Search Results: Authors starting with C from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

Five autographical 'memory exercises' about Calvino's life and working methods, collected for the first time.
Hardcover, in perfect condition.

New York: Macmillan, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Created when Capote was still at the height of his charm, this intriguing compilation charts the transformation of three of his short stories into film scripts by Eleanor Perry and finally television films, which went on to win eighteen awards. With the original stories, scripts and many photos of the actors and reminiscences on the process. Jacket has some minor surface scratches.

In 1966, Capote, flush with the success of In Cold Blood, abandoned his Brooklyn apartment along with its contents, which included a box that his house sitter rescued from the street.
Years later, the box was found to contain the manuscript of Capote's first novel from 1943.
Looking forward in content to Breakfast at Tiffany's, but more cautious in style, this is a fascinating literary time capsule.

Fourteen occasional pieces, only one of which reads as fiction.
Includes one of the funniest things Capote ever wrote, which gives us a day he spent apartment-hopping in the company of his cleaning lady, smoking weed and eating the contents of other peoples' fridges.
Hardcover.

The second volume of Tim Card's history of England's most famous private school for boys.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Eton had been established for over 400 years and was highly prestigious.
However, the school has developed beyond telling since then, and this history recounts its constant evolution, over the last 150 years.

New York: Knopf, 2000. First American edition, second printing before publication. Hardcover. As New/as new. Twice winner of the Booker prize, Carey's highly emotive and brilliantly varied styles conjure up the brutality of Irish lives at the mercy of brutal British overlords in 1870s Australia. SIGNED with a dedication on the title page.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 2008. . First American edition. . Hardcover.. As New in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . 271 pp. A perfect copy, SIGNED by Peter Carey, who has won the Booker Prize twice, now. A boy seeks the mother who abandoned him and finds the beginning of himself.

New York: Random House, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. An extremely rare copy of Peter Carey's first book, a collection of ten short stories. Set in an unnerving version of the near future, these surrealistic parables hint at the torrent of novels to come, two of which have won the booker Prize. Book is in perfect condition, without the usual remainder mark. Jacket is fine to front with one small, closed tear to top edge; back has one tiny chip missing, with minor rubbing and one edge wrinkle. Overall, a very collectable copy of this unusual book.

An often hilarious history of the roots and development of satirical comedy, a genre that started in Britain in the sixties and influenced America almost immediately.
With their revue, Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett exploded a bomb under the British Establishment and invented a whole new genre of political stand-up comedy.
The book also traces the evolution of the satirical magazine, Private Eye, and the first TV satirists culminating in the glories of Monty Python.
Hardcover with jacket.

Lewis Carroll
Alicia in Terra Mirabili
Translated by Clive Harcourt Carruthers
A labor of love that feels strangely appropriate to the scholarly wit and devotion that Alice's adventures have often inspired.
With all the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.

The highly sought-after, third collection of 12 short stories from a master of the genre.
This collection has achieved a kind of modern classic status.
Hardcover with jacket. Very faint foxing to book edges.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. A scrap-book biography, mainly pictorial, with 150 largely unreleased color photos, chronicling Burrough's unlikely survival to the age of 83. His huge influence on the counter culture, from the Beats to the age of the papparazzi is charted, with reference to his many disciples.

Milan: Electa, 1986. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine/near fine. The epic collaboration of Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen and Frank Gehry, around the events of the 1994 Venice Biennale, to unite street theatre and oversize Pop objects in a celebratory dance. Performances around Venice lead to exhibitions all over the world of an iconic Swiss penknife boat with accompanying structures and Commedia del Arte costumes.

New York: Harper and Row, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Chast's fifth collection of cartoon humor, where she has successfully created her own cliché-riddled version of America, her characters fuelled by good-natured boredom.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Chatwin's fifth book, a constantly shifting portrait of Kaspar Utz, resident of 1970s Prague, who should be fleeing the authorities, but is held, trapped by his love for a legendary porcelein collection, now housed in his two-bedroom flat.

New York: Summit Books, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. This is an ingeniously conceived history of what is now Benin, seen through the port of Dahomey, once the fiefdom of a white Brazilian slave-trader called da Silva. In his second book, Chatwin vividly sketches the bizarre mix of peoples and beliefs that that came together to allow the ghastly reality of the slave trade in the early nineteenth century.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. A perfect copy of this self-selected collection of Chatwin's travel stories, essays and profiles of his many friends. 35 pieces, which range from short stories to society portrais and reveal the author's chameleon charm.

Chatwin's third book and only proper novel, a compelling story of twin boys, living on the border between Wales and England.
Chatwin manages a rural intensity reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, in this family drama set against the terrors of the First World War.
Hardcover with jacket. Slight foxing to upper edge.

First edition, fourth printing.
This is a perfect copy of Chatwin's most famous book, brilliantly discussing the enormous questions of how mankind can achieve happiness in a post-industrial world.
From many sources, including the Australian Aboriginies, he suggests, "it is solved by walking".
Hardcover

This is an ingeniously conceived history of what is now Benin, seen through the port of Dahomey, once the fiefdom of a white Brazilian slave-trader called da Silva.
In his second book, Chatwin vividly sketches the bizarre mix of peoples and beliefs that that came together to allow the ghastly reality of the slave trade in the early nineteenth century.
Hardcover.