Search Results: Titles starting with A from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Np, 1977. Reprinted from American Imago, Vol. 34, No. 4, Winter 1977. INSCRIBED "To Dudley(?), My first real reprint to the man who got me started on this. Geoff." 8vo. [313] - 326 pp. Cream printed staplebound wrappers in fine condition (small erasure on front cover).

Moulins-sur-Allier: Nouvelle Province Litteraire, 1936. First Edition Limited 250 copies. INSCRIBED "To ***/with affection/A.G. Warshawsky "Buck"/Paris November 26, 1947." With notes under some of the plates in his hand. 4to. 48pp. Black & white reproductions. Text in French. Red half-leather over marbled paper boards; gilt lettering to spine; original stiff wrappers bound in. A near fine copy.

Warsaw: Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch, Nd. Original wrappers. Square quarto; [12] pp. Charming illustrations by Aniela Kulesza. Text in Polish. Light edgewear and age toning, o/w a Very Good copy.

Aberdovey Golf Club, 1986. 1st. Boards. Small wrinkle lower rear board otherwise fine.. Octavo. 132pp. Photo-illustrations; plans. Original green leatherette with gilt lettering. From the library of golf author Bob Jones with his decorative bookplate to front pastedown. INSCRIBED "To Bob Jones/Best wishes from/Aberdovey G.C./M. Rogue, CAPT. 1986." Laid in materials include color photograph of the club, unused score card, club prospectus and newspaper clipping. Golf was first played at Aberdovey in 1886 and over the years it has hosted many national championships; it is the home of the Welsh Seniors' Championship and the British Golf Collectors' Championship where period dress and equipment is mandated.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; viii, 228pp.Index. Library markings, otherwise A Fine, unread copy (small blue mark to spine). "In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused standard geographical terms, instead expressing their dissenting views by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north-south and east-west axes. Schoolman reveals abolitionist literature's explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian." (Publisher's website).

London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; x, 231 pages. Library markings, o/w a New and unused copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Oblong 4 to. Signed by Ms. Crawford. Fine in Fine dust jacket. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

9" x 7." Color engraving adhered to cream colored pasteboard. Near fine (colors may be a bit faded). The presidential portrait of Lincoln is in an oval setting surrounded by pictorial images (most likely designed by W. Momberger) in each corner symbolic of important issues during Lincoln's presidency. Research indicates this is the J.C. Buttre Memorial Engraving of Abraham Lincoln, a half-length portrait of Lincoln taken from an image originally produced by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1918. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition 12mo; 96pp. Near Fine copy (top edges worn) in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board.

New York: Privately Printed, 1909. First Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 60 pp. Tan printed wrappers in very good condition (wear & fraying to spine with loss at spine ends; uneven darkening to covers).

Philadelphia: A.S. Barnes, 1843. First Edition. Half-leather and illustrated paper-covered boards, well worn and splitting at spine, light dampstaining. Contents Very Good... 12mo; 336 pages. Early textbook.

Corpus Christi, TX: Art Museum of South Texas, 1970. 1st. Softcover. 8vo. 19pp. Black & white illustrations. White wraps with red lettering in very good condition (round glass mark on front; minor soiling). Exhibition catalog featuring 10 artists(James Brooks, William de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofman, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still) representing 12 works. Overview by Katina Simmons, Curator. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED twice by the author t(o front & rear papers). First edition. 8vo. viii, 310pp. Quarter brown cloth under green paper covered boards; color printed dust jacket. Fine in near fine (minor rubbing to front cover; price-clipped).

Fresno: The Academy of California Church History, 1950. 1st. Paperback. First editions. 22 issues of the Academy Scrapbook from 1950 to 1954. 8vo. SIGNED by the editor, James Culleton, on the July 1950 issue. Black & white illustrations. Color illustrated staplebound wrappers in very good to near fine condition. Much on the history of the California Missions, the Catholic Church and local histories.

Fresno: Academy of California Church History, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. First editions. Five volmes. 8vo. Various paginations. Black & white illustrations. 1950-1959. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to extremities; faint spine fading else a fine set. Much on the history of the California Missions, the Catholic Church and local histories.

New York: F.A.R. Gallery, 1947. 1st. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies, this being copy #47, SIGNED by Ms. Robins. Small folio portfolio. Large single sheet quarter fold, [1] pp text; [12] leaves of color plates laid in. A near fine copy. An uncomon collection of charming prints done in a combination of silk screen and pochoir by the Martha Berrien Studios in New York City - only 2 copies located in online institutions. Pochoir is a refined stencil-based technique employed to create prints or to add color to pre-existing prints. It was most popular from the late 19th century through the 1930's with its center of activity in Paris and in 20th century America in the studio of Martha Berrien, who also used celluloid for stencils. Ms. Robins (1898 - 1962), painter and illustrato,r lived in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gus Arriola. 4to. 248 pp. Reproductions of comic strips (8 pages in color); photo-reproductions. Stiff color printed softcover in fine condition. Collected here for the first time, a generous sampling from Gus Arriola's award-winning comic strip Gordo, the only enduring American comic strip with a Mexican millieu.

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1715. First Thus. Small octavo; lxxviii, viii, 197, x, pp. Contemporary full brown calf ruled in gold and stamped in blind, spine with raised bands and faded red title label; hinges cracked (front hinge barely attached), browning to text; 1747 gift inscription to front pastedown from Charles de Holzendorf. '... Written for the Use of Pope Innocent XI. by Monsignor Cerri, Secretary of the Congregation de propaganda Fide. Now first translated from an authentick Italian MS, never publish'd...'.

New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 267pp. Blue cloth covered boards; gilt titles to front board and spine; original illustrated dust jacket. Book is in near fine condition (light wear to spine ends) in very good dust jacket (light wear to extremities, more so to spine ends and corners; small closed tears; spine sunned). Uncommon in dustjacket. This is the story of widow Tenny Travis who lives in the Boomer-days of Oklahoma and Kansas.

Berlin: Walter De Gruyter Inc, 1984. First Edition. Large quarto; xii, 320 pages. Pale grey softcover. Light soiling, stamp to front cover, o/w a Very Good copy.