Search Results: Titles starting with C from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

[Detroit, Michigan]: General Motors Corporation, Cadillac Motor Car Division, 1967. First edition. Oblong quarto (8.5" x 11.25"), 20 unnumbered pages plus covers, with illustrations throughout in color from photographs. Original stapled paper wraps.
Modest edge wear, shallow creasing at one corner, lightly soiled, otherwise Very Good.
The back cover promotes "Lindsay Oldsmobile Cadillac Corporation" of Alexandria, Virginia.

Los Angeles: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1930. Single sheet measuring 17 inches by 27 inches, folding (as issued) to 8.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Printed recto & verso in red & black providing three maps.
Soiled, moderate edge wear including a couple of nicks & pinholes at fold intersects, otherwise Very Good.
Includes California Motor Route Map and Automobile Highway Map of Los Angeles and Vicinity on one side, with Southern California Automobile Highway Map on the other.

[New York]: Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices," [1864]. First edition. 8vo, [3] - 10 pp. (as issued). Self wraps, removed. Text in two columns. Light edge wear along the folded side, small loss just touching text affecting pp. 5/6, otherwise Very Good. A supporter of George McClellan, Ticknor writes in part: "No more awful spectacle can be contemplated than that of a great, powerful and energetic nation, who have no rule of action but the rule of a written Constitution, and who have lost their fidelity to its requirements. We have been so situated through three whole years of Civil War, that it has been in the power of extreme and violent men to denounce a pure and high regard for the limitations of our fundamental law as treason to the Union ..." The author, who was co-counsel for Dred Scott, concludes his essay with a series of "Mottoes fot the Campaign" selected from the writings of McClellan.

Montreal, Toronto, Winnepeg, Vancouver: Valentine & Sons United Publishing Coy., Limited, no date (ca. 1910's). Oblong octavo (8" x 5.25"), 32 unnumbered pages providing title page with brief text & 31 captioned illustrations in color from photographs. Publisher's pictorial stapled paper wraps.
Modest edge wear, slight foxing, otherwise very good.
"The world famous Rocky Mountains, for grandeur and varied scenery, are unsurpassed, and need little introduction. Half a century ago they were little known, but since then the Canadian Pacific Railway have accomplished the almost impossible task of running their line through the Mountains, and now no better scenery is to be found anywhere ..." ~Excerpted from the text.

New York: Sales Promotion Department, Cannon Mills, Inc., no date, pre zipcode, circa 1950's. Original illustrated brochure measuring 9.5 inches by 35.75 inches, folded 5 times vertically to 9.5 inches by 6 forming 12 panels (1 blank.), printed on light card stock.
Brief edge wear, lightly soiled & toned, otherwise very good.
A nostalgic advertising piece which apparently precedes the late fifties advent of pantyhose.

Derby, [Connecticut]: Humor Magazines, Inc., Volume vi, number 6, November, 1960. First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 64 pages. Glossy, pictorial stapled paper wraps.
Slightly rubbed, rubber-stamped date on front cover, faintly musty, otherwise Very Good.
Features "A Beat Dictionary" by Village Voice columnist Bill Manville, an article on Jayne Mansfield, and, of course, splendid illustrations from photographs often depicting pretty young women in minimal attire.

New York: Th. Lacombe, May 15, 1852. Printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn..
New York: Th. Lacombe, volume 1, number 1, "15 Mai, 1852." First & probably only edition. Quarto (11.5 x 8.25"), 12 pages printed in two columns plus covers. Original printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn. Text in French & English. OCLC finds a single copy at the New York Historical Society as of 6/4/2023.
Wraps toned, moderate edge wear, old horizontal folds, light foxing, faint signature in the top margin of the upper cover, otherwise very good.
Presumably a short-lived publication & likely the only number issued. Publisher Lacombe served, apparently, as editor & also contributed a sketch entitled "Fleurette." As noted on the verso of the upper wrap, each issue "will contain two plates." This example, with no evidence of removal, is without illustration & was probably distributed as a sample & prospectus.

New Haven, Connecticut, 1933. New Haven, Connecticut: Privately Printed for the Author, printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1933. First edition, one of a thousand copies. Tall 8vo, xxv, [3]-296 pages, illustrated (frontis, plates, portraits, facsimiles). Original dark blue cloth with printed paper labels at the spine & upper cover. Partially unopened. Previous owners embossed stamp & signature at half-title page, otherwise a Fine & apparently unread copyAuthor Seymour, a patent attorney, historian, & city planner, was a member of the American Antiquarian Society & the Walpole Society In addition to extensive research on the life of Nathan Hale, resulting in two books, he purchased the Hale Homestead in coventry, Connecticut which he restored & donated to the American Landmarks Society.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, no date, ca 1895. 8vo, 512pp, Illustrated, occasionally in color. Publisher's elaborate pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine.
Lightly rubbed otherwise very good or better The author served in Her Majesty's Indian Navy, was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of the Royal United Service Institution.

Chicago: Bloom (photographer or studio). Original satin finish silver gelatin photograph on double weight fiber paper measuring 10 inches by 8 inches (including borders) depicting magician"Carlyle" fanning a deck of cards. Signed, Inscribed, & dated by Carlyle in 1940. Rubber-stamped on the verso, "Loaned by Carlyle Magician, Original."
Slightly wavy, unobtrusive scratch, inscription a bit light, brief edge wear, light soiling mostly evident at the border & verso, otherwise Very Good.
"To Harold & Gloria Sterling, With best wishes for your continued success in a most progressive magic store. Magically, "Carlyle," 1940."
The image depicts Lyle 'Carlyle' Laughlin (1906-1996), who was the inventor of the Three-To-One Ropes trick and a simplified version of the 20th Century Silks trick. The photo is inscribed to the Harold & Gloria Sterling who performed on the Chautauqua circuit & opened a magic store in 1939.

Richmond: Virginia Conservation Commission, Division of Publicity and Advertising, no date (1940 per OCLC). First edition. 4to (10" x 7"), 88 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated in black & white from photographs, the covers in color depicting Williamsburg on the upper & the Skyline Drive on the lower. Additionally includes a whimsical double-page "Fun Map" of the state. Original pictorial, stapled paper wraps.Light edge wear including a couple of nicks, brief soiling & toning, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good or better. "In the present world-wide struggle between the ideologies of democracy and dictatorship, it is a source of pride to Virginians that many of the fundamental principles of democracy were formulated by native sons of the Mother State. In fact, the history of Virginia is a moving story of an uphill yet successful march in helping to declare, establish, defend and strengthen a government dedicated to the assure freedom for all his people." 
~Excerpted from the text.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Pioneer Rubber Shoe Company/ Hood Rubber Co., January 2, 1918. 12mo, 48 pp, illustrated throughout (frequently duotone), with pricing. Original stapled, pictorial stiff paper wraps, with vignette engraving of the Hood factories on the lower cover Not found in OCLC as of 5/16/2020 Lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine. Presents a wide range of rubber footwear primarily for men, occasionally for women, & mostly manufactured by Hood. A couple of other manufacturers are represented including Dixie, Old Colony, & Mohawk.

Boston: Privately Printed, 1916. First edition. Folio (13" x 9.5"), [10] & 204 pp, illustrations in text throughout Original gilt-lettered tan paper over boards backed in brown cloth
Binding moderately soiled, offsetting at endpapers, pastedowns, & adjacent to illustrations, otherwise very Good

Philadelphia: James A. Freeman & Company, 1897. Octavo (9" x 6"), 40 pages. Original stapled, printed paper wraps.
"218" rubber-stamped at upper wrap, lightly tanned, one page with brief notes., otherwise very good. Provides terms of the sale & legal & physical descriptions of the properties offered.

New York: Tilden & company, 1852. First edition. 8vo, 28 & [4] pp, with engraved frontis. Original printed wraps, sewn, with an illustration of distilling equipment on the rear wrap. Romaine; p. 135.
Soiled, foxed & spotted, modest edge wear including a couple of small losses, upper wrap partially separated, previous owner's name in pencil at front wrap, label pasted in at the last page of text apparently correcting an error in the address of a retailer, good or better. Formed in 1847, the company was the family business of Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York & 1876 Democratic nominee for president. Their most successful product, known as "Tilden's Extract," was extracted from cannabis indica &, as described on p. 21, "specially recommended for tetanus, hydrophobia, neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, epidemic cholera, , convulsions, hysteria, mental depression, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage." OCLC finds 9 copies under 4 accession numbers, all but 2 with 28 pages, apparently omitting the final 4 pages… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1937 First edition 8vo, 109 unnumbered pages, with occasional illustrations in text. Publisher's light brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered dark brown paper. Spine a bit faded, otherwise near fineEpstean donated his library to Columbia in 1934. The collection included acquisitions from Stephen H. Horgan, William Gamble, Josef Maria Eder, and Gabriel Cromer.

Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers, 1881. First edition. 12mo, 54 pages. Printed paper wraps, sewn.
Library of Congress deposit copy with rubber-stamped mark at the title page, "Q889" in pencil on the upper cover, wraps with a couple of small chips, moderately soiled, spine partially perished, Good or better. The author was the brother of noted photographer Isaiah West Taber. Charles Taber went west from Massachusetts with the Gold Rush and arrived in San Francisco in 1850 He tried his hand at mining, captained a ferry boat between Sacremento and San Francisco, and eventually became an artist and author. In addition to other titles relating to climate and geology, he wrote "Rhymes from a Sailor's Journal."

Benjamin, Park (editor). Celebrated Crimes ... The Countess of Saint Geran ... as published in The New World. New York: J. Winchester, Extra series, number 81, May, 1843. Small folio, (12.25" by 8.25"), 32 pages & covers. Original self wraps, sewn, with an engraved illustration at the masthead with sentiment below: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; For the whole boundless continent is ours." Text in two columns.
Toned, stained, soiled, tattered, small losses not affecting text, shallow diagonal corner creasing throughout, about good & still quite useful.
An early edition, perhaps the first American, of part of Dumas' "Celebrated Crimes" series, originally published in 1839 & 1840. The series provides semi-fictionalized accounts of the most noteworthy criminal cases in European history.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Later edition. 22 volumes bound in 11 (2 volumes per book), complete. Quartos (10.25" x 7.5"), variously paginated. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt within dark blue blocking on the spine. Text in two columns.
Please note, this set is Ex-Library (marked "withdrawn") with the bookplate of the United States Embassy in Paris at the front pastedown of each volume, card sleeves at the rear pastedowns, occasional rubber stamped marks, & paper labels on the spines.
Ex-Library (see above). Bindings a bit shaken, spines lightly browned, modest soiling, otherwise Very Good.
An indispensable reference of enormous value to students, catalogers, teachers, researchers, & American history aficionados.
Kindly inquire for a shipping quote at cost for this 47 pound set.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, (1965). First edition. 8vo, xii, 500 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Modest shelf wear, text block beginning to slip at the top of the spine, otherwise very good in price-clipped dust jacket, a bit toned & soiled, with edge wear including a couple of small losses, good or better.
"Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzetti, St Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics." ~OCLC.