Search Results: Titles starting with R from Supercalifabulistic Books

New York: Knopf, 1990 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to title and copyright pages. Fine/NF. Dark blue boards with silver gilt titles to front and spine. Fine condition, tight, clean, unopened. Publiser's logo blindstamped on back rear board, lower right. Slight shelf wear to top corners of DJ. 1991 Pulitzer Prize winer. John Updike's fourth and final novel about the basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom..

New York: Knopf Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Same date to title and copyright pages. 1971.VG/VG. DJ shows shelf wear along edges, spine and corners.Front board is ever so slightly "bowed". Tight, clean, appears unread.Red boards with silver titles on front and spine. B&W photo of John Updike playing tennis on inside flap of DJ. "Printed in the U.S.A 11/71" on back inside flap of DJ. Nominated by the National Book Award. Signed~ "To mother from John christmas-1973" .

Scholastic 4th printing (stated)1969 VG/none as issued. Light shelf wear to cover, corners slightly bumped, foxing to a few pages. No Previous owner's signatures, names or any other marks on covers or pages. Original pricing of 45 cents on cover. Collectible.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, 1949 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/none Light brown board with detailed blind stamp of Rampart Street (a historic ave located in New Orleans) on front cover. Dark brown titles to spine. Small water stain on first fly leaf, light rubbing to edges, otherwise clean, tight, no marks. No DJ. A dramatic powerful novel of love and thwarted passions set against the dark and violent back ground of the bloody Civil War border disputes..

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

The Rebel Worlds by Poul Anderson. Hugo awards winner author!
Very Good condition!
First printing by Signet, 1969.
Two men and one woman in a desperate battle to win a galactic empire-to destroy it!

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/F Stated First Edition Hardcover black on black in Fine condition. Strong spine, fresh crisp pages. 384 pages. DJ in Fine condition, only mark is on the inside front top corner where the price is marled out with blue pen. The life of the "most trusted man in America" as told by he who lived it. 36 photographs included..

Dayton Ohio: The Otterbein Press, 1914 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed / Dedicated by Author(s). 1st Edition. NF/none , 1914. Light grey/tan boards with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Tight, clean edition, no marks or smells. Inscribed by author on the second page, "Congratulations, Alvina, Upon your graduation; And may you prove an honor to your town and state and nation. Your teacher when in the Infant class in sunday school, Lucy Y. Culler. See bottom of page 244 and 245. May 26, 1924 On page 244-245 there is a poem about the Infant Class : "They gave the Infant class to me, Which grew, and grew, and grew, As pure as heaven's dew. Their ages ran from two to eight, Just dots and dumplings some, While older ones drank in the truth. And all were glad to come. I scarce could wait till Sunday came To see them all again. with heads bowed low they looked at shoes Till prayer said, "Amen!" Their childish innocence and smiles, Their efforts, first, to sing....I taught this class ten… Read More

Atlantic Little Brown, 1946 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Editon. VG/none. Mint green boards with oak leaf blind stamped on front cover. Slight bumping to corners and spine edges of book. Gilt titles on spine. Same date, 1946, "White Oak Edition". PO's name and address on first fly leaf. Tenth book in the Jalna series. A prolific Canadian author of rural Ontario family, winner of the Atlantic 10,000 prize in 1927 for his first book..

Scribners 1997 First Edition . NF/NF Cream covered boards with burgundy spine. Gilt title and authors on spine- perfect condition. book appears unopened and unread. Clean, absolutely no marks, so book plates, no stickers, etc. Dust jacket has a tiny closed tear on the back lower left corner. Ever so slight bumping to the spine ends. Beautiful collectible , gift condition! A modern day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the river they love. John Cronin ( a long time fisherman on the Hudson) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., report from the front line of environmental activism , the Hudson River Valley, to tell us how we too can fight and win by reclaiming a fundamental right that dates back to the Magna Carta- the right to defend and enjoy our invaluable natural resources.

Macmillan, 1946 Book. Illus. by C.W. Anderson. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date, 1946. Later printing. NF/VG, scarce dust jacket. Green boards, in excellent condition. Interior of book is clean, tight , unmarked. Illustrated DJ depicting a Pennsylvania landscape of farms on rolling hills.Dj has a price of $1.49, and has the usual shelf wear, with chipping to spine ends and corners and a small open tear at back top edge. "Here is a novel, fresh, vivid and powerful, charged with American realities which are abiding, realities of the unspoiled, unurbanized native character.".

Paisano Press, Inc. 1971 First. Signed and numbered (198). Signed "For Clista, who jumped my claim on Bull Run Creek " Signed by both the writer and Artist.After the rich northern placer diggings of '48 and '49 began to play out, J. Ross Browne, the great early California mining expert and historical reporter, stated, : "The year 1850 was marked by the first of a multitude of 'rushes' or sudden migrations in search of imaginary rich diggings."