Search Results: Authors starting with R from Honey & Wax Booksellers

No place: no publisher, 1933. Ephemeral promotional broadside produced in support of A.S.W. Rosenbach's Early American Children's Books. The broadside reprints Charles F. Heartman's favorable American Book Collector review of Rosenbach's book, praising "the Doctor" for the breadth of his vision: "he has succeeded in robbing the dreary religious aspect of most of the early publications of its unattractiveness by injecting humorous remarks and reverting to a philosophical treatment. Regardless if one is a collector of children's books or not this is a scholarly book about books that should have a place in every collector's library." Heartman notes that the foreword by American collector A. Edward Newton makes Rosenbach's book "a necessary item to any collection of Newtoniana" as well. One copy recorded, in the Charles F. Heartman Papers at the University of Southern Mississippi; we handled a second copy in 2015. A very good copy of a striking broadside. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First edition of this illustrated biography of John James Audubon, written by pioneering American anthropologist and folklorist Constance Rourke: "This biography had its more distant origin in a concern with American frontiers . . . but characters have a way of transcending the liveliest general questions." In her interest in Audubon as an immigrant and an artist, Rourke emphasized the resourcefulness and creativity that epitomized, for her, the American sensibility. Audubon was a Newbery Honor book for 1937, though Rourke maintained that the biography was not written solely for children. A very good example, in notoriously fragile dust jacket. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer's note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket… Read More