Search Results: Authors starting with C from Bytown Bookery

Pocket Books, No. 53. Very Good. 1945. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback, August 1945. Squared, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked text. Cover rubbing and edgewear, overall in Very Good condition. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 237 pages .

Dent / Everyman's Library. Very Good. 1965. Cloth. B000L2US5Y . Red cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine. Tightly bound, unmarked text with the previous owner's name, written neatly, to the top of the title page. Very Good++. The DJ is good, no tearing but heavy cover scuffing. ; Vol. 381; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 266 pages .

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Born N. V.. Very Good+. 1954. Paperback. Dutch. A Very Good+ Paperback. No loose pages, one name to the back of the front cover, otherwise an unmarekd book. Black & white frontispiece. Age tanning to the pages. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages .

New York: Loizeaux Brothers, Bible Truth Depot. Very Good+. 1945. Hardcover. Green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. Very Good++, a sound binding, a stamp to the front end paper, otherwise clean & unmarked pages. Spine end and corner bumping. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 373 pages .

London, Great Britian: Oxford University Press Canada. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy hard boards with red/white designs on cover, white/pink lettering. Previous owner's name and small sticker residue on front free-endpaper. A solid binding with a few notes in pencil. Some wearing on the top and bottom of spine. This is the Clarendon French Series, with poems by Balzac, Anatole France, Marivaux, many others. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 199 pages .

New York: Canongate Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2003. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1841954608 . Black hard boards / silver title on spine. Very clean, tight copy, DJ has minor edgewear, is unclipped, "Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003." is imprinted on the front cover. Author's real name is Peter Finley. "In this black comedy by an Australian, set in Texas, Vernon, a poor-white 15-year-old, is accused of perpetrating the high-school massacre that was actually the work of his friend, Jesus, who dies in the process. Panicked, Vernon takes off, becomes a media star, is captured, tried for the crime, and sentenced to death. But his small Texas town benefits from the media circus, becoming for the first time in years economically self-sufficient. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages .

Harper Colophon. Very Good. 1963. Trade Paperback. A Trade Paperback. Very Good with a solid binding and an unmarked text. Cover scuffing and edgewear. "The book corrects many misconceptions about 19th century international relations in Western Europe which, the author feels, have been taken for granted. It is one of the first works to explain why these commonly held ideas are wrong." ; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No jacket. Beige hard boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Spine ends bumped. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Clean, tight copy. CONTENTS: Principles, Preparation, Delivery, General Principles, Speeches for Special Occasions, and Helpful Hints. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 238 pages .

Paris, France: Bernard Grasset. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2012. Paperback. 2246802873 . An As New Trade Paperback with a Fine DJ. French language. "Un President, deux femmes... Une histoire d'amours. Un psychodrame devenu affaire d'Etat. Un roman francais. "; 8.03 X 5.20 X 0.87 inches; 204 pages; Box 22 .

Point. Very Good. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780545040563 . Burgundy hardcovers / silver titles to the spine. This book is in Very Good++ condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. First Edition, First Printing. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good++ condition with moderate cover wear. "Ever since her brain was transplanted into the body of teen supermodel Nikki Howard, tomboy Emerson Watts is trying to handle school, modeling, and living with celebutante Lulu Collins, in this sequel to "Airhead."; Vol. 2; 8.20 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches; 336 pages .

McGraw-Hill Companies. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 5551301354 . Very Good+ condition, tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. Previous owner's name and blind stamp to the front free end paper. Light spine end bumping. A Book-of-the-Month club. The DJ is Very Good with cover scuffing and edgewear. "This book contains simple, candid advice from over thirty-five married couples to help men better communicate with their wives, respond more romantically, and create an atmosphere that sets the stage for their wives to fall in love with them... Over and over again. "; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages .

Liesure Books. As New. 2004. Paperback. 0843953837 . Mass Market In As New condition, tight, bright & unmarked. "In this chilling novel, a man who has the ability to control the Native American weather spirits must be stopped before his reign of terror destroys his town. "; 6.60 X 4.10 X 1.20 inches; 355 pages .

Paris, France: Syndicate National Des Cadres Et Maitrises Du Livre. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1973. Trade Paperback. Tightly bound with an unmarked interior, sunning to the spine and rubbing to the spine hinges and covers. The text is in the French lanugae. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 121 pages .

Bantam Books. Very Good. 1973. Paperback. 0140461922 . Mass Market in Very Good condition. A tightly bound book, with unmarked, clean pages. From California's famous Whole Earth Restaruant, 138 exciting recipes to turn your meals into celebrations of natural taste and goodness ! Plus valuable tips and nutrition -saving secrets on buying, preparing, storing and serving all organic foods, ! ; 6.9 X 4.2 X 0.7 inches; 185 pages .

Dublin, Ireland: Attic Press. Very Good. 1985. First Edition. Paperback. 0946211175 . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition, tight, bright & unmarked with cover rubbing. "A colorful patchwork of Irish women's lives, adventures and exploits." ; 8 X 5.80 X 0.30 inches; 64 pages .

Ballantine Books. Very Good+. 1997. Paperback. 0449910806 . A Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition, tightly bound with an unmarked text. Light tanning to the interior page edges with moderate cover wear. "This collection of passionate travel writings about Italy includes works by George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Patricia Hampl, and 23 others who reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women." ; 7.87 X 5.51 X 1.02 inches; 384 pages .

New York: Anchor. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Trade Paperback. 0385418493 . Very nice Trade Paperback with black & white photos, maps & illustrations. "The author's graceful mastery of both prose and history combine to express both the voice and content of Irish culture. Cahill traces Ireland's pivotal role in the preservation and transmission of the intellectual legacy of the West, from the fall of Rome under the barbarian invasions that brought the Dark Ages to the rise of Medieval Europe which heralded its re-ascendance." ; Hinges of History; 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 246 pages .

Gallimard. Very Good. 1967. Paperback. Paperback / Softcover. A tight binding with an unmarked wear to the extremities. "Il y a longtemps déjà que les philosophes ont été frappés par l'interdépendance des jeux et de la culture. Roger Caillois fait, pour la première fois, un recensement des sortes de jeux auxquels s'adonnent les hommes. À partir de ce recensement, il élabore une théorie de la civilisation et propose une nouvelle interprétation des différentes cultures, des sociétés primitives aux sociétés contemporaines." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 378 pages .

DENOEL / Gonthier #221. Very Good+. 1981. Mass Market Paperback. 2282302214 . French text. A Very Good + Paperback with a tight binding, clean & unmarked pages. Moderate cover edgewear. ; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.6 inches; 224 pages .

Gallimard. Fine. 1946. Paperback. 2070211479 . French text. A Fine Paperback, tightly bound, a bright & unmarked interior. Light cover edgewear. "Le Rocher de Sisyphe Qu'est-ce que la civilisation ? Telle est la question à laquelle j'ai tenté de répondre dans ce petit ouvrage. La civilisation, m'est-il apparu, n'est rien d'autre qu'une conquête continue de l'homme sur lui-même. Elle représente un risque, un abandon volontaire et périlleux de forces, d'avantages, de moyens également sûrs, pour des biens qu'il est toujours possible de perdre, qui ne sont pas indispensables et dont la valeur même est, si l'on veut, de convention. C'est enfin le destin nécessaire de la civilisation de donner contre elle des armes à la barbarie." ; LE; 7.3 X 4.7 X 0.7 inches; 184 pages .