Search Results: Titles starting with R from Evening Star Books

Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, 1-230, [4] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with full-page portraits and maps. Signed without personalization by Zinn on the free front endpaper. A history of the 1861 campaign which proved difficult for Robert E. Lee. Initials written on the bottom textblock, a bookplate and about three or so ink underlines in the text; jacket has a small closed tear to its rear panel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 192, [6] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $12.95 on front flap of jacket. Small and very mild abrasion and a tiny mark to free front endpaper, else Fine in a very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: The New Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [5], 4-403, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Terkel's study of race, with interviews between him and young and old people, Klan members, interracial couples, Emmet Till's mother, among others. The author notes that at this time period racial hostility was increasing, and such a study to understand why was necessary. A fascinating publication wholly pertinent to the twenty-first century reader. Rear board a bit bowed.

New York: The New Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [5], 4-403, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by Terkel on the title page in red marker. Terkel's study of race, with interviews between him and young and old people, Klan members, interracial couples, Emmet Till's mother, among others. The author notes that at this time period racial hostility was increasing, and such a study to understand why was necessary. A fascinating publication wholly pertinent to the twenty-first century reader. A bit of foxing to the top textblock; jacket has minor edge wear to its front panel and toning to its reverse.

New York: Atheneum, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [5], 3-305, [1] pp. Red cloth with lettering in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page photographs. Chicago History Museum, "The Red Summer of 1919". Tuttle, Jr. recounts the history of the 1919 Chicago Riot starting with the murder of Eugene Williams, a young Black man who was swimming in Lake Michigan when a group of white men threw stones at him, causing him to drown. Tuttle aims to examine the riots from the common person's point of view, rather than use evidence from the political elites of the time. A slight lean and an occasional underline in the text; jacket has a crease and toning on each flap.

New York: The Viking Press (1967), 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 9-416 pp. Grey cloth with black and red lettering on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ronald Segal was active in the movement against apartheid in South Africa, and traveled all over the world observing the effects of European colonialism on various nations and peoples. This is his treatise on the causes of the unrest and movements for independence and equality which so many nation-states were experiencing in the latter twentieth century. Jacket with very light edge wear and toning.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [11], xii-xiii, [4], 4-300, [4] pp. Quarter red cloth over black cloth, black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A lean and one gathering coming loose but still holding to the binding, a name on the front pastedown; jacket with a crease on its front and rear panels.

New York: Arbor House [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [10], 3-214, [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over dark blue boards with light blue lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap.

New York: Viking (1999), 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [9], 2-344 pp. Quarter blue cloth over dandelion paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. The twenty-first Lovejoy mystery.

New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 3-590, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold and red lettering and decorations in blind on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $3.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page printed in red and black. Ahearn APG 012c. Russell 404. A pleasing example of O'Hara's chronicle of a changing United States, centered around one woman's life story: Grace Caldwell Tate questions and violates her society's sexual mores, and her family's expectations of her. A hairline split to the paper on the rear hinge; jacket's front fold is separated.

New York: St. Martin's Press (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 341, [2] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Near Fine book with the front board slightly bowed in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few traces of rubbing.

New York: Random House [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], 3-270, [6] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; pink topstain. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a tiny crack to the front hinge; dust jacket is Near Fine with minor edge wear.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo. [8], 332, [4] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Ahearn 067a. A presentable copy, difficult to find in the dust jacket. Very Good+ book with a gift inscription on the front flyleaf dated 1938 and minor wrinkling to the final two leaves in a price-clipped Good only dust jacket with an abrasion to the rear panel, significantly edge-worn.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [2002], 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 5-305, [7] pp. Quarter red cloth over orange boards with black lettering on the front board and spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs on the title page and the part one page. Signed by the author on a tipped in leaf. A sharp copy of Eisler's first novel.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [2004], 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [13], 4-341, [1] pp. Quarter navy cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A very near Fine book with a tiny spot of discoloration to the fore-edge in a very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: TOR (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 10-364, [4] pp. Bound in blue cloth with metallic pink lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on jacket flap. A nice copy of this Hugo Award winning novel. Near Fine with some minor wear to the edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of wear to the extremities.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-248, [2] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Third issue of the first printing, as per Ahearn APG (004d). A Near Fine book with a touch of fading to the edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small closed tear and a wrinkle to the rear panel and minor fading to the spine panel.

New York: The Viking Press (1976), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [7], 2-314 pp. Blue paper boards quarter bound in green cloth with blue and gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front jacket flap. Illustrated with one diagram. A slight lean and some toning to the pageblock; jacket has a closed tear to its front panel and toning to its flaps.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Alan Tiegreen. 8vo. [10], 11-160 pp. Quarter blue cloth over pale green boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. A Very Good+ book with a strain to the front hinge near the free front endpaper with a few light pencil annotations in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [2], 490, [1], 2-7, [13] (pages of illustrated publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and gold decorations on the front board, spine lettered in gold. While the text is not illustrated the publisher's ads in the rear contain several charming wood engravings. Encyclopedia, "Helen Hunt Jackson". Jackson's most significant work is her novel Ramona. She is remembered for her activism on behalf of Native Americans in Southern California. An early reprint of Jackson's classic novel. A Very Good book with the front hinge tender but binding is strong, edges of the boards show rubbing, bookplate on the front pastedown.