Search Results: Authors starting with R from Pages Past Books

VG-/G Exposition Press NY 1955 1st hardcover 8vo, 56 pages, signed. 50 poems. Signed by author at Woodstock, N.Y. on front endpaper. Light browning inside covers. Top 3/4" of inside dustjacket flap trimmed. Light soiling and rubbing to dustjacket. DJ in protective cover.

Very Good condition/no dustjacket Lawrence frontis+endpapers MA Donohue & Co Chicago (1912) early reprint hardcover 12mo, 232 pages + ads, pictorial endpapers, b+w frontis, pictorial binding. 6th title in series; ads at rear of book list 18 titles. Nice bright pictorial front with Boy Scout waving signal flags at early plane.

VG+/VG Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1958 1st hardcover 8vo, 226pp, dj design by Betty Middleton-Sandford. Novel of escape set in 1941 Uzbekistan. Short closed tear to dustjacket at upper left front. Clean and solid.

Good+/no dustjacket, no dj Travel Houghton Mifflin Boston 1930 1st Hardbound 8vo, 78 pages, b+w illustrations, reading list, maps Covers soiled; inside covers foxed. Solid copy.

Fine/Fine Watson-Guptill New York 1987 1st hardcover 4to, 144 pages, 120 color plates, 110 b&w illustrations, index.

Good+/Good+ Goldsmith NY (1931) early reprint hardcover 8vo, 247 pages + ads. 2nd title in series; inside dustjacket flap lists 4 titles. Companion books for all Boy Scouts. Gift inscription inked on front endpaper. Light general agewear with shallow chipping at dustjacket spinehead and a few small chips at dj extremities. Solid with dj bright in protective cover. DJ cover shows boys around campfire.

VG condition Clarendon Press Oxford 1979 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 298 pages, subject and author indeces, references, appendix. Solid clean copy. Gilt spine titling.

Very Good book in a Very Good dustjacket Ernie King frontis + dj Wilcox and Follett Co Chicago 1946 1st hardcover 8vo, 210 pages, review slip laid in. Original verse based on Irish folklore and author's visits and experiences in Ireland. 122 poems. Name inside front cover. Nice dj art, light edgewear but nice bright copy.

Very Good/Very Good-condition David Redfern photos Eel Pie Publishing Ltd London 1980 1st edition hardcover 4to, 159 pages, color and b+w photos, index of artists. Two small red dots at top and fore-edge (remainder marks? ) Dustjacket has some light rubbing and short closed tear.

Good, no dj Gift Book Overbrook Press Stamford 1958 Limited Ed. Softbound 8vo, 18 pp, Limited to 1000 copies Christmas and New Year printed gift card laid in from Helen and Frank Altschul (founder, 1st President and Chairman of General American Investors Co.) Front cover soiled and waterstained at 3 corners; shallow dampstaining at top rear cover. The interior is unaffected and the book is solid.

NF/VG+ private bookseal bottom of title pg, light wear dj rear, 425 photos, 102 in color McGraw-Hill NY 1981 2nd hardcover 4to, 216pp, The emergence of the public art movement integrated with urban renaissance.

Good+/ no dustjacket Oxford University Press London 1934 1st hardcover 8vo, 159 pages, 47 b+w plates. Remains of previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Binding sunfaded at spine with small spot on front cover. Nicely illustrated look at numerous railway engines and locomotives.

Good+ Hurst & Co NY no date early hardcover 12mo, 312 pages, b+w frontis of author, paste on pictorial cover. The Boy Hunters journey to the cold desolate countries of the north where they encounter many wild creatures. Christmas 1909 gift inscription on front endpaper. Front cover paste on shows boys playing football in quilted pants and shirts. Spine sunned. Light cover rubbing. Solid and clean.

Very Good book in a Very Good minus dustjacket Frederick Machetanz illus Charles Scribner's Sons NY (1942) early hardcover 8vo, 137 pages, full-page b+w illustrations pictorial cloth cover. Story of a group of boys who learn how to play good baseball. Nice juvenile story mixed with baseball instruction. Illustrations by Machetanz include dustjacket front of young catcher with mask. Some soiling to white of dustjacket rear and some light edgewear and rubbing, but nice in Brodart protective cover.

VG+/VG a little edgewear, closed tear to dj reverse, VG- 80 illus Crown Publishers NY nd unstated hardcover 4to, 96pp, Illustrations include 50 color plates, 7 red crayon sketches, 8 sketches on blue ground and 15 drawings, some tipped- Of not only the painter, but his times and the Impressionists as well. Translated from the French by Edward Lucie Smith. Undated with $3.50 dustjacket price.

Near Fine/VG+ Watson-Guptill NY 1970 revised hardcover 4to, 144 pages, 48 color + 27 b&w illustrations, index. Revised and enlarged edition of The Technique of Water-Colour Painting. Some very light edge rubbing to dustjacket; clean, solid and bright.

VG-/no dustjacket Relyea and Jackson illus AL Burt NY (1910) reprint hardcover 8vo, 229 pages + ads, 4 color illustrations by CM Relyea and John Jackson, pictorial cover. Light general agewear. Clean and solid.

VG/G+ Greenfield Publsihing Greenfield 1945 1st hardcover 12mo, 187 pp, index, bibliography, notes, inscribed and signed. Inscribed signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper. Content includes education, gambling, dueling, drinking, children and women, philanthropy, race, penal system, agriculture and industry, war and peace etc. White of dustjacket soiled with several small edge chips. Solid with dj in protective cover.

Good+, no dj New York State NYS Education Dept 1960s Softbound 8vo, 204 pp, b+w photos & illustrations, sketch maps, index, bibliography Published by the Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, University of the State of New York for background material on government and aid in teaching. Includes examples from various communities. Light cover wear and staples rusting; otherwise solid and clean.

VG/G+ JB Lippincott Philadelphia 1944 1st trade hardcover 8vo, 569 pages, b+w illustrations, index, bibliography. Light dustjacket edgewear. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.