Search Results: Titles starting with R from TBCL The Book Collection Library

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine [small remainder dot on top edge] in a near fine dustwrapper. 8vo. The final volume in Updike's 'Rabbit' series.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954), 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A better than very good copy in 1/4 green over black cloth, (slight fade and wear to the heel and crown), yellow titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper with two minor chips at the crown of the spine and some fade. 8vo . 306 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954), 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Signed by the author on the title-page. A near fine copy in 1/4 green over black cloth, yellow titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper with very light overall use and one discreet closed tear on the front panel. 8vo. 306 pp.

New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition. First Edition. William F. Buckley Jr. RACING THROUGH PARADISE: A Pacific Passage. New York: Random House, 1987. First Edition. 8vo., 344pp. with 20 maps & plans, 2 yacht plans & 90 black & white photos, plus 16 pages with 32 colour photos. Scrimshaw with passage engraved endpapers. This is Buckley's third book of his classic accounts of Sailing around the World. This 1985 cruise from Honolulu to Johnston Atoll, Majuro, Kosrae, Kapingamarangi on to Kavieng in New Ireland with earlier reminiscences of sailing in the Azores, Galapagos, Tahiti.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition by the author of A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year, The Millstone, (adapted into film with Sandy Dennis) and The Needle's Eye. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black and E.M. Forster Awards, Drabble's England, eloquently provides her readers a clear view of contemporary British life. Author Margaret Atwood described The Radiant Way as 'doing for Thatcher's England what Middlemarch did for Victorian England. Enormouse in scope and profound in sym pathy, it hits every note from exquisitely trivail detail to ludicrous daily comedy to numbing tragedy. Essential reading.' 8vo. 408 pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Toronto: Doubleday, Doran And Company [Canada] Limited, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Seltzer, Charles Alden. THE RAIDER. Toronto: Doubleday, Doran And Company [Canada] Limited, 1929. First Canadian Edition from the American sheets. 8vo., 294pp., green illustrated cloth, black titles. A fine lovely copy in a near fine dustwrapper illustrated by Garrett Price showing little use, the yellow background clean & fresh, the textblock free of blemish. Seltzer's tale of young lady who finds herself in the midst of a range war after having been spurned by her sweetheart. Ah, so it goes. An excellent example.

New York: G.W. Carleton, 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of these detective short stories by the founder of the first detective agency in the United States. A good copy in green cloth showing overall use, paper somewhat darkened, gilt titles and decorations, with the Pinkerton Detective Agency motto, 'We Never Sleep' on the front board. 8vo. 364 pp. + 8 pp. of adverts.

Ottawa: Ottawa: Oberon Press, (1975), 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition of this poetry collection neatly Signed by Governor General's Award winning poet Raymond Souster on the title-page. 8vo. 151 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 brown cloth over patterned paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in the printed tissue dustwrapper, as issued. Selecting poems from Go To Sleep, World, Cerberus, City Hall Street, A Local Pride et al. Whiteman A30, pp. 72.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1963, Book Date], 1963. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Excellent Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped on the spine's Title Piece, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] Type Design, raised on the upper cover inspired by the first edition DJ's graphics. The clamshell is finished inside & out in a Deep Goldenrod Fine Cloth & Black Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. CUSTOM CASES available for CATCHER, FRANNY AND ZOOEY & NINE STORIES.

London: Heinemann, (1959), 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First UK edition. 8vo. A very fine copy in fine dustwrapper with one small closed tear and a bit of surface scuffing to the spine panel. A nice copy of the uncommon English issue.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unique. 8vo., pp248. The Publisher's File Copy and Only Known Copy Extant As Such. The First Edition - bound by Little Brown, the publisher, as a production sample prior to the actual production run. This copy with the dedication page present which is a curious fact in the light of the various states of the first edition assumed. This is Little Brown's file copy. Glued to the rear free-endpaper is a printed notice stating: SAMPLE Return to Manufacturing Department LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY Published: 1/28,63 Cloth: GSB Silver Black,Word Count; 54,225. Four typographical errors in the text have been identified by an editor/proof reader in green pencil. These are indicated on the verso of the front fly leaf - marked: "Corrections / P.117 /p.159 /p.173 /p.185". Curiously only one error, "Seymour" for "Seymore" on p.173 was found and corrected. Obviously a significant and special item, which provides unique… Read More

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co, 1938. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. André Norton Collector's Clamshell Case. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side.with Red Cloth and Velour finished interior. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book… Read More

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Olson, Ted. RANCH ON THE LARAMIE: A Memoir Of An American Boyhood. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973. 8vo., 240pp. Beige cloth gilt. A fine copy [clipped upper corner of the ffe] in a very good or better price clipped dustwrapper showing modest use. "A rich, nostalgic memoir of a new vanished way of life in the West, or growing up on a small working ranch in Wyoming during the first two decades of the twentieth century

New York: MacMillan, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Jacobson, Dan. THE RAPE OF TAMAR. New York: Macmillan, 1970. 8vo., 224pp., smooth black cloth, gilt. A fine fresh copy in like dustwrapper, mildly faded at the spine. "The novel, as its narrator exclaims, is indeed melodrama. For all its seemingly lurid ingredients, - incest, rape, murder - it is outrageously funny. It is a triumph of the imagination. The story of the rape of King David's daughter by her brother Amnon, and the chain of violent events that inevitably followed. . .

New York: Bantam, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Advance Readin Copy of the first Edition, first novel. Royal 8vo., pp. 247. Red pictorial wrappers - a poorly produced, albeit limited run, this proofs shows weak ink coverage on the spine & covers & subsequent appearance of rubbing at the edges whi ch is more a matter of color loss. Best we can call it is a fine example of this weak production.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, pp. 126. The issue in stiff silver & black wrappers of the Black Sparrow edition, published a year after the first edition. A fine copy.

Hingham, Massachusetts: Beston, Henry, 1929. Signed by Author. Original illustration, New Year's greeting and autograph, dated the year following the 1928 publication of his landmark book, THE OUTERMOST HOUSE. Beston sketched his beloved Fo'castle on the Cape Cod shoreline, and wrote ..."SHIP AHOY! A RISING TIDE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO BOB AND FLORENCE AND BOBBY JR. FROM THEIR OLD FRIEND OF THE OUTERMOST PALAZZO. - HENRY. NEW YEARS 1929." Henry Beston donated Fo'castle to the Audubon Society in 1959. In 1964, Beston returned one last time to dedicate Fo'castle as a National Literary Landmark. The dedication plaque reads: "WHEREIN HE SOUGHT THE GREAT TRUTH AND FOUND IT IN THE NATURE OF MAN." He urged young visitors to the site to keep a reverence for nature in their hearts. The house was washed away by a hurricane in February 1978, but pilgrims still come each year to see the place where it stood.  Attention admirers and collectors of Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth: Many more unique items… Read More

Dedham, Colchester. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Engraved by Quentin Bell. Dedham is a village within the borough of Colchester in northeast Essex, England A Terracotta glazed artwork: 8 1/2" x 11" etched by Quentin Bell. A portrait of a young lady dressed in an odalisque pose with beautiful black, greens and black glazes. The woman "Europa" lounging on a bull. It relates to the Greek myth of Europa and the Bull but more pertinently Europa (and her Bull) have a strong symbolic relevance for Europe (it takes its name from her). This design would very likely have been done by Bell around the time of the first European Referendum, in 1975, after which England joined the E.U: Front Etched Inscription 4 1/2" x 2" Terracotta glazed description: CFH Shephard Esq Heath House Dedham, Colchester, Essex Verso: Block letters etched: EVROPA or the Referendum and (Quentin Bell's potter's mark which is a bell made from an inverted'B') Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf's nephew and official biographer Quentin Bell, hones… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First US Edition. Tall 8vo., pp. 371. A fine copy in dustwrapper.

Toronto: Harper Collins, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Homel's second novel. Royal 8vo., pp. 276. A very fine copy in dustwrapper.