Search Results: Authors starting with R from Boojum and Snark Books

Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1967 Softcover, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 219 pp., figures (including foldouts). Near fine (sunning, spine). Laid in is a brochure advertising The Second Symposium on Abnormal Subsurface Pressures, January 30, 1970. (K048). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

U.s. Department of the Interior/Geological Survey, 1981 Stapled green wraps, 9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches, 27 pp., numerous b/w illustrations. Near fine. Fascinating history. (1722RO006). Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

La Varenne, Paris, 1978 Stapled wraps, printed front cover, 6 x 4 1/2 inches, 36 pp. Very good (mild sunning, covers; phone number in ink, rear cover; pages clean and binding tight). Rare. (1722RO067). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Dial Press, 1976 An exceptional copy, book and dustcover strictly as-new. Tenth printing (1978). Light tan cloth-covered boards, spine and front board lettering, 11 1/4 x 9 inches, 273 pp., numerous illustrations. (1722RO070). 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Oddbins, 1987 This is the FIRST Steadman/Oddbins list, Summer 1987. Stapled wraps, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 15 pp. Ralph Steadman's great illustrations. Fine. (1722RO091). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine.

Oddbins, 1996 Single sheet, folded once, 11 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (folded). Great Steadman illustrations. Fine. (1722RO007x2). Soft cover. Fine.

Oddbins, 1996 Oddbins ephemera. Single sheet, trifolded, 11 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (folded), illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Fine. (1722RO007x4). Soft cover. Fine.

Macmillan Children's Books, London, 1988 An exceptional, fine copy, suitable for a Ralph Steadman collection. Softcover, glossy color-illustrated wraps, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, unpaginated. 14 board games, one of which is illustrated by Ralph Steadman ("Don't Do That"). This is a first thus edition (the first Macmillan/Picturemac edition; previously published by A & C Black in 1985. Steadmans two-page contribution is "Dont Do That!" a "wicked" roll-the-dice game in which you "start off by being boringly good and gradually you become ecstatically horrible -- otherwise you wont win."(1722RO091). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

Oddbins, 1996 Oddbins ephemera. Two sheets, each trifolded, 11 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (folded), illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Fine. (1722RO007). Soft cover. Fine.

Oddbins A narrow, laminated advertising poster, 16 1/2 x 6 inches, printed on one side. A great Ralph Steadman illustration ("The Beers Are In Here"). Two small, inconspicuous staple holes near top edge, else fine. (1722RO091). No Binding. Fine.

Oddbins, (no date) Stapled wraps, 9 x 9 inches, Ralph Steadman's great illustrations. Near fine (mild crease). Scarce Steadman ephemera (1722RO091). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Oddbins, 1996 Single sheet, folded once, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (folded). Great illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Fine. (1722RO007). Soft cover. Fine.

Oddbins, 1996 Oddbins ephemera. Single sheet, trifolded, 11 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (folded), illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Fine. (1722RO007). Soft cover. Fine.

Oddbins, 1997 Single sheet, folded once, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (folded). Great Steadman illustrations. Near fine (damp waviness, upper fore-edge corner). (1722RO007x2). Soft cover. Near Fine.

Oddbins, 1996 Stapled wraps, folded once, 17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (unfolded), extensively illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Fine. (1722RO007x7). Soft cover. Fine.

Excudebant Abernethy & Walker, Edinburgi, 1814. A rare medical thesis, published in Edinburgh in 1814. No OCLC library holdings. Book block only (no covers), beginning with half-title page, signatures still sewn together at spine. 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches, 58 pp. Good quality paper; paper in very god condition, with essentially no foxing. In Latin. Inscribed by the author on a preliminary page. (3214002). F. Soft cover.

Southern Poetry Review Press; North Carolina State University; Raleigh; 1965. First edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by Paul Ramsey on the verso of the dedication page. Yellow printed wraps, 9 x 5 7/8 inches, 43 pp. Good (substantial, irregular sunning, covers; focal, modest staining and soiling, covers; some creasing to covers, focally extending to underlying book block; edgewear, mostly at spine ends, with 5/16 inch tear/erosion at upper spine end; otherwise, pages clean and binding intact). Early publication of Ramsey's poetry in book form. Scarce, especially signed. (3214004). Signed by Author(s). F. Soft cover.

Rand, McNally & Company for Indian Refining Company, New York, (no date; circa 1917). Scarce pamphlet. Stapled wraps, printing on front cover, printing/illustrations on rear cover, 7 x 5 3/4 inches, 31 pp., b/w drawings and photo illustrations, multi-colered maps, index to maps. Very good (chief defect is a crease in the covers and text, running vertically, near the middle of the pamphlet). Interesting Indian Refining/Havoline Oil advertisement and World War I history. The captions on the back cover read: 'Figured on a box-car basis, the monthly output of our Refinery at Lawrenceville, Ill., represents shipments of five thousand car loads. / Some of the oil-wells owned by the Indian Refining Company. We run from twelve thousand to fifteen thousand barrels of high-grade crude oil every day. / Some of the twelve hundred modern tank cars owned by the Indian Refining Company.' Inside the front cover there is a table comparing the characteristics of oils, 'This Tells the Story of Why You… Read More

University Park Press, Baltimore, 1973. First U.S. edition. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches, 321 pp., index, figures. Ex-library, with usual markings, else very good plus. No dustcover. ISBN 0839107137 (3214004). F. Hardcover.

W. W. Norton, New York, 1980 First edition, first printing. Black paper-covered boards, tan cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering (bright), 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches, 318 pp., index. A nice copy: book and dustcover very good. (1722RO118). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.