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  • Raban, Jonathan:  Bad Land.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition. Fine, fine. With complimentary blubs by Ian Frazier and Richard Ford on the rear jacket panel. An award winning book which went to at least a 5th printing. A novel set in the high, dry plains of Montana and the Dakotas during the early 1900's when immigrants were lured to the area by wild claims and the opportunity to homestead 325 acres.
    TB04145  $35.00



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    Radde, Bruce:  The Merritt Parkway.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Second Printing. Fine in bright yellow cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2"by 8 1/2". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 135 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with both color and black and white photographs. "The Merritt Parkway, built in the 1930's to connect Connecticut's Fairfield County with New York State, was one of the earliest attempts to cope with America's new obsession with the automobile. This book traces the history of the Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920's to its triumphant completion in 1940. ...it is no only a picturesque tour of a renowned Connecticut landmark, but is also an appraisal of a major contribution to the built environment - one recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places." (from jacket flap)
    TB22834  $25.00



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    Rader, Jesse L.:  South Of Forty, from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande: A Bibliography.  Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Publishing, n.d. [2001]. Facsimile Reprint. Fine in light gray buckram with black text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7 1/2". Without a dust jacket as issued. 336 pages including an index and text. Listing nearly 4,000 individual titles associated with the American Southwest. This is a facsimile reprint edition of the original book published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1947.
    TB27392  $75.00



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    Rae, Noel:  The People's War Original Voices of the American Revolution.  Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light blue paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 614 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB29383  $30.00




  • Raine, William MacLeod:  Famous Sheriffs & Western Outlaws.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition, First printing. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with orange text on the spine and front board. The front hinge is starting and the cloth at the head and heel of the spine is lightly rubbed. Without its issued dust jacket which is seldom seen. 294 pages of text. As stated in Ramon F. Adams' bibliography, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, this title is "One of the author's earlier nonfiction books, and one in which he covers the subject fairly thoroughly. Like most books about outlaws, it contains some mistakes." (Six-Guns 1784)
    TB21436  $20.00



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    Ralph, Julian:  Our Great West.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Edition, First printing. Very good in decorated light tan cloth covered boards with gilt and red decorations with light wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine with minor soiling to the spine and covers. Without a dust jacket. A very attractive, tight and clean copy. "A study of the Present Conditions and Future Possibilities of New Commonweaths and Capitals of the United States." 478 pages (with 4 page catalog following) of text, maps and 34 illustrations with a frontis by Frederic Remington.
    TB08038  $35.00




  • Randall, Willard Sterne:  Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor.  New York: Wm. Morrow & Company, 1990. Second Printing. Near fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with slight fading around the edges of the boards and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down under the dust jacket flap. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with minor wrinkling at the ends of the spine area. A biography of Benedict Arnold by an award winning journalist and a recognized historian who has uncovered new materials to help resolve the mystery of why Arnold may have changed sides. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and maps.
    TB20105  $25.00



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    Randisi, Robert J., Editor:  Mean Streets.  New York: The Mysterious Press, (1986). First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a near fine cloth covered slipcase. One of only 250 copies signed by all the contributors and with this copy identified as number 108. 230 pages of text. The second private eye Writers of America anthology containing 12 short stories.
    TB32756  $100.00



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    Randisi, Robert J., Editor:  An Eye For Justice.  New York: The Mysterious Press, (1988). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches with light spots of foxing to the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 211 pages of text. The third private eye Writers of America anthology containing 13 short stories.
    TB32754  $20.00




  • Randolph, Edmund:  Hell among the Yearlings.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1978. First thus. Fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations to the spine and to the front board and with a gilt top edge to the text block. The Lakeside Classic release of 1978. Originally published in Great Britain in 1955 under the title: Don't Fence Them In. 400 pages including an index and followed by a list of the previously issued Lakeside Classics.
    TB25112  $20.00



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    Rankin, Hugh F.:  The North Carolina Continentals.  Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, (1971). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in full, tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with slight wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area (with tape repairs on the verso side of the upper end of the jacket) and with wear and rubbing over the tips of the boards. 428 pages including an index, bibliography and text. The author provides an extremely detailed history of the North Carolinian soldiers as members of the Continental Army.
    TB32109  $55.00



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    Ransom, Stanley A., compiler:  History of Hartland The 69th Town in The Colony of Connecticut.  Hartland, Conn.: The Hartland Bi-Centennial Committee, (1961). First Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine in dark blue, leather like, cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches with map end sheets of the town showing locations of each home on all roads. In a very good, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with 1/2 inch deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area, 1/4 chips at the lower edge of the same and chips at the fore corners of the panels. There is a handwritten notation at the lower fore corner of the front panel with reference to Consider Tiffany on a given page. One of only 600 copies printed with this copy signed and dated in 1968 by the author to prior owner, Thomas G. Tiffany. 189 pages including appendices of marriages in the town and town officers, and text. Illustrated with maps and black and white images from earlier works of art and photographs. Laid-in at the front of this copy are a number of letters and information about Comfort Tiffany one of the early settlers of the town and descendent of the prior owner.
    TB32857  $65.00




  • Ranson, Will:  Selective Check Lists of Press Books, A Compilation of All Important & Significant Private Presses, or Press Books Which are Collected Parts One through Nine.  New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1945-1948. All first editions. All seven volumes are in very good condition in heavy paper wraps with stapled bindings. Each volume is stamped with a entry number on the front panel just above "New York" and all but Part Nine is stamped with "Order Dept." at the upper edge of the front panel with a small rubber stamp. The set contains Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Parts Five and Six, Parts Seven and Eight and Part Nine.
    TB18300  $60.00



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    Rapp, Marvin A.:  Canal Water and Whiskey Tall Tales from the Erie Canal Country.  New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., (1965). First Edition. Near fine in light green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. An octavo of 8 3/16 by 5 1/2 inches with a small stain at the bottom of the front board. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket. 189 pages including an index. Illustrated with drawings by Norman Truesdale.
    TB29620  $20.00



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    Rathbun, Jonathan, Rufus Avery and Stephen Hempstead:  Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun With Accurate Accounts of the Capture of Groton Fort.  no city stated [New London]: No publisher stated, (1840). First edition. Very good in original gray-green cloth covered boards with a rebacked spine with the majority of the original back strip reapplied. A 12mo measuring 7 3/16 by 4 1/2 inches with dampness stains to the front end sheets and with faint dampness stains to the lower fore corner margins on the pages. There is also a name of an early prior owner at the top edge of the title page. A collection of three eye witness accounts of the attack on and taking of Fort Griswold on Sept. 6, 1781 by the British near the end of the Revolutionary War. The complete title reads: "Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun with accurate accounts of the capture of Groton Fort, the massacre that followed, and the sacking and burning of New London, September 6, 1781 by the British Forces, under the command of the Traitor Benedict Arnold." Additional, eye witness narratives by Rufus Avery and Stephen Hempstead are included as well as an appendix containing six essays dealing with Arnold's desertion from West Point; an "Anecdote of Mrs. Bailey" giving her petticoat to be used as flannel for cartridges; a "Eulogy on General Washington"; and, the names of those killed and wounded in the Battle of Fort Griswold. 80 pages of text. (Howes R-68; Gephart, 6381; Sabin, 2489 & 67952)
    TB28797  $350.00



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    Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan:  The Yearling.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1984. Limited Edition. Fine in gilt decorated, full bright red leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped between three raised bands on the spine and with marbled end papers and gilt edges to the text block with a silk placement ribbon bound-in at the head of the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". One of the volumes in The Franklin Library's collection of Pulitzer Prize Winners. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for this title. 380 pages of text with illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. A beautiful volume with no names, dates, plates or notations.
    TB30055  $50.00



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    Rawls, Walton:  The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America.  New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1979. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine in heavy cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with an illustrated paper label on the front board. The rear end paper has the blind embossed seal of a prior owner. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is housed in an elegantly made full leather covered slip case with gilt decorations and text stamping. Signed by the author on the second free end paper and numbered 898 out of only 3,000 copies numbered and signed. A folio measuring 15 1/2" tall by 12" deep containing 487 pages with 400 illustrations 300 of which are in full color.
    TB18729  $150.00



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    Ray, Verne F.:  Lewis and Clark and the Nez Perce Indians.  Washington, DC: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1971. First Edition. Near fine with the upper inch of spine bumped and four small areas at the lower edge of the front board eatten away by insects. No jacket appears to have been issued with this title. Copy number 77 of 250 numbered and signed copies offered for sale and signed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. 26 pages with a fold out map at the rear.
    TB04905  $65.00



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    Rector, George:  Wilson's Meat Cookery.  Chicago: Wilson & Co., Inc., (1941). First Edition. Very good+ in a plastic comb binding with modest wear and rubbing around the edges of the boards. The front and is rear boards are slightly bowed. Without a dust jacket as issued. Warmly inscribed and dated in 1945 by the author on the title page. 136 pages of text including a one page index. Contained within the book is a folded letter from the president of the Wilson & Co., Edward F. Wilson, to the prior owner of this copy.
    TB31407  $45.00



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    Redoute, Pierre-Joseph:  The Redoute Album: Includes a Suite of Eighty-Four Bouquets Never Before Published and a Selection from The Lilies.  Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1991. . Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A folio of 13 1/2 by 10 1/4 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a barely noticeable, closed cut of inches in the center of the front panel. 484 color plates preceded by five page preface by Graham Arader. An exquisite copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30679  $70.00



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    Reed, Chester A.:  Bird Guide Part 2 Land Birds East Of The Rockies From Parrots To Bluebirds.  Worcester, Mass.: Charles K. Reed, 1908. Reprint of 1908. Very good in heavy printed paper covered wraps over an adhesive binding. A 64mo of 3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the front cover taped to the spine and rear cover with clear adhesive tape, light wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers and a prior owner's name and town written in crayon on the first blank page. A small water stain marks the upper fore corner of the last free end page and rear cover. Although the title page shows the date "1908", the copyright page shows the date "1906"; and, a preface by the author is dated "October 1, 1905", leading me to believe this is a reprint. This copy no longer has its issued slip case. 197 pages followed by a five page index. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece from a photograph and images throughout from line art of each bird listed many of which are printed in color (yellow, blue, brown, red, orange, black) (Pre-Peterson Field Guides: An Annotated Bibliography by Ian Paulsen https://www.aba.org/pre-peterson-field-guides/)
    TB33393  $75.00




  • Reed, Chester:  Wild Birds of New England.  Worcester, Mass.: Chas. K. Reed, 1912. First Edition. Very good in thread sewn wrappers with orange and black text and decorations on the front cover. A 16mo of 6 3/4 by 5 inches with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the front cover and with tears and chipping around the edges of both covers. The contents are near fine with a number of the pages marked in pencil with an "x" or a star. 52 pages of text and tables followed by four pages of ads for the author's other titles and an ad for his field glasses. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 40 images of birds in color. Another early bird field guide.
    TB33444  $40.00



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    Reed, Myrtle:  Master of the Vineyard.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. Reprint of October, 1910. Very good+ in lavender cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and a colorful gilt and burgundy arrangement of text, vines and grapes on the front board. A small octavo of 7 13/16 by 5 inches with the top edge of the text block gilt. There is light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a gift inscription dated "1910" on the front free end page. Without a dust jacket. 372 pages which are printed in both red and black. Illustrated with a color frontispiece based on a painting by Blendon Campbell which is protected with a printed tissue guard. The decorative cover art to the front board in a wonderful Art Nouveau style by Margaret Armstrong as indicated by her initials "MA" in the lower right corner.
    TB29237  $35.00



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    Reeman, Douglas:  In Danger's Hour.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First U.S. Edition. Near fine in 1/4 white cloth and blue-gray paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The story of the HMS Rob Roy, a minesweeper, during World War I 319 pages of text.
    TB18138  $10.00




  • Reeman, Douglas:  The Iron Pirate.  London: Heinemann, 1986. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The 26th book under the author's true name. It takes place in 1944 aboard the German heavy-cruiser Luitpold which is ordered from the Baltic to take prizes in the North Atlantic.
    TB16008  $7.00



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    Reid, James D.:  The Telegraph In America Its Founders Promoters and Noted Men.  New York: Derby Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Very good+ in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board together with gilt designs and a black border around the edges of the boards. The top edge of the text block is gilt and the other edges are stained red. A small quarto of 9 11/16 by 6 1/2 inches with wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine, the cloth at the tips of the boards is worn through and there is a prior owner's name written in pencil with a date of "1879" written on the clay coated first free end sheet. There is also a handwritten note at the top of the first preface page, a second note on page 1 and two check marks on page 822. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. The joints are tight and strong and the hinges are starting. 846 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse, an engraved title page, 44 steel engraved portraits on plates (with tissue guards) and vignettes and a number of drawings within the text. Contains sections on the Morse Memorial and American Telegraphic History as well as the histories of a number of telegraph companies.
    TB30794  $600.00




  • Reinfeld, Fred:  The Way To Better Chess.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed and a prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 229 pages of text. Illustrated with 119 diagrams.
    TB23548  $10.00




  • Remise & Jean Fondin, Jac:  The Golden Age of Toys.  Switzerland: Edita Lausanne, 1967. . Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stampings on the spine and front board. In a fine jacket with no rubbing, wear or marks of any kind and with the price intact on the rear flap. The book is contained within a near fine slip case which shows only a few small areas of rubbing to one side of the case. 252 pages of text with hundreds of black and white and color photographs through-out. A beautiful copy of this title with no names, dates or prior owner's notations or book plates.
    TB13747  $30.00



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    Rémusat, Madame [Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat]:  Memoires De Madame De Remusat 1802-1808.  Paris: Calmann Levy, 1880. Dixiem Edition. All three volumes of this three volume set are in very good+ condition in 3/4 red leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spines with gilt text and volume numbers in the compartments. Each volume is an octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4" with marbled end sheets and placement ribbons sewn-in at the heads of the spines. The top edges of the text blocks are gilt. There is only light rubbing to the leather and all joints and hinges are tight. Each volume shows a faint dampness stain across the upper edge of the pages inside of the margins. Volume one contains 413 pages, volume II contains 420 pages and volume III 416 pages. The text is in French. Madame De Remusat (1780-1821) was a French writer and made a lady in waiting to Empress Josephine in 1802. Overseas customers please contact Town's End Books before ordering for a shipping cost estimate for this three volume set.
    TB27447  $150.00




  • Rendell, Ruth:  The Crocodile Bird.  New York: Crown Publishers, In, 1993. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03368  $10.00




  • Rendell, Ruth:  Kissing The Gunner's Daughter.  New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03451  $7.00




  • Rendell, Ruth:  Going Wrong.  New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket.
    TB03600  $7.00




  • Rendell, Ruth:  An Unkindness of Ravens.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Near fine, cloth binding discolored. In a very near fine but price clipped dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear on the rear panel.
    TB03698  $7.00



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    Reo Motor Car Company:  Instruction Book Models T6 and U6 Series B Open And Enclosed Passenger Models Six-Cylinder Motor.  Lansing, Mich.: Reo Motor Car Company, . Third Edition. Very good- in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with wear and chipping to the lower edge of the spine, the title page and first couple of pages foxed as well as the last two pages in the book. Without a dust jacket. 63 pages including an index. Illustrated from black and white photographs and line drawings.
    TB29955  $25.00



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    Reynolds, William T.:  An Historical Address On the One Hundredth Anniversary of The Town of North Haven.  North Haven, Conn.: Centennial Committee of North Haven, 1886. First Edition. Good+ in printed, paper wraps over a sewn binding. A small octavo of 9 5/8 by 6 1/8 inches with heavy wear with tears to the spine area and to the forward edges of the covers. Without a dust jacket and most probably without one as issued. 37 pages of text including a two page appendix. The author, who was the pastor of the Congregational Church of North Haven, was asked to be the historian for the Centennial Committee for the town of North Haven. He undertook his responsibility with great diligence and delivered this address highlighting events in the history of the town since its founding.
    TB32716  $40.00




  • Reznikoff, S. C.:  Specifications for Commercial Interiors Professional Liabilities, Regulations, and Performance Criteria.  New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. Second Printing of 1981. Near fine in white paper covered boards with red text stamping on the spine and on the front board with only a hint of bumping at the head and heel of the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with a tiny 1/8" closed tear at the upper edge of the rear panel. 302 pages including an index, a list of selected readings, a glossary, chapter notes, text and illustrated with sketches, drawings and photographs.
    TB16288  $10.50



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    Rhodes, Richard:  John James Audubon The Making Of An American.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 brown cloth and red-orange paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6 1/4" with a 1/2" scuff to the 1/4 cloth binding which appears to be a binder's mistake. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with hints of rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the upper fore corners of the panels. 511 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with full color plates, maps, photographs and recreations of contemporary works of art.
    TB25291  $15.00




  • Rice, Luanne:  Home Fires.  New York: Bantam Books, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. By the same author who wrote Crazy In Love and which was made into a movie by the same name.
    TB02694  $24.50



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    Rich, Louise D.:  The Kennebec River.  New York: Holt, Rinehart & Win, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in illustrated paper covered boards with a reinforeced "library hinge". The spine is slightly rolled. In a near fine dust jacket with a price clipped jacket flap and the Holt Library Edition sticker on the spine. Although this is not an x-library copy. One of the titles in the Rivers of America Series for young readers. Illustrated by Lili Rethi.
    TB08416  $125.00



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    Rich, E. E. (Editor):  London Correspondence Inward From Eden Colvile 1849-1852.  London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1956. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamped on the spine with gilt decorations. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 6 5/8" with the top edge of the text block gilt. There are several mild spots of fading on the front board. Without a dust jacket. One of a limited edition this copy is out of series. This title constitutes volume XIX of The Hudson's Bay Record Society. 300 pages followed by a list of members of the Society. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Many pages within the text block are un-opened.
    TB25947  $75.00



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    Rich, E. E. (Editor):  Cumberland House Journals and Inland Journal 1775-82 Second Series, 1779-82.  London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1952. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamped on the spine with gilt decorations. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 6 5/8" with the top edge of the text block gilt. The cloth on the spine is slightly faded. Without a dust jacket. One of a limited edition this copy is out of series. This title constitutes volume XV of The Hudson's Bay Record Society. 313 pages including an index, appendices and text followed by a list of members of the Society. Many of the pages of the text block are un-opened.
    TB25951  $75.00



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    Rich, Virtulon:  Western Life In The Stirrups A Sketch of a Journey to the West in the Spring & Summer of 1832.  Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1965. First Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 brown cloth and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches with sections of the marbled paper worn through at the edges of the boards and particularly at the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. 81 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and a map of the eastern portion of the United States which traces the routes taken by the author. Edited by and with an introduction by Dwight L. Smith. This title is the first publication of Virtulon Rich's journal which included his journey by horseback from upstate Vermont to Albany, New York City, Washington, DC, Maryland, Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and the eastern edge of Illinois from where he returned in 1832.
    TB29942  $20.00



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    Richards, Benjamin B. (Editor):  California Gold Rush Merchant The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis.  San Marino, Calif.: The Huntingon Library, 1956. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 brick red cloth and striped paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a paper dust jacket as issued, but protected by an acetate covering. Signed and inscribed to "my fishing buddy, Bill" by the author on the first free end page. 124 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a facsimile copy of a map of "the Gold Region of California" drawn by Robert H. Ellis in 1850.
    TB27751  $60.00



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    Richards, Josephine Ellis, Editor:  Honor Roll of Litchfield County Revolutionary Soldiers.  Litchfield, Conn.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912. First Edition. Near fine in bright blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with what appears to be a binding mistake on the spine with two minor raised areas under the cloth. Without a dust jacket. 233 pages of text. Containing lists of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution from the various towns of Litchfield County, Connecticut.
    TB30093  $30.00




  • Richards, Alun:  Barque Whisper.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition, First printing. Fine in yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket with two small marks on the front panel which are imperfections of the artwork used by the printer. A sea novel occurring in 1858 in a voyage around Cape Horn.
    TB04563  $7.50



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    Richardson, David:  Cottom's Virginia & North-Carolina Almanack For The Year Of Our Lord 1845.  Richmond: Peter Cottom, 1845. . Good in original illustrated self wrappers with a stitched binding the threads of which are showing. Pages rough at lower edges with moderate tanning to the upper and spine edges. Foxing and tanning is quite limited throughout. For the page of September an early prior owner has noted on the 23rd day of the month "sowed wheat to Day" and on the 30th day: "finished wheat to Day Bales 38". Unpaginated; but, containing 36 pages counting the front and rear panels Contains Calculations for the Meridian of Richmond: lists of state officials, county and corporate courts, chancery and district courts, United States courts; antidotes for animal poisons, abscess, chilblains (frostbite), cholera, colic and others; and, a treatise on gardening. (Drake, 14115. Bear: A Checklist of Virginia Almanacs 1732-1850; 337)
    TB22288  $225.00




  • Rickenbacker, Capt. Edward V.:  Fighting the Flying Circus.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1997. First thus. Fine in decorated dark brown cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge and with gilt text on the spine and gilt decorations on the front board. Without a dust jacket as issued. Within the publisher's original shrink wrap. With a forward by Laurence La Tourette Driggs and edited by W. David Lewis. Based on the 1918 diary written by Captain Edward Rickenbacker with some of the modifications made by the ghost writer, Laurence La Tourette Driggs.
    TB25010  $20.00



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    Rider, Hope S.:  Valour Fore & Aft Being the Adventures of America's First Naval Vessel.  Newport: Seaport '76 Foundation, 1978. First Edition by Seaport '76 Foundation, First Printing. Fine in linen covered boards with dark brown text on the spine with map end sheets. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with a dated notation from a prior owner on the dedication page. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. First published by the Naval Institute Press in 1977. Signed and inscribed by the author on the fly title page. 259 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a two page frontis and line drawings, facsimile images of documents, maps and images from photographs. This is a tribute to the history of the first naval vessel for the struggling Continentals.
    TB33108  $35.00



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    Ridgely, David:  Annals Of Annapolis, comprising Sundry Notices Of That Old City From The Period Of The First Settlements In Its Vicinity In the Year 1649, Until The War of 1812.  Baltimore: Cushing & Brother, 1841. First Edition. Good in its original brown cloth, blind embossed covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches with the majority of the spine strip missing with the exception of that area which carries the gilt title of the book. There is an early prior owner's name and address written at the upper fore corner of the first free end page and much of the book has a dampness stain on the pages. 283 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece. (Howes, R-280; Sabin, 71282)
    TB31176  $75.00



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    Ridgway, Robert:  Color Standards and Color Nomenclature.  Washington, D.C.: Published by the author, 1912. Second Revised and Expanded Edition. Very good+ in its original dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text on the front board which shows faint rubbing. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with light wear and rubbing on the spine ends. Both hinges have been professionally reinforced with Japanese tissue. There is the name of a prior owner in pencil with the date of "1912" on the first free end page. As so often seen, three yellow color swatches on Plate IV and four on Plate V have been partially soiled; All the rest of the swatches throughout this copy are intact and without damage. Unlike many of the copies of this title that we have seen the boards are not bowed inward due to the swelling of the contents. Without a dust jacket, probably as issued. 44 pages of text followed by 53 plates of color swatches containing 1,115 named colors. Each plate is protected by a tissue guard. The errata slip which explains plates XXII and XXIV is present in this copy. Twenty years in the making, this book represents a seminal achievement in the advancement of color identification for use in ornithology and botany. Ridgway (1850-1929) was a botanist and an ornithologist, a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union and curator of birds in the United States Museum (Smithsonian) from 1880 to 1915. This edition greatly expands and corrects the first edition of the title which was released in 1886. Hand stenciling of the plates for the first edition lead to "considerable variation in different copies of the book." (p. 13) This volume is a very scarce and an important work in the areas of ornithology, botany and color theory. This is the original publication with all of the carefully created color swatches which can not be accurately digitized in the recently printed, on demand versions, which are so prevalent.
    TB33420  $1500.00



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    Ridgway, Gertrude M.:  Famous Fiction. A Catalogue of One Hundred First Editions. American, English, French. Number XCI.  New York: Ernest Dressel North, 1928. First Edition. Near fine in light brown cloth covered boards with a paper label on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with a small, attractive prior owner's book plate on the front paste down, numerous pencil notations throughout the text. Unpaginated, but containing 100 entries with each entry occupying an entire page.
    TB30800  $20.00




  • Ridley, Pearson:  The First Victim.  New York: Hyperion, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket.
    TB10437  $4.90




  • Riesenberg, Felix:  The Golden Road.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Sixth Printing. Fine in decorated black cloth covered boards with a prior owner's name on the first free end paper. In a near fine dust jacket with slight tanning of the spine area. The 4th volume in the Trails of America Series. The trail that started in Mexico and went north up the California coast to San Francisco.
    TB09439  $20.00



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    Riley, W. Willshire:  Sequel To Riley's Narrative Being A Sketch Of Interesting Incidents In The Life, Voyages And Travels of Capt. James Riley.  Columbus, Ohio: George Brewster, 1851. First Edition. Very good+ in its original ornately embossed, black leather covered boards with gilt text and gilt designs on the spine. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with two 1/2 inch long closed tears to the leather at the head of the spine and with two short 1/4 inch closed tears to the leather at the heel of the spine. There is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and the contents show spots and marks of foxing throughout. 448 pages of text. Illustrated with 18 plates (plate facing page 251 missing) and one fold-out map of Algiers. The full title reads: "Sequel To Riley's Narrative Being A Sketch Of Interesting Incidents In The Life, Voyages And Travels of Capt. James Riley, from the period of his return to his native land, after his ship-wreck, captivity and sufferings among the Arabs of the desert, as related in his narrative, until his death. Compiled chiefly from the original journal and manuscripts left at his death in possession of his son, W. Willshire Riely." An uncommon title as OCLC and WorldCat only identify seven libraries or institutions worldwide that hold this book.(Sabin, 71400)
    TB32088  $350.00



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    Riley, James:  An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa in the Month of August, 1815 with an Account of the Suffering of her Surviving Officers and Crew, Who Were Enslaved by the Wandering Arabs on the Great African Desart, or Zahahrah.....  Hartford: Silas Andrus, c.1817 & 1828, 1847. Reprint of Revised edition of 1847. A small octavo of 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches in very good condition which has been rebacked in 1/4 leather and patterned cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine with "Riley's Narrative" and with gilt dual borders at the head and heel of the spine. The cloth over the boards has deteriorated badly with major portions falling off and the leather over the tips of the boards has worn through. There is an embossed seal on the first free end page from a prior, private owner. Containing 271 pages of text and Illustrated with a frontispiece of "the destructive locust of Africa" and 6 copper engraved plates. Ten plates are called for on the title page and this copy is missing plate number 5 (the Arabic letter) and plate number 10 (the map). It is quite probable that these missing plates are a result of a binder's error as there is no evidence of missing pages and the same appears to be a common problem with other Hartford printings of this title that I have examined. The original edition was self-published in 1817 and was reprinted a number of times by several publishers. (Sabin, 71397 which does not mention this the 1847 printing.)
    TB33078  $275.00




  • Riley, James Whitcomb:  Rhymes of Childhood.  Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Col, 1895. Reprint of 1895. Very good+ in red and light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the same on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. With an early prior owner's name and date of July 17th, 1897 on the third free end page and with very minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. A collection of 101 poems. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" high by 4 3/4" deep containing 186 pages of text followed by 22 pages of advertisements.
    TB22123  $15.00



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    Ring, Jim:  We Come Unseen The Untold Story of Britain's Cold War Submarines.  London: John Murray, (2001). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 inches with a binding error which shows up as a wrinkle to the cloth on the front board In a fine, price clipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 270 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with a map and a section of plates from black and white photographs.
    TB30748  $30.00



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    Ringdal, Nils Johan:  Love For Sale A World History Of Prostitution.  New York: Grove Press, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in white paper covered boards with bold metallic red text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Norwegian by Richard Daly. This is the first US edition of the title. 435 pages including a list of references, bibliographic postscript and text. Illustrated with two sections of reproductions of earlier works of art and black and white photographic reproductions.
    TB29898  $20.00



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    Robbins, Robert Lash:  Combat Insignia Stamps Of the United States Army & Navy Air Corps.  San Antonio, Texas: Hearst Publications, Inc. and The Light Newspaers, (1942). . Very good in printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto of 10 1/4 by 7 1/2 inches with curling to the lower fore corner of the front cover and a 1/2 chip to the lower edge of the rear cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages describing 50 combat insignia stamps with the actual stamps attached in the places provide.
    TB31804  $75.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Arundel.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with orange text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. With only the front panel of the first issue dust jacket done by Stafford Good under a clear acetate dust jacket protector. As noted above this copy has only a portion of the Stafford Good first state dust jacket which was originally used to cover the initial copies of the first edition. Roberts complained so bitterly about this jacket that the publisher (Doubleday) had to remove the book from the market to have a new jacket designed and painted by N.C. Wyeth. Any collector of Roberts' books aspires to have a first edition copy of this title in the first state dust jacket.
    TB32230  $1000.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth L.:  Why Europe Leaves Home.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1922. First Edition. Very good in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is very slightly rubbed. In a very good dust jacket chips at top of spine & small chip at bottom. Signed and inscribed by the author to Frederick S. Bigelow of the Saturday Evening Post and dated in the year of publication (April 20, 1922.) Reportedly only 2,011 copies of this book were published making it an extremely rare find and particularly so in a collectible jacket and inscribed by the author.
    TB00569  $900.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Concentrated New England.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1924. First Edition. Near fine in bright red cloth covered boards with black text stamped on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4" by 5" with a prior owner's name neatly written on the first free end page. In a very good- dust jacket with the upper 3/8" of jacket missing from the front panel and spine area. An extremely scarce copy in dust jacket. The jacket in this case shows the small, black and white photographic reproduction of Coolidge on the front panel. (58) pages of text.
    TB01478  $500.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  The Lively Lady.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First Edition. Very near fine in black cloth covered boards with light green text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches with map end sheets with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine lightly rubbed and the ghost of what may have been a book plate on the front paste down. In a very good+, unclipped first state dust jacket with rubbing to the fold to the front flap and several vary short closed tears around the edges of the panels. Signed and inscribed to A. P. Tedesco by the author on the title page. This copy is covered by the first state dust jacket which reads "A Chronicle of Certain Men of Arundel" while the second state dust jacket reads: "A Chronicle of Arundel". Only 5,560 of the first printing were sold. A scarce title in this condition in a very collectible and very uncommon dust jacket.
    TB32233  $450.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Trending into Maine.  Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1938. Arundel Signed Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on black leather label on the spine whichq which is bright and crisp. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches with very slight fading to the edges of the boards. The glassine dust jacket is only in good condition due to chipping to the edges of the panels. The book and its dust jacket are contained within a very good- slipcase with one of its upper joints broken which has been repaired with clear acetate tape. Signed by both the author and N. C. Wyeth on a page following the copyright page and numbered copy 288 out of only 1,075 printed. 394 pages including an index and text. Many of the pages throughout this copy have yet to be opened. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 13 color plates all by N. C. Wyeth. Missing from the book are the extra suite of plates.
    TB32237  $450.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Sun Hunting.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. First Edition, First state. Near fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" by 5" with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down behind the dust jacket flap. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with 1/8" deep chips at the upper and lower edges of the spine area, rubbing and light wear to the folds to the panels and with several short closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area with related creasing. Signed by the author on a Kenneth Roberts' book plate. A total of 4,790 copies of this title were sold by the publisher. Quite uncommon when signed.
    TB01739  $400.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Northwest Passage (Limited Edition).  New York: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1937. First Signed Limited Edition. Both volumes are in fine condition in reddish cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt top edges to the text blocks. Both are small quartos of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with Yale University Library book plates on the front paste downs. (Each book plate is noted that this title is a duplicate of what was in the library at that time and neither volume bears any other library markings.) Both volumes are in their original decorated, paper, unclipped dust jackets which are in very good+ condition with a 1/2 inch deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area of volume II and volume I has 1/2 inch "V" shaped chip at the base of the spine area. Both jackets are tanned on their spine areas. Volume I contains the first trade edition version of Kenneth Robert's Northwest Passage which remained on the best seller list for many months. It is the account of the life of Major Robert Rogers (founder of Roger's Rangers) as seen through the eyes of a fictional protagonist. Volume II contains "the unique historical material on which the essentials of the novel were based" to include a transcript of the courts martial trial of Major Rogers which was held in Montreal in 1768. Volume one is signed by the author on a specially tipped in page and numbered 228 out of only 1,050 copies printed. Both volumes are contained in a good original, paper covered slip case which is rubbed in many areas and the top panel is creased and shows closed tears to the joints and has a one inch coffee (?) stain to one of the paper labels. An very handsome and collectible set and quite uncommon in original dust jackets.
    TB32202  $400.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Black Magic.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1924. First Edition. Very good in black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" with a 1/8" hole in the cloth at the head of the spine and with fading of the cloth on the spine. Without a dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on a Kenneth Roberts' book plate and signed a second time with "Best wishes" over his signature on the second free end paper. 250 pages illustrated with a black and white photographic frontispiece. A fairly scarce title and one seldom seen signed.
    TB01445  $350.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  The Collector's Whatnot.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. First Edition. Very Good in patterned paper covered boards with paper labels on the spine and front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4" with two, shallow chips from the head of the spine. In a good+ dust jacket dust jacket which is heavily faded especially on spine. Inscribed by Milton Kigallen and Kenneth Roberts at Christmas time of 1923. 147 pages of text illustrated with line art and other comical works of art.
    TB01465  $350.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Oliver Wiswell (Limited Edition).  New York: Doubleday, Doran Co., 1940. First Edition, Limited Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in near fine condition specially bound in full, red leather covered boards with five raised bands on each spine with gilt text in two of the compartments and gilt tooling in the others. The top edge of the text blocks are gilt, the end sheets are marbled paper and the leather turn-ins are decorated with gilt dentelles. This binding was most probably ordered by Roberts to be gifted to his friend, Doubleday, Doran publishing executive, Malcolm Johnson, who's name is listed in the collection of names who provided "generous assistance" in the creation and publication of this title. Both volumes are small quartos of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches. There is a faint dampness stain to the extreme lower, inside edge to the first 70 pages of volume I. That stain does not impact on any of the text as it is limited to the lower margin. The lower quarter of the front joint to volume I shows a slight weakness. The hinges and joints for both volumes are otherwise fine. The trade version of this set was sold with glassine jackets and a paper covered slipcase. It is doubtful that a slipcase was made for this specially bound set. The binding was produced by The French Binders of Garden City, New York as evidenced by their gilt stamp on the front paste downs. This set is signed by Roberts and numbered 182 out of only 1,050 copies printed and sold. Volume I contains 411 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Grant Wood and two, double page maps. Volume II contains pages 415 to 849 including a bibliography and text and is illustrated with two, two page maps. This title was a best selling novel for Roberts. It provides an insightful look at the American Revolution from a Loyalist's point-of-view. After reading it one is astounded that the war was even won by the American forces.
    TB33418  $350.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble in Arms (1939 Ticonderoga Edition).  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1939. Ticonderoga Edition of 1939. Very near fine in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt decoration on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with minor crimping of the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with several 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area, several very shallow chips at the lower edge of the spine area a closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel with related creasing. Signed by the author on a specially tipped-in Fort Ticonderoga page just before the fly title page. Reportedly, there were only 150 copies of this edition published making it extremely uncommon. Overall a very handsome and collectable copy of one of Kenneth Roberts' most memorable works historical fiction novels dealing with the early years of the American Revolution. The book picks-up following the loss at Quebec and where Robert's earlier book, Arundel, leaves off. It traces the escape of the American Army, under the command of Benedict Arnold, down Lake Champlain to the southern end of the lake to construct a small fleet of vessels to meet and oppose the British fleet on the northern end of the lake. The ensuing battle took place at Valcour Island on October 11, 1776. Although the Battle of Valcour Island was considered a loss to the American forces its outcome was significant enough to delay the British advance down the lake and was a major reason for the ultimate victory at Saratoga a year later.
    TB31209  $300.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  For Authors Only.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with bright gilt stamped on the spine and on the front board. There is slight wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and the end sheets show minor foxing due to a reaction to the glue used in binding. There is also a prior owner's small name tag on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with several closed tears and related creases at the ends of the spine area and at the upper and lower edges of the front panel. Signed and inscribed "With Best Wishes" on the first free end paper by the author. 446 pages followed by four pages of ads for other books by Roberts. Very scarce in dust jacket as only 5,603 copies of the first printing were produced.
    TB03703  $250.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Sun Hunting.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Comp., 1922. First Edt. 1st state. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and the front board. In a good+ dust jacket with damp staining on the spine and front panel and 1/4" chips on the front panel and spine ends. A total of 4,790 copies of this title were sold by the publisher. Extremely uncommon in a dust jacket.
    TB05593  $250.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Arundel (300th Anniversary Edition).  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1953. Reprint of May 1953. Fine in navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board with map end sheets. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with two 1/4 inch long closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area and a small chip from the rear upper fore corner of the rear board over the tip of the board. This is the very scarce 300th Anniversary Edition which has a specially tipped-in page in advance of th title page bearing the signature of the author. 652 pages of text followed by a number of pages of ads for other titles by Roberts. Reportedly there were only 701 copies of this edition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the town of Arundel, Maine. The special tipped-in page is signed by Kenneth Roberts. An extremely handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32231  $250.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Northwest Passage.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in decorated dark green cloth covered boards with map end papers with the hinge areas of the end papers showing very faint foxing due to a reaction with the glue employed in binding as is often found with this printing. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with very minor rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. Signed "With all the good wishes of | Kenneth Roberts" by the author on the title page. 709 pages of text. This was one of Robert's most popular books dealing with Major Robert Rogers, of Roger's Rangers and the French and Indian War. Very uncommon in such nice condition and signed without a personal inscription.
    TB32328  $225.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Europe's Morning After.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First Edition. Very good in light green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and the same on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2". Without a dust jacket. The author's first book and extremely scarce as only 1,300 copies of the title were sold. 410 pages of text.
    TB01501  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Sun Hunting.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. First Edition, First State. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and bold gilt text stamped on the front board. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4" by 5". Without a dust jacket. Signed, warmly inscribed and dated Oct. 17th, 1928 by the author to Helen Bess Finch on the first free end page. 198 pages of text illustrated with black and white photographs. A total of 4,790 copies of this title were sold.
    TB01648  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  I Wanted To Write.  Garden Cty: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Near fine in tan, linen covered boards with a gilt on read text block on the spine with decorated map end papers with the spine slightly tanned and at bump to the upper corner of the spine. In a fine jacket with the price intact but a later issue jacket with a price of $5.95 on the flap. Signed on a Kenneth Roberts book plate and tipped on to the second free end page. 471 pages including an index followed by several pages of ads for Roberts' books. The closest thing to Roberts' autobiography.
    TB13925  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Lydia Bailey (Limited Edition).  New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Limited Edition. Fine in white cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a gilt top edge. The cloth on the spine is very slightly tanned. The book is contained within a very good+ original, paper covered slipcase with minor wear at the corners. Signed by the author and numbered 191 out of 1,050 copies. What makes this limited edition particularly unique is that laid-in at its front is a page from Robert's, typewritten working manuscript complete with his penciled annotations and corrections. This particular page is quite unique. The typewritten side is completed crossed-out in pencil and the verso side of the page is entirely in pencil by the author which is quite unusual! An extremely attractive copy with a very unusual page from his manuscript.
    TB24345  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth L.:  Why Europe Leaves Home.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1922. First Edition, First printing. Very good in light brown cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with black borders on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4" with mild age tanning to the recto and verso of the frontispiece and to the title page and with a crease to the cloth down the middle of the spine. This is one of several binding variants for this title. Without its issued dust jacket. 356 pages of text. This is Roberts' second book which is quite difficult to locate as reportedly only 2,011 copies of the first edition were published. 356 pages of text and illustrated with a few black and white photographs. The title page carries a long subtitle reading: "A true account of the reasons which cause Central Europeans to overrun America which lead Russians to rush to Constantinople and other fascinating and unpleasant places which coax Greek royalty and commoners into strange byways and hedges and which induce Englishmen and Scotchmen to go out at night."
    TB24415  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Captain Caution.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with a pattern to the cloth and a gilt eagle on the front board. A 12mo of 7 7/16 by 5 1/8 with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine is very lightly rubbed. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper and lower edges of the spine area and two closed tears at the lower fore edge of the front panel. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page with "With Best Wishes | Kenneth Roberts". An historical fiction novel which takes place during the War of 1812. 310 pages of text followed by ads from the publisher.
    TB31422  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Northwest Passage .  Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1941. First Australian Edition. Near fine in bright green cloth covered boards with gilt text and parallel gilt rules on the spine and a blind embossed decoration on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/8 inches with only hints of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a pictorial, unclipped dust jacket with numerous small illustrations from from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1940 film of the same title which starred Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey and Nat Pendleton. The jacket is chipped across the top edge of the spine area to a depth of 1/3 of an inch and there are small chips at the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. 673 pages of text illustrated with map end sheets. This was one of Robert's most popular books dealing with Major Robert Rogers, of Roger's Rangers and the French and Indian War. Very uncommon in this movie-tie-in dust jacket.
    TB32226  $200.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  March To Quebec.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1938. First Edition, First printing. Fine in redish cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with map fixed end sheets. As is so typical with this title, the front and rear hinge areas show modest tanning due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with three shallow chips at the upper edge of the spine area and four very small chips at the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 657 pages including an index and text. Following the writing of Arundel, Roberts compiled the journals of the members of Arnold's expedition to attack Quebec through the wilds of what is now the Maine woods north into Canada in the dead of winter. An extremely handsome and very collectible copy with no prior owner's markings, dates or book plates.
    TB30793  $195.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Florida.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Good+ in green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and readable gilt text and decorations on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" with a 1/8" tear to the cloth at the head of the spine which is well tanned so that the gilt text is unreadable Signed and inscribed "For Bingham Morris | from a fellow sufferer " by the author on the title page. Fewer than 5,000 copies of this title were sold by Harper and Brothers. 324 pages of text illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB05743  $175.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Cowpens: The Great Morale-Builder.  Hanover: Westholm Publishing, 1957. First Edition, Limited Edition.. Near fine in illustrated paper covered boards with black text on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 400 limited edition copies printed this copy being identified as number 354 as noted at the rear of the book. 35 pages of text and one map frontispiece. The text of the book is the same as the text within the trade edition of The Battle of Cowpens.
    TB13924  $175.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Black Magic.  Indianapol: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1924. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt text and decorations on the front board. The cloth on the spine is slightly faded and there is mild rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. There is a rubber stamp notation of "Naples Women's Club" on the front and rear paste downs. Without its extremely scarce dust jacket. A rather uncommon book although we have not been able to determine the number of copies printed by the publisher. Its was Roberts' fifth title and one that he wanted his reviewers to overlook in later years. In fact, Roberts even failed to mention this title in his autobiography. 250 pages illustrated with a frontispiece representing the author's treatise on the Black Shirts of Italy and the fascist movement lead by Mussolini.
    TB24419  $175.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble In Arms.  New York: Doubleday, Doran, c1933, 1938. Reprint of 1938. Fine in its original dark blue decorated cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine and a gilt eagle on the front board with map end sheets. A small quarto of 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with art by N. C. Wyeth. This is a splendid copy with only a tiny amount of rubbing to the upper fore corner of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 870 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher for other Kenneth Roberts' titles. A beautiful, tight clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32228  $175.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  March to Quebec.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1946. Reprint of May, 1946. Near fine in light tan buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with map end sheets. A small octavo of 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with a minor scuff mark to the front board. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with minor shallow chips to the upper edge of the spine area and light soiling to the panels. Contains the modifications and additions made by Roberts up to March, 1945 to include the John Pierce Journal. 722 pages including an index.
    TB32234  $125.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Henry Gross and his Dowsing Rod.  New York: Doubleday & Co., 1951. First Edition, First printing. Very good- in tan cloth covered board with a mild crease to the spine and with much of the title block on the spine worn off. Two prior owner's names are written on the front free end paper and there are tape stains on the front fixed end paper which once held the letter noted below. Missing its issued dust jacket. Laid-into the book is a typed letter signed by Kenneth Roberts on Water Unlimited, Inc. letterhead. The letter is dated January 16, 1951 and makes reference to another author's works on dowsing and the human race's "inability...to absorb what is set forth clearly in the English language."
    TB17574  $100.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Our Cornell.  Ithaca: The Cayuga Press, 1939. First Edition. Very good+ in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board with faint areas of what may be dampness staining on the rear board which had no impact on any interior parts of the book. Without a dust jacket. A collection of essays and tributes to Cornell written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, E. B. White, Kenneth Roberts, Raymond F. Howes, Dana Burnet, Romeyn Berry, Morris Bishop, Thomas S. Jones, Jr. and illustrated with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White and Barrett Gallagher. 82 pages of text and photographs.
    TB17177  $85.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Kenneth Roberts an American Novelist.  New York: Doubleday Doran & Co,, 1938. Probable first edition. Near fine in printed, heavy blue paper wraps over a stapled binding with very light rubbing to the spine edge of the cover and with two handwritten, marginal notations on pages 5, 22 and 23. Doubleday Doran normally uses the statement "First Edition" in their books; however, this lacks that typical slug and in 25 years of specializing in Roberts' books we have yet to see a copy with that statement. Signed and inscribed by the Roberts to "Jesse E. Walker | with best wishes" on the title page and dated "1952". A tribute to Roberts by his publisher, Doubleday Doran with several articles by individuals reviewing his work. 40 pages. Accompanying this signed and inscribed copy is a signed, typed letter from Roberts to Jesse E. Walker containing a brief discussion of the last edition of March To Quebec and the fact that as of that date (Nov. 22, 1952) there had been no further changes to that title. The letter goes on to note that this copy of Kenneth Roberts an American Novelist is enclosed which contains "the automobile routes that mark, as nearly as possible, the marches in some of my books." Also included is the original envelope from Roberts to Walker.
    TB29952  $85.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Sun Hunting.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Comp., 1922. First Edition first state. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping which has darkened with age on the spine with very light rubbing at the edges and with a prior owner's name on the first free end paper. Without the issued dust jacket but signed by the author on a tipped in page placed in advance of the frontispiece. This is the first state of the book. Only 4,790 copies of this state were printed by the publisher.
    TB14326  $80.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Antiquamania.  New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First Edition. Very good in 1/4 pebbled, black leather and printed paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine which remains bright and readable. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 3/4" with a water stain which runs across the lower one inch of the pages and with very slight rubbing to the paper at the lower edges of the boards. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/4" chip at top edge of the spine area and with very light soiling to the panels. Reportedly, only 1,165 copies of this title were sold by the publisher. 260 pages of text illustrated by Booth Tarkington.
    TB01489  $75.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Florida.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition, First printing. Very good with the spine faded and with light wear at the spine ends in decorated green cloth covered boards. Without a dust jacket. Fewer than 5,000 copies of this title were sold by Harper and Brothers. 324 pages of text followed by three pages of ads from the publisher. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. As it is difficult to generalize the content of this book, let's use some of the chapter headings to describe what Roberts was trying to say: " Of the modern passion for explanations - and the peculiar mass movement to the tropics."; "Of Florida Migrants, Starting with ankle tourists"; Of another Florida Gateway and the Starry-eyed motorists who pass through it daily - and of a comparison between the Florida migration and other great migrations in history"; "Of the financial shortcoming of various Florida Real-Estate Dealers - of Astute and Trusworthy Advisers who are neither astute nor trustworthy - and of certain sad features of paper profits."
    TB06445  $75.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  The Collector's Whatnot.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Second Edition. Very good in illustrated paper covered boards which are worn and bear at the corners and the spine is lightly soiled and tanned. The end paper bears a prior owner's book plate and the first free end page shows another prior owner's name neatly written at the upper edge. Without a dust jacket. Remarkably this book was actually reprinted in 1,000 copies! The copyright page states "The Second Edition consists of one thousand pure and pink copies, bound to sell." It would appear that they did!
    TB11076  $75.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  I Wanted To Write.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on red background title block on the spine and with gilt stamped "KR" on the front board and map end papers. The The cloth at the upper edge of the spine area shows a minor 1/16 inch deep closed tear. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear and flecking of the colors to the ends of the spine area, a 1/2 inch chip to the upper fore corner of the rear panel and small chips over the tips of the boards. The closest title by Roberts to his autobiography. 471 pages of text and an index followed by several pages of ads.
    TB32144  $75.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Don't Say That about Maine!.  Waterville: Colby College Press, 1951. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed brick red paper wraps over a stapled binding. A 12mo measuring 7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches. A reprint of one of Kenneth Roberts' articles from the November 6, 1948 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. 31 pages of text. Illustrated with a black and white photographic frontispiece.
    TB13927  $65.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  The Lively Lady.  n.p. (Garden City, New York): Edtions for the Armed Forces, n.d.. Armed Services Edition. Very good+ in heavy paper printed wraps with light rubbing to the edges of the panels. Without a dust jacket as issued. A small paperback edition containing the complete text.
    TB01460  $60.00



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    Roberts, W. Adolphe:  Lake Pontchartrain.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with only hints of rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. The sixth volume in The American Lakes Series. Edited by Milo M. Quaife. 376 pages including an index, bibliographical notes, appendices and text. (Fitzgerald, AL8)
    TB32985  $60.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Kenneth Roberts A Biographical Sketch An Informal Study.  New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition, First printing. Good+ in heavy blue paper wraps with a stapled binding but with an archival tape repair at the upper edge of the front and rear panels with rubbing and flecking of the colors at the spine fold and two creases on the rear panel. Signed by the author on the verso of the front panel. A tribute to Kenneth Roberts prepared by his publisher, Doubleday The full title reads: Kenneth Roberts A Biographical Sketch An Informal Study His Books & Critical Opinions. 32 pages.
    TB14303  $50.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Kenneth Roberts: A Biographical Sketch.  New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ with light rubbing to the edges of the printed, paper covered wraps and with a crease at the lower corner of the front panel. In wraps without a dust jacket as issued. A 32 page pamphlet published by Doublday, Doran & Company (the publisher of almost all of Roberts' titles) which pays homage to the Roberts' works as a writer of historical fiction. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs.
    TB24580  $50.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Water Unlimited.  New York: Doubleday & Co., 1957. First Edition. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. Roberts' last book on water dowsing; although, the last chapters deal with Henry Gross' efforts to dowse for other commodites.
    TB01482  $45.00



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    Roberts, Jerry:  The British Raid on Essex The Forgotten Battle Of The War of 1812.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, (2014). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with map end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 197 pages including an index, bibliography, notes and sources, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and reproductions of both contemporary and current works of art. At the time Essex was called "Pettipaug". It was and is on the west bank of the Connecticut River upstream of Long Island Sound by roughly five miles. As such it was a major port and ship building center. During both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 many ships were constructed in its harbors for American privateers. In 1814 the British made a surprise attack on Pettipaug burning 27 vessels either under construction or at moorings making it a major maritime loss of the war.
    TB29226  $40.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Captain Caution.  New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1934. Armed Forces Overseas Edition. Very good+ in printed, heavy paper wraps over a stapled binding. An oblong 32mo of 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches with light rubbing to the edges of the front cover and a stamp of the "Army War College Washington, D." stamped on the front cover and the second to last page of the text. An historical fiction novel which takes place during the War of 1812. 285 pages followed by a page of acknowledgments by the author and a list of other volumes in the Armed Services Editions.
    TB30869  $35.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Boon Island.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Trade Edition. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and a gilt anchor on the front board and with map end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with map end sheets. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with minor light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and a 1/4 inch closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 275 pages of text followed by eight pages of notes on other books by Roberts. A novel based on the facts of an actual shipwreck on this Maine island in 1710 and the fight for survival by the ship's crew even though they were within sight of the mainland.
    TB32157  $30.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  It Must Be Your Tonsils.  New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First Edition, First printing. Near Fine Without a dust jacket.
    TB01475  $21.00




  • Roberts, Kenneth:  Lydia Bailey.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition, First printing. Very good in decorated black cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stampings on the spine and front board with map end papers. The outer margins of many of the pages show a dampness stain that fortunately does not impact on the printing on the pages. In a good+ unclipped dust jacket with heavy wear to the ends of the spine area. An historical fiction novel which takes place in 1800 during America's Quasi-War with France and extends on to the slave rebellion in Haiti and then moves on to Tripoli to witness the U.S. war with the pirates from the Barbary States.
    TB22970  $20.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition. Very good+ in off white cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with the cloth on the front board slightly soiled, the spine lightly tanned and a gift inscription on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. Overall a nice copy of this entirely true account of travel through post-Revolutionary America. An excellent source of information for genealogists and historians. The original document was discovered by Kenneth Roberts during his research for his book Lydia Bailey. Roberts and his wife translated this the first US edition from the French.
    TB32198  $20.00



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    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble In Arms.  Camden, Maine: Down East Books, (1996). Fifth Printing. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. An historical fiction novel which centers around the early years of the American Revolution and the American retreat from Canada 586 pages of text.
    TB31878  $15.00



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    Robillard, Ron:  Images of America Windham And Willimantic.  Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publications, 2005. No edition stated. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quartro of 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of the volumes in the publisher's collection of Images of America series. 128 pages of text and illustrated throughout from images of black and white photographs. A very fine, clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31962  $20.00



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    Robinson, Zirkle D.:  The Robinson-Rosenberger Journey To The Gold Fields Of California 1849-1850 The Diary of Zirkle D. Robinson.  Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1966. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 6". In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket, with two short closed tears at the upper edges of the front panel at the folds to the spine area and the front flap. Edited with an introduction by Francis Coleman Rosenberger. 26 pages of text preceded by 15 pages of introduction.
    TB25860  $40.00



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    Robinson, John, and George Francis Dow:  The Sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907.  Westminster, MD: J. William Eckenrode, 1922, 1953. Reprint of 1953. Very good+ in 1/4 ivory cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7" with mild spotting to the spine and to the cloth portion of the binding. Without a dust jacket. 66 pages of text followed by 308 black and white photographic reproductions of sailing vessels from New England. The first volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.
    TB23688  $30.00




  • Robotti & James Vescovi, Frances Diane:  The USS Essex and the Birth of the American Navy.  Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 302 pages including an index, glossary, appendices, bibliography, text with illustrations.
    TB14105  $15.00



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    Rockwell, George L.:  The History of Ridgefield Connecticut.  Ridgefield, Conn.: Self-Published, 1927. First Edition. A presentation copy in near fine condition in full, brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in three compartments and gilt borders and gilt title on the front board and with the top edges the text block gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with the rear board retaining most of the original green color, but with the spine and and front board faded to a warm brown and there is a p prior owner's book plate on the first free end pages and with two penciled marginal notations in the appendix. Without a dust jacket. On the verso of the first free end page the author has written a warm, dated (May 31, 1929) inscription to possibly a relative. 583 pages including an index, appendices, records of vital statistics for Ridgefield from 1706 and text. Illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. This title carries a chapter describing in detail the British attack on Danbury from Compo Beach in Westport where the British landed.
    TB32819  $175.00




  • Rodd, Francis Rennell:  General William Eaton The Failure of an Idea.  New York: Milton, Balch and Company, 1932. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine and on the front board and with map end papers. In a very good+ dust jacket with the original price on the front flap with moderate soiling on the panels and spine area. A biography of General William Eaton, a native of Woodstock and Mansfield, Connecticut, who was an army officer and appointed to counsel of Tunis in 1798. He was later appointed Navy Agent to the Barbary States in which capacity he lead an incredibly difficult march through the Libyan Desert in an attempt to restore the throne to a deposed Pasha of the country. Leading a ragtag army he was able to secure a seaport town near Tripoli only to be recalled to the United States because of a negotiated settlement with the illegal ruler which called for the payment of a ransom for imprisoned American seamen. Eaton returned to the US humiliated and burning with anger. His efforts to undermine the American treaty with the despot and vindicate his actions only created enemies for Eaton. He retired from government service and died at the age of 47 in Brimfield, Massachusetts. 314 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary art.
    TB17868  $40.00



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    Rogers, Robert:  Ponteach Or The Savages Of America A Tragedy.  Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1914. First Edition, Limited Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 tan linen and blue gray paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 6 1/4" with light soiling to the cloth on the spine and to the front board with a prior owner's name and date of 1914 on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket and lacking its original slip case. One of only 178 copies printed. 261 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Rogers, a map of the Mackinac area, a view of the Straits of Mackinac and a facsimile of the title page of Ponteach, 1766. With an introduction and a biography of Robert Rogers by Allan Nevins.
    TB26455  $400.00



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    Rogers, Fred B.:  Soldiers Of The Overland.  San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. First limited edition by Grabhorn Press, First printing. Near fine in 1/4 tan buckram cloth with patterned paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. Without a dust jacket. One of only 1,000 copies printed as noted on the limitation page at the rear of the text. The full title reads: "Soldiers Of The Overland Being some account of the services of General Patrick Edward Connor & his Volunteers in the Old West". 290 pages including an index, bibliography,chapter notes, text and illustrated with reproductions of early photographs, maps and with two, highly detailed, fold-out maps at the rear of the text. Ramon Adams in his bibliography Six-Guns and Saddle Leather states that the book contains "material on Joaquin Murieta and Three-Fingered Jack Garcia." (Six-Guns, 1888)
    TB20543  $125.00



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    Rogers, Ernest E.:  Connecticut's Naval Office at New London During the War of the American Revolution.  New London: Private Printing, 1933. First Edition. Fine in dark blue ribbed cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the front board and on the spine with decorated end sheets and the top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. One of only 750 copies printed. 358 pages including an index of vessels, an index of names, bibliography, and illustrated with 27 images from photographs. The volume includes the merchantile letter book of Nathiel Shaw (1735-1782) who was a naval agent and Connecticut merchant. (Gephart, 14416)
    TB32826  $65.00




  • Roland, Alex:  Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with light rubbing on the front panel and with a small 1/8" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel. 237 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, text and illustrations.
    TB13503  $21.00



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    Ronald, D. A. B:  The Life Of John Andre The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold.   Philadelphia: Casemate, (2019). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price), dust jacket. 336 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB32807  $20.00



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    Ronalds, Alfred:  The Fly-Fisher's Entomology.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1997). Collector's Edition. Fine in full, light borwn leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt borders and images of tied flies on both boards. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 5 3/4". Without a dust jacket as issued. This copy remains contained within the publisher's shrink wrap. Containing 132 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and twenty colored plates. The title page continues as follows: "with coloured representations of the natural and artificial insect, and a few observations and instructions on Trout- and Grayling - Fishing". One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Fly-Fishing Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB33037  $75.00



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    Ronda, James P.:  Finding The West Explorations With Lewis and Clark.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 138 pages including an index. One of the volumes in the Histories of the American Frontier series by the University of New Mexico Press.
    TB22182  $20.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  The Winning of the West.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Alleghany Edition. All four volumes of this complete set are in very good+ condition in their original, full brown cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and text on the spines and a gilt design of a teepee on the front boards and with the top edge of the text blocks gilt. Each is a small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 3/8 inches with rubbing, wear and short closed tear to the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines. None of the volumes have dust jackets. Wright Howes in his bibliography: U.S.Iana states that the Alleghany Edition is the best edition of this title of the many that were published. Volume I (From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776) contains 352 pages and is followed by a fold-out color map of the West During the Revolution. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 plates. Volume II (From the Alleghaniees to the Mississippi 1777-1783) contains 427 pages including an index to volumes I and II which is followed by two fold-out color maps of The Colonies and The States. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates. Volume III (The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790) contains 339 pages including an index which is followed by a fold-out map of the Western Land Claims At The Close of the Revolution. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates. Volume IV (Louisiana and the Northwest 1791-1807) contains 363 pages including an index which is followed by a fold-out, color map Showing The First Explorations Of The Great West. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 plates. The book plates printed on the front paste-downs is not completed by any prior owner. (Cole & Vail, A11.m.; Howes, R-433)
    TB32084  $1800.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  Through The Bazilian Wilderness.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Very near fine in its original brown cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt.. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches with cloth over the spine slightly faded and with upper tip of the front board mildly bumped. There is a prior owner's book plate (A. S. Houghton) on the front paste down. Without its issued dust jacket. 383 pages including an index, appendices and text followed by a fold-out map of the rivers of Brazil and with the route of the travelers outlined in orange. A one page map showing the entire continent of South America on page vii. Both maps are in excellent condition. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon standing on a rock from a black and white photograph as well as 48 plates "from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition".
    TB32498  $650.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt 1902-1904.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First Edition. Very good in its original dark maroon, cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 by 1/4 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed as are the tips of the boards and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with two, clear glue stains on the rear board. Without its issued dust jacket. 485 pages including an index. With an introduction by Henry Cabot Lodge. This is the Standard Library Edition which was issued at the same time as the smaller Popular Edition.
    TB32674  $75.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  Roosevelt In The Kansas City Star War-Time Editorials.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First Edition. Very near fine in maroon cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with a blind embossed seal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/4" with light rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's name written on the rear end sheet. Without a dust jacket. 295 pages. Illustrated with a black and white photographic frontispiece and facsimiles of a note by Roosevelt and one of his editorial manuscripts. Containing an introduction by Ralph Stout, Managing Editor of The Star.
    TB27717  $50.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  The Rough Riders.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2003. First thus. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine, gilt borders on the front and rear boards, decorated end papers (a first for the Classics) and bright gilt applied to the top edge of the text block. The 101st volume in the Lakeside Classic series, the first of the fifth binding color given to the books in the series. In the publisher's original shrink-wrap protection. 317 pages including a list of the books in the series, an index, text and illustrated with photographs maps and reproductions of contemporary art. Edited by Marifeli Perez-Stable. Originally written by Roosevelt immediately upon his return from Cuba and published in 1899. This book continues the goal of the series to offer first person narrative accounts of personal experience.
    TB30371  $30.00



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    Roosevelt, Theodore:  Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles 1870-1918.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Edition. Very good in dark blue, ribbed, cloth covered boards with very faded text on the spine, but bright gilt text on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with bumps to the board tips and a prior owner's name and date of 1924 on the first free end page. The contents are clean and free of foxing and any damage. 323 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white photograph.
    TB32673  $30.00




  • Rose, Robert T.:  Advocates and Adversaries.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1977. First thus. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations and a gilt top edge. The Lakeside Classic release of 1977. A never before published account of the activities of Robert R. Rose during the eight years he practiced law in Kenmmerer, Wyoming. 322 pages including an index followed by a listing of other titles previously published in this series.
    TB33165  $20.00



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    Rosen, Michael J. (Editor):  My Bug: for Everyone Who Owned, Loved, Or Shared a Vw Beetle. True Tales of the Car That Defined a Generation.  New York: Artisan, (1999). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in red cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with an image of a VW Beetle on the front board embossed in silver. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket 159 pages of text and illustrated with color photographs and drawings by the editor and Eric Hansen and cartoons by Richard Koehler.
    TB29822  $20.00




  • Rosenbaum, Joel, and Tom Gallo:  The Broadway Limited.  Piscataway, NJ: Railpace Company Publications, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An oblong octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 11" with light creasing to the front panel and slight soiling to the title page. Without a dust jacket as issued. 96 pages of text and photographs in both color and black and white . The Broadway Limited was a special, all-Pullman, train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
    TB25580  $20.00



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    Ross, Alexander:  Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1923. First thus. Near fine in decorated dark green cloth covered boards with the top edge of the text block in gilt with the gilt text stamping on the spine and front board very clean and bright. There are no prior ownership names, markings or inscriptions in this copy. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1923 edited with an historical introduction and notes by Milo Milton Quaife. The original publication of this book was printed in England in 1849. In the words of the editor, Ross' book provides "a clear and readable account of this interesting phase of the history of our Pacific Northwest...." 388 pages including an index, text and the fold-out map preceding the title page. The map is in perfect condition.
    TB32689  $130.00



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    Ross, Alexander:  The Fur Hunters of the Far West.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1924. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with slightly tarnished gilt text on the spine and bright gilt decorations on the front board, a gilt top edge to the text block. The cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine is worn and a bit rubbed as are the tips of the boards. The 22nd volume in the Lakeside Classic series issued in 1924. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. A continuation of the narratives started with the volume of 1923 which was titled: Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River. Illustrated with a frontispiece of a view of Fort Nez Perces.
    TB32691  $100.00



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    Ross, John F.:  War On The Run The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier.  New York: Bantam Book, (2009). Third Printing. Near fine in 1/4 gray cloth and yellow paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 5/7/8 inches with light pencil underlinings and marginal notations. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 548 pages containing an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with maps.
    TB29092  $20.00




  • Ross, Frank:  Goldship.  London: Book Club Associates, 1981. Book Club Associates edition. Near fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a very near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Nautical fiction based on some elements of fact involving an old converted merchant ship on patrol in the South Atlantic in December of 1918.
    TB15896  $2.50




  • Rossell, Leonard:  Tracks & Trails.  New York: The Macmillan Co., 1928. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ with only modest rubbing at the spine ends in 1/4 green cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Without a dust jacket. 138 pages with a one page index, text, photographs and line drawings by the author. Sponsored and published by the Boy Scouts of America. Through a combination of short stories, illustrations of animals in the wild and photographs of animal tracks the author provides a unique guide. Followed by chapters on photographing wildlife and making plaster track casts.
    TB06883  $20.00



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    Rosskam, Edwin, and Louise Rosskam:  Towboat River.  New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1948). First Edition. Near fine in its original red-orange cloth covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the front board and silver text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 3/4 by 9 inches with writing in ink at the top of the first free end page....see below. Without its issued dust jacket. Inscribed by the publisher with: "Room 1611 - Office Copy | Please Do Not Remove" at the top of the first free end page indicating that this is the file copy for Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 295 pages of text and black and white illustrations from photographs. A photographic examination of men and vessels as towboats pushing tows (barges) in the major rivers of the central United States.
    TB32222  $125.00



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    Rostand, Edmond:  Cyrano de Bergerac.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1984. Collector's Edition. Fine in full, dark green leather covered boards with two raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the compartments and with gilt text and an outline of Cyrano on the front board and with a gilt outline of Cyrano's back on the rear board. The end sheets are silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 6 3/4". Laid-in is the publisher's four page "Notes From the Archives". 210 pages of text. A new "English version by Louis Untermeyer with illustrations by Pierre Brissanud. One of the volumes in the Easton Press' collection of Library of Famous Editions.
    TB24885  $65.00



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    Rostenberg, Leona, and Madeleine Stern:  Books Have Their Fates.  New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 199 pages including an index, a short title list and text. Illustrated with facsimiles of title pages. A collection of thirty stories which trace and reanimate the fate of as many books.
    TB28781  $25.00



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    Roth, Philip:  The Counterlife.  New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. First Trade Edition. Near fine in bright red-orange cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" deep with minor bumps to the lower fore corners of the boards. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with modest wear and rubbing to the upper edge of the spine area and a crease to the upper corner of the front flap. 324 pages of text. A very clean, tight and attractive copy.
    TB23306  $100.00



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    Roth, Philip:  The Breast.  New York: Holt, , Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark purple cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with the author's initials stamped with gilt on the front board. An octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2" deep. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a two very short 1/8" and 1/16" deep closed tears at the upper edge of the front panel with a faint crease between them. 78 pages of text. A very clean, tight and attractive copy with a bright, clean dust jacket.
    TB23309  $75.00



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    Roth, David M.:  Connecticut's War Governor: Jonathan Trumbull.  Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in printed, heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's name at the top edge of the title page. Signed "Best Regards" by the author without a date on the title page. 99 pages including chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Governor Trumbull and his wife Volume IX in the Connecticut Bicentennial Series.
    TB33292  $20.00



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    Roush, Herbert L. (Editor):  The Biography of T. C. Collins Written By Himself Part One 1832-1873.  Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1986. Limited First Edition. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. There is a prior owner's name and date neatly written at the upper edge of the front pastedown. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. This is copy number 600 of only 750 copies printed as noted on the book plate pasted to the front end paper which is also signed by the author. The subject of this narrative, Thomas C. Collins, kept four journals of which the editor, Roush, has knitted together the life and adventures of a 19th century riverboat man in the Ohio River valley. His journals provide a unique first-person insight into early frontier days and the life on a big river. 302 pages followed by an index. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs and facsimiles of related early documentation.
    TB19111  $55.00



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    Rowling, J. K.:  Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.  New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc., 2007. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 yellow cloth and light green paper covered boards with metallic red text stamping on the spine and red end sheets. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. With the full number line reading: "10....1" and "07...11". 759 pages of text. A bright clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's markings or book plates.
    TB33396  $25.00



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    Rowling, J. K.:  Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince.  New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc., 2005. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and purple paper covered boards with metallic purple text stamping on the spine and green end sheets. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a 1/3 inch closed tear at the upper fore corner of the rear panel. 652 pages of text. A bright clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's markings or book plates.
    TB31522  $20.00



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    Rowling, J. K.:  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.  New York: Arthur A. Levine Bks, 1999. Twelfth Printing. Near fine in 1/4 green cloth and decorated purple paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with reddish colored stain to the lower edge of the text block which did not invade the lower margins of the pages and a prior owner's address label on the front pasted down and the date of October, 1999 on the first free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The second volume in the extremely popular Harry Potter series. A winner of the National Book Award in the UK & a winner of the UK Gold Medal Smarties Prize.
    TB31525  $20.00



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    Rowlling, J. K.:  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .  New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/2 green cloth and quilted, purple paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with plain red end sheets. In a fine acetate protected dust jacket with the $17.95 price on the front flap of the jacket. The second volume in the extremely popular Harry Potter series. 341 pages of text with illustrations by Mary Grandpre. A first issue copy without the number "2" on the spine of the book or spine area of the jacket.
    TB32998  $200.00



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    Royal Irish Automobile Club:  Royal Irish Automobile Club Official Handbook 1938.  Dublin: Wilson, Hartnell & Co., 1938. . Very good+ in yellow cloth covered flexible boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front and rear boards. A small octavo of 7 3/4 by 5 inches with scattered light soiling to the boards. The contents are clean of markings, notations, names or soiling. Without a dust jacket. (viii), 144 pages of text followed by 60 (lx) pages of ads.
    TB29958  $30.00



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    Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown:  The Chinook Indians Traders of the Lower Columbia River.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1976). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright blue paper covered boards with bold white text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a near fine,price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing around the edges of the spine area and the front panel. The 138th volume in The Civilization of the Amrican Indian Series. 349 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated from photographs and two maps.
    TB30127  $60.00



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    Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown:  The Cayuse Indians Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, (1972). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in tan cloth covered boards with red and dark blue text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4" chips from the upper corners of the spine area, rubbing and slight loss of colors at the lower edge of the spine area and a 3/4 inch "v" shaped closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. 345 pages containing a list of volumes in the series, index, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated from photographs and with 8 maps. Volume 120 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series.
    TB30112  $40.00




  • Rudner, Ruth:  Greetings from Widsom, Montana.  Goldon, CO: Fulcrum, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 blue cloth and blue paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing at the spine ends. Originally from New York City, this frequent writer for The Wall Street Journal, resettled in Bozeman to live in the very area she fell in love with. Her writing is rich and her statement "It is on the edge of wildness that the American spirit is most at home." rings true for her adoptive State.
    TB07747  $30.00




  • Rudner, Ruth:  Greetings from Wisdom, Montana.  Golden: Fulcrum, Inc., 1989. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 light blue cloth and paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author is a frequent writer for the Wall Street Journal. This is her fifth book.
    TB11521  $25.00




  • Ruggiers, Paul G.:  Florence In The Age of Dante.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine. There is a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. In a very near fin unclipped dust jacket with light soiling to the rear panel. The 15th volume in The Centers of Civilization Series by the University of Oklahoma Press. 194 pages including an index.
    TB23731  $15.00



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    Ruskin, John:  On The Old Road A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, Pamphlets, Etc., Etc., Published 1834-1885 (3 Volumes).  Kent: George Allen, 1885. First Editions. All three volumes of this complete set are in good condition all bound in light blue-gray paper covered boards with paper labels on the spines. The spines are all moderately soiled and tanned and the heads and heels of the spines are well worn and rubbed. The front joints for all three volumes are starting but the hinges, bindings and pages for all are tight and strong with no pages loose. There is an early prior owner's name neatly written on the front paste down of each volume. Without dust jackets. Each volume is a small quarto measuring 9 3/16" tall by 5 3/4" deep. Volume I contains 400 pages; volume II contains pages 405 to 812 and volume III contains 435 pages including the index to all three volumes.
    TB20602  $60.00



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    Russell, Carl P.:  Firearms, Traps, & Tools of the Mountain Men.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red and bright orange cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine and a gilt stamped decoration on the front board. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with one inch closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. "A guide in picture and text to the equipment of the trappers and fur traders who opened the Old West from the 1820's to the 1840's." A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" containing 448 pages followed by an index. Illustrated throughout with more than 400 drawings and sketches of tools, weapons and implements used by the fur traders and mountain men of the era.
    TB27723  $75.00



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    Russell, Robert H.:  Wilton Connecticut Three Centuries Of People, Places, and Progress.  Wilton, Conn.: Wilton Historical Society, (2004). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in purple paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches with a minor bump to the heel of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the lower edge of the spine area. Signed, dated and inscribed by the author on the first free end page. 591 pages of text including an index, bibliography, source notes and appendices. Illustrated throughout with black and white images from photographs.
    TB32640  $60.00



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    Russell, Henry B.:  Man Proposes A Story of Woodland Fancies.  New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1939. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with the lower 1/2 inch of the boards faded. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to the panels. Warmly signed by the author on the second free end page. "A story which illustrates throughout that man proposes, but God disposes." 206 pages of text. An extremely handsome copy of a very uncommon title.
    TB20158  $32.00



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    Russell, Franklin:  Wings on the Southwind.  Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1984. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and blind embossing on the front board. A quarto of 12 by 9 inches with modest soiling to the front paste down. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a 5 inch long blemish on the rear panel with no significant loss to the colors or print. 157 pages of text and color photographs through-out by Thase Daniel. With an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson.
    TB13923  $15.00



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    Russell, S. Thomas:  Under Enemy Colors.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (2007). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 blue and red paper covered boards with bold gilt text and rules on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 7/8". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 486 pages of text. The first volume in the Commander Charles Hayden series.
    TB28414  $12.50



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    Ryan, J. Francis (Editor):  Plymoulth Conn. 1776-1976.  N. P.: Self-published, 1976. First Edition. Very good+ in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches with the cloth tanned around the outside edges. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 199 pages of text and illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB29902  $25.00



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    Ryan, Kate:  Old Boston Museum Days.  Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1915. First Edition. Near fine in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt designs on the spine and front board with a blind embossed border around the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with only hints of rubbing to the tips of the boards and corners of the spine and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. 264 pages including an index and text. Illustrated from black and white photographs throughout. The story of . the Boston Museum which was able to circumvent Boston's Blue Laws against theatrical entertainment and hosted "platform entertainment" as early as 1843 which lead to the creation of vaudeville entertainment
    TB32799  $25.00



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    Rye, Graham:  The James Bond Girls.  London: Boxtree Limited, 1997. Reprint. Fine in pictorial heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A quarto measuring 13" by 9". Without a dust jacket as issued. 80 pages of text and illustrated with color photographs throughout with a film by film analysis.
    TB24930  $20.00






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