Search Results: Titles starting with R from Aardvark Rare Books

Cologne: Ristampate, 1631. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good. IN ITALIAN. 3 p. l., 248 p. 23 cm. Contemporary paper with grey boards; Paper spine label. This collection is divided into two parts, the first part consisting of letters written by the Cardinal to several correspondents (Cardinals Borghese, Borgia, d'Este, Gonzaga, Infante di Spagna, Leni, Lodouisio, che su Gregorio XV; de'Medici; di Retz; Spinola Legato di Ferrara; Valiero; Vbaldini;Xauierre; Cavaliere Marin). The second consists largely of those written to the Duke of Monteleone in Spain. Very clean copy.. The letters span from 1607 to 1621. 248 pp. plus one three-page "table" (index). "...On 22 June 1633, Cardinal Bentivoglio (1577-1644) was one of the signers of the papal condemnation of Galileo.[6] An able writer and skillful diplomat, Bentivoglio was marked out as Pope Urban's successor, but he died suddenly after the opening of the 1644 Papal conclave...and is buried in the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome..."

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. `. Two Volumes. Bright, red cloth, ruled in blind, with spine titles in gilt. Tall octavos [9x6 inches]. Several corners nudged, light wear to spine ends, titles bright. viii,298 [26 page advertising catalog at rear]; 304 pages. Very clean and bright, with some unopened pages. Bookseller's ticket (Brentano's Bookseller) to rear pastedowns. Sir George Chetwynd [1849-1917] owned a racing stable and led a wealthy, gambling life.

New York: Livingston Manor Times, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 6.25 x 9 in., pp 270 + 2(Index). Illustrated with four pages of black and white historical photos. Olive-tan paper replacement cover. Title in black with black frame on lighter green paper pasted onto front board. Title page has two inch peel on upper right corner that does not impact words; bottom right corner of title page creased with half inch chip missing, tape repaired ; Previous owner's name and address stamped at top of title page. Minor thumbing. Quite scarce in any form. History of rafting on the Delaware River, particularly the transportation of timber, people, and goods. The author weaves topography, economics, personalities, and stories into a lively telling of the early function of this major Northeast artery.

Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Coimpany, 1920. HARDCOVER. GOOD PLUS. Johnny Gruelle. Hardback (8vo) in illustrated olive-colored, paper-covered boards; stunning color illustrations throughout. Binding solid; interior clean, Previous owner's bookplate with a poem on the front free endpaper, opposite the half title. bright, edgeworn; lightly rubbed, scratched, with a starting hingebut still very solidly bound. One corner of one page shows a little chip missing because of eager little hands, no doubt. 101 pp.,including all endpapers, and preliminaries. One of the Volland "Happy Children Books"

Burbank, California: Howell-North Books (Darwin Publications), 1982. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Quarto. Brown cloth with bright gilt lettering. Some minor rubbing to extremities. Map endpapers.Maps, narrative and loaded with black and white photographs. 262 pp. Dustjacket shows shelf-and edge-wear, smudging, creasing, as well as some small closed tears to dustjacket, which has done a creditable job of protecting this lovely book. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper.

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1982. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Delightful wordless tale of a sister's and a brother's experience in, of, and with...a rainy day! Just a hint of shelf rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Hardly noticeably unless really hunting for it. Peter Spier is "one of the most gifted illustrators in this country...he has illustrated over a hundred books and has contributed a series of murals to the H.F. Du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware." He is a winner of a Caldecott Award for his "Noah's Ark" in 1978, and numerous other accolades for his beautifully illustrated and captivating tales.

London, England: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1912. Hardcover. Good Plus. Jack B. Yeats. Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5 in.,, pp. 312, [40] advertising. Illustrated with five color paintings by Jack B. Yeats, the frontis with a tissue-guard and one that folds-out, and 25 half-tone photographs. Dark green cloth boards with light green title and embossed frame in blind surrounding laid-on painting by Yeats. Gilt title to spine. Spotting to edges. Unmarked interior. Age-toning to pages, and occasional light spotting to pages. Robert Wilson Lynd (Irish: Roibéard Ó Floinn; 1879 - 1949) was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist, socialist and Irish nationalist.

New York: The Century Company, 1888. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. Frederic Remington. Quarto. Original cloth, Binding first state (front board stamped in green and gold design). Design incorporates hat, cooking pot, Bowie knife, and whip hanging from Saguaro Cactus, with a design of an open book at base of Cactus within a golden sun. Elaborate gilt lettering and embossed designs to spine. Monstrously thick boards (able themselves to survive a cattle drive! -- a very solid copy), with beveled edges. Light foxing to (undecorated portion of ) front board and some very light smudging or staining to rear board. Corners lightly nudged. All edges gilt. [x] pp.186 + 4. Magnificentlyl illustrated by western artist Frederic Remington, throughout. "...Roosevelt records his experiences from his hunting adventures, the people and animals that he encounters, the excitement of the round up, to the everyday life on the ranch..." (Boone and Crockett Club) "...Roosevelt was at work in the New… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Green buckram-covered boards with gilt vignette of a cowpoke to front board, and gilt lettering as well, and to spine. Veryh light rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper and top of title page. 24 illustrations. Pages very lightly age-tanned. Handsome solid copy.

Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. NOTE: Map of Fair not present. Small quarto .(9 1/16 in. x 6 1/4 in.) Flexible leather covers with gilt lettering to front and spine. All edges gilt. Appears very lightly used, if at all. After a thorough explanation of helpful identifying marks, a preface, and a fair calendar, the guide sets off to address what an unfamiliar visitor really might WANT and NEED to know. First chapter covers "Arrival at the World's Fair City", followed by "The Way to The World's Fair and Its History". These inntroductory sections are followed by a six-day itinerary covering a wide selection of fair features, and concludes with a general index. The aim of this guide is to afford to its readers the fullest clearest, most concise, and above all, the most reliable information upon every subject within its scope. Its space is too limited to admit iof verbose descriptions or discursive ramblings (even were such desireable) and mere dull, dry… Read More

Oakland CA: Margaret M. Pavel and Anne Herbert, 1992. Early Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Stapled pamphlet, 11 in. x 4 in. Unpaginated offset booklet (54 leaves). Light green cardstock cover with title and calligraphic "O" to front. Light age-toning to cover; very light thumbing to corners. The second leaf is 1/3 page-size (upper portion cut off?). Unmarked interior. This is the rare self-published offset stapledbound edition, issued in Oakland, California one year before the Volcano Press Kazan Books edition (1993). From the copyright page: "This work in progress is part of an ongoing project. Many people have responded by sending us stopries of random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. We welcome your participation and invite you to experiment in living the idea." Also from the copyright page: "The phrase 'random kindness and senseless acts of beauty' was created by Anne Herbert in 1982 and was first published in The CoEvolution Quarterly." Anne Herbert (1950-2015) was an… Read More

Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7 in., pp. xvi, 527. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated with over 50 black and white drawings and photos, and twenty maps. Light olive cloth boards with red title to front and spine. Protected in mylar. Laid in: Recreation Map of the North Cascades: International Border Area of Washington/British Columbia [Nooksack/Chilliwack/Upper Skagit/Fraser 1:100,000). Edited and compiled by Fred Beckey. Cartography by Al Cardwell. Published by The Mountainners, Seattle, WA [ISBN 0-89886-028-8] 22 in. x 28.5 in. The first comprehensive account of the 19th Century exploration of the rugged North Cascade Mountains.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth, octavo. Text clean, cover is very good, very marginal nudging to corners. Stated second printing. 347 pages. Notes, appendix. Frontis plate of Mosby. 17 pages of illustrations, endpaper maps. A handwritten letter, signed by Mosby, dated Washington, December 1914, tipped-in to half-title recto. Also tipped-in, on verso of publisher's frontis portrait of Mosby, a photo plate of Mosby in uniform sitting in a wooden chair, and signed "Very Truly Yours, John Mosby. (Because the only other copy of this particular photo located bore a printed title of "Mosby in 1866", the PHOTO signature is being treated as autopen. Since the photo is pasted, without printed title, to the extant page, this description will not treat it as authentic. The partial envelope which is addressed by Mosby, with return address in top left corner reading "From John Mosby, Washington", and addressed by him to… Read More

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 242. Signed on the title page by the author. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Untrimmed fore-edge. Dustjacket protected in mylar. Robert Sullivan (1963 - ) is a contributing editor to Vogue and a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in New York.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.25 in x 5.75 n., pp. 243. Green-gray cloth boards with red title in red frame to front and spine. Very light shelfwear to boards. Unmarked interior. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket; two small holes to front of dustjacket. Spine and hinges tight. Protected in mylar. Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, 1920 - 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for In a Mirror, Newbery Honors in 1962 for Belling the Tiger and 1966 for The Noonday Friends, and her entire body of work was awarded the George G. Stone Recognition of Merit in 1982. Her literary works range from picture books to young-adult novels. "Ready or Not" is her fifth young adult novel.

London, England: The Zodiac Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.4 in., pp. 518. Magenta boards and spine with with repetitive floral design. Gilt title to brown oval panel on spine. Light rubbing to extremities. A few marginal age spots up to page 10. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Age-toning to upper 1/4 inch of dustjacket. Price clipped. Edith Anna Ã…Â’none Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Ã…Â’. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Delécluse, and then spent a term at the Westminster School… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Good Plus. 8vo. Pebbled forest-green cloth with embossed blind lettering and gilt illustration of log cabin to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. The author's narrative about the process -- inner and outer -- of building a rustic cabin on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. 278 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Slight spine lean. Solidly bound, pleasantly told in anecdotal style, yet not at all wanting for specific details.

London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. J. Townsend Trench. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.6 in.,, pp. xiv, 407. Illustrated with drawings in black and white, and one color plate, by the author's son, J. Townsend Trench. Color fold-out map of Ireland. Green half calf with gilt rule over marbled boards. Gilt title, and five raised bands to spine. Publisher's gilt top-edge. Light rubbing to extremities. Corners peeping. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing to frontispiece and fold-out map. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Spine and hinges tight. The author, on the title page, is introduced as the "Land Agent in Ireland to Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Bath, and Lord Digby." W. Steuart Trench was born in November 1808, near Ballybrittas, Co Laois (then Queen's County), the youngest son of Thomas Trench, Church of Ireland Dean of Kildare, and Mary Weldon, whose father Robert was a landowner and MP for Athy. After attending the Royal School, Armagh, he went to Trinity… Read More

Norfolk: W.A. Fiske, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 366 pages+ six pages of local business ads. Full page illustration of the Merrimack, three text figures. Brown cloth with spine titles in gilt. Tall octavo. Corners bumped, textblock square. Some light scuffing to cover. Bookplate, interior bright in tight binding. Detailed accounting of the regiments, officers and troops.

Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Co, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. 12mo. 7.4 in. x 5 in., pp. 261. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of a story scene. Ochre boards with red and black World War I scene and nurse, and black title, stamped to front. Red and black title and nurse to spine. Light shelfwear to corners and top/bottom of spine. Small dent to top of spine. Spotting to edges. Decorated endpapers. Bit of play to rear hinge. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges with a few short closed tears. Light soiling to rear of dutjacket. Margaret Vandercook (1877-1958) did not become a professional writer until after her husband's death in 1908, but has since been described as the queen of Camp Fire writers, writing twenty-one Camp Fire novels under her own name as well as the pseudonym "Margaret Love Sanderson." In addition to the Camp Fire Girls series, Margaret is also known for her other girls series books which include the Ranch Girls series, Red Cross Girls series, and Girl Scouts… Read More