Search Results: Authors starting with C from Evening Star Books

Lugduni [= Lyon]: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [52], 818, [28] pp. Full late eighteenth-century red morocco with the spine in six and a half compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards ruled in gilt with the edges and turn-ins decorated with gilt pointillé; all edges gilt. With a green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Bound by Padeloupe in France. Illustrated with an engraved vignette title page and publisher's device on the title page, with engraved initials and headpieces. Early twentieth-century bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on the front pastedown. Dibdin 331. Moss 494. Oxford Classical Dictionary 1198. Dibdin cites this imprint as one of the scarcest and most valuable of the octavo Variorum classics. This edition is praised for the elegance of its typography, the correctness of the text, and the usefulness of the commentary. Pliny the Younger was a soldier and a senator in the latter part of the first century A.C.E. into the second century… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, Inc, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [4], 3-121, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Pink patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text engravings by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Mild foxing to the top textblock, a bookplate on the front pastedown; jacket shows traces of edge wear.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1947. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. [2] (with one page of publisher's advertisements), ix-xxx, [2], 3-181, [5] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine, gilt border and publisher's device embossed in gilt on the front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece map. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Part of The Lakeside Classics series. A Near Fine book with minor wear to the edges of the boards.

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1892. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 2 vol. Folio. [4], v-vii, [3], 2-479, [1]; [4], xi-xx, [2], 1-470 pp. Recent half brown morocco over pebbled leather boards with the spines in six compartments, gilt lettering on the spines; all edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Later endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume with a frontispiece and heavily illustrated with photogravure and color lithograph plates throughout. The title pages denote this edition as "The Antiquarian Edition". The title pages each state 1892, while the copyright date is 1890. Cole Cady's history is told through the setup of young children listening to a magical fairy tell them about the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: aspects of the various cultures, religious traditions, clothing, food, and economic activities are revealed to the children by Robin Goodfellow, the Fairy Historian. The illustrations illuminate the story, and many of the images are taken from genuine… Read More

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-208 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns with maps. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Anne and Peter Wiseman. Full-page and in-text illustrations by Barry Cunliffe, with color photographs. A small crease on the front flyleaf and minor wear to the boards; jacket is close to Fine.

London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 18mo. 8 cm x 12.5 cm. [5], 2-468, [4] pp. Bound in beautiful contemporary straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. Biographical Portrait of the Netherlands: "Franz van Oudendorp". Oxford Classical Dictionary 238. A later edition of Franz van Oudendorp's edition of De Bello Gallico (the first appears to have been published in 1737). Oudendorp was a Dutch philologist and classicist, and taught at the University of Leiden during the middle of the eighteenth century (Biographical Portal of the Netherlands). This volume contains Caesar's writings on his campaigns in Gaul and his experiences in the Roman Civil war between Caesar and the Optimates against Pompey the Great and the aristocratic class. De Bello Gallico contains a lively account of Caesar's conquering of northern Italy, parts of Switzlerand, and France. He writes of his… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], x-xvii, [2], 2-190, [2], 25 plates pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 45s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with 25 black and white plates at the end of the volume. A name on the free front endpaper; jacket has a few tiny chips.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Small 8vo. [10], 232, [4] pp. Pink cloth blindstamped on the front board with gold lettering on the spine, grey topstain. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. Tiny stain and sticker ghost on rear pastedown; general rubbing and wear with a tear on bottom of spine panel wrapping around to front panel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Very Good. Small 8vo. [v], v-xvi, [4], 3-166, [5] pp. Peach cloth with green lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, light brown topstain. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good+ book with a spot of offsetting to the front board in a Near Very Good dust jacket with general edge wear and a large chip to top of spine panel.

London: Hard Case Crime (2012), 2012. First printing. Hardback. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], 10-270, [2] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $23.99 on rear panel. Tiny remainder dot on bottom of textblock, else Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Small 8vo. [7], 3-373, [5] pp. Light green cloth with blue lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with mild offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns in an age toned jacket with a bit of wear to the folds.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-242, [6] pp. Light purple cloth with purple lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, gold topstain. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 023a. An attractive copy of one of Cain's later novels. Near Fine with a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few tiny hints of wear to the extremities.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1986], 1986. First edition. Hardback. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 1-287, [9] pp. White paper-cover boards bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap. Edited and with an introduction by Roy Hoopes. A nice copy of this final volume of Cain's previously uncollected short fiction.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. [7], 3-314, [6] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, red topstain. Ahearn APG 004a. Cain's second novel. A Near Fine book in a Good price-clipped dust jacket with traces of chipping, moderate discoloration to the flaps, and fading to the spine panel.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [9], 2-238 pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text black and white photographs.

London: Cassell (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-vi, 210 pp. Red cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of "21 net-" on front flap of jacket. Includes an index and a bibliography. Enser 130. A Near Fine book with a tiny red "X" marked in pen on the free rear endpaper in a Very Good jacket with a few traces of edge wear and rubbing.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [5], 6-347, [5] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a review slip from the publisher laid in. Various articles from the decorated British journalist. With a few hints of edge wear.

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-vi, 1-234 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $22.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Light wear to the extremities.

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [11], 2-254, [8] pp. Quarter red cloth over white paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Title page with lines of code decorating it. Price of $14.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A phone number written on the free front endpaper; jacket with a tape repair on its spine panel and a few traces of rubbing.

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1991], 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 1-231, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A few bumps to the boards' corners; jacket with very light edge wear.