Search Results: Authors starting with C from Uncommon Works

Halifax: A.& W. Mackinlay, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good 1898 edition, with copyright and title date matching. Orange cloth boards with fading. Map end papers in front. Rear end papers heavily toned across most of page. Color plate of Canadian flag. B/W photos. Binding is sturdy and square. xv, 448 pp. including index. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/4

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. xvi, 779 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) . Octavo A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business–prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good +. Lois and Louis Darling. A near fine 1962 book of the month club edition in a good plus dust jacket, laid in with original BOMC report by Justice William O. Douglas. Green buckram boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Wave striped endpapers. Yellow topstain. Notation inked on top corner of first free endpaper, otherwise fine. Dust jacket shows loss at bottom front corner, tears and edgewear top and bottom edges. Dust jacket shows dampstaining not affecting the book on rear and front cover. Jacket now protected in clear archival mylar. 378 pp. Octavo It should come as no surprise that the gifted author of The Sea Around Usand its successors can take another branch of science—that phase of biology indicated by the term ecology—and bring it so sharply into focus that any intelligent layman can understand what she is talking about.Understand, yes, and shudder, for she has drawn a… Read More

New York: Times Books, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Sarah Elizabeth Chuldenko. A fine, signed first edition by former President Jimmy Carter in a fine dust jacket. Buckram quarter cloth over paper boards. Signed by President Carter on the half title and by the illustrator Chuldenko on the title page. Deckled page edges. 130 pp. 6 1/4 x 8 inches tall, octavo. The first collection of poetry by former President Jimmy Carter, who shares here his private memories about his childhood, his family and political life, with illustrations by his granddaughter. Always a Reckoning sets a precedent since no other president has published a book of poetry.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. Huaman Poma. A very near fine first edition in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with black box title stamping on spine. Blue topstain with a light streak. Test is clean and bright, binding square and tight. Jacket shows some very mild edge rubbing, and edge wear at crown of jacket. xiii, 458 pages : illustrations, maps. Octavo. Brundage describes Lords of Cuzco as a history of the Inca “caste,” from the beginning of Huayna Capac’s rule to the “ultimate extinction,” set at 1572. As a history of an elite in the last days of its greatness, this volume complements Brundage’s Empire of the Inca (1963), also in the Civilization of the American Indian Series.A fascinating tale of tyranny, intrigue, internal conflict, and finally dissolution in the face of the Spanish conquerors forms the skeleton of Lords of Cuzco. This historical framework is… Read More

Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, 1995. First Trade Edition. Cloth. As new/as new. Lee Brown Coye. An as new First Trade edition -- one of 1900 published, unsigned. In an as new dust jacket. Appears unread. 569 pp. Octavo. ForewordIntroduction, by Karl Edward Wagner"Modern Nero""Death’s Loving Arms""The Crawling Ones""The Pain Room""The Flame Fiend""Unholy Night!""Dark Slaughter""The Corpse Crypt""Mistress of the Dead""Terror Island""Satan’s Mistress""Tomb for the Living""Death Holds for Ransom""My Pupil—The Idiot!""Death Calls from the Madhouse""Death’s Door""Death Stalks the Night

New York: Viking Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. New/new. A new first edition, first printing in a like dust jacket. Black quarter cloth over brown paper boards. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 209 pp. including index. Duodecimo, 5 x 8 inches tall.

New York: P.F. Collier and Son Company, 1919. Early Printing. Cloth. none as issued. A very good, three volume early printing. Olive green blind stamped boards with gilt title stamping.fronts, maps (1 folded), facsimiles.Volume I: Missing first free endpaperVolume II: Dampstain to top left cover, corners bumped, tear at crown 3/4".Volume III: Binding is soft, front board creased, paint spot to spine. v. 1. Beginning with the causes of the war and the invasion of Belgium in 1914 and carrying the history of the war to the close of 1915v. 2. Beginning with the attack at Verdun early in 1916 the story of the war and of American aid is carried to the close of 1917v. 3. Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919

London: Cassell and Company, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/fine. A very good plus/near-fine four volume first edition set, all in original very good dust jackets. 1956-1958. Binding is excellent with no tears or loose pages. Red cloth boards with gilt-stamped spines. Each volume states "first published" and the year. Each volume is about 400 pp. Octavo. Volume I: The BIrth of Britain: Clean and bright. Red painted top edge. Dust jacket has a tear on the front cover and wear to jacket at crown, and loss at top edge of rear panel of jacket.Volume II: The New World: Clean and bright. Red painted top edge. Dust jacket showing a 1.5" tear at top spine edge; pencil marking on jacket at spine.Volume III: The Age of Revolution: Hevay foxing to page edges and interior of book. Dust Jacket is price clipped, foxed on interior and has a crease on the spine of jacket. Jacket has minor loss at foot and tear at rear edge near crown. Volume IV: The Great… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951-1952. Early Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. All near fine with very good dust jackets. Navy blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine and cover. [v. 1] Years of adventure, 1874-1920: Third printing (1951). Near fine book, sturdy and square binding. Sky blue endpapers. Mild bump on front top right corner. A few volume notes in pencil on half-title. Dust jacket is price-clipped at the bottom and creased on back cover.[v. 2] The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933: Second printing (1952). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Volume note in pencil on half-title. Round label covering price on inside flap. [v. 3] The great depression, 1929-1941: First printing [Burns 0079, ](1952). Bumped front bottom corner, price-clipped dust jacket, showing Loss of about 1" on of top and bottom of jacket on spine.Octavo. 496, 405, 503 pp. respectively. Indexed. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L.… Read More

Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1982. Early printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Kentucky & Kentucky II (Two volume set) 4th and 7th printings. Near fine hardcover, both with fine dustjackets, now protected in clear, removable archival covers. Book shop label on pastedown and first free endpaper. Mild toning to edges of pages of Kentucky II. Beautiful, full color photographs throughout. 160 & 144 pp. Small folio, 10 x 13 1/2 tall. Kentucky" takes you through stately mansions and pastoral horse ranches, as well as the golden rows of tobacco fields and quiet country roads.

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2001. First Edition; Signed edition; Deluxe edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first hardcover edition, SIGNED and limited to 1000 copies in a fine dust jacket. Appears unread. Black cloth boards with red endpapers. 453 pp. Octavo. ...this crude generation-gap shocker from British author Clark (Darkness Demands) will thrill the adolescent audience for which it's unashamedly intended. A wild premise—on a "Saturday night in April, every adult human being on this planet" goes mad and begins murdering everyone under 19—ensures almost constant action. Those kids lucky enough to escape their insane, zombie-like elders, labeled "creosotes" or "kaybees" for "crazy bastards," gather in communes in an obvious nod to Golding's The Lord of the Flies. After finding his brother dismembered by their parents, narrator Nick Aten (rhymes with Satan) observes, "adults seem to be actually afraid of their children...whom they feel… Read More

London: Harper & Bros., 1904. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. F. Strothman. Title page reads: London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers : : MCMIV. Red cloth boards with yellow title and full color printing of Adam at his journal with 2 monkeys. Seven gatherings with printer's signature marks. Covers soiled from handling. Sunning to spine. Heavy paper with mild foxing on a few pages. 89 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall. A comic short story of what it might have been like for Adam when the world was new.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition / first printing hardcover. Indigo paper boards with quarter cloth spine with gilt title. Clean and crisp. In a fine dust jacket, with a clear, removable archival cover. Appears to have been unread. 550 pp. Octavo, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in tall.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus, near fine first edition, first printing in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, Dupont family tree endpapers. Binding is sturdy and square. No writing, no bumped corners or stains. Three miniscule spots on pp. 230-231. Otherwise near fine. Jacket showing shelfwear on bottom and edge of front, crown and foot. x, 623 pp. Octavo. Aunt Zadie and Aunt Ethyl were the only non-reactionaries in the DuPont family up through the 1930's, and they were corporatists. Zilg shows how the DuPont powder barons of Delaware have profited comfortably in every war; until 1895, for example, they sold defective Civil War explosives. Routinely stealing patents, killing hundreds in the mills, and using prison slave labor on their Indonesian holdings, the DuPonts reinvested their loot in General Motors, United Fruit, U.S. Steel, U.S. Rubber and a pile of other interests, as the… Read More

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc., 1966. First Thus; Limited edition. Buckram. Fine/near fine. Frederic Remington. A fine first thus in a near fine, unclipped dustjacket [Howes 157]. Limited to 1500 copies. Deep brown buckram boards with gilt title-stamping on spine. With full page plates by Frederic Remington, all plates present. Fold out maps present and fine. Jacket showing two short marks on front cover (see photo). xvi pages, 493 pp. Octavo. First published in 1897. "The story of the Old Santa Fe Trail, so truthfully recalled by Colonel Henry Inman, ex-officer of the old Regular Army, in these pages, is a most thrilling one. The vast area through which the famous highway ran is still imperfectly known to most people as "The West"; a designation once appropriate, but hardly applicable now; for in these days of easy communication the real trail region is not so far removed from New York as Buffalo was seventy years ago.At the commencement of the "commerce of… Read More

London: J. Tonson, 1697. Second Edition. Three quarter cloth. Very good. Scarce. A very good second edition of Mr. Congreve's famous work. [WING C5858] Blue three quarter cloth over maroon and blue marbled boards. Appears to be missing the first free endpaper, otherwise complete and collated. Loss to page 1, not affecting text. Pencilled marginalia and previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Soft cotton paper. Toning to pages and pastedowns. Contents: 11'"1: half-title (verso blank). 11'"2: title (verso blank). Al: dedicatoryepistle (om. initial4). A3V: prologue (cap2). A4V; dramatis personae (with cast). Bl: HT with text (cap4). K2: epilogue (cap2). 6 /2 x 8 3/4 inches tall, octavo. The Mourning Bride is a tragedy written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1697 at Betterton's Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. The play centres on Zara, a queen held captive by Manuel, King of Granada, and a web of love and deception which results in the… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Very good +/good +. A very good plus first trade edition (stated first edition) in a good plus dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with black title-stampiing. Wear to top and bottom edges of book. Deckled pages. Map endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped and taped into older Brodart archival cover. jacket showing loss and short tears at top edge. 351 pp. including index. Octavo. The story of California's famed Highway 101.

Temple City, CA: Historical Aviation Album, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition (statement "This is not a reprint" on copyright page.) No dust jacket as issued. Heavy bump to bottom right corner, slight rub to foot, otherwise fine. iii, 105 p., photos, maps. Quarto. The 3rd Bombardment Group (3rd BG), officially 3rd Bombardment Group (Light) was also known by its historical name the 3rd Attack Group (3rd Attack). Nicknamed "The Grim Reapers". Assigned to the 5th Air Force (5th AF) in the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) during World War II. On April 2, 1942 Lt. Col. John H. Davies became the Commanding Officer (C. O.), formally the commander of the 27th Bombardment Group (27th BG). On May 25, 1943 redesignated 3rd Bombardment Group (3rd BG).

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2008. First Edition. Glossy pictorial cover. Fine. A very near fine first edition soft cover. Glossy pictorial cover. Mild shelfwear at the tail of the spine. Pages are clean and bright, filled with pictures from the set of the movie.142 pp. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches tall, quarto. Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-colour photos of the cast, locations and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects and much more." --Toppsta