Search Results: Authors starting with C from Kama’aina Collection

London : George Virtue, London. Bound by Westleys & Clark, London, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Various. None. None 117 p., 24 black and white engravings. Gilt decorations on spine, and front and back covers. 6 p. advertising. Minor age toning, three pages heavily foxed all over. Tight binding, beautiful leather and gilt cover, spine and back. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos

New York: THE OVERLOOK PRESS, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Near fine. None. A few small holes in gutter from bugs, professionally treated. Clean tight pages and binding. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Some fox spots on reverse

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. None. None 6.5 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches. Clean tight binding. Evidence of some bug damage on lower spine. Some pages foxed pan tones, overall pages are clean. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR Toning on back side and some small holes

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. A.D. Lalauze. In Ink: To my friend Norval, Christmas 1906, Axel Chytaus. And “[This] may serve to remind [?] the [?] of his [?] which he overcame in the late Spanish of war.”. From the Spanish by P.A. Motteux Original red and Brown Cloth Covers with Gilt on spine of all four volumes. Ex Libris Label inside front cover for Drusilla Wahl Pierce. Untrimmed pages on side and bottom. Illustrations clean and crisp. Cover tissue of illustrations shows some imprint of illustration. Deeply printed illustrations. Some old worm holes in gutter and near spine of volumes. Spines are is faded with bumped edges. One spine clot has separated from back cove but has not been re-glued. Printed in red & black. Illustrated with 37 inserted plates, including a frontis to each volume. Tissue guards. Royal 8vo. 10-3/8 x 6-1/2inches The set is crisp and clean showing modest shelf and edge wear for its age. Note: These books will require extra postage due to… Read More

St. Louis, MO: MCE Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Fair+. Gustave Dore. Dan Malan Signature. None First Edition, introduction by Dan Malan with Autograph on title page. A lovely version of Dickens' classic Xmas tale complemented by the long-lost engravings done by French illustrator Dore for this story. 176 pages. First Printing in this format from 1996 (First, thus), this hardcover book has beige cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Original Dust Jacket shows shelf wear, overall good condition. The point of this publication, supervised by Dan Malan, of The Classics Collector magazine, is the presence of 45 lost engravings by Gustave Dore along with 130 other Victorian illustrations. Dore did a fine job--his ghosts are the scariest, his poor the shabbiest, and his Scrooge the meanest among the examples on display--but it was a job for an ephemeral publication, not to be compared with the artist's independent projects. The full Dickens text is of course present; this… Read More

New Your, London, Paris: Cassell & Company Limited, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. Charles A Wood, Grand Rapids, Mich.. By James Spence Harry 10 x 12.5 x 1inches volume Gold publisher’s cloth with imprinted design on both covers and spine. Gilt on front cover and spine. Beautiful illustrations on cover and spine. Gilt pages on three sides. Introduction by Edward J. Harding. Front cover tissue foxed, otherwise very clean copy of this well illustrated book. Gilt and Illustrated Spine and Front cover. 1884 Atala by Chateaubriand Gustave DORE Art Illustrated Native American Indians You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Atala is a short novel by French author Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, a work that was an important work of Romanticism. It follows the story of travels and voyages in North America, encounters with Cherokee Indians, wilderness exploration, European missionaries in America, and themes of forbidden… Read More

London: VIZETELLY & CO.,, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. ILLUSTRATED WITH THE ORIGINAL COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE DESIGNS OF C. EISEN AND C. P. MARILLIER,. Bookplate for Herbert M. Shaw. H. G. KEENE, C.E.I, M.A. (OXON.) The Kisses (Les Baisers) Preceded by the Month of May....Illustrated with the original copper plate engravings after the designs of C. Eisen and C.P. Marillier. 4to., bds. & cl. spine, London ND. (c.1886). Limited to 1500 copies. With engraved title page, engraved frontispiece plate, and the many smaller copper plate engravings. In good condition. Bookplate and two book descriptions also pasted in. Front and back endpapers are cracked along gutter with no paper loss and no loosening of the binding. Etching so sho ghosting on the facing pages as there are no tissue covers throughout. Claude Joseph Dorat (31 December 1734 ? 29 April 1780) was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat. Illustrated throughout with with engravings by C. Eisen and C. P. Marillier. In a… Read More

USA: Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Graphic design by R. D. Scudellar. None. Foreword by Saul Bellow, recollections by Carol Fox, and graphic design by R.D. Scudellari. Patterned endpapers; profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs, some full-bleed. 233 pages, 4to, orange-y-brown patterned leatherette with decorative gilt spine, dust wrapper (some chipped to upper corners and curling to edges). Chicago: Lyric Opera of Chicago Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Some small splits on edges, toning to the edges. Not price clipped.

London: BY JAMES CUNDEE, IVY-LANE; FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW,, 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. MR. BRYANT, AND OTHER EMINENT ARTISTS.. Small blank bookplate.. 2 Volumes, rebound covers with tapestry fabric. Let her 5 band spine with gilt lettering and design top and bottom. First Edition. 4to, 29.5 by 23 cm. lxvi, 168, [6], xii, 260, [6 -- including errata page] pp. Volume One has 24 plates, of which 5 are folding. Volume 2 has 30 plates, of which 6 are folding. Also two page plate of music score. Most plates are aquatints, with some being engraved. Plates are beautiful, many evocations of pastoral scenery, in addition to sporting related. Also costume plates depicting people of unusual professions. Also engraved vignette illustrations throughout. Minor starting and rubbing of joints. Pages are foxed. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

United Kingdom : Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Excellent+/Good+. None. None 9 x 11.5 x 1 inches. Very Clean copy. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR Foxing on the reverse, no tears, no holes.

New York : Crescent Books. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Good. None. None Some foxing throughout. Binding tight. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. No tears, foxing on the reverse. Still crisp and shiny, spine sun faded

London: Macmillan & Co, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Walter Crane. None. None [6], 25, [43] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Dark green cloth spine with gilt spine title and decoration. Green paper over boards with white and black title and illustration. All page edges green. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated title page. This is the first of three books of poetry that Crane both wrote and illustrated. The text is printed first with out illustrations and then in a ""handwritten"" font within the illustrations. In Good Condition: pages foxed edges rubbed; ends of spine just starting to fray; cover lightly soiled; soiling, primarily in the margins; illustrations are clean and bright. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York: Scribner and Welford, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Carot, Rousseau, Diaz, Millet, Daubigny, etc. . “With the Authors Compliments. D. Croal Thompson, July 9, 1913” And “A Souvenir also of an evening that will live long in our memories. D. Croal Thompson, Alice M. Thompson. May 8th, 1914”
. None 11 x 14.5 x 2 inches Volume. Very Rare Edition. Contains two letters from the Author to H. Reinhardt, Esq. - the person he gives this book to - who purchased a painting by Corot. The book author discussed the painting purchased. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorative brown cloth, small illustration in black and gilt on the front, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, top edge gilt. decorative endpapers, Includes illustrations on plates with guards and additional small illustrations within text.; pages are generally clean though a few small spots can be observed, no foxing. Binding is tight and secure. 130 illustrations glued in by hand as well as lithographs. Book was… Read More

London: Bell & Daldy , 1870. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Good. George Cruikshank. None. None With 24 Illustrations designed and engraved by George Cruikshank, stated Fifth edition. — accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet show, an account of its origin, and of puppet plays in England. Professionally rebound using original spine and boards (?) at a much earlier date. Water stain on front endpaper and front piece; otherwise all pages are bright and clean. A very nice copy. Floral endpapers. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR