Search Results: Titles starting with R from Quaker Hill Books

Washington, D.C.,: Governtment Printing Office,, 1882. 174pp., Later, military style tan cloth with red and black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Very light soiling to covers, contents exceptionally clean. Compiled from official reports depicting some of the fiercest battles during the war to win the West. Graff 3753; Howes S395.. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Excellent. 8vo..

The true First Edition published on 18 April 1944. An unnumbered copy of 750 copies SIGNED on the limitation page by the author. The Razor's Edge, by British novelist W. Somerset Maugham, was published in London and New York in 1944. Maugham was seventy years old when the book was published, and it was to be the last of his major novels. The Razor's Edge was an immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic. More than one million copies were sold within a few years. A beautiful copy showing only some light rubbing to spine and leather spine label. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 99653

New York: Warner, 1960. Review copy of the first trade edition. INSCRIBED BY NIXON TO ROBERT BORK on the official bookplate tipped in the title page. Jacket shows some very slight darkening to top edge. Otherwise this is a fine copy with a wonderful association between Nixon and his former Solicitor General, Bork who fired Archibald Cox initiating the "Saturday night massacre" during the Watergate scandal.. First Edition Inscribed. Red Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

BostonBoston: J.P. Mendum, Cornhill, 1854 Orig. Brown Cloth. Good +. First Edition. Small 8vo. Covers rubbed and worn at the edges. Corners bumped, tiny chip to front cover and to top and bottom of spine. 171 pp. text in excellent condition. Book is tight and stable. This is one of if not the very first anti-religious treatises published in America. Col. Allen died in 1789 and this fascinating work was published posthumously. Very Rare indeed..

New York:: Knopf., 1952. First American edition. black cloth. Near fine., Illustrated 8vo., The pictorial dust wrapper is also in near fine condition and is not price-clipped. Former owner's signature in green ink on the top right corner of ffep. Rebellion of the Hanged, the 5th of B. Traven's 6 Jungle Novels, is full of emotion. This is a story of Indians in southern Mexico confronting an exhausting oppression and then crossing the bridge to rebellion. Set in the time of the Mexican Revolution the novel addresses the struggles in their individual lives as Native American mohagany workers revolt against the owners of the camps in a march through the jungle during a horrible rainy season.. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

Peake & Co. Washington, 1895. First Edition. Orig. wraps. Good. 24mo., Covers worn, reattached with tape, frontis reattached, minor stains and a few pages chipped slightly..

New YorkNew York: Viking Press, 1945 Fine. First. edition. Beige cloth. Excellent. Color illustrations. Tall 8vo., Presentation copy inscribed and signed in full by Steinbeck. First illustrated and First Seperate Trade Edition. In pristine condition in the primary binding..

New YorkNew York: Putnam, 1864 1/4 Leather Backed Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 2 Volumes. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Lyrics of Loyalty; Songs of the Soldiers; Sabin 50359;50379..

Boston:: Wright & Potter,, 1899. vii. 186pp.; Portrait frontispiece. An interesting personal narrative of service with the 19th Massachusetts which saw a lot of action in the Eastern theater of the war includes the harrowing story of Adams capture at Cold Harbor. Original blue cloth stamped in gold lettering. Some minor shelf wear and light soiling otherwise an excellent copy.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Excellent. 8vo..

New York:: Scribner & Welford., 1889. 4 woodcuts, 20 etched plates, Beautifully bound in 3/4 dark blue crushed morocco elaborately tooled in gold, raised spines.This is a limited edition - 1 of 870.. Limited Edition. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 2 Volumes..

US Gov't. Washington, 1872. First edition. brown cloth. Moderately rubbed - Very good. 8vo..

Washington, D.C.,: Senate Document 243., 1843. Large folding map and six plates all in fine condition. Some pages lightly foxed otherwise an excellent copy. Howes F371; Sabin 25843.. First Edition. Recent Green Morocco Gilt. Excellent. 8vo..

Govt.Prining Office. Washington: 1863. First Edition Orig. cloth. Excellent. 8vo., 3 volumes., First set in series of eight volumes..

PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia: , 1841 Stiched Wrappers. Very Good/Self-wrappers. First Edition. A fascinating report on juvenile delinquency amongst both white and black youth in Philadelphia. The statistics showed that many more blacks were being arrested than whites and it stated that "criminal law is administered much more rigidly on one class than the other"..

London:: W.Rawlins, S.Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge., 1683. Engraved frontispiece in Volume I. Three folio volumes the first part dated 1685, parts II and III dated 1683. Bindings show wear and soiling but still quite strong. Contents show some very light soiling and foxing. Overall a very good set of this classic work on early English law covering the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James and King Charles.. 1/2 Comtemporay Calf. Very Good. Folio. 3 Volumes.

New York:: Random House,, 1951. Limited Edition of 750 copies, this is No. 161. SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY WILLIAM FAULKNER. Glassine jacket over cloth marbled boards,black cloth spine and corners, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. An immaculate copy - fresh, clean and strong with Faulkner's signature on the limitation page.. First Edition Limited. Fine. 8vo..

London:: W. Innys, R. Manby et al.,, 1738. 1/2 title and title page followed by "The Life of Hugo Grotius"; xxxvi, 817pp.. Grotius’s Rights of War and Peace is a classic of modern public international law which lays the foundation for a universal code of law and which strongly defends the rights of individual agents - states as well as private persons - to use their power to secure themselves and their property. Rebound in modern tan cloth with the spine ruled in gilt; two leather spine labels in gilt. A beautiful copy clean, bright and sound. Lowndes and other scholars consider this the best early edition in English of Grotius' masterpiece. Ter Meulen & Diermanse 635; Graesse III, 162; Lowndes II, 950. Modern Cloth. Excellent. Folio.

Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York, 1923. First edition Blue cloth. Excellent. Drawings. 8vo..

Cleveland, Ohio:, 1872. [12], [7], 237pp. Includes 18 illustrations eleven of them being albumen photographs. Fogg's highly interesting and harrowing account of his journey around the world. This account is taken directly from the dispatches the dispatches he sent the Cleveland Leader newspaper. The text is rendered in newspaper column format retaining the original datelines. Bound in the original 3/4 brown morocco with a world globe rendered in gilt on the front board. The spine has raised bands in 5 compartments with gilt lettering; brown endpapers. A beautiful copy showing some wear to the corners. The contents are clean and the photographs in beautiful condition showing only some creasing to the pages and include: the expedition personnel; a portrait of Brigham Young; a large Buddha; two oriental women; Japanese woman and child; the Kotub Minar; a view of the Nile; the Viceroy's palace at Alexandria; and the Great Pyramid.. Excellent. 8vo..

Chapman & Hall. London, 1873. 3/4 calf. Moderately rubbed and scuffed, small tear to page in vol 1. 8vo., 4 vol., 3/4 polished tan calf, spines gold tooled with black labels, marbled edges. A lovely set..