Titles starting with R from Bartlebys Books

(NY:: Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.),, nd [1912].. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 24 pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated, double-page map. Original color illustrated wrappers (rubbed), stapled. Very good, partly unopened copy. Guide to the islands of the Caribbean and a few coastal towns in Central America. Lists "principal hotels in West Indies" (including Cuba). Unrecorded on OCLC. ... more information

Chicago:: Laird & Lee, Publishers,, n.d. [ca.1904].. Color illustrated paperwraps. 12mo.; 110pp., plus 2pp. of ads. Illustrated. Printed on cheap paper; chipping to spine ends; small chip to upper inner margin corner of front panel; a few creases and closed tears. Overall a bright copy. One listing on OCLC (San Francisco Public Library). ... more information

Louisville, KY:: Morton & Griswold,, 1845.. 12mo. [12] 9-101, 6 plates, errata slip, folding map. Original quarter leather with cloth boards. Very good. HOWES C-905 ... more information

Published by the Passenger Dept. of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway, June,, 1886.. Pictorial wraps. 8vo.; 40pp. Illus. & map. A promotional pamphlet for the summer of 1886. Very good. ... more information

Baltimore [MD]:: Wirth Brothers,, 1950.. 8vo.; 110, (1) pp. Frontis. photo, and photo illustrations. Gilt stamped green cloth. Introduction by Usher L. Burdick. A very good copy. This work is an expanded edition of a chapter from Crawford's HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA (1931), with original material added. The essay on Custer is included "because this was the start of a new era in the Great West..." and it impacted immigration to the Dakotas.HERD 606 ... more information

Chicago, (IL):: Rand, McNally,, (c1884).. 12mo. 32, (4) pp. Map title. "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Alabama," 20 x 13 inches, printed in color. Original printed tan wrappers. Very good. First edition (?). Scarce; the earliest version of this map cited on OCLC was issued in 1892. Phillips, p. 94. Not in Owen. ... more information

Chicago & NY:: Rand,McNally & Co.,, (ca. 1910).. Black lettered brown paperwraps. 12mo.; 54pp., plus a large folding map tipped in at rear. [Cover title: RAND McNALLY & CO.'s INDEXED COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP POCKET MAP AND SHIPPERS' GUIDE OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE...]. A very good copy. ... more information

8vo. (2) pp., approximately 50 words. Folded (some offset and browning). Accompanied by the original mailing envelope (some staining), address by Johnson and with his free frank signature (faded). Your call...found me just bundling up my papers here to attend to a case in the Sup[reme] Court." Hookstown, in Baltimore County, had its name changed to Arlington in 1890. ... more information

Chicago:: W.B. Conkey,, 1899.. First edition. 8vo.; 336pp. Frontis. portrait and illustrations. A memoir by a member of "Clarke Cavalry" , Co. D, Sixth Virginia. Orig. gilt-lettered olive cloth (moderately soiled). Binding slightly cocked. Still a very good copy. HOWES O101 ... more information

Paris:: Froulle,, 1788.. 8vo. 4 volumes: 384, 259, 292, 366 pp. Half-titles. Recent sprinkled quarter-calf and marbled boards, all edges red (top edge soiled); old institutional stamps to title page in each volume, but a solid copy in an attractive new binding. First edition. Howes M-456: "The author, Italian by birth, lived in Virginia near his friend Thomas Jefferson, who may have assisted in this work." Haynes 11607. ... more information

1 page letter, on a 4pp. folder, with the letterhead of "Charles Miner, Correspondent, American Attorneys' Collection Association, All Legal Business Attended to, Collections a Specialty." The judgment involves a ruling against Mr. Miner's client, in favor of Santee (?) & Co., and lists the attorneys fees due. The subsequent 3pp. are a printed list entitled COMPLETE LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS OF THE AMERICAN ATTORNEYS' COLLECTION ASSOCIATION. '77. Printed by the principal office, ... more information

San Diego, CA:, 1928.. First edition, 1/300 copies, inscribed by the editor on front endpapers. This copy belonged to Jean Hersholt, with bookplate. 8vo. 279, (2) pp. Illustrated; plates (last plate wanting, as often). The editor of this volume is the daughter of L. and E. Gunn. Howes M-324. Gilt-stamped blue cloth spine, blue boards (some edgewear, corners bumped). ... more information

Washington, DC:: Howard University Press,, 1927.. 8vo. 216 pp. First edition. Illustrated with photographs (one folding), maps, and tables. Very good in original blue cloth (slightly soiled). ... more information

New York:: Crosby Gaige,, 1928.. Limited edition SIGNED by O'Flaherty. 8vo; 50 pp. Review copy, with some pencilled emendations (by the reviewer or publisher's staff) to one of the illustrations. Very good in brown cloth. ... more information

New York:: Appleton,, 1855.. 8vo.; 108pp. Original brown cloth, gilt title on spine (faded); owner's name at base of title page, some foxing, but a very good copy. First edition. Preface: "[Incidents] are drawn from that remarkable and sanguinary chapter in southwestern annals, known as the Creek War of 1813." Sabin 47366: "Accompanied with notes on Indian life. ... more information

(Enfield, CT):: printed by the author,, 1927-28.. 12mo.; 90pp. Printed purple paper boards (faded), bound by the author; endpapers foxed, else a very good copy. First edition. Scarce; not recorded by the NUC, not on OCLC. ... more information

City of Washington:: Printed by Francis P. Blair,, 1834.. 12mo. 16 pp. Original printed blue wrappers (somewhat foxed). Very good copy. Updated version of the regulations, signed in type at the end by Roger Jones, adjutant general of the U.S. Army, 1828-1852. Ownership signature "Lt. Col. [Enos] Cutler / 5th Infantry" at head of title page. OCLC locates a single copy (Georgetown). Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. ... more information

Amsterdam, J. Louis de Lorme Lib.,, 1698.. 16mo.; [8], 402pp., [2]. Engraved frontis. plate. Full leather (worn; front joint cracked); small, old institutional label at head of spine; all page edges red. Internally clean, and a very good copy overall. This is the principal and most important work of Las Casas, was completed in 1542. Las Casas had voyaged with Columbus in 1498 and again in 1502 to the West Indies, spending much time as an observer to the barbarities the Spanish inflicted on the natives. Ord... more information

[London:: Victoria Institute,, 1885].. First separate edition. 8vo. 15 pp. Illustrated. Comparison of Native American beliefs with those of western civilization, especially with the Christian religion. Uncommon; the NUC locates but three copies (MH, UU, CSmH). Original printed wrappers; paper browned, else a very good copy. ... more information

San Francisco, H.S. Crocker,, 1887.. 1st ed. 8vo.; xxv, 454pp. Illus. Orig. pictorial cloth. Very good. HOWES H811 SIX GUNS 1081 GRAFF 2018 ... more information