Search Results: Authors starting with R from Wheeler's Bookshop

London: C & J Rivington, Etc., 1826. Hardcover. 1826 printing. Ninth Edition. Small 12mo. Full leather with tooled and gilt decs. 283 pp. including a twelve-page introduction dated 1819. Marbled endpapers and edges. Pictorial title page and frontispiece from engravings. Ex-Libris bookplate of Lionel Cresswell Esquire (Burley in Wharfedale) at front pastedown. No inscriptions. Clean, bright and sound. VG+

London: Chancellor Press, 1996. Hardcover. Reprint. Square 4to. Colour dj. 128 pp. Colour plates throughout. As-new condition. FINE / FINE

London: HMSO, 1979. Softcover. Eighteenth Impression. 8vo. Detailed guide to the site. History, archaeology. 34 pp. B/w plates. Fold-out plans. Near as-new. NEAR FINE

Dawlish & London: David & Charles / Macdonald, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial jacket. 103 pp. Light pencil notes at rear endpaper. Very clean. Includes newspaper clipping from 1965 about the book and the authors. Jacket beautifully clean and sound. VG+ / VG+

Maidenhead: TFH, 1988. Softcover. 8vo. Pictorial covers. 64 pp. Colour photos throughout. Clean and sound. No inscriptions. VG+

Edinburgh: The Albyn Press, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. B/w pictorial wraps (photo depicting Robert Helpmann and June Brae at Sadler's Wells). 63 pp. B/w photos throughout. The first issue of Ballet Review. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Gery cloth with black titles and gilt illustration and designs.158 pp. B/w plates. Inscr. to front pastdown. Blank ffep removed. Overall clean and sound. VG

London: Evans, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. No jacket. Maroon cloth.157 pp. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

York: John Sampson, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green-greu cloth with gilt titles and laurels design. ix. 44 pp. Two extensive lectures given by the author in the 1880s ('The Roman Child' and 'The Roman Lady'), on Roman life in York in the first century AD, pieced together from some impressive Roman archaeological finds in the city. One 1907 inscription to verso ffep, else near as-new. NEAR FINE

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1984. Reprint. Softcover. 8v0. Pictorial wraps. 149 pp. B/w map and chapter heading illustrations. Blank front endpaper corner clipped, else VG+

Victoria, Canada: Royal BC Museum, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. New. Large 8vo. Pictorial glazed boards. 294 pp. Bw plates. New condition. FINE

London: W. Sams, 1831. Hardcover. New Edition". Published 1831. 8vo, Library rebound circa mid 20th C. in light green cloth with gilt titles, and with new endpapers. 636 pp. Pictorial frontispiece. Textblock very clean throughout. Small ink stamps, label remnants to pastedowns and endpapers. A little mottling to cloth, but overall clean and sound. VG+

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Light grey cloth. 380 pp. plus ads supp. (for Sept. 1887). Small inscr. plate to ffep. Small inscr. to flyleaf. Occasional small pencilled marginalia. VG

London: Hutchinson, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Colour pictorial jacket. 111 pp. Colour and b/w plates and b/w illustrations. Very clean. No inscirpitons. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE

London: Peter Davies, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Aprocot cloth with blind-stamped border decorations. Collection of sixty limericks, wIth b/w illustrations from engravings. Very clean. No inscriptions. Includes original publisher's note insert sheet, as issues. Binding clean and sound. VG+

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. With pictorial jacket. 96 pp. B/w plates. Colour frontispiece plate. Book beautifully clean throughout. No inscriptions. Jacket has a little foxing to the rear panel but is otherwise bright and sound in protective sleeve. VG+ / VG

Lavenham: The Lavenham Press, 1991. Reprint. Softcover. Landscape 4to. B/w plates. Great collection of historical photos of Lavenham, Suffolk. Signed by the author, Kitty Ranson (daughter of the photographer) at title page. Near as-new. NEAR FINE

Lavenham: The Lavenham Press, 1992. Softcover. Landscape 4to. B/w plates. Historical photographs of Lavenham, Suffolk. Near as-new. NEAR FINE

Bangkok: Vimanmek Mansion Museum, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Colour pictorial glazed boards (aerial view of the teakwood mansion with city skyline in background). 279 pp. Lavishly illustrated, detailed history of the mansion and its environs. Hundreds of colour and b/w plates throughout. Bilingual texts and captions (in Thai and English). Near as-new condition. NEAR FINE

London: Pan Craft Books, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. 80 pp. Colour and b/w plates ad illustrations. Signed by the author at title page. Clean and bright. VG+