Search Results: Titles starting with C from 64 Books

Hardcover with heavily bumped and frayed corners, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with color photos, 9.25" x 9.75", 48 pp.
The genesis of a chess table and pieces, from its origin as an ancient tree to its end as a custom-built piece of art. Tri-lingual: English, German and Arabic.

From the library of Jack Jackson, the author of Manuscript Maps Concerning the Gulf Coast, Texas, and the Southwest (1519-1836); VG- condition hardcover with foxing on edges in VG condition dustjacket. Handwritten notes by Jackson in text. The Texas coast remained for a long time one of the least-known stretches of the American Atlantic littoral, and Galveston Bay, the coast's most prominent feature, was not even shown by commercial mapmakers until 1799. The extensive cartographic collection of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston documents the development of cartography for this region. The Rosenberg holds maps that show Galveston Bay from 1725 on, as well as the rest of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and adjacent coasts. Its maps illustrate European exploration of the New World during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of Texas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This detailed guide to the important cartographic collection at the… Read More

VG condition softcover, bumped head of spine, clean and unmarked, huge 12" x 12" format, 180 pp.

Near fine condition, clean and unmarked,240 pp. Electrical and multiple chemical sensitivities are disabling illnesses, yet many doctors know little of these conditions, or worse, dismiss them. This timely memoir recounts one man's affliction. The onset of the diseases is explored, as is his struggle with the medical establishment, largely hostile to his diagnosis. When the symptoms became unbearable, he was forced to leave home and seek a more healthful environment where he could begin his recovery. This is an inspirational text for those living with electrical or multiple chemical sensitivity and an educational one for those first learning about these conditions.

All 6 issues of the rare USA correspondence chess magazine, 48-56 pp each. Very good condition quarto stapled wraps magazines with mailing labels. Many annotated games and articles, along with rating lists, tournament results, etc.

All 6 issues of the rare USA correspondence chess magazine, 60-64 pp each. Very good condition quarto stapled wraps magazines with mailing labels. Many annotated games and articles, along with rating lists, tournament results, etc.

Near fine condition hardcover no dustjacket, clean and unmarked, 715 pp. All 12 issues of Chess Life & Review bound in one handsome volume.

VG condition softcover, creases on front cover, tight binding, uncreased spine, clean and unmarked, descriptive notation, 184 pp.
Notorious edition of Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals, fraudulently published with a fictitious author's name ("Frank Eagan").

The Benshi Track: Mizoguchi Kenji's The Downfall of Osen and the Sound Transition Chika Kinoshita A Certain Explicitness: Objectivity, History, and the Documentary Self Joshua Malitsky Localized Globalization and a Monster National: The Host and the South Korean Film Industry Nikki J. Y. Lee Out of the Screen and into the Theater: 3-D Film as Demo Philip Sandifer "Henri Bergson Talks to Us About Cinema," by Michel Georges-Michel from Le Journal, February 20, 1914 translated and introduced by Louis-Georges Schwartz, SCMS Translation Committee Mini-Dossier: Teaching Our Research . . . and Researching Our Teaching edited by Ted Hovet and Elizabeth A. Lathrop, SCMS Teaching Committee Festival Report: Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 26-July 3, 2010 submitted by Haden Guest Conference Report: Women and the Silent Screen VI, Bologna, Italy, June 24-26, 2010 submitted by Victoria Duckett In Focus: Comics Studies: Fifty Years After Film Studies edited by Bart Beaty… Read More

VG+ condition quarto hardcover, slightly sunned spine, clean and unmarked.
Hardbound collection of Cinema Quebec magazine. All issues of Volume 3, from September 1973 to August 1974, 472 pp. French language.

VG+ condition quarto hardcover, clean and unmarked.
Hardbound collection of Cinema Quebec magazine. All ten issues of Volume 4 (1975). French language, 484 pp.

Near fine condition hardcover no dustjacket, clean and unmarked, 151 pp.
At the time of Marshall McLuhan's death in 1980, his was a major voice in our understanding on media and society. And yet, few analyses of his impact have been written. In clarifying McLuhan, Neill provides a critical, yet sympathetic assessment of McLuhan's work and impact. While the author dismisses McLuhan's basic theory that the medium is the message, he points to McLuhan's importance, and argues for a re-examination of McLuhan as an artist and a poet.

Very good condition softcover, writing on first page else clean and unmarked, 259 pp. English language.

VG condition softcover, clean and unmarked.
1986 collection of comic strips originally printed in the Daily Texan newspaper, 118 pp.

Near fine condition stapled wraps, front cover corner crease, clean and unmarked, 86 pp.

VG- condition small softcover, vertical creases to covers, text unmarked. 5.1" x 7.3", 136 pp.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. VG condition hardcover in like dustjacket, slightly tanned pages, first edition, full number line.

VG condition, cover signed by artist, first page inscribed by author.

VG condition stapled wraps, corner crease on front cover, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with b&w photos, preface by Sarah Morthland, foreword by Anne Cohen DePietro, 48 pp.

Signed on the title page by the author, near fine condition softcover, 352 pp.