Traces Suspectes en Surface
by Rauschenberg, Robert ; Robbe-Grillet, Alain
West Islip, NY: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1978. First edition. Rauschenberg, Robert. Portfolio with 36 lithographs by Rauschenberg and text by Robbe-Grillet. Printed on specially made Twinrocker paper, with the watermark of the artist's and author's signatures, it comprises 31 pages plus the title page and 4 colophon pages, printed from 37 stones and 27 aluminum plates, numbered [1],1-31, I-IV. 20-1/2 x 26 3/16 inches (52 x 69 cm.) folded. Copy 34 of a total edition of 36,... Read More
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Logbook by Tom Raworth, Illustrations by Frances Butler
by Raworth,Tom ; Butler, Frances
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. first edition. Wrappers, 15 unnumbered leaves. Slight fading. Colophon: "One hundred coloured copies have been printed on the Poltroon Vandercook & five hundred copies offset at the West Coast Print Centre, Berkeley." This copy is the offset printing. Kit Robinson (in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 2 M-Z, Gale Research) describes the work: The sea-voyage theme, as in the nineteenth-century adventure novels of Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson, suggests its obverse, the cozy,... Read More
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Photographs by Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934
by Man Ray
Hartford, Conn: James Thrall Soby. First edition. Man Ray. 104 pp, plastic spiral binding. Second issue with the false "second edition" statement. A few small rubs and creases to covers; very good.
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Peg Woffington. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
by Reade, Charles
London: George Allen, 1899. Thomson, Hugh. Quarto, 10-1/2 in. x 7-1/4 in. Brown cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, corners and spine ends rubbed, interior fine. One of 200 large paper copies, illustrated with line drawings throughout the text.
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The Sexual Outlaw. A Documentary
by Rechy, John
New York: Grove Press, 1977. First edition. Black cloth, fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Signed by Rechy on the title page.
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Numbers
by Rechy, John
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First edition. Black cloth, fine copy in near- fine dust jacket. Signed by Rechy on the title page.
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Love's Journeys
by Redgrove, Peter
Bow: Richard Gilbertson, 1991. First edition. Redgrove has made this into "a special and unique edition for Roy Davids" - as he has rewritten the title page; it's specially bound in quarter morocco, and, beyond copies numbered 1-4 which contain all twenty-three poems in the author's hand, this unnumbered copy has manuscript annotations and additional poems both in manuscript and typescript, on every (formerly) blank page. Redgrove has added to the colophon "this being a unique edition in special... Read More
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Ad Reinhardt. Twenty five years of abstract art
by (Reinhardt, Ad)
New York: Betty Parsons Gallery, 1960. Poster, folded as issued, 56 cm. x 71 cm. (22 x 28 inches). Slight yellowing at folds; very good.
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Matters of Suspense
by Rendell, Ruth
Helskini: Eurographica, 1986. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by the author.
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Old Southwark and its people
by Rendle, William
London: Drewett, 1878. First edition. Quarter calf, boards detached, top of spine chipped. Ownership signature of William Martin, Temple, 1907, and with his scholarly annotations, additions of maps, correspondence, clippings, etc.
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Christo
by Christo Javacheff ; David Bourdon; Otto Hahn; Pierre Restany
Milan: Edizione Apollinaire, 1966. First edition. Christo. Boards, corners bumped, else fine. Texts by David Bourdon, Otto Hahn, Pierre Restany. Illustrated.
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The Matterhorn. Translation by Edmond de Amicis
by Rey, Guido
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Second edition. Original orange buckram, leather label (rubbed), binding a bit soiled, but a very good copy.
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Paris with the lid lifted
by Reynolds, Bruce
New York: G. Sully & company, 1927. First edition. 4 p.l., 281 p. front., illus. 20 cm. Orange cloth, jacket missing a large piece.
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U.S. 23rd Congress. 2nd session. House of Representatives. Navy Department Document No. 105. Pacific and South Seas. Letter from The Secretary of the Navy, transmitting A report of J.N. Reynolds, in relation to islands, reefs, and shoals in the Pacific Ocean, &c
by Reynolds, Jeremiah N.
Washington, D.C., 1835. First edition. 28 pages, disbound. "An important document on island, reefs, rocks, etc., in the Pacific Ocean" Forbes 970.
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Terry Fox
by Richardson, Brenda
Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1973. Wrappers, fine.
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Adrienne Cecile Rich
by Rich, Adrienne
Swinford: Fantasy Press, 1952. First edition. Published as Number 12 in The Fantasy Poets series, issued by the Oxford University Poetry Society, edited by Donald Hall and Oscar Mellor. Wrappers. Notes in ink on front, still fine. Published while Rich was a student at Oxford.
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Focus
by Rich, Adrienne
Cambridge, Mass: Printed by the Lowell-Adams House Printers, 1966. First edition. Wrappers, very fine. Printed on outside of double leaves uncut at top. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed.
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Das Kampaner Thal oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele; nebst einer Erklärung der Holzschnitte under den 10 Geboten des Katechismus
by Jean Paul (pseud. of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
Erfurt: Hennings, 1797. First edition. Early half dark brown calf with marbled boards, sprinkled edges, joints rubbed, else a fine copy. First edition, with twelve woodcuts in the text. W. / G. 10.
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Misterioso. Portrait des Thelonius Monk mit 10 Original Holzschnittidolen von Peter Richter und Zen Texten
by Richter, Peter
Freiburg: Syrinx Presse, 1967. First edition. Richter, Peter. Original wrappers, 23 x 22 cm., cover and other woodcuts printed on red paper, text (Zen stories) printed on white, paper folded Japanese style, small split at the base of the spine. One of 350 numbered and signed copies.
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Means of preserving health and preventing diseases : founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions ..
by Ricketson, Shadrach
New York: Printed by Collins, Perkins, 1806. First edition. Old calf. viii, 298 pp., one leaf. Closed tear in A2, binding a bit rubbed, internally very good.
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Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
by Riding, Laura
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. Lye, Len. Calf spine, boards with photo-montaged design. Ends of spine slightly rubbed. First edition, one of 200 copies, numbered and signed by Riding. The cover design is by the New Zealand surrealist Len Lye. First state, without the tipped in introductory note.
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Anatole France at Home. By Marcel Le Goff. Translated by Laura Riding Gottchalk (sic)
by (Riding, Laura)
New York: Adelphi Company, 1926. First edition of what is probably the first book by Laura Riding, if a translation can be so regarded. Her first volume of poetry, The Close Chaplet, was published in October of the same year, and Adelphi imported copies, but made no mention of it in this title. There is an interesting chapter on France's book collecting activities. Black cloth, spine gilt perished, but a very good in the scarce dust jacket, which is... Read More
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Gedichte. Übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke
by (Rilke, Rainer Maria, trans.) ; Valéry, Paul
Leipzig: Insel, 1925. First edition. GILL, Eric. Quarto, original paste paper boards with vellum spine and corners, fine. Title page in red. Handsomely printed at the Cranach Press, with initials by Eric Gill. One of 400 copies on Bütten paper, from a total edition of 450.
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Ein Bündel weisser Narzissen und andere Erzählungen
by Rinser, Luise
Helskini: Eurographica, 1985. First edition. Wrappers, fine. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.
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Work
by Ritts, Herb
Boston: Little, Brown. First edition. Ritts, Herb. Folio, cloth. Faint bump to upper corner, else fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Ritts. [Additional shipping required].
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