Search Results: Authors starting with R from Singularity Rare & Fine

New York: HQ, Women's Army Corps Southern New York Recruiting and Induction District, 1943. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: HQ, Women's Army Corps Southern New York Recruiting and Induction District, 28 September 1943. A Restricted Extract, being Special Order No. 232 to transfer a list of new enlistees to be transferred "without delay" to Daytona Beach, FL, Second WACTC, presumably for training. 8 1/2" x 11, two mimeographed leaves (three pages; back of second leaf is blank). Age-toned, fold creases, and one short closed slit at right end of one fold. See scan. Originally corner stapled, but staples are missing now. Very Good. Irreplaceable wartime military ephemera. L-milit

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. The February, 1941 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXVI, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 193 pp. (158 pp. numbered, 34 plates, one onionskin). Quite Near Fine, with in fact no salient flaws to point to; this example is, in all likelihood, in the same condition in which it was originally received in 1941. See all scans. This issue feature a 16-plate section of majestic photos of the King's Canyon National Park by Cedric Wright (as well as two other Wright plates elsewhere); a fold-out reproduced map of the San Joaquin Valley, originally created by Lieutenant Jose Maria Estudillo in 1819;… Read More

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As New; see scans and description. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000. Fundamentals of Differential Equations, by R. Kent Nagle, Edward B. Saff, and Arthur David Snider. ISBN 0201338688. Fifth Edition with Sealed CD-Rom Included. Tall octavo (9 1/4"l), glossy illustrated boards, formulaic table endpapers, 756 pp. (xxii + 684 + 10 + 32 + 8). As New, nearly brand squeaky new, with no salient flaws whatever. See scans. CD-Rom is included and remains sealed. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LT28

New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. Octavo, illustrated jacket, blue cloth boards with silver spine imprinting, ix + 2 + 243 pp. Near Fine book in a very good price-clipped jacket which shows modest edge wear. The bottom third of the title page has been clipped off; the book itself is otherwise nearly without flaw. See scan. L-47n

Gainesville, FL: Naylor, LLC, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. photographs. Gainesville, FL: Naylor, LLC, 2009. First Edition. Photopictorial wraps, quarto, 46 pp. Fine. Subscribers address label in lower corner left corner of cover, otherwise flawless. A "natural stone restoration" issue, with 5 main articles on that topic and pertinent color photgraphs with them. Other features on the same topic, and of course, ads. L60

Hoofddorp, the Netherlands: Sanoma Media Netherlands B.V., 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New; completely pristine. See scans and description. Hoofddorp, the Netherlands: Sanoma Media Netherlands B.V., 2017. Issue 16 (2017) of Flow magazine. Large quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 163 pp. plus the pages of the several inserts noted. New, and flawless. The three inserts of this issue - Seven Day Offline Booklet; Flow Coloring Book; Fresh From Flow mini-catalog of paper items. See all scans. A very expensively-produced and quite charming example of one direction New Thought has taken - New Thought having itself evolved from the teachings of Phineas Quimby in the mid-1800s, and having become very self-diversified since. Graphically and spiritually very engaging. The "Magazine for Paper Lovers" is, of course, far more than that. Check both the contents pages (scans) for some detail on what's within, but a few topics are: New… Read More

Chicago : The Radford Architectural Company, 1913. Flexible Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Very Good. See scans and description. Chicago: The Radford Architectural Company, 1913. 12mo, flexible boards with gilt imprinting on spine and front cover, 887 pp + ads. Better than Very Good, just short of Near Fine, with trace edge wear most notable at lower right front cover corner, no other flaws. Firmly bound, clean, no writing inside or out. Highly collectible engineering / contracting reference, difficult to find in anything other than well worn condition. This one is quite sharp, clean and stout. See scans. Scarce genre keeper. L15n

New York: Minotaur Press, Ltd, 1973. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Uncredited. New York: Minotaur Press, Ltd., 1973. First edition. Illustrations uncredited, some taken from ads and older illustrations. Quarto, 104 pp. Yellow cloth with black imprinting; dust jacket is russet with white and black imprinting and device. Fine, flawless book in a near-fine, unclipped dust jacket with just trace wear at spine ends and some corners. "Mint Error" dust jacket reads, on the spine: "The Illustrated Manual Sexual of Aids". A beautiful copy of Rainbird's opus celebrating manufactured forms of assistance in the achievement of sexual satisfaction, largely focusing on devices for women - okay, dildos and vibrators - though an item or two for men (who, presumably, in Rainbird's eye, have less need for assistance) is also included. Time has marched on, technologically speaking, for this field of endeavor in the decades since… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1939. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1939. Second Edition. Octavo, black flexible boards with gilt cover and spine imprinting, iv + 340 pp. Near Fine. In an ornate bookplate preprinted on the front pastedown by publisher Wiley, the original owner has neatly inked his name, otherwise as sharp a copy as you're ever likely to find. See scans. L-36n

Nashua, NH: Rustic Publications, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New, and immaculate. See scans and description. First Edition.Nashua, NH: Rustic Publications, 1988. The very scarce compendium, 'Indiana Hickory Furniture. Including edited catalogues from The Old Hickory Furniture Company, 1922 and The Indiana Willow Products Co. Inc., 1948', by the very expert topic-specific specialist, Ralph Kylloe, who - in addition to penning a variety of rustic lifestyle books - wrote 'The Collected Works of Indiana Hickory Furniture Makers' and 'A History of the Old Hickory Chair Company and the Indiana Hickory Furniture Movement'. This title predates, and is apparently much rarer than, either of those. Landscape-format octavo (8 1/2" tall by 11" long), illustrated stapled wraps, 68 pp. including insides of covers. New, though decades old; immaculate. See all scans. Kylloe's scholarly, historical 13-page introduction on the… Read More

Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007. Custom 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007. First Edition Thus (custom edition) and First Printing of Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings / Brief Edition / WRT 105 Custom Edition for Syracuse University. Octavo, wraps, 92 pp. ISBN 0536458049. Fine; As New. LT-1

Nashville, TN: Naked Ink , 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New; pristine and immaculate. See scans and description. Nashville: Naked Ink, 2006. First Edition and First Printing of Alice Randall's 'My Country Roots' Country Music MP3 Guide. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 286 pp. New, pristine, immaculate in every way. See scans. L49 n

Newtown Square, PA: Harrowood Books, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Photographs and Illustrations. Newtown Square, PA: Harrowood Books, 1981. First Edition. Co-published and distributed in Hawaii by Treasures of Nature, Kaneohe, HI. This is the waterproof edition, plasticized wraps, octavo, unpaginated but 72 pp. Illustrated with 204 full-color plates and several b&w sketches byHelen A. Randall and Loreen R. Bauman. Light wear to cover, else near fine. The waterproofed snorkeler's / scuba diver's first edition of John Randall's popular guide for identification of Hawaiian reef fishes, in situ. Butterflyfish, angelfish, goatfish, cardinalfish, lizardfish, frogfish. anthias, scorpionfish, lionfish, snappers, chubs, tangs, surgeonfish, triggerfish, many more, with popular name, hawaiian name, taxonomic name, and size estimates. L104

Studio City, CA: UFO Library Limited, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. photographs. Studio City, CA: UFO Library Limited, 1993. First Edition. Quarto, wraps, inexpensively reproduced in comb-binding with mylar cover-protector as issued. 133 numbered pages. Fine, with only micro trace wear and dust. See scans. Extraordinarily scarce first edition of Randazzo's accumulation (12 notable contributors are credited) of the stories of a number of twelve largely well-known (at least within the field) claimed contactees. Those are: George Adamski, Jerry Wells, Sixto Paz Wells, Charles A. Silva, Fred Bell, Hal Wilcox, Donna Butts, Eduard" Billy" Meier, Enrique C. Rincon, Benjamin Creme, Richard Rylka, and Claude Vorilhon ("Rael"). Note: one page of the section on Enrique C. Rincon is out of order (as-bound), but present. Rather startlingly in-depth for a survey volume, thus apparently well-researched. Primarily text, with some black and… Read More

New York: Tor Books, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Tor Books, 2002. First Edition and first printing. SIgned and inscribed on the title page by Randall to a fellow investigator at the Dearborn Conference in September, 2002. Octavo, 432 pp. illustrated jacket. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Flawless and in protective mylar. A speculative novelization of the Roswell incident by Randle, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. L64

New York : Foundation Press, 2004. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near Fine; sharp. New York: Foundation Press, 2004. Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications, ISBN # 1587785781. Hefty quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, xiii + 949 pp. Near Fine; very near fine. No salient flaws, and only trace signs of use at all. No writing, inside or out. Editors Rapoport and Dharan bring together 36 essays, articles and testimonies on the title subject. See scan. LT18

Akron, OH: The University of Akron, School of Law, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near Fine. See scans. Akron, OH: The University of Akron, School of Law, 2010. The Volume 43, Number 3 issue of Akron Law Review. Hefty quarto, printed cream perfect-bound wraps, 465 pp. Near Fine, with just very modest cover wear, difficult to even see in the scan. Sharp. No interior or exterior writing. Topics - for detail, see scan; contents are on the cover - are in this issue all centered on the issue's symposium topics, "Lawyers Without Borders" and "Practicing Law in the Electronic Age". Sharp, and scarce. See scan. LT19

Stamford, CT: Bottom Line Books / by arrangement with St. Martin's Press, 2005. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New; pristine. With original accompanying booklet and publisher's ephemera, as described below. See scans and description. Stamford, CT: Bottom Line Books / by arrangement with St. Martin's Press, 2005. Dr. Ray Sahelian's 'Mind Boosting Secrets'. Quarto, glossy illustrated boards, x + 246 pp. New, and quite flawless. See scans. Original publisher's ephemera (a sealed envelope full of offers and two reply cards) and Bottom Line's 60-page booklet 'Brain Boosting Library' (not a list of books, but a collection of tips for brain, memory and mood boosting) are included. LT24

Chicago: Forster Music Publisher Inc., 1927. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Chicago: Forster Music Publisher Inc., 1927. "Fallen Leaf" vintage fox-trot sheet music for piano, by Frederic Knight Logan; arrangement by Richard Raymond. Sixfold plain printed wraps, 10 1/2" x 7" when folded, 10 1/2" x 21" fully opened. Music printed on the three front sides; the three backs bear two pages of quaint ads. See scans. Moderately age-toned; a solid Near Fine, with very little micro-wear. See scans. A handsome and scarce piece of Vintage Tin Pan Alley music ephemera, though in fact this one was published in Chicago. L-eph2.

Chicago : Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A Near Fine collectible original; see scans and description. Chicago: Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 1985. "For the Title", the sixth and final (and toughest) qualifying puzzle for the 1985 Games Magazine / Merriam-Webster U.S. Crossword Puzzle Open, held at the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium at the Loeb Center, New York University. This is an original, as included in the kit sent to aspiring qualifiers who were not able to attend (or win) regional crossword puzzle tournaments - that being the other means of qualifying. This one was in the kit sent here (alas, I couldn't get the time off that year to try my luck at the competition). All of the six qualifying puzzles were very serious challengers, but the Sixth Qualifier in any year was, of course, always a monster. Merl Reagle at his fiendish best in this one. Use all the references and other resources you like:… Read More