Search Results: Authors starting with C from Alba's Books

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photos and tables. With a large section on case histories, this is a groundbreaking work on the suject of the choroid plexus in surgery. A fine, unmarked copy in the original dust jacket.

James & Hopkins, Printers, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sextodecimo. Original red gilt cloth with debossed decorations. This book appears to have been used by Townsend for Benjamin Welch, whose name is hand-written (signed?) on the title page and notations of exam results also handwritten, in fountain pen, on the margins. A unique, curious document recording the process by which a phrenologist carried on his work with a subject. A very well preserved copy, clean and bright. Extremely rare.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Beautiful gilt engraved cloth shows Blarney Castle. Extremely scarce Kerr item. This was Melville scholar, collector, bookseller, and Northwestern Professor Harrison Hayford's copy, and has his bookplate. Binding is cloth boards.

McBride, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo.

Farrar, STraus & Co., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

London: The Bodley Head, 1928. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Original green cloth. Light tanning to jacket spine, with text clear; rubbing to spine edges and flap foreedges; else a better than very good copy, unmarked and tight. In a Brodart jacket cover.

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Number 1221 in a LIMITED EDITION of 1295 copies. Original ivory buckram over blue paper-covered boards with title label. A small and minor small light dampline at bottom of spine not affecting any other part of book, else a fine, clean and bright copy, tight and free of the usual warping or cocking.

Robert M. McBride, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Octavo. Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. Has all the first issue points. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a 3"" closed tear to the middle of the lower spine repaired professionally with internal tissue, is price clipped, and is otherwise very good, clean and bright. An attractive copy in the rare jacket protected by a Mylar plastic cover.

Robert M. McBride, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Frank C. Pape. Spine title faded, else a fine copy.

Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Howard Pyle Color Plates. Original green designer cloth with illustrated endpapers and all color plates. From the library of Louise Hess Marsh, with her specially-designed period bookplate. Tight, clean, with internal marks. A beautiful copy, scarce in this condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original red gilt cloth with date on title page and Scribners' seal on copyright page. Period bookplate on endpaper. Mild dust offsetting to bottom 1/4"" of spine, else a near fine, bright, unmarked copy.

New York: International association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Front free endpaper has previous owner's name.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First CSS Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Margaret Armstrong Cover Design; Stanley M. Arthurs Illustrations. Beautiful Margaret Armstrong gilt and color design of juxtaposed vases and candles on blue cloth is well preserved, with the title and foreedge gilt clean and bright. P/o name on endpaper, else unmarked and tight. All color plates present.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo. Percy Moran Etching. Original green gilt cloth gilt cameo and top edge and with date on title page. Designer bookplate on endpaper, with mild rubbing to bottom edges and light dulling to interleaving; else a near fine, clean and unmarked copy in bright cover gilt.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. F.C. Yohn. A clean, unmarked copy in bright cover gilt.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

E.P Dutton & Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Has all the first edition points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with a small jacket spine chip protected in a Mylar plastic dust jacket cover.

Crown Publishers, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographic Plates. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Twayne Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.