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

[Paris]: Chez "Eve"/ Ateliers M. A. D., no date (1938 ?). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.5"), 12 unnumbered pages, with illustrations throughout from photographs often featuring "les Jolies Filles d'Eve" who generally pose sans attire. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps, with whimisical cover illustration by Auguste Liquois.
Slight edge wear, lightly foxed, small loss in the lower margin of leaf 9/10 (not affecting text or illustration), Illegible signature in ink dated June 3. 1938 at the lower wrap, otherwise very good.
A well-illustrated program for the show at this delightful Cabaret which featured "25 Tableaux musiques et mis en scene" by Willy Leardy. The numbers were performed by Rose Mania, Barbara Waren, Mado Desly, Maria Gregor, & others who were supported by chorus line of gorgeous young women generally attired only in feathers.

Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, [1933] (from colophon tipped to the last blank page). First edition Quarto 10.5" x 7.5"), xi & 141 pages including exhaustive illustrations from photographs in text & occasionally full page, with color frontis & 3 color plates (two folding). Publisher's original decorated purple silk over boards stabbed & cord-bound in the Japanese style, with applied printed title label on the upper cover, in the original box This copy with calligraphy & two chops at a leaf adjacent to the half-title page. Shallow diagonal corner crease at front free endpaper, short tear in the upper margin of the frontis (illustration unaffected), small merchant's label on the title page, otherwise a lovely, Near Fine copy in the publisher's worn box: split or splitting at the joints, with evidence of crude repairs, soiled, rubbed, etc."If you visit Japan in February or April, over and above the medley of everyday life, your eyes will be drawn by the colorful show in some windows and open toy shops -… Read More

San Francisco: Robert E. Culbreth, Volume xxxiii, number 39, April 17, 1897. First edition. Folio newspaper, 24 pp., illustrated. Pictorial wraps, stapled.
Lightly soiled, brief pencil annotations in the top margin of the upper cover, trace edge wear, Very Good. Single issue of a weekly newspaper published in San Francisco between (approximately) 1878 & 1900. This example provides biographies of leading men including Robert McMurray, "well-known capitalist", Collis Potter Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, & several others. Quite uncommon, OCLC finds 8 issues at Stanford University & a bound volume for 1893 at the Huntington.

Monterey, California: published by the hotel, no date (circa 1891 - 1900 per OCLC). Oblong 12mo (5" x 7"), 32 unnumbered pages providing descriptive text, with captioned illustrations from photographs & two small maps. Publisher's stapled, pictorial stiff paper wraps.
Front cover detached & with small chip lower right corner, lightly soiled, otherwise Good or better.
"If one were asked, after a sojourn at this famous watering place, his impressions of the hotel itself, outside of its incomparable surroundings, he would say: The management is as nearly as possible faultless; the proprietors have covered all the details in a masterly way, evidence of which is apparent, wherever one turns, from the ground floor to the top of the house. The absence of fuss and flurry is markedly noticeable. The visitor's wants are met without apparent effort, and the every-day machinery of this great caravansary moves with the regularity of clockwork. There is manifest at all times a smooth, even, careful, business-like… Read More

Los Angeles, California: Hill Map Company,1939. Original card covers (7.5" x 4"), with 12 pages providing "index to contents" plus 3 maps on a single sheet measuring 22 inches by 28 inches laid in. The maps are printed recto & verso in red & black & present a street map of Los Angeles with index on one side & maps of the western portion of L.A. & Auto Road map of Long Beach & vicinity on the other.Covers lightly age toned, with slight edge wear, otherwise Very Good. The map, once attached, now laid in, is lightly soiled & has a few tiny splits at fold intersects, otherwise Very Good.
Quite uncommon, OCLC locates a single copy at the University of California Los Angeles (accession number 38657118).

No place, no publisher, no date [Washington, D.C.: National Committee Democratic Party., 1884]. First edition. 8vo, 39 pp. Stapled paper wraps.
Toned, moderate edge wear including short tears, good or better. Supported by tables, charts, & extracts from news accounts, the author alleges "over 2,500 erasures and alterations in the ledgers of the offices of the Registrar and Secretary of the Treasury" during the tenure of Ulysses S Grant.

Seattle, Washington: NP [presumably John W Todd, Jr/ Shorey's Bookstore], 1958, "Limited Edition," the first published (unstated total) Folio, [3] & 151 mimeographed leaves printed recto only from typescript. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine Slightly rubbed, tape repair at title page, two brief notations in pencil, very good or better Includes substantial details of "Campbell's fur trade work at Fort Garry, Fort Simpson (MacKenzie River District), with comments on Tlingit and Chilkat Indians, Stikine River and Fort Yukon" (~OCLC). As provided in the Introduction by John W Todd, Jr, who was proprietor of Shorey's Bookstore: "These remarkable Journals covering Robert Campbell's many activities in the fur trade in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, across its most important years, are of inestimable historical value The activities and distances covered over some of the ruggedest country in North America, under the most difficult conditions and weather imaginable, are almost… Read More

Elizabeth, New Jersey: Alfred S. Campbell Art Company (credited in the negative), 1899. The image measures 3.5 inches by 9 inches, framed to 14.75 inches by 9.25 inches. Please note, we have not examined this out of the frame but it appears to be a hand-colored platinum print mounted directly behind an identically sized piece of glass.
Photo with browning along the edges, frame soiled, with shallow edge chipping, still quite lovely.
Alfred S. Campbell (1840 - 1912) emigrated from England to the United States in 1866, a photographer and entrepreneur, he managed the photography studio of Napoleon Sarony. In about 1871 he founded the Alfred S. Campbell Art Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey, additionally known as AS Campbell Art Company. Thereafter, with Rudolf Eickemeyer, he opened Campbell Studios in New York City. His fine art photographs can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Getty Museum.

Montreal, Toronto, Winnepeg, Vancouver: Valentine & Sons United Publishing Coy., Limited, no date (ca. 1910's). Oblong octavo (8" x 5.25"), 32 unnumbered pages providing title page with brief text & 31 captioned illustrations in color from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps.
Modest edge wear, slight foxing, otherwise very good.
"The world famous Rocky Mountains, for grandeur and varied scenery, are unsurpassed, and need little introduction. Half a century ago they were little known, but since then the Canadian Pacific Railway have accomplished the almost impossible task of running their line through the Mountains, and now no better scenery is to be found anywhere ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

New York: Sales Promotion Department, Cannon Mills, Inc., no date, pre zipcode, circa 1950's. Original illustrated brochure measuring 9.5 inches by 35.75 inches, folded 5 times vertically to 9.5 inches by 6 forming 12 panels (1 blank.), printed on light card stock.
Brief edge wear, lightly soiled & toned, otherwise very good.
A nostalgic advertising piece which apparently precedes the late fifties advent of pantyhose.

Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in cooperation with Zmora-Bitan, Publishers, (1989). Third edition. Small square 4to, 122 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stiff paper wraps. Text in English & Hebrew. Moderate edge wear, lightly rubbed, otherwise very good Catalog of an exhibition curated by Micha Bar-Am, himself a significant photographer, which was held at the Tel Aviv Museum in the summer of 1988. Cornell Capa, Marc Scheps, & Haim Gouri contribute additional text

No place [Rome ?]: Etas Libri for Banca Nazionale dell' Agricoltura, 1983 Limited edition (limitation unstated), the first in English. Tall 4to, 171 pp, profusely illustrated mostly in color Publisher's gilt-lettered glossy fabricoid in pictorial dust jacket & matching slipcaseA fine copy in like dust jacket in lightly rubbed slipcase. Includes content on Art Nouveau & the Arts and Crafts movement.

Charleston: Joseph Walker, Agt., Stationer and Printer, 1866. First edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5"), 144 pages. Publisher's printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn. Howes/ U.S.iana C131. As of 12/21/2023, OCLC locates a single physical copy (Boston Public Library, accession # 1098337433) amid numerous microform & internet resources.
Worn: upper wrap with hole briefly affecting lettering, edge wear (including chips in the margins ), soiled, stain in the upper margin pervasive throughout, good or so & still quite useful.
Author Jacob Newton Cardozo, who changed his name from Jacob Nunez Cardozo, was a highly regarded political economist, statistician, and editor who owned The Southern Patriot, an influential newspaper. He was an advocate of free trade and an opponent of nullification.Contents include:Agriculture - The Low Country Planters;The Commerce of Charleston;Charleston Educational Institutions, Free School System;The Charleston Press - The Newspaper Press;The Hotels;The Clubs of Charleston;Appendix,… Read More

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, no date [1876]. Sextodecimo (7" x 4.75"), 414 pages. Contemporary half black calf & green cloth, the spine lettered & ruled in gilt.
Binding a bit rubbed & soiled, text lightly stained, toned & foxed, previous owner's bookplate & rubber stamp of a Dublin bookseller at front pastedown, otherwise good or better.
Originall published in 1852. As we learn from Wikipedia, The Squanders is "spoiled by the mass of political matter in" [it].

London: Scolar Press, (1983). Second edition, originally published in 1934. Octavo (8.75" x 6"), xii, 400, & 41 pages plus 4 plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in printed dust jacket.
A fine copy in slightly soiled dust jacket with a couple of unobtrusive creases, very good or better.
"In 1934 two young booksellers, John Carter and Graham Pollard electrified the world of books and book-collecting with an exposure of literary forgery ... An Enquiry is a masterly detective story, gripping and exhilarating in the irresistible force of its analysis; and it led to the inevitable question: who was responsible for the crime? The two authors thought they knew, and though they did not make the bald accusation in their book they left the reader in no doubt as to who it was - Thomas James Wise, the great bibliographer, book collector and editorial authority, held in the highest regard both in England and in America." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

No place (New York ?): National Casket Company, no date (circa 1920's). Original brochure, single sheet measuring 6.25 inches by 10.25 inches folded three times vertically forming 8 panels printed recto & verso on light paper, with illustrations, some in color.
Slightly toned, otherwise Fine.
"Made of the finest quality of selected mohair. Soft, curly centers. Wide, attractive borders blend beautifully with the lighter tones of the centers. Lie flat and will not curl at the corners. Heavy backing material keeps these rugs from losing their shape and adds to their strength and serviceability. Imported exclusively for funeral purposes by the National Casket Company."

[Havana: National Cultural Council], 1961. Stapled paper wraps. Habana, [Cuba]: Ediciones del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1961. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), 32 pages. Publisher's printed, stapled paper wraps. Text in Spanish.A bit soiled & stained, brief edge wear, text browned, otherwise good or better. "The experience of a great historical event has been ours. It could be said that it is the second most great historical event which has taken place in Latin America in the last three centuries. And we Cubans have been participants in it, knowing that the more we work, the more inextinguishable flame the Revolution will be and the more it will be destined to play a great historical role. You writers and artists have had the privilege of being eyewitnesses of this revolution. And a revolution is such an important event in human history that it is well worth the trouble to experience one, even if just to be a witness to it ..." ~Translated from the text.

Tabasco, Mexico: Joaquin Mortiz, (1975). "Private Limited Edition," this number 277 of 2000 copies signed by Fernando Pereznieto Castro. Folio (13.75" x 11.5"), [94] pages, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Text in Spanish & English
Covers slightly spayed, modest tanning in the margins, otherwise very good in like dust jacket with traces of edgewear & a small stain on the spine. "The facade of the city has aspects which gives it a distict personality. This city, our city, is old - one thousand years old. European things here have an Indian air; three thousand years of intimate cultures. The best traces of the city's face entered into the eyes and hands of Fernando Pereznieto and reach the paper with the emotion of one who loves and caresses. He chooses angles full of beauty and his concept of light gives, sometimes, an idea of the color. For this young and noteworthy artist, drawing is his means of expression in which stone, as a flower of stone,… Read More

New York: A.S. Barnes; Philadelphia: H.W. Derby & Co., 1849. First edition. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), 90, 167, 156, & [23] pages, illustrated. Publisher's full brown calf with a gilt-lettered black leather spine label.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, shallow loss at the top of the spine, previous owner's name in pencil at first blank page, sporadic foxing throughout, otherwise Good or better.

Munich & New York: Art Lithographic Publishing Company, no date, ca 1890. First edition Oblong 24mo, unpaginated [8 pp & wraps], vignette illustrations throughout. Original die-cut pictorial stiff paper wraps, ribbon-tied, in the shape of a quaint church.
Lightly soiled & foxed, Very Good Poetical verse attesting to the virtues & comfort of the church, closing with a passage from Psalm 100, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with Praise." Unlocated via OCLC.