Search Results: Authors starting with C from 100 POCKETS

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/.../ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ ... Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily… Read More

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965. 6th Reprint of 1974 . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/tidy, sporadic yellow hilighting but clean. Softcover/NF; sound w/faint creasings to front & trace surface wear. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. Reprint of two separate volumes: The Chinese Family in the Communist Revolution, and, A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition by Chinese-American sociologist Ch'ing-k'un Yang (1911 - 1999), better known as C. K. Yang. Both works first published 1959. Less deletion of some passages on the commune, this composite 1965 reprint was not edited. An analysis of sex, age & marriage in the family institution & the role of kinship in the peasant village communities some 10 years after Communist take over of the China Mainland. Strong copy despite listed flaws. 276 in 13 chapters followed by Appendix. Strong copy despite highlighting.

New York, NY: Time Reading Progrm, Special Edition/Time Inc, 1963. 1st Edition First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/creasing tospine edge & front cover. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. First published in 1942; this is a 1963 Special Edition of the Time Reading Program. British writer & lay theologian Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963) taught English Literature at Oxford Univ and Cambridge Univ. Known the Chronicles of Narnia, was an intimate of J. R. R. Tolkein to whom this book is dedicated. This novel is a moral tract on Christian theology regarding temptation & resistance. 137 pgs, composed of 31 one-way, epistolic letters from senior demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter assigned to secure the damnation of a British man known only as "the Patient", in the 20th century world of the un-holy trinity --- the World, the Flesh, and the Devil among lukewarm & post-Christians. Read More

New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1960. Priinting of 1965 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/New & Bright. Illustrated green softcover/VG; strong & sound w/light shelfwear & faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Anthropological study of island-dwelling, matrilineal aborigines off the coast of North Australia and an unique language system. Case studies by Hart (1905-1976) conducted in 1928, and Pilling'd investigations of mid 1950s. 1965 printing of Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. 118 pgs, w/photos, in 6 chapters: 1, Tiwi Marriage; 2, Life in the Bush; 3, The Prestige & Influence System; 4, The Collective Life; 5, Friend & Foe (1600-1928); and 6. The Tiwi Today.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967. 4th Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. 4th Edition of 1967. First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/clipped upper corner to green free front endpaper & first title page. Illustrated black linen boards/VG w/light rubs to leading edges. DJ/None. Charts of atomic weights and periodic chart to endpapers. Classic textbook first published 1949 under the title: Introduction to Qualitative Analysis. This is the revised 4th edition of 1967. 9 chapters: 1, The Practice of Qualitative Analysis; 2, The Theory of Qualitative Analysis; 3, The Silver Group; 4, The Copper-Arsemoc Group; 5, The Sluminum-Nickel Group; 6, The Bar-ium-Magnesium Group; 7, The Analysis of Alloys; 8, The Analysis of Salts & Salt Mixtures; and, 9, Recording & Reporting Analysis, followed by Appendix on Reagents Used.

New York, NY: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front spine corner. First Edition, First Printing. A study of how humans of differing cultures, through arts, poetry, the physical body & psysche, have conmuned and lived with Nature --- a look at how the Earth is understood in both ancient and contemporary thought in pre-Western influenced cultures. 570 pgs, w/illustrations. Text in 6 parts: I, Aboriginal Australia; II, Japan; III, Greece; IV, Africa; V, South America: The Kogi; and VI, Native North America

Berkeley, CA: Open Books, 1985. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/light smudge to pg 48 & trace edge wear to soft cover. LAID-IN: Jan 3, 1986 correspondence from representing attorney Leonard Post, Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF). History. 1980s civil disobedience opposing nuclear arms race. Documentary, with photos, June 20, 1983 demonstration at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, California. Parts I & II record: 1, The Demonstration (of thousands of participants); 2, Jail; and 3, The Trail; 4, Statements Made at Sentencing; and 6, The Defendants' Statements, followed by Epilogue - The Appeal, and 4 appendices.

Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1973. Revised Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint discoloration. Cover/NF. Prepartory review in preparation for the French language College Boards examinations. Vocabulary and verb conjugation appendices to rear.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Co, 1946. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Very Good. John O'Hara Cosgrave II (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/NF w/trace discoloration. DJ/VG; nips, chips, closed tears w/losses to upper front & upper/lower spine edges; rubs to leading edges, & faint discolorationg. Decorated endpapers. PO name on first title page. Novelette written 1946 by James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) whose prolific literary career began with The Eagle's Shadow (1904), and best known for his series of pseudo-erudite romances of Dom Manuel set in the mythical medieval land of Poictesme, and Jurgen (1919). This novel chronicles the love of Jose Gasparilla for Isabel de Castro; a love that drives him to piracy, murder, and entanglement with a strange series of events both natural and supernatural.

New York, NY: Viking Press/Studio Book, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/Trace soiling to pgs 10 & 13, else Bright, Clean as New. Orange linen boards/VG w/edge rubs. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to edges & surface. PO sticker to front cover verso. 128 pgs, illustrated with archival photos. Recounts of visits to castles, not homes, through Eurupe, Africa and the Near East from Mary Cable (1904 -). Artcles first published in Horizon Magazine. 128 pgs. The 8 travel narratives are: 1, Ludwig's Dream Castles; 2, A Habitable Monument (Bleneheim Palace); 3, "A Cluster of Soap Bubbles" (The Alhambra); 4, The Emperorer's Folly (Hadrian.s Villa); 5, Palace in the Sun (The Grand Palace, Bangkok); 6, "The Very Pearl of the Realm" (Nonsuch Palace); 7, The Marble Cottages (Vanderbillt, Newport Houses); and, The Grand Seraglio (Topkapi Seray, Istanbul).

London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1943. First Edition, 3rd Impression of 1943 . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Pale blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/VG; strong & sound showing discoloration & brown spotting (acidic reaction) to backstrap and leading text edge. DJ/None. Upper text edge dyed blue. Fold-out map (also BRAND NEW) to rear. Travel narrative of British missionary Alice Mildred Cable (1878 - 1952), Evangeline (Eva) French and her sister Francesca French. This travelogue chronicles their unique esperiences of many years traversing the Gobi Desert. The two were the first English women to cross the Gobi Desert. Volume describes the inns, monasteries, archaeological sites, abandoned cities and patterns of life in the 1920s. A primary historical record. Fine copy less dustjacket,

Rio De Janeiro: Grafica Record Editora, 1967. Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/16" Tall. The author is currently Avogado da Camera Brasileira do Livro. "Estas cronicas foram escritas rapidamente, sem qualquer preocupacao estetica. Nem por isto elas dexam de representar alguns aspectos da nossa realidade -- a dura realidade dos metodos e processos politicos do Brasil de hoje." [Nota, 1964] The tone of the essays ranges from impatient to sardonic to scathing. 127 pages, with prefatory matter. Covers have partial creases, and slight fading at backstrap; name of prior owner inked on rfEP; text is clean and strong.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1967. Hardcover Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan-pocket. Gilt embossed linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Reprint of the Guillaumin Paris edition of 1870. Biographical study of the life, works and influence of French economist, Jansenist, one of the early thinkers of economical markets, Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646 - 1714) by Felix Cadet (1827 - 1888). Four Parties: I, Biographie de Boisguilbert; II, Boisguilbert historien du siecle de Louis XIV; III, Boisguilbert economiste; and IV, De la reputation et de l'influence de Boisguilbert. 442 (+ x) pages, with Fac-simile, and Liste raisonne des ouvrages manuscrits ou imprimes. Strong copy.

Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Earth's ecology has entered a new and alien phase. The world is controlled by UniTech, despotic, technocratic worldgovernment. Domed cities, strict control of earth's remaining resources are the day, and astronomy has become an out-lawed science. Quincy Alexander finds herself at an abandoned observatory high in the Andes facing great challenges. She is there to fulfill a legacy from her dead friend and in the Andes graples with a dangerous attraction to a mysterious woman --- an ecological and immensely human story.

New York, NY: A.S. Barnes, 1957. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Yellow linen boards/NF w/trace edge discoloration. DJ/NF; light edge wear & discoloration to spine; under mylar. English translation of the 1955 exploration the French cave Gouffre Berger (discovered in 1953 by Joseph Berger). The cave is located in the Sornin Plateau, high above Grenoble in the Vercors. A milestone in caving by team of resolute young men who pushed the limits of spelunking below the magic kilometer mark ... this record of their 10-day underground adventure is augmented with b/w photos.

Chicago, IL: Probus Professional Pub, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible w/faint creasing to upper front of dustjacket. Stock market primer. Focus on three strategies of selling short, buying puts, and selling calls --- all methods for down markets. 20 chapters, with working examples, in 5 parts: I, The Basics; II, Short Sales; III, Put Buying; IV, Call Writing; and, V, The Market, followed by useful Glossary.

New York, NY: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1998. First Edition, 11th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. BRAND NEW Copy w/a whisper of staining to lower corners of first 5 pgs. .Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Intellectual history of ancient Jewish thought and its far reaching influences. Scholar Thomas Cahill (1940 - ) studied scripture at Union Theological Seminary, and then spent 2 years as a Visiting Scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America studying Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible. Volume recreates how ideas of a small band of ancient people influence today. Early religions & philosophies largely viewed life as part of an endless cycle of birth & death. Then ancient nomadic Jews began to see time differently ... that time has a beginning & an end; that life is a narrative & a record with it's triumphant conclusion in the future. This philosphical approach led to seeing men & women as individuals with unique destinies, hopes for the future, belief in progress, and… Read More

New York, NY: Anchor Books/Random House, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW. Softcover/NF w/faint crease to lower back corner. First Edition, First Printing. Intellectual history of ancient Jewish thought and its far reaching influences. For this study, scholar Thomas Cahill (1940 - ) studied scripture at Union Theological Seminary, and spent 2 years as a Visiting Scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America studying Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible. Volume recreates how ideas of a small band of ancient people influence today. Early religions & philosophies saw life as part of an endless cycle of birth & death. Then ancient nomadic Jews began to see time differently. That time did have a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, a record, whose triumphant conclusion lay in the future. This notion gives rise to viewing men and women as individuals with unique destinies, hope for the future, and belief in progress, making Western… Read More

New York, NY: Bantam, 1989. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Text/NEW. Collection of a decade's travel narratives, first published in periodicals. Caveat: "There are no jaguars in this book". Known for his humorous and compelling style, Tim Cahill (1944 -) is a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone and a founder of Outside Magazine.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1961. 2nd Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fred L. Wolff (Drawings). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Red linen boards w/silver spine lettering. DJ/None. PO label to fEP. Light borwn spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. Documentation of Project Mercury, May 5th, 1961, America's first human spaceflight w/Alan Shephard (1923 - 1998) at the helm, which had room enough just for one. In competition w/the USSR, ther US did come in second --- the Russians, just 23 days earlier on April 12th, sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 into space. made in 1961. 224 pgs w/illutrations & b/w photos. This historical account by Martin Caidin (1927 -1997) is in 11 sectors: 1, The Launching; 2, Mission in Orbit; 3, NASA & Project Mercury; 4, Selecting the Men; 5, The Seven Astronauts; 6, Animals in Space Research; 7, Atlas; 8, The Mercury Capsule; 9, Training for Space; 10, "Out There ..."; and 11, The Dream Come True.