Anything Can Happen: Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours
by Roger Rosenblatt
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper to language expert and journalist William Safire: "April 1, 2003 / For Bill and Helene -- / More idle chatter from their old friend, Roger." Octavo; 177 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with... Read More
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The Elusiveness of the Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
by Stanley Rosen
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Very Good +/Very Good +. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. 327 PP. Printed dust jacket. White speckled boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with some general rubbing and very faint spotting. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front... Read More
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Ed Paschke: Visionary from Chicago, 1968 - 2004
by [Ed Paschke] Norman Rosenthal
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2015. Near Fine. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2015. First Edition. Square quarto (28.5cm); publisher's black cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards; 104pp.; full color illus. throughout. Brief soil to upper cover cloth, else Fine. Contents include a conversation between Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal.
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Ballads and Sonnets
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Very Good. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. First Thus, Limited to 450 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Quarto; publisher's cream over blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; xxxvi,[2],334pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Extremities lightly scuffed and rather toned, red spine lettering almost entirely effaced, later ownership rubber-stamp... Read More
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Damn Yankees
by George Abbot; Douglass Wallop; Richard Adler; Jerry Ross
New York: Random House, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (20.7cm); [viii],164pp. Photo title page + 2 photo illus. Publisher's beige and orange dust jacket with $2.95 price intact; boards in dark gray cloth with black and gilt lettering and mounted production still to front. Red topstain. Jacket lightly... Read More
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Report & Manifest of the Brig Jason, from Port-de-Paix, Saint Domingue, Owned by Dutilh & Wachsmuth, Signed by Captain David Ross
by [Haitian Revolution] [Philadelphia-Haitian Trade] [Dutilh & Wachsmuth] David Ross
Philadelphia: [s.i.], 1792. Very Good. Philadelphia: 1792-93. Single folded sheet (41.5 x 33.5cm); report in manuscript, verso filled nearly to completion, recto a quarter filled. Signed by Captain David Ross and two other parties; docket dated 1793 signed by Inspector Jeremiah Simmons. Stock exceedingly brittle with shallow chipping, long closed tears along folds with old archival mending, age-toning... Read More
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![The Uncrowned Queen: Life of Lola Montez [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/337/901/1374901337.0.m.jpg)
The Uncrowned Queen: Life of Lola Montez [Signed]
by Ishbel Ross
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Ross on half title with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney / with good wishes. Ishbel Ross June, 1975." Octavo. 349 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt and silver. Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges,... Read More
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![Isle of Escape [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/058/905/1374905058.0.m.jpg)
Isle of Escape [Signed]
by Ishbel Ross
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1942. Very Good/Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. Stated First Edition. Signed by Ross on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney - the friend of authors, who really buys books - fond regards Ishbell Ross December 1962." Mahoney was the husband of American feminist author Caroline Bird, who,... Read More
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![[Broadside] To-Night: Captain C.C. Ross Late Socialist Candidate for Governor of Oklahoma, will speak... Go Hear Him](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/331/298/1717298331.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] To-Night: Captain C.C. Ross Late Socialist Candidate for Governor of Oklahoma, will speak... Go Hear Him
by [Oklahoma Socialists; C.C. Ross]
Oklahoma: Socialist Party, 1908. Very Good. Oklahoma: Socialist Party, 1908. Broadside (23x15cm) printed in orange with purple stamping. Chipping to edges; about Very Good. Advertisement to hear the 1907 Socialist Party Candidate for Governor of Oklahoma who had received just under 10,000 votes in the Fall election. Oklahoma became the 46th state in the Union two months after... Read More
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Someday, Boy
by Sam Ross
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. First Edition, with "Fſ" symbol to copyright. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); [6],340pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities including a few tiny closed tears to the former's extremities as well... Read More
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Philosophy, History and Politics: Studies in Contemporary English Philosophy of History
by Nathan Rotenstreich
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Very Good +. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Octavo; publisher's red card wrappers printed in black and green; [8],158pp. Spine a shade faded, contemporary ownership signature to half title, else Very Good to Near Fine. Issued as the Melbourne International Philosophy Series, no. 1.
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![Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories [Signed Promotional Photograph Tipped in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/604/564/1699564604.0.m.jpg)
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories [Signed Promotional Photograph Tipped in]
by Philip Roth
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1959. Very Good/Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.75); [10],298pp. Heavy toning and chipping to jacket margins with small loss at spine edge of upper jacket panel, ragged splitting along bottom half of front... Read More
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Ark [Limited Edition]
by Adam Fuss and Andrew Roth
Kolkata, India: Laurens & Co Press, 2007. Very Good+. Kolkata, India: Laurens & Co Press, 2007. First Edition, Limited to 333 copies of which this is no. 186. Large folio (43.5cm); publisher's full black goat housed in original black clamshell box with engraving by William Blake mounted to upper panel; eighteen leaves of daguerreotypes interleaved with tissue guards,... Read More
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Geschichtsphilosophie
by Erich Rothacker
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971. Very Good+. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971. Facsimile Reprint of the First (1934) Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 145pp. Minute wear to cloth extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Text entirely in German.
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![Out of the West [Signed by All]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/145/209/1675209145.0.m.jpg)
Out of the West [Signed by All]
by William Everson; Gary Snyder; Philip Levine; Clayton Eshelman; Jerome Rothenberg
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Very Good -. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. Limited First Edition, numbered 215 of 350 on colophon at rear. Small quarto (27cm); [x],47pp; map endpapers. Publisher's orange boards and brown cloth spine with red and gilt lettering. Boards are sturdy and square with faint wear at spine ends. Small bump growing... Read More
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![Letting Go [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/706/561/1699561706.0.m.jpg)
Letting Go [Inscribed and Signed]
by Philip Roth
New York: Random House, 1962. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Random House, [1962]. Second Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth, pale pink topstain, in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [8],630pp. Dust jacket margins quite rubbed and worn with small chips and one long closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel touching text without loss, faint... Read More
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Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First UK Edition. Octavo. 157pp. Adrian Bailey-designed dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows a couple short tears and chips to edges. Boards lightly worn along edges with sunning to spine ends; corners bumped. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Still a Very Good... Read More
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![The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/206/735/1699735206.0.m.jpg)
The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild [Inscribed and Signed]
by Hannah Rothschild
London: Virago, 2012. Very Good. [London]: Virago, [2012]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's blue pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers; [10],307pp.; illus. throughout. Boards rubbed at margins, brief soil spot to spine; Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page.
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![Lettres de Deux Amants, habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpee [alt. title: Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloyse] [Two volumes in one]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/803/1691803483.0.m.jpg)
Lettres de Deux Amants, habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpee [alt. title: Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloyse] [Two volumes in one]
by J.J. [Jean Jacques] Rousseau
Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1762. Very Good. Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1762. Nouvelle Edition, augmentee, avec Figures. Two volumes in one; first and second parts only (of six published). Octavo. xliii; v; 245; iv; 184pp.; half title to part two only. Illustrations. Bound in contemporary calf; five raised bands; gilt decoration, and leather label to spine; marbled endpapers.... Read More
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![Carcasses Divines: Portraits & Monographies Dessinés par Rouveyre, 1906 & 1907 [Cover subtitle: Dessins Inédits] [Inscribed and Signed to François Coppée]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/448/043/1511043448.0.m.jpg)
Carcasses Divines: Portraits & Monographies Dessinés par Rouveyre, 1906 & 1907 [Cover subtitle: Dessins Inédits] [Inscribed and Signed to François Coppée]
by [André] Rouveyre
Paris: Jean Bosc et Co, 1907. Very Good. Paris: Jean Bosc & Co., 1907. First Edition Limited to 200 copies on "papier velin des manufactures d'Arches," of which this is no. 25. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers printed in brown and black; [6]pp. & 54 + xxxv ll. of plates printed on rectos only. Wrapper extremities a... Read More
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As the Cock Crew and Other Stories
by Eve Bowen Rowlands; Lilian Bowen Rowlands
London: Remington & Company, 1895. Good. London: Remington & Company, 1895. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 182 pp. +1 ads. Blue cloth with black- and gilt-stamped lettering and ornamentation. Boards worn with some good bumping to corners, chipping at head of spine, and some splitting to cloth along spine edges. Vertical tear down length... Read More
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![Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/779/054/1694054779.0.m.jpg)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Signed]
by J.K. Rowling
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. 22nd printing. Signed by J.K. Rowling without inscription at title page. Octavo (23.5cm); 309pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price present. Red cloth diamond-patterned boards with gilt lettering to spine; forest green endpapers. ... Read More
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Some Reminiscences
by William L. Royall
New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1909. Very Good-. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1909. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's purple gilt-lettered cloth; 210pp. Light shelf wear, spine significantly toned, evidence of color touch-up to upper cover along spine edge, endpapers foxed, contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Good to Very Good overall. ... Read More
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![An Atlas of Impossible Longing [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/590/419/1686419590.0.m.jpg)
An Atlas of Impossible Longing [Signed]
by Anuradha Roy
London: MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2008. Very Good +/Near Fine. London: MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2008. First UK Edition. Signed by Roy dated 2008 at title page. Octavo. 312pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in pink. Unclipped dust jacket very slightly rubbed at extremities. Boards slightly cocked with bumping to extremities. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or... Read More
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Gamesmen of Kasar and Mistywood [Tunnels and Trolls Adventure Book]
by Roy Cram; Josh Kirby [illus.]
London: Corgi Books, 1986. Very Good +. London: Corgi Books, 1986. First UK Edition. Octavo. 128 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to wraps. Binding is sound. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. A Two-in-One adventure book from Tunnels and Trolls, the second modern role-playing game published, after Dungeons & Dragons.... Read More
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