Search Results: Titles starting with R from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.: Northland Publishing, 1984. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth Boards. As New/Almost As New. Gorman, R. C. (illustrator).

Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. Limited First Edition. Half Red Leather, Beige Cloth. Fine. Lansdowne, J. Fenwick. #108 of 400 copies. Signed, numbered print laid-in. Handsome, red, half-leather over cloth. In publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine.

Columbia SC: Bostick & Thornley, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good +. First edition, Publishers' cloth, 8vo. Solid copy, with trace foxing mostly confined to endpapers, internals clean, in UNclipped dw, that is worn about edges, and soiled, mostly to rear panel, with some loss at dw spine ends. "Under mylar" as they say and a presentable copy thus.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Uncommon memoir of Mary Cushing Watkins, focusing on her experiences as a young woman, as personal assistant to opera diva Madame Olive Fremstad. Inscribed by the author and dated Sept 1954 on half title. OPERA.

NY: Winchester Press, 1969. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this 84, with a special binding, prepared for private distribution to friends of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. With new introduction by Kermit Roosevelt. Republication (the original edition 1888) authorized by Theodore Roosevelt Association in conjunction with the issuance of the Theodore Roosevelt Model '94 Winchester Commemorative Rifle. Red, pebbled half leather, gilt-ruled over brown cloth. Unused, as new copy in glassine, which is torn in red linen slipcase.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition, fourth printing with text changes on pages 325 and 327. Boards moderately worn, more so on rear cover. Front hinge tender. Previous owner names on ffe and pastedown.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, fourth printing. Publisher's imprint on spine is 1/8 inch tall. Reading on p. 327, line 13: " bricks, glowing in the October sun." and on p. 325: "Don't turn in at the side. Published October 1903 on copyright page. Pictorial cloth dulled and soiled, stain to bottom edge.

Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1906. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket.

London: Richard Bentley, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, 8vo, green pebbled cloth, red leather label spine, and uncommonly seen thus. 228 pages, leaves somewhat darkened, more so at frontispiece and title. Contemporary inscription in Spanish ffe. Solid copy.

London: Edward Moxon, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Solid copy in brown, crushed half morocco over marbleized boards, matching endpapers, raised bands, gilt spine titles, 8vo, viii, 304. 4 engraved plates. Old name card pasted to ffe.

Paris: Chez L'Editeur, 1814. Presumed First or Early Editions. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, circa 1814, seven suites of 12 engraved plates each for a total of 84 later bound, probably late 18thC, in half red leather over marbleized boards. The binding is divided into two sections, the "front" section begun with a centerfold title page with a circular vignette, with the first suite of the five entitled "Suite: d'ouvriers de differentes classes". The printer is identified on the title page as "L'editeur, Rue St. Lazare Chaussee d"Antin, No. 42". The same title page, but with a different circular vignette begins the last two suites of engravings. The first of these two suites is entitled "Suite de Militaires de Differentes Armes." The individual plates, rectangular in shape and in general dimensions of 9cm x 6 cm, are centered on each leaf. Some loss to leather at spine ends and boards worn, binding firm and, most importantly, engravings unfoxed.

Paris: A Paris chez l'auteur quay de Bourbon Isle St Louis a` co^te? de l'ho^tel de Jasso. Mr Bayard rue? St Honore? a` la Regle d'or. Mr Le Clerc rue? du Roule a` la Croix d'or. Mlle Castagneri rue? des Prouvaires a` la Musique royalle, 1757. 1st or early edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Choral score for a chamber piece by Lefebve, 9 oblong sheets folded once to double-sided 36 - title page, 30 pages of musical score, Royal statement. Leaves have been excised from a larger volume, the music choral score paginated 121 - 150. The "Extrait du Privilege du Roy" grants exclusive rights to the printers to publish Lefebvre's work, proclaimed 17 May 1757 and issued 28 May 1757. (Unauthorized use carries a fine of 3000 pounds!). Musical sheets have untrimmed edges, soiled about edges. Laid-into an oblong folder of fine brown linen-covered boards and floral-patterned French endpapers probably 19thc. Lefebvre (c1700 - 1763) was a French composer and organist at the royal church of St. Louis-en-l'Isle (as he is… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Good -. Solid copy, save some loss to the right bottom corner front cover in uncommon dustjacket that missing some pieces about edges. Story of Native North American boy living on the Canadian Government reservation at Bear Lake. NATIVE AMERICAN JUVENILE.

Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Weighty volume, full of historical and geneological research. Thick 8vo, three quarter blue cloth over gold cloth, stamped titles, 1204 pages, illustrated, folding map. An apparently unused copy. Signed by author Mather and dated by him January 1914 top of title page.

London: Gollaird Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 45o hardbound copies. Fine, unused copy in publisher's glassine, gently toned about edges. Poet's first book.

NY: privately printed, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Privately printed by the author Julius Paul Meyer, who for many years was the head of the Hamburg- American Line in the US. He entered the shipping business in 1988 with Kunhardt & Co. then general shipping agents for the German line. When the Hamburg- American Line opened its own offices in NY, he joined the staff, advancing quickly to be its executive. 8vo, green suede covers, yapped edges, versos of covers green silk moire, 22, (6). Suede faded to brown as expected most notably about edges, otherwise in remarkably well preserved. Inscribed in German on the verso of the half-title by Meyer and dated Highland Mills, NY Sept 1906. Meyer writes about the early history of the line from the mid 1850s to the 1890s. OCLC lists only 1 copy at NYPL . TRANSATLANTIC SHIPPING.

NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. True first edition in book appearance, published by Kennerley (not Harper). Black linen cloth, some soling, gilt titles front and spine, near fine internals, edges untrimmed. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, half pebbled leather over marbelized boards, gilt titles spine, 338 9. Solid copy.

Washington: GPO, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Green cloth, 352 pages, illustrated, original owner name 1903 date on the flyleaf. A fine copy.

NY: The Library of America, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread.