Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Study of Canadian political theorist's work, focusing on themes of property & the state. Black hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, near fine. Text clean; 152 pages, bibliography, a few tables.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¾" by 8¾".

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hunting and fishing in Egypt and Sudan. An excellent sample of early twentieth century travel writing: patronising, humorous and full of accounts of local discomforts. "The Nile is the mother of all Egypt. The father's identity remains vague." Features two INSCRIBED notes from the author pasted in, as well as part of the jacket flap: looks like the recipients shared passage with the author somewhere on the S.S. Minnetonka. Stated fourth printing, still in the original month of publication. Hardcover, full red ribbed cloth, gilt titling. Corners and edges a bit worn, couple of tiny stains and small nicks on spine and covers; still a nice copy with bright gilt. Text clean; xiv, 277 pages, many b/w photo plates all present as called for, illustrated map endsheets. . Inscribed by the Author. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 6" by 8¾".

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988. Memoir of life as the principal medical officer of the celebrated luxury liner; a sort of aquatic 'All Creatures Great and Small'. SIGNED by the author in the year of publication, with his official rubberstamp and note that the book was purchased on-board. Blue hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear, gift note on free endsheet; jacket price-clipped, faint waterstain to rear panel - barely visible outside; text pages tanned. Text clean; xxix, blank, 226 pages, b/w plates, plan.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6½" by 9½".

No Place: No Publisher, 1890. Accordion fold of attractively printed scenes of the Stirling area, including the Castle, Abbey Craig, Bruce monument, old bridge, churches, Wallace monument & statue, Bannockburn field & bore stone, bridge of Allan, Dunblane Cathedral. Hardcover, brown cloth spine, blue cloth covers, gilt titling. Shows some wear, corners rubbed, covers spotted; faint creasing to pages. Images clean & undamaged; 14 printed pages.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 6½" by 8¾".

New York: St Martin's Press, 1971. Cold War spy thriller; an unusual team heads into the Russian arctic after a Soviet scientist. Kyle's first book, stated first American edition; first published in the UK the previous year. Blue hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book; minor edgewear to jacket, short tear to rear panel; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; 254 pages.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5½" by 8".

Cajun Hot Press, 2006. Erotica with a thin veneer of swamp weirdness. INSCRIBED by the author to one Diane. First published as an e-book in 2000. Paperback, black covers, white titling. Light wear, front cover curled. Text clean; 164 pages.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5½" by 8½".

Reading, MA/London: Addison-Wesley, 1959. Basic calculus text with, the author & publisher hope, a fresh & vital approach to the subject; chapters 12-5 are the same as the author's Introductory Calculus. One of the publisher's Mathematics Series. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows light wear, some foxing/spotting to page edges & endsheets, minor smudge on one page, ink name & address on free endsheet, business card laid in - the owner was Chief Engineer in the Diesel Engine Department at Fairbanks Morse; jacket shows some rubbing, short tears, chips, creases. Text clean; xv, blank, 458 pages; index, appendix, answers, many equations & figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.

Pittsfield, MA: Eaton Paper Corporation, 1947 Miniature book in full brown leather, gilt title. Light edgewear, small scuff on front, binding a bit loose, name and address on first page. Attractively printed in brown & gray, with a small woodcut seasonal vignette above each month, interspersed with blank pages for memos. 'Designed by Janet L. Jahn of Eaton Paper Corporation and printed on its Press, in limited edition...' presumably as a keepsake gift for clients of the company.. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 2¾" by 3½".

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948. Quotes and notes through time on British manners, arts, theatre, gardens, culture. Hardcover, no date, but the intro is dated 1948. Light wear to book, some faded spots where the jacket is chipped, bookplate, endsheets badly tanned, jacket chipped, lightly rubbed with stain to rear panel, a few short tears; minor tears to gutter at title page. Text clean; xiii, blank, 476 pages; indexes.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. Scholarly yet readable study of the lives, training, labor conditions, and prospects of early western gold miners, covering the first twenty-five years of the phenomenon. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Scholar Allan Bogue's copy, with his pencilled name & a few notes on the front endsheets. Book shows light wear, corners & spine ends lightly bumped; jacket torn & chipped with a few scuffs; title page is a cancel (replaced by the publisher, likely due to a printing error). Text appears clean; xvi, 380 pages; index, note on sources, appendices, b/w plates & maps all present.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1911. Anthology of verse & prose accompanying often-related photos of California architecture & natural beauty; authors include Joaquin Miller, George Wharton James, Charlotte Perkins [Gilman] Stetson, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Adeline Knapp, Olive Harper, John Muir, Stewart Edward White, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles Keeler; photographers include Oscar Maurer, Harold A. Taylor, Harold A. Parker, A. Putnam, Hermann O. Albrecht; subjects include San Diego Bay, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Carmel, San Francisco, Chinatown, Sierras, Yosemite, Sequoias, Lake Tahoe, Mt. Shasta. Oversize hardcover, as pictured, in the uncommon full 'suede' leather binding. Delicate covers show some scuffs, rubbing, small stains; text clean, no names or marks; v, blank, [75] pages, thick brown paper with 37 tipped-in sepia-tone plates, as called for. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good/No… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 Full burgundy cloth, gilt titling. Some edgewear, corners bumped, spine gilt dull, front cover gilt still bright. Some foxing, mostly on the front endsheets, title page and frontispiece, & last 15-20 pages. Jacket is edgeworn, with some loss at the corners and spine ends, couple of closed tears with associated creasing; irregular inch-by-half-inch hole with associated tears in spine, no loss of text, sort of mended with patch loosely taped in. xviii, 431 pages, index, 43 b/w plates, 4 charts, color frontispiece, a few diagrams in the text. Popular account of basic star-gazing with cultural and mythological history. Sections on the night sky at different seasons, chapters on the Milky Way, the Sun and each planet (no Pluto, of course); comets and meteors.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 6½" by 9".

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Breezy crime novel starring aristocrat Richard Rollison; here visiting South Africa in search of a woman. First British edition (first printing). Red hardcover, black titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing, minor fading to spine, light chips to head of spine, tiny tear to rear panel, minor stains. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo.

Wilmette, IL: Callaghan & Company, 1985. Digest of court decisions. Volume 125 only. Hardcover, full tan cloth blocked in red & Black, gilt titling. Light wear, smudges opposite title page; no jacket as issued. Text clean; xliv, 599 pages; index.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Wilmette, IL: Callaghan & Company, 1977. Digest of court decisions. Volume 79 only. Hardcover, full tan cloth blocked in red & Black, gilt titling. Light wear, smudges opposite title page; no jacket as issued. Text clean; xxiv, 540 pages; index.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1884. Early American edition of this thriller, a bestseller after its first appearance in Arrowsmith's Miscellany in late 1883, and cited by Emily Dickinson as a good read. Though dated 1884 on the title page, the books listed in our example's endsheet would date it to 1885, though of course they could be 'upcoming' titles - Holt first editions of the period are difficult to identify. One of the publisher's Leisure Hours Series, "works whose character is light and entertaining, though not trivial...not...unworthy of a place on the library shelves." Small hardcover, as pictured. Book shows some wear & rubbing, corners bumped, paper lightly tanned. Text clean; [4], 254 pages plus a handy leaf at the beginning for librarians to clip out & paste to card catalogs; endsheets listing other publisher's titles. . Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

Springfield: McLoughlin Bros. 1937 Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Large Octavo. Some browning on first few and last few pages. Foxing on rear end sheet. Top and bottom edges of jacket are chipped, including two nickel-sized chips. Jacket is browned. Illustrated. Full color tipped-in frontispiece. 190 pages..

Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1967. Technical study. Light wear to book; jacket edgeworn & lightly chipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.

New York / London: Macmillan Company, 1904. "Special edition" of this novel of the building of a Chicago grain elevator by a Competent Man, deeply inspirational to Ayn Rand, who later called it her favorite novel; the authors were both prolific Evanston authors who collaborated on two other books. Hardcover, as pictured; first published three years earlier - it's not clear what makes this printing "special", but it's the fourth Macmillan printing, after its initial serialization in the Saturday Evening Post in 1901. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket. General wear, minor stains, front endsheets & page edges foxed, rubberstamped ex-libris name (litigious Michigan landowner Fanny R. S. Balen) on title page, minor damage & light stains to a few pages. Text clean; [6], 345 pages, drawing & a few figures.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Edwards. Duodecimo.

Kansas City / New York: Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1987. Early (third) printing of this first collection of the phenomenal cartoon, starring Calvin and his tiger, Hobbes. Introduction by Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame. Paperback, color covers. Hint of wear to edges, one corner with tiny crease, light crease to upper rear cover, slight nicks to page edges, light bend to whole book near spine. Text clean; 128 pages.. Later Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Bill Watterson. 8½" by 9".