Search Results: Authors starting with R from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Paris: G. Cres & Cie, Editeurs, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. This is No. 376 of 400 copies. A series of five comic novels published between 1532 and 1564 that relate the misadventures of the giants Pantagruel, Gargantua, and Panurge, who are larger in wisdom than in the corporeal sense. Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553) was a Franciscan and Benedictine monk who later became an eminent physician and humanist. Text in French. 812 p. Quarto. In a three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth binding, with five raised bands, gilt titles, and marbled endpapers. The original wrappers are bound in. Light rubbing to the extremities; otherwise very good.

Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2010. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rader on the title page. Additionally, a holographic note from Rader is laid in. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rader to his friend and fellow radical Craig Anderson, with related correspondence laid in. Anderson, who attended Columbia University with Dotson, is referred to as Sean in the book which provides "an honest account of life among the disaffected young - their violence, politics and sex." Rader's inscription, which is dated May 30, 1969, reads in part: "For my friend and cowriter, Craig Anderson - who went through the thick of it with me and stood. For the man, I come." In the fourth and fifth chapters, Rader writes about attending a 1967 march against the Vietnam War with Anderson and other friends in Washington, D.C. He also recalls Anderson's words: "This war is horrible ... not just for the soldiers and civilians dying, not just because of the money wasted. You know it is so goddammed horrible because it is so American really, for the first time, a war that fits what America… Read More

Gateway Editions, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Introduction by George W. Ball. South Bend, Indiana First edition. A rare and fascinating insider's view of Russian, East European, and Chinese roles in the Vietnam War. From the library of U.S. Ambassador Philip C. Habib, with a presentation letter from the publisher and other material laid in. A renowned career diplomat, Habib (1920-92) was an authority on Southeast Asia, President Ronald Reagan's personal representative to the Middle East, and a special envoy to some of the world's most dangerous flash points. In 1982, Habib was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. A very good copy in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. 291 p. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy.

New York: Hippocrene Books, 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with black titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers." Octavo: 719 p. with 29 illustrations. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is copy no. 242 of 250 copies signed by the editor, Robert J. Randisi, and the contributors: Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Michael Collins, Loren D. Estleman, Stephen Greenleaf, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Hoyt, Stuart Kaminsky, Rob Kantner, Michael Z. Lewin, John Lutz, Marcia Muller, William F. Nolan, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, and L.J. Washburn. Octavo. Full black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Eight pp. photographs. Inscribed by Ransom on the title page. A fine copy in a very lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Boston: F.W. Faxon Company, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light offsetting to the endpapers. A bit of minor wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Dordrecht: Springer, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. The Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) is a recently developed technique used to analyze nonstationary data. This book uses methods based on the HHT to analyze hydrological and environmental time series. These results are compared to the results from the traditional methods such as those based on Fourier transform and other classical statistical tests. Water Science and Technology Library, Volume 60. Octavo: 244 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by the translator on the front flyleaf. The classic story of exorcism, possession, and love in a Jewish community of eastern Europe. Illustrated by Jennifer Coleman. Octavo. Original red buckram boards, with gilt titles. Light rubbing to the corners and tips, with just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; else near fine.

London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed by Rawson on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of foxing to the top edge. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very light edgewear; otherwise very good.

Isla Vista, California: The Turkey Press, 1997. First Edition. Printed in a limited edition of 26 copies, this is number 13. Signed on the colophon by Harry Reese. A poem with paintings that imagines the gold standard as replaced by dead rats. Designed, printed and bound by Harry and Sandra Reese of Turkey Press and Edition Reese. Issued in a red leather clamshell case with another box inside that is bound and lined in gold and wrapped in a piece of gray felt. Text printed in a separate book on one side of an accordion folded manilla colored sheet (24 x 175 cm.), folded to [7] p. ; 24 cm., and attached to back board. Front board covered in brown colored paper; back board and spine covered with burgundy colored cloth. Title blind stamped on cover. The text rests on a specially cut support imprinted with the No. 13 limitation. The weight is bound in the step, making the book heavy like a bar of gold. A rat trap (21 x 8 cm.) manufactured by the Woodstream Corp. of Lititz Pa. and titled "Victor V", is… Read More

New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some general minor shelfwear to the boards, largely at the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With a Preface by Sigmund Freud. Translated from the Second German Edition by Douglas Bryan, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Second printing. The first volume in Reik's study of the psychological aspects of religion. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some minor bumping to the spine ends and corners. The dust jacket is price-clipped and a touch browned, moreso along the spine; otherrwise an especially crisp and clean copy.

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first American edition, first printing. Set a few weeks after the end of Remarque's classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), this sequel details the experience of young men in Germany who have returned from the trenches of World War I and are trying to integrate back into civilian life. Translated from the German by Arthur Wesley Wheen. Octavo. Original coarse gray cloth binding, with red and black titles. The spine is moderately toned. In the scarce dust jacket, which is a bit toned with some general shelfwear and a small tape repair to the verso; otherwise very good.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. His marriage failing and his father seemingly going mad, Stephen Whalby finds the bodies of two women on the bleak Vangmoor and his sense of terror and menace spreads throughout the villages. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American Edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Benet Archdale's erratic mother Mapsa casts Benet, her baby son James, Carol Stratford, another young single mother, and her son into a maelstrom of kidnapping, fraud, family violence, and death. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.