Authors starting with R from Savoy Books

Dublin: Printed by Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, 1800. 3 vols. 8vo, contemp. tree calf, red morocco labels. Half-title in vol. 3. Top of one spine a little worn, one hinge partly split, rubbed; a very good set. The second Dublin edition, very scarce. Summers, Gothic Bib., p. 435; OCLC records copies at UCLA and Nat Lib of Wales only.. ... more information

[Hollywood: ca. 1846?] Typescript carbon duplicate, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Pp. 143. Typed title wrappers, fastened; with agency label of Paul Kohner, Inc. In a morocco backed cloth clamshell case. A finshed script with camera and action directions, for a comedy set in Chicago and Los Angeles just after World War II, involving a now impoverished millionaire and the women in his life. Renoir collaborated with Eliot Gibbon, a short-story and screenwriter and brother of famed production manager Cedric Gibbon. This... more information

Np., nd. Typescript mimeograph, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Pp. 142, fastened. In a morocco-backed cloth clam shell case. A presentation copy, inscribed "Pour Ruth et Mark en toute amitié. Jean Renoir." A production script for Jean Renoir's war-time drama set in Paris. He adapted the play from his French original first for a world premiere student production in 1960, when he was a Regents Professor at UC Berkeley, and for a WNET television production in 1973, during which he fell ill and turned ... more information

Glasgow: David Robertson & Co., 1890. 2 vols, 12mo. Orig. blue cloth gilt. Pp. xii, 498; 328, 172..; half-titles T.e.g. Minor rubbing, a near fine set. Third edition, enlarged, with a historical preface; inscribed by the publisher and compiler's son, David Robertson, Jr., "To N. B. Mackenzie Esq., with the kind regards of his friend, The Publisher, 18th October, 1890." Best edition of the most popular Scottish song collection of the 19th century, originally issued in a four-part series fro... more information

Fine, friendly autobiographical letter by a troubled and promising poet, "the most particular and longest I have written in years." Rockwell, born in Manlius, N.Y., discusses his lineage and living relatives, his common school and self-taught education, his apprenticeship with two printers (from one of whom he took "French leave" owing to "the shackles of bigotry which my new proprietors impressed upon my conscience"), a near-death bout with consumption, and his eventual career... more information

Dijon: Le Venot, 1931. 4to, 3/4 morocco, marbled boards, with contrasting narrow inlaid bands, with the original printed wrappers bound in. Pp.172; frontis., plates. Fine. First edition, one of a thousand copies, here in a handsome custom binding. An illustrated history one of the largest and most complex of the Cote de Nuits vineyards. Reissued later in 8vo and a modern reprint.. ... more information

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company, nd (1857). Oblong 4to, marbled boards, cloth spine. Pp. 104. Fine copy of a later printing. A rural cantata by the popular composer and song writer, who grew up on a farm in Sheffield, Mass. Among the songs penned by Root are "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", "Hazel Dell," and "Just Before the Battle Mother." . ... more information

N.p, n.d. [1837?]. 8vo, printed title wrappers, stitched. Pp. 16. A little dusty, very good. First ed. A discourse with good substance, relating circumstances of Lovejoy's murder and the events leading up to it, and a long excerpt from Lovejoy's abolitionist manifesto, as printed in the Alton Observer. Rev. Root was president of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society. Imprints 46599; Sabin 73122. ... more information

London: for Henry Herringman, 1684. 4to, disbound. Pp. 32. Lightly browned, a nice copy. Second edition; first published in 1680. A founding work of England's Augustan Age. Includes Edmund Waller's introductory poem "Of this translation, and of the use of poetry." Wing H2769.. ... more information

London: T.H., 1630. Narrow 12mo, early marbled boards, calf spine. Pp. [iv], 204. Engraved frontis. Front cover detached, frontis. bound in upside down, lightly browned. Second edition, revised; same year as first. A celebrated dramatic satire on lawyers. See DNB for a detailed account of the work's origins and the controversy it provoked in the London legal community. STC 21445. ... more information

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. 8vo, orig. cloth. Pp. viii, 440. Frontis + engraved chapter vignettes. Cover spotted, inner front hinge tender, internally very good. Third edition, with a new 28-page opening chapter, 'Of Ancient and Modern Wines,' new preface and the engraved fron tispiece. Gabler 33960.. ... more information

Philadelphia: for the authoress, by J.H. Cunningham, 1819. 8vo, broken calf; pp. 204. Covers detached, nice within. First edition of this interesting account of an English missionary's travels among the Oneida Indians. Sabin 71497; Imprints 49296.. ... more information

Philadelphia: 1869. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 175, a.e.g. Frontispiece folding map of North Africa and 4 facsimiles. Minor interior stain, a very nice copy. One of several variant printings. Not published, and likely printed for specific rather than general circulation. Sabin 58848.. ... more information

New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. 8vo, illustrated cloth. Pp. xx, 350, illus with photos. New Edition. Very good, bright copy.. ... more information

London:: The Medici Society,, 1932. Narrow 4to, 3/4 morocco and millefleurs patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliff, in a slipcase. A UNIQUE PROSPECTUS for Rohde's classic study, consisting of the first 16 pages of text, the frontispiece and six plates, three of which are in color, and trimmed and pasted on blank leaves. An additional leaf gives information regarding the illustrations ("There will be five plates in colour...").. ... more information

Leipzig: Im Insel, 1930. 8vo, orig cloth. Pp. 276 with 29 plates and 2 folding facsimiles. Cover soiled, spine chipped, internally very good.. ... more information