Search Results: Titles starting with C from Peruse the Stacks

Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good first edition hardcover in good jacket with fading to spine, and some wear and chipping at the spine ends. Quite scarce. From the library of professor, sinologist, and author, Gordon A. Bennett, whose signature is on the ffep. Book is entirely printed in both Chinese and English languages.

[Santa Cruz]: Cabrillo Music Festival, 1982. 23x16", mounted on 1/2" particle board and framed. Design by Nanette Maysonave and signed by 9 participants. Fine condition. Colorful poster from the 20th Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz August 19th-29th, 1982.  The festival was founded in 1963 by Lou Harrison to showcase the work of contemporary American composers and is still a major event in the world of new music some 60 years later.   This poster was signed by 9 participants in the festival including soprano, Jena Ruchek; American-Mexican composer, Conlon Nancarrow who is remembered for his Studies for Player Piano; guest conductor that year, Uri mayer; composer and theorist, John Cage; composer and conductor of the Santa Cruz symphony, George Barati; conductor of the festival, Dennis Russell Davies; bass-baritone, Wolfgang Schöne; composer and founder of the festival, Lou Harrison; and one other unidentified signee.  The poster, depicting a brightly colored staff and paint-splatter… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 250 signed copies, this being #113. Fine in publisher's red cloth in matching slipcase.

Scarecrow Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with light soiling to front board, else fine.

Méjico: Oficina del Autor, 1820. First edition. 9.5x7.5cm, [32]pp. Vignette woodcuts of the phases of the moon throughout. Saddle stitched in modern decorative paper wrappers. Few instances of staining to pages else very good. Charming pocket almanac from Mariano José de Zúñiga y Ontiveros (1749-1825), Colonial Mexican philomath and surveyor.  Ontiveros published a series of these almanacs as well as other works on weather prediction, apparitions and manifestations of the Virgin Mary, and others.  This iteration, as stated in the preface, is published in the 2nd year of the new Spanish Constitution during the Trienio Liberal, year 14 of the reign of Ferdinand VII, year 290 of the Miraculous Apparition of Our Lady de Guadalupe, and other important dates, generally following Roman Martyrology.  Lists phases of the moon with illustrations, month by month, astronomical signs, weather patterns, feast and holidays, etc.  A fascinating and scarce object from the tail end of Colonial… Read More

[San Francisco]: The California Historical Society, 1973. Poster, 21x16" printed in black on light brown paper. Signed in the lower right by Leah Garchik (perhaps a printed signature), who likely designed the poster. Few light wrinkles from rolling. Near fine. Poster for a cinemagraphic memorial to Japanese-American relocation during WWII which was created by students and faculty at the University of Delaware.  The program was sponsored in California by the Historical Society and likely put on at various schools and institutions.  We find mention of one showing cosponsored with the Cal State, Northridge History Club in 1973.  The show was described by The Van Nuys News as: "a three-projector slide show of pictures chosen from the National Archives' War Relocation Authority Collection, followed by two propaganda films made by the War Relocation Authority to convince Americans that the internment of Japanese-Americans was necessary to national security." OCLC notes just the copy at the… Read More

Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1971. First edition. Poster, 34x23" printed in two colors on thicker stock. Some pin holes at corners, few light smudges else nicely preserved. Nicely designed, large poster for an exhibition at the Oakland Museum in 1971 of early California materials from overland diaries to maps and books.  At the head of the poster is King Ferdinand VI of Spain's famous proclamation of 1747.

Georgetown, TX: Wailes Gray, 1934. First edition. 6 vols., 8vos, 25x16cm, 32, 37, 34 (proof), 40, 52, and 49pp. chronologically. Wood block illustrations. Staple bound, printed wrappers, yapped edges, varying in design and color, proof copy sans wrappers. Generally very good with wear and soiling to wraps. Five of six issues of this important, regional literary magazine published by the husband and wife team of Wailes and Eunice Gray (although credited as Albert in the publication) of Georgetown, TX. The Calithump was published monthly from March to September of 1934, with no issue appearing in August. A blurb from the Marshall [TX] News Messenger, April 8th, 1934, described the publication as "a liberal literary journal... printed in an attic on ten dollars worth of type, but is a very neat piece of work with pleasing typography." The Grays were helped in their publishing efforts by fellow Southwestern University attendee and Texas novelist, George Sessions Perry, who spent just a year at the… Read More

Edinburgh, Scotland: Robert Grant & Son, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this collection of Celtic ghost stories from the Scottish author, minister, and veteran of WWI, Charles Warr. Inscribed, "To Lady ___, with every good wish from The Author," and dated. Very good in green boards with gold cross design and lettering on front cover and spine. Wear and rubbing to spine ends and corners, else fine and clean.

Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing of this book, signed by former president, Jimmy Carter on the title page. Near fine, unread book in very good jacket with rubbing to edges and corners.

U.S.A.: Tor Books, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in like jacket with very light edge wear. Unread copy. First printing.

Madrid: Alfaguara, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition thus, Spanish language edition. Printed by Alfaguara, Spain. Near fine in publisher's illustrated wraps with some rubbing at heel of spine, but still in shrink wrap. From L'Engle's personal library, though containing no ownership markings.

New York: Crowell, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stated first printing (thus) of this revised edition, which was originally published as Camilla Dickenson in 1951. Near fine with lightly bumped upper corner. No jacket. Though not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal library of the author.

Vienna: Carl Uberreuter, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First German edition of this novel from L'Engle, originally published in the US as Camilla Dickinson in 1951, and then as Camilla in 1965. Fine copy in a fine jacket, and though containing no ownership markings, this copy comes from the library of Madeleine L'Engle herself. Laid in is a publisher's order form postcard.

Delacorte Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing thus of the Delacorte edition. Near fine in like jacket. Though not marked as such, this copy is from the personal library of Madeleine L'engle.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First British edition of this novel from L'engle, and though not marked as such in any way, comes from the author's personal library. Very good with some toning to spine and foredge of front board. Jacket shows a bit of rubbing at spine ends and corners and is otherwise nicely preserved. Oddly, a circular portion of the author photo on the rear flap has been neatly trimmed out, presumably, by L'engle herself. Perhaps she wasn't particularly happy with the photo? Otherwise a nice copy of a scarce book from the author's own library.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good first printing hardcover in scarce very good jacket with some wear and light chipping to spine ends and corners. Signed bookplate from L'engle affixed to ffep.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Scarce first british edition of this novel from L'engle. Good book with foxing to edges of boards and spine, as well as endpapers and pages near the end and beginning. Scarce jacket is in Fair condition, missing the top 1.5" of inner front flap, heavy wear and chipping to spine ends and corners.

[Washington, D.C.]: The Camp Fire Girls, 1916. Broadside, 39x21cm, thin and brittle wood grain paper, printed in black and red. Signed by Gulick and secretary, Elsie M. Evans. Moisture staining to bottom half, most prominent on verso, chipping to edges,3" tear from top edge, else good. Very scarce certificate from the early years of the youth organization founded by Luther H. Gulick (1865-1918), which began as an all-girls group meant to mirror the Boy Scouts of America, originally called The Camp Fire Girls.   Gulick was also a founding member of the phys. ed. dept. at Springfield College, where he challenged a young James Naismith to invent a youth game suitable for indoors play during the offseason.  He later helped spread and popularize Naismith's innovative game, basketball.  Gulick, being in the Naismith Hall of Fame, is an important signature and also one that is incredibly elusive.  .

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Deluxe edition, limited to 1000 signed copies. Near fine in like jacket.