Search Results: Authors starting with C from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Very good with some wear to edges and minor loss to dust jacket.. Graham Greene's copy with his signature on the flyleaf.

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. First Edition. Original blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, all edges trimmed, white endpapers, book seller stamp on inside cover. Cloth a bit dusty, spine panel darkened, hairline cracks along inner hinges, but still tight and sound, moderate foxing, still a good plus copy.. First edition. Mixed collection of seventeen stories including five or so fantastic or supernatural stories, including the humorous ghost-story "The Lady Killer" and the werewolf tale "The Sword of Corporal Lacoste." 8vo., [1-2], [i-ix], x, [1-3], 4-284 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "10/05" inserted at rear thus perhaps remainder, adverts noted in LSU and Emory copies. Bleiler, pg. 72; not in Currey.

London: Printed by J. Hughs near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; for R. and J. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1759. First edition. Very good in later full black calf with red label in gilt, tooled decoration and five bands, ownership inscription dated 1906 to endpaper, trimming affecting text to frontispiece, with a few early manuscript notes in the margins and manuscript copy of Cobden's poem to Lady Spelman on the rear blanks.. The posthumously published memoirs of aristocrat and courtier Robert Carey, who served during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Following the death of Elizabeth I, he road for three days to carry the news of her death to James. He became Earl of Monmouth in 1626. John Boyle, who wrote the preface and was largely responsible for the publication of Cary's manuscript memoirs was the 5th Earl of Cork and Orrey. 8vo. [4], [i]-xxxiv; 200pp., [5, index and errata]. ESTC T144857.

[n.p, England, likely London or Kent], 1827. Very good with some soiling to vellum and minor finger smudges to some of the pages. A fascinating and unique volume.. Lovely manuscript volume of amateur poetry in a single, neat, readable hand, bound in full vellum. The poems are dated between 1827-33, making Child a teenager of fourteen when the first poem was written (though the paper is watermarked 1829, so some, if not all, of the poems must have been transcribed after initially written). A young man of immense privilege, Child was later a wealthy coal merchant, the peerage noting he held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace and purchased and lived at Bromley Palace (where his son was 1st Baronet, and his great grandson was 3rd Baronet, the late actor Jeremy Child). The poems contain titles such as On Edward's Falling from a Ladder and Written on Breaking my own Nose Against the Wall, many addressed to Anne Holden (Child married an Ann in 1850, but not this Anne) as well as… Read More

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1867. Later edition. Very good with some foxing and prior owner signature to front pastedown.. A scarce printing, which appears to be unrecorded on Worldcat. Part of Sheldon's "Good Boy's Library" as indicated on the spine and which were apparently previously part of Sheldon's "Sunday School Books" library. In publisher's green cloth with gilt stamp decorated spine.

Dublin: Printed for Patrick Dugan, 1720. The Dublin Edition. Period paneled sheep with large scuffs, chips and some tears, otherwise very good with contents clean and only mild instances of light foxing or staining, early ink initial to title.. The Dublin edition, issued in the same year as the English edition. As proclaimed opposite the title page, "[t]his edition is much more correct than that of London, having been compared with two Manuscripts..." Clarendon's account of the events in Ireland after the death of Charles I, a single volume addition to his popular History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, which had previously circulated (and was plagiarized) in manuscript only. Gillespie & Hadfield, III: Oxford History of the Irish Book, pg. 268. 8vo. [4], 217pp., [1, ad]. ESTC T53950; Bradshaw 992. Scarce in commerce.

Cincinnati: U.P. James, 1855. First Edition. About very good in publisher's green blindstamped boards with some bumping/staining and pages foxed throughout with portion of rear free endpaper torn.. Scarce first edition by Abraham Lincoln's self-appointed bodyguard. No copies have appeared at auction since 1950 (RBH). Small 8vo. [iii]-vi, [7]-126pp. Wright II: 596.

London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-Row; W. Charnley, and T. Slack, in Newcastle, 1775. First Edition. Good plus with creasing and fraying to last three leaves, half title and last two leaves darkened, later wrappers.. First edition polemic satire in Hudibrastic verse on a corrupt Newcastle election. Down with the corporations. 8vo. vii, [9]-35pp. ESTC T185203. Goldsmiths' 11364. Higgs 6497. RBH shows a single copy at auction and OCLC reflects a handful of copies on microfilm but only a few physical copies as of March 2024.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First Edition. Very good in polished calf tripled ruled in gilt, spine decorated in gilt, decorative gilt roll to edges, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, some edgewear, joints starting, lightly rubbed, internally clean and tight a few pages chipped not affecting text with light scattered soiling and foxing, and some offsetting.. Triple decker first edition in book form, uniformly bound in a Riviere & Son full polished calf binding with original cloth bound at the rear of each volume. A nice set of one of Collins's last novels, a didactic novel attacking vivisection. 8vo. 3 vols. xvi, 294pp.; [4], 293pp.; [4], 302pp., [1]; bound with half titles but without advertisement. Parrish 115. Wolff 1356.

London: Sampson Low, Son Co, 1862. First edition. Very good in publisher's red cloth stamped in blind, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, light to moderate rubbing to extremities, fraying to spine tips, minor dust soiling, front hinge strengthened in vol. I, occasional foxing and smudging, abrasions to front pastedowns with some paper loss to vol. III, few small nicks to front flyleaves.. Triple decker first edition in book form in the original cloth. "No Name is [] an unsettling drama centered on a powerful woman . . . in which [Collins] challenges Victorian legal and cultural injustices, almost always from a strongly feminist viewpoint - although he firmly resisted being labeled a feminist." Gottlieb, Near-Death Experiences and Others (2018). 8vo. 3 vols. ix, [i], 339pp., [1]; [iv], 363pp., [1]; [ii], 408pp. Half-titles in volumes I and II, as called for. Sadleir, Excursions 141. Parrish 45-46.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First American Edition. Very good in publisher's brown textured cloth with gilt title to spine, professionally rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt on spine a bit faded, some rubbing and bumped corners as well as some foxing and toning.. First American edition, published in the same year as the English first. An important early detective/crime fiction story, which is #3 in the Queen's Quorum checklist of the most important books in the genre since 1845. One of the short stories in this collection is The Biter Bit, which "introduced comedy into the detective story - a development of first magnitude." Also important as some commentators argue the book contained the first depiction of a female detective - and a working-class amateur detective at that. 8vo. [ii], 472pp. + 8pp. ads. Parrish 35.

London: John Murray, 1841. Heavy spotting to prelims and occasionally later in text, some spine lean.. Second edition, enlarged with the addition of a chapter on deer-stalking, and burn and river fishing, almost doubling the length of the book. Considered one of the best mid-19th century books on fishing and shooting in Scotland. In publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth, bound by Remnant & Edmonds with their label to the rear pastedown. 8vo. xii, 204pp. + Murray catalogue. Westwood & Satchell, pg. 63.

London: Matthew Iley; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute; Glasgow: W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. About very good in full polished calf, ruled in gilt, raised bands, morocco spine label, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, joints and spine previously repaired with some wear, corners bumped, occasional soiling, prior owner bookplate to front pastedown.. First edition parody/imitation of the Combe and Rowlandson Dr. Syntax series, with this work poking fun at Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and engraved by C. Williams and W. Read. "[T]he day of the 'Comic Highlander' was at hand. In 1821, The Tour of Doctor Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque was published in London . . ." Dunbar, The Costume of Scotland (1984, pg. 78). 8vo. [6], 251pp., without half title. Tooley 433 (noted as a "Syntax Imitation"). Abbey, Life 277. Prideaux, pg. 334. Hardie, pg. 317 ("the plates not by Rowlandson").

Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J and R. Tonson, in the Strand, London, 1761. Collected works of Congreve published by Baskerville, the noted printer and type designer, featuring an engraved portrait frontispiece as well as five plates preceding some of the respective works. Contents include The Old Batchelor, The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The Way of the World, The Mourning Bride, The Judgment of Paris, Semele, Poems Upon Several Occasions, and A Letter to Mr. Dennis. In Virginia Woolf's Night and Day (1919), character William Rodney, with a tumbler of whiskey in one hand, in his other hand offers his guest "the Baskerville Congreve . . . I couldn't read him in a cheap edition." 8vo. 3 vols. (paginates to Gaskell). ESTC T26067. Gaskell 16. About very good in contemporary mottled calf which is rubbed and scuffed, particularly the spines, hinges cracked, and foxing and toning throughout.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Slipcase and jacket not present; spine darkened, small pull to head of spine, light spotting to binding, front hinge cracked but still very good.. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. First Edition, limited, this being number 104 of 377 copies. Frontispiece portrait from an etching by Muirhead Bone with printed tissue-guard. Original parchment over boards, gilt-stamped rover vignette to front board and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, untrimmed The Rover, which originally began as a short story, was later serialized in the Pictorial Review, September-December, 1923. Keating 178. 8vo. [11], 370pp., [1].

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Very good with spine darkened, some spotting to binding. Original Japanese vellum backed sage green boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed, mostly unopened.. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. Limited edition, this being number 581 of 1000 copies. 8vo. [vi], 185pp.; with frontispiece portrait from photograph. Cagle A54b.

Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. Very good with wear to corners and spine and hindges starting with some cocking, in publisher's dark green blind stamped cloth, internally clean.. First edition and apparently only edition. Important account of the Army of the Potomac, in which Civil War Books states "Cook, a prolific writer, was a reporter for the Philadelphia Press during McClellan's spring, 1862 campaign; his account is excellent as a commentary on the country and its inhabitants." Small 8vo. viii, 7-358pp.

Edinburgh: Practical Training School of Cookery and Housekeeping, 1903. In publisher's gilt green cloth, price partially excised from front board and crossed out on title page, some pages grubby, binding beginning to loosen, but otherwise very good.. A delightful turn-of-the-twentieth-century volume, which in addition to dozens of recipes, provides a price list of lessons Griggs taught, including cookery, dressmaking, and laundry work, along with several pages of ads including for a typewriter and Cadbury. The recipes include British pub food staples like rarebit but also a fare number (pun intended) of French recipes. Griggs was an owner of the Practical Training School of Cookery and Housekeeping, on 137 George Street, Edinburgh. Oblong 8vo. [4], 119pp., [5, ads]. Scarce with Worldcat locating no physical copies. Household Books Published in Britain (noting two editions, one in red cloth with a different imprint, an index, and substantially different pagination, but without being able to identify… Read More

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row, 1791. A purported autobiographical account of Paradès's service as a spy to the French in England, where he allegedly travelled repeatedly, visiting ports and fortified towns to gather information, though eventually he fell under the suspicion of French authorities and was sent to the Bastille where he wrote his memoirs. Paradès further denounces the alleged corruption of ministers who wrongly accused him of treason after the failure of the 1779 Franco-Spanish expedition against Plymouth. Of course, it is unclear as to whether all or any of the work is true. [Bound with:] Blair, Robert. The Grave . . . to Which is Added Gray's Elegy in a Country Church Yard. With Notes Moral, Critical, and Explanatory. London: Printed [at the Cicero Press, by Henry Fry] for Scatcherd, & Whitaker, No. 12 Ave Maria Lane, [1787]. 8vo. [iii, bound without half-title]-xii, 155pp.; [2], 51pp., [1]. ESTC T47409; ESTC T74312. English translation of Sabin 58506. Uncommon… Read More

London: M. Cooper, 1751. First Edition. London: , 1751. First edition. Purportedly the first English novel about a dog. Grolier notes this work is "one of the earliest examples of that type of satirical novel in which abuse is hurled at real persons through the medium of animals or inanimate objects. The characters of Pompey were intended to portray well known ladies of the time." Grolier, History of English Prose Fiction 56. Edmund Gosse later backhandedly complimented the work stating "Coventry's romance does not deserve the entire neglect into which it has fallen. It is sprightly and graceful from the first page to the last. Not written, indeed, by a man of genius, it is yet the work of a very refined observer. . ." Gosse, Collected Essays II (1913, pgs. 155-56). 16mo. frontispiece, viii, 272pp. NCBEL II, 996. Sabin 32149. About very good in period calf with gilt rule, raised bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt with heavy wear particular at spine, hinges starting, contents clean though… Read More