Search Results: Authors starting with R from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Lisbon and Cologne: Culturgest / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2007. A near-fine copy with one tiny soilmark to fore-edges and light soiling to title. Folio. 160 pages. FIRST EDITION. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad' at Culturgest, Lisbon.

Mexico: Onomatopee, 2014. New in shrinkwrap. 11.75 x 8 inches. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated. original printed boards. First edition.

Water Valley, MS: Fat Possum Records, 2002. First edition. Slight darkening to board edges, other light wear to boards.. 9.25 x 11 inches. Original cloth backed boards, without jacket as issued. "DARKER BLUES is a 100+ page limited edition book featuring the work of award-winning photographer David Raccuglia, as well as classic Fat Possum photos"(The Publisher). Book contains companion 8 page pull-out comic, but does not have set of two CDs.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2012. 2 volumes, 4to. 335pp. Color illustrations. Original pictorial cloth boards; slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION.

Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1888. First edition. Some minor white paint residue along board edges (not visible when shelved), light toning to foot of vol.6 spine, otherwise very clean and fresh. 4 (of 6) volumes, folio (16 x 11 1/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. Plates, including fine chromolithograps. Each volume present is complete as issued. Modern quarter plium morocco over cloth, the spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a richly gilt arabesque in the remaining. A fine though partial set, the plates in very fine condition with colors fresh and bright, heightened with gum arabic. 'THE MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL SURVEY ON COSTUME' (Colas). Racinet's is the most famous of the 19th-century books on dress, and the first fashion book to use color lithography. It is a wide-ranging survey of costume through time, an encyclopaedic work in the tradition of the costume books that began to appear from the 16th-century in the wake of the age of exploration. Publication… Read More

London: George G. Harrap, 1929. 4to. 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated vellum, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A near-fine copy with covers gently bowed and lightly sunned, small stain on spine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, number 92 of 375 copies of the English issue from an edition of 575.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1934. Trade issue. Wrappers woth some chipping/short tears at edges, small loss at foot of spine, some soiling. 8vo. 37 pp. Color frontispiece after Rackham, and black-and-white illustrations in text. Original printed paper wrappers.

London: William Heinemann, 1918. Some soiling to binding, unnamed booklabel on front free endpaper. Folio. Color frontispiece and 8 plates after Rackham, tipped to mounts, captioned tissue guards preserved. Original vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered and -decorated on front cover and spine, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed with deckle-edges preserved. LIMITED EDITION, number 179 of 765 copies signed by Rackham.

1871. 8vo. 40 pp. Large folding lithographed map by Colton, New York, hand-colored in outline: "Maps showing the Route of the 'St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad' of Kansas. And its Connections," 23 3/4 x 32 inches. Original printed wrappers. Inkstamp docket on front wrapper that has an inkstain, otherwise fine. A scarce printed indenture from 14 May 1870 between the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company of Kansas, and the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company of New York, the purpose the build, maintain and operate a railroad in the states of Kansas and Nebraska, joining the Union Pacific. The fine large folding map details the region. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this map, at Denver Public Library and Harvard University.Laid-in: two-page printed mortgage bonds from Tanner & Co., bankers, stating that the Company has delivered to Farmer's $5,500,000 of First Mortgage Sinking Fund Land Grant Railroad Bonds.

Buffalo: State University at Buffalo, 1982. A fine copy. Folding card, 8. 5 x 5.5 inches. Green paper. One of 2000 copies, signed beneath the colophon on rear. This is number four of the second series of Christmas broadsides published under the auspices of the Friends of the University Libraries.

Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1946. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Jacket spine slightly darkened, some light soiling and wear at extremities. A near-fine copy. 8vo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Ethel & Bill Drake who need only look at the dedication to see what I think of the family - Love Milton Raison." The printed dedication reads: "For William A. Drake My Favorite Pundit." Drake was an American screenwriter who wrote 7 films between 1932 and 1939. His best-known work is the 1932 film Grand Hotel, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Raison wrote over 70 screenplays for films in addition to his series of mysteries about the character Tony Woolrich.

Paris: Jean Villette, 1734. 8vo (185 x 120 mm). 51 (of 59) etched plates, including frontispiece and one folding plate (tape repaired). (Lacks 8 plates, one blank margin with large chip, occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary French calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers). Provenance: Four pages of early manuscript notes on rear endpages. The Edward Tufte copy, with book label Second edition. Although he was a dancer, Rameau is best known as the author of two important treatises. His first, Le maitre a danser, was originally published in 1725 and reissued in 1734. It is today considered one of the most eminent sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance technique. Part one focuses on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and it describes a large vocabulary of steps. In 1728, English dancing master and writer John Essex (ca 1680-1744) translated Rameau's work into English as The Dancing-Master: or, The Art of Dancing Explained.… Read More

Hudson Hills Press, 2003. A fine copy. 12.25 x 10.25. 198 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original gold boards; dust jacket. First edition. Boldly inscribed by Michele Oka Donor on the half-title in 2013. "This exceptional volume presents the breadth of Doner's work as found in collections across the country as well as expansive projects designed for public spaces" (the publisher).

ggg books [Ginza Graphic Gallery], 1992. A near-fine copy. Text in Japanese and English. 8vo. 63 pages. Pictorial boards, wraparound band.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1915. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 inches). 30 pp. Large folding map tipped to inner rear wrapper. A few separations along folds, generally fine. Includes railroads and electric lines, counties, congressional townships, cities, towns, villages, post offices, lakes, rivers, etc.

New York: Salon 94, 2014. New in shrinkwrap. 12 x 9 inches. 52 pages. Original printed wrappers. First edition. "Jessica Rankin's new constellation drawings accumulate words, sometimes sparingly, sometimes in rhythmic convulsions. Like her text-based embroideries for which she is known, these randomized word paintings are stitched together into complex, nonlinear patterns and arranged against cerulean blue & black ink mappings of the stars. Taking theories of cosmic expansion and contraction as her starting point, Rankin creates dynamic and highly personal abstractions that oscillate between order and disorder, construction and destruction" (Salon 94).

New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1988. A fine copy. 4to (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). 20 leaves including decorated endleaves. Original boards; printed dust wrapper. FIRST EDITION, Signed in pencil at end by designer E. K. Smith and printer Dikko Faust.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990. Softcover. Spine faded, light wear at corners, otherwise fine. 11 x 9 inches. 179 pages. Wrappers.

New York: PaceWildenstein, 1997. Softcover. Some minor wear to wrappers, generally fine, corners lightly bumped. 12.75 x 9 inches. 28 pages. Pictorial wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from September - October 1997.

Milan: Christian Marinotti Editore, 1998. Softcover. Some minor wear to wrappers, generally fine. 11.75 x 9 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from January - March 1998.