Search Results: Titles starting with R from Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Kansas City: The Lowell Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 128pp. Oblong quarto [21.5 cm] 1/4 teal buckram with natural cloth covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Fine / Near fine. Presented by The Thunderbolt Foundation. Signed by McGrew on the title page. From the jacket- "Dazzling colors of Navajo apparel, shimmering contrasts of heat and coolness, and loving representations of the dignity of man and the grandeur of nature are magnificently depicted in the incomparable art of R. Brownell McGrew.

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 1994. First Fantagraphics Book softcover editions. Paperback. Near fine. SIGNED. Quarto [29 cm] Various shades of printed illustrated wraps. Volume 2 is discolored at the spine. The front wrap of this volume is just a little creased. In a red cloth covered slipcase with lettering and pictorial stamping in gilt. With the illustrated plate specially designed to accompany this slipcased edition, limited to 200 and signed by the artist. Robert Crumb is widely viewed as America's greatest living cartoonist. Recently the Seattle Museum's "Graphic Masters" exhibition featured his work alongside such masters as Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Hogarth and Picasso.

Cambridge: A Boatner Norton Book, Boatner Norton Press, 1981. First Boatner Norton Paperback Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 170pp. Quarto [25 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good plus condition. The covers are minimally creased, and the pages are subtly tanned. A book presenting the life an works of R. Crumb in abundant detail. Signed in '85 by R. Crumb on the title page.

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. First printing. Hardcover. New. 276 pp. Octavo. [23cm] Illustrated paper over boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of the texts he admired while at the same time… Read More

New York: Universe, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Fine. R. Crumb. 28pp. 12" square hanging wall calendar for the millennium featuring 14 full page full color R. Crumb illustrations. Millenniums come and go, but this is the only one that has R. Crumb artwork.

Denver: Sundance Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. 376pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black paper with illustrated paper over boards. Lacking the plastic dust jacket. Thin moisture stains to bottom edges of the boards; light soiling to rear board; very subtle light moisture staining to fore edge margins of final 100 pages. The majority of the pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout. Contents include: Durango's First Settler; The Denver & Rio Grande Reaches Durango; Durango Acquires a Trolley; Battle for the Coal Fields; Handling the U.S. Mail and Railfans Arrive on the Rio Grande Southern; The Boston Coal & Fuel Company Railroad To Perins Peak.

Denver: Sundance Books, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. 416pp. Quarto [28 cm] 1/4 black paper with illustrated paper over boards. Lacking the plastic dust jacket. Covers lightly cocked. Minor bumping to the spine ends and corners of the covers. "Display Copy" stamped in ink on the half title. Illustrated throughout. Contents include: RGS Leased Locomotives; RGS Motors and Galloping Geese; Business Cars, Coaches, B&B Outfit Cars and Special Military Planes; Caboosing on the Southern; Snow Removal, Shopmen and B&B Gang; Flatcars, Boxcars, Reefers, Gondolas and Stock Cars; The Miller Cars on the RGS,

Salt Lake City, UT: R. L. Polk & Co, 1913. Leather bound. Very good. 317pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] in limp brown calf with gilt-stamped advertisements on spine and covers, all edges once-red. Rubbing to leather at extremities, 1 cm tear to front hinge at foot; inner hinges weak (but holding), red textblock edges faded, light chipping to first page. Local advertisements on almost every facing page.

Domtar EarthChoice, 1996. 1/1000. Paperback. New. 32pp. Square quarto [30.5cm]. Glossy, textured pictorial wraps with embossed details. Internally, the reproductions of album covers include details such as sculptured, multi-level dye embossing, silver foil lamination, and spot gloss UV coating. "Before the mid-sixties music explosion hit, album covers existed, with some notable exceptions, just to hold the records. That was of course before Gary Burden began creating the covers." Prior to his recent passing, Burdon had designed album art for everyone from Steppenwolf to The Eagles to Neil Young. In 1964, when the recent architectural school graduate designed a home for Mama Cass, she saw a level of artistic talent she felt would flourish in the field of album design and helped Burden get his start. More recently, he worked with artists Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket and Kurt Vile. In this gorgeous, thoughtfully-designed book, Burdon features his 14 favorite designs, with album cover on each recto,… Read More

Praha (Prague), 1924. Russian language edition (presumably the first edition in Russian). Paperback. Very good. 217pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Gray and blue pictorial wrappers. Top edge trimmed; other edges deckled. The wraps are a bit creased and chipped, and subtle tissue repairs have been made to the hinges and wraps. According to Bleiler "the present-day reader's interest in the play centers on Capek's creation of the robot. Taken from the Czech word 'robota', meaning "forced labor," the word "robot" was invented by Josef Capek, and it has come to have a far more precise meaning than either brother can have intended. In the play the robots are not mechanical, metallic creatures, but are instead androids - living, organic simulacra - indistinguishable at first (and second) glance from humans. Capek's robots represent, at times rather loosely and inconsistently, a complex or symbolic meanings: the threatening aspects of the industrial dehumanization of the work force, as well as the pathos that… Read More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1971. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 341 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Bound in brown leather with elaborate gilt ornamentation to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Gilt title stamped on spine. Raised bands. Beige satin ribbon page marker laid in. Peach moire endpapers. Spine slightly cocked and corners ever so slightly bumped. Follows the sea journeys of Thor Heyerdahl as he explores the African seas and collects anthropological research on the peoples he encounters.

[Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. Second edition. SIGNED. 34 pp. Octavo [21 cm] in tan wraps with Japanese stab-binding, paper cover label. Extremities rubbed, decorative paper band at spine foot mostly chipped away, small smudge to front wrap, else light wear; a few small smudges to interior. Signed by Snyder on title page. Designed and edited by Cid Corman for his Origin Press. Snyder is an important literary figure from the Beat Generation whose work remains extremely relevant to this day. Snyder has been dubbed The Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology.

Ashland, MA: Origin Press, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Very good. SIGNED. Slim octavo [21 cm] Blue sewn Japanese wrappers. Gentle fading to spine area. Snyder's clipped signature laid in. Snyder is an important literary figure from the Beat Generation whose work remains extremely relevant to this day. Snyder has been dubbed The Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology. This first edition of Snyder's first book was printed and bound in a run of only 500 copies. McNeil A1a. Kheridan p. 15.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. SIGNED - Octavo. Black boards thirdbound in a maroon cloth spine with gilt lettering. Very light bumping at the head of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page in black pen. 267 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head of the spine. A very nice signed copy!

New York: Everyman's Library, 1995. First edition thus. Hardcover. INSCRIBED. 1519pp. Thick octavo [21 cm] Red and black cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The text block is cracked at the title page. The dust jacket is in near fine condition. Rabbit Run was the book that established John Updike as a major novelist.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1999. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. SIGNED. 307pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and ornate gilt stamped embellishments on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page-marker. Minor scratch to foot of text block. Publisher's notes and Easton Press bookplate tucked in. Signed by John Updike on a tipped-in page at the front.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Richard Sparks. 512pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and ornate gilt stamped embellishments on the spine and covers. Embossed design to center of front board. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page-marker. Bottom fore-edge corners of the covers are just a tad bumped. Illustrated by Richard Sparks.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First trade edition. Hardcover. 512pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with silver and gilt title information on the front cover and spine. Near fine. There are a couple of small light stains on the top edge of the text block. In a very good dust jacket. Mildly yellowed. Rabbit Run was the book that established John Updike as a major novelist.

[Salt Lake City, UT], 1904. 58pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Printed stapled wrappers. Very good. This is Mussers' reply to Joseph Smith III and the RLDS Church's claim that the Prophet Joseph Smith did not practice polygamy, and the importance of plural marriage in times of declining birth rates. William Kelley would offer a reply to this pamphlet titled 'In Defense of Monogamic Marriage.' Amos Milton Musser (1830-1909) was an influential Mormon pioneer who held a variety of positions both ecclesiastical and professional, including being the Assistant Church Historian, one of the earliest missionaries to the subcontinent, one of the founders of Zions Bank, and a correspondent for the Deseret News. Musser is also the father of the Mormon fundamentalist leader, Joseph Musser. Flake/Draper 5687.

New. 17x22" Silkscreened Print, Shrinkwrapped.