Search Results: Authors starting with R from Chanticleer Books

Palo Alto: Radcliffe Institute, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Cover gilt dulled, else very good. 167 pp., square octavo, brown flexible bookcloth with gilt title on front cover. Text seems to be mimeographed from a typescript.

n.p.: Canaian Pacific Railway, 1946. Original edition. All about fine in worn envelope. Each bifold menu approximately 10 x 7 inches folded, 10 x 14 open, illstrated front covers, in original mailing envelope

Los Angeles: The Pamphleteers, 1946. Second issue. Paperback. Covers moderately toned, staple rust stains to covers, else very good. vii, 98 pp., stapled wrappers, 7.75 x 5.25 inches. "Book store edition" of Vol. III No. I of "The Freeman" , the Los Angeles based libertarian journal.

(Andoversford): The Whittington Press, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Quarto, stiff card wrappers and printed jacket; (167) pp., many illustrations, including engravings, b/w and color photographic plates, typographic specimens, etc. Superb resource for all aspects of the world of fine press printing. See scan for list of contents. Edition of 960 copies (850 in wrappers).

London & Sydney: Croom Helm / Areopagitica Press, (1987). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. [5], 319 pp.; octavo, original brown boards, pictorial jacket. "This is the first book that attempts a comprehensive treatment of the contacts and relationship between the Celtic peoples and those of Greece and Rome."

New York: Anatol Sivas, 1957. First edition. Very good in very good jacket; small rusty spot at bottom of rear free endpaper, 1/4" closed tear at top of rear jacket panel. [6], v, 125 pp., profusely illustrated, small quarto (10.5 x 7.75 inches), original reddish-brown cloth with gilt spine title. Interesting contribution to the literature of symbolism.

Chicago: Franklin Publishing Co., (1938). Seventh printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good jacket, both quite clean and unworn. No previous owner markings. Small octavo, original black cloth, 256 pp., 59 illustrations. Originally published in 1930.

Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good+. octavo, yellow cloth; xv, 264 pp.

Koln: Taschen, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket, no previous owner markings. 494 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions from the originals at the university library at Tubingen.

London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1958-59. First edition, #1226 of a limited subscriber's edition.. Spotting to rear board of first volume, slight fading to both volumes, else very good. Second volume mostly unopened. 2 volumes, original blue cloth, octavos, (xvi), 687, (xv); (xi), 974, (xv). Illustrated.

San Francisco: Henry Payot, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Rather primitive but not inappropriate binding, some stains to text, overall quite presentable and near very good. 137 pp., mounted frontispiece photograph of the author; 12mo, rebound in green leather with gilt title. John Rollington Ridge (1827-1867) was a Cherokee Indian born in New Echota, Cherokee Nation (now Georgia). He came to California in '49 for the gold but soon turned his efforts to writing. In 1854, under his Cherokee name, "Yellow Bird," he published what is known as the first novel published in California as well as the first Native American novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit. In 1857 he became first editor of the Sacramento Bee newspaper. He died at his home in Grass Valley (Nevada County) California. A scarce book, though not nearly as rare as the first edition of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta; the last copy to sell at auction (2003) fetched $86,250!

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1966). Second printing. Hardcover. Fine in moderately scuffed jacket. xxii, 435 pp., octavo, original black cloth, jacket. Translation of the first 2 books from the second edition (1920) of Hugo Riemann's Geschichte der Musiktheorie.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1968). First US edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. 306 pp., 256 illustrations, 30 color plates; folio, original red cloth. This unique study is a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of the contributions made to the theater by major painters and sculptors of the 20th century." Included Munch, Schwitters, Picasso, Calder, Dali, Cocteau, Kandinsky, Schlemmer, Moholy-Nagy, Chirico, Leger, Baumeister, Chagall, Wotruba, Dine, et al.

Fribourg: Editions d'Art Ebory, 1984. Limited edition facsimile of the 1615 original edition. Slight fading to spines, else fine. 2 volumes, quartos. Commentary volume 76 pp., quarter tan pigskin charcoal gray boards. Facsimile volume 86 pp. with ms. facsimile reproduced in 6 colors and gold, bound in full tan pigskin with gilt and red armorial crest embossed on front board. Together in velvet-lined slipcase. Publisher's prospectus (in English) laid in. Superb facsimile of the manuscript "Tournament Book" created by Imperial Herald George Rixner in 1615. The lavish manuscript records aristocratic lineage of a south-western German family and depicts the accoutrements and pageantry of the tournament. Text in German. Commentary text in French. Edition of 500 copies (480 for sale), this #22. Signed in the colophon by the Prefect of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Mgr. Alfons M. Stickler.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1952. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn dustjacket. lv, [2], 331 pp.; small octavo, dark blue cloth with gilt spine. Text in four sections: Popular Songs (including Rhymes of the Minstrels, Drinking Songs, Love Songs); Practical Verse; Occasional Verse; and Courtly Love Lyrics. With Notes, Glossary, and Index of First Lines.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. [6], 413, [2] pp., frontispiece, quarto, original blue cloth, pictorial jacket. A complete bibliography of Service's work. Includes foreign language editions, periodical publications, adaptations, interviews, reviews, etc.

Santa Barbara: J. F. Rowney Press, 1942. First edition. A very good copy, quite clean and unworn in moderately edgeworn jacket. 411 pp., frontispiece; octavo, blue leatherette spine and blue cloth boards, pictorial jacket. A hollow-earth adventure fantasy with a utopian vision of solving the problems plaguing human societies.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Some scattered foxing, some pages opened carelessly, overall about very good. Quarter vellum and brown boards, octavo, 290 pp., illustrated with 5 full-page colored maps, 1 folding map, 21 in-text maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo. Also 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials also by Valenti Angelo. In slipcase of brown boards and mounted side-panel illustration. Edition of 1000 copies printed by Edwin Graborn at the Grabhorn Press. GPB 90. THIS COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EDWIN GRABHORN: "For L. B. McMurtry with the best wishes of E. Grabhorn. Oct. 7, '27."

London: Macmillan, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Top edge dusty, else about fine in near very good jacket with darkening to jacket spine. xiii, 229 pp., octavo, original green cloth, jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Top edge dusty, else about fine in near worn jacket . v, 290 pp., small octavo, original dark blue cloth, jacket.