Search Results: Authors starting with C from Old Bookshelf

Paris: Paul Ollendorf, 1881. Soft cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Luigi Loir. 34pp. Couverture souple. Stitched binding. Soiling to covers, spine missing, binding loose but holding, text is age-darkened and is complete.

John H. Cady, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 120pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. SIGNED by author. Edges and spine lightly rubbed, interior is very clean. Itinerary written on front pastedown and dated 1916, owner's name on front free endpaper beneath author's signature.

New York: L. Nichols & Co. For Evert Duyckinck, 1801. Third American Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 359pp. Contemporary calf, leather spine label, text is tanned and lightly foxed throughout, endpapers, frontispiece and title page partially dampstained, clean tears to 4 or 5 pages with no loss of text. Despite the above shortcomings, the text is complete and very readable, and the binding is tight. Voyage and adventures as told by the author in a series of letters to his son.

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 183pp+38pp notes+18pp ads. N.d.,ca. 1850. Full leather bound, black label w/ bright gilt lettering on spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard. Edges chipped, spine scuffed. Endpapers soiled, moderate foxing throughout, binding is tight and sound.

Washington: 19th Congress House of Representatives, 1826. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp. Disbound, pages tanned, and otherwise unmarked. Report on the feasability "of making a survey of a canal route from Canton to Weymouth, Massachusetts for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of uniting the waters of Boston Harbor with the Naraganset Bay.

Marseilles: Ville De Marseilles, 1957. Soft cover. Good. Unpaginated 62 pp. Text is in French. Cover is abraded and scuffed, spine has a small cut, contents are clean. INCLUDED is an Exposition Van Gogh Museé Cantini POSTER measuring 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (2 x 25cm), featuring a small print of a Van Gogh painting. Poster is mildly toned and is folded horizontilly for enclosure in the catalog.

New York: Random House, 1965. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 343pp. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. First Printing, very good condition, mild toning to contents, unclipped dust jacket is edgeworn and chipped.

Pierre Seghers Éditeur, 1945. Limited . Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. André Warnod. Unpaginated, French languaage. Card stock wraps. Couverture souple, très bon état. Numéro 546 de 625 exemplaires. Pprinted on rag paper by Papeteries Johannot à Annonay, of which this is number 546. Black and white illustrations by Warnod. Cover and contents are in very nice condition, protected by the original glassine jacket still present.

London: Foulis, 1926. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 48pp+12 illustrations. Grey paper over boards, linen-backed spine, paper labels to cover and spine. Boards are faded at edges, a small indentation to top and to bottom of front board (probably was tied tightly in a bundle). Preliminary pages are foxed and rest of contents are age-toned but unmarked. There are 12 charming color illustrations teaching children morals -- Charitable Louisa, Envy, Politeness, Offensive Manners, etc. Scarce dustjacket is soiled, darkened at spine and edges, worn, chipped and missing a 1" piece at top of spine. Spine has an ink smudge and a small label with a number. Dustjacket has the same illustration as the frontispiece pasted to front.

Cambridge: Harvard College, 1886. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 127-168p, plus ads. Printed wraps. Large stain to right margin of front cover, other light soiling, surprisingly, the contents are clean and pages are unopened. Contributions by C.P. Parker, A.B. Houghton, George Santayana, and H.G. Bruce.

Ankara: Varlik Yayinevi, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 119pp. Text is in Turkish. Pictorial wraps. Covers lightly worn, contents are age-toned, and pages are uncut. Black and white illustrations.

New York & Chicago: Platt & Munk Co. Inc., 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 59pp. Green boards, black lettering and line drawing. Book is in very sound condition, slight rubbing to spine ends, contents are clean, binding is tight, front endpaper archivally taped along gutter. Unclipped dust jacket has chipping and edge tears (longest 1 1/2 inches), but is overall complete. Color illustrations by Nixon Macknight from original designs by John Tenniel.

New York: Little Leather Library Corporation, 1920. 1st Edition . Flexible Boards. Good/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 160pp. No date c1920s. Green flexible leatherette boards, miniature book measures 3 1/4 x 4 inches. Corners lightly rubbed, contents are clean and mildly age-toned, binding is tight.

London: Bell & Hyman Limited, The Leisure Circle, 1985. Half-Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Alice B. Woodward and Sue Shields. 127pp. Yellow pictorial cover. Book and dust jacket are in clean and unworn condition, contents are unmarked and the binding is tight.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. Janice Holland. Unpaginated. Pictorial cover and endpapers. Covers are clean and very lightly worn, contents mildly age-toned, unmarked, and book is in overall sound condition. From Rand McNally's series of Book-Elf Books.

Lafayette, Louisiana: Peter Pauper Press, 1960. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Tenniel. 161pp. No date, c1960. Pictorial covers with playing card motif. Book is unworn, spine darkened, interior is very clean and unmarked. Slipcase has 2 small chips at top and bottom, and very little other wear.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Linda Card. 234pp. Pictorial patterned boards, colorful pictorial dust jacket. Covers in very sound condtion, contents evenly age-darkened throughout, binding is tight and book appears to be unread, dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and spine slightly darkened.

New York: The Lewis Carroll Society of America, 1977. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 21pp + facsimile of galley proofs of suppressed portion of Through the Looking Glass. Textured red heavy stock wrapper. Clean and unworn, spine slightly faded, galley proof pages unopened

London: Hampster Books. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 78pp. No date, c 1950s. Pictorial covers. Cover and contents are in very nice condition, slight rubbing to corners, Dust jacket is age-toned, lightly edgeworn and edges chipped with slight loss. Book appears to have been published with no free endpapers.

New York: The Gregg Publishing Company, 1920. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Catherine Tucker. 154pp. No date c1920s. Illustrated green card wraps, red and black lettering. Light soiling to cover, slight corner crease, contents mildly age-toned, clean and unmarked. Text is in Gregg Shorthand and is accompanied by black and white illustrations throughout.