Search Results: Authors starting with C from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: C. B. & Co. Ltd, 1915. Paperback narrow oblong quarto, good condition, grey pictorial card cover, full-page black & white photos, some vertical rippling pages (possible previous water contact now dry, but no tide marks), string binding (frayed, little slack), edgewear, faint non-author written dedication inside front cover. Unnum 24 pp. A photographic promotional pamphlet of three scenic locations in New South Wales. SCARCE. (No date, but 1910s, Trove.).

Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983. Hardback quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & colour text-photos, minor edgewear jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 166 pp. Geoffrey Caban writes a fascinating study of commercial art in Australia, starting from S. T. Gill (the artist of the goldfields), to the new magazines ('The Bulletin', 'Smith's Weekly', 'Art in Australia'), to the modern use of animation and computers.

Bath, UK: Parragon Books Ltd / Gullane Books, 2013. 1st this ed.. Paperback small square quarto, very good condition, full-page colour drawings, top corner tips few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 28 pp. This beautiful children's picture story in verse is based on an original poem by Jane Taylor, starring an owl. This is an enchanting version of a favourite nursery rhyme. The text and large colourful drawings by Jane Cabrera will delight all ages. Scarce U.K. edition.

London: HarperCollins, 2010. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white & colour photos, few sepia (brown tinted) photos, bottom corner rear cover little creased, minor edgewear. 340 pp. The author takes a journey into her own family history to tell the story of the fierce rivalries that have driven Britain's chocolate industry for nearly 200 years.

London / Tokyo: Bodley Head / Holp Shuppan, 1982. Facsimile ed.. Each book: Paperback small square quarto, very good plus condition, colour plates (drawings), sepia (brown-tinted) drawings. Both in same cardboard slipcase. 30 + 31 pp. Facsimile edition. Two classic children's picture books in verse. The Diverting History of John Gilpin was written in 1878 by William Cowper. The Babes In the Wood was written in 1879. Both books have been beautifully illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. The two books share a cardboard slipcase. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.)

Sydney: Collins, 1984. Hardback small quarto, not jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings, minor edgewear. 28 pp. A traditional Australian ballad, here retold and illustrated by Max Caesar as a delightful children's picture story. A sailor decides to become a stockman. His first ride on a brumby horse is hilarious - which he compares to a ride on a boat. Published by William Collins.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. 1st ed.. Paperback small square quarto (with flaps), very good plus condition, colour text-photos & drawings, minimal edgewear. 136 pp. This very useful book presents over 30 original projects featuring easy-to-use paints, ranging from simple freehand designs to more complex patterns created by masking and stenciling. There are more than a dozen templates in this idea-packed book. Practical and inspirational, this beautiful book is comprehensive and sure to become an important part of your life. SALE PRICE.

Toronto: Viking Canada / Penguin Books, 2008. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), promotional strip wraparound taped to jacket. 277 pp. First edition. The amazing untold story of how a 15-year-old Canadian boy shut down the world's biggest websites. In 2000, an unknown attacker brought down the websites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, E-Trade, , and Yahoo, inciting panic from Silicon Valley to the FBI and the White House.

Adelaide: Sullivan’s Cove, 1979. Hardback folio, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), dark blue cloth boards, endpaper maps, black & white portraits, minor edgewear jacket (light foxing reverse side). Heavy (1.2 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 179 pp. This 1873 account of the bushranger Brady, and his associates and contemporaries, is firmly based upon 1820s documentation. This is the first time James Calder's text has been reproduced in book form. From James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds. Sketches by the convict artist Thomas Bock are contained on two leaves between pages 78 and 79. Edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds. (No. 215 of a limited edition of 750 copies. ISBN not printed in book.)

Hobart, Sandy Bay: Blubber Head Press, 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), green cloth cover (gilt lettering & vignette), maps, black & white photos centre spread, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 150 pp. Alan Andrews has transcribed and edited the journal of George Caley (botanical collector on behalf of Sir Joseph Banks), who in 1804 attempted to cross the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. (No. 170 of a limited edition of 375 copies, all signed by the editor.)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA), 1999. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), minimal edgewear. 165 pp. Lawrence Calhoun and Richard Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes for "posttraumatic growth", defined as positive change through struggle with even the most horrible sets of circumstances. People who experience it tend to describe three general types of change: realistically stronger feelings of vulnerability that are nonetheless accompanied by stronger feelings of personal resilience, closer and deeper relationships with others, and a stronger sense of spirituality. Draws on a burgeoning professional literature as well as on their own extensive clinical experience. Presents tested strategies for helping clients effect all three types of positive change.

New York: Eagle Library / William Morrow, 1981. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition, pictorial cover (in very good dustjacket), colour drawings, minor edgewear jacket (little chipped, closed tear top spine, tiny piece missing base spine, flap price-clipped). 28 pp. This beautiful children's picture story by Mary Calhoun about the adventures of Hilda the cat will delight cat lovers. Set in the Rockies, this story is full of fun and shows her love of all forms of wildlife. Beautiful illustrations by Susan Bonners show the beauty of a Western autumn and a very charming feline heroine.

London: Vintage, 1998. Recent reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 259 pp. This remarkable novel by Italo Calvino leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary, and a quest. But the real hero is you, the reader.You go into a bookshop and buy this novel. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again.

Canberra, Campbell: English Department, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, 1988. New ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, loose-leaf errata sheet. 184 pp. This book of poems, ’Unspoken Thoughts' by Ada Cambridge, was originally published anonymously in 1887 by the novelist and serial writer for Australian newspapers. This re-publication by the Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW Canberra, together with a brief contextual history, will stimulate fresh interest in Cambridge's poetry and its relation to Australian literary history and women's writing. These poems have an extreme focus on biographical and critical speculation (though much of it erroneous). (1 of 2 available copies. The errata sheet corrects Text Note 3 on p144: The cited book has have the quote.).

Sydney, Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 1989. New ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, spine little faded, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear cover corner tips, owner label inside front cover, owner's written name). 251 pp. In this autobiography, author and poet Ada Cambridge recalls her experiences as a greenhorn English vicar's wife in Victoria from 1870 to Federation. This book was originally published in 1903. This edition has re-emerged with an insightful introduction by Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling. (Personal copy of Victor Crittenden of Mulini Press, with his label and written name.).

Sydney, Kensington: New South Wales University Press (NSWUP), 1995. Reprint ed.. Paperback small octavo (with flaps), very good condition, minor edgewear. 177 pp. Historical novel about life in 1888 in Melbourne. A gentle satire of class and sexuality. First published as a serial in "The Age" newspaper, 1889, and here published as a book for the first time.

London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2014. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. 363 pp. This novel for young adults is a story about a girl named Ameliah who finds a tape in 2013 in a spare room at her grandparents home, and a boy named Ryan who in 1993 records a diary on an old tape. The story is a mix of love, time-travel, hope, fate and magic.

London: Pan Books, 2017. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, corner tips covers faintly creased, minor edgewear. 324 pp. This novel by Bruce Cameron is the story of Lucas Ray and his rescued puppy Bella, a pit bull terrier. The story has a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. After being forcefully separated as an illegal dog, Bella escapes and tracks through the wilderness to find her human. A charming story from the author of "A Dog's Purpose”.

Sydney: Doubleday, 1994. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 212 pp. Peter Cameron, a Sydney academic, describes how he was surprisingly convicted of heresy by the Presbyterian Church of Australia in 1992. The charge arose out of a sermon he gave on 'The Place of Women in the Church', both supporting the ordination of women to the ministry, and attacking the approach to Christianity generally known as 'fundamentalism'.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2017. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, corner tips on covers little bent, edges & pages lightly toned, crease in flyleaf. 319 pp. Delightful American novel about a dog's many lives, with a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This charming story now has a movie of the same title.