Search Results: Titles starting with R from Abacus Books

Hardcover. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. 56pp. Housed in a custom made tri-fold case within a slip case all in green cloth over board with gilt lettering to a darker green spine label. Light tanning to endpapers and light wear to covers and slip case. Very good.From a preliminary page "...It is now published for the first time in extenso"

Hard cover. Octavo.[viii] 712pages with two frontispiece portraits of Levi and Catherine Coffin. Beautifully rebound in half calf over marbled boards by Period Bookbinders Company, UK. A touch of foxing to frontispieces otherwise clean and unmarked throughout.
"A brief History Of The Labors Of A Lifetime In Behalf Of The Slave, With The Stories Of Numerous Fugitives Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, And Many Other Incidents."
Levi Coffin was an active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad," estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care. The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, is now a museum, sometimes called the Underground Railroad's "Grand Central Station." Howes B923.

Pre-Publication Edition For the Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Presented to Delegates and Guests at the Fourteenth Biennial Convention May 15, 9144. Hardcover. Black publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo [xxx] 367pp. with b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked. Cover shows light shelf wear with a little rubbing to back and spine faded.Published in support of Roosevelt's 1944 election campaign, which saw him win an unprecedented fourth term and to die three months later.

No publisher or place of publication noted. Undated but likely 1890 to 1915. Octavo. Unpaginated but sixteen leaves staple bound in tan wraps and cord tied into a limp brown suede cover with gold title and decoration. 89 verses with duotone illustrations by Lloyd Williams throughout. Very good condition with slight rub to bottom corner of front cover.A one page preface gives a synopsis of the life and work of Omar Khayyam in which the author ends by writing that his own verses are "... at best, pale caricatures which brazenly dare to stand in the shadow of Omar's structure, their only claim for consideration being that they reflect perhaps a somewhat more cheerful and optimistic philosophy and faith." None located in OCLC.