Search Results: Authors starting with R from mdpinc Books

Urbana, IL: Accent, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. There is only minor rubbing and soiling. It contains The Outer Island (Cassill), Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard (Lorca), In Sickness and Health (Humphrey) among other articles. Stapled pages. Beige wraps with purple titles. Pages 65 through 128.

Boston: Thomas Groom, 1851. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This sixth edition, revised and corrected is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked. Externally it's as new rebound in dark gray polished cloth with bright silver titles embossed on the spine and front. It has 225, bright, clear pages illustrated with lightly foxed plates plus ads. it's a great looking book.

London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher & Son, 1852. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Edward Corbould, et al.. This book is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is rubbed at the edges to the point of the corners being slightly rounded and it is age darkened, There is foxing to the end papers and the margins of the illustrations, but the pages are only lightly toned. It has yellow end papers and 68, clear pages extensively illustrated with black & white plates bound in light blue cloth elaborate gold designs and titles on the boards and spine.

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good- . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square with very good corners and unmarked in an about very good dust jacket. It is very kightly rubbed and the dust jacket has edge wear with a closed tear and small chips. It has 212, bright, clear pages bound in orange cloth covered boards with black titles on the spine and front where there is also a drawing of Buddy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This 1901 edition of a 1900 book is clean, tight, and all pages are unmarked. There is a little soil on the end papers and the spine is very lightly bumped, but the book is in exceptional shape for its age with the gilt on the page tops and along the spine intact.

London: Encounter, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has some light edge wear. It contains Annamalai (Narayan), Who Killed the Student Revolution? (Nisbet), To A Certain Ghost, 1940 (Borges), among other works. Green and yellow wraps with black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has only minor edge wear and some light toning. It contains Picnic with Moonlight & Mangoes (R Prawer Jhabvala), The Plight of the Humanist Intellectual (Charles Frankel), Royal Disasters (Richard Hough) among other works. Gold wraps with purple and white titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has a couple of dog eared creases and there is toning throughout. The front wrap has an area of paper sticker residue. It contains Picnic with Moonlight & Mangoes (R Prawer Jhabvala), The Plight of the Humanist Intellectual (Charles Frankel), Royal Disasters (Richard Hough) among other works. Gold wraps with purple and white titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1958. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed/bumped at the edges and there is some light surface soil. It contains, The Nuclear Obsession (Crossman), As The Night, the Day (Nicol), Impasse in the Holy Land (Childers), among other works. White and yellow wraps and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed/bumped at the edges and there is some light surface soil. It contains, Chinese Notebook (Crossman), The Vane Sisters (nabokov), Old States, New Societies (Shils), among other works. White wraps with red and black titles on the front.

London: Life And Letters, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed/bumped at the edges and there is some surface soil. It contains Willow-Herb (Trevelyan), Ballade of Illegal Ornaments (Belloc), A Japanese Poetess (Plomer), among other works. Tan wraps with a red geometric design and black titles on the front. It also contains many advertisements. pp 489 - 564

Urbana, IL: Accent, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. There is only minor rubbing and soiling. It contains The Life of Sleeping Beauty (Cassill), A Study of Joyce's 'Portrait" (Anderson), Which Cures All Sorrows (Brace) among other articles. Stapled pages. Blue wraps with purple titles. Pages 1 through 64.

Urbana, IL: Accent, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. There is some minor rubbing, some creasing and a spot of soiling. It contains Kafka's Cage (Stallman), Displaced Persons (Sansom) and The French Literary Mind (Fowlie) among other articles. Light brown wraps with red titles. Pages 67 through 128.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1997. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This stated first edition is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in an equally fine dust jacket. It has 240, bright, clear pages in a one-quarter binding with orange cloth and black titles on the spine. The boards are covered in black paper.

London: Grant Richards, 1904. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. W. Heath Robinson. This the original large paper edition illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. These books are clean, tight, square with very good corners and unmarked. They are lightly rubbed with light surface soil with a bit more on the spines. They have red & white pictorial end papers and 377, 350, bright clear pages with many black & white plates and drawings bound white vellum covered boards with gilt titles and decorations on the spine and front. This is a lovely set, just shy of folio size.

Concord, NH: The Living Age Company, 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is rubbed at the edges where there are some wrinkles and very short closed tears.. It contains Mexico and the League (Nieto), The Destiny of Man (Lodge), A Communist Has the Floor (Dutt) among other articles. Tan wraps with black titles over stapled pages. Pages 173 through 218, plus many advertisements. Has some black and white drawings as illustrations.

New York: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair/good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Neysa McMein, N. C. Wyeth, et al.. This magazine is a bit worn, the spine cover is rubbed off and both wraps are loose. The beautiful McMein cover has some soil and stain, but it does have a Sabatini story illustrated by Wyeth. Internally it is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed more so at the spine and has surface soil. The cover has a beautiful McMein, color drawing of a young woman in a green. It has 154, clear pages illustrated with drawings and photos with a large number of period ads, many in color. It contains "The Guarded Halo part I" by Pedler and "The Romantic Prince part IV" by Sabatini among many other stories and articles.

New York: Famous Music Corp., 1934. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Light surface soil, light rubbing to the edges and there is a name and date with some rubbing on the front wrap. From the Paramount Picture "Here is My Heart" starring Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle. The front wrap is dominated by figures of Bing and Kitty, He's in tails, she in a tight green sheath, against a gold background, under black titles. The rear has true photo of the couple and a picture of the composers against a green background and beside some PR paragraphs.

London: Brendin Publishing, 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This copy is tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed/bumped, particularly the spine and rear wrap. It contains Now Having Love and Dangerously (Gustafson), The Boy Mahatma (Shelly-Mills), My Grandfather Would Have Me Be a Poet (Jones), among other works. Light yellow wraps with an orange outline and orange and black titles on the front and spine. It also contains many advertisements. pp 1 - 86

Boston: Perry Mason Company, 1906. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. E. Fosbery, et al.. This Youth's Companion has been very well kept and is clean, tight and unmarked with minimal toning (a bit more at the edges) and a crease at the center. It contains "The Coxswain's Training" by Paine, "Once On a May Night" by Adams among many other stories and serials, fact and fiction. It contains many great period ads. It has pp: 221 - 232. It has pictorial wraps with drawing of a wind blown young woman amid flowering trees in a colorful circle and a small name on the front.