Search Results: Titles starting with R from Back of Beyond Books

Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press. Very Good. 1978. Limited and Numbered. Hardcover. Limited edition, 122/150, inscribed to previous owners with original sketch in turquoise ink. In red cloth slipcase. Some scratches and scuffs to the smooth surface of the boards, marbled paper band shows little wear. Interior clean, binding tight.; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall; Signed by Illustrator(s) .

Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Pub. Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0873581792 . Orange boards with black leather spine with yellow writing. Orange cloth clamshell slipcase with black edge and yellow lettering. A biography about Native American artist R. C. Gorman. Gorman captured the patterns and faces he saw around him in a unique and evocative way. This is a collection of his lithographs. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 170 pp .

Albuquerque, NM: Taos Editions. New. 1987. Special Edition. Hardcover. 0961995009 . Red leather boards with title gilt on spine. Decorative cloth slipcase. Gorman was known as the "Picasso of American Indian art." Forward by John Redhouse. ; Book .

Pueblo, CO: R. T. Frazier. Fair with no dust jacket. Booklet. Black wrappers with gilt text front and back. Fair condition only. Wrappers detached and damaged. Last 50 pages have a dog-eared corner. Light evidence of moisture within text block yet no stuck pages or loss. Interior content is in very good condition with hundreds of photo-mechanical reproductions, steel engravings and line drawings. Frazier is the maker of the Pueblo Saddle and claimed to be the largest manufacturer of High Grade Saddles in the World. Booklet also sells everything else a working cowboy would need. Tipped in goldenrod slip at front states, "This Book Has NEW LOW PRICES." A good candidate for restoration as these saddlery catalogs are rare and difficult to find in decent condition. 1 copy of this issue in OCLC as of February 2021. ; Steel engraving; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pp .

Hope, Arkanasas: Hope Brick Works. Good. 1935. Pamphlet. Yellow pictorial staple bound wrapper. Wrapper is moderately soiled with coffee ring on back wrapper. Interior is clean with one page of notes in pencil. This charming little booklet from the Hope Brick Works of Hope Arkansas extols the virtues of using radial bricks in the construction of manholes, thus saving time and money versus conventional rectangular brick design. Complete with budgets and testimonials plus a centerfold with "General Drawing Radial Brick Standard and Drop Manholes Patent # 2002127" in a scale so small as to render it useless. Perfect for all collectors of manholiana. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 32 pp .

Chicago: Rand McNally. Very Good. 1891. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with title label. Lightly rubbed corners and a scratched area on title label. The hand-colored rail map, keyed by individual railway, is in very good condition. Contains an inset map of Chicago. ; 25 1/2" x 20 1/2" .

Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Lithograph Company. Good. 1914. Hardcover. Linen-backed bound pocket map that unfolds to 32" x 28". Fold splits and light soil, with the folds held together by the linen webbing. Brown boards with gilt imprint, rubbed corners and edges. A Railroad Map of Ohio, Published by the State, color-coded and with a detailed train title illustration. ; 8 1/2" x 4" .

Geo. F. Cram. Good. Map. A fragile color lithograph map of Kansas, with decorative border and title oval. No date, circa 1880s. Possibly disbound, with binding edge unevenly trimmed and toned with tears. Toning of a few folded sections, fold splits. Sections are shown. "Leavenworth" is printed in large red letters for reasons unknown. ; 16 1/2" x 25" .

New York: Thaddeus Firth. Good. 1854. Sheet Music. Sheet music with hand-colored illustration on front wrap. Sheet music was likely bound in a larger volume; remnant of string binding are along spine, all content is present. All leaves have light to moderate foxing and light soiling. This was the 120th edition of "The Rainbow Schottisch." ; Engraving; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 5 pp .

Schaden.com. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First English Edition. Hardcover. 3932187334 . Photography book illustrating the work of Machiel Botman, including a signed photographic print and housed in a cloth-covered slipcase. Book is signed by Botman on half title page. Both the French and English editions each have a signed and slipcased edition of 26 copies; each copy is labeled A-Z, this copy is "X". Slip case is cloth covered with illustrations on front and photographs on back. Dustjacket of book portrays a photograph taken by Botman and is in fine condition with no wear or soiling; it is covered with a mylar jacket. Boards are cloth and have same design as the slipcase. Book is in fine condition with no wear or soiling, interior is clean and binding is tight. Photographic print is 10 3/4" tall by 8 1/4" wide and is in fine condition. Machiel Botman photographs in b&w portraying people, places and things that affect him. His work is sometimes described as… Read More

San Bernardino, CA: '49ers Inc.. Very Good. 1964. Softcover. Pale green paper wrapper with brown lettering on cover. Light fading along spine. Staple bound with clean text block. This pamphlet, published for a memorial program at the Death Valley Museum, provides a brief biography for Ralph Merritt. Merritt was the program director for the Manzanar Japanese internment camp during World War II. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pp .

Two volume set. New-York, Harper & Brothers, 1835. First American Edition. 12mo. 243pp; 242pp. Hardcover. Fair. Full leather bindings. Both volumes have “Norristown Library Company No. 585” written in contemporary manuscript on pastedowns; boards Volume I are cracked and fragile and previous owner has tipped in a newspaper clipping about the book, rear endpaper is missing a 1” x 1” piece; front board of Volume II is detached and rear board is cracked, label on spine is detached, front endpaper is missing a 2” x 4” piece; text blocks of both volumes have moderate foxing. From Wagner-Camp: “Charles Latrobe accompanied Washington Irving on the ‘Tour on the Prairies, ” in the party that included Commissioner Ellsworth, Colonel Chouteau, Count Albert de Pourtales, and John T. Irving. ” Howes L-127. Wagner-Camp 57: 2. .

Santa Fe, New Mexico: D. B. Chase, Photographer. Very Good. Boudoir card on original tan mount with title and photographer's information in the negative; historical information and D&RGRR advertisement on verso. Negative number 126. Likely photographed in the 1880s. Mount has light soiling; photograph has light soiling. Photographer Dana B. Chase owned a studio in Santa Fe from 1884-1892, taking over for William Henry Brown (Mautz p. 406). This image depicts three saddled and heavily laden burros. A small collection of D. B. Chase photos are found at Yale, although this one does not appear to be in their collection. ; 8" x 5" .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red and green cloth spine with gilt design on front with gilt title on spine. Light wear to head and foot of spine and corner. Tight binding and clean interior. Very slight lean to book. Jacket is price clipped and missing three small chips near head and foot of spine. Small tear to front fold of jacket. Wilbur Coe's autobiography of his family's famous ranch along the Ruidoso River. Book designed by Carl Hertzog, paintings by Peter Hurd, portrait of Louise Coe by Henriette Wyeth and maps by Jose Cisneros plus photos from the Coe Family archives. Signed by Wilbur Coe and Peter Hurd on the first free endpaper. ; B & W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 279 pp; Signed by All Authors .

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. Very Good. 1881. Hardcover. An early pocket map and guide of the land of 10,000 lakes, with many, many lakes shown, if not all. Red stamped cloth boards with gilt imprint. Soil, sunned spine, and rubbed corners. Light soil on pages. The hand-colored map is in fine condition, measuring 21" x 13 1/2" unfolded. Text contains a list of railroads and the map index. ; 7" x 4 1/4"; 25 pp .

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. Very Good. 1908. Map. A disbound color lithograph pocket map of Illinois from Rand McNally. Folded to 5 1/2" by 3 1/2". Light soil and edge wear. Railroads in red. ; 27 1/2" x 20 1/2" .

Rand McNally. Good. 1909. Map. An early pocket map of Adams County, Illinois, in a grey wrapper with some chips and and creasing. This brightly colored map measures 20" x 14" unfolded. Light soil. A few one-inch tears and fold splits running more than half the width could use some repair. ; 7 1/2" x 4 1/4" .

Chicago And New York: Rand McNally & Company. Very Good. 1891. Softcover. A color folding map measuring 22" x 28". These pocket maps are hard to find in good condition. A few foxed spots and one-inch tears on map. Brown wrappers have soil and creased edges, with an old Honolulu bookseller's label on the front. Continents, political divisions, islands, important cities, towns, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, ocean currents, steamship routes, cable and telegraph lines. ; 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" .

Chicago: Rand McNally. Very Good. 1914. Softcover. A color lithograph pocket map and guide of Iowa, with railroads in red. Brown wrapper has light wear. Map is in very good condition and measures 21 1/4" x 28". The illustrated advertisement pages depict many hotels in Iowa and surrounding states. ; 6" x 4 1/4"; 50 pp .

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. Very Good. 1906. Softcover. A color lithograph pocket map and guide for Minnesota, with railroads in red. Brown wrapper has little wear with a faint indiscernible oval stamp on the front. Map is clean and measures 28" x 21". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .