Search Results: Authors starting with R from Abacus Books

London: Ellis & Green, 1875. Second edition. Red cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine. 8vo. [xvi] 447pp. Second edition. Former library copy. Pervious owner's name to font paste down. Title page has small tears and tape repairs.

Third edition. 8vo. Full contemporary leather. [viii] 416pp with one folding and three full page plates. Owner's name handwritten on front free end paper. Front and back hinges starting. Leather rubbed in places.The sub title continues; ...the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As Also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out / By JOHN REEVES, Farrier st Ringwood, Hants. The the whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by a Physician, to which is added, A New Method of curing a STRAIN in the Back Sinews, and the ANATOMY of a Horse's Leg, with some observations on SHOEING, Also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure by an EMINENT SURGEON.Handwritten notes and recipes/remedies to front and rear endpapers and eight small hand written sheets of… Read More

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company,, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth with gold letterring in red panels. A collection of poems inspired by the threat of war in 1941.Previous owner's name to half title page. Spine slightly faded. No dust jacket.

Hard cover. Octavo 241 pages plus seven photographic illustrations. Green cloth over boards with black lettering. Interesting ink stamp to front free end paper dated 1933 and referring to the National Industrial Recovery Act, from the Cragin Simplex Corp. maker of tennis rackets. Cover shows some shelf wear with slight fading to spine.
The story of tennis in Baltimore from 1879 onwards and containing a 29 quatrain "Tennis Player's Rubaiyat" reportedly written in the 1890s.

New York: Effingham Wilson, London, 1913. Hardcover. Good. Brown cloth over boards with black title to spine. 8vo 330pp, plus list of PNS other publications. A clean copy with light shelf wear to covers and some underlining and marginalia to the first forty pages.One of the less common Roosevelt titles it comprises of Selections From Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912.

Stated first edition. Had cover. Octavo. [x] 365pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt to spine and embossed signature in dark blue to front. Some offsetting from dust jacket. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chipping to edges and original price of $3.00 to front dust flap.The first of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies describing her life up until the presidential election of 1924.

Second edition, greatly expanded from the 1932 first edition. Octavo. 408pages. Soft cover in tan wraps with title in black. Clean and unmarked. Spine a little creased but with a tight binding. An in depth reference of Texas baseball from the first season in 1888 through to 1950.