Ted Williams
by Ray Robinson
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Laminate boards. Very Good/Very Good. The 1962 1st edition of this Putnam biography of Ted Williams. Solid and VG in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light soiling and creasing to the panels and along the edges. Still though, very presentable.
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The Songs of the Trees: Pictures Rhymes and Tree Biographies
by Mary Y. Robinson
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A crisp, clean copy of the 1903 1st edition. Well-preserved and VG+ in its pictorial cloth. Quarto, 126 pgs. Beautifully illustrated thruout in vivid color by the author herself. Music by Josephine Robinson.
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City Planning: With Special Reference to the Planning of Streets and Lots
by Charles Mulford Robinson
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Cloth. Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED --IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION-- BY CHARLES MULFORD ROBINSON on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1916 1st edition. Clean and VG to VG+ in its olive-green cloth, with bright gilt-titling at the font panel and spine. Thick octavo, dozens of crisp black-and-white... Read More
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Where the Panther Screams (With Ephemera)
by William P. Robinson
New York: World Publishing Co, 1961. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Lorence Bjorklund. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1961 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, nicely illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. Also includes a signed letter from the editor of the Children's Book department at the World Publishing Company to the illustrator Lorence Bjorklund.
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Rat Alley
by Harold R. Robison
Derby, CT: Monarch Books, 1965. Original wraps. Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1965 1st printing. Bright, crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Pocketbook, Monarch Books #559. "An Explosive Novel of Love and Intrigue in a Strife-Torn Land
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American Icons (Paintings) and Big Weather (Works on Paper)
by Alexis Rockman
New York and Aspen: Leo Koenig, Inc./Baldwin Gallery, 2006. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. 2006 joint catalogue of shows in New York (American Icons) and Aspen (Big Weather). WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ARTIST ALEXIS ROCKMAN on the frontispiece. A very handsome copy to boot. Immaculate and Fine in a bright, Fine pictorial dustjacket. Octavo, 47 pgs. Signed by Illustrator.
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My Kitchen
by Harlow Rockwell
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1980. Pictorial boards. Near Fine/Very Good +. Harlow Rockwell. A clean, solid copy of the 1980 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch of very light chipping along the front panel's edges. Oblong quarto, nicely illustrated throughout in rich color by the author himself.... Read More
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Le Capital
by Carl Rodbertus-Jagetzow
Paris: V. Giard & E.Briere, 1904. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. 1904 1st French edition, in its original wrappers. VG- in its light-blue wrappers, with chipping and fraying along the spine. Still tightly-bound though and very presentable. Octavo, 296 pgs. Light, neat pencil thruout.
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Overproduction and Crises
by Karl Rodbertus
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1898 1st UK edition. Solid and VG in its original red cloth, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine and very light soiling to the front panel. 12mo, 140 pgs. plus publisher's ads.
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Zakkniga, Book of the Caucaus
by Vladymir Mayakovsky (Alexander Rodchenko)
Moscow: Vladymir Mayakovsky, 1926. Pictorial wrappers. Very Good +. Alexander Rodchenko. An uncommon example of 1926 post-Revolution poetry AND Constructivist design, with the work of 2 giants of Russian Futurism and Constructivism, Vladymir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) and Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) here on display. Published by Mayakovsky, this slim, 16 pg. book, which features Mayakovsky's "denunciating" poetry following the suicide... Read More
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Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
by Albert S. Roe
Princeton University Press, 1953. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very presentable copy of the 1953 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping and creasing along the spine ends and mild darkening at the spine. Tall quarto, Albert Roe's text followed by 103 of Blake's historic illustrations for the... Read More
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Jackie Robinson
by Bill Roeder
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1950. Cloth. Very Good/Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR BILL ROEDER on the front free endpaper. A preesentable copy to boot of the 1950 1st edition. Tight and VG (light, small tape stains at the pastedowns) in a bright, Good only dustjacket, with a bit of clear-tape reinforcement and light creasing and chipping along... Read More
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Discours Sur la prohibition de la culture du tabac; et le privilege exclusif de la fabrication et du debit
by M. Roederer
Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. Decorative Boards. Very Good +. Uncommon February 1791 treatise on the "discourse of the prohibition of tobacco cultivation and the exclusive privilege of manufacturing and distribution". The original treatise (whose pages are clean and crisp and have held up very nicely) has been re-bound in its patterned, decorative boards over a navy-blue backing, with... Read More
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Tausend und Eine Nacht (A Thousand and One Nights)
by Ernst Roenau
Verlag M. Munk, 1922. Pictorial boards. Near Fine. Rosa. A lovely copy of Ernst Roenau's retelling of "A Thousand and One Nights", circa 1922 and brilliantly illustrated in Art Nouveau flourishes by Rosa. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial beige boards, with 10 tipped-in, full-page color illustrations complementing Roenau's text. Tall quarto, a dozen+ additional black-and-white illustrations... Read More
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Le Calvecin Dans L'Oeuvre De J.S. Bach
by Edmond Roethlisberger
Geneva: Edition Henn, 1920. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Published under the auspices of the "L'Association des Musiciens Suisses". 1920 1st edition. A clean, VG+ copy in its original wraps. Octavo, 138 pgs. "The Harpsichord in the work of JS Bach". Pages uncut.
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Kandinsky: Das Graphische Werk
by Hans Konrad Roethel
Cologne, Germany: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, HANS KONRAD ROETHEL, FROM HIS HOME IN PRINCETON on the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 1970 1st edition of the catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's graphic works. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, VG dustjacket, with... Read More
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Notice Biographique sur Jules Colbeau: Secretaire de la Societe Royale Malacologique de Belgique + (6) Jules Colbeau Titles Bound-In
by Francois Roffiaen
Brussels: M. Weissenbruch, Imprimeur du Roi, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. A WONDERFUL COPY: 7 separate titles bound into 1 book. The 1881 1st edition of the Jules Colbeau biography ("Notice Biographique...."), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FRANCOIS ROFFIAEN on the title page. Plus the 1865 "Excursions et Decouvertes Malacologiques Faites en Quelques Localites de la Belgique" by Jules Colbeau,... Read More
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The Argosy Book of Adventure Stories
by Rogers Terrill, Ed
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. A handsome copy of the 1952 1st edition. Clean and VG+ (with one small stain to the front free endpaper's bottom-edge) in a crisp, price-intact ("$3.00"), VG+ dustjacket. 12mo, 311 pgs.
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Bernhard Schobinger: Jewels Now!
by Roger Fayet and Florian Hufnagl, eds
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. Published on the occasion of the April-July 2003 exhibition "Bernhard Schobinger--Jewels" at Zurich's Museum Bellerive, this fascinating monograph is bright and solid and has held up nicely. Tight and VG+ in its pictorial boards, with very light scraping at the rear panel. Quarto, 184 pgs., dual text (in... Read More
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Picture--Puzzle--Posters (in Dustjacket)
by F. Rogers
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1933. Original wraps. Very Good +/Very Good. A handsome copy of the 1933 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG+ in its stiff wrappers. And in a bright, VG dustjacket, with very light soiling along the panel edges. Tall quarto, "all the materials and directions you need... Read More
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Ash Glazes
by Phil Rogers
London: A & C Black, 1991. An all-but-immaculate copy of the 1991 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, lovely color reproductions throughout.
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Organic Reactions (in 7 Vols.)
by Roger Adams, W.E. Bachmann, L.F. Fieser, J.R. Johnson and H.R. Snyder, Eds
New York: John Wiley, 1942. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The first 7 volumes of this landmark set in the literature of chemistry. 1942-1953. All volumes 1st printings except Vol. II, a 2nd printing. All volumes solid VGs in their original navy-blue cloth with bright, unflecked gilt-lettering on the spines. All volumes uniform octavos, over 3,100 pgs.in total.... Read More
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Test Tube Babies: A History of the Artificial Impregnation of Human Beings
by Dr. Hermann Rohleder
New York: The Panurge Press, 1934. Cloth. Very Good. The 1934 1st edition, limited to 2,000 copies. Solid and VG in its gray/green cloth, with light offsetting and taseful former owner bookplate at the front pastedown, and light offsetting to the front free endpaper. Octavo, 205 pgs. plus lengthy Appendix.
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Special and Decorative Breads (Vols. I & II)
by Roland Bilheux, Alan Escoffier, Daniel Herve, Jean-Marie Pouradier, Alain Couet and Eric Kayser
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990. Boards. Very Good +/Near Fine. Vols. I and II, 1989 and 1990 1st editions respectively. Both volumes clean and VG+ to Near Fine (light bumping at the lower-tips) in crisp, Near Fine dustjackets. Tall quartos, hundreds of recipes and crisp color illustrations throughout. Vol I: Basic Bread-making Techniques--46 Special Breads--Fancy Breads--Viennese Breads--Decorative... Read More
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Lucian Freud--Naked Portraits
by Rolf Lauder, Ed
Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp example of the 2001 monograph on Lucian Freud's nudes. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, "328 pages, with 191 illustrations, 46 in colour and 27 in duotone". Edited by Rolf Lauder, the text in both German and English.
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