Search Results: Authors starting with C from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: William Harrison, 1897. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Herbert M Bower. 1st Edition 1897. Herbert M Bowers Revision copy with many corrections in his hand. Bower wrote the historical sketch of the school. Includes a newspaper cutting from the Ripon Observer printing the letter from Bower of 1897. Published in the original cloth covers. The book is very good with quite bright boards. Edges lightly rubbed in places. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13538

UK: Cape, 1970. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1970. Proof copy to the author Richard Church with inscription from C D Lewis to Richard on the title page. Also a letter from the author to Richard Church, type copy of the Richard Church's review of the book and a variety of menus and invites to the author for luncheon/lecture in Frankfurt Germany. Book is near fine and in bright condition. Contents very good. The complete wrapper is near fine and bright. More images can be made upon request.Ref 2038 ###009651

UK: Cape, 1940. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1940. Detailed historical survey of the major plant diseases. Photographic plates and illustrations in the text. With a 26 pages bibliography at the back. Book is very good+ and quite bright.Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Spine age toned. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18207

UK: Smith Elder and Co, 1858. Fourth Edition . Original Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 4th edition 1858. 1st one volume edition. Originally published in two volumes. Book has the original decorative cloth binding.Rare Thus. Inner endpaper cracked but holding well. Book is very good++ and bright. Spine tips rubbed. Contents good with foxing to front pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 000518####

UK: Readers Library, 1930. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition C1930. Undated. Part of the Readers Library Crime Series. Jacket artwork by Vernon L. Soper Book is very good and bright. Contents good. Pages age toned. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17029

UK: Pall Mall Press, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1961. A very uncommon post apocalyptic novel. A Young survive a thermo-nuclear attack on London. After an adventurous journey through ruins and across countryside blasted by chemical, biological and human warfare, the couple make for the village of Larksong Wood in Berkshire.The author re-creates the scene of the devastated city with a brilliantly imaginative pen, aided by a wide scientific knowledge. Book is very good+ with quite bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. Very small loss to corner. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17756

UK: David Nutt, 1906. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N Bishop Culpeper. 1st Edition 1906. A wonderful early Art Nouveau Styled Edwardian Fairy Book incorporating flowers within each story. Wonderful illustrations by N Bishop Culpeper Book is very good++ with bright boards. Light rubbing to edges. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18409

UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1921. This 1921 book was written to provide a general introduction to prehistoric societies. It discusses the various early civilizations of Europe and North Africa, taking into account both historical and geological perspectives. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. Short inscription to age toned endpapers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408

UK: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition C1881. Undated. Bookplate of the Bishop of Islington Charles Henry Turner. He was an Anglican bishop, from 1898 to 1923. Includes: Venus Fly Trap; Pitcher Plants; Sunflowers; Minor Carnivora; Side-Saddle Flowers, and much more. N&W In-Text illustrations. Blue cloth cover with Illus of Plant and bright gilt lettering on front & spine. Book is good++ with quite bright boards. Edges lightly rubbed in places. Light marking to cloth. Contents good.More images can be taken request. Ref 18207

UK: John Smith's, 1965. First Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1965. Illustrated. Bound in full leather. Invite card from John Smith's Brewery for the re-opening of the The Plumbers Arms. Rare publication. Book is very good with light rubbing to spine tips. Contents good. Bookplate to endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13539

UK, 1990. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Signed and Written Card of Michael Cadman. C1990. Michael Cadman was born on May 12, 1942 in the UK. He is an actor, known for Poldark (1975), Emmerdale (1972) and Countess Dracula (1971). Size is 165mm x 120mm. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17083

UK, 1920. First Edition . Paper. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. An Original Clipped Signature of William Cadman. C1920. Rev William Cadman M.A. was born on 13 May 1815 in Billinge, Wigan, Lancashire. During 1871-72 he occupied the post of being a Select Preacher at Cambridge University where he proved to be a great evangelical leader, a powerful and popular preacher. He was a Prebendary at St Paul's Cathedral from 1874 to 1883.He was appointed as Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury and was made a Canon of Canterbury in 1883 becoming a Rural Dean from 1889. His wife died on 12 January 189 Size is 115m x 60mm. Condition is average Light age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16870

UK, 1887. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Handwritten and Signed Post Card by Novelist Hall Caine to A P Watt. Dated 1887. A note to tell his literary agent that he is contactable at another address. Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine 1853-1931 usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Caine's popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented. He wrote fifteen novels on subjects of adultery, divorce, domestic violence, illegitimacy, infanticide, religious bigotry and women's rights, became an international literary celebrity, and sold a total of ten million books. Caine was the most highly paid novelist of his day. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size of clipped signed slip is 120m x 75mm. Condition is average. Age toning and light foxing.… Read More

UK: Routledge, 1891. New Edition . Cloth. Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 24th but New Edition Dated 1896. An early 'Yellowback novel' A yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel. Routledge was one of the first publishers to begin marketing yellow-backs by starting their "Railway Library" in 1848. The series included 1,277 titles, published over 50 years. These mainly consisted of stereotyped reprints of novels originally published as cloth editions. By the late 19th century quite a few publishers were issuing their own versions of yellow-backs eg Chatto and Windus, Smith Elder,Longmans, Ward Lock. They included… Read More

UK, 1883. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Two Original Hand Written Letters Signed by Scottish Presbyterian MinisterJohn Cairns. The first letter dated 1883 is in relation to a Mr Boyd asking him to reconsider his decision to join the Religious Committee and mentions an enclosed letter from Lord Balfour. The second letter dated 1890 is to the Scottish Lord Provost about him being unable to attend the opening of the Edinburgh Public Library. John Cairns 1818-1892was a Scottish Presbyterian minister. Sizes are 175mm x 115mm and 112mm x 90mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Gum marks to blank rear on one letter. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17707

UK, 1890. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Hand Written Letter and Signed by Artist Philip Calderon. Undated C1890. Letter of thank you. Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA 1833-1898 was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London. He was a member of the group of painters known as the St John's Wood Clique. Size is 180 x 112mm. Condition is good. Folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17349

UK, 1904. First Edition . Paper. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. An Original Letter signed by Robert Cameron. Dated 1904. Letter concerns about the death of Sir William Harcourt. Robert Cameron 1825 - 1913 was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.Before he took office, he was a schoolmaster.At the 1895 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring in County Durham, and held the seat until he died in office in 1913, at the age of 87. Size is 165mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light age toning. Gum marks to rear. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16652

UK, 1851. First Edition . Paper. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by Liberal Politician John Campbell to Levi Leone. Dated 1851. A letter announcing his resignation from the Law Court and passing Levi's request on to a colleague. John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell 1779-1861 was a British Liberal politician, lawyer and man of letters. Levi Leone, 1821-1888. English jurist and statistician. His chief work, History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1870, is considered to be a partisan account of British economic development. Size is 180mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. Paper strip attached to letter edge. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17153

UK. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter Base by the Scottish Poet Thomas Campbell. Thomas Campbell 1777-1844 was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs Size is 150m x 35mm Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17707

UK: Oxford University, 1907. New Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition 1907. Beautifully bound in three quarter vellum leather and Art Nouveau decorative gilt and coloured stamping. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. School gift bookplate to endpaper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref16443