Search Results: Authors starting with C from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: John Lane, 1921. UK Edition, Limited. One of 3,000 copies. Octavo (25cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; red topstain; 325,[4]pp; illustrated endpapers and 13 plates by Papé, including tipped in frontispiece. Spine ends pushed; rubbing to the joints, corners and lower board edges; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Jurgen is a pawnbroker caught between romantic and cynical world views: a would be poet...after gaining his reckless wish to be rid of a nagging wife, he finds himself the poorer for it, and sets out to make good his loss. His quest ranges through various scenarios borrowed from history, myth and fiction involving many allegorical figures." BARRON 3-67.

New York: Robert McBride, 1921. First, Limited Edition. First printing. One of 1040 hand-numbered copies in the first edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 63pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, with text partially unopened. In the original printed dustwrapper, also Near Fine.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Original cloth, stamped in white, green, and gilt, top edge gilt, with later protective glassine; red and white endpapers; [xii],224pp; 12 color plates. Straight but rubbed, with design on front and spine flaking off; internally clean: Good or better.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1924. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); textured maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with publisher's logo in gilt to front board; dustjacket; 302pp. Tight, clean and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped ($2.50 price on front flap), with small loss at crown and old clear tape repairs at crown and heel of spine panel, Very Good.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. First Edition. First Printing. This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, this being 349. Octavo (21cm); brown boards titled in gilt on spine; 40pp. Former owner's decorative bookplate of Nat Wollf to front pastedown, causing faint offsetting to endpaper; small bookseller's ticket from "Sunrise Turn" [one of the first bookshops in America to be owned and operated by women] on rear pastedown; slightly faded titles on spine; Near Fine. The brown dustjacket has chipping at the crown of spine, else Near Fine.

New York: Richard McBride, 1921. First, Limited Edition. One of 920 hand-numbered copies. Small octavo; maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 40pp. Scattered mild foxing to text and endpapers; Very Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper with small losses at base of front panel and at center of spine; Good.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1921. Limited Edition. #311 of 1040 numbered copies. Octavo (22cm). Brown cloth in dark green dust jacket; 63,[1]pp. Unopened. A straight copy, slightly rubbed at edges, gilt dulled and slightly worn, but tight: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, toned at spine, with short cracks to flap folds: just Very Good. [63903].

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Large octavo (22.5cm); tan cloth boards, stamped in brown on spine. in blue pictorial dustwrapper; xxvii, 291pp. Dustwrapper soiled and toned; chipping and small tears to extremities with minor material loss (especially along top edges); inner panels foxed. Textblock also foxed intermittently, with toning to preliminaries and top edge; deckled fore edges; ownership inscription on ffep. Very Good in Good dustwrapper. An anthology of passages from James Branch Cabell's Beyond Life, Figures of Earth, The Silver Stallion, Jurgen, and others in the escapist/fantasy author's extensive body of work. The Virginia-born author reached the peak of his popularity in the 1920's but hit something of a decline as the world inched closer to another World War and literary trends began favoring more realistic works. Nevertheless, he continued publishing extensively and left a legacy that remains, especially in his native Richmond.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First, Limited Edition. One of 831 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.524. Octavo (24.5cm); blue paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and covers; [ii],[9],10-41,[5]pp; typography and decorations designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Light wear to extremities, especially the corner tips, resulting in some minor board exposure; Near Fine, lacking the original dustjacket.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1928. Illustrated Edition. First Impression Thus. Octavo (24cm); black cloth covered boards, decorated in pictorial gilt on cover and titled in gilt on the spine; red topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; 359pp.; illustrated with eleven full-page drawings plus head and tailpieces by Frank C. Papé. Spine ends and corners are gently pushed; former owner's printed bookplate inside front cover; Near Fine. The black & gold dustjacket shows toning to the spine; nicks and short tears to the extremities; long tear to front flap; several ghost tape marks on verso; shallow loss to crown; Very Good. "Episodic novel, direct sequel to Figures of Earth, a Comedy of Appearances. After manual's death his associated company of knights and wizards disintegrates and each individual member must find his own destiny. In a summary conclusion Jurgen assesses the glittering legacy of the great Redeemer; though his verdict is basically Cervantean, he finds that the sham had some good… Read More

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.1,770. Octavo (25cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; red topstain; dustjacket and publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; x,312,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates by Frank Papé. Some faint, scattered foxing to text edges; decorative label of The Sunwise Turn to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear, tears, and creases along the upper edge, and three tiny inked letters at upper spine; Very Good+ in like slipcase, showing some modest shelfwear, particularly around the opening. "An eighteenth-century French youth, imagining himself to be cast in the mold of a hero of chivalric romance, sets out to find his own Holy Grail, a fairytale princess; but this is the Age of Enlightenment, when the illusions of the past are to be… Read More

[Mexico: Editorial Katún, 1985]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in red; 135pp.; map in text. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Translated in English as "Blood of the Innocent: Victims of the Contras' War in Nicaragua.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. First Edition. First printings. Three large octavo volumes (27cm). Blue cloth hardovers; xxxvi,436; xviii,476; xxxviii,428pp; maps; illus. All three volumes complete, clean, and unmarked; a Fine set. In the original publisher's slipcase, slightly worn and soiled with bumps at bottom corners; Very Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. Second printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth, stamped in gilt and black; [iii]-[x],311,[5]pp; 4pp of publisher's ads at rear; 8 plates by Howard Chandler Christy. Contemporary ownership inscription to f.f.e.p. Straight with slight forward roll, lightly rubbed, spine sunned: Very Good. Unisgned binding design by Margaret Armstrong. GULLANS & ESPEY 56. BAL 2368. SMITH C-17.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First Edition. First state, lacking the publisher's ads at rear. Octavo; brown 'S' cloth, with titling stamped in gilt and decorations stamped in black on spine and front panel; [viii],299,[3]pp. Some light rubbing to edges, with a touch of faint spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves; hinges sound - Near Fine. An attractive copy of the author's first book, a collection of seven stories centering on Creole culture in New Orleans, which were first published in the pages of Scribner's Monthly. BAL 2330.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Later printing. 12mo (17cm); original green cloth with white cameo device to front board; top edge gilt; 330pp; frotispiece etching by Percy Moran. Cloth just touched at corners and spine ends, else a truly lovely copy, straight and clean, very Near Fine. Reissue, in Scribner's "Cameo" series, of Cable's first book (originally published 1879). BAL 2330 (see).

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1890. Octavo (22cm). Maroon cloth, bevelled boards, stamped in gilt; cream and brown endpapers; [xii],350pp; 8 inserted plates. Straight, spine sunned, lightly rubbed: Very Good. Cf. BAL 2350 for the New York first edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18cm). Green cloth, stamped in red and black; white endpapers printed with green all-over pattern; [ii], iv,125,[3]pp; 2pp publisher's ads at rear. Ownership and gift inscriptions from John H. Wheeler, a Classics professor at Bowdoin and UVA, and Louise F. Wheeler, dated 1883 and 1887. Straight, gently rubbed, f.f.e.p. torn at gutter, else sound: around Very Good. Cable's fourth published work, a novella on the theme of miscegenation, set in the Creole community of his native New Orleans. BAL 2333. WRIGHT III, 870.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; green and white patterned endpapers; [x],448,[8]pp; 8pp publisher's advertisements at rear. Inscribed: "My dear Mr. Donaldson: It is a pleasure to an author to put his name in any of his books, but how much beyond the ordinary, when in a first edition found in the hands of a collector! Yours truly G. W. Cable. Philadelphia, Mar. 1902." Occasional pencil annotations. Bright, though mildly rubbed; front hinge cracked but holding, generally sound: around Very Good. Inscribed first of Cable's second and most important novel, a romance portraying Creole society in early nineteenth-century New Orleans. ANB describes it as a "violent and technically sophisticated" examination of "the personal and societal costs of the sexual and economic exploitation engendered by slavery," and "an important precursor of the modern novel." Cable, once lauded as one of the most important… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First Edition. First state, lacking the publisher's ads at rear. Octavo; dark peacock blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; [viii],299,[3]pp. Light wear to extremities, some softening and a few tiny tears to spine ends, a few faint scuffs to lower front cover, and two faint creases smoothed out on front endpaper; hinges sound, with contents clean; Very Good+. An attractive copy of the author's first book, a collection of seven stories centering on Creole culture in New Orleans, which were first published in the pages of Scribner's Monthly. BAL 2330; WRIGHT III, 871.