Search Results: Authors starting with C from Carpe Diem Fine Books

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition of approximately 50 copies (not numbered, as issued). SIGNED by the authors. 8vo. 324pp. Bibliography; Index; map. Illustrated by Doris Lee. Additionally INSCRIBED "To/***/with the best wishes/of his old friend/'The finisher'/Geo. A. Zabriskie/Feb 25/45." Zabriskie (1860-1954) was President of the American Printing History Association from 1939-1947; as well, he as an accomplished amature bookbinder. No doubt he is responsible for the unique binding of this title - half-leather and marbled boards with gilt ruling & board edges; 5 raised bands to spine with elaborate gilting & lettering; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; inner dentelles. A fine copy. Fitzgerald S19 states "This limited edition is extremely rare." A fine copy. The St. Johns river begins in lower Georgia and flows down the state of Florida to a short distance beyond Orlando. Twenty-fourth volume in the "Rivers of America" series.

Philadelphia: ASTM, 1983. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine copy. Octavo; 309 pages.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, Ltd, 1971. 1st. Cloth. Book is fine (owner name) in very good dustjacket.. Quarto. 141pp. 25 color and 99 black & white reproductions (complete). Brown cloth in illustrated dustjacket. "Paul Signac became the spokesman and proselytizer for neo-impressionism, as well as the movement's most important painter after Seurat." - dustjacket flap.

Milan: Cisalpino, 2008. 1st. Paperback. New copy - appears unread. Octavo; 405 pages. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: National Bureau of Economic, 1958. Softcover. Sunned at spine, previous owner name, else near fine. Octavo, iv 33 pp. Charts and graphs. Occasional Paper 62.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Fine copy in dust jacket. Octavo; xii, 372 pages.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 300pp. 8 photo-illustrations (including frontispiece portrait of Moussia). Fuschia cloth with gilt lettering in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in scarce very good dustjacket (wear to extremities with chips at spine ends; spine lightly faded; general wear; corners of flaps clipped). Born in 1858 of russian nobility, Moussia made a strong impact on the art community in Paris during her short life which ended just before her 24th birthday. Her most famous work is the portrait of Paris slum children titled 'The Meeting and In the Studio,' a portrait of her fellow artists at work. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2005. First Edition Thus. Volume 1 only. Facsimile reprint of 1639 edition. Quarto; preface, 508 pages in original burgundy cloth gilt stamped with black label at spine. Fine condition, as new.

Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press, 1993. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 198 pp. Index. Photo-illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The story of 800 sailors aboard the USS Sterett during her hazardaous and demanding duties in World War II.

San Francisco: Vedanta Society of Northern California, 1946. First Edition. Quarto; [6], 125-238pp. A Very Good to Near Fine copy (some fraying at spine ends) in original grey printed wrappers. '... offers articles on Vedanta and other religious and philosophical systems of India...' (Scope and Purpose).

Monterey, CA: Privately Printed, 1930. The menu is 6 1/8" x 8 5/8" single sheet. Cream paper with colorful Jo Mora designed illustration with black lettering on front side; menu printed on back side with a design of a Spanish Galleon sailing in rough seas at the top. Some prices on the menu are neatly blacked out to reflect price increases. A fine copy. The postcard measures 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" and is in fine, unused condition. "Pop" Ernest Doelter was an entrepreneur and restaurateur at the turn of the last century. At a critical period in Monterey history, he came along and turned Abalone into an American delicacy - discovering its many uses and creating an entire industry around the food. He subsequently opened his "Abalone and Seafood Restaurant" and enlisted Jo Mora to create his menus in exchange for his Abalone dinners. Jo worked with his good friend and noted artist, Armin Hansen, to create the menu and postcard designs; Jo drew the illustrations and the hand-lettering was done by Hansen.… Read More

San Jose, CA: San Jose Mercury Publishing and Printing Co, 1896. Second Edition. Oblong 8vo. 322, [5] pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions of public buildings, homes, farms, agriculture, portraits of citizens, and much more; full page map. Introduction by Chas. M. Shortridge, editor San Jose Daily and Weekly Mercury. Original color pictorial cardstock wrappers. Professionally restored with rose colored linen spine; lower front corner repaired; chipping to lower front corner of ffep; minor general wear and soiling; else a near fine copy of an early and uncommon California county souvenir history. With cover title: Sunshine, fruit and flowers, Santa Clara County, California. One of the more extensive county histories promoting the beauty and opportunities in Santa Clara Valley. The first edition was sold out in less than thirty days thus prompting the publication of this edition in which errors were corrected and with the addition of new pictures and new facts. Not in Rocq.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. Edition. Original cloth. Small 8vo. viii, [1], 10-301 pp + 6pp advertisements at rear. Translated from the French, With a Supplementary Chapter, Narrating the Most Recent Events, by John Oxenford. folding map of the Provinces of China Covered by the Insurrection from its Origin to the Capture of Nankin. Publisher's green blinkstamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy (most of gilt lettering rubbed off; minor wear to extremities; short tap repair to lower map edge, not affecting the image; light foxing to first 2 pages front and rear). The authors provide first hand accounts of the early events leading to the Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, a massive rebellion or total civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan. The conflict was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644,… Read More

St. Petersburg: National Union of Calligraphers/MVK Exhibition Company, 2008. 1st. Paperback. 1st edition thus. Quarto; 247 pages in Russian and 43 in English. Fine unread copy in handsomely designed black wrappers lettered in black. Many examples of entrants work in full color. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 465 pages. New and unused (and ready to ship!) in original blue cloth gilt-stamped at spine. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2008. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 33pp. Color printed stiff wraps in fine condition. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Np: Np, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Inscription by author's friend to ffep. First edition thus. 4to. [46]pp; unpaginated. Text in English and Chinese. Color and black & white illustrations; chinese brush technique illustrations by the author. White cloth coverd boards; original color illustrated dust jacket. Light spotting to boads. An uncommon chinese printing encouraged by the author's friend, Benge Soong, wife of Yat Seng, the first President of China. This is the author's family's copy.

Chicago: University of Missouri Press, 1982. 1st. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 94 pp. Stiff illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; slight spine leaning). Winner of the Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Short Fiction for 1981. The collection includes "Lieberman's Father," "Things I Did to Make It Possible," "Teller, The Bear and the Yellow Thunderbird," " Drowing in California," "Superman (Georgia's Dream)," "The Vanishing," "A Grown Man," "A Marriage," "Now She Sleeps," and "My Life is a Screenplay.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1900. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo; 183pp plus 25pp advertisements. Good copy (text block pulled away from tape-repaired spine; light wear and soiling) in stapled wrappers. Cover title is 'Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1900.'.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 248 pp. Blue and grey cloth covered boards in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Age toning around page edges else fine in near fine dustjacket. Based on the true story of Frank Lee Morris, whose escape from the "impregnable" Rock in 1962 made world headlines. The escape, plus Alcatraz's bad reputation, helped it close less than a year later. The book was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood as Morris, and Patrick McGoohan as the cruel warden. The movie gives a good idea of the horrors of prison life, and particularly the horrors of Alcatraz.