Search Results: Titles starting with R from Underground Books, ABAA

Birmingham: The Southern Classics Library, 1982. Leather_bound. Very good. Leather_bound. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvii, 601pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative brown leather over baords. Light dust-spotting to all-gilt edges. Bookplate from The Southern Classics Library to front-free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Red silk bookmark is sewn in. A decorative special edition copy published exclusively for members of The Southern Classics Library.

Birmingham: The Southern Classics Library, 1982. Leather_bound. Very good. Leather_bound. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvii, 601pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative brown leather over baords. Light dust-spotting to all-gilt edges. Five raised bands to spine with six gilt compartments. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Red silk bookmark is sewn in. A decorative special edition copy published exclusively for members of The Southern Classics Library. ABOUT THIS BOOK: More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America's elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was "a moral and political evil." Aloof and somber, he… Read More

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xxiii, 484pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.(Publisher).

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 127pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Faint dust spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: On this visual journey documenting the history of Rabun County, vintage souvenir postcards span decades, showing adventurous visitors who descended into the gorge, hiked to waterfalls, and climbed mountains, as well as how hardworking early settlers built their communities. Follow the development of the county from the construction of Tallulah Falls Railroad to the building of hotels, boardinghouses, and summer camps. Communities grew, declined, and grew again as dams were constructed to harness the Tallulah River, which reshaped the land and created Lake Burton, Lake Rabun, Lake Seed, and Tallulah Lake.(Publisher).

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 398pp. Lacking dust jacket. Purple cloth over boards, with pictorial title label to spine. Moderate wear to binding, with sunning to spine, small tears head and tail of spine, and light scattered rubbing. Front hinge tender. Binding remains sound. Bookseller's ticket to rear free endpaper. A solid first printing of this sea story by William McFee (1881-1966).

Los Angeles: Sage, 2010. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 201pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the first book-length study to address sport s role in the making of race , the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary western multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows that over the past century sport has occupied a dominant position within Western culture in producing ideas of racial difference and alterity while providing a powerful and public modality for forms of black cultural resistance. Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, it is the first book that centrally locates sport within the cultural politics of the black diaspora and will be of relevance to students and… Read More

Oakland: University of California Press, 2007. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 232pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. Race and the Brazilian Body weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction," where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country's history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ethnographic account describes how cariocas (people who live in Rio de Janeiro) "read" the body for racial signs. The amount of… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". x, 326pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A tour de force work by a leading scholar, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word explores the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and the ways in which it grew to become accepted as an idea that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. An ardent and eloquent opponent of typology, essentialism, and stereotyping, C. Loring Brace has based this engaging study on the "Problems of Race" course that he has taught at the University of Michigan for the past thirty-five years. Opening with an explanation of why the concept of race is biologically indefensible, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word shows how the major elements of human biological variation have unrelated distributions and cannot be understood if the… Read More

New York: The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement, City of New York, 1964. Staplebound wraps. Good +. Staplebound wraps. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated, 16pp. Moderate wear to staplebound printed wraps, with small tears to edges and extremities, sunning, and dust soiling. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An overall well-preserved copy of this report of The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement's study of minority representation in the four largest national magazines, conducted page-by-page of every issue of a year-long period. The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement was founded by Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner. This report is illustrated throughout in "integrated" advertisements and includes a first ever published list of advertisers and agencies cooperating with the effort. A fascinating artifact of 1960s thinkng on representation in media, a conversation and struggle that remains relevant today. 5 holdings in OCLC.

Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2021. Hardcover. Good/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 372pp. Mild creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of blue paper over boards. Lean to spine. Creasing to some pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris's attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father's long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks solace in the company of those she once thought lost to her: her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of… Read More

N.P.: Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1913. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 10 1/2" X 7 3/4". 7pp. Offprint separated from bound volume, with stab holes at spine. Blue paper wraps show moderate sunning, edgewear, and toning. Small tear to edges of wraps and pages. Binding is sound. Pages are unmarked. A mildly worn and quite readable copy.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 4 1/4" X 3 5/8". 425pp, plus ads. Pictorial paper over boards. Rather heavy edgewear to binding, wth bumping to corners, spine splitting at bottom edge, pencilled marks to rear board, and crease to upper board. Hinges a bit weak. Small tear to pastedowns. Pages are consistently age-toned, clean and unmarked. A worn but solid and still quite charming copy of this Better Little Book featuring the thrilling detective work of Ellery Queen.

Philadelphia: Railway Lighting & Heating Company, 1889. Wraps. Very good. Wraps. 6 3/8" X 4 1/8". 19pp. Stiff russet printed paper wraps with spine backed in red cloth. Moderate wear to binding, with small open tear to top corner of upper wrap,creasing, spots of soiling, and scattered rubbing. Binding is sound. Occasional spots of soiling to pages and toning due to laid in insect wing. A quite attractive copy of this 1889 manual used by actual rail workers as evidenced by handwritten note to first page: "Please familiarize yourself with pages 3 & 4," with manicule and underlines to same page.

Milwaukee: Peanut Butter Publishing, 1999. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at half-title page. 10" X 7". x, 195pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Robert Greenler was a physicist known for his work in optics and education. He made significant contributions to the understanding of light scattering phenomena, particularly in relation to atmospheric optics and the polarization of light. Greenler also dedicated much of his career to teaching and science education, emphasizing hands-on learning and inquiry-based approaches. He authored several influential textbooks and was involved in curriculum development initiatives aimed at improving science education at all levels. Greenler's work has had a lasting impact on both the scientific community and science education.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 277pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Inked underlining to front flap of jacket. Sticker to spine of jacket. Gentle bumps to corners and edges of red cloth over boards. A few instances of inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The children of Philip III of Spain (1578-1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584-1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation raises the question of how royal families learned the roles they played in court, country, and on the international stage. In Raised to Rule, Hoffman presents a deeply researched and stimulating study of the formative experiences of children in the royal households of early modern Spain. Five of the eight children… Read More

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1997. Staplebound. Very good. Staplebound. Signed and inscribed to "Shelton" by artist in ink at title page. 10 1/2" X 7". 17pp. Very mild wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Faint dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Light foxing to pages 8 and 9. Pages are free of marks and notations. Binding is sound. Ralph Gibson (born 1939) is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition. This signed brochure features works from the 1997 exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1995. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xiv, 347pp. Mild rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Previous owner's name has been marked out in sharpie at front free endpaper and at rear paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The letters that Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy on January 16 and February 27, 1913, are two of the most famous letters in the history of mathematics. These and other letters introduced Ramanujan and his remarkable theorems to the world and stimulated much research, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. This book brings together many letters to, from, and about Ramanujan. The letters came from the National Archives in Delhi, the Archives in the State of Tamil Nadu, and a variety of other sources. Helping to orient the reader is the extensive commentary, both mathematical and cultural, by Berndt and Rankin; in particular, they discuss in detail… Read More

American Mathematical Society / London Mathematical Society, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xvi, 347pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book contains essays on Ramanujan and his work , as well as important survey articles in areas influenced by Ramanujan's mathematics. Most of the articles in the book are nontechnical, but even those that are more technical contain substantial sections that will engage the general reader. The book opens with the only four existing photographs of Ramanujan, presenting historical accounts and information about other people in the photos. This section includes an account of a cryptic family history written by his younger brother, S. Lakshmi Narasimhan. Following are articles on Ramanujan's illness by R. A. Rankin, the British physician D. A. B. Young, and Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar. They present a study of his symptoms, a… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". 183pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in tan paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in brown. Light rubbing and toning to covers and edges of boards. Slight lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Whether he's stepping to the plate in a ninth inning rally or barreling through a goal line stand, sexteen-year-old Bronc Burnett is the kind of athlete who sets your pulses quickening. There's a world of "how-to-play" tips interwoven with the exciting yarns themselves.(Publisher).

Atlanta: Maquette de Gilles, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10 3/4" X 8 1/2". 20pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. A spot of surface paper loss to front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalog of tapestry reproductions. Page with list of tapestries, their dimensions, and their prices is laid in.