oxford University Press, 1956. First British edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [2], 385; fine copy in the jacket.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1962. 4to, pp. xiv, [4] leaves of plates, 15, [1] facsimles; decorative boards over linen spine gilt-stamp paper spine label; white protective dustjacket (slightly soiled); this edition limited to 475 copies and printed at the Grabhorn Press. Very good.

[Great Britain]: Cunard White Star, 1934. Oblong 8vo, unpaged; chiefly color and black and white illustrations, some photographic; decorative borders in yellow and silver; original tan staplebound decorative wrappers stamped in red and gilt; "Ships--Queen Mary" in ink at top of upper cover, withdrawn rubberstamp on p. [1]; very good. Promotional brochure for the iconic ship, which was still in preparation as of its publication: "The rooms will be perfectly satisfying to the most cosmopolitan conceptions of culture and good taste, at the same time retaining the atmosphere of restfulness and comfort associated with the most dignified English country homes."

Coloniae Agrippinae: Henricum Falckenburg, 1595. Small 8vo, pp. [16], 391, [7]; printer's woodcut device on title page; collating: )(^8 A-2B^8 (-2B8), lacking the final blank; 19th-century pastepaper boards backed and tipped in parchment, brown leather label on spine; some occasional worming in the bottom blank gutter of gatherings M-P, and entering the text at the top of the last dozen leaves; clean tear in Q3 (no loss), R7 with témoin; good and sound. Engraved bookplate of Josephi Mariae Parascandolo. Adams; F-397; not in BM STC German.

[San Francisco: Headquarters, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam], 1969. 12mo, pp. ix, 98; illustrations, tables, and diagrams throughout, printed from typescript; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center and Australian War Memorial only 2 copies in OCLC.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a dust jacket with a tiny break at the top of the spine. From the library of Kim Merker. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson.

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine, in black cloth-backed brown paper-covered boards, printed red labels on spine and upper cover; fine. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy with a special presentation card tipped-in at the half-title page, presenting this copy to Kim Merker on the occasion of the March 16, 1994 meeting of the Caxton Club "with special appreciation for your life-long devotion to the book and your important contribution to fine printing from members and guests whose signatures appear below." The flyleaves and endsheets contain about 75 signatures, including those of Bob Karrow, Edward Quattrocchi, Frank Williams, Gwin Kolb, and a host of other eminent and not-so-eminent Caxtonians. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. This copy with 4-p. prospectus laid in. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke, Carolyn Reading Hammer, Gordon Williams, R. Russell Maylone, and Rhodes Patterson.

[Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, the private press of Leonard Bahr, 1970. Approximately 300 copies of this answer to the impulse to print have been made at Adagio," small 12mo (approx. 7" x 3¾"), pp. 15, [1]; printed in red and black; fine copy in original printed brown wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Co, 1856. First edition, imp. 8vo, pp. xiv-[xvi], 544; frontis. and additional engraved title page included in pagination, illustrations throughout text; pages slightly browned, front endpaper soiled, lower corners chipped away, upper corners rubbed, small cracks in joints, top of spine chipped, else good in original brown cloth, gilt on spine. Poets include Thomson, Cowper, Pope, Gray, Byron, Crabbe and more. Ex-MHS.

Uppsala: Uppsala University, Dept. of Linguistics, 1972. First edition of the first publication of the department, folio, pp. [6], plus 87 leaves printed from typescript; tear at the bottom of the spine, else near fine in original white printed wrappers.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1902. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. [4], 50-[52]; decorative title-page printed in red and black, rubricated throughout; very good in orig. red cloth, gilt-titled spine, decorative gilt front cover, t.e.g, some light wear. Smith 120. Another copy, in variant binding without gilt titling on spine, $25.

Concord, Mass: Will Bradley at the Sign of the Vine, n.d. [ca., 1902. Slim, small 12mo, pp. [20]; printed in red and black, decorative title page and page borders; fine copy in original gray paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. "During the first years of the new century ... Bradley issued several small volumes from the Sign of the Vine at Concord, printed for him by Heintzemann of Boston. They are in plain paper boards with printed labels on the front ... Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra is a hybrid. It has modern type with large red initials and running heads with type ornaments. The hand-lettered title page is, however, Art Nouveau in feeling, with a repeated woodcut rose motif" (Thompson, American Book Design and William Morris, p. 124; see also plate 63).

New York: Knopf, 1990. First trade edition, 8vo., fine in jacket.