Search Results: Authors starting with C from Bygone Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0195198565 Introduction by General Editor David Daiches. 1st Am. edition, 8vo, brick-red boards, 223 pages, b/w illustrations, short bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: appears unread.

Aylesbury, UK: Shire Publications, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd edition [1975], 16mo, stiff card wraps, 48 pages, b/w text illustrations, b/w photographs, index. No. 29 in the Shire "Discovering" series, first published in 1968. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

Old Sturbridge Village, MA: Old Sturbridge Village / Meriden Gravure Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. No additional printings or editions noted, 8vo, stapled pamphlet wraps, 32 pages, blue and white illustrations. Condition: NEAR FINE: no visible wear. The fascinating story of young America as found in old blue Staffordshire.

NY: Dover Publications, 1972. Soft cover. VG+. 2 volumes, the Dover reprint edition, first published in 1972, an unabridged republication of the second edition (1887) of the work originally published by A.W. Cowan, London in 1882 under the title "The Dictionary of Needlwork: An Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlwork." 4to, stiff wraps, 697 pages (in 2 volumes), b/w illustrations throughout with color illustrated endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : light edgewear to covers, a crease to top corner of vol. II, owner label inside front cover of vol. II. A nice copy of this set.

NY: Prospect Press, 1913. Hardcover. G. Jessie Willcox Smith. Later printing (copyright 1911, first published by Dodd Mead). 4to, rust cloth w/ pictorial paste-on; 159pp, 6 full-page color plates. GOOD / no jacket: ex-library (label on fep, a few date stamps on fep, stamp on title page, but no pocket or spine label); edgewear at corners and spine head and tail, lt. rubbing at edges, tissue guard for frontis is creased with edgewear; hinge loose (book is a bit shaken but all intact); interior pages are clean with only gentle wear.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1955. Hardcover. VG+. 2nd edition, 12mo, navy cloth, 62 pages. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight wear, a lovely copy of this important Chapman work [ Gilson ]. Chapman writes in his preface that "this compilation is addressed to Austenians in general rather than the fastidious collector, who is already provided for, on a grand scale, by Dr. Geoffrey Keynes's "Bibliography" of 1929...I have included all the editions of the novels before 1890" and he includes the criticism and exegesis of this century that "seem to deserve record;" "a few corrections have been made in this second edition and the Addenda has been enlarged." According to Gilson M856, 1000 copies were printed, reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the 1st edition.

NY: Harmony Books / Push Pin Press, 1977. Soft cover. VG+. 2nd printing, 4to, stiff wraps, 72 pages, color illustrations. VERY GOOD+ condition.

London: Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood / Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Exhibition at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, May to September 1977 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II; catalogue compiled by John May. Drawn entirely from the collection of James Blewitt, it ranges from English delft ware of the reign of Charles II to mass-produced wares made to mark the most recent royal jubilee, that of George V in 1935. Oblong 24mo, stapled wraps, 26 pages of text, pages of b/w photographs of various items on glossy paper, color photographs on both covers. Condition is VERY GOOD with light rubbing to cover edges, a crease to front cover and corner crease to rear cover.

New York: Big Apple Circus, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. Big Apple Circus, Lincoln Center 1990-9. Program of Ballerinas, Horses & Clowns.the Golden Age Conceived and Directed by Paul Binder. Folio [11x17"], stapled wraps, 6 pages (includes inside covers), color photographs throughout. Condition is NEAR FINE: small faint stain on rear cover. Includes A Message from Paul Binder, Founder and Artistic Director, and The History of the Golden Age, by Dominique Jando, Associate Director.

NY: J.C. Riker, 1850. Hardcover. VG. ...containing interesting, historical, moral, and instructive reading lessons, composed of words of a greater number of syllables than the lessons in Nos. I and II..... designed for the use of larger children, in families and schools. Revised edition." 24mo, brown paper-backed boards, cloth backstrip, 216pp, engraving frontispiece. Condition is VERY GOOD: spine head is chipped (missing about 1/4"), lt. edgewear, lt. foxing to endpapers, but interior pages are clean and tight. A nice copy of this early reader.

Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf / Heritage Press, no date., 1937. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Richard Floethe. C. Collodi. Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Marionette. Translated from the Italian by Walter S. Cramp. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren and Illustrations by Richard Floethe. Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf / Heritage Press, no date. Reprint of the Limited Editions Club publication of 1937. 4to, blue illustrated cloth, blue page edges, 157 pages, full page color illustrations throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / no jacket / GOOD slipcase: book appears unread, slightly faded spine, faint mark on rear board, small faint spot on spine, owner inscription on ffep; slipcase is edgeworn with some discoloration.

New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Metropolitan Cook Book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1948. Description: 12mo, stapled wraps, 56 pages, index. Covers all manner of recipes: Beverages, Cereals, Quick Breads, Yeast Breads, Cakes, Frostings and Fillings, Cookies, Soups, Fish, Meat, Poultry, Leftovers, various sauces, Eggs, Cheese, Vegetables, Salads / Dressings, Puddings, Dessert Sauces, and Pastry. and more. Vintage advertising cookbook, published and reprinted over a number of years. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight wear. A nice copy.

Ginn and Company, 1909. Soft cover. Good. The New-England Primer Enlarged, O[r], an early and pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, Adorn'd with Cuts, To which are added, The Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton's Catechism, etc. Boston: Printed by E. Draper, for B. Larkin in Cornhill. A facsimile reprint by Ginn & Company who knows when [circa 1909, from the original publication of 1785-1790]. 32mo (4 ½ in), softbound, unpaginated, image of General Washington on the front cover, b/w illustrations. Includes poems, hymns, prayers, catechisms, and "A dialogue between Christ, Youth and the Devil." Condition is GOOD- with the covers taped at spine, faint soiling to front cover, a few pages are detaching, otherwise quite a terrific piece of early New England education. Ginn & Co. has a few advertisements in the rear.

NY: Duffield & Company, 1915. Hardcover. VG-. Jessie Willcox Smith (cover). Early printing (originally published in 1911), 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial paste-on, 463 pages, 10 color plates, illustrated endpapers. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light rubbing to spine extremities and corners, gilt lettering on spine slightly dulled, pictorial paste-on has a few scratches at the edges, first signature is slightly loose with half-title detaching, owner inscribed on first blank page otherwise book is clean throughout, all the lovely and bright Smith plates are present with tissue guards. A nice copy despite these few flaws.

General Mills, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo, illustrated stapled wraps, 26 pages, color illustrations and 2-tone drawings, index. Condition: VERY GOOD with rubbing along spine, clean throughout.

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. LIKE NEW/LIKE NEW. 081301106x 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, navy cloth, 169 pages, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR INE jacket: like new.