Search Results: Authors starting with C from TBCL The Book Collection Library

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Number 647 of 1295 Numbered copies Signed by James Branch Cabell. A near fine copy of these witty literary essays in 1/4 white over powder blue cloth, paper label to the spine and front board, (tiny, discreet previous collector's name to the bottom edge of the front free endpaper), the publisher's glassine dustwrapper present but with chips, in a very good or better matching blue slipcase. 8vo. 135 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Cain, James M. SERENADE 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. 314 pgs. First Edition. Bright black cloth boards with silver decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Best known for his crime fiction "THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE", this novel continues in the same dark and exotic genre mixed with intrigue and opera. One of his finest books.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine copy (grey cloth variant), top edge stained green, in fine dustwrapper showing minimal use. An extremely good copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A near fine copy (grey cloth variant), top edge stained green, in near fine or better dustwrapper showing very light use. An extremely good copy.

London: Frederick Warner, (n.d.). 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition. A near fine copy, (faint shadow of a tiny price sticker on the back cover), in the publisher's illustrated stiff card wrappers. With Caldecott's charming drawings throughout. Small 4to. 30 pp.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., (1996), 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First [US] edition. Royal 8vo., pp. 366. A fine copy in dustwrapper of this superior book about this remarkable Australian Nuclear activist.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1982), 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Callaghan, Barry. THE BLACK QUEEN STORIES. Signed. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1982). First Edition of Barry Callaghan's first collection of short stories beautifully Inscribed and dated by him in the year of publication to Canadian author Marie-Claire Blais and her partner Mary Meigs. "Dear Mary and Marie-Claire - of all the little stories I've told you over the years of friendship, I've never told you these, love Barry". 8vo. 165 pp. A fine copy in beige cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with minimal use. Fourteen beautifully crafted short stories by this eminent Canadian author.

Toronto, N.D.: John Reeves. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Callaghan, Morley 8 1/2" x 11 3/4" matted to an overall size of 16" x 19 1/2" original silverprint by John Reeves. In fine condition. $485.00.

New York: Harcort Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. Not A Book/Clamshell As New. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Calvino, Italo. THE CASTLE OF CROWNED DESTINIES. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 [Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black & dark grey Nuba® with a stylizied 'sculpted' design after the book's dustwrapper on the side. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.

New York: Harcourt Brace, (1986), 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's black cloth over black paper covered boards, copper titles to the spine in a lovely pc. pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 86 pp. Stunning short stories published posthumously containing three of the five tales on the five senses planned by Calvino.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in the publisher's blue stiff card wrappers, printed and decorated in black. Thick 8vo. 575 pp. Translated from the Italian by George Martin with an Introduction by Italo Calvino. A seminal collection of two hundred folktales, retold by this postmodern master. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Editions Albin Michel, (1955), 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First French Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's stiff card wrappers with the wraparound band present. 12mo. 189 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press (1957), 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of Calvino's first book. An excellent copy in green cloth, black titles to the spine (small unobtrusive circle of glue residue on the front pastedown, tiny stain to bottom page edges) in a lovely, bright pc. pictorial dustwra pper gently sunned on the spine. 8vo. 145 pp.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A lovely copy in decorated green cloth, (just a hint of use), gilt titles to the spine in a splendid pictorial dustwrapper. With an Introductory Essay by Lord David Cecil and Edited by Graham Ovenden. 4to. 252 pp. Revealing and unique camera portraits by Virginia Woolf's great-aunt and the inspiration for her book, Victorian Photographs Of Famous Men & Fair Women and play, Freshwater, including portraits of Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Robert Browning and Virginia Woolf 's mother, Julia Jackson. With an illustrated Family Tree placing Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

London: Edward Moxon, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Campbell, Thomas. THE PILGRIM OF GLENCOE, AND OTHER POEMS. Inscribed. London: Edward Moxon, 1842. First Edition. 8vo., 119pp., with two engravings. Half calf over contemporary marbled boards bound by Seton & Mackenzie, five raised bands, modern gilt-stamped title piece. A very good example. Presentation copy inscribed on the 3rd free endpaper: "To Rob't. Carruthers Esqr. / from / The Author - / London 3rd March / 1842". Neat ownership name of Mary M. Carruthers 1894 on the front pastedown. Contains the biting poem entitled: "To the United States Of North America: ."Our standard's constellation types / White freedom by its stars; / But what's the meaning of the stripes? / They mean your negroes' scars." An uncommon first edition. Thomas Campbell, [1777 - 1844], Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Campbell's most famous work in America. 4to, pp. 134 - [Bound with: Grant, Charles. A POEM ON THE RETORATION OF LEARNING IN THE EAST - which obtained Mr. Buchanan's Prize. Cambridge: University Press, 1805. pp. 30.] Quarter calf, fi ve raised bands showing some wear, marbled paper covered boards, text block clean. The poet's story of Gertrude A woman killed in the 1778 Indian attack on a settlement in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. NCBEL III:262.

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Compamy, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of this award-winning history of William McGillivray and the rivalry between the North West Company and the Hudson Bay Company, Inscribed by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell to Governor General's Award winning author Hugh MacLennan on the title page. 'For Hugh, Whose support greatly assisted the cause, Marjorie Campbell, 1962.' With the publisher's slip, "Sent at the request of the author', tipped-onto the front free endpaper. 8vo. 337 pp. A near fine copy in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper with some light overall use.

Vancouver: The University Of British Columbia, 1959 -1978, 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The seminal Canadian literary magazine. Printed Wrappers. No. 1, Summer, 1959 through No. 79, Winter, 1978 - A 20 year run includes all of the greats in CanLit. This set, once the property of a noted Montreal reviewer, is complete through the period. In fine condition generally, the scarce first few numbers showing light use. Very important & difficult to find.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this GRANTA Author's second book & debut Novel. 8vo, pp. 224. A very fine copy in like dustwrapper.

New Orleans: Parish of New Orleans, 1924. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed. First Edition. Truman Capote's original Birth Certificate - issued in the parish of New Orleans & registered the 3rd day of October, 1924 & showing the birth of Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30th, 1924. A unique document. A bit tattered but still quite bright & clean. In 1928, when Truman was 4, the Certificate was given by Capote's mother, Lillie Mae Faulk Persons [soon to be Capote] to her sister, Lucille Faulk Ingram for safekeeping. Lillie Mae was off to New York to make a new life leaving Truman to the care & nurturing of his Monroeville relatives. Outside of the cousins Truman lived with as a child, Lucille Faulk Ingram & her daughter, Cecilia, were his closest kin. As a fledgling writer looking for solitude, it was in the comfort of Lucille Ingram's home that Truman began to write his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.