Search Results: Authors starting with C from Crow Hop Rare Books

New York: The John Cage Trust, 2001. Cover Photo by Donald Deitz. 52 pp. Pictorial softcover. Fine. In addition to the title characters, the cast of characters also includes Thorstein Veblen, Henry David Thoreau, Buckminster Fuller, and Brigham Young. Cage’s work, originally a radio play from 1982, takes “dialogue comprised of literal quotations, freely adapted historical materials, and lines Cage has simply made up. What is modern is surely collage, Cage once said” (quoted in Director’s Statement). Uncommon.

Los Angeles: Inner City Cultural Center, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Near Fine with only minor loss to upper rear cover. Comb binding with brown illustrated card covers. 32 leaves each printed solely on recto. Fourteen ink drawings, each repeated twice. First appearance of each drawing is a full page, with title captioned in lower left corner; second appearance follows on next leaf with poem. Faustino Caigoy is a Filipino-American visual- and word-artist and was a noted muralist in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. "i don't write no nice poems, nows-a-days. i guess if i really force myself i could, but i cai n't, so's i goes-on writing about the ills, i guess before the doc comes and tells me what's wrong, i can goes-on the same way. the doc tells me that you have to have your b.a., 'fore you kin write good-stuffs. i guess in a way he's right, i guess. but i kin neba tell what is a b.a., i guess it means, sometin kills me to say, like "being-anglo", guess that's what it means. so the man keeps… Read More

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1956. First Edition. VG+ (soiling to endpapers, rubbed boards) in a VG+ or better unclipped dustjacket (toning to flaps and verso). 

Los Angeles: Scream Press, 1986. World Fantasy Convention Edition. Introduction by Clive Barker. Illustrated by JK Potter. Warmly INSCRIBED by Campbell to Stanley Wiater on title page, with Wiater's oversized bookplate inside front cover, and his stamp on the verso of the half title. VG+ in wrappers, with mild staining to cover. A nice association.

Portland, Oregon: Kilham Stationery and Printing Company, 1921. Illustrated stapled wraps (5" x 7"). 17 unnumbered leaves with beautiful hand-colored illustrations that accompany poems about the beach and the sea.No copies in trade as of October 2023 and only 4 holdings in OCLC (NYPL, Brown, Oregon, Buffalo and Erie).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. SIGNED by Canin on title page. His first novel and second book.

New York: Random House, 1994. Advance Reader's Edition. Fine in wraps. Canin's third book (preceded by Blue River and the critically-acclaimed Emperor of the Air).

New York: Random House, 2008. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustjacket. SIGNED by Canin on title page.

New York: Random House, 2001. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Laid in is a four page stapled publisher's reviewer sheet. Near Fine in wraps.

New York: Random House, 1998. Advance Uncorrected Proof of Canin's fourth book. Near Fine in wraps.

New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. SIGNED on the half-title page by Canin. The Granta 20 author's fifth book. Fine in Fine dustjacket.

New York: Random House, 2001. Advance Reader’s Edition. Near Fine in wraps. Canin’s fifth book.

New York: Random House, 2016. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustjacket. SIGNED by Canin on title page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by Canin on the title page and dated 2/9/95. The first novel (second book) by the Granta 20 author. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (a touch of toning to flaps).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Advance Reading Copy of Canin's first novel (second book, after the critically-acclaimed short story collection Emperor of the Air). Fine in wraps.

London: Picador/Pan, 1991. First British Edition of the Granta 20 author's first novel (second book). Fine in a Fine dustjacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (sunning to spine). SIGNED by Canin on title page. Canin's first book, a short story collection published at the age of 27. Walker Percy praised these stories, writing that they are "dazzling--at times breathtaking, at other times heartbreaking." Canin was recognized as a Granta 20 author.

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. SIGNED by Canin on the title page. The Granta 20 author's fourth book, a novel. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.

London: Picador/Pan Books Ltd., 1988. First British Edition (9-2 number line). Near Fine in a VG+ dustjacket (soiling to flaps). Canin's first book, a short story collection published at the age of 27.

New York: Random House, 1952. Octavo, 120 pp., with illustrations. First Edition, with Review Slip laid in (Publication Date: May 10, 1952. Price: $2.50). Near Fine in a VG+ or better unclipped dustjacket, with a small tear to head of spine and toning to rear and extremities of inside flaps. Reportedly only 500 copies (Ahearn, 112). A beautiful collectible copy.