Search Results: Authors starting with C from Pages Past Books

VG/VG- Macmillan NY 1961 1st hardcover 8vo, 194 pages, notes, references. Light dustjacket rubbing and edgewear. Solid clean copy.

VG- various illustrators Random House NY 1945 2nd hardcover Folio, 182 pages, 85 color plates. 85 reproductions in color of paintings from the collection of the National Gallery of Art with comments and separate notes on dates and provenance of each picture. Light foxing to front endpaper. Light rubbing at extremities.Solid clean copy.

Fine/VG Ansel Adams photos Little Brown & Co Boston 1993 1st edition hardcover 4to, 131+ pages, 50 color plates, 12 color illustrations. First publication of Adams' color work. Some light wear to dustjacket at spinehead and left top rear corner. Dustjacket lightly rubbed. Nice bright tight clean copy.

Good+ Western fiction Popular Library New York No pub date Softbound 12mo, 128, Color cover art 1940s or 50s Thrilling Novels publication. Light soiling and vertical crease to front cover. Solid with western cover art.

VG+ in a VG+ slipcase Harcourt, Brace and Company NY 1939 early hardcover 8vo, 485 pages, color frontis. Solid and clean in slipcase with just light wear.

Good+ light foxing inside covers Social Record of Virginia Richmond 1937 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 235pp, 23 page historical intro by Rosewell Page, followed by alphabetical listing with detail of prominent Virginians.

Good+ Harper & Bros NY 1890 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 170 pages + 4 page catalog, b+w illustrations, pictorial cover. Includes a baseball poem "Farmer Stebbins at the Bat" with illustration. Light general agewear with rubbing at extremities.

Good/Good Platt & Munk NY 1941 2nd hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, color and b+w illustrations, pictorial endpapers. An entertainment book of puzzles, riddles, mazes, tricks, etc. Some of the puzzles have been done but many have not. Private bookplate on front endpaper. Light dampstaining to the top of a few early pages and light dustjacket wear with crayoning on the rear and chips at spine ends. Solid and bright with dj in protective cover.

VG/G+ Farar & Rinehart NY (1941) reprint Hardbound 8vo, 360 pp, 8vo, 360 pages. Novel of Genesee County in Upstate New York after the American Revolution. Dustjacket with some light edgewear including small chip at upper right front. Protected in Brodart cover.

VG+/VG+ St. Martin's Press NY 1982 1st US hardcover 8vo, 538 pages. Three generations of a family on the island of Mull off the Scottish coast.Dustjacket price clipped. Clean solid bright copy with dj in protective cover.

VG/G McGraw-Hill NY 1974 1st hardcover 4to, 128 pages, b+w photos and drawings. The art and technique of sky sailing or hang gliding. Solid clean book. Dustjacket price clipped with edgewear, shallow dampstain inside front flap. Solid clean copy with dj bright in protective cover.

Good+ condition EB Bensell illus Houghton Mifflin Boston 1913 reprint hardcover 8vo, 160 pages, b+w illustrations by Bensell, pictorial cover. Gift inscription front endpaper. Personal bookplate inside front cover. 2 3/4" x 3 1/4" drawing at bottom rightfront free endpaper. Several old tape stains inside covers. Nice clean solid interior with bright cover.

VG+/VG FW Dodge NY 1961 1st hardcover 8vo, 392 pages, index, b+w illustrations. Detailed handbook for earth and rock excavation, ground water control and bank stabilization. Dustjacket price clipped with light rubbing at extremities. Solid clean copy with dj in protective cover.

VG+/VG Ridge Press/Random House NY 1976 1st assumed hardcover 4to, 251 pages, b+w and color photos, index, Light rubbing at dustjacket extremities. Solid clean bright copy.

G/G condition American Library Service NY (1924) hardcover 8vo, 107 pages. Story set in Judea and Northern Africa during the first century of the Christian era. Some wear to binding bottom with red stain on binding spine.Dustjacket has several chips and faint stain at bottom portion of spine. Some erasure evidence of previous inscription on front free endpaper. Overall solid generally clean copy.

VG/VG, VG dj Literature George Braziller New York 1975 1st Ptg Hardbound 8vo, 66 pp Light agewear with light toning and rubbing to white of dustjacket. Solid and otherwise clean.

VG/G+ light soiling dj rear, shallow 2"triangular chip dj front, Harry Tyler drawings Thomas Yoseloff NY (1961) Early reprint hardcover 8vo, 176pp, DJ price clipped. Story of Thomas Cather's journey to America in 1836, covering the greater part of the U.S. from N. Chicago to New Orleans, using every method of transportation at their disposal. Journey was made by this young Irishman with his friend Henry Tyler.

Good+ condition/no dustjacket Alfred A Knopf NY 1923 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 174 pages. 1st edition, 1st issue in green cloth with gold titling. Previous owner noted on half-title page "This is a marvelous book" Spine darkened, light general agewear, but a nice solid clean copy.

Good+ condition Frank E Schoonover frontis Penn Publishing Philadelphia 1924 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 333 pages, b+w frontis by Schoonover. Nautical and pirate tales centering around the Silver Ship Inn. Some light foxing to foredge and inside covers. Silver titling and front cover decoration.

Vg/VG-condition Alfred A Knopf NY 1952 5th printing hardcover 8vo, 426 pages + index, bibliography, 72 line drawings, 4 maps, 49 photos. Owner's name pencilled front free endpaper. Light browning to front endpaper. Dustjacket with shallow chipping at spinehead and light edgewear.Nice and bright in Brodart protective cover.