Titles starting with R from Captain's Bookshelf, Inc., ABAA

London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1980. First edition. Narrow quarto. 60 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Ownership signature otherwise very good in original pictorial wrappers. Catalogs: ART. ... more information

(Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1981). First edition. Small thin octavo. 24 pages. With Dufour Editions sticker on the title page. Near fine in original black boards and a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Catalogs: IRISH POETRY. ... more information

(London): Phaidon, (2001). First edition. Small square quarto. 304 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. Fine in original printed boards stamped in blind. Catalogs: ARCHITECTURE. ... more information

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (1993). First edition. Octavos. Approximately 1200 pages. With color frontispieces in each volume by Richard Sparks. Fine in original Easton Press gilt-decorated brown leather, aeg." Catalogs: AMERICAN LITERATURE. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First trade edition. Small octavo. 512 pages. Fine in original blue cloth with a lavender top edge and in a fine decorated dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Signed on the title page in 1991 by Updike. Catalogs: AMERICAN LITERATURE. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Proof. Octavo. vi; 90 pages. Fine in original printed blue wrappers. Catalogs: AMERICAN POETRY. ... more information

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1988). First edition. Octavo. 252 pages. With many black and white illustrations. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Catalogs: THEATRE. DRAMA. ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo. xii; 339 pages. A bright, near fine copy in original cloth lacking the dust jacket. Author John T. Flanagan's copy with his ownership signature and a few notes in pencil." Catalogs: AMERICAN LITERATURE. ... more information

(No place): Clarke and Way, Inc., (1961). First edition. Small square quarto. 84 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Near fine in original gray cloth and a near fine, though internally tape-mended pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Kalisher and Williams." Catalogs: RAILROADS. PHOTOGRAPHY. ... more information

London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. Second printing. Thick octavo. xii; 383 pages. With sixteen black and white plates and one folding map. Circular embossed ownership stamp on the front free endpaper otherwise a bright, near fine copy in original blue cloth lettered in gilt." Catalogs: TIBET. TIBETAN ALPS. KANSU PROVINCE. PLANT HUNTING. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1989. First edition, first printing. Large octavo. viii; 541 pages. Fine in original cloth-backed boards and a fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed and with a rainbow drawing opposite the title page by Vollmann. Catalogs: AMERICAN LITERATURE. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition, first printing. Thick octavo. 434 pages. Fine in original cloth-backed boards and a fine dust jacket. Signed by Grisham. Catalogs: AMERICAN FICTION. LEGAL THRILLER. ... more information

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First edition. Thin quarto. Unpaginated. One of 220 numbered copies. Fine in original string-tied wrappers with a printed paper label on the upper cover. Signed by Kelly. Catalogs: AMERICAN POETRY. ... more information

(Elkins, West Virginia): Elkins Branch of the American Association of University Women, 1976. First edition. Octavo. 162 pages. With a few black and white illustrations and a map. Fine in original red cloth lettered in white. Catalogs: RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. ... more information

Salisbury: Rowan Printing Company, (1941). First edition. Thick octavo. xxxii; 539 pages. With fourteen black and white illustrations and frontispiece. Fine in original blue cloth and a near fine pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy. Uncommon in dust jacket and in fine condition. Catalogs: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY. ... more information

Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1991. First edition, thus. Octavo. 426 pages. With several small black and white illustrations. Number 49 of 50 numbered copies. Fine in original quarter leather over linen boards and a matching linen slipcase. Catalogs: TEXAS HISTORY. ... more information

New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1985). ARC. Octavo. 280 pages. Fine in original wrappers. Signed by McInerney. Catalogs: AMERICAN LITERATURE. ... more information

London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First edition. Thin quarto. xiv; 47 pages. With nine black and white full page plates plus two in the text (complete). Light wear to the spinal extremities, nice bookplate on the front pastedown, endsheets lightly browned as are the plates, as usual, and archival repair to the frontispiece else a nice, bright near fine copy of an uncommon Beardsley illustrated book." Catalogs: ENGLISH POETRY. ... more information

(London): Phaidon, (2002). First edition. Small square quarto. 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. First monograph on Soriano. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Catalogs: ARCHITECTURE. ... more information

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., (1940). First edition. Octavo. xlvi; 358 pages. With nine black and white plates. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Wiley. Catalogs: ENGLISH LITERATURE. ... more information