Search Results: Authors starting with C from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Scribner's, 1879. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original pictorial brown cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt; in an open-faced slipcase. First edition, first printing, and a fine copy, of Cable's first and best book, comprised of six stories of antebellum New Orleans. Bookplate of [J. F. Pecker?]. BAL 2330.

New Orleans: Arthur Roger Gallery, 1998. First edition, signed by the author on the title- page. A near-fine copy with some light wear at the edges of the wrappers. 12 x 12 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original pictorial boards. Published in conjection with the exhibition held at Arthur Roger Gallery, 1998.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. A near-fine copy with some light wear to binding at extremities, internally fine. 4to. 191 pages. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. First edition. From the collection of NYC gallerist Marjorie Neikrug. A landmark at its time of publication, Caffin's book is still one of the most informative and authoritative appraisals of the American photographers who later became the Photo Secession. Singling out Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and Clarence H. White, Caffin was writing as an insider, with intimate knowledge of the artists that adds life and vitality to his critical appreciation of their work. Born in England, Caffin emigrated to the U.S. in 1892. He became the American editor of 'The Studio' and his articles on art and photography were widely published in journals and magazines. He first became acquainted with some of the photographers he studies in this book when he wrote criticism of the Philadelphia… Read More

Lugano: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, 1985. Jacket with a few small tears at edges but generally bright and clean, internally clean and unblemished. Text in Italian and English. Folio (12.5 x 11 inches). Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Cloth; dust jacket. Limited edition, number 84 of 198 numbered copies from an edition of 1200. A monograph on the architect Claudio F. Pellegrini's work in Lugano, lavishly printed and illustrated. WITH: Nag Arnoldi. [Untitled]. Etching, 7.5 x 6.25 inches image, 12 x 10.5 inches sheet, numbered 84/99 and signed and dated NAG 85 in pencil. Arnoldi was a post-war and contemporary Swiss sculptor whose outdoor sculptures are featured in the text.

London: Heinemann, 1890. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spines faded, an inch tear at top of rear outer joint of vol. 3, small water-stain on front covers of vols. 2 and 3). 3 volumes, 8vo. Original scarlet cloth, spines gilt-lettered. First edition. Presentation copy from Caine to his wife, inscribed by him on the dedication page on his own behalf and also on behalf of their son, the dedicatee of this three-decker: "To my dear wife with my love, & the love of ' Sunlocks.' Hall Caine. 1/Feb/90." The printed dedication reads: "To My Son, Little Sunlocks." ("Sunlocks" is also the nickname of the small son Michael in the novel.) 'The Bondman ' , a family saga set in Iceland and the Isle of Man and a very popular book in its time, is Caine's third novel, his last three-decker, and Heinemann's first publication. A four-page publisher's catalogue dated January 1890 at the end of each vol.; a four-page advertisement quoting reviews of ' The Bondman ' and announcing the "Second Edition, Now Ready, "… Read More

Lisbon: IST Press, 2002. Fine save some moderate shelfwear to the covers, internally clean. 11.75 x 10.5 inches. Text in English and Portuguese. 67 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs. Hardcover with image printed on front cover. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition held at Eugenio de Almeida Forum in Evora 10 January to 30 March 2003 and the Photographic Archives of the City of Lisbon, 10 April to 23 May 2003.

Paris: Centre culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2009. A fine copy with a few minor spots of shelfwear. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Text in English and French. 339 pages. Profusely illustrated. Hardcover. First edition, published to accompany the exhibition at the Calouste Gulbekian Cultural Centre, 24 June to 29 September 2009.

Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One letter a bit wrinkled and with a few faint stains. 2 pages, large 8vo (or small 4to) and a half-page 8vo, all single-spaced, with two envelopes. With a glossy photograph of Caldwell and a TLS and a signed card from his wife Virginia to the Conrads. The first two letters concern Caldwell's presence at the Conrad-run Seventh Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference which he attended at the latter's invitation: "... The most recent [book] was two years ago... 'Afternoons in Mid-America'... circulation of all 50 books has been calculated to lightly million plus..." Most of the third letter relates to Sinclair Lewis and a visit he paid to Caldwell in Darien, Conn., "a long, long time ago now." (BA).

Fort Davis, TX: Frontier Book Co, 1969. 8vo. 112 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Pale stain to wrappers. Originally published in 1897 as 'Colorado's Gold Fields. America's Most Famous Gold Mining Camps.'.

Cambridge MA: John Ford at the Chronicle Office, 1857. First edition of the ninth in the series. Hardcover. 8vo. Engraved folding "Map of the City of Cambridge, Mass." after W.A. Mason, engineer and surveyor. Original blind-decorated brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Robert O. Fuller (pencil inscription on front flyleaf, he is listed on p.115). FIRST EDITION of this ninth Cambridge Directory, which opens with a calendar and then provides a complete listing of commercial, religious, governmental, and individual names, occupations, and addresses. 11-pages advertisements at front (3 on blue paper) and 19-pages advertisements at end (3 on blue paper). Including advertisements for L.H. Hales, Photographers -- "Daguerreotypes, Photographs, and Glass Pictures" -- and Harvard Block on Harvard Square. A fine copy with contemporary Cambridge provenance: R.O. Fuller, whose ownership inscription records his address at 40 Auburn St, is listred on page 115 as working at Gay, Manson & Co. at the… Read More

London: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme and Brown and John Murray, 1819. Covers bowed, first gathering cut short at bottom, some pale foxing. 12mo (16.4 x 9.5 cm). Engraved additional title and two plates by Charles Heath after Richard Westall. Contemporary full vellum, gilt border on sides, smooth spine gilt, leather letting-piece. Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate; R. C.? Wise (inkstamp on front free endpaper; Shipworth (inscription dated 1830 on a front flyleaf above bookseller's description). Seventh edition.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4 pages, 4to, integral second leaf neatly inlaid, front portion of envelope (signed "Geo Canning") attached, with engraved portrait of Canning. Canning (1770-1882), British statesman, writes (at the time he was Foreign Secretary), giving reasons for declining a proposed interview. (BA).

Boston; Toronto; London: Bulfinch Press, 1992. First edition. Front jacket with small area of damage, otherwise fine. 9.75 x 11 inches. 216 pages. Original black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. "In this collection of photographs, photojournalist Cornell Capa has assembled a group of his most powerful images, taken between the 1940s and 1970s. This book features 166 photographs, including images of political upheaval, war, famine, religious rites and the world-famous" (The Publisher).

New York: Aperture, 1972. A fine copy in a very good jacket with some light soiling and a few chips, owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. 10 x 8.75 inches. 75 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

[Rockport]: Paul Caponigro, 1990. A fine copy. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. 8 black-and-white reproductions, text and plates loose as issued in folded grey wrappers. Inscribed by Caponigro on the inner wrapper, Rockport, 1992.

New York: Random House, 1965. First edition, first printing. Pale shadowing to jacket, chips at spine ends, rubbing to joints, price marked over in blue, pale stain to upper sheet edges. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket.

Stockholm: A. Boman, 19th century. 86 cards, 90 x 62mm, comprising 42 cards on glazed paper with printed backs, and 44 hand-colored cards with figures on them with printed captions. Pull-off box with label, top lacking sections and separated. Assumed complete given the fit in the box, but without a standard reference it is not certain.

London: Bell and Daldy [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1871. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spines a touch darkened, some very slight wear. Small hole in the front free endpaper of vol. 2, probably the result of moving Carlyle's bookplate from that spot, where it was mistakenly placed, to the inside front cover; nevertheless, an agreeable copy. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original dark brown cloth, blocked in black and gilt. First edition. The dedication copy to Carlyle, with his bookplate in each volume and with an autograph letter signed from Helps to him (in the original envelope which is tipped onto the front free endpaper of vol. 1). The letter, 3 pages, 8vo, on Privy Council Office stationery (Helps was Clerk), dated 3 April 1871, reads: "My dear Carlyle, I send herewith a copy of a book which I have taken the liberty of dedicating to you. You must therefore, receive it very kindly, and be blind, or at least blind as you can, to its many faults. If one cannot rely upon one's Dedicatee as a partial… Read More

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1989. Softcover. A fine copy. 9.5 x 9.5 inches. Wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition from May - June 1989.