Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Second Shelf

Ann Arbor Michigan: Burning Deck, 1970. First edition. Oblong 4to. Publisher's original orange printed limp card wraps with cloth spine. Minor edgewear, but essentially a very good copy indeed. Internally clean, signed by Rosemarie Waldrop, founder of Burning Deck, to the title page. A scarce collection of concrete poetry by James Camp, beautifully presented by the tiny cottage publication house run by Rosemarie and her partner Keith from the early 60's until 2017. An important piece.

London: Homes and Gardens;Woman and Home, 1964. A time capsule Sixties wardrobe in four sewing patterns, each in original mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. L. K. Lloyds 1964-67. The sizes of patterns was written on the front of the mailing envelope, perhaps a deterrent to mail ordering for some. 1964 Homes and Gardens No. 5118, a minimalist skirt and top set with asymmetric detail, size 40. 1965 Homes and Gardens No. 5147 a minimalist dress with knot belt detail, size 38. 1965 Homes and Gardens No. 5143, a three-piece simple Chanel-style suit with trim on the jacket, size 38. 1967 Woman and Home B 388, a back-zip panelled dress with alternate roll, v or tie necklines, size 40/42. Lloyd also placed in the pattern envelope two full page ads from a magazine featuring two models wearing the dresses, which were for the "novice dressmaker", as perhaps she was still! During the period, Lloyds was primarily in Birmingham. Each envelope 15 x 22.5, envelopes show wear, pattern pieces and instructions all in… Read More

New York: Random House, 1973. Uncorrected First Proof copy. Octavo. 190pp. Publisher's red paper wraps titled in black to front cover. Some light scuffing, and a couple of spots of grubbiness to the covers, but essentially a clean, tight copy. Internally clean, a pencil annotation "April..?" to the title page. A scarce proof copy of the first book on Black reparations and which Morrison guided into print as an editor at Random House. Written by a white professor at Yale, Morrison felt the book was "an important contribution to the fledgling reparations debate." A significant proof on its own, of a book that was an origin point for the intellectual debate about reparations for many decades, but also because it documents Morrison's incredible tenure and astute publishing history during her tenure at Random House. Necessarily scarce.

New York: Simplicity Pattern Co., Inc., 1978. Patterns for three "girls' costumes" sizes 12 and 14, to be made in superhero satin. Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman TV series, airing from 1975-79 was hugely influential, finally making being a Superhero definitely on the cards for girls in the 1970's. Copyrighted directly by arrangement with DC Comics Inc. 1978. Original envelope has light discolouration to the back, pattern and instructions look unused, with Wonder Woman's stars, Batgirl's bats all uncut. 14.5 x 21 cm. In very good condition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. With original band, some small nicks. English adaption by Barbara Burnham, first edition in English. 96 pages. 18.5 x 11 x 1. Paperback. Very good condition.An English language adaption of the play Gestern und heute which about a young lesbian's feelings for her schoolteacher which lead to suicide. Also produced as a film, Mädchen in Uniform, with an all female cast. The film was heavily censored for decades following its release and Winsloe lived in exile, continuing to write plays with lesbian and and gay themes. Winsloe and her partner Simone Gentet were murdered in France in 1944, just at the time of the liberation. An important work.

A gentle seasonal adventure as three preteens try to make the best of an isolated snowy Christmas in the Chiltern Hills while taking care of a 4 year old relative and avoiding a scary neighbour. All comes right in the end! Illustrated by Lynette Hemmant, this is the publisher's file copy.
J. M. Dent, 1970. Hardback. 20 x 13.5 cm. 90 pages. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. First edition. Publication date and price handwritten on front free endpaper, along with File stamp. Very good book in very good jacket.

The Climate of Belief is the author's second novel, completed when she was just twenty-two, after a difficult childhood of abuse and suicide attempts. Jennifer Lash, later Jini Fiennes, wrote this at the beginning of her life, before taking a 15-year-break from writing to raise children, including filmmakers Sophie and Martha and actors Ralph and Joseph. The Climate of Belief is three-way drama between a monk, his Abbot, and a young woman, Isabella Barton, and explores faith and religion.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First edition, publisher's file copy. Hardback. 192 pages. 15 x 13 x 2. Some small marks and scuffs to dust jacket. Very good in very good jacket.

Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1918. First edition. Limited to 750 copies. Red and white floral patterned card wraps, some age related darkening but still very bright. Slight wear on edges and spine. Tightly bound. Text printed in the Arts and Crafts style, carved initial caps. Some slight foxing, mostly in the title and dedication pages. Overall in very good condition. This is Edith's Sitwell's second poetry collection.

A comic and camp original musical adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbon's best known novel and one of the funniest ever written. Miller was best known as writer of "Dames at Sea" which helped launch Bernadette Peters's career. Faris was a distinguished conductor and composer of film and TV music (Georgy Girl, Upstairs Downstairs). Never known to be performed, no other known copies. Two act play with 17 musical numbers, lyrics only included here.
London, privately printed, no date, likely 1970s. 100 pages. 25.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm. Playscript, stapled, bound with black tape, sunned green card cover with typed label. Some fading, light mark to back cover, in very good condition.

Radical children's publishing! Come in is a sophisticated look at family life, showing distrust of the ordered life of suburbia. Dehn used her own married name Markham for the family she describes. This is an atypical and slightly surreal work from children's author, poet and political activist Olive Dehn. llustrator Kathleen Gell went on to illustrate many books including Enid Blyton titles.
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1946. Unpaginated. 25 x 19 x 1.5 cm. First edition. Hardback. Illustrated with lithographic designs and pictoral cover. Book printed in two colours. Six copies found in WorldCat, only 1 in the US (Bryn Mawr). Minor tears to jacket, book and dust jacket in very good condition.

The Coral Sea is rocker and writer Patti Smith's vision of Robert Mapplethorpe's life, in a series of related pieces. The work is somewhere on that Patti Smith borderline of prose and poetry. Performed live several times and in 2008 released as an album.
New York: Norton, 1997. 71 pages. 20.5 x 20.5 x .5cm. First edition. Paperback. In very good condition, no dust jacket as issued.

London: Richards Phillips, 1810. Beautiful and incredibly scarce collection of Regency fashion plates from subscription magazine illustrated with 185 engraved plates, 181 hand-colored and an additional hand-colored allegorical vignette on title page.Rare to find such a large grouping of plates, bound in a single volume, although bound rather haphazardly (several plates out of order, issues run from issue no. 88, May 1805 – no. 142 followed by a number of undated plates from 1810-11).Octavo, half-calf paneled binding with marbled paper inset matching marbled endpapers. Original wrappers not bound in. Also included is one issue of 'La Belle Assemblee', March 1808 with Lady in a Parade Dress in Hyde Park. Internally a little foxed, repairs in inner hinges to (unconvincingly) match the marbled endpapers. Plates in remarkably bright condition. Scarce.

London: Constable, 1988. First edition. Hardcover, 213 pp. Black cloth binding near fine. Dust jacket shows some sun fading on the spine, otherwise very good. Includes two press clippings from the year of publishing of the book. Spark's autobiography! Spark covers her interest in religion, how autobiographical her novels are, and shares a fair amount of family history as well as her interests in literature, craft and reading.