Titles starting with R from TBCL The Book Collector's Library

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873., 1873 First Edition thus. A better than very good copy in illustrated wrappers. 12mo. 31 pp. A uniquely tender and much-beloved dog tale by this great friend of John Ruskin.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 First Edition. Near fine [small remainder dot on top edge] in a near fine dustwrapper. 8vo. The final volume in Updike's 'Rabbit' series.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954)., 1954 First Edition. A better than very good copy in 1/4 green over black cloth, (slight fade and wear to the heel and crown), yellow titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper with two minor chips at the crown of the spine and some fade. 8vo . 306 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954)., 1954 First Edition Signed by the author on the title-page. A near fine copy in 1/4 green over black cloth, yellow titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper with very light overall use and one discreet closed tear on the front panel. 8vo. 306 pp.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 First American Edition by the author of A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year, The Millstone, (adapted into film with Sandy Dennis) and The Needle's Eye. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black and E.M. Forster Awards, Drabble's England, eloquently provides her readers a clear view of contemporary British life. Author Margaret Atwood described The Radiant Way as 'doing for Thatcher's England what Middlemarch did for Victorian England. Enorm... more information

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New York: G.W. Carleton., 1881 First Edition of these detective short stories by the founder of the first detective agency in the United States. A good copy in green cloth showing overall use, paper somewhat darkened, gilt titles and decorations, with the Pinkerton Detective Agency motto, 'We Never Sleep' on the front board. 8vo. 364 pp. + 8 pp. of adverts. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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Ottawa: Ottawa: Oberon Press, (1975)., 1975 First Edition of this poetry collection neatly Signed by Governor General's Award winning poet Raymond Souster on the title-page. 8vo. 151 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 brown cloth over patterned paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in the printed tissue dustwrapper, as issued. Selecting poems from Go To Sleep, World, Cerberus, City Hall Street, A Local Pride et al. Whiteman A30, pp. 72.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., , 1963 Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped on the spine's Title Piece, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] Type Design, raised on the upper cover inspired by the first edition DJ's graphics. The clamshell is finished inside & out in a Deep Goldenrod Fine Cloth & Black Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of v... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., , 1963 Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped on the spine's Title Piece, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] Type Design, raised on the upper cover inspired by the first edition DJ's graphics. The clamshell is finished inside & out in a Deep Goldenrod Fine Cloth & Black Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of v... more information

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London: Heinemann, (1959)., 1959 Scarce First UK edition. 8vo. A very fine copy in fine dustwrapper with one small closed tear and a bit of surface scuffing to the spine panel. A nice copy of the uncommon English issue.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963 Unique. 8vo., pp248. The Publisher's File Copy & Only Known Copy Extant As Such. The First Edition - bound by Little Brown, the publisher, as a production sample prior to the actual production run. This copy with the dedication page present which is a curious fact in the light of the various states of the first edition assumed. This is Little Brown's file copy. Glued to the rear free-endpaper is a printed notice stating: SAMPLE Return to Manufacturing Depa... more information

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New York: Bantam, 1995 Advance Readin Copy of the first Edition, first novel. Royal 8vo., pp. 247. Red pictorial wrappers - a poorly produced, albeit limited run, this proofs shows weak ink coverage on the spine & covers & subsequent appearance of rubbing at the edges whi ch is more a matter of color loss. Best we can call it is a fine example of this weak production.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974., 1974 8vo, pp. 126. The issue in stiff silver & black wrappers of the Black Sparrow edition, published a year after the first edition. A fine copy.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. ... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986 First US Edition. Tall 8vo., pp. 371. A fine copy in dustwrapper.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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Toronto: Harper Collins, 1992 First edition of Homel's second novel. Royal 8vo., pp. 276. A very fine copy in dustwrapper.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1971 First Edition of this Dick Francis fast-paced racetrack thriller. 8vo. 214 pp. A better than very good copy in 1/4 red cloth over black paper covered boards, (publisher's default to the front board, unobtrusive faint glue ghost to the front and rear endpapers, some foxing to page edges), black titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962 First Edition. Advance Reading Copy of Raymond Chandler Speaking. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Katherine Sorley Walker. 8vo. 23 pp. A near fine copy in stiff card wrappers, as issued, some slight creasing and a touch of almost indiscernible foxing to the front cover. An evocative selection of letters by this iconic American author and creator of Philip Marlowe. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Perigree Books, 1990 First softcover edition. 8vo. Decorated stiff wrappers. A fine copy. New Philip Marlowe Stories By Twenty Three Mystery Writers Including: Paretsky, Kaminsky, Estelman, Valin, Roger Simon & Simon Brett. Fun.. 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Franklin Watts, 1985 First Edition, first impression Inscribed by the author on the title-page as Jack Early and Sandra Scoppettone. 'For Michael, best wishes, Jack Early, AKA Sandra Scoppettone.' A fine copy in 1/4 black cloth over red paper covered boards, red titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 331 pp. A handsome copy of this fast-paced thriller, the author's second novel and creator of the Lauren Laurano Mysteries. . 1st Edition. ... more information

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New York: Meridian, The Penguin Group, 1990., 1990 Uncorrected Proof Copy. Thick 8vo. 506 pp. Near fine in light purple stiff wrappers with black lettering on the front and back panels and spine. Showing a hint of overall wear. An intricately woven and in-depth study of the feminist literary heritag e and future of Black American women writing. "And of that muffled chord, the one mute and voiceless note has been the sadly expectant Black Woman." Anna Julia Cooper.. Soft cover. ... more information

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