Search Results: Titles starting with C from Aardvark Rare Books

Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good (dustjacket) / Very Good (slipcase). Octavo, 9.4 in. x 6.2 in., pp. 313. Limited edition #399/500, signed by the author on bound presentation page. White cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to fore-edges of dustjacket. White slipcase lightly rubbed and shows light age-toning. "Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names (each used only once) included Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. xxvii, 771 pages. Color frontis, 31 plates. Blue cloth wih gilt design of gold pan, pick and shovel on cover, spine titles in gilt on black background with gilt border. Large thick octavo. Nice bright cover with very light edgewear. In the original plain white paper dust jacket which is in a mylar protector. Indespensible bibliographic sourcebook for the period.

San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1937. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good / None. Tall Quarto , covered in elaborately marbled boards of brown, orange, red and silver, with fine-printed spine label. No jacket. First published in London in 1839, by Smith, Elder and Co., Master printer John Henry Nash undertook a project to reset and reprint this important California classic. Introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestley. Letter from Dr. John Forbes (the author's brother) to the printer, preceding Alexander's dedication. Facsimile of Alexander Forbes' signature, preceding Introduction. Ten illustrations, including frontis. Large folding map of California at end of work. Howes in Usiana writes: "First book in the English language devoted exclusively to California and of permanent value on its Indians and early missions" (F-242). Very slight rubbing to corners, Spine (and label) somewhat darkened. [xxxi], 229. Large folding map at rear.

Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Matching set of four volumes: Quarto, 10.25 in. x 6.8 in. Illustrated with black and white photographs and other engravings. Faux leather covers with stamped trees and capital building in blind to covers. Title and volume number embossed in blind to spine. Gilt top-edge. Light shelf-wear to top/bottom of spines. Marbled endpapers. No interior marks. Volume I: pp. xlvi, 569. Volume II: pp. x, 590. Volume III: pp. 581. Volume IV: pp. 579. Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868-1966) was an eminent California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of the Pacific, and prolific author. He was named Mr. California by Governor Goodwin Knight in 1954. Hunt was born in Sacramento, California. He received his bachelor's degree from Napa College in 1890 and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1895. He taught economics at the University of Southern California starting in 1908, and served as… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good Minus / Good Only. C.E. Millard. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 298. Illustrated with nineteen ink drawings. Burnt orange cloth boards with green cactus and title to front and spine. Untrimmed fore-edge. Rubbing to extremities. Circular white stains from moisture to front board. Corners bumped. Rubbing and creasing to dustjacket edges; chips and small tears to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Light moisture stain to front of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. During her brief writing career, Monica Shannon (1905?-65) produced a variety of children's books and won the prestigious Newbery Medal. Shannon was born in Belleville, Ont., but moved to the United States before her first birthday. The appreciation of nature she developed while growing up on a ranch in the Bitter Root Valley of the Rocky Mountains was later reflected in her books. She attended schools in Washington, Idaho, and California, and worked as a librarian at the Los… Read More

Newtown, PA: T.S. Kenderdine, 1888. Hardcover. Good. T.S. Kenderdine. Octavo, 8.7 in. x 6,3 in., pp. 415, {1}. Illustrated with tissue-guarded engraved frontis and thirty-eight additional engravings. Dark brown pebblecloth with elaborate frame stamped in blind and gilt title and "tramp" scene in gilt to front. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; surface scuffs to boards. Fraying to head- and tailcap of spine. Corners nudged. Front and rear hinges started, but holding. Light age-toning to unmarked interior.(Howes K-78). Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (1836-1922) made his way from Philadelphia to Michigan in 1858, staying only a month before he determined to head to California. He remained for only a year, returning to New York in 1859. A California tramp (1888) describes Kenderdine's adventures in 1858-1859: his trip west as a driver on a California wagon train, visits to San Francisco and life as tramp and ranch hand in Sonoma County. His memoir closes with his return via Panama in 1859. The last… Read More

San Francisco, CA: John Howell, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large Folio, half-bound in dark-brown morocco (goat) over brown buckram, ruled in gilt. One of 100 copies upon Alexandra Japan paper. LACKS the following accompaniments: 1) Portfolio with extra plates, 2) Original California newspaper; 3) Original document or letter. Printed by A. Carlisle & Co., successors of Britton & Rey, from whose establishment most of the lithographs here reproduced were originally issued. No 62 of 100. Errata slip tipped in at colophon page (rear). Howes W164, "aa." A fine collection of early California lithographs reproduced in book format, with useful descriptive text.

San Francisco, CA: The California Promotion Committee / The Tomoye Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Only. Octavo. Paper over grey boards (7 7/8 in. x 5 1/2 in.) with book cloth covering spine (on old repair, most likely) White label paste-on with red lettering within green outline of railroad car on the tracks, to front board. scuffing, soiling and staining to boards, worn corners and general shelf-wear and sunning. Replacement paper label to spine, sunned, cracked and only partially there. Last letters of Roosevelt's name ("SEVELT") in pen. The text of fifty-two addresses delivered in the State of California on a major state tour during much of May, 1903.Frontis photo of the President at mid-term. (Tissue guard torn out and missing). Nineteen photographic illustrations. Age toning to text. Bookseller's ticket (Newbegin's, San Francisco) to rear pastedown.

London, England: Printed for J. Buckland, in Pater-noster Row; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; W. Davis, in Sackville-Street; and W. Gregg, at Exeter, 1772. Pamphlet. Very Good. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Paper remnants on spine. Edges neatly trimmed. Original stab-holes present. Octavo, 8" x 5 1/4." pp. [4], 72. Pages clean, very lightly tanned. (ESTC T53487). Micaiah Towgood (1700-1792) was a dissenting minister in Exeter. In this pamphlet, he summarizes the arguments he made in Letters to [John] White, his most known publication. The arguments made therein represent classic nonconformist views. (Wikipedia).

Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Leatherbound . Rubbing and leather abrasion to edges and corners. Cracking and peeling to spine. Front hinge partially detached, and rear loose. Can be professionally repaired. Ask us for quote. "Splendidly Illustrated with over 100 Fine Portraits and Beautiful Engravings", of which 80 are non-battle illustrations, including a very detailed and tissue-guarded double frontis of "The Scout" and on recto, General Ulysses S. Grant. 23 illustrations of Battle Scenes from the Civil War. The book is divided up into four sections: PART I: Narratives of Spies, Scouts, and Detectives; PART II: Daring Enterprises of Officers and Men; PART III: INCIDENTS OF ARMY LIFE IN CAMP, FIELD AND HOSPITAL; and PART IV: DEEDS OF HEROIC COURAGE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. Interesting section entitled: "The Conduct of The Colored Troops" about the general bravery of Negro soliders in the U.S. Civil War.

London, England: Benjoamin Franklin Stevens, 1888. Hardcover. Good Plus. Matching set of two: Octavo, 10.25 in. x 6.5 in., Volume I: pp. xxix, [1], 507; Volume II: pp. 465. Brown cloth boards. Gilt-framed title and gilt anchor emblem to spine. Publisher's gilt topstain. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped. Dents to fore-edge of boards of Volume I. A few small dark stains to back board of Volume I. Previous owners' signatures to front free endpapers. Hinges and spines tight. Sir Henry Clinton (1730 - 1795) succeeded Major General Sir William Howe as commander-in-chief of the British army in America in May 1778 after serving three years under Howe and, before him, under Major General Thomas Gage. A temperamental commander, Clinton understood the full strategic and tactical scope of the War for Independence as few other Britons did — though he was unable to turn that insight into victory... Clinton's attempts to enact a southern strategy to end the war were… Read More

Edmonton, Canada: Reidmore Pocol, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Small Folio, 12 in. x 9.25 in., pp. 127. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated with dozens of color plates. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to edges of boards. Rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. From the authors website: "I began my love affair with mountains when, as a 12-year-old, when I was offered a choice by a grad student I'd done some babysitting for: take the five bucks, or tag along on a climb of Oregon's Mt. Washington. I chose the mountain. I was completely hooked. I immediately enlisted my closest friends, and off we went, clambering every face, spire, and peak we could find in the Cascades. Lucky to survive those early years of climbing, eventually, I branched out, climbing in Yosemite Valley, then on to Norway, the Alps, the Rockies, the Purcells and Selkirks, and the Himalaya. Along the way I published numerous books on mountains and mountaineering, and… Read More

Portland, OR: Charles Garvin, 1979. First Edition. Single, folded sheet. Near Fine. Single folded sheet. Ascribed to Howard by Michael Horvat (publisher) after discovery in a book, Glenn Lord questions whether this is really a Howard poem (Herman 2006, pp. 156, 397). Who's to know, in the squirrelly self-interest-ruled and ego-driven universe of credit, attribution and legacy. For this reason, this small, one-folded-sheet poem is being offered and sold, ONLY as a fine-press single-folded sheet poem by an author named R.E. Howard, published (and signed) by Charles Garvin of Portland, Oregon in 1979. Nothing more.

Santa Fe, NM: FishDrum Magazine Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback, 8 in. x 5.25 in., pp. xxi, 148. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page. White cardstock covers with black line drawing of cross and title to front and spine. Light soiling to covers. Gentle thumbing; half-inch crease on lower rear corner. Eli Sagan (March 3, 1927 - January 4, 2015) was an American businessman who headed one of the nation's largest manufacturers of outerwear for young women, an autodidact in cultural sociology who wrote several widely reviewed books on the subject and a political activist who served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973. His extensive readings in anthropology and psychology led Sagan to write on the subject of cultural anthropology. He authored several books on the subject, including 1985's At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism,… Read More

Tacoma, WA: John H. Wiliams, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 9.6 in. x 6.5 in., pp. xxvi, 332. Illuatrated with sixteen color plates with captioned tissue-guards and more than 100 other illiustrations. Quarter vellum over burgundy cloth boards with gilt emblem to front. Gilt tile with arrow and canoe design to spine. Gilt topstain. Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Light shelfwear to extremities. Title page in red and black ink. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Light age-toning to pages. Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop (1828 - June, 1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. Winthrop's novels, for which he had failed to find a publisher during his lifetime, appeared posthumously. They include John Brent, Edwin Brothertoft, a story of the American Revolution. Cecil Dreeme, a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with social mores and gender roles, and The Canoe and the Saddle (first… Read More

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 306. Illustrated with many black and white ink drawings. Endpapers illustrated in black. Sixteen page gatherings. Spine imprint in semi-script. (Bienvenue 118; Hanff 101). Dark blue cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of Captain Salt with two others steering a boat. Black title and sailing ship to spine. Publisher's yellow to edges. Rubbing to extremities; dark staining to rear board. Hinges a bit tender but no splitting. Tape scars to rear pastedown. Unmarked interior.

Wilmington, Delaware: Printed and sold by James Adams, in High-Street, 1790. Fourth Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. 8vo. Full calf. Missing leather title label. Marbled edges. xi, 134, [1], 135-299, [1], 13, [3] p; Some toning to pages, but very light. Edwards was theologian, philosopher and revivalist preacher, who is remembered as the archetypal "fire and brimstone" preacher. While many European scientists and American clergymen found the implications of science pushing them towards deism, Edwards went the other way, and saw the natural world as evidence of God's masterful design, and throughout his life, he participated and helped coordinate the First Great Revival with George Whitefield, who was traveling the Thirteen Colonies on a revival tour in 1739-40. Edwards studied the process of conversion in all its phases and varieties, and he recorded his observations with psychological minuteness and discrimination in "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God". ESTC Citation W18764.… Read More

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Helen Blair. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.8 in., pp. 224. Illustrated with frontis and five additional plates in coral and black. Cornflower blue cloth boards with circular emblem of woman in dark blue to front, and dark blue title to spine. Very light shelfwear to board edges. Title page in coral and black ink. Light age toning to pages. Several small closed tears to edges of dustjacket. Sunning to dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar.

Florence, Italy: Giulio Giannini & Son, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 93 pages. Frontis, 24 full page illustrations which apply to the poems. Specially bound with three small leather bands with cover title decorated and illuminated by hand in an illuminated design in a Renaissance motif. Chip and small tear along top corner of spine, toning to spine and some darkening along front edge. Short gift inscription to front endpaer and date [Florence, Italy. 1946] in ink on bottom of front endpaper. Text clean. Must assume this was a special binding of the book bought in Florence. Scarce.

Rochester, New York: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1933. First Edition. Leather_bound. Near Fine. Quarto, measuring 10.25" x 7.25". Black leather, with bright gilt titling to spine, and gilt seal of The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company at bottom of spine. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 1292 pp. Very light rubbing to extremities. Sections of book divided into four "books": Book I: The Jurisdiction of Equity; Book II: Principles of Adjudication; Book III: Equitable Rights; Book IV: Equitable Remedies. An Index of Cases Reported found at front of book, and general Index at rear. Tight and bright. The author acknowledges his legal predecessors who have amply written about the larger aspects of Equity -- i.e., Trusts, Mortgages, Partnership, as well as ancillary topics deriving from those above-mentioned aspects, such as Assignments, Estoppel, Contribution and Subrogation. Rather he would suggest bringing this fore-knowledge to bear upon his selection of demonstrative… Read More