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Queen Mary, The


Potter, Neil and Jack Frost

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The biography of a beloved ship, the most famous ocean liner of modern times. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild age toning to exterior text block edges. Minor fading and age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450040


Price: $13.00 

 

Quentin Durward (Standard English Classics)


Scott, Walter/R. W. Bruere (Editor)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ginn & Company, Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning to edges. Small spots to a few pages. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf in pencil, else clean & unmarked.

Record # 6670059


Price: $19.00 

 

Raffles


Collis, Maurice

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853767


Price: $12.00 

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 

 

Rahel Levin Varnhagen - The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual


Tewaron, Heidi Thomann

Paperback. Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations, 262 pages. Paperback.

Record # 203719


Price: $15.00 

 

Raphael


Jones, Roger, Nicholas Penny

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of tanning and a little age wear (see image). Pages clean, binding tight. A little soil to edges. In very good shape. Examines the life and works of the artist, the organization of his studio, the market he supplied, the patrons he served, and the status he enjoyed.

Record # 32004


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GcbPerrett, Bryan
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Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, Gcb


Perrett, Bryan

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471755


Price: $15.00 

 

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 for Rights: Abigail Scott DuniwayMoynihan, Ruth Barnes
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Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway


Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

Softcover. NEW HAVEN, CT, Yale University Press, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 450062


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

Reflections on Fieldwork in MoroccoRabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)
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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco


Rabinow, Paul R., Robert N. Bellah (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press1, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Dj priceclipped, Some light foxing to edges, pages clean. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Binding good, spine straight. Tan cloth cover boards, blue title on spine. Scarce.

Record # 33556


Price: $23.00 

 

Rembrandt in Amsterdam


Fuchs, R. H.

Hardcover. Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610861


Price: $15.00 

 

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

Record # 30479


Price: $31.00 

Rembrandt's EyesSchama, Simon
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Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 748 pages. Full color illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610699


Price: $50.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminiscences: Fifty Years a Lawyer and Appendix, Containing a List of the Officers and Members, and a Copy of the By-Laws of Phoebe Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Collinsville, Connecticut


Barbour, Sylve

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, Hartford Press/The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, has some fading around edges and a touch of soil to covers, gilt title on spine and front cover. Binding quite tight, spine straight, pages unmarked. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations.

Record # 31994


Price: $38.00 

 

REPORTER WHO WOULD BE KING: A BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS


Lubow, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Scribner, 1st, 1992-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460772


Price: $13.00 

 

Revolt in the Desert


Lawrence, T. E.

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers & fold out map tipped in to rear. Brick cloth covered boards with black titles & black illustrations to cover & spine. Clay dyed top edge. Deckled side edge. Moderate foxing to preliminary & title pages, light foxing to some pages throughout. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, otherwise clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751436


Price: $25.00 

 

Reynolds


Davies, Randall

Hardcover. London, UK, Adam and Charles Black, First Edition, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Hardcover with original dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with distinctive maroon embossed design, maroon titles to cover, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket is soiled, heavy wear to edges & tanning to spine. Wonderful full page full color illustrations of the artist's work throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light toning, many pages uncut. Light toning throughout, darkened to endpapers

Record # 6670158


Price: $38.00 

Ribbentrop: A BiographyBloch, Michael
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Ribbentrop: A Biography


Bloch, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket back. Publishers promotional photo laid in. Black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470829


Price: $19.00 

 

Rise of Saint Calvin, The. Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge.


Gilfond, Duff

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. red stained top edge, untrimmed fore edge. Blue cloth covers with tipped in paper label on cover and spine. light edge wear, light foxing on bottom edge.

Record # 408367


Price: $23.00 

 

Rise of Saint Calvin, The


Gilfond, Duff

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Covers show standard wear.

Record # 608232


Price: $12.00