Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bygone Books

Plymouth, Vermont: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. Jay N. Darling. Calvin Coolidge: cartoons of his presidential years featuring the work of syndicated cartoonist Jay N. "Ding" Darling, August 1923-March 1929. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Plymouth, Vermont: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1973. Issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge's succession to the Presidency of the United States, August 3, 1923. No additional printings noted, Lg 8vo, stapled pamphlet, unpaginated, b/w illustrations throughout. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear, slight discoloring to covers at edges, 2 small stains on rear cover. Calvin Coolidge took the brunt of many a cartoon - having a "Silent Cal" right now might be a good thing.

Glasgow, Scotland: Mozart Allen, [no date]. Soft cover. VG. 8vo, stapled wraps, 36 pp, musical notation. Condition is VERY GOOD: lt. spotting to front paper cover, lt. crease to front corner, owner name on contents page, store name stamped inside front cover.

New York: Archer House, 1963. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st American edition (first published in Britain in 1956); foreword by the Marquess of Salisbury. 8vo, light blue boards, 184 pages, 8 b/w plates, biographical index to diary entries. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has little wear, an owner label on fep; jacket has small chips and tears to top edge, sunning to front panel, a sunned spine with a few faint spots, a 1" closed tear at spine gutter and another large closed tear on rear panel that has been taped, in protective mylar. The diary of John Carrington, a working farmer in the early 19th century, of Bacon's Farm in the village of Bramfield. Carrington was also the Overseer of the Poor and Surveyor of Highways, Tax Assessor and Collector for Bramfield and Chief Constable of a number of parishes - he wrote his diary entries on any scraps of paper at hand - I wonder he had time left for farming.

New York: Newson & Co., 1928. Soft cover. VG-. wraps. 48p. stapled pamphlet, 4 1/2x 6". VG- with some edgewear, , spine rubbed, a few creases, child's name in pencil inside front cover. All clean except for 1 page "story pictures" that have been colored in. Hogan's delightful illustrations are in orange and black.

Boston: Little Brown, 1901. Hardcover. VG+. E. Eldon Deane. New edition [originally publsihed in 1887], illustrated from sketches and photographs by E. Eldon Deane. 8vo, burgundy cloth decorated in gilt - a lovely binding designed by Amy Sacker - top edge gilt, 390 pages. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to the spine extremities, owner bookplate on front pastedown, clean and tight throughout, a very nice copy of this travelogue through the cathedrals of southern England, including Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury, Wells, Glastonbury, Exeter; Bath and Stonehenge are also visited.

California: McClatchy Newspapers, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Centennial Vignettes. Murray Olderman. California. McClatchy Newspapers, [1950]. Description: Centennial Vignettes, a collection of cartoons by Murray Olderman, a feature staff cartoonist of the McCaltchy newspapers, celebrating the centennials of California: 1948 - 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold in CA; 1949 - 100th anniversary of the Gold Rush; 1950 - 100th anniversary of California's admission to statehood. Quarto stpaled wraps, 32 pages, each of a cartoon vignette of a person important to California history drawn by Murray Olderman, that originally appeared in the newspapers between 1948 and 1950: includes Kit Carson, Peter Lassen, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Larkin, John Fremont, William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Revere, etc. A Walt Disney "B" on rear cover. Condition: NEAR FINE: very slight wear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, ivory boards with black backstrip, 303 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE jacket: very nice copy of this biography that sheds new light on our understanding of Emily Brontë's personality, experience, and writing - all from a feminist perspective rather than the traditional patriarchal view of Emily.

Monkton, VT: Willlowell Foundation, 2009. First Edition . Soft cover. New. Exhibition catalogue, the exhibit of 38 artists in celebration of the 2009 Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. Foreword by Bill McGibben. Square 8vo, wraps, 87 pages, color illustrations. Condition is NEW: unread, fresh out of the box. [multiple copies available]. This was a fabulous exhibit, reflected beautifully in this catalogue.

London, UK: Studio Editions, 1995. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 3rd printing. Quarto, blue hardcover, 191 pp, color and b&w illustrations. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has a small crease and 1/4" closed tear at rear bottom hinge.

Burlington, VT: University of Vermont / Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, 1983., 1983. Soft cover. VG+. Foreword by Janet Ing, compiled by John Buechler. 8vo, wraps, 39 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Whittingham was proprietor of the Chiswick Press in London. This catalogue includes 4 title page reproductions. Condition is VERY GOOD+: a faint blue stain to fron cover, owner name inside front cover.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st ed. [no additional printings], 8vo, reddish cloth, 176 pages, frontispiece of Brontë, notes and bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE / no jacket: appears to be unread, slightest of rubbing to spine tail.

NY: Duffield & Company, 1915. Hardcover. VG-. Jessie Willcox Smith (cover). Early printing (originally published in 1911), 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial paste-on, 463 pages, 10 color plates, illustrated endpapers. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light rubbing to spine extremities and corners, gilt lettering on spine slightly dulled, pictorial paste-on has a few scratches at the edges, first signature is slightly loose with half-title detaching, owner inscribed on first blank page otherwise book is clean throughout, all the lovely and bright Smith plates are present with tissue guards. A nice copy despite these few flaws.

Tallahassee, FL: Serendipity, 1983. First Edition . Soft cover. VG+. Based on the chintz quilts in the collections of The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont and the Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina. 1st edition. 4to, wraps, 88p, color and b/w illus. VERY GOOD+ with sl. cover wear, old sticker residue on front cover. An uncommon title.

Scotia, NY: Americana Review, 1960. Soft cover. VG+. 8vo, stapled wraps, unpaginated pamphlet, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ with light yellowing to the thick paper. An illustrated sampling of American school books from the earliest New England Primer of 1780 to the First German Book of 1880, all a temptation for the school book collector.

[ Wallingford, CT ]: Choate. Soft cover. NF. No date or publisher, but printed for the Choate School in Wallingford CT: "Condensed as read each Christmas in The Choate Chapel;" page after title page reads "Hallo! Hallo! How are you...? Merry Christmas!" with an illustration by D.E.H., and from "Margaret and Seymour St. John." [St. John was the long-time headmaster of Choate - he died in 2006]. 16mo, paperwraps, stapled, red covers with Choate insignia, 30 pages, one full-page b/w illustration. Condition: NEAR FINE with no visible wear excepting a slight rub to the front cover. A nice piece of ephemera for the Choate or Dickens' collector.

London: Jupiter Books, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings), lg 8vo, mustard colored boards, 142 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, glossary, bibliography. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: like new. Wykes gives us a light-hearted history of the circus - the unusual and the little known beginning with the Roman circus, the medieval travelling show, Astley's in 18th century London, and of course Barnum and the Big Top and more - all accompanied by rare illustrations.

Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no printing statement), small 4to, navy cloth, 93 pages, color and b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: like new, jacket is clipped at the top, but price is at the bottom unclipped. Offers brief profiles of famous circus personalities such as P. T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers, Tom Thumb, Clyde Beatty, Annie Oakley, and various clowns, as well as a short history of the origins of the circus. Portraits and classic circus posters from many sources add to the enjoyment.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. The covers title reads: "The Circus Drawing and Painting Book." Folio, stapled pictorial stiff paper wraps, [24] pages, b/w drawings to be colored in, color illustrations as examples. Condition: VERY GOOD: light edgewear to covers, rubbing to spine, internally clean and tight excepting a slight toning to pages, and a 1" closed tear to last page. Nothing has been colored in. Delightful illustrations of clowns, circus animals, carriages, and all manner of circus antics.

NY: Harry N Abrams, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st ed [NAP], Folio, olive cloth, 143 pages, 149 illustrations with 142 plates in full color, select bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: a few tiny spots to top page edge, otherwise nearly new. "A deluxe portfolio of rare and precious botanical art, painted in Holland in the late 16th century by an unknown hand, and collected by the pharmacist Theodorus Clutius for reference purposes ... never before published in this format or extent." The collection is housed in the Jagiellon University Library in Krakow, Poland. [from the jacket] A lovely book!

NY: J.C. Riker, 1850. Hardcover. VG. ...containing interesting, historical, moral, and instructive reading lessons, composed of words of a greater number of syllables than the lessons in Nos. I and II..... designed for the use of larger children, in families and schools. Revised edition." 24mo, brown paper-backed boards, cloth backstrip, 216pp, engraving frontispiece. Condition is VERY GOOD: spine head is chipped (missing about 1/4"), lt. edgewear, lt. foxing to endpapers, but interior pages are clean and tight. A nice copy of this early reader.