Search Results: Authors starting with C from Cat's Cradle Books

San José, C.R.: Editorial Costa Rica, 1963. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Spanish language. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, rebound in cloth over boards as a hardcover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly age-darkened text pages. Cloth over boards is lightly shelf worn with bumped corners. 115 pp. Play by Costa Rican author. Ex-Library; 8.00" (20 cm) tall; 115 pages.

New York: Robert M. Mcbride, 1930. Numbered. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Numbered. Binding and hinges tight. Pages clean, tanned, rough cut. Signed by author on page opposite colophon page. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Paper over boards is worn at corner tips, spine darkened. ; 1295 copies printed, of which this is number 442. ; 9.75" tall; 135 pages; Signed by Author.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Albert Herter. Binding and hinges sound. Pages foxed, tanned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and previous owner's name on ffep. No other writing or marks. Pictorial cloth over boards is scuffed, soiled, with bumped corners. ; Seven stories set in 19th century New Orleans. ; Photogravures; 10.25" tall; 234 pages.

São Paulo: N. P., 1962. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Flávio Pretti. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding, although wraps are starting to pull away from stitched text block. Signed by author with additional inscription on half title page. Pages clean, tanned. Wraps have overall moderate handling wear, tanning. ; Memoir of life in the northeastern region of Brazil by Brazilian author Nelson Lustoza Cabral. Cover Art; 8.25" tall; 265 pages; Signed by Author.

Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Italian language. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Paper over boards is clean, slightly edge rubbed. DJ has edge rubbing, light shelf wear. Three fold-out maps in back of book are in fine condition. ; History of the unification of Italy, specifically the claiming of the city of Rome from the Papal States, told through documents of Raffaele Cadorna (1815-1897), the Piedmontese general who led the invasion and occupation of the city in 1870. Detailed fold-out black and white maps at back of book: "Carta del Territorio Pontificio nel 1870," "Carta di Roma e dintorni," and "Pianta della città di Roma."; 8.75" tall; 528 pages.

New York: Chappell & Co, 1943. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Light handling wear. Tanning. Lyrics and piano accompaniment. Song anticipates victory for the Allies in World War II. ; 9 x 12 inches; 8 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Articles, definitive and otherwise. Barber, From transformation to desire: art and worship after Byzantine iconoclasm. Openshaw. Weapons in the daily battle: images of the conquest of evil in the early medieval Psalter. Wolfthal, "A hue and a cry": medieval rape imagery and its transformation. Mandel, Felix culpa and Felix Roma: on the program of the sixtine staircase at the Vatican. Bell, Zaccolini's theory of color perspective. Mann, The Annunciation chapel in the Quirinal Palace, Rome: Paul V, Guido Reni, and the Virgin Mary. Chapman, Persona and myth in Houbraken's life of Jan Steen. Stemmler, The physiognomical portraits of Johann Caspar Lavater. Reviews. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 191 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1990. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Shallow tear at bottom margin, table of contents. Several underlined passages in first article; all other pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Faint bend at lower corner throughout. ; Contents: Gage, Color in western art: an issue? Holliday, Time, history and ritual in the Ara Pacis Augustae. Ewing, Marketing art in Antwerp, 1460-1560: our lady's Pand. Moyano, Quality vs. History: Schinkel's Altes Museum and Prussian arts policy. Leighten, The white peril and l'art nègre: Picasso, primitivism, and anticolonialism. Moffitt, Francisco Pacheco and Jerome Nadal: new light on the Flemish sources of the Spanish "picture within a picture." Lehmann, A Roman source for Klee's Athlete's Head. Letters. Reviews. Index to volume 72. 11.5" tall; 154 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Minor soiling on title page and contents page; all other pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Bal and Bryson, Semiotics and art history. Hamburger, A Liber Precum in Sélestat and the development of the illustrated prayer book in Germany. Colantuono, Dies Alconiae: the invention of Bellini's Feast of the Gods. Siry, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and architecture for liberal religion in Chicago, 1885-1909. Collins, Life magazine and the abstract expressionists, 1948-51: a historiographic study of a late Bohemian enterprise. de Caso, A phillogical imposture: Henri Jouin, interpreter of David d'Angers. Brown, Two new Degas letters in New Orleans. Reviews. ; 11.5" tall; 174 pages.

Fort Tryon Park, NY: International Center of Medieval Art, 1970. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Papers on the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century read at the Symposium held in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, May 14 and 15, 1969. Crosby, The west portals of Saint-Denis and the Saint-Denis style. Verdier, What do we know of the Great Cross of Suger in Saint-Denis? Pressouyre, Réflexions sur la sculpture du XIIème siècle en Champagne. Sauerländer, Sculpture on early Gothic churches: the state of research and open questions. Kitzinger, Byzantium and the west in the second half of the twelfth century: problems of stylistic relationships. Deuchler, The artists of the Ingeborg Psalter. Scher, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century revisited. Cahn, Romanesque sculpture in American collections. VI. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. ; 11.0" tall; 78 pages.

Paris: Centre International de Synthèse, 1968. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the French language. Stitched binding is sound, but wrappers are beginning to pull away. Pages clean, tanned. Wrappers have handling wear, tanning. ; Conference proceedings. Conditions et progrès de l'objectivité en Histoire des Sciences. Fautes et contresens des traductions scientifiques médiévales. Les origines de l'"Algèbre moderne." Développement de la notion de structure en Physique mathématique. La génération spontanée, de l'Antiquité à 1700. L'élaboration des concepts et des méthodes de la psychologie différentielle au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe. L'histoire de la philosophie des sciences de la nature. Many contributors. ; 9.25" tall; 431 pages.

New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Off-white pages with occasional underlined passages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, general shelf wear. Previous owner's name on title page; short notation on rear endpaper. A survey and reevaluation of the educational work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the famous Anglican missionary organization active in America from 1702 to 1783. 8.5" tall ; 249 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Editôra Globo, 1961. Softcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Stitched binding is sound but wrappers are pulling away from text block. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have light handling wear, light overall soiling. ; Novel by Brazilian author Almiro Caldeira de Andrada (1921—2007). ; 7.0" tall; 120 pages.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Polis Center / Indiana University Press, 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. ust jacket clean, with a bit of edgewear and a small chip and several indentations to back only. Sepia-toned b&w photos. ; A distinguished group of Indiana writers and photographers offer insights on the spirituality of Indianapolis, Indiana, long considered a "typical American city." Essays, poetry, photographs. 10 x 8.75 Inches (oblong); 158 pages.

San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.: Trinity University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean with minor edge rubbing. Clear acetate dust jacket has minor edge wear. ; Extensive introductory essay. Play is presented in Spanish on left page with English translation opposite. ; 10.0" tall; 219 pages.

New York: Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Front hinge starting; rear hinge and binding sound. Pages off-white, generally clean with occasional minor soiling/staining at edge of margin not affecting text or photographs. Cloth over boards is edge worn with slightly darkened spine, bumped corners, general light shelf wear. ; Profusely illustrated with powerful b&w photos by Margaret Bourke-White. Photo-documentary with text, featuring "the tortured face of poverty" in the deep south of the United States during the Great Depression. Ex-Library; 12" tall; 190 pages.

Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Division of Archives and History, 1976. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have small marred area at top right front, light edge rubbing. ; Organized by religious denominations. North Carolina Bicentennial Pamphlet Series; Vol. 11; 9.0" tall; 81 pages.

Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Division of Archives and History, 1976. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have small marred area at top right front, light edge rubbing. ; Organized by religious denominations. North Carolina Bicentennial Pamphlet Series; Vol. 11; 9.0" tall; 81 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2018. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Freitas, Singing herself: Adelina Patti and the performance of femininity. Carrasco, Zemlinsky's "Expressionist" moment: critical reception of the Second String Quartet, 1918-1924. Callahan, The gay divorce of music and dance: choreomusicality and the early works of Cage-Cunningham. ; 9.25" tall; 305 pages.

Philadelphia: American Musiological Society, 2017. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Parkes, Wild strawberries from Reichenau: ruminations on authority and difference in eleventh-century "Gregorian" chant. Bianchi, Scholars, friends, plagiarists: the musician as author in the seventeenth century. Frey, Boris Godunov and the terrorist. Holmes, Expert listening beyond the limits of hearing: music and deafness. Kramer, et al., Colloquy: discrete/continuous: music and media theory after Kittler. ; 9.25" tall; 282 pages.