Titles starting with R from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [ca. , 1900].. 4to, 61 color plates incl. 2 double, textual illus. Original pictorial cloth, decorated endpapers, lightly worn, very good.. A collection of Caldecott's best illustrated children's stories including The Diverting History of John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, The Babes in the Wood, The Three Jovial Huntsmen, Sing a Song for Sixpence, The Queen of Hearts, and The Farmer's Boy. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor & Fields,, 1864.. 12mo, 31pp, illus. vignette at title. Publ. brick red wrappers, lettered and bordered in black with illus. vignette, chips at lower wrapper corner and fore-edge, otherwise a nearly fine copy.. Third American printing, first published at Edinburgh in 1859. A friend of Thackery and Ruskin, the Scottish essayist Brown (1810-1882) wrote primarily on subjects relating to medicine and the problems of the doctor. He is best remembered, though, for this touching and humerous dog... more information

Concord, Mass.: [n.p., ca., 1903].. 12mo, printed in red & black with woodcut title, orig. gray boards with label. Fine copy.. Metropolitan Catalogue 116. Huntington Catalogue 10: 'These little volumes were designed by Will Bradley between 1901 and 1904 for distribution as Christmas gifts; they were printed for him by the Heintzemann Press, Boston.' Bambace A61. ... more information

Concord, Mass.: [n.p., ca., 1903].. 12mo, printed in red & black with woodcut title, orig. gray boards with label. Fine copy.. SIGNED by Bradley on the fly-leaf. Metropolitan Catalogue 116. Huntington Catalogue 10: 'These little volumes were designed by Will Bradley between 1901 and 1904 for distribution as Christmas gifts; they were printed for him by the Heintzemann Press, Boston.' Bambace A61. ... more information

Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag,, 2002.. 8vo, xiii, 182pp, 55 b/w photo-illus. plates, 5 b/w text illus. Two-tone orange boards, with pictorial vignette, lettered in black, slight bump at bottom corners, a nearly fine copy. . First Edition of this detailed and generously illustrated study exploring the place of the raven and crow in Greco-Roman iconography and literature. ... more information

Berkeley: Great Star Press,, 1975.. 4to, 72, (1)pp, 47 b&w photoplates. Quarter buckram over boards, purple foil lettered, mild soiling at covers, a very good copy.. First Edition, Signed by the Author, limited to 300 copies. Scarce in cloth bound edition. ... more information

New York: Bonanza Books,, (1987).. Obl. 4to, xxii, 186pp, 92 facsimile maps, b/w photo- and text illus. Publ. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Very good.. Reprint, originally published by the Library of Congress in 1984. Maps from the United States, Canada and Mexico printed between 1828 and 1919 are represented, each with description and commentary. ... more information

Pasadena: The Clara Vista Press, , 1908. . 8vo, xi, 147pp + 11 photographic plates. Light grey cloth with decorative gilt & blue stamping of rainbow and pot of gold. Very good copy. . First Edition, with a long presentation inscription by the author's husband Robert Burdette, the American author and humorist (see BAL vol. I). Clara was an early Los Angeles suffragette (see Walker, Literary History of Southern California). Printed by the Fred S. Lang Company in LA. Rocq 3690. ... more information

Leipzig: Sphinx,, (1901).. 8vo, 38, (1, ads)pp. Orig. wrappers, slightly chipped, very good & unopened.. First Edition of this contemporary admiring critique. ... more information

London: for the Author by Thomas Richards,, 1861.. 4to, xxviii, 263, (21)pp, 2 frontispieces, 25 plates. Orig. green morocco by J. Wright, sunken wooden panels in covers depicting scences from Paradise Lost, illustrated endpapers. Some wear to corners, light soiling & wear to boards, slightest foxing to plates, otherwise very good, with the armorial bookplate of Marcus Brown-Westhead.. One of a very limited edition, this copy inscribed by the English poet Elizabeth Cook. Housed in an unusual binding,this... more information

Cleveland: Zubal,, (1982).. Cloth, dust jacket with splatter spots on spine, otherwise very good.. First Edition. ... more information

Menlo Park: Layman's Press,, 1962-63.. 5 issues, within slipcase, very good set.. Volume One complete: May 1962; Sept. 1962; Nov. 1962; Jan. 1963; March 1963. Featuring contributions by Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Brother Antoninus, Thomas Merton, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Edward and Brett Weston, etc. With complete index. ... more information

Los Angeles: (Historical Society of Southern California),, 2002.. 8vo, 42pp, 25 b&w photo-illus., 2 maps. Photo-illus. wrappers, fine.. First Edition of a history of the Long Beach rancho once owned by the Bixby family. ... more information

(Encinitas, California): (The Coast Dispatch), [n.d., ca., 1965].. 12mo, 21pp, title vignette, illus. throughout. Tan wrappers, lettered in brown, text and illus. printed in brown, light wear and soiling at wrappers, a very good copy.. Later edition, first published in 1947. Population and other statistics are noted for the year 1965. ... more information

London: Saunders and Otley,, 1837.. 8vo, xi, 396pp. Half brown morocco over maroon cloth, gilt lettered and ornamented spine, teg, fine.. Grant (1802-1879) was a journalist and editor of the London Morning Chronicle and London Morning Advertiser, and prolific author of thirty-six books, many of which dealt with theological subjects but whose chief work was the three-volume The Newspaper Press, Its Origin, Progress, and Present Position ((1871-2). The work under notice, one of three he wrote concerning Pa... more information

New York: Scribner's Sons, , (1975).. 8vo, brown cloth, dust jacket.. ... more information

Paris: Moutard,, 1784.. 8vo, (2), 80pp. Modern cloth over marbled boards, a fine copy.. First Octavo Edition, published in the same year as the true first, of this first report from the Paris Faculty of Medicine, authored by Benjamin Franklin (president of the commission), Antoine Lavoisier, Joseph Guillotin, Jean Sylvain Bailly and others. However, Caillet cites both. This first report from the Paris Faculty of Medicine stated that Mesmer's claims about a magnetic fluid were false and that his successes... more information

[Paris: Bachelier,, 1842].. 4to, 34pp. Orig. plain wrappers. Enclosed in a cloth folding case. Fine as issued.. First Separate Edition, inscribed by the author. An offprint from the Comptes Rendus des Sî;ances de l'Acadî;mie des Sciences, January 17, 1842, this work discusses Durocher's study of glaciers and subsequent publications, dating from 1839 and would fall into the period of intense speculation encapsulated in Agassiz's 1840 classic Etudes sur les Glaciers. ... more information

Harvard Library Bulletin, XIX, No. 2,, 1971.. 8vo, pp.117-139, 12 plates. Wrappers. Very good.. ... more information

London: Bookman's Journal,, 1923.. 8vo, 41pp, (3, ads). Cloth, gilt title, bookplate, very good copy.. First Edition, arranged chronologicaly from 1722 to 189l. ... more information