Search Results: Authors starting with R from Cornell Books Limited

Pretoria: Botanical Research Institute, 1963. Volume 26, first edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 18cm), vii, 307pp. Text illustrations. Original grey card wrappers. This book is in very good condition.

London: H F & G Witherby, 1935. First edition (hardback). 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 126pp. 16 plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The front free endpaper is lacking, and there is light foxing of the endpapers; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (some light spotting, edges chipped). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1984. First edition (softcover). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xv, 438pp. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. ISBN 0852744846

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 18cm), xxviii, 261pp. 240 b&w plates. Original red cloth, dustwrapper, illustrated card slipcase. There is some creasing of the front free endpaper, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is just about in good condition (some creasing and chafing of the top edge). The slipcase is in good condition (some rubbing and scuffing). Pelican History of Art, volume Z34. ISBN 0140560343

London: Ward Lock Reprints, 1970. Facsimile of the 1845 edition (hardback). 8vo (21cm by 16cm), xi, 363pp. Several b&w plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the top edge of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (minor chafing to one corner). ISBN 0706316177

Bloemfontein: A C White P & P Co, 1925. First edition (hardback). 8vo, [ix], 161pp, 2pp adverts. Plain brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The book is in very good condition.

Fayetteville [NC] & London: Dalmas & Ricour, 1979. First edition (softcover). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), c. 30pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings by Richard Bixby. Original laminated card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, else this book is in very good condition. Limited to 450 copies (this is copy number 290). Signed by both the artist and the author on the limitation page.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1961. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), c. 500pp. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, no dustwrapper. Small label removed from the foot of the spine, ownership stamps to the front endpapers, light thumbing of the leading edge, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

London: Seeley, Service & co, 1928. Revised edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 318pp, 2pp adverts. 16 plates, 6 diagrams. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt design to the spine. Foxing to the edges of the text block, else this is a bright, very good copy

London: Seeley, Service & co, 1930. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 159pp, 8pp adverts. Frontispiece, plates. Original decorated green cloth, dustwrapper. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, foxing to the edges of the text block, else the book is in bright, very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (a little rubbed, slight chafing of the edges).

London: Seeley and co, 1909. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 156pp, 4pp adverts, 16pp catalogue. 5 illustrations and 10 diagrams. Original gren cloth. Titling dulled on the spine, binding dusty, endpapers lightly foxed, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 2003. Fourth impression (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), 466pp. 50 colour illustrations, 430 b&w illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some creasing, closed 1cm tear to one fold). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. ISBN 1851491414

London: Seeley, Service & co, 1913. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 161pp, 16pp catalogue. 52 illustrations & diagrams. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, gift inscription, binding bright; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date [c. 1894]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 13cm), 118pp, 8pp adverts. Frontispiece illustration. Original decorated grey cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Front inner hinge strained (and repaired), gift inscription (dated 1894), else this copy is in very good condition. According to COPAC, this book was first published in 1894, and all copies on COPAC are undated. Together with the 1894 date of the inscription, this strongly suggests that this copy is likely to be a first edition.

London: George G Harrap & Company, 1925. Reprint (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), [ix], 646pp. 16 colour plates by Rowland Wheelwright & William Sewell. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. There is some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in fair condition (chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: Duckworth, 1976. First edition thus (softcover). 8vo, xxi, 425pp. Text illustrations. Original laminated card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition. This is the first part of a 2-part work, originally published in 1974 in one volume under the title "Prosimian Biology" ISBN 0715609815

London: W H Allen, 1987. First UK edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (24cm by 16cm), 478pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good condition. The dustwrapper is in very good condition. ISBN 049103475X

Secaucus [NJ]: Chartwell Books, 1990. First US edition (hardback). 4to (33cm by 24cm), 128pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are generally in very good condition, but please note that there is foxing to the endpapers and the half-title page. ISBN 155521570X

Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1988. First edition (softcover). 4to (29cm by 20cm), title, 66pp. Original printed yeoow card wrappers, with a grey cloth backstrip. The covers are rubbed and dusty; overall, this book is in good condition. ISBN 0903077051

East Hendred : published by the author, 1969. First edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 18cm), vii, 89pp. Several pages of plates. Original printed limp cloth wrappers. There is some foxing of the front cover; otherwise, this book is in very good condition.