Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Beach Lane, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED on a publisher's illustrated bookplate by BOTH author Mem Fox and illustrator Mark Teague. Large hardcover (sewn binding) with dust jacket, 40 pages, 31 x 24 cm, glorious full-page illustrations covering both sides. Book has front cover illustration of dog, cat and mouse around a sofa, back cover has the trio posed, this time the mouse with a fiddle. The jacket repeats these illustrations. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, minor shelfwear at spine top, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Join an unlikely trio for some irresistibly funny antics in this read-aloud gem from bestselling author Mem Fox and bestselling and award-winning illustrator Mark Teague. In this zippy, call-and-response-style adventure, a cat and dog are astonished to find a mouse in their house! The three circle each other while the story sometimes correctly describes their antics—and sometimes doesn't. Young readers will… Read More

Clayton Eshelman, Sherman Oaks CA, October 1970. Magazine in paperback format, pp. 160, 18 x 14 x 1 cm, stiff glossy white wrappers, pictorial front wrap in purple, pink and dark red, purple text on spine and contents list on rear wrap, includes black-and-white illustrations. poems by by Norman O. Brown, Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Jerome Rothenberg, Nora Jaffe among others, book reviews. In Near Fine condition, clean pages, sharp corners, firm binding, toning/fading spine and wraps along spine edges. Caterpillar was a seminal literary journal, featuring avant-garde poets and writers and visual artists, translated works.

Mystic Seaport, Second Edition, 2004. Trade Paperback, 250 numbered pages. Condition: New. Crisp copy, unread, in protective mylar. Collected first hand by 19th century sailor, Frederick Harlow. Features background information, the lyrics, and music for over 100 chanties. This edition includes a new foreword by Harlow scholar Glenn Grassoi and new illustrations drawn from the collections of Mystic Seaport.

Random House, New York, First American Edition 1991, Signed by author on title page. Hardcover (with jacket in protective mylar), pp. 196, 21 x 15 cm. Condition is Fine in Fine.

South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 1975, based on newspaper series with added chapter on Chinnery's short by Mr Geoffrey Bonsall, incorporates large number of coloured and black and white images, hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 174, 27 x 19 x 1.5 cm, Martyn Gregory art dealer advertisement loosely inserted. Fine in Near Fine, book has sharp corners, clean text; jacket has minor wear at top corners. The flamboyant Mr Chinnery, "the famous painter, the penniless fornicator, the begetter of an uncertain number of illegitimate Chinnerys white, brown and yellow, and the recorder of faces, places, pursuits and pastimes in India and on the south China coast" (Go London).

FormAsia, Hong Kong, 1989, Second Edition, hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 118, 33 x 26 x 1.5 cm, full color as well as black and white reproductions throughout. Fine in Near Fine - book has clean pages, sharp corners, jacket has minimal wear - some pressure marks, light scratches. The flamboyant Mr Chinnery, "the famous painter, the penniless fornicator, the begetter of an uncertain number of illegitimate Chinnerys white, brown and yellow, and the recorder of faces, places, pursuits and pastimes in India and on the south China coast" (Go London). This biography celebrates the bicentennary of Chinnery's birth with descriptions of early 19th century India, Macau, Canton & Hong Kong

Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2001 (copyright 1994), Harvard Classics Millennium Edition, "Bound in Genuine Leather, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations", series edited by Charles W. Eliot. Hardcover, pp. 404, 9" x 6", red leather binding, elaborate tooling with gilt-stamped lettering & Harvard "Veritas" device, hubbed spine, all edges gilt accented (22 kt.), moire silk endpapers, satin attached page marker, tissue-guarded illustrations. In Fine condition.

Scribner, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 neatly SIGNED by Anthony Doerr on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 625 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue paper over black boards, white title on spine, pictorial wrap with blue book with golden walls on a white background. Condition is Fine in Fine - no flaws observed. How do you follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction? If you're novelist Anthony Doerr ("All the Light We Cannot See") you write a story that consists of five separate stories, spans millennia, and all ties together with a fictional manuscript attributed to the ancient Greek novelist Antonius Diogenes called "Cloud Cuckoo Land."

Baton Rouge Area Foundation, 2015., 11.25" x 9.25'' x 1", with panoramic view of Louisiana coast across the boards. Very Fine (new in shrink wrapping). Studies of the Lousiana coast post Katrina.

Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

*1st Ed (UK),1st Printing 1996* PUBLISHER: B.T.Batsford; BINDING: Trade PB; CONDITION: Like New. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding;

*B.T.Batsford, Revised 1992* BINDING: Trade PB; CONDITION: Like New. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding

American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol CT, 1970, HB no DJ (as issued?), 338 numbered pages , 11" x 9", Red boards with gold titling, many illustrations and photographs. In Near Fine condition - crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, light edgewear, tiny stain marks on rear. Joseph Ives—a Bristol, Connecticut clockmaker notable for his inventiveness but lack of business success.

Pocket 78583 ($1.50), March 1973. MMPB, 289 numbered pages + ads, pictorial wraps (illustration of mad, part cave man, part corporation). Condition is Near Fine: crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding. "The tendency to form 'hunting band' groups of about ten people, nearly always men, is a part of our nature...," Antony Jay, a former B.B.C. television producer declares. "These groups have been instruments of our survival: for up to fifteen million years... The modern corporation, or any large modern organization, still depends upon these groups for survival... No organization theory that does not rest on this base can ever make sense."

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021 SIGNED in characteristic fun style by Jonathan Franzen on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 580 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm. Green boards with gilt titling on spine, pictorial jacket scene of couple sitting by a creek with the young man playing guitar. NEW copy (unread). Packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box.Condition is Fine in Fine - no flaws observed. Franzen imbues his books with big ideas, in this ca s seeking to connect to books heart-first.