Search Results: Titles starting with R from Arches Bookhouse

Harvard University Press, 1973. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. x, 373 pp. Highly sound and crisp. Numerous b&w plates interleaved. Red cloth boards. Dust jacket notably rubbed and with short tear to head. Rear cover quotes Tawney as uttering: "Onions can be eaten leaf by leaf," he summed up, "but you cannot skin a live tiger paw by paw.".

Bar-Ilan University Press, 1992. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. vii; 267 pp. Octavo, green hard covers, gilt spine lettering. Clean, sharp copy; DJ edges sunned.

Bialik Institute, 2011. Hardcover. FINE. 8vo, sewn binding in printed hard covers, sans DJ as issued. Rear fore tail corner of the cover is crushed, text somehow just barely nudged; sound, unmarked copy.

Seabury Press, 1970. Paperback. FINE. A collection of materials prepared by the Episcopalian Church for discussion groups on racial justice. Comprised of: Leader's Guide 32 pp.; 3 posters (1. Urban ghetto scene; 2. Black protestor facing solitary black man; 3. Collage of black press clippings); 1 33rpm monaural record with excerpts from 'A Conversation about Black America' with Black Church Historian and Sociologist, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln; and a single issue of 'Negro Digest' (February 1970 Annual Black History Issue including 'Black History's Early Advocates by Benjamin Quarles; 'The Fight to Reclaim African History' by John Henrik Clarke; 'Toussaint L'Ouverture: Black Liberator' by Lawrence Crouchett; 'Brazil: Study in Black, Brown and Beige' by Leslie Rout' 'Afro-Americans and Early Pan-Africanism' by Clarence G. Contee; 'The Myth of Benevolent Spanish Slave Law' by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall; and 'The Origins of Racism' by Donald Howie). Some offsetting to the leader's guide, all materials otherwise… Read More

Rizzoli, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Fine. 246 pp. 4to. Numerous color photographs and diagrams. Faint rubbing to tips, pristine otherwise in like DJ.

Pantheon, 1964. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. 214 pp. Teal cloth, gilt spine lettering, topstain, deckled fore edge, out of print. A bit of sticker residue to front cover, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. DJ price clipped, some light rubbing to covers, 2 faint dampstains, sound otherwise.

Knopf, 1992. Third Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. x, 447 pp. Maroon paper over boards backed in black cloth, gilt spine lettering, deckled fore edge. Remainder mark to head edge, very faint rubbing to extremities, owner blindstamp to FFEP, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ crisp and clean.

Macmillan/St. Martins, 1968. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xi, 276 pp. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering and designs, b/w plates, frontispiece. Discreet owner's bookplate to FPEP, pristine otherwise. DJ faintly toned.

Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Complete in four 17 cm square volumes. Illustrated finished cloth covers. 'A Book for Each Season.' A poetic tetralogy, copiously illustrated with color and b/w original drawings and collages. Lacks poster. Original plastic case is scuffed and torn but has dutifully preserved the books in pristine condition. After leaving the priesthood in 1966, Pintauro found work as a copyrighter for New York ad agencies. His sensitive eye for the connection of text and image is on full display here, as it was in his breakout 1966 book of poetry, "To Believe in God." As there, Rainbow box is full of hippie and beat style funneled through Vatican II religious sensibility. A lovely and living work from the eventual playright.

Oxford, 1973. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xxxix, 667 pp. Owner name and stamp to FFEP, toned, some rubbing, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ in glued on mylar, a bit of rubbing.

Geoffrey Bles, 1953. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. xii, [2], 3-227 pp. 12mo, black cloth, silver gilt spine lettering. Very faint foxing to head, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. Unclipped DJ tips show very light rubbing, short tear to tail of front hinge, very crisp and shockingly bright for a red DJ, now wrapped in mylar. Gallagher 1060.2.

Cambridge University Press, 1923. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xxx, 585 pp. Finished red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Gilt water joust scene to front board. Gilt head. Spine lightly sunned. Light rubbing to extremities with deckled fore and tail edge.

Zondervan, 1956. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. vii, 111 pp. Front free endpaper attached to front board and FPEP at tail, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ clipped, a bit of shelf wear.

Wesleyan University Press, 1961. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. x, 342 pp. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pristine copy, scant rubbing to extremities, otherwise as new from publisher. DJ minimal shelf wear to covers, otherwise crisp and clean.

George Allen and Unwin, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 451 pp. Burgundy cloth with matching head edge, gilt lettering to spine. Toned, sharp and unmarked otherwise. DJ toned, a few small chips and tears, wrapped in mylar.

Free Press, 1950. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Good. 211 pp. Head and tail faintly sunned, a bit of rubbing, sound otherwise. DJ large chips to head with loss, still intact. Out of print, scarce.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. Red-orange cloth, gilt spine lettering. Just a hint of foxing, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise; DJ has one short ship to front fore head, spine very faintly sunned as usual with red, now wrapped in mylar.

Oxford, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/Very Good. vi, 260 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Deckled tail edge. A pristine copy. DJ clipped, toned, wrapped in mylar.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1946. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xi, 111 pp. Corners a bit bumped, a bit of rubbing, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ toned, a few small tears.

University of Michigan Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD/Very Good. xvii, 381 pp. 8vo, teal cloth, gilt spine lettering, b/w plates, frontispiece. Extremities faintly sunned, FFEP and RFEP toned, rubbing to head edge with some loss, 2 small tears to hinges at spine with some loss, sound otherwise. DJ spine chipped, a few small tears, otherwise bright and sound.