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RICARDO, David. The Works and Correspondence.Cambridge : 1951-73
First edition, first impressions, of the Royal Economic Society's edition of the collected works of Ricardo. The definitive edition of the economist's works, the collection includes many writings which were previously unpublished. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 126160
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ROBERTSON, William. [The Works:]London : 1803-06
An assembled library set of the collected works of the historian William Robertson, in mixed editions: America, 10th ed. 1803; Scotland, 17th ed. 1806; Charles V, 11th ed. 1806; and India, 4th ed. 1804. From the library at Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire, where the library of Sir Isaac Newton was moved in 1778, though this set long postdates that event.... Learn More£1,200.00Stock Code: 14956
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ROSENBERG, Isaac. The Collected Works.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket. "Rosenberg's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry, but his tone is different: more impersonal, informal, ironic, and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon", who provides the foreword... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134117
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RICHARDSON, Samuel. The Works...London : 1811
First collected edition of the author whom Jane Austen "knew... by heart" (ODNB); Anna Laetitia Barbauld called him "the father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind". The editor was Dublin-born Edward Mangin (1772-1852), of Huguenot origins, a contemporary of Southey at Oxford, ordained into the Irish church; he published several volumes... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 26106
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works.London : 1886
First edition, large paper issue, one of 25 copies only on handmade paper and bound in four parts. With a pencilled note on the front free endpaper dated March 1887 stating this to have been the first set delivered to the publishers and given by one of them - Albert Ellis - to the writer of the note. It was published simultaneously with the trade edition.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 118716
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works.London : 1897
A handsome copy in the preferred morocco binding, the gilt blocking reusing Rossetti's famous designs for his own collections of 1870 and 1881. This edition was first published by Ellis and Scrutton, 1886. Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 39211
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READE, Charles. The Works.Paris and Boston : c.1900
Edition de luxe. Limited to 1000 copies only of which this is number 302. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134082
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RICARDO, David. An Essay on The Influence of a low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock;London : 1815, 1819, 1822
Second, third, and fourth editions respectively of these three works by David Ricardo (first editions published 1815, 1816, and 1822), bound together in a contemporary binding, sympathetically rebacked. "Following his involvement in the bullion controversy, Ricardo's next significant publication was his Essay on the influence of a low price of corn... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 129283
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ROSENBERG, Isaac. The Collected Works.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 98133
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 86 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 122630
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, one of 500 copies. This the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness Rackham... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 69790
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 107331
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. The Making of Asbestos-Cement Roofings.No Place : [c. 1930]
Rare first edition, first impression, of one of Robinson's commercial work, this one on asbestos, from its extraction to its transformation into roofing tiles, featuring some of the gadgets and contraptions for which he was to become famous. "Mr. W. Heath Robinson, the well-known artist, recently visited the works at Trafford Park, Manchester, and in... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 140698
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RUNCIMAN, Steven. Medieval History and the Romantic Imagination.Oxford : [1963]
Scarce original offprint inscribed by the author "with best wishes SR" to the front free endpaper. This copy is from the library of John Julius Cooper, 2nd viscount Norwich (1929-2018) a hugely prolific popular historian and television presenter. Runciman and Norwich led very similar careers: both educated at Eton, both dabbling in the Foreign Service,... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139947
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(ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel.) MEREDITH, George. Modern Love, and the Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.London : 1862
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to D. G. Rossetti on the title page, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from his friend, George Meredith", with authorial manuscript corrections in the text. (The Hayward exhibition copy, also inscribed and corrected, had a note in Merdith's hand apologizing for "Errata ennumerable".) Meredith's novel Evan... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 111629
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RENNELL, James. The Marches of The British Armies in the Peninsula of India during the Campaigns of 1790 and 1791.London : 1792
Second edition, same year as the first. Third Anglo-Mysore War. Uncommon, and detailed account drawn from official accounts of Cornwallis and Medows's campaigns against Tipu Sultan down to the Battle of Arakere in May 1791. Tipu's army was routed and retreated into Seringapatam, but the British forces were forced to return to Bangalore by the problems... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 86803
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [Original Rackham-illustrated vellum binding:] The Open Road.London : 1910
This fine example of Rackham's work is a test piece by the artist, practicing his technique for drawing directly onto vellum, possibly in preparation for a private commission. The illustration features two unconnected design elements - vignettes drawn in black and coloured inks, each signed by Rackham with his initials, and very much in the style he... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 117312
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REXROTH, Kenneth (ed.) The New British Poets.[Norfolk, Conn.] : [1949]
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Theodore Weiss and his wife Renée: "For Renée & Ted Weiss in memory of a memorable weekend - Nov 48, Kenneth Rexroth" (front free endpaper). Ted and Renée Weiss edited the Quarterly Review of Literature for nearly sixty years, publishing the works of William Carlos Williams, Wallace... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 107186
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ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain. Dans le labyrinthe.Paris : 1959
First edition, out-of-series for presentation from an edition of 70 plus 7 numbered hors-commerce copes, inscribed from the author to the distinguished editor and journalist François Erval on the front free endpaper, "A François Erval, qui a deja fait tant pour faire connaitre ces recherches, avec tout l'amitié de Robbe Grillet, 30 Sept. 59. Journ... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 119590
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(RUSSELL, Bertrand.) RICHARDSON, Lewis F. Mathematical Psychology of War.Oxford : 1919
First edition of Richardson's first and pioneering paper on the subject, containing Russell's 20-line contribution, "Problem: To Produce in Two Nations a Mutual Will to War" (pp. 15-16). It was published at the author's own expense, costing him 35 for 300 copies total. In this fifty-page essay the mathematician and pacifist Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135563
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(RUSSIAN MILITARY REFUGEES IN HOLLAND.) The Russian Committee for Escaped Military Officers in Rotterdam. 1918-1919.Rotterdam : 1919
No other copy traced, the letterpress cover-title suggests a published item, the manuscript captioning a very small-scale issue. Fascinating visual record of relief services for Russian officer refugees in Holland. By the end of the First World War thousands of Russian prisoner-of-war escapees and deserters were scattered in cheap lodging-houses throughout... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 78018
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [A complete set of The Haddon Hall Library.]London : 1899-1903
Deluxe limited edition of this series regarding sports and other country pursuits. This set number 103 of 150 numbered copies; Our Garden signed by the author S. Reynolds Hole. Presentation set inscribed (in Wildlife) by politician and author Duff Cooper (1890-1954) to Philip Grantham Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke (1906-1971), with his bookplate to front... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 102056
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RUNCIMAN, Steven. The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and his Reign,Cambridge : 1929
First edition, first impression, of the author's debut work, very scarce with the dust jacket. This study emerged from Runciman's fellowship dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the first of many books by him to bring the Byzantine world to a wider reading public. Although well represented in libraries, copies in trade are quite scarce... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 140963
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.London : 2003
First edition of the fifth Harry Potter novel, a sparkling example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. The Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 116758
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ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Robinson was a prominent Keynesian economist known for her work on Marx and also the economic development of China. In the thirteen essays collected here she applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment.... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129146
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RUSHDIE, Salman. The Satanic Verses.London : 1988
A pre-publication copy of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, with his literary agent's US and UK contact details to the title page. The work is a photocopy of Rushdie's typescript, with his manuscript annotations and corrections all reproduced. The Satanic Verses was Rushdie's fourth novel and a major work in the magical realist canon.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139854
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ROBERTSON, Dennis Holme. Banking Policy and the Price Level.London : 1926
First edition. In Banking policy and the Price level, Robertson developed his earlier theme, first displayed in A Study of Industrial Fluctuation (1915), of the importance of saving and investment as the determinants of the level of economic activity, with the banking systems as the means whereby savings are transferred (or not transferred) into investment.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141897
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(ROLLING STONES.) REJ, Bent. The Rolling Stones in the Beginning.London : 2006
Special limited edition, 561 of 1000 copies. Bent Rej accompanied the Rolling Stones as photographer on their tour of Germany in 1965. This work collects together photos taken during this tour and acts as "a fascinating historical archive of one of the world's greatest bands in their infancy" (Guardian 3 September 2006). Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 121901
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RUSSELL, Bertrand. On Some Difficulties in the Theory of Transfinite Numbers and Order Types.London : 1905
Original offprint, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the upper margin of the first leaf, "James Ward from B.R." and with Ward's pencil annotations throughout. James Ward, philosopher and psychologist, was made a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1875, and in 1897 was appointed to the newly founded professorship of mental philosophy... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 99896
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Original watercolour From Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. "A Gang of Gypsies".1931
An original illustration by Rackham for his edition of Walton's Compleat Angler (1931). The illustration appears opposite page 116 in the published work. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 59414
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 115169
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Original watercolour From Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler.London, : 1931
An original illustration by Arthur Rackham for his edition of Walton's Compleat Angler (1931), showing Venator and Piscator. The illustration appears opposite page 122 in the published work, with the caption title "Come, now bait your hook again, and lay it into the water, for it rains again". Learn More£18,000.00Stock Code: 59413
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ROBERTSON, Dennis Holme. Banking Policy and the Price Level.London : 1926
First edition. In Banking policy and the Price level, Robertson developed his earlier theme, first displayed in A Study of Industrial Fluctuation (1915), of the importance of saving and investment as the determinants of the level of economic activity, with the banking systems as the means whereby savings are transferred (or not transferred) into investment.... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 89081
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.New York : 1909
Deluxe American Edition. Limited to 50 copies. Signed by Arthur Rackham on the verso of the half-title. This is a revised edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations and others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 86981
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, number 253 of 380 copies signed by the author and illustrator, who in this work "notably in the line drawings, surpassed himself" (ODNB). Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 118626
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RUSHDIE, Salman. The Satanic Verses.London : 1988
First edition, signed limited issue, number 4 of 100 copies signed by the author and bound in quarter morocco (a further 12 signed copies were published in full morocco). Rushdie's fourth novel and a major work in the magical realist canon, The Satanic Verses ignited furious controversy, leading to the book being banned and protested across the world,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138781
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REYNELL, Carew. The True English Interest:London : 1674
First edition of this "concise and well-argued survey of the British economy from the protectionist and mercantile point of view, which stressed both London and population growth as dynamics for change and prosperity and which gained notice in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions for 27 April 1674" (ODNB). Reynell (1636-1690) seems to have... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134619
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RAFFALD, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper,London : 1793
A later edition of this popular Georgian-era cookery book, first published in Manchester in 1769; there were some twenty further editions before the turn of the 19th century, of which only twelve were authorised. Elizabeth Raffald (1733-1781) was born in Doncaster and spent some fifteen years in the service of Lady Elizabeth Warburton at Arley Hall,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 124697
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RAMSAY, Andrew Michael. The Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion.Glasgow : 1748-9
First edition of Ramsay's great work, left unpublished at his death in 1743, and given by his wife to Foulis, and seen through the press thanks to the good offices of Hutcheson and, after his death in 1746, John Stevenson. "It reiterated many of the arguments of Ramsay's Cyrus, but made more explicit his attempt to reconcile Newtonian ideas to his own... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 90441
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READ, Herbert. The Green Child.London : 1935
First edition, first impression, of art-critic Herbert Read's only novel, uncommonly found in such bright condition. The Green Child is "part adventure story, part contribution to utopian literature" in which "the fantastic element is borderline science fiction" (ODNB; Bleiler). The work contrasts two examples of potential utopian societies;... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 38508
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.London : 2000
First edition, first impression, dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page with an arrow from the printed dedication ("to Susan Sladden who helped Harry out of his cupboard"): "and, though we didn't want it in print, helped me out of my cupboard. With unending gratitude and equal love Jo a.k.a. (again) JK Rowling x". The printed... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 128864
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(ROLLING STONES.) TARLÉ, Dominique. The Making of Exile On Main St.Guildford : 2001
First edition, number 1,101 of 2,000 copies signed by the photographer, 260 of which were issued in a full leather binding, with a signed and numbered print, and additionally signed by Mick Taylor. Exile on Main St. was The Rolling Stones tenth studio album released in the UK. Many of the tracks were recorded in the summer of 1971 at a rented villa... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135029
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-5
First edition, with the plates in the proof state, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel); no publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.
The proof... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 132530
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RILKE, Rainer Maria. Autograph letter signed to Paul Thun-Hohenstein, one of the last to be written by the poet.Hôtel Bellevue Sierre (Valais), Switzerland : 4 November 1926
An emotionally-charged autograph letter signed from Rilke to his fellow Prague poet, the Austrian essayist and translator Count Paul Thun-Hohenstein (1884-1963), in which he laments his inability to host his friend at Muzot due to a sudden sickness and divulges his desire to travel to the Mediterranean - content made poignant in light of the seriousness... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 132323
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-9
First edition of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph... there is pleasure to be had from many of the individual plates, where Haghe's skillful and delicate lithography, and his faithful interpretation of Robert's draughtsmanship and dramatic sense, combine in... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 132004
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ROBERTSON, Dennis Holme. A Study of Industrial Fluctuation. An enquiry into the character and causes of the so-called cyclical movements of trade.London : 1915
First edition of Robertson's dissertation, published after research and a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge; from the library of William Beveridge.
Robertson is known chiefly for his contributions to the study of the relationship between money, the trade cycle, and economic growth. 'In the Study of Industrial Fluctuation, he used historical... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133656
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RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice.London : 1873-4
Signed edition, one of 1,500 copies signed by the author at the end of the preface. One of the key texts of the aesthetic movements, The Stones of Venice was first published from 1851 to 1853 and was "a revolutionary success" (PMM). Its importance lies "in its celebration of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which had an immediate effect on Victorian architects,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139444
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RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice.London : 1905
A handsomely bound copy. One of the key texts of the aesthetic movements, The Stones of Venice was first published from 1851 to 1853 and was "a revolutionary success" (PMM). Its importance lies "in its celebration of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which had an immediate effect on Victorian architects, who began to introduce Romanesque forms and Venetian... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136701
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RILKE, Rainer Maria. Ewald Tragy.Munich : 1929
First edition, number 87 of 95 copies; this the copy of Dr Arno Ed Lampe, with his name printed to the colophon and his bookplate to the front pastedown. Lampe was a Munich based doctor and scientist who published a number of works on the treatment various ailments such as anaemia and Basedow's disease with his wife Lavinia. Rilke wrote Ewald Tragy... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134127
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ROBINSON, Joan. Economics is a Serious Subject.Cambridge : 1932
First edition, genuinely rare, of Robinson's first separately published work, her "stunningly ambitious" methodological pamphlet produced, as she described it, in "a trance (it was almost automatic-writing)" (Aslanbeigui & Oakes, pp. 41, 49). It was preceded only by her review of Henry Clay's The Problem of Industrial Relations in the Political... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133934
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(RUSKIN, John.) LORD, William Barry. Crab, Shrimp, and Lobster Lore,London : 1867
First edition, from the library of John Ruskin, with his Brantwood book label, and inscribed on the half-title: "R. Leslie to J. R., if of any use please keep - contains about as much as is known I think". The presentee, Robert Charles Leslie (1826-1901), was a friend and correspondent of Ruskin. "In love of the sea and of animals there was a strong... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 129705
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina.New York : 1914
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her son on the half-title, "To my son Hobart Ford, with love from his mother. Julia Ellsworth Ford. 1914". Ford has later inscribed the book on p. i beneath the list of her published works with details of her 1919 book, Snickerty Nick, which Rackham also illustrated. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 111457
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(RIVERA, Diego.) WOLFE, Bertram D. Diego Rivera. His Life and Times.New York & London : 1939
First edition. This copy inscribed on the half-title, in translation; "With my very kindest remembrances, Diego Rivera, Nov. 28 1942". The recipient was Bernard "Barney" Collins, a New Mexico-born industrialist and philanthropist with interests in textiles and mining, who divided his time between California and Mexico City, and who was a keen collector... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 106022
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol.London : 1915
Signed limited edition, number 448 of 500 copies signed by the artist for sale in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies, with an additional 25 copies reserved for presentation. This was the first of Dickens's works to be illustrated by Rackham. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 125707
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RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES, Georges (ed.) Bifur.Paris : 1929-31
First editions, limited issue. A complete set of the Surrealist-inflected, avant-garde Parisian art and literary journal, issued between 25 May 1929 and 10 June 1931. Each volume is numbered: the first four volumes were printed in an edition of 3,000 copies, volumes 5 to 7 one of 2,000 copies, and volume 8 was one of 1,700 copies. Established by Pierre... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 107785
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(RIMBAUD, Arthur.) VIEILLARD, Roger. Hommage A Rimbaud.Paris : 1945
First edition, first printing, inscribed in pencil "à Ralph Kirkpatrick pour 'les possibilités harmoniques' Roger Vieillard amicalement" inside the first blank, including two musical drawings, further drawings on the title page with the caption "pour Ralph Kirkparick" signed with Vieillard's "RV" monogram and dated "1942-1971-1982". This copy number... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135463
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RODGERS, Mary. Freaky Friday; A Billion for Boris; Summer Switch.New York : 1972-82
First editions, first printings. The first and last title inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to children's librarian Amy Kellman and family, "dear Amy, Sy, Jenny, and Sue, next time I am here the whole family will be here please! Much Love Mary (Rodgers) Nov. 4, 1983." and Summer Switch inscribed as follows, " For Amy and Sy and absent... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 92633
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ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington. Collected Poems.New York : 1937
First complete collected edition, first printing, of Robinson's poems. Robinson's collected poems were first collected in a five-volume edition in 1927, but this posthumous edition enlarged the earlier edition to encompass Robinson's complete body of work, including "King Jasper", which the author completed just before his death in 1935. This is a scarce... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 123123
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ROSCOE, Thomas. Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales:London : [1837?]
A fine pair of bindings by London's leading binder of the 1840s and 1850s, with appropriately Welsh heraldic devices, perhaps done in celebration of the birth of Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, in 1841. As Prince of Wales from 8 December 1841 to 22 January 1901, the future Edward VII held the record for longest-serving heir apparent until... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114542
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo. In His Own Image.London & New York : 1901
First edition, first printing, first issue binding, with the highly scarce jacket, Wolff noting "no copy traced". This work expands Rolfe's earlier collection of short stories describing the travels of a group of young saints, Stories Toto Told Me (1898), from six to thirty-two. The sheets for this work were printed in the US, and 1,500 sets... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 131348
