Search Results: Titles starting with R from Boyd Used & Rare Books

London: Cassell, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First UK Edition. Black cloth boards with gilt stamped spine. Top fore-corners lightly bumped. Faint number visible at top of ffep, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows a small spot of edge wear on the top edge of the rear panel (near the spine corner); not price clipped (3.95 net). DJ in archival sleeve. 83 pp. 21.5 x 12.5 cm. Irving's political thriller about an attempt by an FBI director to destroy the Bill of Rights and undermine the United States.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: R. Maresch and Son, 2011. Soft cover. Fine. Catalog for R. Maresch and Son auctions (sale 469, 470, 471, 472). "This sale contains larger lots and "also many choice individual items and smaller collections, beginning with two extensive sessions of Canada. The Postal History sections, in particular, are well represented with good solid specialized sections of Ship and Steamboat Letters, Boer War covers, Huron County covers, Postal Stationery and the best collection of Flag Cancels (formed by Larry Paige) we have ever offered. There are also many choice classic single stamps and covers, multiples, proofs (including Jubilee die proofs), modern imperforates and varieties plus extensive semi-Official Airs, and Revenues. The third session begins with Canadian Provinces, continues with one of the nicest sections of GB we have had for some time, with many Penny Blacks and Victorian high value and finishes with British Commonwealth, with many larger lots and collections.… Read More

Boston: William Denton, 1872. Hardcover. Good+. Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Heavy wear at spine ends. Corners rubbed; a couple exposed tips. Bookseller and previous owner rubber stamps on front paste-down and flyleaf. Missing ffep. Soiling on a few pages. 332, plus [2] pp. ads. 7.5 x 5 inches. Nine discourses given by Denton before the Spiritualist Society at Boston Music Hall between 1868 and 1872 (plus one given before the Parker Society in 1864). The addresses cover issues of Christianity and spiritualism (salvation, personal spiritual integrity, the impact of science, the truth of spiritualism, who are Christians, the temporary condition of Christianity versus spiritualism, protected religious freedom, etc.). William F. Denton (1823-1883) was a prominent spiritualist in the Boston area and a well known professor of geology. His wife, Elizabeth Melissa Foote Denton, was also notable in spiritualist circles. From about 1865 they resided at Needham/Wellesley,… Read More

Geneve: Librairie Droz, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked. 183 pages. 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Contents: Introduction. I. Folly and the sources of social disorder. II. The nature of social order. III. Dialectic and rhetoric. IV. Rhetoric and reform. V. Christian fool, stoic sage, catholic saint. Conclusion. Appendix I. Bibliography. Index.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Signed by Author(s). Signed by both Henry Clay French and his son Chauncey Del French (the author) on half-title page. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering. Very slightly spine cocked. Front bottom fore-corner lightly bumped. Interior clean. Dust jacket chipped; spine faded; not price clipped ($2.50). DJ in archival sleeve. Seven photographic plates. vi, 292 pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. The story of western railroad man Henry Clay French (1856-1945), as told to his son Chauncey French (1890-1967). Henry French began his railroad career in 1873 as a messenger and call boy for the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad. He saw almost 57 years of service on fifteen different lines (with his longest stints being with the Lawrence, Leavenworth & Galveston Railroad, Oregon Railroad & Navigation, the Kansas City Belt Line, Northern Pacific, Tacoma & Eastern Railroad, and Union Pacific) prior to his retirement in 1930. He served in… Read More

[Boston], Portland, Oregon: [Arthur P. Schmidt Company], 1913. Soft cover. Very Good. Sheet music for piano. One page insert with covers featuring a front pictorial (showing a photograph of the restaurant's interior and an illustration of its street and front entrance). Three pages of music. Covers are rubbed and lightly thumbed. Previous owner's name at foot of front cover, else unmarked. 13.75 x 10.5 inches. Written for the opening of the Rainbow Grill in 1913 and published with the compliments of the proprietor, Theodore Kruse. Portland's Rainbow Grill, located downtown in the Morgan Building at SW 7th & Washington, was opened by Theodore Kruse on October 1, 1913. Less than two years later, with Kruse filing for bankruptcy, it went out of business and closed its doors June 14, 1915. Kruse had been a longtime Portland restaurateur who had previously operated the Louvre Cafe at the Belvedere Hotel, a well-known hangout for Portland's homosexual underground. After closing… Read More

Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Half green cloth binding with marbled paper sides. Spine has gilt filigree design with gilt title on a burgundy label. 20 b/w plates. Frontis with tissue guard. Light edge wear. xii, 151, plus [4] pp. advertising. 7" x 4.5". David Greene Haskins (1818-1896) was the cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

London: Mills & Boon, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Forest green boards with gilt lettering on spine; the front has light green lettering and a paste-on pictorial showing of a rural cottage scene. Corners pushed; light edgewearl. Previous owner's name and lightly erased pencil price on ffep; the title page and a few other pages (those adjacent to the illustrated plates) are foxed; pages are generally clean. 32 plates with photographic illustrations and a map. xii, 292 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Published as part of Mills & Boon's Rambles Series. 1916 travelogue of a journey across Australia which was made by the authors made between July and September. In a lively fashion it conveys a diverse impression of the country itself, its landscapes, its social environment and cultural atmosphere. It also touches on some historical and political aspects. Contents: Part I: Western Australis (The Land of the Unlatched Door; First Impressions; Perth: A Paradise for the Working Man; In the Bush;… Read More

Emigrant, Montana: Claude Hookham, 1960. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Saddle stitched booklet has a tiny bit of bumping to fore edge corners. Very light wear to bottom spine edge. A couple tiny spots on front wrap. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Flat signed by author on dedication page. 70 pages. Verse by Montana rancher Claude Hookham (1904-1999), a resident of Emigrant (near Livingston) and of Park County since the 1940s.

New York: Forum Gallery, 2020. Soft cover. Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Jones on title page. Saddle-stitched in card covers. Light wear to edges, rear cover a bit rubbed. pp. [14]. 11 x 9 inches. Placed in an archival sleeve. Booklet for the Rance Jones exhibition ''The Lingering Revolution'' held at the Forum Gallery in New York City in the autumn of 2020, presenting a dozen of Jones' vivid and realistic watercolor paintings which depict a variety of expressions of Cuban life. Rance Jones (b. 1965), a native of Texas, earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 1993.

San Antonio, Texas: Shepard Bros. & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind with gilt pictorial on front cover. Light wear to boards. Front inner hinge shows mild cracking, but is still firm. Previous owner's name on ffep and at head of ch. 2. Light colored-pencil scribbles on copyright page and in the margins of page 18. Some instances of minor page soiling, else generally clean. Nine in-text illustrations. pp. [2], 411, [5 blank]. [Jenkins BTB 192, Howes S801, Graff 3909]. An important primary source for Texas Indian Wars and pioneer history, written by Andrew Jackson ''Jack'' Sowell (1848-1921), who had served as a Texas Ranger and was also the son of a Texas Ranger. Per the historian, bibliographer, and former ABAA president, John H. Jenkins, this is ''one of the basic sources on the vicissitudes of the pioneer settlers in Texas, this work contains numerous accounts gathered from… Read More

Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman SA, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Philately catalog for the auction held on May 6, 2004 in Geneva. Clean. Gray felted boards. There is a small puncture in the spine gutter on the back side, otherwise the boards are in very good condition with some minor scuffing. Interior is clean, bright, and crisp. 82 pages. French and English language.

London: William Rider & Son, 1918. Hardcover. Good+. Second printing (1918). Red cloth boards. Private library call number and label ghost on spine. Short gift inscription on front pastedown. xvi, 241, plus [6] pages publisher's advertising. Treatise on hypnotherapy, originally published in France in 1898. Preface by the medical professor at Nancy, Hippolyte Bernheim (1840-1919), who was himself a student of Ambroise-Auguste Liebeault, regarded as the father of modern hypnotherapy. Contents: [Part I: Theoretical Study]: [I] Statement of the Subject--Psychic Therapeutics. [II] The Fundamental Law of Psychotherapy; Every Idea is Action in a Nascent State. [III] Auto-Suggestion. [IV] Means of Strengthening Auto-Suggestion--Contemplation. [V] Psychic Gymnastics, or Auto-Suggestion in Action. [VI] Hetero-Suggestion: Its Relation to Auto-Suggestion. [VII] Moral Hygiene. [VIII] The Will--Conclusions: 1. Medical; 2. Philosophical and Moral. [Part II: Practical Suggestions]: [Some… Read More

London: Watts & Co, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Original printed wraps. Ex-library. Light wear at head of spine. Call number neatly written in upper left corner of front cover; minor pencil library notation on table-of-contents page, else free of library markings. 88 pages. Includes contributions by Bertrand Russell, J. B. S. Haldane, Somerset Maugham, Tom Hatherley Pear, Patrick Nowell-Smith, William Elgin Swinton, Donald G. Macrae, Hector Hawton, and Frank Honywill George.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First American Edition. Illustrated boards (same design as dust jacket). Some foxing to pages, including a couple spots on the title page, else occasional light speckling. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a very small spot of soiling on the front panel (on the letter 'W'); not price clipped ($5.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. [32] pages. 10.5 x 10.5 inches. Ratsmagic was British illustrator Wayne Anderson's first children's book and won the 1976 Gold Medal Award for Best Illustrated Children's Book, awarded by the Society of Illustrators, New York. Anderson created the story and the illustrations and then the writer and playwright Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was commissioned to write the words.

Adyar - Wheaton - London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Red boards with black lettering on spine and front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows some minor edge wear; not price clipped ($4.95), in an archival mylar sleeve. xx, 308 pages. A reader's guide to the Mahatma letters to A. P. Sinnett, prepared to help clarify some of the puzzling references found therein and intended to facilitate the study of the philosophy contained in the letters. In addition, it includes an entirely new and more accurate chronology of the letters than had previously been available.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Hardcover. New/New. New in shrink wrap. 242 pp. In this volume Kintgen explains the differences between the way contemporary readers and those of the sixteenth century interpreted texts. He draws fascinating and convincing conclusions about the practice of reading, and successfully relates his arguments to the fields of literary studies and cognitive science.

New York: The Realist Association. Soft cover. Very Good+. 35 issues, all in very good condition. No chips or edge tears. A few issues show minor creasing and/or toning. Includes: 23, 24/25, 40, 55, 57, 66, 68-69, 75, 78-79, 81, 84, 85 (pts 1-6, complete), 86, 88, 90, 91 (pts A, B, C), 92 (pts A, B, C), 95, 96 (pts A, B, C), 97 (pts A, B, C), and 98. Includes interview issues with Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, and Jules Feiffer.

Paris, France: La Societe pour L'Etude du Proche-Orient Ancian, 1991. Soft cover. Good. Book has soiling to front and rear covers. Bumped at upper spine corner. Fore edge corners are a little curled. A few stress creases across spine. Pages are clean. Binding is sound. French Language. Cahiers de N.A.B.U. 2 (Nouvelles Assyriologiques Breves et Utilitaires). 22 x 29.5 cm. 103 Pages.

Mashhad, Iran: University de Mashhad, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is bumped/dented at center of front (western) spine edge. Bumping to extremities. Scuff mark on front cover. A few pages have light pencil underlining and marginalia. Publication dated July, 1979. Universite de Mashhad Publication No. 62. Perisan Language.