Search Results: Titles starting with R from Irving Book Company

Cliffside, NC: Mrs. Grover C. Haynes, Sr, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers somewhat soiled; some spotting to preliminary and end pages. Binding square and tight, text otherwise clean and bright.. 8vo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. 99 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles. Illustrated with several black & white photographic plates, as well as a color frontis. of the Haynes coat of arms; endpaper maps.

(Zürich): Diogenes, 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in good dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with smaller closed tears & some worming at edges.. 4to. 9 x 10.875 in. 115 pp. Full cranberry red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, and illustrated dust jacket. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by Janosch. Text in German.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Early Printing. Paperback. Good only. Binding secure.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 610 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his occasional annotations in pencil.

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in very good, unclipped jacket. Light edgewear; embossed previous ownership stamp to front flyleaf. Jacket lightly chipped, with light toning & soiling.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xxxiii, 265 pp. Original dark blue cloth, in bright blue pictorial dust jacket. 'In this collection of 132 essays, the author gives a realistic view of the Church's contribution, both lay and clerical, to the diversified areas of the state's development.' Weber 490.

Bruxelles: Hayez, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light wear to text.. 8vo. 6.625 x 10.25 in. 129 pp. Uncut. Rebound in red cloth, with original cover bound in. Text in French, with Greek. Mémoire présenté à la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques, dans la séance du juin 1912. Deuxième Série, Tome XI of the Académie Royal de Belgique Mémoires, Collection in-8vo.

Westminster: Newman Press, 1964. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in very good dust jacket. Text lightly toned at extremities. Binding square & tight, text clean.. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. [6], 261, [5] pp. Full turquoise cloth in turquoise pictorial dust jacket. Translated by John C. Dwyer, S.J. A nice copy.

Lille: Nicolas de Rache, 1660. First Thus. Hardcover. Nearly fine. Light edgewear, especially to crown & foot of spine. Some very light & superficial cracking along spine leather.. Small 12mo. 2.375 x 4.5 in. [ii], 121, [3], 20, [2], 197, [2], [13 blanks] pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, with 4 raised bands & 5 delicately gilt-decorated compartments to spine, titled in gilt & double-ruled on black spine label, beautifully tooled in gilt along cover edges, with beautiful brass clasps; charming double comb marbled endpapers. Printed with drop capitals & text ornaments; text in French. The Rule of St. Augustine, the oldest monastic rule in the Western Church, adopted by the Ursulines, the first teaching order of women established in 1535 by St. Angela de Merici. This edition of the Rule of St. Augustine includes Constitutions for the Ursuline Congregation of Bordeaux, one of the largest & most influential, founded in 1606 at the request of Archbishop de Sourdis of Bordeaux & approved by Pope Paul V in… Read More

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light edgewear.. Royal 8vo. 7 x 10 in. [viii], 311, [1] pp. Rebound in blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Containing Part I: Relativsatz, Attribut und Apposition als Problem der allgemeinen Syntax; and Part II: Die Relativkonstruktion im Awestischen (mit Ausblicken auf andere indogermanische Sprachen). Text in German. Professor Emeritus at the University of Cologne Hansjakob Seiler (1920-2018) served as the Chair of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Cologne from 1959 to 1986, following work in the United States as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1965-1966) and as a Rockefeller Fellow (1953-1955). A well-respected academic whose career spanned several decades and two continents, Seiler was known for studying both European and American structuralism and generative grammar' (obit. LSA). Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University Daniel… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in very good, unclipped jacket. A touch of shelfwear to covers; spine panel of jacket heavily sunned, with some offsetting to the rest of the jacket, small closed tear at foot of spine panel. University president William Samuel Carlson's copy, with his attractive bookplate to front pastedown.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. [viii], 93, [2], [1 blank] pp. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine with vignette in blind to upper cover; in blue dust jacket printed in red. Title page illustrated with reproduction of wood engraving by Leonard Baskin. Composed & printed by the Stinehour Press. Inscribed by poet ROBERT HILLYER on front flyleaf in 1959.

Chicago: (Rand, McNally & Co.), 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities. Montreat library stamp to preliminary blank, else unmarked. Small one-inch closed tear to folding map. Binding square and tight, text otherwise clean and bright.. Large 8vo. 6.75 x 8.625 in. 497 pp. Original maroon half-leather over teal pebbled cloth, bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, titled in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; elegant floral endpapers. Wide ten-panel folding map at rear, tinted with blue. Inscribed by author Harlow N. Higinbotham, president of the World's Columbian Exposition, to the Cora A. Stone Memorial Library of Montreat, North Carolina in 1914. Very scarce signed. Dybwad & Bliss 221.

[Berlin]: Berenberg, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As new.. 106, [6] pp. Black quarter-cloth over pictorial paper. Illustrated with several reproductions of black & white photographs. Translated from the English by DIETER H. STÜNDEL and HELGA HERBORTH. With an afterword by HELGA HERBORTH and KARL RIHA. Text in German. Ben Hecht (1894-1964) began his career at the age of sixteen as an errand boy for the Chicago Daily News, for which he worked for years first as a local reporter, then as an editor, and for which he went to Berlin in 1918 as a correspondent. After his return, Hecht initially wrote short stories, novels and plays before his rise to become one of the most prominent screenwriters. He worked for Sternberg, Hawks, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock, and was known as the 'Shakesepeare of Hollywood'.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. One-inch closed tear from lower joint of crown. Spine heavily sunfaded, with some fading to extremities and rather light edgewear & soiling. Moderate dampstaining (presumably from a River in France) to top-right quadrant of most of textblock, partly affecting plates; surprisingly few traces of occasional foxing throughout. Binding remains square & tight, text bright & unmarked.. 4to. 8.5 x 10.75 in. Original purple ribbed cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Illustrated with 62 plates (complete with tissue guards), exquisitely engraved by John Cousen, Robert Brandard, Thomas Jeavons, Robert Wallis, James Tibbits Willmore, et al., after drawings by English Romantic painter William Turner, Royal Academy of Arts; including engraved title page & tissue-guarded frontispiece. Text in French & English. A less common cloth variant, lacking the 1837 publication date on title page, yet retaining the long… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good un-clipped dust jacket, spine panel unfaded. Moderate spotting to fore-edge. Moderate soiling & light edgewear to dust jacket. Binding tight, text unmarked.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. [vi], 437, [5] pp. Black quarter-cloth in original pictorial dust jacket. Wilbur Smith's second novel in the Courtney Series.

(Florence): Bonechi, 2000. First Spanish Edition. Paperback. Very good. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers. Binding square and tight, unmarked.. 4to. 7.75 x 10.25 in. 190 pp. Glossy french-folded pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of color photographs and maps. Text in Spanish. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer.

London: Routledge, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. 272 pp. Glossy black wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with very sparse annotation.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1908. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. Very light rubbing & bumping to fore-corners; moderate soiling to endpapers. Text otherwise clean & bright, binding square & rather tight.. 8vo. 5.875 x 8.25 in. xxxv, [i], 1033, [1] pp. Rebound in plain black cloth, titled in gilt on spine, all edges red. Volume Three (Summer) only of 'The Roman Breviary: Reformed by Order of the Holy Oecuminical Council of Trent; Published by Order of Pope St Pius V.; and Revised by Clement VIII., Urban VIII., and Leo XIII Together with Offices since Granted and The Martyrology. Translated out of Latin into English by John, Marquess of Bute, K.T. A New Edition for Use in England.'. A crisp copy of a scarce volume. Complete sets of this edition, originally published in 1879, are indeed rare. John Patrick Crichton-Stuart (1847-1900), Marquess of Bute, Knight of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of St. Gregory and of the Holy Sepulchre, was an humble & devout Scottish recusant aristocrat,… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Harper Torchbook Edition. Paperback. Poor. Front cover detached but present.. 8vo. 652 pp. + adverts. Original wraps. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with laid-in annotated print-out of Hor. Epod. 16; otherwise unmarked.

Dublin: Talbot Press, 1955. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in like slipcase. Light edgewear; heavy rubbing to crown of spine, moderate rubbing to foot of spine. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.25 in. 16, lxiii, 1465 pp. + 34, xii, 39 pp. Publisher's most deluxe binding option, in full Marian blue calf, floral cross in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, four ribbon markers; gilt dentelle bordering blue marbleized endpapers, neatly reinforced at hinges. Presented in blue slipcase, marbled interior. Fifteenth Edition, Revised. Introduction and Liturgical Notes by ABBOT CABROL, O.S.B. Office for the Restored Easter Viigil and Supplement for the Dioceses of Ireland at rear. Several charming full-page illustrations, as well as headpieces and tailpieces. Ordinary of the Mass printed in red and black with rubricated capitals. Printed in France by A. Mame & Sons. No. 5320. A crisp, luxuriously bound copy of a scarce edition.

München: C.H. Beck, 1962. Paperback. Near fine. Light edgewear. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Large 8vo. 6.625 x 9.625 in. 347 pp. + six black & white plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Text in German.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Later Printing. Paperback. Very good. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Binding tight, text unmarked.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 455 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs, maps, plans, diagrams, etc. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer.