Search Results: Authors starting with R from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Minor shelfwear, jacket lightly toned and chipped. Very good. AYW-295. Hugh F. Rankin. The Golden Age of Piracy. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969. First edition. With extensive pencil annotations and notes by William Goldman, presumably used in research for Goldman's novel The Princess Bride.   Octavo. 173pp. Illustrated. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jackett.  .

Darkened to joints and hinges; exceptionally large bookplate to front pastedown; jacket a bit sunned, rubbed, and chipped, with some slight loss at spine ends. Very good. KWH-391. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Cross Creek. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition.  Octavo. 368pp. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, stamped in silver to spine and front cover, illustrated endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Robert Camp, Jr. .

Binding rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped with cloth fray, pages lightly toned, few minor spots of foxing. Very good. LMM-279. Joseph H. Reading. The Ogowe Band. A Narrative of African Travel. Philadelphia: Read & Company, 1890. First edition. Octavo. xv, 278 pages. Frontispiece photo of A Tropic Home built by the author in 1882, 64 photographic plates, 3 maps, decorative initial letters and engraved tail-pieces. Color African Money plate mis-bound facing page 248. Publisher's brown cloth stamped with black designs and lion's head with gilt titles on front board, black designs and gilt lettering to spine, patterned endpapers. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Minor shelfwear, light toning, else fine. SJK-38. Laura E. Richards. Frank T. Merrill, illustrator. Captain January. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. Limited edition, No. 91 of 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by the publisher and author.     Twelvemo. 128pp. Illustrated with etchings after drawings by Frank T. Merrill. Rebound in red half morocco over marbled paper-covered, stamped in gilt to spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endleaves. .

Binding with very light shelf wear, spine ends lightly bumped. Title page design element offset to facing page and bleed through to verso; dust jacket with light edge wear, small paper chips, lightly toned. Very good. LMM-207. Laura Riding. A Trojan Ending. New York: Random House, [1937]. First edition. Octavo. 426pp. Publisher's red cloth with circular design stamped in black on front cover and black lettering to spine in unclipped illustrated dust jacket, listing price $2.50. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Extremities gently rubbed, bumped, and abraded, light dampstaining to cloth. Very good. LMM-211. Laura Riding. Though Gently. Deya, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. Limited edition, No. 174 of 200 numbered and signed copies.  Signed by Laura Riding. Quarto. 29pp. "Hand-set and handprinted by ourselves on hand-made paper-the cover by Len Lye." Quarter brown cloth, decorated paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Fine. JBS-344. Rowan Robinson. The Hemp Manifesto: 101 Ways that Hemp Can Save Our World. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. 1997. 16mo (approx. 6 x 4 inches). 101pp. Publisher's card wraps.  .

Boards slightly soiled, toning and light foxing throughout, dust jacket toned and chipped with a 1/2" closed tear. Very good. LMM-175. Theodore Roethke. Praise to the End! Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1951. First edition.  Pencil signed by Larry McMurtry to first blank.  Octavo. 89pp. Gray half cloth over black hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to the spine, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of $3.00. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .   .

A fine copy. HFP-152. Ronalds, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, with Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect, and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling-Fishing. London: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1993. Facsimile edition, one of 1,000 copies printed.  Octavo. 132pp. Blue quarter leather over cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original slipcase.  .

Slight wear to boards, lightly bumped to upper front corner, minor soiling and dampstaining to boards and verso of dust jacket, faint foxing to endleaves. Very good. KWH-424. [SIGNED] Salman Rushdie. The Satanic Verses. New York: Viking, 1988. First American edition. Signed by Salman Rushdie.  Octavo. [547]pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing retail price of $19.95. .

Minor shelfwear, else fine. JHN-331. Erik Frank Russell. Deep Space. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, Inc., 1954. First edition, No. 150 of 300 numbered copies. Signed by Erik Frank Russell.       Octavo. 249pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Mel Carter and listing a retail price of $3.00. .

Extremities lightly rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn; extreme outward bowing to boards; rubbed to lower textblock edge; front hinge cracked; light foxing to prelims. About very good. LMM-245. William Howard Russell. The Great War with Russia: The Invasion of the Crimea. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1895. First edition. Duodecimo. 324pp. Vellum binding, lettered in gilt to spine, ruled I gilt to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves. Presentation copy inscribed by author to his daughter: To my dear daughter Alberta from her / affectionate father / W. H. Russell. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .