Search Results: Authors starting with C from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Stein and Day, 1964. 464 pp. Orange paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Book about fine with slight rubbing at head and tail of spine; jacket clean and bright with some minor edgewear and a small nick to the top front corner, old tape on verso of lower spine. Presents well. The only novel by the Nobel winner. Technically the second American edition, reprinting The Tower of Babel published by Knopf in 1947. Translated by C.V. Wedgwood (Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood).

New York: Horizon Press, 1967. First edition. 264 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Slight browning to board edges, minor edgewear to jacket. Inscribed by Boyle on the title-page, with a further holograph note by her at the end of the introduction, p. 19, noting her learning later of Carnevali's death in 1942.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1971. First edition. 223 pp. Green cloth, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Minor spotting to top edge, ghost of paper clip indentation to top of the front panel of the jacket. Small indentation to first several leaves. Overall very bright and clean. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from Dutton editor Hal Scharlatt on Dutton letterhead presenting the book to Ken Millar (aka Ross MacDonald).Carpenter's uncommon third novel, not reprinted except for a Pocket Books paperback the following year. With a blurb by Richard Brautigan, one of Carpenter's closest friends: "In microscopically-accurate detail Getting Off searches through the emotional odds and ends of an American marriage that has just turned into a pile of junk. This is a very brave book about love.

Hardwick: Four Zoas Press, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. [8] leaves, plain string-sewn wrappers. Slight sunning to spine and rubbing to corners, else a fine copy. Signed on the title-page and designated a.p. on the colophon. An early production by the late and greatly missed poet, typefounder, printer, punchcutter, teacher, and two-term New Hampshire state representative.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition of the scarce hardcover issue of Carroll's collection of prose poems. 172 pp. A fine copy in a fine jacket.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition, the simultaneous softcover issue, of Carroll's first book to be published by a mainstream publisher. Cover art by Larry Rivers. A very good copy, with some old staining to the edges and the bottom of the wraps, and a slight curl to the front cover.

Omaha: Bradypress, 1999. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. String-sewn wrappers, printed label on front cover. One of 150 numbered copies. Fine copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 160 pp. Glossy printed wrappers, a paperback original. Lower front corner very slightly rubbed, still a just about fine copy. An early Carson appearance in book form.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. 149 pp. Tan and brown paper boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine rubbed, small nick on top edge of front board. One of Carson's earlier and most beloved works, "a novel in verse." The first edition has become uncommon.

Paris: Arthaud, 1989. First French edition. 100 pp. Full tan cloth, spine lettered in brown, with the dust jacket. Old stain to top of rear board and spine and corner of front board, affecting verso of jacket as well, slight dampstaining to top edge of last twenty leaves. Introduction by Jean Clair. Avant-propos by John Russell. Translated by Pierre Leyris. A collection of drawings by the master photographer. Inscribed by Cartier-Bresson to John Russell and his wife, "avec autant de reconnaissance que d'affection." A nice association copy.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1987. First edition thus. Sewn wrappers. One of 136 copies, this copy signed by Carver and inscribed by the publisher on the colophon. A single poem. Fine copy.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1984. Single sheet, folded. One of 186 copies issued by Ewert for private distribution. Fine copy.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1987. First edition thus. Handmade paper boards over cloth backstrip, printed spine label mounted. One of 75 numbered copies, signed by Carver. A single story, which was originally published in Esquire. Fine copy.

Western Springs, IL: C.L. Johnson, 1970. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good +. Curt Johnson was an early supporter of Raymond Carver and published many of his stories throughout the 1960s. This issue of his magazine contains Carver's "A Night Out" (later retitled "Signals" in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?). This issue also includes an early story by Carver's good friend William Kittredge, "The Red Room." Original printed wraps. 224 pp. Some rubbing and wear to the covers; a very good or better copy of an uncommon early Carver item.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1986. First edition. Printed boards over cloth backstrip, printed spine label mounted. Of a total edition of 136 copies, this is one of 36 copies in boards, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the publisher, and additionally signed by Carver. A collection of 10 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form. Fine copy.

Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1948. First edition. 51 leaves, 45 leaves of plates; 86 color etchings by Chastel (including 38 full page), tissue guards laid in, unbound as issued in etched pictorial wrapper, housed in publisher's chemise with inlaid title label to spine, with slipcase. Some slight wear to head of slipcase opening, contents about fine with some slight occasional offsetting. One of 148 copies on vélin de lana, of a total edition of 196 copies. Chastel made extensive studies at the Paris Zoo "until he felt capable of realizing the essential characteristic of each particular bird or animal as he saw it, that is, as much subjectively as objectively. He then interpreted these syntheses in decorative form. He envisaged the illustration in terms of a double-page-the unit in which the lettrine, likewise etched in color, would be linked with the facing design.... The colors are used emotively and for contrast.... Every double-page is exciting and original." Strachan goes on, "Chastel has so… Read More

n.p. [Williamsburg, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, 1982. First edition, one of 200 regular copies (of a total edition of 300, 100 deluxe). Original publisher's quarter red morocco over buff linen cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, bound by Gray Parrot. Slight foxing to cloth boards, else fine. Original prospectus laid in. 26 wood engravings and 26 illustrated initials by Alan James Robinson, with text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block. An exquisite collection of wood engravings illustrating textual extracts regarding real and mythical animals which are, "for the most part, the earliest first-hand accounts, in English, of the animals pictured... although there have been many bestiaries throughout the centuries, some of them strikingly beautiful, this edition breaks from tradition in its text, calligraphy and its style of illustration" [from the prospectus].

New York: Lapp Princess Press/Printed Matter, 1979. First edition. Single sheet, folded accordion-style, tipped into a printed wrapper. Six portraits by Close in various mediums. Minor handling wear, near fine.

Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First edition. Quarto. [272] pp. Original printed wrappers, glassine. Some minor handling wear, front and rear cover slightly shorter than text block, near fine. Of a total edition of 625 copies, this is one of 100 copies on Madagascar, with an original drawing by Cocteau bound in with annotated title ("avec dessin ou annotation de l'auteur sur page de garde"). The drawing is of a terrier with a bow on its collar, initialed and annotated by the artist, "Chien fait par Picasso dans un seul bout de carton." A beautiful, fairly early collection of Cocteau's drawings, printed on rectos only and presented without text in some thematic sections (including "Le mauvais lieu," which includes scenes of bars populated by cross-dressers, same-sex couples, and others), and many portraits, including Satie, Radiguet, Bakst, and Picasso, to whom the book is dedicated. Housed in a custom clamshell box. OCLC locates less than twenty copies in America across several records.

Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1971. First Edition. Original wrappers. Very good. Single sheet, folded twice to form 6 pp, mounted in paper wrappers. Printed by the Dorset Press in an edition of 500 copies, series edited by Trevor Joyce. Edgewear, some sunning and soiling to rear panel. Uncommon in the trade.