Search Results: Authors starting with C from LaCelle Rare Books

New York: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1899. Hardcover. Fair. New York: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1899. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST BY THIS PUBLISHER. 44 pages. Fair. Tight binding; retaining front wrap but not rear (if there was one); pages have a few smudges; bookplate on front endpaper; a few tiny tears; tape and chip to front wrap; moderate wear to hardcovers.  Scarce. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING         with correct 1918 date on title page, correct copyright statement on copyright page, and $1.50 price on spine.  Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; pages pretty clean; browning to endpapers; contemporary 1918 name on front endpaper; slight wear; dust jacket is worn along edges with somce chipping.  Cable's last novel, scarce in dust jacket. George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century", as well as "the first modern Southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1958). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING     with correct ads, etc. Very Good+ in  Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with a few tiny tears; publisher price sticker and store sticker on front panel; price clipped.  A scarce title. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Franklin Watts, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Franklin Watts, 1972. First Edition, First Printing with $4.95 price on front flap of dust jacket and 1972 date on title page. Near Fine in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with moderate wear; price clipped ($4.95). Scarce early picture book by the author of A Very Hungry Caterpillar. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York; Simon and Schuster, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York; Simon and Schuster, 1948. Tenth Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON REAR ENDPAPER [NAME OF RECIPIENT BLACKED OUT]. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; slight wear; dust jacket is somewhat worn with some chipping to edges; price not clipped ($2.95). Carnegie's second major work, scarce signed.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

London: Cassell & Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Illustrated. London: Cassell & Company, (1932). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING       with correct copyright statement, ads, etc.  193 pages. Illustrated. Very Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with some chips and tears; tape along edges; price not clipped (10/6 net).  A curious book by the author of Alice in Wonderland. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1895. Hardcover. No Book/Fair. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, (1895). DUST JACKET ONLY - NO BOOK. Dust Jacket is Fair. Quite worn with some chipping and tears. Stained. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with all first issue points. 495 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket. Rear hinge cracked else tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary inscription on a blank page - "Mr. Ravcoe[?] Hines / a gift from / Hon. Wm. E. Chandler / Dec. 12, 1911 / by the hand of his friend / SWC" - I'd like to think that the friend here was Willa Cather with the writer of the inscription mixing up her initials but who knows; moderate wear and bnumping to corners but still nice; dust jacket is quite worn with several chips; mostly backed with brown paper; some tears and soil. Cather's fourth book. David Stouck, in his introduction to the University of Nebraska Press edition, wrote that Cather's portrayal of Eddy "contains some of the finest portrait sketches and reflections on human nature that Willa… Read More

Chicago: Homewood Publishing Co, 1890. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Chicago: Homewood Publishing Co., [n.d. circa 1890]. FIRST EDITION. Original pictorial covers. Illustrated. Illustrated throughout in b/w.  Good. Front hinge a bit cracked; rear hinge detached; clean pages; title page loose; covers worn. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

San Francisco, California: Edgar Cherry & Co., Publishers, 1884. Hardcover. Good. Photographs (Illustrated with). San Francisco, California: Edgar Cherry & Co., Publishers, 1884. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES. 107 pages. 23 actual albumen photographs [supposed to have 24; lacking one]. Good. tight binding; clean pages; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; small tear to front endpaper; covers worn. An early photo book of redwood logging in California, published  "[An] impressive verbal and pictorial description of the logging industry on the northern coast of California"--Kurutz. References: Cowan, page 525; Kurutz, California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs 7; Miles & Reese, Creating America 74. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Herrera, Velino (Illustrated by). New York: The Viking Press, (1941). Twelfth Printing (October 1966). Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean with light wear; price not clipped ($3.50). A Newbery Honor Book. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1839. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 363 pages + ads. Very Good. Tight binding; light foxing else clean pages; previous owner's name on front endpaper; moderate wear. "The author was Superintendent of the Morodendron Silk Company of Philadelphia. His exhortation on the title: 'Look to the Silk Culture for the true Gold Mines of the United States, leading to Independence, Wealth and Power.' How wrong he was!"--Charles Wood. Quite scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Boston: Geo. H. Polley & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Fair. Boston: Geo. H. Polley & Co., (1892) FIRST EDITION. Size: 14" x 12". Illustrated grandly and profusely.   Fair. Covers detached; lacking spine; clean pages; covers very worn. A very rare heavily illustrated volume of renaissance furniture and decoration and 18th century French styles.  of furniture. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Doubleday, 2009. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. New York: Doubleday, (2009). Fifth Printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON BLANK PAGE.  Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with only very slight wear; price not clipped ($27.95). Bestselling classic. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING COLLECTIBLE BOOKS..

London: William Heinemann, 1926. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. London: William Heinemann, (1926). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 162 pages. Illustrated. Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; moderate foxing; moderate wear; dust jacket is very worn with a few small chips, tear 1/4 of way down the spine; a couple of scrapes; foxing and soil. Biography of the great novelist by his wife. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Denver: The W.F. Robinson Printing Co, 1897. Hardcover. Fair. Denver: The W.F. Robinson Printing Co., 1897. SECOND (AND EXPANDED) EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 442 pages. Illustrated. Fair. Binding shaken; one page gathering basically detached; light yellowing to pages; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; covers worn and somewhat soiled.  "2nd and enlarged ed. of Gen. Cook's experiences as leader of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. Earlier he had been city marshal of Denver, Arapahoe Co. Sheriff, Deputy U.S. Marshal and Chief of Police of Denver. These memoirs comprise a criminal history of the Far West from 1865 to 1890."--Nebenzahl. References: Adams, Guns 241. Howes C-728. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 216 pages. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; light foxing else clean pages; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; onlt very slight wear; dust jacket is clean with a few small tears and a couple of very small chips. First edition of an early guide to probability.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1924). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING     with correct copyright statement and jacket blurbs, etc.  Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary owner's name stamp several times on endpapers; light browning to endpapers; light wear; dust jacket has small tears, tiny chips and moderate soil. A mystery novel of detective Mr. Dawson of Scotland Yard. Very scarce.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1916. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1916). FIRST EDITION. 496 pages. Illustrated throughout. Fair. Tight binding; pages have some staining; from the Morris G. Cook collection with his bookplate; several library stamps; covers quite worn with some soil and scuffing.  Quite scarce. Author was a doctor who became a Baptist minister and also participated heavily in Texas life from his birth in 1858. Much material, broncho busting, cattle stampedes, the Vaughan and Stull murders, Parker, Upshur, Gonzales and Bastrup, Coryell Counties, Texas; the Chisholm Trail, cattle-sheepman feud, and much more. References: Howes C-864, Adams Herd 603, Rader 955. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1923). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct copyright statement, correct jacket blurbs, etc. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; name stamps on endpapers; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with tears and chips. Scarce in jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .