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Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USNDe Kay, James Tertius
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Rage for Glory, A: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN


De Kay, James Tertius

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 237 pages. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 401286


Price: $20.00 

Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam LocomotionMcGowan, Chris
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Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion


McGowan, Chris

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 379 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458792


Price: $19.00 

Railroad Never Sleeps - 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading, TheSolomon (Editor), Brian
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Railroad Never Sleeps - 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading, The


Solomon (Editor), Brian

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Voyageur Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light surface rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612677


Price: $19.00 

 

Railroads, Reclamation and the River: A History of Pasco


Oberst, Walter A.

Softcover. Pasco, WA, Franklin County Historical Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856702


Price: $35.00 

 

Rainbow at Midnight: LABOR AND CULTURE IN THE 1940S


Lipsitz, George

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Minor wear to edges of cover. Inside is very bright and clean.

Record # 455581


Price: $12.00 

 

Rambles Overland: A Trip Across the Continent


Gunnison, Almon

Hardcover. Boston, Universalist Publishing House, rep , 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Previous owner's signature on title page. Ex-library. Foxing to end papers. Some soiling to covers. Corners bumped. Wear to extremities.

Record # 801707


Price: $21.00 

 

Rape of LaBelle, The


Hahn, Harry

Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, frank Glenn Publishing Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 274 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title to spine and front cover. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, otherwise pages unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has tanning and agewear (see image), still quite good for its age. "This book explores boldly into a racket which has been well protected by the critical and buying habits of American universities, museums, foundations and by the vanities of men in high social places.

Record # 32119


Price: $25.00 

 

Rascal King, The : The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958


Beatty, Jack

Hardcover. Reading, Mass., Perseus Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 571 pages, b&w illustrations. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 452819


Price: $12.00 

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788Maier, Pauline
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788


Maier, Pauline

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2010, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 608 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small gouge and rip to top rear board, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468926


Price: $19.00 

 

Reading Records - A Researcher's Guide to the Archives of American Art - Archives of American Art Journal - Volume 35, Numbers 1-4 - 1995


McCoy, Garnett

Softcover. Washington, D. C., Archives of American Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. Magazine format. Ex-museum library copy with stamp at top right corner of second page. Full color and black & white illustrations. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 613901


Price: $25.00 

 

Readings in Monetary Theory - Blakiston Series of Republished Articles on Economics - Volume V


Lutz (Editors), Friedrich A./Lloyd W. Mints

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Blakiston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. Previous owners book plate on inside front cover. Age darkened spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609253


Price: $15.00 

 

Reagan's America


Wills, Garry

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 452811


Price: $12.00 

 

Real Wild West, The - The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West


Wallis, Michael

NY, St Martins, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 652 pages. Like new except for bottom corner bump.

Record # 65150


Price: $13.00 

 

Reapers of the Dust - A Prairie Chronicle


Hudson, Lois Phillips

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib stamp and adhesive residue on front end paper, light soiling. 173 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket.

Record # 65379


Price: $15.00 

 

Rebel Brothers - The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts


Williams, Edward B.(Ed)

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M, 1st, nd, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, In shrinkwrap.

Record # 107183


Price: $13.00 

 

Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art


Berman, Avis

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 572 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 804926


Price: $16.00 

 

Reclaimed Rubber: The Story of an American Raw Material


Ball, John M.

Hardcover. New York , Rubber Reclaimers Association, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages, b&w illustrations. Red cloth covers with black and gilt design. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405881


Price: $19.00 

 

Recollections of John Ferguson Weir, The


Sizer, Theodore

Hardcover. New York, New York Historical Society, reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. 10 b&w illustrations. Weir's recollections fall into three sections: Memoirs of West Point, the Tenth Street studios and Memoirs of a Yale Professor. Green leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. In good shape.

Record # 605128


Price: $19.00 

 

Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration


Chittenden, L. E.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 470 pages. B&W frontis of Lincoln statue. Ex-lib with light stamping, front fly leaf missing. tape repair to front hinge, internally very good. Top edge gilt. Some soil to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 300734


Price: $20.00 

 

Recording Historic Buildings


McKee, Harley J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Hardcover. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout, including measured drawings, photographs. Off white canvas boards with light toning. Toning to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750184


Price: $15.00 

 

Records of the Congregational Church in Canterbury Connecticut 1711-1844


N/A

Hardcover. Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, tan cloth board with black title on spine. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 855112


Price: $50.00 

 

Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem


Olson, James C.

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Illustrated with 12 pages of black & white photographs. Numbers written in orange wax pencil on front upper right corner of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606716


Price: $30.00 

 

Red Man's Continent, The: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America


Huntington, Ellsworth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, Extra-illustrated, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages w/ index. Red cloth, elaborate gilt design. Spine faded. Illustrations, fold-out color map. Text block tight, Top edge gilt.

Record # 804489


Price: $18.00 

 

Red Rooster Scare, The - Making Cinema American


Abel, Richard

Paperback. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W photos, 301 pages.

Record # 175579


Price: $10.00