Search Results: Titles starting with R from Camphor Bookstore

The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art BookLittle, Brown / Back Bay Books, Boston, 1998. Softcover, stiff glossy wraps 256 pp. First softcover edition, 5th printing. Large format. B&W and color illus. Slight curling at the corners but otherwise unmarked and near fine. About the book: A beautifully designed overview of Robert Crumb's remarkable career, presented in chronological order. The 250-page volume compiles material from five decades and features hundreds of comics, illustrations, paintings, and covers as well as rare photographs of the artist and never-before-seen sketchbook art.

Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius DonnellyD. Appleton and Company, New York, 1883. First edition - red cloth hardcover with gilt design and titles on the spine. 452 pp + ads at the back. Illustrated and in excellent condition given its age. unmarked, bright gilt on the cover strong and square. About the book: Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel is a book by Minnesota congressman Ignatius L. Donnelly published first in 1883. This is the first edition. Donnelly argues that an enormous comet hit the earth 12,000 years ago, resulting in widespread fires, floods, poisonous gases, and unusually vicious and prolonged winters. The catastrophe destroyed a more advanced civilization, forcing its terrified population to seek shelter in caves. As cave-dwellers, they lost all knowledge of art, literature, music, philosophy, and engineering.

Recits de Belzebuth a son Petit-filsby G. I. GurdjieffJanus, Paris, 1956. First French edition, translated from the original manuscript. Red leather hardcover. 1177 pp. Red silk ribbon marker. Unmarked and in good condition. The original jacket and glassine cover is worn and chipped (please see photos) but still good. About the book: George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, (1877-1949) was a Greco-Armenian mystic and philosopher who founded an influential quasi-religious movement. Gurdjieff taught that people are not conscious of themselves and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and serve our purpose as human beings. Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first book of a trilogy in which Gurdjieff set forth his 'Fourth Way' spiritual mysticism.

Little, Brown, London, UK, 1976. Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Herge (Author-Illustrator) (illustrator). First Softcover Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light edge/surface wear. Hergé, pen name of Belgium comics writer and artist Georges Prosper Remi (1907 - 1983) produced 23, meticulously researched, volumes in the Adventures of Tintin series. This book, The Red Sea Sharks, is the 19th adventure, first published 1958. In this story, young reporter-sleuth Tintin, aided by his faithful dog Snowy and Captain Haddock, take off to the Middle East where Tintin's good friend Emir Ben Kalish is under rebel fire. Near fine copy.

A Religião do Teatro by Eduardo ScarlattiLisbon; Editorial Atica, 1945. Handsomely bound in full black leather, cover and spine titles in red, heavy textured endpapers. Illustrated w color lithography on heavy stock, B&W photos. 130+ pages of text in portuguese - with numerous B&W photos in the back. 18,5x25 cm. silk ribbon intact. A study of symbolism in theater throughout history - in Portuguese. Nice tissue covered color litho plates - the book is in VG+ unmarked condition.

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Louise MaudeGrosset and Dunlap. New York, 1927. Hardcover. Tan cloth with decorative stamped titles in black and green. In the original dust-jacket. Revised Edition with a foreword by Ilya Tolstoy. Photoplay edition of this Tolstoy classic, illustrated with scenes from the United Artists Picture starring Rod La Rocque and Dolores Del Rio. 524 pp + 5 pgs of ads. The vintage jacket is protected in plastic... both the book and jacket are in excellent unmarked condition.Resurrection was thought to be a lost 1927 Hollywood adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection which features an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy, the Author's son, who co-wrote the script.

Complete vocal score for Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold / Das RheingoldIn a facilitated arrangement by Karl KlindworthBi-lingual German & English with English translations by Frederick Jameson
The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold). G. Schirmer, New York 1899. Flexi-cloth covered boards. Gilt embossed titles front and spine. 221 pp. In very good, unmarked condition

Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters Translation, Introduction And Notes By Wallace Fowlie The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966. Hardcover. Light blue cloth. 8vo. Bilingual with French & English text on facing pages. 370 pp. There is some very light spotting to the covers, otherwise unmarked and VG without the jacket. About the book (From the Univ. of Chicago blurb) "The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose. The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was… Read More