Search Results: Titles starting with C from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

[Great Falls, MT]: C.M. Russell Museum, 1978. Paperback. Oblong 24mo. Stiff wrappers. (24pp). Illustrations. Fine. Interesting overview of the man and his art, published on the occasion of this museum's 25th anniversary. Probable sole edition.

Great Falls, MT: C.M. Russell Museum, 1980. Paperback. Oblong 16mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 20pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine. Interesting catalogue of oil paintings and watercolors.

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Tan cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this well-illustrated study.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1960. Paperback. Edited by James D. Horan. Unbound folio sheets (each 22" X 7", rectos only). 67pp. Very good to fine. Advance galley proofs of the first edition of the never-published 1885 memoirs of the commander of the last armed Confederate cruiser. Unusual in this form. From the collection of noted Civil War and Lincoln scholar ARNOLD F. GATES (1914-93). NEVINS I, 237.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 303pp. Fine/near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this how-to by the founder of ASK Computer Systems, nicely inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on the half-title page: "1st July 1991 / To Tom Coleman / a great customer / Thanks for the business / Sandra L Kurtzig."

New York: Grove Press, 1984. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 192pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Tight and nice BUT for a ¼" inch remainder hole punched through upper right corner of front wrapper. First of this edition.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1888. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth. 310pp. Very good. Inscribed by Allegra Parker Bufkin. Second edition, with fine presentation inscription on the front flyleaf from the author's daughter to "Mr and Mrs Rob't Cope / with the kind wishes of / the authors daughter / Allegra Parker Bufkin / 'Not he, who most believes, is / Most in harmony with things / divine, / But he, who shapes, nor / counts the east, / His daily life to loves / design' / Page 74 -- 'Afternoontide'."

Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Green paper over boards. xii, 31pp. Very good. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Uncommon.

New York: Towse Publishing Company / The Furniture World, 1942. Hardcover. Edited by N.I. Bienenstock. Folio. Brilliant blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp), 88pp pictorial advertisements. Extensive full-page illustrations and diagrams. Near fine/near fine. Unusually clean, bright jacket. This superb first trade edition is a facsimile reprint of the rare 1789 first edition (London) of this classic, to which is added a "Supplement: A Gallery of Hepplewhite Furniture and a Sketch of Hepplewhite's Life and Works" by Walter Rendell Storey. Front flyleaf bears a huge, bold inscription and signature in blue ballpoint: "To Jim / with best wishes / Sincerely / Sandy." Nathan I. " Sandy" Bienenstock (1902-88) was publisher of "Furniture World" magazine; he began collecting furniture books in 1922 and in 1970 he and wife Bernice founded the Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point, North Carolina. Great copy and with the… Read More

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth. xvi, 134pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. Later (8th) printing, a mild ex-library copy with relatively few markings of any kind.

New York: Burt Franklin, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with copper spine lettering. lii, 180pp. Fine. A perfectly tight and superb facsimile reprint of the first edition (London, 1900) of this useful reference to writings about John Cabot, 16th century Venetian explorer who in 1497 was the first European to explore the coast of North America. #99 in Franklin's "Bibliographical and Reference Series." Undated, but 1960s vintage.

New York: Roy Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green paper over boards, dust jacket. 112pp. Numerous line drawings. First edition, clean and tight, of the third volume in this 4-volume historical overview series.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Lane. 8vo. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and beige speckled paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 402pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome and tight first U.S. edition, with publicity material laid in.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 180pp. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. Tight, nice first edition of Cheever's third novel.

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 151pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome. Just a book club edition -- BUT inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf ("To Mike. / Best wishes, / Buz"), signed in full on the title page and bearing two textual corrections by Busby (on p. 30, he adds eight words at the end of one paragraph, and on p. 102 he corrects a misspelled German word). In addition, laid in loose is a good content Typed Letter Signed from Busby, 1p, 8½" X 11", Seattle, WA, 1985 August 12. Addressed to Mike. Very good. Explains the two textual corrections and lists all of his titles, with a brief publishing history of each.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 498pp. Map and pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn. Just a book club edition, but tight and nice, with fun jacket graphics.

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 306pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/fine. Truly pristine first edition of a young officer's experiences with the 399th Armored Field Artillery Battalion during the Second World War.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1953. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff beige wrappers. iii, 178pp. Numerous illustrations, diagrams, tables. Very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear to outer wrappers (only), else an exceptionally clean, tight, attractive first edition of this Department of the Army Technical Manual (TM9-1276), also a Department of the Air Force Technical Order (TO 39A-5AD-2).

Denver: The Range Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Beige calf spine with gilt lettering and pink paper over boards with paper label. xix, 146pp. Sepia-tone frontispiece, sepia-tone illustrations, foldout map. Near fine. A superb, handsome first edition of this biography, limited to 200 numbered copies (this #137) signed boldly by Mumey. Scarce, described by Ramon Adams as "The most scholarly research done on this notorious woman." Both the numbered foldout map and the two numbered facsimile pamphlets in rear pastedown pocket are pristine. HOWES M 888. SIX-GUNS 1565.

N.p.: The Western Press, 1958. Hardcover. Edited by Vivian A. Paladin and indexed by John Hakola. Small 4to. Tan cloth with brown lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 147pp. Illustrations. Fin e/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with sunned spine; ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight and lovely first edition of this press's second title done collaboratively with the Historical Society of Montana, limited to 2000 numbered copies (this #394). A scholarly approach to the little-known Martha Jane Cannary. SIX GUNS 2061.