Search Results: Titles starting with R from Lamplighter Library

Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan. New York. 1978. Brown cloth boards with stamped design on front and gilt lettering to spine. Bumped edges and stamped design on front board. With no list of subsequent printing(s), assumed First edition. Inscribed and dated on half title page by author. Unclipped ($10.95) jacket has 1 in. closed tear on top of spine, 0.25 in. closed tear on bottom of spine, 0.25 in. closed tear on top of jacket back and 1 in. trianglur tear with paper loss on jacket back. Jacket now protected with removable mylar cover. Raquela is the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography of Raquela Prywes. Living a truly remarkable life, Raquela, through her career as a nurse was a witness to Holocaust refugee camps, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War. Through her eyes the chronicle of the birth of Israel can be seen. 6x9 in. 379 pg.

G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 1981. Quarter bound in black with grey cloth-backed boards and silver lettering to spine. Fine First Edition with no subsequent printing(s) listed. Unclipped ($13.95) jacket shows minor shelf wear and 1.5 in. closed tear on back of jacket now protected with removable mylar cover. This novel comes eight years after the author's first novel, Black Friday. It was worth the wait. In Red Dragon, Harris (born 1940) writes about an FBI agent (Will Graham) who attempts to apprehend a serial killer ("the Tooth Fairy"). In the process, Graham reaches out to the (cannibalistic serial killer) Hannibal Lecter for help in catching the Tooth Fairy. Seems it takes one to know one..... The frontispiece shows "The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" by William Blake (1757-1827), truly a sight to behold. Basis for the 2002 movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harvey Keitel and Ralph Fiennes. 25x9.25in. 348 pg.

The Citadel Press. New York. 1951. First Edition hardcover in grey boards with red lettering; age toned pages, else fine. Unclipped ($3.00) jacket has several small chips on jacket edge(s), linear cut to jacket edge but still attached and large 1 in. chip missing on top of spine. Jacket " Here is the first book published in English which tells how to make the dishes for which the Romanians are so famous." Book includes 450 recipes. 220 pg.

Viking,2011. Near fine First Edition (stated), first printing with requiste number line ending in "1". Repaired 1 in. paper defect on front paste-down shows well with no paper loss. Quarter-bound in dark gray with gray boards with gold lettering to front and spine. Unclipped ($26.95) jacket has minor shelf wear and an inapparent Autographed Copy sticker "ghost" on front of jacket. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in black ink on the half title page with an added stamp of the Graf Zeppelin above the title. Perhaps better known as the author of A Gentleman In Moscow (2016), this is the author's first novel. Set in 1937 it is the story of twenty-five year old Katey Kontent as she moves through the social strata of New York City. Will her best choice(s) turn into her worst regret(s). 9.25x6.25

St. Martin's Press. New York. 2002. First Edition, eighth printing in fine red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Inscribed on title page by author. Minor shelf wear on unclipped ($23.95) dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. The true story of a mother who gave her son away to be raised by her psychiatrist. Perhaps reading a few of the blurbs on the jacket back will provide more insight: "A hell of a book or a book about hell, or both." Neal Pollack. "A dystopian sitcom-the Brady Bunch in Hell as codirected by John Waters and David Lynch. Strange, outrageously funny, and very, very unsettling." Gary Krist.