Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Book Shed

London: Thames & Hudson, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and price-clipped jacket which is sunned and rubbed. War time experiences of a British conscientious objector. From Wikipedia: 'When the Second World War was declared he registered as a conscientious objector (CO), although he came from a long line of soldier ancestors. His father had served in the First World War, from which he returned wounded, suffering from shell shock and silent about his experiences. As Blishen recalled: "He wasn't sympathetic to pacifists. He felt that if he had fought a war, then I ought to fight a war as well." But having read some of the now-famous books revealing the horrors of the First World War, the younger Blishen realised: "I can't be somebody who does that to someone else." Registering as a CO was an uncomfortable experience: "Everybody was declaring themselves at one counter, and there was this other forlorn counter… Read More

New York: Broadway Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First printing. Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket.Clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. A cook book by the owners of London's famed River Cafe, a Michelin starred Italian restaurant in Hammrsmith on the north bank of the Thames River. From the flap: "Gray and Rogers continue to provide fresh interpretations of Italian cuisine, and in this new book, their enthusiasm for roasting in a wood oven takes center stage. Home cooks can create the same results by roasting meats, fish, vegetables, or fruits at a high temperature on the lowest rack of the oven or by slow roasting over a longer period of time. With these techniques, flavors become more intense, concentrated, and delicious: Pumpkin wedges with thyme. Radicchio wrapped in pancetta. Turbot or monkfish with capers. Baked loin of tuna with coriander." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean… Read More

White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Signed. Sunning to the spine else As New in all respects. Signed by the author in my presence. "A story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez." First printing, full number line. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, covers rubbed, spine faded-nearly illegible, top edge dusty; no jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, same date with colophon. Black cloth, gilt titles. In his introduction to the 1950 Modern Library edition, Maugham had this to say, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work... But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale ... because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Plymouth: William Brendon & Son, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+. light wear to tips and corners, previous owner's inscription to first blank page. An important collection of historical church documents and records of genealogical interest. Contains Churchwarden's Accounts; Deeds and Associated Documents; Miscellaneous Records. An appendix lists Abbots from 1032, Vicars from 1309, Members of Parliament from 1295, as well as the plate, registers and parish books held by the church over the years. First examined in 1827 and partially described in the Gentlemen's Magazine for 1830 they were then forgotten for half a century. The records supply important genealogical material for more than three centuries before the Tavistock Church Registers begin in 1614. "Many points touching the social life of a provincial center in the Middle Ages are incidentally elucidated." The earliest of the records, a deed of 1287, date back 600 years from the time of publication The fragmentary… Read More

Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1945. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Signed and limited. Wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, previous owner's bookplate and a short ink inscription.An account of the Donner Party first published in 1849. Comig just as WWII was drawing to a close it is dedicated to Douglas MacArthur and the Sixth & Eighth Armies with the emblem of the First Cavalry Division. One of 1500 copies. Limited edition, signed by the publisher on the limitation page with errata slip. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket; covers rubbed, lettering faded, previous owner's name to the front endpaper. First printing. Morton, an eminent travel writier of the 20th century, calls on the motorist to explore the north of England. "The intelligent traveler will find it stimulating to talk to the men of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Sheffield and he will also discover, with perpetual pleasure and, I think, astonishment, that the north of England offers wider solitudes, more rugged beauty, more old castles and abbeys than the south. He will discover in the Peak District of Derbyshire a marvelous wilderness as desolate as Dartmoor; in Yorkshire he will find little market towns in whose corners lurk the last vestige of the eighteenth century; in Lancashire he will find shepherds and their lambs within sound of the cotton looms; along the Northumbrian coast he will enter a… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. wear to tips and corners; jacket edges chipped and creased with several short closed tears, wear to corners and tips, 7 cm closed tear along front gutter, rubbing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. First Dover edition of this 1756 work, scarce thus. Schwandner wrote introduction to this 18th century writing book while Ferdinand von Freisleben did the calligraphy. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Oxford University Press, 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Lynton Lamb. Two-volume set; light wear to tips, corners and edges of the books, more wear to the price-clipped jackets which are worn at tips, coreners and edges with a tear to the front panel of vol. 1. clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. The Oxford Trollope Crown Edition, Michael Sadlier & Frederick Page, General Editors. Inrouction by Michael Sadlier. Six page preface by Edward Marsh. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. The first of the six volume Palliser series. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Seattle: Coffeetown Press , 2016. Paperback. Near Fine. About As New in all respects. First printing, full number line. The reports of 1324 cannabis users collected in a survey carried out by two naturopathic physicians. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Rosse, Hermann (illustrator). Second printing of the first edition. Edge wear, previous owner's penciled signature to decorative endpapers. A whimsical bookplate of the librarian and bookman Joseph L. Wheeler, designed by the British artist C. Walter Hodges. Translated into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Garden City: International Collector's Library, 1934. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, offsetting to endpapers. Faux leather binding. Top edge gilt, marker ribbon. Clean and unmarked. In blue and gilt Rafael Palacios Tree of Life binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. From the publisher's description: The International Collectors Library was a book club series published by Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc. from the late 1940’s through the late 1980’s. They were produced in Garden City, New Jersey. They were intended to be inexpensive reprints of great literature similar Everyman’s Library (Random House), Modern Library (Random House), Penguin Classics (Penguin Publishing), and Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford University Press). Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Harold Brett. Second printing, October, same month as first. Wear to tips, corners and edges of book and price-clipped jacket, small bookseller's label to front pictorial endpapers; rubbed jacket shows chips, creasing, surface loss to front panel. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About As New in all repects. Clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Jacket has "New York Times Bestseller" across rear panel, priced 39.95. Second state."A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today."--From the flap. “Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a monumental book that will influence economic analysis (and perhaps policymaking) in the years to come. In the way it is written and the importance of the questions it asks, it is a book the classic authors of economics could have written if they lived today and had access to the vast empirical material Piketty and his colleagues collected… In a short review, it is impossible to do even partial justice to the wealth of information, data, analysis, and… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. light wear to tips and corners; dj spine darkened, rear panel soiled. First printing, same date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. An account of the Dreyfus case, a case of anti-Semitism hysteria in 19th century France. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

London: Michael Joseph, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. previous owner's name, edge wear to book and jacket which is clipped with a closed tear. Cary's posthumously published novel, edited by Winifred Davin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Worcester, MA : Sandford & Davis, 1889. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. light wear to the book. Bound in brown and gilt leather, five raised bands to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Fanciful history of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts told through the conceit of a young boy walking the street and commenting on or being told of the sights seen. Originally published in the Worcester Palladium in 1855 and reprinted in that paper, 1857-1858, and again in 1874. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New Haven: Southern Connecticut State College, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. some spotting to top page edges. Dorothy R. Davis was the director of the collection at its opening in 1962. This catalogue describes a collection of more than 2,000 volumes of early English and American children' books. It is housed at the Hilton C. Buley Library at SCSC. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Exhibition Catalogue. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: John Lane, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First edition in dust jacket. Light shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, spot to front board, more wear to the jacket which is rubbed, chipped at front corners, soiled, bookseller's label to front endpaer, else clean and unmarked. First printing, same date, no others noted in book or on jacket. Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and soldier, (Canadian Field Artillery,) born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. After moving to America Dawson became a literary advisor to the George H. Doran publishing house. He began his training with the Canadians in 1914 and was at the front for most of two years beginning in 1916. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Washington DC: National Historical Society, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, no jacket, presentation plate of small town Vermont library, else clean and unmarked. A special commemorative edition of this book first published in 1959. Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province, on the island of New Britain, in the country of Papua New Guinea. From Wikipedia: Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was a major military strategy for the Allies in the Pacific theater of World War II. Cartwheel was a twin-axis of an advance operation, aimed at militarily neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul. The operation was directed by the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)—General Douglas MacArthur—whose forces advanced along the northeast coast of New Guinea and occupied nearby islands. Allied forces from the Pacific Ocean Areas command—under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz—advanced through the Solomon… Read More