Search Results: Authors starting with C from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

University Of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. 4to; xvi, 197 pages, cloth; inked name on pastedown; fine dj; remainder mark on top edge. Extensively illustrated. " This volume begins with the Renaissance, because the theatre of that period still is not entirely understood, and because some controversy still exists over the merits of the theatres designed at that time - Foreword".

Naval Institute Press, ( 1999 ). First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 332 pages, blue cloth Signed by both authors to "Chuck" on the title-page. Gallery commanded the American forces which captured the German submarine, the U-505, intact, in 1944, "the first foreign enemy man-of-war captured in battle on the high seas by the U. S. Navy since 1815." "This book tells the story of Gallery, based in the Admiral's papers at the Naval Academy, with new revelations about the capture of the U-505. "Dan Gallery is a very special national hero - Edward L. Beach."

Dover Publications, 1986. New, Improved edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Thick quartos, 264, 409, 383, 489 pages, gray cloth, solid. Unabridged from the original 1920s edition, but in this edition, all of the color plates have been reproduced in new color inserts, as well as appearing in black-and-white versions at or near their original locations. The corrections noted in the Errata of the original edition have been incorporated into the text, eliminating the need for the Errata page. Frontispiece by Frank W. Benson, famed duck artist. A classic.

Ye Galleon Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to, 70 pages, brown cloth, map endpapers Memoirs by the daughter of Chief Moses of Washington state, with intimate details of the situation of their tribe.

Motorbooks, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Oblong 4to, 192 pages, cloth Comprehensive treatment of how American automobile factories developed, expanded, and influenced our culture and our people. This is an important aspect of automotive history that has perhaps never been related iin such detail before. Extensively illustrated.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1921. First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 63 pages, maroon cloth; bookplate No. 528 of 1040 copies. A play designed for the little theater, displaying a 16th century Tuscan view of wickedness.

New York, 1946. First. Flexible covers. Good/good. John O'Hara Cosgrove II. Octavo, short tears in wraparound dj Advance copy of unbound sheets laid into the original jacket. A universal love story involving the legendary figure which haunts the streets of St.Augustine, Florida.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Later edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 448 pages, untrimmed, cloth with a new, Margaret Armstrong-designed top cover, sunned spine and top cover, head of spline split. Inscribed remarkably by Cable at Northampton, MA, 1906: "Love my book and you become / part author of it."

Lisle, IL: Center for Slav Culture, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo, 124 pages, blue printed wrappers, a few pages jammed during the presswork; ex libris Richard J. Tlapa, with bookplate and stamp. A first attempt of its kind the account relies primarily on hundreds of bulletins, jubilee brochures, almanacs, and reports found scattered throughout the United States in parishes, missions, schools, and Czech periodocial and daily press - Preface."

Chicago: CityFiles Press, ( 2012 ). 4th printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. 4to, 287 pages, black cloth Vivian Maier, the Chicago-area amateur "nanny photographer", was a virtual unknown until after her death at 83, in 2009, when her archives of 100,000 photos was revealed to the public. Initialled by the co-authors, with black felt-tipped pens, on the title-page.

Chicago: M. A. Donhue. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 365, v pages, cloth with pictoral top label of a woman's face. NOTE: the author's name is MIS-SPELLED on the top cover as " Hall Cain ".

Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine Press, 1951. Second edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good . Maps and Plates. 8vo, 71 pages, stapled pictorial wrappers Caine's attempt to correlate the many legends of lost gold with the geology of the regions in Arizona.

Glencoe, Illinois: Workshop Gallery of Letterio Calapai, 1969. First edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Thomas Bewick. 12mo, stapled yellow wrappers, top cover soiled An Exhibition and Caatalog of fornty-one impressions printed from the original wood blocks by R. Hunter Middleton with an introduction by R. Hunter Middleton and an essay by Letterio Calapai. This exhibition was, arguably, the first major exhibition of Bewick's work in America. Middleton's presswork broiught out "those hitherto hidden qualities of the blocks".

New York: Fire Apparatus Journal Publications, 1991. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. Quarto. 56 pages. Illustrated by Photographs

Indianapolis: Service Club, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; xi,296, 20 pages, red cloth Extensively illustrated with photographs of the members. WITH, the official supplement, " Biographies of New Members 1955-1961" cleverly and properly attached to the rear endpapers.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 241 pages, brown cloth, severely cocked - as seems to have happened with this title (from too many readers??) The Georgia back country is the squalid setting for this novel ( later a popular play ) of the degraded family of sharecropper Jeeter Lester, and his sick wife, Ada. There is no proper plot, but an episodic chain of events" - Thesuarus of Book Digests.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ( 2020 ). First Printing. Paperback. Fine. Octavo, 256 pages, pictorial wrappers This ARC, Advance Rreview Copy, an Uncorrected Proof Copy tells that the finished book will have 272 pages, not the 256 here. Illustrated and with a map of The Timeless Province.

Random House ? Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Duodecimo. Good. 12mo, plain wrappers Uncorrected Proofs, on newsprint, printed on recto side of leaf only. No title-page, but with a half-title -probably as issued. This copy of this Toronto novel is rubber-stamped on the half-title page, including the date, May 29 1935, "Duplicate" and "Harris Wo???". Rare.

New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, ( 1958 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped dj. Octavo; xi, 404 pages, cloth; a few shallow waterspots on the top edge Signed by the Author on the endpaper (also with a prior owner's name underneath).

New York: Whittlesley House, ( 1961 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 31 pages, tawny cloth A brief history of the Pledge of Allegiance, written by Calvert, who was the commander of the nuclear submarine division of the U. S. Navy, having captained the USS Skate, a nuclear sub which sailed twice to the North Pole. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the law in 1954 which added the words, "under God", to the Pledge. Daugherty's final picture depicts Eisenhower and his new successor as President, John F. Kennedy. Daugherty's work integrates a heroic style, typical of his work on murals, with the bright colors of syncrhomism.