Search Results: Titles starting with R from George S. MacManus Company

FREEMAN, Douglas S. R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934-1935. 1st eds. 4 Vols. Portrait frontises., illus., portraits, plates, maps, facsimiles. Orig. cloth. Spines slightly sunned, small spots of discoloration on spine of Vol. Four, faint foxing to title page of Vol. One, else very good set. HOWES F-350, "aa." Inscribed on front free endpaper of Vol. One, "Inscribed for Thomas Branch McAdams, who honors the name Virginian, Douglas Southall Freeman, Nov. 12, 1934." "A classic example of the biographical form; exhaustively researched, vividly written, balanced, judicious and definitive in its portrayal of the Confederacy's greatest soldier" Nevins II, p. 57. In Tall Cotton, 62.

(LEE, ROBERT E.). FREEMAN, Douglas S. R.E. Lee. A Biography. N.Y., 1934-1935. 1st edns of vols. 1 & 2. Four vols. Illus. maps. Orig. cloth. A fine set in publisher's box.

1947. FREEMAN, Douglas S. R.E. Lee, A Biography. N.Y., (1943). 4 vols. Illus. Very good in orig. cloth.

1936. FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Pulitzer Prize ed. 4 Vols. Illus., portraits, plates, maps, facsimiles. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. A fine set. HOWES F-350. "A classic example of the biographical form; exhaustively researched, vividly written, balanced, judicious and definitive in its portrayal of the Confederacy's greatest soldier" Nevins II, p.57. In Tall Cotton, 62.

1915. (WYOMING). (LARAMIE). R. L. Polk 7 Co.'s Laramie City and Albany County Directory, 1915-1916. Containing a Complete Alphabetical List of Business Firms, Corporations and Private Citizens of Laramie and All the Towns and Villages in Albany County; a Miscellaneous Directory of City, County, State and United States Officers, Churches, Colleges and Schools, Secret and Benevolent Societies, etc.; a List of Persons with Box Numbers on Rural Free Delivery and star Routes from Laramie Post Office. Also a Complete Classified Business Directory "Buyers' Guide" Volume III. Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk & Co., 1915. 1st ed. 146pp. Map endpapers. Orig. printed cloth-backed boards. Light sunning to upper and outer edges of boards, else near fine. Rare. Worldcat locates only five copies. Many advertisements, some pictorial.

(STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS). BOODLE, Adelaide A. R.L.S. and His Sine Qua Non: Flashlights from Skerryvore by The Gamekeeper. Original cloth over boards with printed paper spine label, dust jacket. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First American edition. A near fine copy in d/j.

(STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS). SWINNERTON, Frank. R.L. Stevenson: A Critical Study. Original cloth, dust jacket. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. First American edition. A near fine copy in d/j.

1856. REEN, Charles. R. & G.A. Wright Manufacturers of the Celebrated Gold Medal Perfumery and Importers of French, English & German Druggists & Fancy Articles, No. 23 South 4th St. Philadelphia. Color engraving on stone, 15-1/2 x 18-3/4 inches. Very minor wear at extreme edges, else very good. Not in Wainwright. Philadelphia on Stone 295. Advertisement containing a large central text panel with a background printed in color in a rainbow style and surrounded by an ornate decorative border. Border contains symbols, allegorical figures, and pictorial details representing the United States and patriotism (the American flag, Liberty, a shield adorned with the banner "E Pluribus Unum," and an eagle); Pennsylvania (a portrait of William Penn and the Pennsylvania state seal); and trade, commerce, and farming (barrels, crates, bundles of goods, a scythe, a hoe, sheaves of wheat, a mast of a sailing ship, and a land/marinescape view with a railroad and "John Fitch" steamboat). Some goods are marked "R &… Read More

(READING). Reading's Social Organizations. Book One. [Reading, PA: Lew C. Hulshizer, n.d.]. Ca. 1890. Illus., portraits. Orig. printed wrappers. Slight edgewear, else a very fine copy. Articles about various social groups including history and membership. Rare. Not in OCLC.

(BRADLEY, WILL). BROWNING, Robert. Rabbi Ben Ezra. 12mo. Orig. boards with paper label on front cover. Concord, Mass.: The Sign of the Vine, n.d. First of this edition, designed and set into type by Will Bradley. A very fine copy.

1933. ROBERTS, Kenneth. Rabble in Arms: A Chronicle of Arundel and the Burgoyne Invasion. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, map endpapers, non-priceclipped dust jacket. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First edition. Jacket illustration by N.C. Wyeth. A very good copy in a very good d/j with some minor chipping and wear.

1908. MILLER, Kelly. Race Adjustment Essays on the Negro in America. N.Y. & Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1908. 1st ed. 306pp. Orig. cloth, t.e.g. A very good copy. Krick 321. A very good and scarce Neale imprint. Miller, a black, was a professor of sociology at Howard University. This copy belonged to George Washington Cable and bears his stamp on the flyleaf.

1914. BAILEY, Thomas Pearce. Race Orthodoxy in the South and Other Aspects of the Negro Question. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 1st ed. 386pp. Orig. cloth. Fine. "Bailey decries the growing racial discrimination evident in the North and endeavors to compare ancient Rome with the Southern race problem"-Krick 16. With the bookplate of Willis Linn Jepson, the Expert on California botany.

BURSON, William. A Race for Liberty; or, My Capture, Imprisonment, and Escape. Wellsville, OH: W.G. Foster, Printer, 1867. 1st ed. xii,[5]-135pp. Later calf-backed cloth, black morocco spine label. Light scattered foxing, else very good. "Author stresses and exciting escape form Florence, S.C., in 1864; gives excellent details on aid by Negroes and others" Nevins I, p.187. .

BRINTON, Daniel G. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography. N.Y., 1890. 313pp. Fine in orig. cloth.

NOYES, Alfred. Rada. A Belgian Christmas Eve. With Four Illustrations After Goya. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1915]. First edition. A fine copy in the scarce jacket.

1681. LANDRETH, Burnet. Radcliffe: This Was the First Street in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Settled by World's People in 1681, a Year before Philadelphia. [N.P.: n.p., 1917]. 1st ed. Orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label. Very good or better.

ADAMS, Frederick B. Jr. Radical Literature in America. An Address. To Which Is Appended a Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club in New York City. 4to. Original red cloth in publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with reproductions. Stamford, Conn.: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1939. First edition. Limited to 650 copies. Slipcase a bit soiled, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce.

WOOD, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution.N.Y., 1992. 1st ed. 447pp. Fine in d/j.

1851. (PHILADELPHIA). RAE, Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory and Panoramic Advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Street. Phila.: Julio H. Rae, 1851. 1st ed. Oblong folio. Illus. with 16 panoramic views (several folding). 11pp. of additional advts. Orig. cloth;but a very good copy. Complete with the original deep-blue printed wrappers. Rare. Each view depicts two rows of storefronts on each side of Chestnut Street, one block at a glance. Facing each view is a page with the corresponding advertisements or cards for each store or business shown. Gift inscription from the noted Philadelphi collector Ferdinand Dreer on front free endpaper, "Presented to Frederick A. Dreer by his father Nov. 7, 1885.