Search Results: Authors starting with C from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Theodore Presser Co, Philadelphia PA, 1927. Hardcover with dust jacket, lime green boards with blue titling and hut in the woods image, sheet music carefully grouped by voice type, pp. 129, 30+ x 24+ cm, tan jacket with repeated hut motif. Condition is Near Fine in Good. Book has one board corner lightly bumped. text and music are clean with hint of tanning on some edge. Jacket (in protective mylar) is lacking in places, particularly at bottom edge and spine. A very tasteful 1920s production.

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phidalephia, 1969, First Edition, inscribed by author, pp. 73, blue leather spine (with gilt lettering), blue-green papered boards with pebbling pattern, gilt lettering. Good condition - some wear to corners on upper board, and upper board starting to "lift". Augustus Cass Canfield (April 26, 1897 – March 27, 1986) was an American publishing executive who was the longtime president and chairman of Harper & Brothers, later Harper & Row.

Chicago Tribune / Spadea Press, 1st Edition July 13th 1969. Newspaper section 8A pamphlet in the form of a "Make-It Yourself Book" supplement, 16-page booklet folded from 2 newsprint sheets (quarto), 10.5 x 7.3 in. In Near Very Good condition, light page toning, clean pages (uncut and unmarked), some separation along perforations where internal folds meet, color drawings are bright, dog ear on front cover, presented in mylar sleeve with cardboard backing to ensure it arrives undamaged. Written and illustrated by the highly respected Vic Cantone, later known for his political cartoons. Section 8A was a Sunday supplement appealing to children's creativity in addition to telling charming stories. Salty the Sea Horse saves the circus

J.W. Pepper, Philadelphia and Chicago, New Edition (Revise, Improved, Enlarged), copyright 1899. Board Covers, black back strip has been replaced with hand annotated fabric strip, pp. 209, 26 x 19 cm, "our specialty violins" advertisements on rear board, includes detailed dancing and calling instructions, the majority of pages are sheet music with annotations on figures etc. Condition is Good. In addition to the back strip replacement, the paper on the boards is worn and occasionally lacking, spotting on 1st few and last few pages, some cracking, but overall intact and text clean. Essential and uncommon work for students of folk dancing and its history.

*1st Printing* PUBLISHER: Doubleday; DATE: 2001; BINDING: Trade PB; CONDITION: Like New. Crisp copy,clean pages,tight binding.

Mantle (Pan McMillan imprint), London, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Ray Celestin on a tipped-in page (printed with "Signed by the Author" text). Hardcover with dust jacket, 535 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black boards with titling and series skull design, in bright yellow, jacket printed in magenta and orange with black skull motif. NEW (unread) - Condition is Fine in Fine. The final book in the City Blues Quartet Series, which charts the twin histories of jazz and the Mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century. Intricate jazz-soaked thrills featuring Louis Armstrong. Sunset Swing won BOTH CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year (2022) and CWA Historical Dagger for Historical Crime Novel of the Year (2022).

Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2001 (copyright 1994), Harvard Classics Millennium Edition, "Bound in Genuine Leather, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations", series edited by Charles W. Eliot. Hardcover, pp. 454, 9" x 6", red leather binding, elaborate tooling with gilt-stamped lettering & Harvard "Veritas" device, hubbed spine, all edges gilt accented (22 kt.), moire silk endpapers, satin attached page marker, tissue-guarded illustrations. In Fine condition.

HarperCollins, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2007, boldly signed by the author. Hardcover, pp. 411, 23 x 16 x 3 cm, black boards with decorated white spine. Dustjacket has art deco design in blue, red and black with embossed wax inside finish. Condition is Fine in Fine, with light bumping to bottom spine corners.

Harper Perennial, Special Limited Edition (to benefit the MacDowell colony) 2018, First Edition thus, First Printing, boldly Signed by the author. Hardcover, no jacket (as issued), pp. 175, 23 x 15 cm, light blue boards with whimsical title design in black and gold, yellow endpapers. A very attractive special edition to benefit the distinguished artists' colony in New Hampshire, of which Michael Chabon is the Chair. Together with his publisher Harper Collins, he donated 1,000 copies for this limitation.

*1st Ed (UK),1st Printing 1996* PUBLISHER: B.T.Batsford; BINDING: Trade PB; CONDITION: Like New. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding;

Delacorte Press (Penguin Random House), New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by both Lee and Andrew Child on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 325 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, yellow boards with gilt titling, jacket has red sky at night illustration on front and authors' photographs on rear. NEW, unread book. Condition is Fine in Fine. "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."—Ken Follett.

Delacorte Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2017, SIGNED by author. Hardcover, black boards with pictorial jacket, pp. 367, 9 x 6 inches, Very Fine in Very Fine. Lee Child is at his brilliant suspenseful best, and is now taking on some serious issues such as the opioid epidemic and veteran issues in his head-on style.

PUBLISHER: New Day; DATE: 1992; BINDING: Paper; CONDITION: Good - clean text,tight binding,covers worn,owner stamp; SERVICE: Speedy dlvry, FREE tracking

ART, 1998. Large HB/No DJ (as issued). Near Fine: crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, stickers on upper board

Knopf, First American Edition, 2001; pp. 407, 8.75" tall, quarter bound (bright blue boards with red spine), deckle edges; fine in fine dj - book corners sharp, minimal edge-wear to jacket. Insightful and satirical window into Birmingham in the 1970s.

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1922 (German language), Junge Kunst Band 32, single volume, not the more common anthology version. Boards decorated with period geometric design (paper) and distinctive Junge Kunst paper title label, cellular cloth spine, octavo, striking colour frontispiece and 32 black and white plates. Nice copy (VG-), small nick on spine, gatherings starting to separate - backing visible (typical for the series), minor corner wear to boards, and light tanning on board edges. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar… Read More

Coryell Publishing, 1980. Sheet music book, large format, pp. 91, 12" tall. White wraps with Coryell photographs on front and back. Very Good - small ding at spine top, and light edge-wear, store stamp on title page. Detailed score by jazz guitar virtuoso.

Little, Brown Company, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Katie Couric on a publisher's tipped-in sheet. Hardcover with dust jacket, 736 numbered pages. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a bright copy with minimal shelf wear. Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name.

Grand Central Publishing, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021 SIGNED by Brian Cox. Hardcover with dust jacket, 384 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features B&W headshot of Cox. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession's Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotland to a prolific career across theatre, film and television.

Bantam International X4961 ($1.75), June 1976. MMPB, 300 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (Victorian gentleman watching stream train over barren landscape). Condition: Near Fine. Crisp, bright copy, clean pages, tight binding, hint of edgewear. A bestselling 1975 historical novel, the third novel under Michael Crichton's own name). Also adapted for film in 1978.