Search Results: Authors starting with C from George S. MacManus Company

(PETROLEUM). B.C.L. Oil on the Brain. Broadside, 6 1/4" x 9 3/4", printed in double columns. An amusing verse of a young Yankee who seeks to make his fortune in Pennsylvania oil. To be sung to the tune of "The Cork Leg.

1871. CABECA DE VACA, Alvar Nunez. SMITH, Buckingham (trans.). Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. New York: [J. Munsell], 1871. Limited ed. 4to. x, [2], [11]-300 pp., frontis., port. In modern calf-backed cloth boards. Binding is fresh. Previous owner name obscured on the title page. Contents with dampstaining including a pronounced tideline to bottom margin of the pages throughout, occasionally touching text, else very good. Sabin 84383. Field 229. Limited edition of only 100 copies. "With the possible exception of Benavides' `Memorial,' the `Relation' of Cabeca de Vaca is probably the most important of the early works on the western country" - Eberstadt 104-036. Smith died while this edition was in the press and Field praises it as "a fitting monument to the earnest scholar and gentleman who first made the valuable Relations of Cabeca available to those who could not read it in the original." Scarce in this edition.

CABELL, James Branch. Something About Eve. A Comedy of Fig-Leaves. Orig. cloth, dust jacket (chipped and somewhat dust soiled). N.Y.: Robert McBride & Co., 1927. First trade edition. Fine.

GREFE, Will. CABELL, James Branch. The Eagle's Shadow. Illustrated by Will Grefe, Decorated by Blanche Ostertag. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 61. A very good copy.

CABELL, James Branch. The White Robe, a Saint's Summary. 4to. Orig. calf-backed oaken boards. N.Y.: McBride, [1928]. First edition. Boxed. Fine.

PYLE, Howard. CABELL, James Branch. Gallantry. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Harper's, 1907. First edition, first binding. The author's third book. Some soiling, but a very good copy.

1929. CABELL, James Branch. The Way of Ecben. A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman. Orig. cloth-backed boards. N.Y.: McBride, 1929. First edition. A fine copy.

COSGRAVE, John O'Hara II. CABELL, James Branch. There Were Two Pirates. A Comedy of Diversion. Decorations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Orig. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1946. First edition. A fine copy.

CABELL, James Branch. Straws and Prayer-Books. Dizain des Diversions. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. First edition. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 70. A fine copy.

(VIRGINIA). (LYNCHBURG). [CABELL, Margaret C.]. Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg. By the Oldest Inhabitant. Richmond: C.H. Wynee, 1858. 1st ed. 363 pp. Orig. cloth. Cloth rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, bottom 1/4 missing from front free end paper, scattered foxing, else a very good copy. HOWES C-3.

1909. CABLE, George W. "Posson Jone'" and Pere Raphal: With a New Word Setting Forth How and Why the Two Tales Are One. Original gilt-pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First edition. BAL 2377. Cloth lightly rubbed, else very good.

1879. CABLE, George W. Old Creole Days. Original pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First edition, first printing of the author's first book. BAL 2330. Wright III, 871. Some wear to spine ends, spine lightly sunned, else very good.

CABLE, George Washington, ed. Liber Scriptorum. The Second Book of the Authors Club. Thick 4to. Orig. gilt-decorated morocco, t.e.g. N.Y.: The Author's Club, 1921. First (only) edition. Limited to 251 copies. Each piece is signed by its author which includes George Barr McCutcheon, George Washington Cable, Carl Van Doren, et al. A fine copy.

1879. CABLE, George W. Old Creole Days. Original brown pictorial cloth. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 2330. A very good copy in a cloth folding box. With a 1pp A.L.S. from Cable Northampton May 22, 1901 to a Mr. Rideing talking about a manuscript that is being delivered. Also included is a Signed quotation from Dr. Sevier dated Brooklyn, January 22, 1884.

CABLE, George W. Strong Hearts. 12mo. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribners, 1899. First edition. BAL 2365. Wright III, 872. A very good copy.

1889. CABLE, George W. Strange True Stories of Louisiana. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1889. First edition. BAL 2350. A very good copy.

1881. CABLE, George W. Madame Delphine. Original pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. $850.00 First edition of the author's third American book. BAL 2333. Wright III: 870. Presentation inscription from the author on ?-title: "To Eugene Field, the warmest wishes of G. W. Cable." With Field's bookplate on the front pastedown and his ownership signature ("Eugene Field, 1892") on the front free endpaper. Cloth slightly rubbed, else very good.

1902. YOHN, F.C.. CABLE, George W. Bylow Hill. With Illustrations in Color by F.C. Yohn. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1902. First edition. BAL 2371. A very good copy.

1880. CABLE, George W. The Grandissimes. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1880. First edition of Cable's second book. BAL 2331. Wright III, 868. A very good copy.

1901. CABLE, George W. The Cavalier. With Illustrations by Howard C. Christy. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1901. First edition. BAL 2368. Near fine.