Search Results: Authors starting with R from Abbey Bookshop

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1963. Third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original yellow cloth, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece and 26 plates, as well as six illustrations in the text. A generous selection of humorous stories from China, Korea, and particularly Japan. very occasional erudite manuscript annotations in French

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., later red cloth spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt, illustrated with 50 engravings. some light foxing

Barcelona: Grafesa, 1964-5. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to., later full grey cloth, original wrappers preserved. The first eight numbers of the Spanish-language publication on magic, Misdirection, bound together. Most scarce original wrappers a little creased

London: J.M. Dent, 1946. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. Lovely copy of this narrative poem set in Fontainebleau during the German occupation. dust jacket spine a little faded and slightly worn at the head

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1854. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth richly decorated in gilt, frontispiece. head and tail of spine worn, two pages browned where a pressed flower has been kept

n.p.: Ballantine Books, 1968. First edition. Very Good +. Long oblong 16mo., original stapled pictorial wrappers. Comic strip by Robert Crumb. very lightly worn at head and tail of spine and points

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original blue cloth, frontispiece. Edited by L.C. Martin.

London: Methuen & Co., (1905). Reprint. Very Good +. 8vo., original roan, handsome gilt-decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Methuen's Standard Library edition of the Southey's life of Nelson, first published in 1813. head and tail of spine worn, extremities rubbed

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1883. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original brick red cloth decorated in black. spine a little dulled, extremities lightly rubbed

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Sm. folio, original cloth spine, patterned boards, with 32 plates in colour and in black and white. One of 301 numbered copies signed by the author. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives were American printmakers who knew an enormous popularity in their own time for their romanticized lithographs of current events, such as the Chicago Fire, and in support of popular causes like the temperance movement. edges rubbed, cloth very lightly soiled