Search Results: Authors starting with C from Glenn Books

London, New York: Frederick Warne & Company Containing "The Diverting History of John Gilpin", "The House That Jack Built", "An Elegy ofn the Death of a Mad Dog", and "The Babes in the Woods". One of the Picture Book series printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans. Undated. Jacket has two pieces missing from the spine, chipped at extremities. Bottom corners of the book are bumped. Full-page colour plates and black and white text illustrations. . Picture Books Edition.. Pictorial Cloth. Almost No Wear/Chipped Dust Jacket. Small Quarto.

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Company Undated. Minor scuff on spine.. Written by Dr. Goldsmith, pictured by R. Caldecott, and sung by Master Bill Primrose. One of the sixteen books in the series "Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books. Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans. Illustrated with full-page colour plates and black and white text pictures. 31pp.. Picture Books Edition.. Color Illustrated Boards.. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Quarto.

Topeka, Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society, 1939. Illustrated in black and white. Occasional marginal ink check marks. A commemorative volume issued in 1939, 100 years after the erection of the first building on the site. 120pp.. Pictorial Wrappers. Light Soiling.. Thin Octavo.

New York Harmony Books (1987). Cloth-backed boards, fine in like dust wrapper. First edition..

London: Frederick Warne and Company circa 1890. Panelled spine with black leather label. Light foxing throughout, heavier on preliminary pages. Binding is scuffed, edges worn. A part of the "Chandos Classics". 368pp.. Reprinjt Edition.. 1/2 Cranberry Calf. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Dust Jack. Small Octavo.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Front hinge starting to weaken. "112 of the GI Comic Strips By That Name Featuring the Effortless War Activities of Miss Lace".. Second Printing.. Pictorial Cover. Minor Wear. Oblong Octavo.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, 1985. Dust jacket is very lightly sunned at spine and top edge, otherwisew fine. Illustrated by BARRY MOSER with watercolors. The story was written by the author in 1946 for his aunt. 39pp.. First Edition. Cream Cloth. Fine/Nearly Fine. Thin Quarto.

London: James Fraser, 1837. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Inner dentelles, red endpapers. A SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. French fillet borders with corner rondelles. Spine decorated in gilt. Gilt lettering has faded but can still be read. Top corners just a bit worn, several lightly bumped. Please see photos. All three half-titles are present. Volume 1 is subtitled, "The Bastille", Volume 2, "The Constitution', and Volume 3, "The Guillotine". One of the greatest treatises written on the french Revolution. See "Printing and the Mind of Man", #304. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish historian, essayist, philosopher in the Victorian era. . First Edition. Lime Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo.

(Peoria, IL) (G.C. Lippard) (1932). Black textured paper lettered in gilt. All edges red. Fine. Several full-page illustrations. Place for baby pictures, family history, mother's notes..

Grabhorn Press, 1960. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18, 1960". 123 listings on 49pp. . First Edition. Cream Wrappers.. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. From the American Copmmonwealths series edited by Horace E. Scudder. Frontispiece folding color map of Missouri. Pages 25-27 with small piece torn from top free edge. A very clean copy. 377pp. + adverts. . First Edition. Olive Cloth. Light Edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1938. Minor bump front top edge. Prior owner's script stamp front and back endpapers. Crisp and clean throuighout. Numerous plates and figures through the text. Lindbergh was an inventor, among his many other attributes. He, of course, is best known for winning the Orteig prize in 1927 by being the first aviator to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris. He became interested in keeping organs alive outside the body when his sister-in-law developed a fatal heart condition in 1930. He worked with Nobel-prize winning Alexis Carrel in the study of organ perfusion. He invented the "Model T" pump, a glass perfusion pump, that is credited with making future heart surgery possible. He and Carrel described an artificial heart in the book and their work with perfusion eventually led to the construction of the first heart-lung machine decades later. 221pp.. First Edition. Black Cloth. Very Mild Edgewear /No Dust Jacket as Issued. Medium Demi Octavo.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1950. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge shows some foxing. Spine lightly rubbed, gilt lettering subdued but intact.Large fold-out map as frontispiece. This is the 48th number in the Lakeside Classics library, published for Christmas, 1950. Nine illustrations. A reprint of the original 1868 edition puiblished by Lippincott. 354pp.. Lakeside Classics Edition. Burgundy Cloth. Almost No Wear./No Jacket.. Duodecimo.

Annapolis, Maryland, 1879. Written in long-hand on stationery from the State of Maryland Executive Department, Dec. 9, 1879. " Dear Sir, I regret very much that I will be unable to accept the invitation so cordially rxtended to me, to be present at the reception of General U.S. Grant in the City of Philadelphia on the 16th instant. I have the honor to be your able-servant, John Lee Carroll". Addressed to Joseph H. Paist, Esq, Phila. We find that there was indeed a parade and reception for the Civil War General and US President on 16 December, 1879 in Philadelphia. Carroll served as Governor of Maryland from 1876-1880. He was Governor during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, with widespread rioting in Baltimore requiring Federal troop intervention. See photos of the letter. . Signed by Author. Almost No Wear. 8" x 5".

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. Front cover and spine vignettes, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned to tan. Gilt remains vivid. Frontispiece portreaits of Millard Fillmore and A. Donelson, with tissue-guard. The illustrations are foxed. Several other full-page portraits through text, including one of the author at start of Chapter 1. Text is generally quite clean, sparse spots of foxing only. 565pp. The author (1815-1894) was an American political activist, pamphleteer, lobbyist. The criticized slavery in her writings. She was an advisor to Lincoln's presidential cabinet during the Civil War. This book, her magnum opus, criticizes the political influence of the Roman Catholic Church under the papacy of Pius IX. . First Edition. Green Blind-stamped Cloth. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal: Raphael Tuck and Sons Not dated. Circa 1910. Corner and spine extremities show light fraying. Front cover gilt vignette is quite bright and vivid. Illustrated endpapers. Pictured by MABEL LUCIE ATWELL. This copy has eleven of the twelve full-page color illustrations, missing the plate facing page 72, "the pig baby". Black and white text illustrations throughout the text. 148pp + 4 pages of adverts. A very clean copy with the one noted flaw. A very pleasing rendition of the classic children,s book first published in 1865. Please see photos. Tuck Edition. Blue Cloth. Corner and Edges Worn/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Small Quarto.

Joliet, New York, Boston P.F. Volland (1928). Green cloth simulating leather. Cover, spine lettered in white. Full-page color illustrations and chapter heads by Beatrice Stevens. Pictorial endpapers, 3" tear bottom of front flyleaf. Corners and spine extremities rubbed. A story of the days of the knights, beautifully illustrated. First American edition..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Cover edges and spine lightly faded, lmuch less so than usual. Paper labels are intact and not faded. 231pp.. First Edition. Lime Green Cloth.. Minor Wear./Light Edge Wear.. Octavo.

Cavnovia, WI: W. Cattanach Rod Company, 1992. A 242pp. manual on building bamboo fly rods. Photos and drawings through the text. A very crisp and clean copy. Fifteen chapters in all. A fine addition to the fisherman's library!. First Edition. White Cover, Three-ring Binder. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1914. Published for the Early English Text Society. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. The book includes edited 15th century manuscripts. Interesting comparisons of houshold rules, manners. 124pp. + glossary. . First Edition. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.