Search Results: Authors starting with R from Great Expectations Rare Books

The Bibliophilist Society Large, royal octavo bound in black cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings by Gustave Dore. Top edge stained red. A very good+copy.. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Copenhagen, Denmark: Stainless/Wintermoon; Distributed by JazzMedia Aps Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth, no dust-jacket. Volume I [of a six volume set.] 644 pages. Index. No date, circa 1980. No previous ownership marks. Light scruffs to front board, else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy A scarce reference, vol. I is particularly difficult to find. Very good. .

New York: Hermon Press, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 268 pages. Appendices, including Bibliography and Indices (Names of Persons, General). Contains a new preface by the author. Second edition. No previous ownership marks. Remnants of small retail price-sticker inside front cover and pastel blue dust-jacket sunned to light brown at spine. Else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy with no underlining, writing or highlighting to text. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .

London: Spring Books, 1966. Hardcover, brown cloth, no dust-jacket. Dust-jacket flaps laid-in. 256pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 102 monochrome photographs and ten pages in color. First edition by this publisher. A clean, square, unmarked copy, in fine condition.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale de France French langauge edition. Hardcovers, coarse red pebble cloth decorated in gold on spine and with large gilt stamped 'R' on front board. 5 volumes complete. Published in the Collection Nationale des Classiques Francais. Edited and annotated by Pierre Melese; ilustrated with wood-cuts by Valentin Le Campion. Text in French. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked set. Very mild toning to page edges from age. A very fine set.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Classiques Garnier Freres, 1962. Paperback, small octavo bound in still yellow card covers with original publisher's yellow pictorial dust-jacket. Text in French. 744 pages. Illustrated edition, with a suite of 8 plates. With a preface, notices and notes by Maurice Rat. Followed by a selection of his epigrams concerning his theater. Jacket wrinkled on spine, with red lettering faded. Text block is sound, tight and unmarked, albeit exhibiting waviness as result of binding process. A good clean copy in exceedingly scarce original dust-jacket. Text in French.. Reprint. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gettysburg, PA: Legacy Publishing, 2011. Trade paperback. Signed by author on title-page. 230 pages. Appendices. Illustrated with vignette black and white photographs. First edition. A history of the role played by the Daughters of Charity, Catholic nuns who served as nurses to both sides during the war. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. Signed by Author. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: American Institute of Social Science, 1955. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Fourth Editiom. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 430 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Fourth edition. The saga of the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners joiners of America 1881-1954. A clean, solid, unmarked used copy in a moderately worn dust-jacket. Good+ in a fair dust-jacket. .

New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. Red cloth sans dustjacket. Reference work compiling the historical origins and meaning behind common English expressions. Solid, used copy, near very good.. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. 91 pages. This new Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged and unaltered reproduction of the work first published by the University of California Press in 1920. A classic in American ethnographic literature. No previous ownership marks. A clean, lightly red and unmarked copy. Good. . Reprint. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Free Press, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 462 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, paintings and engravings on coated stock. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis. First American edition, first printing with full number line. A fine copy but for previous owner's initials on front free end-paper. Book is clean, square, fresh and otherwise unmarked. dust-jacket like new. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Doubleday, 1992. Book. Very Good. Cloth Spine Over Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. First edition, first printing with number line intact. 462pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. Former owner's name written in pen across top edge. else a crisp, clean, square copy. Very good reading copy in very good dust-jacket. .

Diverse Industries, Inc., 1976. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large paperback, white card covers with title printed in red on front cover and title and author in black on spine. Not paginated, approximately 125 pages. Illustrated with explicit photographs in black and white and color , chiefly of nude females. Text includes a short introduction and brief selections of poetry and song, ranging from ancient Egypt to Casanova and Shakespeare, with three snippets from the work of Walt Whitman. First edition. No previous ownership marks. White covers show light marking, with minimal wear to tips, else a superior copy of a scarce collection of erotic photography. Book is tight, sound and internally unmarked. Very good+. .

University park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, wine colored cloth in publisher's burnt orange dust-jacket. 206 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. Significant underlining in pen, several pages show black marker and marginalia. Else a tight, sound, copy. Good in a fine dust-jacket. .

Tiger Books International, 1991. Hardcover, large oblong quarto bound in pictorial boards with image repeated on dust-jacket. 96pp., Text by Patrizia Raffin, Design by Patrizia Balocco. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Essentially an oversize view-book of Jerusalem, focusing mainly on its people and daily life. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, freash copy. Unmarked and unread. very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Thus. Laminated Pictorial Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Newsweek, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large quarto hardcover bound in green cloth lettered in gold, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 172 pages. Foreword by Nagatake Asano and Preface by Jo Okada. End-matter includes a brief synopsis of the Museums holdings and physical structures; Basic Bibliography; Index of Illustrations; Index of Names; and a General Index. Profusely illustrated with color photographs throughout. No edition stated, though presumed first with no additional printing listed. No previous ownership marks. Book is in fine condition, clea, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket show small abrasion at mid-spine, else complete with no tears or chips. Fine copy in a near very good dust-jacket. Media mail only. .

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1993. Large trade paperback. 348 pages. Glossary, Index. Later printing. Contains over 200 recipes. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+. . Later Printing. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Rafael, California: Earth Aware Editions, 2019. Book. As New. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large, nearly square hardcover, folio size volume bound in brown cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 264 pages. Includes photo index and bibliography. Foreword by Pico Iyer. Ethnographic Notes by Robert L. Welsch. Profusely illustrated with numerous full color and black and white photographs by the author. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket. Avery large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .

Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1999. Hardcover in blue cloth boldly lettered in gold on spine and front cover, in dust-jacket. 376pp., Bibliographic References, Index. First edition. No price on dust-jacket flap, University Press imprint. Mild off-setting to verso of dust-jacket at heel of spine from blue cloth, else a fine copy in like jacket. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy of an extremely rare imprint of this collection of 16 essays focusing on analyzing Milton's poetry through the prism of 17th century imperialism and colonialism. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rutherford/Madison//Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light brown cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's white and brown non price-clipped dust-jacket. 522 pages. With Appendices, Notes, Bibliography and Index. First edition, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press under the aegis of Associated University Presses, Inc. A study of the 'purported' Indian influences on Whitman's poetry based on the religious and literary texts available in the public libraries of New York in the years just prior to the publication of "Leaves of Grass". No previous ownership marks. Evidence of small retail price sticker removed from inside front cover, else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows a single short tear, now tape repaired on verso, and general finger soiling. Near fine in a good dust-jacket. .