Search Results: Authors starting with C from Skyline Books

[Paris]: Flammarion, [1990].. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. Very fine in price-clipped dust jacket.

[Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2002].. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Elaborately signed by Caffery. A splendid collection of evocative, somber, and mysterious photographs handsomely printed. As new.

[Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 2002].. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Elaborately signed by Caffery. A splendid collection of evocative, somber, and mysterious photographs handsomely printed. As new in dust jacket with a hairline crease to front panel (a production flaw).

[Secaucus, NY]: Warner Brothers, 1986.. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Inscribed by Sammy Cahn. Near fine.

[France]: Actes Sud, [2005]. 16mo.. Hardbound in photo-illustrated boards. First edition. Photographs, texts, and stills from the film Unfinished by Calle and Balducci. As new.

[Portland]: Nazraeli, [2015].. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Limited to 100 signed numbered copies with an original 11" x 14" signed numbered print laid in. Originally issued as part of the set Six by Six: Set Five but here offered separately. As new.

No place: Privately published by the author, 1939.. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.25" x 2.75"). Second edition of this legendary title, the "revised 1939 edition," published a year after the first (the book went through six printings until 1944). Regarded as the first dictionary by an African-American, and the first glossary of counterculture terms, preceding "Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive" by six years and the Beat dictionaries of the late '50s by two decades. Calloway was among the most popular and flamboyant performers of the swing era, know as a "hep cat," and as a man not afraid to popularize songs that were blatant paeans to drug use ("Reefer Man," et al). This booklet is the first documentation of Black street-language and hipster jazz slang of Harlem in the '30s. Despite its diminutive size, a hugely important book in the lineage of counterculture slang. The terms collected here were picked up by the hipsters, then passed to the Beats and '60s counterculture---many are… Read More

No place: Cab Calloway Inc., 1939.. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.5" x 2.75"). First (and only) edition. Illustrated with charming small drawings. Calloway wrote this as a sequel to his classic "The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary" published to great acclaim a year earlier. The purpose of this book was to serve as a course book testing the reader's knowledge of "jive" terms and the swing music scene in general, with chapters titled: "Are You Hep to Instruments," "Are You Hep to the Tags of the Gates," "Are You Hep to Etiquette," "Are You Hep to the Events in the World of Jive," and more. Cab writes that this book will be distributed to fans before he plays in their cities with the thought that they will fill out, and mail in, the test at the back of the book, and then arrive at the concert to find out if they were the winner of a prize in the "Swingformation Contest." Winners can consider themselves an "interheptual" entitled to "mingle with the intelligamsia."… Read More

No place: Cab Calloway, 1944.. Small pamphlet (measuring 4.5" x 2.75"). The sixth, and final, and most definitive, edition of this title originally published in 1938. Issued as a promotional item for the movie Sensations of 1945, in which Cab and his band appeared (an ad for the film appears on the back cover). Regarded as the first dictionary by an African-American, and the first glossary of counterculture terms, preceding "Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive" by six years and the Beat dictionaries of the late '50s by two decades. Calloway was among the most popular and flamboyant performers of the swing era, know as a "hep cat," and a man not afraid to popularize songs that were blatant paeans to drug use ("Reefer Man," et al). This booklet is the first documentation of Black street-language and hipster jazz slang of Harlem in the '30s. It had no formal distribution, but rather was handed out to fans that attended Calloway's concerts. Despite its diminutive size, a hugely important… Read More

[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1967].. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Psychedelic sin-trippers---Way Out and Wanton." Features one of the most terrifically ridiculous covers in the genre showing a partially uniformed, helmet-wearing, football player in his underwear launching himself across the room toward a scantily-clad hippie seductress. Owner's name and date to top of first page, spine leans, small tear to back cover at spine, very good (and priced accordingly). One of the scarcest hippie/drug exploitation titles. Not to be confused with Calvano's 1969 book Acid-Rock Orgy. No copies on OCLC and the first copy we've handled.

LA: Synaesthesia Press, [2016].. A "magazine" assembled and edited by Jim Camp in the spirit of Wallace Berman's Semina, this issue done in the style of a small, handsomely printed chapbook. The "Busty Pin-ups!" issue devoted to color collages utilizing images of pin-ups. One of 250 numbered copies (of a total editon of 276). In keeping with Berman's practice these copies were sent to friends and not offered for sale. As new in publisher's printed envelope.

NY: Crown, [1984].. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Fine.

NY: Pocket Books, [1975].. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Their passionate lives, frenzied fame, and tragic deaths." Very fine.

[Santa Cruz: U. C. Santa Cruz, 1974].. Narrow 4to. Pamphlet. First edition. Very good.

[London: Dewynters, 1991].. Small folio. Pamphlet. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Program for this outer-space-themed musical that premiered in London. Very near fine.

n.p.:n.p., [1980].. A music magazine in oversize format from the S. F. Bay Area. Cover photo of Jim Carroll with a long feature article on him by Lynn Hirschberg. Also, Huey Lewis, Bread and Roses, and more. Near fine.

[Bolinas]: Yanagi, [1977].. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated by Marc Blane. One of 300 numbered copies. Minute edge tear, barely perceptible touch of toning to right edge, near fine.

Alabama: University of Alabama Press, [1974].. Hardbound, lacking the dust jacket. First American edition. Fine.

Santa Fe: Arena, 2000.. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards with a photographic plate affixed to the cover. First edition. Essay by John Wood. As new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977.. Softbound. First edition. Faint foxing to top edge of text block and a few specks to fore-edge, else very fine and bright.