Search Results: Authors starting with C from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Hyperion. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 0786866861 . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .

San Francisco. Very Good. 1924. Ephemera. Half-inch closed tear to bottom edge of left fold line. Envelope with closed tears right edge where letter opened. ; 7.25" x 8.5" engraved letterhead on blue paper with matching blue envelope. Addressed to Mr. R. Wood, Empress Theater, 28th & Church St. , San Francisco. "Gentlemen-, We are inclosing herewith blank statement, to be used in giving us report of your box office receipts on MERRY GO ROUND . . . " Signed by C. A. Nathan. .

Torino: E.P.R. Della Sipra (1950's). Very Good. 1950. Wraps. Square 8vo. Grey wrappers. Forty-eight examples of Italian wine labels from 1860 to 1937, though most are dated in the nineteenth century. Each label tipped in, one per page including front and back covers, with accompanying text in Italian. Corner loss on cover label; minor tanning at extremities; otherwise, very good condition. .

RIVAGES. Fine. 1997. Softcover. 2743602813 . Text in French .

Silver City, New Mexico: Privately Printed. Near Fine. 1927. Limited Edition. Softcover. Light offset from frontis on facing page; offset tanning to dedication and facing page from something that was once laid in like an article. ; Printed, stapled tan wraps; tipped-in frontis photograph. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 39 pages; "This little book of allegorical contrasts had its genesis in the social contacts of the Prairie State" (Foreword) Chapters include: Capital and Labor, Joy and Grief, Justice and Injustice, Love and Hate, Faith and Rejection . . . Printed by the Wagoner Printing Co. , Galesburg, Ill. For Helen M. Calkins. Numbered 127 of two hundred copies printed. Scarce. .

N.Y.: Scarecrow Press. 1962. Hardcover. 421 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth. Oceania; Melanesia; Micronesia; Polynesia. Ex-lib; small spine marking; label; otherwise very good condition .

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press. Near Fine. 1947. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 260 copies. 106pp.; 4to; bound in gold-color decorated boards, tan cloth back with paper spine label printed in black; folding chart p. 64 showing a Check List of Casserly's, Daily True Standard, and Buckelew's Balance Sheets. Spine label with age toning. .

Top Shelf Productions. Fine. 2010. Softcover. 1603090258 . Yellow self-wrapppers. A Visual Autobiography, black & white comic panels throughout tell the story. ; 9.9 X 7.5 X 1.9 inches; 640 pages .

Privately Printed. Very Good. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Tan wraps printed in blue with cover drawing in blue by Alan Ferdinand Bair. Foxing to spine and top edges; light to faint occasional foxing to top of text pages. Signed by the author over her printed name on title page. Together with the 1984 reprint by Bob Barth with new poems, in fine condition.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s) .

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Near Fine. 1966. Softcover. 226pp., includes bibliographie; 8vo; printed wrappers. Text in French. Moderate soil, mainly to white back panel; pages largely unopened. From the series: "galien" Histoire et Philosphie de la biologie et de la medicine collection dirigee par Georges Canguilhem, Professeur a la Sorbonne. .

The American Institute of Architects. Near Fine. 1982. Softcover. Red wrappers with light wear. Features: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years, a timeline putting AIA's history in the context of the times and national world affairs; 6 from 125, Readers nominate the best American buildings of the Institutes life span.; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall .

Boston & Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company & Jewett Proctor and Washington. Fair. 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. WITHOUT MAP. 356pp.; 12mo; original brown cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt. Wear with loss to spine ends; spine gilt dulled; front endpaper partially glued to pastedown, showing stains, a booksellers handstamp; couple of signatures sprung but binding othwerwise firm. Decent working copy. According to the Preface: In April, 1853, the author proceeded to California, as the commercial agent of several extensive mercantile houses in New York city. In the discharge of his commission he visited the principal cities and villages of the state . . . He also traversed various parts of the mining regions and sojourned with the miners." Also gives a description of San Francisco and its lurid side. [Kurutz: 116; Cowan II, p. 104] .

The Live Forever Folk. Very Good. 1922. First Edition. Softcover. 140 pp.; 8vo; blue wrappers with yapp edges lettered in gilt; web patterned glassine endpapers. Rear endpapers with leading corner crease; covers with light chips & closed tears to yapp edges, crease to front cover leading lower corner; one inch close tear foot of spine; light toning to extremities. A Non-Sectarian Magazine devoted to an unprejudiced consideration of all Religions and particularly engaged in publishing authoritative expositions of Mentalism, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Occultism, Psychology, Spiritualism, Numerology, Astrology, . . . Esoteric Christianity, considered in the light of Human Engineering. .

Solesmes. Fine. 1982. Softcover. 2852740672 . 253pp., includes index of examples, bibliographical references; 8vo; brown wrappers. English tranlation of: Semiologia gregoriana (in Italian); also translated into French, and published in Études grégoriennes, tomb 11, 1970, under the title, Semiologie grégorienne. .

Bruxelles: Edition Claude Van Loock. Fine. 2000. Softcover. Illustrated brown wrappers; 19 full page half-tone illustrations follow the text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages; 'With compliments' card from the publisher laid in, along with photocopy of a holograph letter from the recipient, bookseller Bernard Rosenthal, on his letterhead, thanking Claude Van Loock for the book. .

Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. Fine. 1908. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 1075 pp., portrait frontis; 8vo; green cloth lettered in gilt; top edge stained red; decorative endpapers; four folding facsimiles pages of manuscripts. In pencil, verso of front endpaper: "Ex-BMR", indicating the library of Bernard Rosenthal. Text in Italian, and one can imagine a discussion of Carducci over wine between BMR and IJ, in Italian. .

Mount Vernon: Golden Eagle Press. Near Fine. 1948. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Light orange boards lettered & decorated in gilt. Woodcut illustrations facing each poem. .

Vantage Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, in white dust jacket with moderate wear and soil. In protective mylar wrap. Carey, born in the United Kingdom in 1893, was taken to China when he was 10 years old, later being associated with the Shell-Royal Dutch Group, during which time he traveled extensively through China. During the Japanese occupation he was involved with many efforts to bring relief to the Allied nationals.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Carlo Petrini. Very Good. 2001. Softcover. 127 pp.; 4to; illustrated wrappers with French flaps; photographs throughout, chiefly in color; ads. Minor soil to covers with a few brown specs front cover. Includes: Thinking Hands; The Cheesmaker; The Lofoten Islands; Gastronomic Reserves, etc. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 400 copies issued. 53 pp.; 4to; printed and decorated dull purple paper over boards; black cloth back, in plain paper jacket. Frontis is a nicely reproduced folding map with border vignettes that was first included in Father Miguel Venegas's, 'Noticiia', 1757. Folding map in rear is the Map of California by Miguel Costanso, Mexico, 1771. These along with reproductions of manuscripts and a sketch of the Presidio of Monterey. .