Search Results: Titles starting with C from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

New York: Random House. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Facsimile; First Printing. Hardcover. Slipcase has slight wear to the corners at the opening, wear across the head end of the spine, and more wear and a short paper split at the tail end. Faint soil and an ink line on the bottom surface.; Written in 1762, Voltaire's classic Candide: or, Optimism is a satire featuring a young, French gentleman lurching through life, bemoaning his various ill fortunes, yet cheerfully optimistic about himself and living in "the best of all possible worlds." He discusses life and his own foibles, constantly, with his long-suffering companion and tutor Panglos. Witty and clever on the surface, the work is savage in its attacks on society, religion, the political establishment, and the philosophy of optimism. Those entrenched interests attacked Voltaire and Candide's content, earning him denouncement and scorn. This was in keeping with his life of abrading nearly all he encountered,… Read More

New York, NY: Burt Franklin. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly bumped.; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland has an impressive collection of incunabula donated from the collections of at least eight Archbishops, an entire library donated by the "English army in Ireland," another library of a Doctor of Divinity, and numerous smaller libraries from collectors. Originally published in 1905, this catalog of incunabula was compiled by the Trinity College's librarian and cataloger of manuscripts Reverend Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Lists bibliographic information and collation for 606 books. Eleven plates depict decorative capitals, printed leaves, illustrations, and a particularly fanciful illustration of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick that should frighten anyone into a sin-free life. Includes a Preface, List of Books Referred to, a Corrigenda of errors, Chronological Index from 1481-1500, Index of Printers and Places, Index of… Read More

City OF New York: Kurt H. Volk. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Front pastedown has a large rectangle of browning, likely from a previously removed bookplate. Some offsetting to front free endpaper. Slipcase has 3 small darkened areas, light wear to corners, nick to bottom edge, and the paper cover is somewhat darker than the book paper covers. ; A small collection of traditional Christmas carols: the lyrics being true to the original versions and not 'modernized.' Privately printed by the great typographer Kurt H. Volk, likely as one of the many seasonal keepsake books he set and printed for friends. No stated limitation. Finely printed on very pale green paper in darker green ink with the title of each carol printed vertically in red at the margin or at the gutter. Bound in quarter, dark green cloth with red, green, and white patterned paper over boards. Title in gilt to spine. Slipcase in paper matching the book covers. Very Good+ for the browning of front… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Privately Printed. Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The only book of its kind, this covers the history of, and the art and decorative pottery works of Brown County Pottery, Martz Potteries, Brown County Hills Pottery, all in or around the town of Nashville in Brown County, Indiana. Through much of the 20th Century, Brown County, Indiana was a haven to the famous Hoosier School painters, myriad other artists, and craftspeople who appreciated the wooded environment, low cost of living, and distance from the bustle of Indianapolis. For Walter and Helen Griffiths of Brown County Pottery, later reconstituted as Brown County Hills Pottery, the growing area tourism fostered a market for handmade artwares and "gift" pottery to take back to the city. For Karl Martz and Becky Brown Martz, the area was a supportive environment for their production of creative art pottery. This is the author's privately published first edition,… Read More

Helsington, York: Redbeck Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Very slightly thumbed at corners.; A collection of Chandler's characteristic, tiny, seemingly random prose paragraphs, 89 in total, some as short as a single sentence. Examples: "A gathering of albinos. / Who now dares to ask, Where are the snows of yesteryear?" "Dissonance of a high order could break out at any moment. Which of course enchants us. Draws us in. / But our technique is always there. At the ready. Keeping order. Effortlessly. / We are reassured. We are tickled pink!" Brossard was not a writer for the masses and challenging to read and absorb. The following are chapters and the number of paragraphs therein. Ch. I : 7, Ch. II : 5, Ch. III : 8, Ch. IV : 1, Ch. V : 7, Ch. VI : 12, Ch. VII : 21, Ch. VIII : 10, Ch. IX : 17, Ch. X : 1. One of an unnumbered edition of 500 copies. On off-white, wove paper with blue-gray, wove endpapers. Mould made card stock… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Very light foxing to endpapers, blanks, and title, occasional faint foxing in the pages. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Rubbed area to front cover cloth. ; Personal letters between Thackeray and his friends the Reverend W. H. and Jane Octavia Brookfield. Written in Thackeray's personally trying, desolate, and destitute times before the publishing of Vanity Fair and subsequent fame. Some letters are presented in entirety and some in excerpts, they shows the personal side of Thackeray and his relationships, daily life, European travel, etc. Reproductions of his drawings and many sometimes-humorous sketches he incorporated into his letters. Facsimile of a holograph letter of Thackeray's. Engraved frontis of Thackeray, plus several black and white plates. List of Illustrations and Index. "The letters contained in this volume are in the course of publication in Scribner's Magazine, and the… Read More

New York: G. K. Hall & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Stray, small, white marks at the tail of the rear cover. ; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning American author James Merrill wrote lyric poetry, Divine Comedies is an example and longer narrative work like The Charged Light at Sandover. Peripherally, he was an essayist and playwright. This book is an anthology of selected criticism of Merrill's poetry and essays and is comprised of eight reviews and eight essays by various authors. Well-indexed. Blue cloth over boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. First edition from G. K. Hall, not a reprint. Clean, crisp, sharp and new-looking. Near Fine condition due to the stray marks on the back cover.; Critical Essays on American Literature; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Ix, 256 pages .