Search Results: Titles starting with C from Evening Star Books

New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. [6], ix-xv, [3], 3-157, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over brown paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xvi, [2], 3-164, [2], [12] plates with back-to-back black and white photographs of archaeological sites, artefacts, and maps. Beige cloth with gold lettering blocked in maroon. Written by a Director of the U.S. Center of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae at Rutgers University. A work of classical scholarship concerned with Greek and Southern Italian vase paintings of the myth of Apollo and Marsyas and how they influenced the Etruscan representations of the myth of Cacus and the Vibennae brothers. This work argues that Etruscans purposefully adapted Greek visual imagery to represent their own mythology. Professor Small Penny uses evidence from the Roman forum, the Palentine, the Aventine, Late Roman Republic Coins, and Greek Imperial coins to argue how Marsyas and Cacus are connected, and how the figures were represented in Roman political and religious life. Jacket… Read More

New York: Hyperion [1996], 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], 2-297, [1] pp. Quarter navy cloth over yellow paper, gold lettering on the spine. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. A Near Fine book with minor wear to the edges of the boards in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. (1963), 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], 7-191, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. With an index, bibliography, and maps. A small closed tear to the dust jacket.

London: Hodder And Stoughton (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-192 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £3.25 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white plates. Two small abrasions to the free front endpaper, endpapers also show offsetting from the flaps; jacket shows toning to the flaps.

New York: HarperPrism (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-201, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.99 on front flap of jacket. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. With several full-page illustrations. Abrasion to the corner of the free front endpaper, slightly affecting the half-title; jacket is Near Fine.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-184 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $22.50 on front flap of jacket. Tiny tear to the rear panel and a small tear to the front panel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], vi-x, [5], 4-302, [4] pp. Quarter blue cloth over red cloth with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. This edition published the year after Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature. A sharp copy. Minor edge wear to the jacket.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xxvi, 334 pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few full-page maps and charts. A study of Caligula, Roman emperor from A.D. 37 - 41.

London: The Harvill Press (2000), 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xviii, [6], 7-299, [3] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £15.00 on front flap of jacket. Edited by William L. Stull, foreword by Tess Gallagher. A tiny scratch to the top textblock, else very near Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], 11-190, [2] pp. Bound in red cloth with white lettering on the spine and front board. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of two Saint novellas, the first hardcover trade edition (preceding the UK edition). Ahearn APG 039a. Near Fine book with a previous owner's name and date written on the free front endpaper and the usual age-toning to the pages in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket with fading to the spine panel encroaching slightly onto the front and rear panels.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (1993), 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], 8-304 pp. Quarter navy cloth over beige boards with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket price is $21.95. Illustrated with a few maps.

New York: Ballantine Books (1976), 1976. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Small 8vo. [6], vi-xx, 314, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Pictorial covers printed in pink and black; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Price of $1.95 on the front cover. Illustrated with two maps. Paperback original.

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. [1897], 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [4], 3-365, [1] pp. Green pictorial cloth with decorations in brown, silver, and black. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine additional plates. Hornibrook's fictionalized version of outdoor life in the New England wilderness, meant to encourage English and American boys to explore the woods. A lovely publisher's binding. A Very Good+ book with a small separation between the backstrip and the textblock, a faint musty odor.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [3], iv-v, [8], 4-295, [8] (publisher's advertisements) pp. The advertisements in the rear include notices of Ben-Hur and Elizabeth Custer's Boots and Saddles. Navy cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine, title in gilt on the front board with a decorative gilt shield with fringe and surrounding axes embossed on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece and nine additional plates. In addition to Campaigning with Crook, the book includes the stories "Captain Santa Claus", "The Mystery of 'Mahbin Mill", and "Plodder's Promotion". Graff 2326. Captain Charles King served in the Civil War, the Sioux Campaigns, the Spanish American War, and saw action in the Philippines. He was a prolific writer, with this book's account of campaigning with Major General Crook drawn from several publications in the Milwaukee Sentinel. The articles were published in pamphlet form in 1880, then in book form in 1890 (Internet Archive, "The… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. [14], 3-319, [3] pp. Black glossy boards with gold and red lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white plates and a full-page map. Gephart 6737. A Very Good+ book with a small crease to the front flyleaf; jacket is Very Good+ with a small tear to the rear panel and a tiny discoloration on the rear flap.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1964], 1964. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xxv, [3], 3-166 pp. Green paper boards with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page images. With an introduction by Don Russell. The first Oklahoma press edition. Part of The Western Frontier Library series. Jacket has a touch of edge wear.

New York: Brentanos [1888], 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-v, [4], 4-656, [2] pp. Black publisher's cloth with a purple morocco label with gilt lettering on the spine. With a slip bound in, a note from the treasurer of the Democratic Party stating the price of this book (one dollar), is to be paid by anyone requesting a copy, but a bulk discount will be granted for orders of ten or more copies. The Campaign book is an advertisement for Grover Cleveland and his virtues. He ran for re-election in 1888 only to lose to Benjamin Harrison in the electoral college (though Cleveland did win the popular vote). Cleveland would go on to win the 1892 election and serve a second term as President of the United States. This volume offers charts and data intended to help the Democratic Party win the 1888 presidential election: it is a collection of strategic talking points for the party. A small dampspot on the bottom textblock, the rear hinge neatly repaired, a tiny abrasion on the title… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-x, 1-291, [3] pp. Black cloth with orange lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. A partial biography of two of the founders of existentialism, and a history of the feud that ended their relationship.

London: Calder & Boyars (1974), 1974. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xix, [4], 2-287, [11] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The first edition of this book was published by Dell in New York, but this is a revised edition and the first edition of the book published in the U.K. Part of the Critical Appraisals series edited by John Fletcher. A study of the differences between Sartre's and Camus' philosophical methods. Jacket flaps mildly toned.