Search Results: Authors starting with C from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

New York: Illustrated Editions Company. Very Good. 1932. Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Covers have light soil overall and rubbing to all extremities. Small black mark to leather of the back. Joints have a 1 1/2", thin crack at both sides the tail, but overall, the joints are sound. Very faint offsetting to pages opposite of plates. ; Three ribald tales of marital infidelity that are part of, but typically expurgated from, the complete Canterbury Tales. As in the rest of the Tales, these were told to the protagonist 'Pilgrim' by his fellow traveling pilgrims as they rested on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Beckett at Canterbury. In these three, the Merchant, the Miller, and the Reeve each have a wife not wholly committed to the relationship, and indiscreet dalliance ensues, not to mention "burning with Venus' fire." Each tale begins with Chaucer's literal verse description of the character, followed by a prose translation of the Tale for readers not… Read More

Norwich, New York: Private Printing. Very Good. 1939. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Some splay to the front cover and a slight roll to the spine. The title label was applied at a slight angle. The glassine wrapper has a couple of nicks. The box is darkened with wear to the extremities.; In 1897, young Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the New-York Sun newspaper. "I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?" The letter was handed to Francis Church, a cynical and sardonic Sun writer, who rose to the challenge and in 423 words crafted a kind response that struck into the souls of readers, then and now. Church cast Santa Claus as someone who didn't need to be seen to be proven, but as a supernatural manifestation of love, generosity, beauty, and faith it what is good. "Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding." This copy was privately… Read More

Birmingham, New York: The Silverado Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Limited Edition. Softcover. Several light, shallow creases to the front cover. Lightest bumps to head and tail corners. Front cover slightly lightened adjacent to spine.; This book reproduces T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's 20 November 1914, written in bed, personal letter to "Rbt." In it, Cobden-Sanderson recounts the workings of his Doves Press "...we are binding Shelley and printing Keats," the loss of an employee called to "the front" of World War I, and being "daily depressed by the atmosphere of the world yet happy in one another." He mused "At the actual moment I am in bed tho it is already 11 a.m. I find the morning time in bed between waking and getting up the golden time of day, the borderland between the dreams of night and the still, still stranger dreams of the world without." Cobden-Sanderson was an author, editor, a founder of Doves Press, and… Read More

San Diego, CA: Green Tiger Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Coco's story for children, about a fiddler's son who shows townspeople how music is heard by the heart. Essentially a folk tale, but written contemporarily, well-illustrated with monochrome linoleum block plates, and formatted as if it were verse. Eugene Bradley Coco is a children's author and known for his adaptation of Disney's Peter Pan. The first book illustrated by Robert Sabuda, whose life-like, yet stylized linoleum block illustrations are an artistic departure from his usual paper engineered pop-up books. In a deep, forest green cloth over boards and printed in Raleigh Demi-Bold type on fine, stiff paper. Unpaginated. No dust jacket, as-issued. In absolutely clean, defect-free, Fine condition.; Linoleum block; Thin Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22 pages .

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. Covers somewhat fanned and front corners thumbed.; Sixty-seven concise statements, or manifestos, by architects, groups, and collectives explaining their philosophies about architectural design and its purpose in human society. Most of these are definite and strongly stated by Henry van de Veld, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Theo van Doesburg, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, El Lissitzky, R. Buckminster Fuller, and a host of other lesser known but influential, modernist architects during 1903 to 1963. Taken together, these form a subjective history of the explosion of diverse modernist styles and the personalities that conceived them. Selected and edited by Elrich Conrads, an influential German critic of architecture and urban planning. Essential for the devotee of modernism or architect wanting to know the thoughts that shaped… Read More

Bolinas, California: Angel Hair Books. Very Good-. 1970. Limited Edition. Softcover. Wraps toned and soiled, as so many are with this edition. Some toned offsetting from an adjacent book. A bit of wave to the head edge of the front.; Thirty-five minimalist, idiosyncratic, freely-constructed poems of experimental technique. Most are terse, some are brief prose poetry, all are non-rhyming, and all challenge the reader to parse and interpret them as poems. An example: "Her strict eye / her lovely voice." Another example titled (for Jim Dine): most common simple / address words everything / in one clear call to me." Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published over 60 books of poetry. These poems were completed July 14, 1969, and published while he was an instructor at State University of New York at Buffalo. Provenance: From the library and estate of Kenward Elmslie, prolific poet associated with the New York School of poetry, editor, performer, and founder of Z Magazine and Z press.… Read More

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the slipcase. Volume I: Very short closed tear adjacent to the head of the dust jacket.; This 2-volume set presents 197 full-page plates showing poetry in manuscript by 146 English authors from the 14th to 20th centuries. Manuscript examples from Butler, Dryden, Keats, Milton, Swift, Thomas, Yeats, and 139 others. The manuscript plates are printed on the recto of pages and each facing page includes a detailed explanation of the poem and poet, with a transcript of the manuscript poem. Viewed chronologically, the varied styles of printing and cursive describe the evolution of English handwriting over 6 Centuries. These is set 1,355 of a limited edition of 1,500. The 1st English edition. Compiled and Edited by P. J. Croft with his Acknowledgements, Introduction, Notes on the Transcripts, Table of Manuscript Locations. Commentary and Transcripts. Croft was a long-time manuscript… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1893. First American Edition. Hardcover. Overall wear to spine with bumped ends and residue from removal of a library label, wear to corners and edges, small remanant of a laid down library pocket on the rear endpaper, and "Withdrawn" stamps to front pastedown and head of text block.; Eyre Crowe's account of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1892-1893 travels in the US. Crowe, a skilled British painter, served as Thackeray's secretary for the trip and recorded their journeys in both text and drawings. The result was a view of US life as rendered by a truly fascinated Englishman. Crowe recorded the proceedings of Congress, hospitality in the Southern states, slave markets, Boston, sledding, Baltimore, Thackeray's lectures, and all manner of daily doings. As a painter his topic matter tilted heavily toward social realism, and he maintained this approach in documenting the American life he observed. Crowe… Read More