Search Results: Titles starting with R from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Dubuque, Iowa: The Dubuque Times-Journal, 1923. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Octavo. The construction and operation of all the latest and most efficient circuits fully illustrated and described in simple language, including the neutrodyne, reinartz, armstrong kopprasch, ultra-audion, wood's, cockaday reflex, runed impedence and tuned plate and grid circuits together with instructions showing how to add. Two states of audio or two states of radio frequency to an of the above receivers. 64pp., illustrated throughout, bound in brown stiff wraps lettered in brown and blue. off-setting to title page from advertisement and telegram laid in otherwise a fine copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. A classified directory of the radio and allied industries published quarterly. Illustrated, 188(1)pp., illustrated endpapers are ads; bound in gray cloth stamped in black and red, spine lettering black; a few small spots to cloth. A very good clean copy.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CLYDE EDGERTON ON TITLE PAGE. A Fine copy in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. $12.95 price on front flap of Dust Jacket. 227 pp. Author's First Book.

London: Bernard Lintott, 1723. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. Sixth Edition Corrected and Fourth Edition. Esdras Barnivelt pseudonym of Alexander Pope. Two volumes bound together in contemporary full vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved illustrations. A very good- copy with binding split at spine, boards and spine are intact. All pages intact.Title written in ink on spine. Previous owner inscriptions ffep and title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Bound in black cloth pictorially stamped in silver, spine copper. 377 pp. A few light spots to covers otherwise fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1994. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. As New. Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 178. SIGNED BY JAMES A. MICHENER. As new in slipcase and shrink wrap.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 438pp. First Edition with the correct code on the copyright page (A.2.62.[H]). Bound in red cloth, spine lettered in black. A fine copy of the author's second novel, in a fine dust jacket.

London: John Sharpe, 1819. Half Leather. Very Good+. 24mo. Reminiscences; regular title, engraved portrait title, 166pp. Walpoliana; engraved vignette title, 168pp. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled covered boards, flat spine decoratively stamped in gilt, black morocco label gilt; internally clean, minimal wear; a very handsome little book. Walpole started his famous printing press at his beautiful home, a castle in which he remodeled to suit his personal taste, located on a forty acre estate in Twickenhama, named Strawberry Hill.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 268pp., 14 sepia toned lithos after photographs by famed photographer, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and 17 folding maps at rear (16 are listed in the map index) Short tear to map #1 near gutter; bound in original brown cloth, slight fading to spine; minor fraying at spine ends and ghost of label removal; bookplate, Rhode Island State Library on front pastedown and small stamp on title page; neat contemporary owner's name on title page. The present title, laid the ground work for the building of the Panama Canal. Internally, plates and text are clean and bright. Overall, a very good copy.

New York; (1953): Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First Edition First Printing, 276pp., bound in 1/4 green paper over pale green paper covered boards, spine lettering red; fine in Very Good+ unclipped pictorial dust jacket with mild edge wear. The author is African-American and a writer for Fireside Theatre; a number of TV producers left California to write books. This being his first of a number of mystery-detective books dealing with the life and times of Gregory George Athelston Keen.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. First edition in second issue binding. Bound in original dark green cloth stamped in black. Mild cover edge wear. 416 pp.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. 416pp. Bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt; a very nice copy in dust jacket with two small chips at head of spine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH to author Faith Baldwin: "For Faith Baldwin/Contemporary/from August Derleth/Contemporary/with the hope that the story will not seem too depressing/10/9/39" written on the half-title. Faith Baldwin (Oct. 1, 1893 - March 18, 1978) was an author of romance fiction. 514pp. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in light blue and gilt. In all a very good copy without dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. A fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket with minimal edge wear and short closed tears. 182 pp.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with sunning spine, minimal edge wear. 327 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. Fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with small closed tear and minimal edge wear. 240 pp.

New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 12mo. Illustrated. 444pp. Bound in burgundy cloth lettered in gilt; a beautiful copy. Compiled from the best histories of Mexico, also from the diary of the author's grandfather and a bit of fiction added to make reading a bit more interesting. A fine copy.

Buenos Aires; (October, 1954): Guillermo Kraft Limitada. Hard Cover. Octavo. 274pp., illustrated with line drawings, beautifully bound in brown and white cowhide, upper board pictorial stamped in blind depicting the original cover design of a man and a woman standing by a water well, lettering stamped in black, original covers bound in, marbled endpapers. A fine bright copy of this unusual binding.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good+. SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON COLOPHONE PAGE without personalization. LIMITED TO 365 COPIES. THIS IS No. 38. Illustrated with pen drawings by Walter Jack Duncan. Bound in black cloth spine and patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label, top edge gilt. Very good+ with mild edge wear, top edge gilt slightly scuffed. No dust jacket. 289 pp.

Croydon; 1922-1933: The Croydon Advertiser/The National Rose Society. Hard Cover. Octavo. 12 volumes, each volume approx. 250-300 pages including several advertisements at the rear, illustrated throughout with color and black and white photo illustrations; bound in green cloth decorated in blind, lettering black. The National Rose Society was founded in December of 1876. The membership is by subscription and the society holds various seasonal exhibitions. A very nice collection with hardly a trace of wear; a couple of spines with light fading; internally clean, with no markings of any kind. Several flyers are laid into the 1922 volume, relating to National Rose Society events. Very good to near fine.