THE SECRET RIVER
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Weisgard, Leonard (illustrtator)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A posthumously published children's title by Rawlings about an African American girl in Florida. A fine, apparently unread copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE RELATION SHIP
by Raworth, Tom. Hall, BArry (drawings)
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.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Bible Hand-Book; for Sunday-Schools and Bible-Readers. With One Hundred and Fifty Engravings, and Twenty-Five Maps and Plans. Third Edition
by Albert L. Rawson
NY: R. B. Thompson & Co, 1870. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo, publishers' brown linen, blind- ruled and stamped. Front cover just holding on, requires recasing, minor loss to cloth over spine. Internals near fine.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Sculptures and Woodcuts of Reder
by Reder, Bernard (scuplture of). Rewald, John
Florence: Sansoni Editori, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine, unused copy in dustjacket with minor wear at corners. Laid-in is exhibition catalog, with text also by author Rewald, for an exhibition of Reder's work at World House Galleries in Manhattan in Jan - Feb 1959.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
LETTERS FROM AN ACTOR
by Redfield, William. (Gielgud, John) (Burton, Richard)
NY: Viking, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A series of letters from American actor William Redfield (1927 - 1976) to his friend, Robert Mills, between January and August of 1964 which chronicle the rehearsals and performances of Hamlet, a production conceived and directed by Sir John Gielgud as a modern-dress "rehearsal" of the play. Hamlet was... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Collector and Other Poems
by Redgrove, Peter
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine -.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Eliel Saarinen - Master of Design
by Redi, Kenneth
Pencil Point Press, 1936. Soft cover. Near Fine. Reprint of pictorial essay on archietct Eleiel Saarinen and his work from Pencil Point issue of Sept 1936.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Guide to Taxidermy
by Reed, Chas K. an d Chester A. Reed
Worcester MA: Chas. K. Reed, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. New Edition - Enlarged and Re-written. Fifteehth Thousand as stated on title page. 303pp, illustrated plus ads rear. Stamped cloth cover with pictorial pastedown of bald eagle. Old owner name ffe. Solid copy.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Verrill, Addison E.
by THE BERMUDA ISLANDS: Part IV - Geology and Paleontology and Part V An Account of the Coral Reefs
New Haven: Yale University, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. The first appearance of Parts IV and V of Verrill's study of Bermuda that first appeared in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume XII, 1904-1907. 8vo, page 46 - 348, full page Plates XVI - XL, pages 407 - 418. Laid-in is TLS from... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART Selected Works of Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell ( January 21, 1961)
by (Remington, Frederick). (Russell, Charles Marion)
Fort Worth: AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART, 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Hard-to-find catalog for the inaugural exhibition of important US museum for western American art. Large 8vo, stiff pictorial covers, unpaginated (34pp), catalogs 49 entires, with descriptions of canvasses and sculptures, plus biographical timelines of the artists and a list of the small bronzes... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Ornithological Monographs No. 48: Studies in Neotropical Ornithology Honoring Ted Parker
by Remsen, J. V., Jr.
Washington, D. C.: The American Ornithologists' Union, 1997. Blue Cloth. As New. 5 color plates and color frontispiece. Edges and corners sharp. Text clean, binding tight. Immaculate.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Paul Reps, Letters to a Friend: Writings & Drawings, 1939 to 1980
by Reps, Paul
South Ackworth: Stillgate Press, 1981. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. #14 of 200, signed by artist, with an original litho inside front board. Cloth covered slipcase a bit scuffed, book in unused and fresh.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Animal & Sporting Artists In America
by Reuter, F. Turner
Middleburg VA: The National Sporting Library, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 880 pages; 2,384 artist biographies; 418 illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the ffe. An apparently unused copy in slipcase. The first edition of the standard, not limited, edition.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, On Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith. Being All That Were Published By His Grace Himself
by Tilliston. John Rev
London`: B. Laymer and W. Rogers, 1696. First Edition. Calf Over Boards. Good. Original or old calf over baords, 779 pages plus 20 page Table in rear. Presumed first edition that collects all 54 sermons. Boards holding but missing more than half of the calf over them. Spine firmly strung with 5 bands, although calf over spine is... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Andrea Palladio and the Winged Device
by Reynolds, James
NY: Creative Arts Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. Very nice copy, top a wee dusty, firmly bound in dw w/ tanned spine, a sliver of loss top of it. Inscribed by author on half title: "All good fortune/ to you and your house/ Jim Reynolds
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Que
by Reynolds, Tim
Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Halty Ferguson, 1971. First Edition. Paperwraps. Fine/No Dustjacket.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Women Poem
by Reynolds, Tim
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Dustjacket. a beautiful copy.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Slocum
by Reynolds, Tim
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Paperwraps. Fine/No Dustjacket.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN
by Rhoades, John Harsen. (William McKnley, William Jennings Bryant). (Gold standard)
NY: Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club of New York, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. An address delivered by John Rhoades, Presidnet of the Greenwich Savings Bank of New York, befoer the Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club of New York. Stiff paper printed covers, 17 pages. A businessman's ringing endorsement of McKinley during oen of the most hostoric presidentail elections... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
WE, THE PEOPLE
by Rice, Elmer
NY: Coward McCann, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Rare first edition of socialist, Pulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, signed, with obvious sarcasm, on the ffe: "Heil Hitler! E. R. Apr 1933" Rice wrote We, The People as a warning shot to Americans about the rise of Hitler and fascism. Rice was one of the founders... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
TWO ON AN ISLAND
by Rice, Elmer
NY: Coward McCann, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Rare first edition of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Elmer Rice, inscribed to fellow board member of The Playwrights' Company John F. Wharton: "Dear John - Here is my annual contribution to the firm's liabilities. Thanks for being so patient about it. Affectionately, Elmer April 1940" Rice... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
THE ADDING MACHINE
by Rice, Elmer
NY: Doubleday, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare signed first edition of socialist, Piulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, inscribed on the ffe: "to Leonard L. Hess E. L. R. July 1923". Hess was a NYC author, whose short stories appeared in the American Mercury, Harper's Weekly, The Bookman and The Saturday Review mid-1920s-early 1930s. Rice was one of... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon and the Escape
by Richardson, Albert D.
Hartford: American Publishing C0, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Early printing of first edition. Original covers front and back detached, and leather spine mostly lost, making this a candidate for rebinding or reference copy as it held in a home-made brown paper wrapper. Internals very good.
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
Episodes in an Obscure Life" in SUNDAY MAGAZINE Part VIII - Vol VI
by Richard Rowe et al. (Trollope, Anthony)
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1870. Issue dated May 1, 1970. Printed covers, chipped about edges. Internals near fine. Vol VI Part VIII, pages 449 - 512. Illustrated with several etchings. Prelims includeLippincott book titles and adveertisment for Trollope's "Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblewaithe
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
ARTISTIC HORSE-SHOEING, A Practicla Treatise, Giveing Improved Methods of Shoeing, with Special Direcetions for Shaping Shoes to Cure Different Diseases of The Foot and for the Correction of Faulty Action in Trotters
by Rich, Prof. George E.
NY: M. T. Richardson, 1887. First Edition -. Pub Decorated Cloth. VG-. Rare horseshoing treatise in original decorated cloth binding. 8vo, dark brown cloth, pressed titles and image of horse in black, with horsehoes in the four corners of the front cover. 150p + 7p adv, each from a supplier of products for horse-shoeing or horse-health: nails, colics,... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.