Search Results: Titles starting with R from DuBois Rare Books

Portland: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co, 1989. First Edition, First Printing with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 139 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Folio.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 467 pages ; 22 x 15 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original rust colored cloth over boards, lettering in gilt and silver to spine and front cover, kind of a wine colored topstain, rose maybe. Book Condition: lettering bright, binding sound, interior feels unread, both spine ends pushed, the slightest toning to upper edge of boards, fore edge a little dusty, else fine with a brilliant and unmarred top stain. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, a crinkle or two visible on the black areas with a small divot (replaced) to upper panel; some faint toning to the white areas (lower panel); price intact and on the whole a very frisky looking presentation of unfaded rainbows all round. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. 407 pages ; 21 x 14 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red colored cloth over boards, lettering in gilt and silver to spine and front cover, teal colored topstain. Book Condition: lettering bright, binding sound, interior feels unread, spine ends gently pushed, else fine with a brilliant and unmarred top stain. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities, nicks and natters along the edges but minimal and unobtrusive, very bright, unfaded and fresh just like one looks for; this is upset by a gouge to the front panel, top edge, closed tear and middish size chip with loss of 3/4" x 1" surface color. The photograph tells all though, and this flaw in an otherwise sharp looking jacket either puts you of or it does not. Price intact, flaps all lovely.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Lacking. 148pp. 19cm. 12mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth over boards. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine.

Chicago: Rand McNally and Co, 1958. Leather_bound. Near Fine/None Issued. xxxi, 202 pages, 174 A : illustrations (some color) maps (some color) ; 37 cm. Folio. Full burgundy leather bound, gilt edges, gilt lettering and decorations to spine and front cover. Inscribed in gilt to the front cover with the full name of the recipient of this deluxe version of this 1958 atlas, Irving A.J Lawres, a New York lawyer of some note. Book Condition: Covers show mild wear to extremities, primarily at the spine ends. The interior atlas proper is bright and unmarred. No dust jacket issued with this deluxe limited edition; a very sharp copy.

New York: H.N. Abrams, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm.

New York: Charles Magnus, 1853. First Edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. Lithographed bird's eye view of Milwaukee, Wisconsin circa 1853. Image Measurements: 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Printed on single sheet folded once lengthwise to create 4 page lettersheet measuring 9" x 11 1/4". Condition: very small nics and tears to extreme edges, light toning, else fine. These Magnus views of various cities of the United States on lettersheets are increasingly rare. Executed with extraordinary care and detail they reward careful examination with a good glass, so you can find the tiny horses with riders, the barges on the canal, and all the teeny tiny ladies strolling with their long skirts and parasols. Really lovely stuff. Charles Magnus, [1826-1900], was a print publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer working in New York City from 1850 to 1899 who issued over a thousand different letter sheets, maps, song sheets, envelopes, and separate prints. Lithography executed by G. G. Lange of Darmstadt, Germany.… Read More

New York: Charles Magnus, 1853. First Edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. Lithographed bird's eye view of Rochester, New York circa 1853. Image Measurements: 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Printed on single sheet folded once lengthwise to create 4 page lettersheet measuring 9" x 10 3/4". Condition: very small nics and tears to extreme edges, light toning, else fine. These Magnus views of various cities of the United States on lettersheets are increasingly rare. Executed with extraordinary care and detail they reward careful examination with a good glass, so you can find the tiny horses with riders, the barges on the canal, and all the teeny tiny ladies strolling with their long skirts and parasols. Really lovely stuff. Charles Magnus, [1826-1900], was a print publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer working in New York City from 1850 to 1899 who issued over a thousand different letter sheets, maps, song sheets, envelopes, and separate prints. Lithography executed by G. G. Lange of Darmstadt, Germany.… Read More

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1994. First printing of the first English language edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 157pp. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. Salmon colored endpapers. The author is the real deal, a poet, a journalist and a member of the Polish literati.

New York: Harpercollins, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 282pp. 25cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards, lettering to spine. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A sharp copy. Standiford's third book.

Berlin: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 2006. Limited Edition of 1000 (unnumbered). About Fine. 60 pp. Gatefold Wraps. Published on the ocassion of the opening of the Exhibition "RAY SMITH: New Works" in Berlin. Lavishly illustrated. Color plates on quality paper. Book Condition: About Fine. Stated Limited Edition of 1000.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound glossy photo-illustrated wraps. Book Conditions: very light signs of handling else fine, interior bright and unmarked. Contents: Fantasy and showing too much -- Theoretical fantasizing -- The politics of cinematic fantasy -- Early explorations of fantasy -- The coldness of Kubrick -- Spike Lee's fantasmatic explostions -- Michael Mann and the ethics of excess -- The bankruptcy of fantasy in Fellini -- Desire and not showing enough -- Theoretical desiring -- The politics of cinematic desire -- The impossible object of the Nouvelle Vague -- The banality of Orson Welles -- Claire Denis and the other's failure to enjoy -- Political desire in Italian neorealism -- The intermixing of desire and fantasy -- The theoretical opposition -- The politics of the cinema of integration -- The ordinary cinema of Ron Howard -- Steven Spielberg's search for the father --… Read More

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps. Fine. 207 pp. 8to. Copiously illustrated. With an introductary essay by Todd Alden.

Washington: Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. 12 p. 24 cm. Stapled wraps. Signed by Bellow on front cover. Mild creasing to upper corner of front cover with some finger soiling along spine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing so stated with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 384pp. Hardcover. Quarterbound red cloth and tan paper over boards, silver gilt lettering stamped on spine. Book Condition: Nr. Fine. Very slight bump to top and even more slight to bottom of backstrip. Otherwise fine; devoid of markings and apparently unread. Nice square tips and clean edges. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good+. Minimal rubbing and most infiniteisimal bit of bump to the top of jacket at the spine and 3/4's in, more a crinkle than a full-on bump. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (black ballpoint pen) w/ printed name crossed out as usual.

New York: Atheneum, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 259 pp. Octavo. Hardcover. Quarter bound cloth and paper over boards. Book Condition: Fine. Binding tight and square, corners sharp, text unmarked and apparently unread, edges clean and white. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Top front tip shows the tiniest bit of wear else Fine. Colors bright and fresh, tips sharp, extremities book store keen. Signed by author.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slim 8vo. 211pp. Brown cloth and yellow paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. Book condition: about Fine. A small mouse bite to the edge of the front board (shown) else fine with tight binding, clean edges and unread text. Dust Jacket condition: Same mouse bite (front flap for the DJ) with a bit of wear at spine ends and a bit of soiling on the spine, very slight. Otherwise this is a bright, tight book in a bright, beautiful DJ. Correct price of $22.00 is intact. Seamus Heaney was the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book is a collection of essays based on lectures he delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

London: Bantam Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 304pp. Octavo.

Madrid: en la imprenta de Manuel Gonzalez, 1792. First Spanish translation from the French edition of 1786. Full Tree Calf. Very Good at least. 114 pp. (frontispiece, [vi] 1-21, plates # 1-44, pp 22-42, plates # 1-21.) * [The "Apéndice" follows after page 21 with a new title page, page numbers run continuously but plate numbers reset.] 29 cm. Small folio. Later binding in full tree calf with five raised bands decorated in gilt to spine; black Morocco spine label with title in gilt. End papers in heavy marbled stock. Binding and covers in near fine condition, with a superficial scuffing and mild wear at the tips. Small tide mark (affecting 2-3% area of engraving's upper left quadrant) for the first 15 plates, growing more faint on each plate until it disappears entirely. Sporadic light foxing throughout, two leaves with closed tears, PO signature w/ date in fine contemporary hand to blank verso of last plate. In Spanish. A lovely copy. Antiquarian. A seminal work of architectural first principles.… Read More