Search Results: Authors starting with A from Camphor Bookstore

The Comic History of England (ca. 1880) by Gilbert Abbott A'BeckettBradbury, Agnew & Co., London: undated Ca. 1880. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration and title. Illustrated with twenty full page hand colored plates with original tissue guards and two hundred woodcuts by John Leech. Title pages printed in red and black with a comic drawing of Clio instructing the Young British Lion in history. All edges gilt. Slight lean to the spine, but unmarked. An antiquarian book in excellent condition with terrific engraved plate illustrations reminiscent of John Tenniel (Alice in Wonderland et al.)

JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2007. Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated yellow wrappers with black titles to front cover and spine. Text in French and English.

A. L. Burt Company, New York 1924. First photoplay edition of the Douglas Fairbanks film; In the original jacket with wraparound art by William Pogany. Red cloth, lettered in stamped gold on front and spine; 4 stills from film. 310 pp + 8 pgs of ads in the back. A vintage book in excellent condition. The jacket is good with some edgewear, and a chip at the bottom of the spine - protected in plastic (please see photos.)

Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning by Adrian FrutigerWatson-Guptill, 1998. Softcover. " Illustrated with over 2,000 line drawings by the author. 360 Pages,10 1/4" Tall. This classic study shows how humans express thought through graphic means and why certain shapes and configurations of dot and line are perceived and remembered more easily than others. In very good, unmarked condition.

Lost BodyPoems by Aimé Césaire. Illustrations by Pablo Picasso.George Braziller, New York, 1986. First printing (stated). Yellow orange cloth hardcover in the original jacket. Translated by Clayton Eshelman and Annette Smith. With numerous illustrations by Pablo Picasso. xxviii, 131 pp. The book is in excellent condition, unmarked. The jacket has light wear- with a taped small tear on the spine. About the collaboration: Picasso and poet Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) met in 1948 at the Communist-led World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, in Wroclaw, Poland. Césaire had been the figurehead of the 1930s Negritude movement in France, a group of writers who hoped to foster a sense of shared heritage throughout the African diaspora, reasserting their identities in opposition to Western colonial perspectives.

George Braziller, New York, 1975.Very Good. Size: 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to); Illustrated throughout. 29 pages of text and 80 illustrations.

Rizzoli, New York, 2000. Paperback. Black and white wraps with color illustration and lettering in red and white. 168 pp. BW and color illustrations. Portraits.Book Condition: Near Fine. About the book: "This intimate and engaging portrait of Calder, at work and at play, offers new insight into how his art was shaped by the state's landscape, his home and studio, his family, and the fascinating circle of artists, writers, curators, and collectors who befriended him. Engaging and authoritative, this visual biography includes many previously unpublished photographs, documents, and reproductions of little-known art works. An account of the home and studio by Alexander S.C. Rower, Calder's grandson, and an affectionate tribute by Calder's neighbor, playwright Arthur Miller, complete the volume, produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford."

Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Expose of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes by Allan PinkertonG.W. Carleton & Co.: NY, 1886. Hardcover. Decorated pebbled brown cloth over boards; title and decorations in gilt and black. 616 pp. Illustrated episodes in the life of America's most famous detective, the founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. There are condition issues - some of the plates are loose and the cover cloth has come away from the spine (please see photos). Pencil markings on the front and back endpapers. About the book: The Author founded The Pinkerton Agency in 1850, and was instrumental in bringing down the James gang, the Molly Maguires, the Reno brothers and other criminals of the day. During the Civil War, Pinkerton foiled an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln. "Thirty Years a Detective" presents the history, the craft, and the stories of many of the criminals that Allan Pinkerton pursued and captured in his years as a detective. The… Read More

New York: Harper & Row Publishers. 1963. First Edition stated on the copyright page - (first library edition) Oblong hardcover. (This is a very funny book and should not be read while drinking orange juice, or you will spill it!) 1 v. (unpaged) col. illus. 14 x 20 cm. An early illustrated Maurice Sendak book - in very good condition. Library stamps on the front eppr otherwise unmarked, without the jacket.

New York Times, 2016. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket 4to. FRACTURED LANDS by Scott Anderson. Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin. Published in 2016 by The New York Times. A haunting look at the chaos and human tragedy taking place in the Middle East.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board Of Education, 1842. 8vo. xx, 555 pp. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Illustrated throughout, also with three maps (two fold-out).Condition: The book, maps and binding are in excellent condition, but there is some marginalia in pencil throughout. The deputation from the Committee of the Church of Scotland for the Conversion of the Jews visited Alexandria, Jerusalem, Hebron, Gideon, Sychem, Samaria, Carmel, Galilee, Tiberius, Constantinople and also inquired into the condition of the Jewish communities in Wallachia, Moldavia, Poland, Prussia, Hamburg, France, Italy, Greece, and Malta. The mission also estimated the size of the Jewish populations in the cities and villages of these regions.

Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggiby Anna Piaggi & Karl Lagerfeld
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986, 1988. American first edition, first printing. Folio size. 224 pages. Illustrated in color and B&W (Karl Lagerfeld, illustrator.) The book and jacket are in near fine, nearly as new condition.
About the book: A true collaboration between two enormously talented people. This book is devoted to the watercolor, pencil and ink drawings which Karl Lagerfeld made over a period of thirteen years, all of the same model, Italian fashion editor Anna Piaggi.

The Personal Papers of Anton ChekhovNew York, Lear, 1948. First Edition thus in the original jacket. Ex Library. The Notebook and Diary were translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. The Selection of letters by Constance Garnett. The writings provide an intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Chekhov, revealing his personal struggles, relationships, and creative process. It includes his opinions on literary figures like Zola, Tolstoy and Gorky.The book is ex-library with a "Smith College" stamp on the front and back endpapers and there's a library card envelope in the back. Otherwise the jacket and book are very good and unmarked.

High on the Wild with Hemingway - A Pictorial Recollectionby Lloyd R. Arnold
Publisher: Caldwell, ID, The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1968. Hardcover in the Dustjacket. Folio-sized. 343 pages, quarto. Illustrated with many black and white photo reproductions of Hemingway hunting, fishing in Ketchum, Idaho. Color endpapers. SIGNED / Inscribed by the author, Lloyd R. Arnold, on the title page. Book and jacket in VG condition - jacket protected in plastic.
About the book: More than one hundred previously unpublished photographs and the author's personal recollections offer a glimpse of the autumns and winters that Hemingway spent exploring and enjoying the mountains, meadows, and streams of Sun Valley, Idaho

Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur WaleyAllen & Unwin, London, 1939, 1953. Third Printing. Light grey boards with titles stamped on the spine. 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 275 pp. The book is unmarked and in VG condition, and includes the original age-toned, price-clipped jacket (see photos).About the book:In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the "Realist." Renowned sinologist Arthur Waley explores the interplay between these three philosophies, drawing on extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius, and Han Fei Tzu.

Planisphere by John AshberyEcco / HarperCollins, (New York), 2009. First edition. First printing of Ashbery's collection of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems. 9'' x 6''. Original black and white boards. In original unclipped ($24.99) dust jacket. 143, [3] pages.Signed by John Ashbery in the front. The book and jacket are in as new condition.

Yesterday Today and Forever by Maria Augusta TrappJ B Lippincott Co: Philadelphia, 1952. Black hardcover in the original jacket. Fifth impression. 220 pp. SIGNED by the Author, Maria Von Trapp, on the front fly. The book and jacket are in very good condition - a few edge nicks on the jacket. The story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers formed the basis for The Sound of Music.

The Works of Jane Austen in 12 Volumes
Limited to 250 copies
Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1892. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in leather and marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles, frontispieces. The set is complete. In addition to her novels (Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey) it includes a volume of her letters, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan and the unfinished novel The Watsons.
This set includes Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. Mitton - as a 13th volume, identically bound.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, London; Methuen & Co, New York, 1905. B & W illustrations, B & W frontispiece with tissue.
Limited to 250 copies and in exceptionally good condition.