Search Results: Authors starting with R from Nooks Of Books

Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Navy blue boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Marbled tan endpapers. 174pps., with numerous photographs -- most of them in full-color. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the great explorer, 'E. P. Hillary' -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. Includes a Foreword by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "...When 33-year-old New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa climbing partner Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953, they congratulated each other with a handshake and a hearty embrace. It was the beginning of a lifelong relationship between Hillary and the Sherpa people -- a people whose courage, skill, and… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Orion, 2005. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Pale blue endpapers. 205pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the head of the spine; the original price (14.99) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. Originally published in Scotland in 1986 in an edition of only a few hundred copies, this issue includes a brand new introduction from Rankin.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn -- a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, she was initially treated with sympathy. But all that changed when the young man who pushed her in died in an accident… Read More

Wellington/Auckland: Reed , 1963. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Fully-bound in orange cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 491pp. There is very mild rubbing to the board-edges. Also, a previous owner's signature is on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of age-toning as well as rubbing at the extremities; no chips or tears. Generically SIGNED and dated by the author (Feb. 1966) with a Maori exclamation. A very nice copy. "...The majestic sweep of Maori tradition moves through the pages of this book; here, for the first time, is a full collection of the myths, legends, and religious beliefs of the New Zealand Maori. Maori folklore and legend has its own peculiar quality, being closely allied to nature in all its manifestations, and with a depth of thought and of religious feeling which is an important part of Maori life. No other book has attempted to make such a wide collection, to show the… Read More

London: Jarrolds, 1964. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Textured blue boards. The spine is stamped in white. Octavo. 288pps. There is bumping to the tips and light reading wear. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The colorful, price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing and wear to the tips and the spine-ends. A nice copy of this Reeman title (who is, perhaps, better known for his pseudonym Alexander Kent). "In January, 1944, Rudolf Steiger, one of Germany's most successful and dedicated U-boat commanders, was sent to the small French harbour of St. Pierre on the Bay of Biscay. With the Battle of The Atlantic reaching a peak of unsurpassed ferocity, Steiger's task was to lead a newly-formed group of nine U-boats from a base which hitherto had been a quiet backwater in Occupied France." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction… Read More

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1951. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Dark blue boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. 300pp. Page 193 has a closed tear at its bottom. Otherwise, a flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. It appears unread and, likely, long-stored. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has crinkling at the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price of $3.50 is intact on the front flap. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . First Edition, First Printing. Salem Witchcraft Trials Colonial New England Puritan Witch Devil Horror Satan Evil. Catalogs: Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Horror.

New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1974. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full light green cloth. The spine is stamped in dark green. 184pps. Stated First Edition. There is some faint discoloration on the verso of the rfep as if a label or clipping had been affixed there and gently removed. Touches of tanning on either pastedown due to the binder's glue. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear or previous ownership inscriptions. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing wear to the extremities and the folds; no chips or tears of note. The original price is intact. A nice, presentable copy.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "...Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he was living in a derelict cottage with only his obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla: the spoiled, rich, unstable woman with a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over, but the long slide… Read More

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, 1949. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in dark brown. Octavo. 192pps. There is light shelfwear including mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise overall clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has shallow chipping at the extremities as well as toning and a soil-mark on the rear panel; the original price is intact. A nice copy. "...Recounts the mystery of the arrival on Earth of a space ship from a distant planet, bringing strange creatures whose tremendous knowledge has made possible travel across the star-ocean. When the interplanetary ship, which has buried itself deep into the desert sands of Arizona, is recovered by the tireless work of engineers, Professor Brandon discovers inside the space vessel the Stellarites, encased in containers in a state of suspended animation. Here then is the secret of space travel...but can our scientists… Read More

San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2006. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are stamped in metallic blue. Quarto. 295pps. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price (26.95) is intact. This is one of 150 copies SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on a special, illustrated limitation page. This is Reynolds' first short story collection and includes a story not included in the trade issue.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...<big>S</big>ince 2000, Reynolds has been publishing large novels at a rate of one a year, all but two of them are set against a consistent background known as the Revelation Space universe. The stories in 'Zima Blue,' however, while… Read More

Leeds: PS Publishing, 2001. As New in an As New dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 111pps., plus ads. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. This original edition is limited to 400 copies SIGNED by both the author and by Stephen Baxter (who does the Introduction) on a special limitation page. ".Richard Swift is a failure; a brilliant theorist and thinker on alien intelligence who has been excluded from the most significant project of his era due to a bitter family dispute. Bored and restless, he is shocked by the return of his oldest friend -- the supposedly dead Roland Childe. Once, Swift and Childe entertained each other with intricate games and challenges. Now Childe proposes that they -- and a small number of other experts -- tackle the greatest challenge of all: gaining entry into a sinister… Read More

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1988. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. White boards quarterbound in white cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Quarto. 448pps. Stated First Edition. A previous owner's name is neatly penned in the upper corner of the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic <i>'Interview with the Vampire'</i> . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of <i>'The Vampire Lestat.'</i> In <i>'The Queen of the Damned,'</i> Anne Rice continues her extraordinary 'Vampire Chronicles' in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the… Read More

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. 534pps. Stated First Edition. There is a faint pencil-erasure (of price) in the upper corner of the ffep., otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed and soiled, has a 2" closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and a smaller tear with an attendant crease at the bottom of the rear panel; the original price (15.95) is intact. A nice copy of the author's third novel. ".In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of 'Interview With the Vampire' makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera… Read More

Fine in full black leather. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are lushly stamped in gilt. Full-color pastedown on the front panel. All page-edges gilt. Brown moire silk endpapers with a matching ribbon bookmark. 479 pages. First Printing. This is an excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. There are a couple of faint and unobtrusive scratches to the gilt of the fore-edge, also there is a blank Easton Press bookplate affixed to the ffep. Includes a Foreword by Clint Eastwood. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks of Books. To assist with your decision, further photos can be emailed upon request. 42-T.

London: Deutsch, 1957. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Textured red boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. 256pps. There is very mild bumping to the spine-ends and a faint pencil-price-erasure near the top of the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is is in excellent shape. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has shallow chipping at the tips and spine-ends and a couple of short, closed tears on the front panel; the original price is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy. ".Ernst is on the run from Germany's Easten Zone. Without papers or friends and with a murder on his conscience, he arrives in London where he encounters a group of Canadian and Ameican expatriates, film writers and directors who have left Hollywood rather than betray old friends. They are, in short, refugees from the other side. Among these men, Norman Price is the one on whom Ernst makes the greatest impact. Norman loves a… Read More

Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 1996. In Fine condition. Fully bound in russet-brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 539pps. No dustjacket, as issued. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. "...The 1845 volume further extends the bibliographical efforts begun by Charles Evans, and continued by Shaw and Shoemaker. The purpose of the work is to make an initial identification of monographs; state and local documents; pamphlets; broadsides; and other materials published in America during the year 1845. The bibliography is based upon the work of the American Imprints Inventory of the Depression-era WPA but draws heavily upon more recently published national and state bibliographies. It incorporates the theses done at Catholic University, which continues the publication program of the Historical Records Survey. Arrangement is by author. The essential elements of description are given and, in most cases, locations of several… Read More

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1944. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Fully bound in light blue cloth. The spine is stamped in dark blue and gilt. 244pps., plus 11 pages of photos of various players in the western theater and a pull-out map of Sheridan's Winter Campaign of 1868-69. First Edition stated. There is a mild bump at the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest rubbing wear at the spine-ends and a one-and-a-half inch closed tear at the top of the front panel at the gutter. The original price is intact. An excellent copy, overall. "...Philip Henry Sheridan emerged from the Civil War as one of the greatest military leaders that the United States had so far produced. But a brilliant and colorful period in his career lay ahead, in the years from 1868 to 1876, when, as commander in the West, he was to solve the 'Indian… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1999. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards with a maroon backstrip stamped in silver. 392pps. First Printing. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket has touches of rubbing and crinkling; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price (23.95) is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, war of the rats. The combat is horrific, as victories are measured in meters and soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city, Stalingrad. Through the twisted carnage stalk two men -- one Russian, one German -- each the top sniper in their respective armies. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. And each has his own mission..."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Blue topstain. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Colorful map-endpapers. 836pps. Stated First Edition (following a signed limited edition.) A previous owner's name is neatly penned in the upper corner of the front endpage. Also, the blue topstain is slightly faded. Otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is faintly soiled and has light rubbing wear to the extremities; the original price (3.00) is intact.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Spanning the years from 1775 to 1783, 'Oliver Wiswell' traces the adventures of a Yale student who is deeply loyal to the established government of the colonies. This wonderfully far-ranging novel is packed with battles, sudden flights, escapes, intrigue, massacres, romance and exile as it follows Wiswell, a spy for… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1956. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full tan cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt; the front panel in gilt. Octavo. Map-endpapers. 275pps., plus ads. There are a few faint specks of soiling to the top edge and light tanning to the endpapers due to the acidity of the jacket flaps, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has modest touches of rubbing and soiling; the original price (3.75) is intact. A nice copy of this historical novel.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "A native Mainer, Kenneth Roberts, was intrigued by the story of the December 1710 wreck of the Nottingham. After running aground a dozen miles offshore, the ship broke up, stranding her crew with minimal tools, scant shelter, and a few pieces of cheese. The men survived nearly a month of screeching gales, sub-freezing temperatures, and driving snowstorms. During… Read More

Francfort O. M., 1828. In Very Good condition. Green and black marbled boards quarterbound in green cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt (still brilliant). Decorative multi-color staining to all the page-edges. 695pps. There is rubbing wear to the board-edges and scratchings to the marbled boards themselves. A split of about 1/4" is at the bottom of the front joint. Internally, there is a bit of waviness to the pages and a moderate -- but not undue -- amount of foxing, which is confined primarily to the margins. The binding is slightly shaken, though sound, with all pages intact. Other than the faint foxing, the text is clean and bright with no previous ownership markings. Includes 'An Essay on The Life And Writings of William Robertson, D. D.', 'Extracts from Dr. Robertson's Correspondence', and prefaces to the first and eleventh editions. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction… Read More

PA: Robertson, 1964. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Pebbled blue boards. Both the spine and the front board are gilt-stamped. 67pps. of text, plus nearly another one-hundred pages of Speed Rating Standards for numerous tracks. An excellent copy with very light exterior wear; internally flawless. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of rubbing and has modest chipping at the tips and the spine-ends; there is a 1" closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel. The original price is intact. "...The author says many fans discount the value of speed in handicapping because they don't know how to use it. He says it is understandable as even the racing dailies don't publish proper speed ratings. The author proves that the conventional speed rating method is inconsistent; furthermore, he introduces his own method which he proves is mathematically and statistically correct... Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine… Read More