Search Results: Authors starting with R from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. Weimar Berlin's legendary film industry provides the cinematically dissolute milieu for Jonathan Rabb's stylish noire Shadow and Light, in which Fritz Lang himself makes a cameo. [Vogue]

Very Good. Folded 2-panel brochure; 4 by 9 inches; the front opens to a 8 by 9 color photograph of the iconic flamingos. Carefully handled, the only flaw is expected light even age-toning.. Known simply as "The World's Most Beautiful Horse Race Course", Hialeah Park is eternal, magnificent and iconic, while holding the distinction of being an Audubon Bird Sanctuary with Flamingos on site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Giftable Book.. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling and embossed stamp on lower corner of the front-free-endpage;  Still Gift Quality. Appears Unread. Text is clean. 9.5 inches tall; 163 pages with Bibliography and Index. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex,

United Kingdom: Vivays Publishing Ltd, 2011. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.  4to; 11.75 inches tall;  69 pages of text and in-text drawings followed by 220 full color plates with accompanying page of text.. Originally published in the 19th century in two volumes, this work by Auguste Racinet was an invaluable resource to artists, designers and architects when it was first published and continues to be so today. The period when Racinet's volumes were being published for the first time (1869 through 1887) saw a renewed interest in classicism and the decorative arts and Racinet's work was certainly influential. With 220 colour plates comprising over 1500 decorative motifs derived from illuminated manuscripts, jewellery, tiles, weaponry, wall painting and other sources, the book is not only inspirational, but also serves as both a visual reference of the motifs and an insight into the aesthetics of different cultures and periods.

London: A & C Black, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes. Half Morocco with marbled boards, four raised spine bands, stamped gilt decorations and titles, Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 75 captioned tissue-guarded full-color plates by Mortimer Menpes. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. First Edition, Thus. 8vo; xiii, 208 p. 75 col. pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Minor fray top spine band. Small bookstore sticker on rear pastedown. A very handsome collectible copy. An uncommon find. Provides a description of the unique city of in which they lived from 1905-1908.

USA: Frederiksen Press, 2007. Soft cover. New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1993. A Fine Soft cover. New/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by Robin Zingone. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.. 200 recipes and firsthand reports from around the state, Miami Spice captures the irresistible convergence of Latin, Caribbean, and Cuban influences with Florida's cornucopia of stone crabs, snapper, plantains, star fruit, and other exotic native ingredients (most of which can be found today in supermarkets around the country).

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A New Giftable Book.. Illustrations by Robin Zingone. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.. 200 recipes and firsthand reports from around the state, Miami Spice captures the irresistible convergence of Latin, Caribbean, and Cuban influences with Florida's cornucopia of stone crabs, snapper, plantains, star fruit, and other exotic native ingredients (most of which can be found today in supermarkets around the country).

Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1964. Near Fine. Burlington Rio Grande Western Pacific. Route map, photo, itinerary times and city information, train information and more. 20 pages; 9 inches tall.. Many say the Califronia Zephyr is North America's most scenic train. On its two night and three day journey the Zephyr passes through mountain ranges and deserts. It crosses the Mississippi, snakes alongside the Colorado through the Rockies and traverses the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges in California. Such accolades have the California Zephyr in great company with other North American train journeys.

London: W. Mate & Sons, 1907. Printed paper boards with decorations and titles. designed to captivate and enthrall! oblong. 9 by 6 inches. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The folded map has toned with a closed tear. The text is flawlessly clean, with a delicate, even toning. Corners rubbed.. The magic of the Lake District is displayed with 48 historical and professional black and white full-page photographs, each a visual masterpiece. Several additional pages feature two photos on each page, creating a feast for the eyes. To enhance your journey, accompanying text eloquently describes the locales captured in these attractive images. Approximately 30 pages of historical advertising portrays life in Edwardian England. Bursting with life, these advertisements offer a splendid array of lodging, refreshment and services. Most of them occupy full-page layouts, accompanied by enchanting photographs that transport you to a world of the past.

New York: The Mershon Company, 1983. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine./No Dust Jacket.. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 16mo 6 inches tall; 192 pages.. Reprint of The discoverie of the large, rich and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana, London, 1596./ Journal of the second voyage to Guiana, August 19, 1617-February 13, 1618: p. [151]-192.

Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Co, 1966. A Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Clam-shell Box. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Vellum, yapp edges, with ties, by Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto, with the Coat of Arms of Elizabeth I. Enclosed within a clamshell box, lined in red felt, with printed labels to the boards and spine. Included is the 20 page booklet of historical information and bibliography. Illustrated. cvi, 182 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Book is fine without flaw. Box has a scuff on the center of the outer edge. Facsimile of the original, imprinted at London by Robert Robinson, 1596, 1601. Introduction by A.L. Rowse and Bibliographical Notes by Robert O. Dougan. Librarian at the Henry E. Huntington Library. [20 pp.] . Two important accounts of 16th century exploration: the first, Raleigh's account of the discovery of Guiana, was published in London in 1596; and the second, Galvano's account of the discoveries of the world, was also first published in London, in 1601.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1875. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by John Leech.. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear, corners lightly rubbed, minor hand soil. Offsetting on front free endpage from paper that is no longer there. Text in French and English. [Facing pages] Illustrated with 7 drawings by John Leech.. Tells the story of London in several days of walking trips - written for children.

New York: Harpercollins, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. When his top forgery artist is murdered, underworld art dealer Adrian Sellers is forced to flee for his life from an aggressive Japanese mob while confronting his heroin addiction and falling in love with a compassionate colleague.

New York: Harper, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/New. No Flaws or Blemishes but age-toning to the text; unread. First Edition, First Printing. . The most amazing thing about this enjoyable new thriller by the author of the much-praised Thief of Light is that it exists at all. David Ramus was a top New York City art dealer who got into big trouble because of drug use and escalating debts in a dying art market.  His first book was written to pay back his creditors; this one, his second, was written in a Federal prison where Ramus was serving a year's sentence for interstate transportation of stolen art. "The constant friction of human contact, the noise and dirt and the simple fact that there is no such thing as a comfortable chair in prison makes it incredibly difficult to sit down with your thoughts and ideas and turn them into meaningful words on a page," he says. In spite of this, The Gravity of Shadows is a smoothly written, carefully… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1881. Good/No Dust Jacket. Full color paper on boards; 8.5 inches; 208 pages, b/w in-text and full plate illustrations. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. We have not found this issue for sale online or in the OCLC/WorldCat database.  The copyright date of 1881 predates all of the Belford, Clarke & Co., publications. [We did found one sold] The bindings are firm with a shelf lean and rear hinge starting. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with wear on all edges and some loss of paper on the spine edges .. A set of loosely related stories [28 in all] relating history, art; locations etc that would be interest. A few pages mention the sport of baseball and there are a few illustrations of baseball players with bats and a few group illustrations in uniforms.

New York: Timescape Books / Simon and Schuster, 1983. Book Club Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling of the Dust Jacket now in a clear Mylar sleeve. Book Club Edition [BOC]. In the cold and dangerous land of Cherek, emerging from an era of magic and confronted by technological advancements, Lord Gambin of Jentesi lies dying and chaos reigns. During his four decades in power, Gambin has wielded a tight and tyrranical hold over his province, and his four heirs jockey to inherit his vast power, the people of Cherek teeter on the brink of change and watch the passing of the sword in Jentesi. For if Gambin's power passes intact to his heirs, Cherek could lose the promise of its bright future and tumble irrevocably into a dark and vicious past. [goodreads]

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Originally published in 1949, this comprehensive gathering of folksongs s an assortment of religious songs, hymns, and revival tunes along with sentimental ballads and journalistic pieces. Carefully handled, Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9.375 inches tall; 355 pages with index.. Characteristic of the compiler's careful work is the painstaking accuracy with which dialect peculiarities are preserved. Randolph scrupulously avoided correcting pronunciation or adding missing words or forgotten lines. Because, as he explains in his introduction, many of the people who sang for him were reluctant to have their voices recorded, his texts represent the best possible reproduction of this priceless American folk art.

Urgana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982. A Very Good Soft cover. Very Good. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 590 pages with index.. 250 selections including centuries-old British ballads; songs of the Civil War, slavery, cowboys, outlaws, and murderers; temperance pieces and revival meeting hymns; and a rollicking assortment of dance and play-party songs.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. "Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists at work today."  [Michael Connelly] No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning.  First UK Edition.. Background Information: In a shadowy, crumbling Edinburgh housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. Inspector John Rebus could call it an accident. But won't. Now he's got to search the city, from the tunnels of its dark underbelly to the private sanctum of the upper crust, to find the perfect hiding place for a killer.