Search Results: Authors starting with C from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

London: Science Museum / Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. History of bicycles & related human-powered vehicles, mostly British, with a catalogue of them & related objects held by the Science Museum in London; the catalogue is dated 1958. Two volumes, complete. Paperback, showing some wear, chipping, creases. Text clean; vi, 70, [4]; viii, [2], 75 pages + 2 pages ads; index in each volume, bibliography, figures, b/w plates, ads for bicycle part makers.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9¾".

Enola, PA: CIvil War Antiquities, 1982. Study of historic saddles & their structure, with a chapter on other horse kit. Paperback, tan cover. Light wear, minor creases to spine & rear cover. Text clean; [10], 180 pages + note on the author; index, glossary, b/w photos, sketches.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6" by 9".

Mexico City: G.M. Echaniz, 1964 Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1-7/8" by 1-1/2". 39 pages. Miniature book with Cabrera's musings on the atomic bomb. Patzcuaro No. 39. Brown imitation leather with gilt lettering and decoration; brown marbled end sheets. Not quite square; otherwise fine..

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. Collected articles & lectures by the giant of modern music theory & avant-garde composition. Hardcover as pictured, lacking the jacket. Stated first edition (first printing.) Book shows light general wear, rubbed corners; base of spine rather badly bumped, lightly creasing the pages; faint stains, ink gift note, no jacket. Text clean; xii, 276 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Quarto.

[New York]: The Letter Edged In Black Press Inc., 1968. Fourth in Cage's impressionistic Diary series, entries XCI through CXVIII, written while he was active at the University of Illinois in Champaign; this was included in the fourth of William Copley's S.M.S. portfolio series of which reportedly fewer than 2000 were assembled. Stapled pamphlet, textured white paper printed in a variety of colors and typefaces (chosen, naturally, by chance); enclosed in a printed mylar folder. The booklet is clean and near fine; the front of the mylar folder is a little curled and its secondary flap has a long crack/tear in its crease; it also shows minor wear with a few letters chipped. Text clean, 20 pages. "XCIV. When I entered the house, I noticed some very interesting music was being played. After a drink or two, I asked my hostess what it was.. She said, "You can't be serious?". First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good/Good. 5¼" by 7½".

Urbana: University of Illinois, 1937. Monograph on Illinois turtles, often slighted in herpetological works, which concentrate on the easier-to-identify snakes, salamanders, & frogs; Illinois Biological Monographs Vol. XVI Nos. 1-2. Recently rebound in hardcover, green cloth spine over marbled boards, paper spine label; pages unmarked, near fine; last (blank) leaf torn, missing a piece about 1/2 by 4 inches from the fore-edge. Text clean; 218 pages; glossary, bibliography, maps, figures, tables, 31 b/w plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1962 Very Good/Good. Octavo. Bound in gray cloth with blue lettering on spine. Corners, head & tail of spine lightly bumped. Jacket slightly chipped around edges; "Kiplinger Book Club Edition" stated on back flap, ("First Edition" stated on copyright page of text). 320 pages, index, photographs and illustrations. Nice copy..

Haarlem: De Gulden Pers, 1948. Collection of Dutch translations of three Cain thrillers: Double Indemnity, Career in C Major, The Embezzler. Hardcover, navy cloth spine over grey boards, gilt titling, orange decoration. Shows some rubbing, spine slant, minor dents & spots; pages tanned. Text clean; 339 pages. Text in Dutch.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. Scarce first edition of the author's first book, Bureau of Education Circular of Information No. 3, 1980. Starting from Colonial times, including elementary schools, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary, U of Pennsylvania, the self-taught; substatial sections on the influx of English and French mathematics, with sections on major individual institutions. An important historian of mathematics, Swiss-born Cajori was educated at the University of Wisconsin and taught at Tulane and Colorado College. Paperback, grey wraps, black titling. Front cover creased & torn, rubbed; spine chipped & torn; rear cover missing entirely; partial institutional label on spine, ink number & pencil "Dup" on front cover - no other marks noted; front page soiled at upper edge with a short tear & light crease. Text clean; 400 pages.. First American Edition. Paperback. Fair. 5¾" by 9".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Historical novel of two English/Irish cousins who emigrate to New York before the Civil War, near Lake Erie. Of interest is the 'folk art' binding, in full red calf with amatuerish but lovingly tooled title on the front cover and recycled Edwardian endsheets. General wear, some scuffing, spine faded, minimalist bookplate opposite the title page. Text clean; [10], 533 pages. Unique!. First Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

No Place: [Author]/Rumford Press, 1925. Brief account of Frederick Lothrop Ames, a wealthy Massachussetts industrialist, and his improvement of the Guernsey cow in the first decades on the twentieth century; mostly lists of progeny & their prize-winning capacities. Large burgundy hardcover, as pictured. Shows some wear, corners bumped, ink date, bookplate & a few other pasted-on patches imply this might have library markings, none visible. Text clean; x, 136 pages; index, b/w photos, folding breeding chart, one color plate. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this oversize book may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Quarto.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981. Afraid of the dark, a boy decides to solve his problem with fireflies, discovers the music of the night. Stated first edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover, full grey cloth, black titling. Light wear to book & jacket. Text clean; 32 pages, b/w drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Leslie Morrill. 6½" by 8½".

New York: Academy Press, 1927. Papers & addresses of Mexico's 40th President, published during his tenure, intended to help Americans to understand the populist leader's plans and social reforms. Paperback, tan covers. Stained, chipped, delicate. Text clean; [10], 244 pages; index.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

London: R. Dodsley, 1751. Mock epic poem, a literary satire featuring Martinus Scriblerus, the character also used by Pope, Arbuthnot & Swift in their satires; replete with social criticism & literary in-jokes; the preface discusses the genre of epic poems. Seven copperplate illustrations + title page vignette, most engraved by Louis Peter Boitard after his drawings. First edition, printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row. Hardcover, as pictured; rebound in a remarkably unsympathetic lime-green leather with gilt & blindstamped decorations, marbled endsheets, possibly lithographed, likely from the 1920s or '30s. Shows some wear, smudges & nicks, some chipping to spine ends; ink name on title page, a few smudges & nicks to pages, boards a bit bowed. In six parts, plus preface & index, separately paginated: xvi; 31; 31; 31; 32; 32; 27; [8] pages; 7 engraved plates & illustrated title page. . First Edition. Full Calf. Good. Illus. by L.… Read More

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. First edition in English of this influential medieval astronomy & mathematics treatise, including a version of the original Latin text & extensive commentary. #16 in the UW's 'Publications in Medieval Science' series. First printing stated. Hardcover, greenish cloth, black titling. Light wear, spine discolored; corners bumped; jacket shows light wear & rubbing, minor chipping, short tear. Text clean; xvi, 490 pages + 2 page list of other books in the series; indices, bibliography, appendices, tables, figures, b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7" by 10".

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986 Pamphlet. Very Good. Large Octavo. 16 pages. November 1986 issue of Mysterious Press's newsletter. Campbell wrote lead article on La-La Land series. Other articles by Joseph Koenig and Paul Engleman..

Galesburg, IL: Tucker's Prairie Printing Co., 1986. Essays from this western Illinois & Iowa newspaperman, including sports, money, rural life, nitwits: sort of a small town Mike Royko. SIGNED by the author on the half-title. Paperback, orange covers. General wear, creases, light stains, ink name on back cover. Text clean; vii, blank, 187 pages, a few illustrations.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9".

New York: Random House, 1986. Study guide, perhaps for those who find Cliffs Notes overwhelming: a single sheet of cardstock folded thrice, printed on both sides, about 4 by 10 inches folded. One of a brief series issued in the mid-1980s. Light wear, minor creasing, small stains.. First Edition. Folded sheet. Very Good. Illus. by Peter Bradford.

New York: Arno Press, 1972. Reprint of an 1893 study of working women from the colonial period onward, mostly in America. Campbell began as an author of children's books & home economics, became interested in working women, poverty, & social reform, and began writing on economics and labor. Shortly after this book's original publication, she came to the University of Wisconsin to teach sociology & economics. This reprint is one of the publisher's American Women: Images and Realities series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear to book, some foxing/spotting to top edge; name/address label mostly removed on free endsheet; minor creasing to a few pages, one page dog-eared with a marginal ink note, one other ink note seen. Text otherwise appears clean; [4], xii, [7]-313 pages, list of the series; index, bibliography, appendix.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1962 Good/Good. First Edition. Octavo. 308 pages. Ten stories. Blue cloth with black lettering. Head of spine bumped; small stain near tail of spine; tape stains on end sheets. Rear jacket rubbed; very light borowning on reverse of jacket flaps. Text is clean and binding is tight..