Search Results: Authors starting with C from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Venice: The Armenian Press on the Island of St. Lazarus, 1818. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, two volumes in one: [6], XXXIX, 408 p. + [4], 380, [2] p. with 4 engraved title vignettes and an additional title in Armenian for each part. Text printed in Armenian, Greek, and Latin. Some general foxing along the edges, the text is largely unaffected. In a contemporary cloth binding backed in green morocco. The first edition in Armenian of this early chronicle by Eusebius (260 - circa 340), bishop of Caesarea, which is here edited with the original Greek text, Latin translation and extensive commentary by Mkrtic Aukerian (1762-1854). An impressive and beautifully printed work, produced at the Armenian press in the Monastery of St. Lazarus which was established in 1716. Both parts have a separate Armenian title which includes an engraved vignette view of the monastery. Graesse II, 526.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. This book is a searching, urbane exploration of American youth's response to the Birchers [John Birch Society], to William Buckley's New Conservatives, and to all the remarkable variety of personalities, doctrines, causes, and movements spawned by America's renascent conservatism." Octavo: 327. Original rose cloth binding, with white titles. The ink signature of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks appears on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a slightly shelfworn dust jacket.

San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 166 p. Numerous textual photographs. Signed by Cain on the title page. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. The bottom corners are lightly bumped. Mild browning along the spine and folds of the dust jacket, with a faint smudge to the front flap. Better than very good. Signed by Author.

Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom: Fountain Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Profusely illustrated with color photographs by Emory Kristof, engravings, portraits, documents, and drawings. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is slightly edgeworn; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Scientific Notes by Dr. Karl F. Lagler. Foreword by J. Hammond Brown. Color frontispiece by W.J. Schaldach, four color plates, and numerous textual illustrations. An encyclopedia of fresh water fish, containing descriptions and lore and where and how to catch them. A volume in The Sportsman's Library. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine; otherwise an especially crisp and clean copy.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. A collection of 16 short stories set in the American South. Caldwell dedicated this work to photographer Margaret Bourke-White, with whom he collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), a book about conditions in the South during the Great Depression. The pair were married in 1939, but divorced three years later. Presentation copy, inscribed by Caldwell to Richard Johns on the half-title. Johns (1904-70) was the editor of the influential Pagany magazine, which published some of Caldwell's earliest work. Laid in is a promotional photograph of Caldwell issued by the publisher. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with red and blue stamping. Negligible offsetting to a concluding blank leaf, with two small ink stamps to the rear flyleaf. The spine is sun faded. The dust jacket is especially crisp and bright, with only some mild rubbing to the rear panel; else very good or better.

An archive of materials from performers who were involved in early productions of Los Angeles' famed Pilgrimage Play. The production was the creation of Christine Wetherill Stevenson (1878-1922), an heiress of the Pittsburgh Paint Company. Her dream was to build her own open-air theater and stage her own plays. A member of the Theosophical Society, she spent time studying in the society's Krotona Institute in lower Beachwood Canyon. She claimed to have searched for years for the perfect venue to stage outdoor religious dramas of an inspirational nature, and found it in the gentle Krotona foothills. In 1918, she produced 35 performances of Light of Asia, a play by Sir Edward Arnold concerning the life of Buddha. In May 1916, a successful production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, featuring a cast including Tyrone Power, Sr., was presented in Beachwood Canyon's vast natural amphitheater. Impressed with such success, Stevenson sought to build a permanent amphitheater to produce her "huge spectacles."… Read More

Los Angeles: (circa 1930). Silver gelatin print [25.5 cm x 31.5 cm], with a handwritten pencil notation on the verso: "Spring St. LA Sunday morning" along with Cindrich's ink stamp and a second stamp identifying him as a member of The Los Angeles Camera Club. Cindrich (1892-1981) migrated from Hungary to the United States in 1903 and worked as a grocery store clerk, later becoming a motion picture industry technician. He was heavily involved in the leadership of several amateur photography and camera groups, serving throughout the 1940s as the director of the Camera Pictorialists, and president of The Los Angeles Camera Club. Local newspaper stories frequently mention him as either a judge or participant in various photography salons. In 1925, he was the first prize winner of the Los Angeles Times' amateur photographers' contest. His work resides in the collections of The Huntington Library.

A collection of 1950s and '60s political buttons supporting causes and candidates ranging from the Vietnam anti-war movement to Ronald Reagan's campaign for the California governorship. This group consists of 56 unique metal pinback buttons, which are housed in a period cardboard box. Most of the buttons are coated paper with metal backing; some are union printed. Several of the political pins relate directly to Northern California. For example, a button for the Free Speech F.S.M. is associated with the 1964-65 student protest at the University of California, Berkeley, the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. The orange and black Viva Kennedy button in this collection is representative of clubs formed by Latinx supporters of John F. Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign. The Viva Kennedy clubs began in Texas as a forum for Mexican American veterans to rally support for equal rights, and eventually spread to swing states with large Latinx… Read More

San Jacinto, California: Soboba Mineral Hot Springs, 1929. This resort was opened in 1919 by Robert G. Althouse of Los Angeles who owned candy stores and the United States Hotel in Los Angeles. Located 95 miles from Los Angeles, it was nestled at the base of the San Jacinto mountains at an altitude of 2,200 feet. "The waters of Soboba were long famed among the Indians and are praised in Helen Hunt Jackson's historical novel, Ramona," the brochure says. "They emerge pure and clear as crystal from the solid rock with no possibility of contamination." The brochure touts that the resort could be reached by "paved roads", an auto stage from Union Station, the Santa Fe train, and the Pacific Electric, with a transfer in Riverside. In 1941, Althouse sued the Metropolitan Water District after construction of the Colorado River aqueduct rendered his land "valueless" by diverting underground water away from his property. He ultimately sold the resort in 1947 to a Los Angeles syndicate. Printed in two colors on… Read More

Los Angeles: Brewster Maps, 1966. Hardcover. Good. The first three of four volumes in the atlas (the fourth covers the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley). As with much of Southern California, the Second World War radically transformed the San Fernando Valley and vastly accelerated its growth. In 1945, the population stood at about 230,000, much of it around Burbank and North Hollywood. Between 1950 and 1960, residential land use grew several-fold, with hundreds of new subdivisions replacing farms and orchard land. Industry, too, spread across the Valley, along with the inter-regional freeways, and by 1970 the population had grown to 1,250,000 people. Square folio, three volumes: unpaginated with 590 plat maps. Original brown buckram bindings, with gold-stamped titles. The first map in the first volume is detached (laid in place) and creased, with loss to the extremities (not affecting the map). Some occasional creasing and a few scattered ink notations. It appears the original binding… Read More

Los Angeles: Atwood & Ferguson, 1883. Hardcover. Good. A rare survivor, not in Quebedeaux, this early directory was published just two years after the Los Angeles Times began publication and a year prior to the arrival of cultural crusader Charles F. Lummis following his famous tramp across the continent. It also precedes the mid-1880s boom that initiated the transformation of the small town of just over 11,000 people (or about 33,000 countywide) into a thriving metropolis. Numerous notable residents are listed, including Horace Bell, author of Reminiscences of a Ranger (1881), and Elizabeth A. Follansbee, Southern California's first female physican. Aspects of the city's cultural diversity are evident as well, either overtly with individuals identified as "colored" or in the case of the Asian American population, by omission. Notably, the directory includes an advertisement for F.H. Rogers' Solar Art Gallery at 624 San Fernando Street which features an original albumen photograph. Octavo: [352] p.… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...explores the ways in which the human body - especially the female body - was visualized by artists in late nineteenth-century Paris. Focusing on the work of Degas, it deals with issues of sexuality, gender, and visual representation to illuminate the underlying meanings of the famed Impressionist's depictions of women in his series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes." Illustrated. Small quarto: 256 p. Original red cloth binding. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Heidelberg: Springer, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...a comprehensive introduction and up-to-date overview about the physical processes behind these objects, covering the field from the beginning to most recent results, including all relevant observations." Octavo: 679 p. with 187 figures and 25 tables. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 278 p. Frontispiece, with 15 illustrations. First American edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Cameron on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original orange cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Near fine. Inscribed by Author.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...presents the geomagnetic source fields - using a minimum of mathematics without sacrificing depth of coverage. A description of measurement methods and a thorough review of the societal impact and use of geomagnetic fields complete the main text." Octavo: 290 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Second printing. Bollingen Series XXX. Octavo: 487 p. with 4 plates. Original cream cloth-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. Bookseller's ink stamp to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some mild toning and wear along the extremities; otherwise very good.

New York: Alfred van der Marck Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed and dated by Joseph Campbell on the half-title. The revered mythologist explores the Space Age, positing that the newly discovered laws of the cosmos are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. Octavo: 155 p. with 17 figures (1 color). Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver titles. Tiny crease to the corner of a few pages, with a handful of small ink dashes to the margins. The dust jacket is clean and bright.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 244 p. A collection of verso by the American poet and lawyer who is perhaps best known for his influential book Making a Poem: An Inquiry Into the Creative Process (1953). Signed and dated by Cane on the half-title. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Small bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly worn, with a few tape reinforcements to the verso; else very good. Signed by Author.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. A sequel to the author's first book, Mr. Finchley Discovers his England (1934), and the second of three comic novels featuring the London solicitor's clerk. Canning (1911-86) flourished as a prolific British writer of thrillers during the postwar years. He is perhaps best remembered for his novel The Rainbird Pattern (1972), which inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film Family Plot (1976). Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with black titles. In the uncommon dust jacket, which is a bit edgeworn with a few tiny tape mends to the verso; else very good or better.