Search Results: Titles starting with R from 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera

N.Y. Graphic Society/Little Brown & Co: New York, 1983. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 4to. 143 pp. Color and black and white plates. Signed by Gorman on the title page.

New York: Doubleday, 2007. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Snelling: Seven Pines Baptist Church, 1970. Very Good. Poster advertising a rural Southern U.S. religiouus revival. Black & white print and photo on cream card stock. Approximately 15" x 11." Very Good with some light soiling and a few creases. A rare example of a one-time, week-long event held in a Southern town with a population of approximately 100 people.

Near fine. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

Woodstock: Jewish Lights, 2010. Softcover. Fine in illustrated wraps.

New York: New Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 404 pp. Author received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War," and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two," which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. He received the George Polk Career Award in 1999.

New York: Crowell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Somewhat worn dust jacket. Uncommon.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. 556 pp. illustrated with graphs and tables. Contains information on The Slave Trade; Social and Demographic Aspects of Slave Populations; The Slave and Free Person of Color in the Urban Environment; the Post Emancipation Response. Various contributors.

London: Socialist Party of Great Britain, 1947. Softcover. Good in soiled wrappers. 78 pp. 12mo.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good/Very good. Sailing techniques tactics and philosophy of the American Cup's skipper and his tactician.

NP: Benjamin Tyrell, 1949. Softcover. In Very Good condition with a small stain in the lower right corner and some creasing to the edges of the covers. Interiors are clean and tight... Binding by Robert H. Wessman; Printed by Benjamin H. Tyrell; Yachting Magazine halftone engravings;. 9" x 12." Cream textured and embossed card wraps; glossy heavy card stock interior. 64 pp. of photos, illustrations and text and 14 blank and clean cream cardboard pages for Photos and Clippings. Rare [**OCLC** lists no copies] recap of seven post-World War II Northeast U.S., New England and Bermuda yachting races. Includes a black and white photo of Nina on glossy heavy card stock paper, a full page black and white photo titled The Afterguard at Pomander Gate, Bermuda, 1948; An Appreciation Page by Randolph E. Tyrell; Summaries of the of seven races listed in the title. Summaries include full page black and white photos, descriptions of races, crew listings, race competitors listings, skippers notes, excerpts from… Read More

Scribner: New York, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 236 pp. When Lovat Dickson first came to London in 1929, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall were, he remembered, "very unusual looking. Una with her monocle, and both of them smoking little green cigars." In 1963 Lady Troubridge died, leaving Lovat Dickson the copyrights to Radclyffe Hall's books. Six years later, with the discovery of a file of letters and nineteen volumes of Una's diaries, Dickson was moved to begin writing the biography with which his legacy had implicitly charged him: an intimate record of these two women's lives together.

Boca Raton: CRC, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. Provides the basic theory and practical methods of radiation dosimetry.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In fine price clipped dust jacket.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. 72 pp. Winner of the 2001 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.

London: Verso, 2022. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Thin 8vo. The story of the women and men who formed Opantish - Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment - who deployed hundreds of volunteers, scouts rescue teams, and getaway drivers to intervene in the spiraling cases of sexual violence against women protesters during the 2012 Egyptian Revolution.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First edition.

Random House: New York, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in near Fine dust jacket. 271 pp. Octavo. Doctorow's acclaimed work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Listed by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. TIME magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It was the basis for the 1981 film directed by Milos Forman, featuring the final film appearances of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, and early appearances, in small parts, by Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Samuel L. Jackson, Ethan Phillips, and John Ratzenberger. The music score was composed by Randy Newman. The film was nominated for eight Oscars.

Little Brown: Boston, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good on a very Good dust jacket which has some creasing and a few chips.. 8vo. 470 pp. dramatization of the English Channel battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge. Maps.

Popular Publications, 1969. Softcover. Very Good with lightly rubbed covers.. 8 1/2" x 11." 66 pp. In color pictorial wraps. With articles onÊ Silverton line, train-order collectors, rail fan Walter A. Appel, a locomotive roster for the Norfolk & Western, a Thousand Islands trolley line, America's last wooden railroad, a survey of passenger trains, fiction, and more.