Search Results: Titles starting with R from finecopy ltd

Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing, flat signed by the author on title, original cloth, red stained top edge slightly faded and front edge with a few light spots. dust-jacket, nicked at corners, red faded to spine as usual. Not clipped no ownership markings. In a removable acetate. Signed by Author

Faber & Faber, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Rain-Charm for the Duchy, number 157 of 280 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, 1992 together with The Unicorn, also number 157 of 280 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, 1993, together in original slipcase. An autograph note from Hughes to Henry Backton is also included "There is little to say about the position of Poet Laureate - a sentence would contain all of it. Wordsworth established the main condition of taking the job on : there are no duties whatsoever. It is purely an honour If any laureates since Wordsworth have written verses for royal occasions it was on impulse, yours Ted Hughes" Signed by Author

Librairie Floury - Boulevard Saint-Germain 136 - Paris, Paris, 1930. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, this one of 200 copies (though this unnumbered) on Japon, which include 5 etchings not found in the trade edition (as well as the frontis which is common to both). Bound in later blue cloth with the original wrappers bound in. Complete with all the colour and the 6 original black and white etchings.

Faber Faber 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First impression of the first Dibdin Zen series. Fine copy in fine protected DJ. Mild page browning as usual. Flat signed to title.  Signed by Author

Madrid, Imprenta Real Royal printers, 1782-1783.. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Argentina.- Real Ordenanza para el establecimiento e instruccion de Intendentes de Exercito y Provincia en el Virreinato de Buenos-Aires. Ano de 1782, 3 parts in 1, first edition, initial leaf with fine engraved royal arms recto, otherwise blank, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, worming, mostly to first part, [Palau 202982; Rich 43; Sabin 68245], Madrid, Royal printers, 1782-1783 bound with 3 18th century copy letters relating to the Philippines, 23pp. in total, excluding blanks, contemporary limp vellum in excellent condition with ties. Small folio. An important document in the colonial history of Argentina. The viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata was created in 1776 in order to provide more effective government and more conscientious administration to the region, hitherto neglected by the Spanish authorities.Provenance: Convent of San Nicolas de Tolentio, Manila - ink inscription to verso of general… Read More

Scorpion Press, Bristol 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition, A fine copy. Number 30 of 99 numbered limited edition copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Attractive, morocco backed, marble boards in fine acetate protective jacket. Very light toning to pages as usual. Signed by Author

Paris, Didot, 1814. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1814 Paris. A complete copy with 5 folding engraved plates, tables, a very few light odd spots of foxing, contemporary half calf, corners a little scuffed, spine gilt, upper joint and spine ends repaired. University of Glasgow prize presentation label signed by James Thomson* to front pastedown, , 4to, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1814. James Thomson (1786-1849), Irish mathematician notable for his role in the formation of the thermodynamics school at Glasgow University, father of the physicists James Thomson and Lord Kelvin.Jean-Baptiste Biot 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862 was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

Fortin, Masson et C.ie, Paris, 1841. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First and only Edition Paris 1841. Complete with 40 hand coloured engraved plates with over 1000 shell species, originally catalogued by Lamarck in his Histoire Naturelle, but without illustration. 48.5 x 34 cms Folio. Half title, Text leaves Intermittent light to moderate spotting, more so in the preliminaries, and a few others toned, approximately half the plates are toned and a few neatly re-strengthened with tape to gutter, a few are lightly spotted, with a few more spotted to verso only. Bound in later three quarter green morocco, leather rubbed and browned to spine.

London: Collingwood Bros, 1907. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. R Austin Freeman (R Austin). The Red Thumb Mark, 1st edition, London: Collingwood Bros, [1907], frontispiece lightly spotted, original black cloth, spine faded, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, contained in custom black cloth box with gilt spine label.

Viking 1991 1993 1995. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. A set of three 1st impressions, all Viking UK 1991, 1993, & 1995. Ghost Road flat signed by the author to title. All Fine in Near Fine or Fine (Ghost Road faded to spine) Jackets and all in protective covers. Attractive collection. Signed by Author

London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition, inscribed by Hughes to half title 'for Bernie with our best wishes from Ted + Carol'. Original paper covers, very lightly rubbed to extremities, small mark to middle of back cover, else fine. Internally clean and bright.Provenance Bernie Flitter, along with his wife Mary, were lifelong friends and financial adviser to Ted Hughes Signed by Author

Bloomsbury, UK, 2006. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First printing Flat Signed on title page, Fine in a Fine DJ. In a protective cover. Not clipped Signed by Author

Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1858. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Resume De L Histoire De L Electricite Et Du Magnetisme, Et Des Applications De Ces Sciences A La Chimie, Aux Sciences Naturelles Et Aux Arts. First Edition 1858 Paris, bound with the half title. A very few odd intermittent spots of foxing, else clean and bright. Good solid contemporary half calf, slightly worn to edges. Very Good copy.

Bologna, Tommaso d'Aquino, 1779. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition in Italian 1779, Bologna. Close to Fine copy in quarter calf over marbled boards. 138pp [2] (imprimatur)

Cape, London, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine Proof in similar Jacket. The proof smaller than the published hardback so jacket oversized. Author has signed title with a manuscript "Actually DIBDIN" and signature benath the misspelled name in print.. Signed by Author

Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition First Issue 8vo 1934. A Very Good copy without the Jacket. Original grey cloth, spine a little darkened as usual, else clean square and bright. PRevious owner's name and bookplate.

Allen Lane, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No publisher stated but privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 unnumbered copies, 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. Publisher's blue niger morocco with gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. spine rubbed, a few small scuffs to lower cover. Internally exceptional. Clean and bright with fresh lithos and no ownership inscriptions or spotting. Loosely inserted is a signed Christmas card from publisher Allen Lane Signed by Author

Stukeley Press 1994. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Stukeley Press, 1994, 30 uncoloured aquatint plates by Alan Andrew Farrant, each with caption, artist initials and limitation in pencil under image, loose as issued in cloth portfolio complete with all 4 cloth ties, folio, 46.5 x 32 cm Limited edition 46/50. A Fine copy of a rare and hard to find work.

Allen Lane, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No publisher stated but privately printed for Richard and Allen Lane 1945. Limited edition, being one of 700 unnumbered copies, this one signed and inscribed by publisher Allen Lane 8vo (227 x 140mm.) Text in red and black, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant. Publisher's blue niger morocco with gilt medallion to upper cover, t.e.g. spine rubbed, a few small scuffs to lower cover. Internally exceptional. Clean and bright with fresh lithos and no ownership inscriptions or spotting. Signed by Author

Murray 1962 London. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition 1962 A Fine copy in a Fine wrapper. Flat signed to title. Excellent and notably clean and bright collector's copy. Signed by Author