Search Results: Titles starting with R from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Macmillan, 1953. First Edition 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Eileen Soper. 1st Edition 2nd Imp 1953. A very uncommon title with the wrapper and in the same format as the 1st edition printed a year earlier. Book is near fine and very bright indeed. Nice clean contents. Top corner of front endpaper partiality replaced. The wrapper is very good with edges rubbed/nicked/small closed tears. Small loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17766

UK: Cassell, 1962. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good +/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st UK Edition 1962. The uncommon biography of the man who won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. Rudy is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest pre-1939 Grand Prix drivers. His record of six German Grand Prix wins remains unbeaten.. Book is very good+ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is near very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Surface wear and age toning to wrapper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16230

UK: Wells, Gardner, 1957. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint 1957. A difficult title to find in nice condition. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. Inscription to front end paper. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Light soiling to rear cover. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14922 ###018293

UK: Wells, Gardner, 1906. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. C E Brock. 1st Edition 1906. Illustrated throughout with twenty full page plates by C E Brock. Book is very good with quite bright boards. Spine edges and gilt slightly dull. Light edge rubbing. Spine and tips a little creased. Contents quite good with light marking to some pages. Small inscription to lightly foxed/age toned endpaper. Some illustrated plate edges nicked and lightly creased. Quite a good example. More images can be taken upon request.Ref17578/17527

UK: Wells, Gardner, 1906. Third Ediiton 3rd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 3rd Edition 1906. In the same format as the 1st edition printed in the same year. Twenty full black and white plates by C E Brock. New front endpaper and missing half title page otherwise complete. Book is very good and quite bright. Gilt on spine dull. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17402

UK: Wells, Gardner, 1906. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 2nd Edition 1906. In the same format as the 1st edition printed in the same year. Twenty full black and white plates by C E Brock. Book is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed in places. Contents good. Pages age toned in places. Light marking to pages and odd nicks usage marks to plates. More images can be taken upon request. ref 18231

UK: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4th Imp of the US Seltzer Edition 1924. Book is very good and quite bright. Contents good. Pages lightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234

UK: Secker Warburg, 1959. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1959. Signed presentation inscription and photo from Mike Banks to fellow climber and companion on many climbs John Slle Smith. Mike Banks who made the first ascent of Rakoposhi with Tom Patey via the Southwest Spur/Ridge route in 1958. Both men suffered from frostbite during the accent. Rakoposhi is the only mountain in the world with more than 5,000 metres height between base camp and the summit. Michael Edward Borg Banks MBE 1922-2013 was a British soldier, adventurer, climber and author.[1.Book is very good++ and bright. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Price clipped. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref17695

UK: Ian Allen, 1956. First Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1956. Presentation inscription from the author,. Foreword By Raymond Baxter. Illustrated - Black and White Photographs.Mr Couper and friends took in the Monte Carlo rally in various luxury saloons and had a good deal of success in the Concours de Confort winning several Grand Prix. In this book he details the preparation for the rally each year as well as the event itself. A fascinating historic record of the days when you could take a Bentley and do the Monte. Book is very good+ and in bright condition. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16232/16311###021852

UK: Michael Joseph, 1951. First Edition . Cloth. Good ++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1951. Signed dedication to the front endpaper by C S Forester. Book is good++ with very marked and lightened boards. Light edge rubbing. The complete wrapper is very good+ and very bright. Light edge rubbing. Reverse of wrapper darkened from the cloth. Further images can be taken upon request. Ref15719

UK: Hutchinson, 1959. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1959. Flat signed to title page by author. Book is very good++ and bright. The complete wrapper is very good++ with rubbing/nicks to edges. Un-common signed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref12692###014683

UK, 1865. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Letter Written and Signed by Artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton to D O Hill the Secretary President of the Council of the RSA. Dated 1865. A letter accepting a meeting with President of the Council of the RSA. President of the Council of the RSA so probably the future King of England Edward VII. Sir Joseph Noel Paton 1821-1901 was a Scottish artist, illustrator and sculptor. He was also a poet and had an interest in, and knowledge of, Scottish folklore and Celtic legends. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size is 115m x 93mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Two small pinholes. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18423

UK, 1849. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Handwritten Letter and Signed by Irish Naturalist William Thompson Introducing Irish Geologist James McAdam. Dated1849 from Belfast. A letter introducing a Mr James McAdams Captain who is a very practical geologist to a friend in London. William Thompson 1805-1852 was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially in ornithology and marine biology. Thompson published numerous notes on the distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, plumage, behavior, nesting and food of birds. These formed the basis of his four-volume The Natural History of Ireland, and were much used by contemporary and later authors such as Francis Orpen Morris. James MacAdam 1801- 1861 was an Irish naturalist and geologist. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size is 100mm x 85mm. Condition… Read More

UK, 1870. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Letter Handwritten, Signed and With a Hand Drawn Map by Scottish Arctic Explorer and Surgeon John Rae. Also includes a Newspaper cutting of his Obituary. Dated 1870 and Addressed from His House in London 2 Addison Garden, Kensington. A wonderful letter to a Mr Anderson with directions and a map to his house from the railway station. Part of the letter has been inked out by Rae as he decided to draw a map instead. John Rae 1813-1893 was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage. Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia, northwest of the Hudson Bay, from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851. In 1854, back in the Gulf of Boothia, he obtained credible information from local Inuit peoples about the fate of the Franklin Expedition, which had disappeared in the area in 1848. The Rae-Richardson Arctic expedition of 1848 was an… Read More

UK, 1893. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Cricketer by Andrew Ernest Stoddart. Dated 1893. A letter of apology for missing their evening together. Andrew Ernest Stoddart 1863-1915 was an English sportsman who played international cricket for England, and rugby union for England and the British Isles. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893. He has the unique distinction in captaining England in three distinct sports; cricket, rugby union and Australian rules football. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size is 152mm x 100mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18423

UK, 1874. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Hand Written Letter Signed by Charles Kingsley to His Son. The letter undated C1874. Autograph Letter Signed with initials 'C.K.', The Cloisters, [Westminster Abbey], Wednesday, no date, c. 1874, to 'My dear little man' [his son Maurice, born 1847, or Grenville, born 1848], 'I am delighted with the report from mother... ', giving moral guidance and thoughts about duty and competitiveness, 'when you find you can do as well as other boys you will be soon trying to do better than they. The feeling of honorable rivalry comes in - the feeling which makes a horse go, and a hound go, and a cock fight... if horse, dog, or cock don't care about being beaten, we call them asleep/a cur/or craven........ ', Charles Kingsley 1819-1875 was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with… Read More

UK, 1828. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Hand Written Slip Signed by Amelia Opie. Dated 1828. The slip reads - 'I Shall Send You My Carriage for you at Three. Yours Affectionately A Opie.' Amelia Opie 1769-1853, was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. In 1825, Opie joined the Society of Friends, due to the influence of Joseph John Gurney and his sisters, who were long-time friends and neighbours in Norwich, and despite the objections made by her recently deceased father. The rest of her life was spent mostly in travel and working with charities. Meanwhile she published an anti-slavery poem titled, The Black Man's Lament in 1826 and a volume of devotional poems, Lays for the Dead in 1834. Opie worked with Anna Gurney to create a Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich. This anti-slavery society organised a petition of 187,000 names that was… Read More

UK, 1922. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. A Rare Original Hand Written Letter Discussing Silent Film Production of His Book and Signed by Writer Rafael Sabatini. The letter is dated 1922. The letter discusses his issues with silent film production and helping a archaeologist friend to gain employment as an art director within the film industry. Rafael Sabatini 1875-1950 was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood: His Odyssey) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). Several of his novels have been made into films, both silent and talking. In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays. Sizes are 203mm x 125mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18107

UK: Scorpion Press, 2016. First Edition . Half-Leather. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 2016. Limited Edition, 1 of 52 numbered copies SIGNED by Ian Rankin. This being number 22. Fine in quarter leather and marbled boards in acetate jacket.. Book in fine condition. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14854

USA: Harrap, 1916. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Blanche Fisher Wright. 1st Edition 1916. Illustrated in colour throughout by Blanche Fisher Wright. Nearly 300 rhymes, many full color plates; numerous smaller drawings with rhymes, all illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing.Bump to one corner. Contents good. Inscription to end paper. More images available upon request. Ref18409