Search Results: Authors starting with C from Lamplighter Library

Viking. New York. 1997. Quarter-bound in blue with gray paper boards and copper lettering to front and spine. Unclipped ($22.95) shows minor shelf wear. Card still in book... 2,131 lucky people will win a signed and numbered Cal Ripkin, Jr. baseball card. Why 2,131 people when the record was 2,632 consecutive games played by Cal Ripken, Jr.? If you know your baseball you know the previous record was held by Lou Gehrig. He played 2,130 consecutive games. Color pictures, stories and stats of the Baseball Hall of Fame "Iron Man" infielder for the Baltimore Orioles. 6.25x9.25. 326 pg.

Viking. New York. 1997. Quarter-bound in blue with white paper boards. Copper colored CR initials on front board and lettering on spine. Top edge of front and back boards bumped, else fine. First Edition (stated) First Printing with requisite number line ending in 1. Fine unclipped ($22.95) jacket protected with removable mylar cover shows minor shelf wear. Boldly signed on half title page. With the 2,131st game Cal Ripken, Jr. played he broke the record for number of games consecutively played by a Major League ballplayer. The record was previously held by Lou Gehrig. When done, the All-Star shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles set the new mark for consecutively played games at 2,632. Truly, Ripton earned the name and is Baseball's "Iron Man". 6.5x9.5 in. With photos and acknowledgements, 326 pg.

William Morrow & Co. New York. 1984. Quarter-bound in brown with light yellow paper boards. Near fine First Edition has a small crease on the back rear flyleaf. First printing (stated) with requisite number line ending in "1". Unclipped ($15.95) jacket shows shelf wear with small chips to upper spine and edge of back jacket flap. Signed by author on front flyleaf. Author is a founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and former faculty at Harvard Medical School. She is also the founder of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. The imminent dangers of the arms race are as true today as in 1983 when the book was written. 6.5x9.5. 365pg.

Libreria De Los Sucesores De Hernando. Madrid. 1913. Very good brown patterned leather with gilt bands and red/green fields on spine. Paper is yellowed with age but without foxing. First flyleaf and both paste-downs wrinkled. Second flyleaf has 1 in. cut showing paper loss on upper right of page. Binding is tight and square. Tacitus (also known as Gaius Cornelius Tacitus) was a Roman orator and public official. Annals was his account of the Roman Empire written in AD 14 to 68. The work contained 16 - 18 books but only books 1 - 4, part of book 5, most of book 6 and books 11 - 16, incomplete, are extant. The forward credits the translation by Coloma with making the edition have less "dryness" when compared to the original work which was written in Latin. I suspect that is true. This version is written in Spanish, but again, apparently not too dry. He was born AD 56 and died c. 120. 4.75x7 in. 341 pg. with index.

Viking. New York. 2019. An imprint of Penguin Random House. Fine First Edition (stated) First Printing with requisite number line for Random House ending in 2. Quarter-bound in purple with green cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine. A rather unique color scheme for a book. Signed on second flyleaf by author. Note - "Signed Book" sticker on cover professionally removed. Fine unclipped ($27.00) jacket protected with removable mylar cover shows minor shelf wear. It's 1932 and Violet Speedwell has lost her brother and fiance in the Great War (WW I). Due to the war killing so many young men, Violet is in danger of becoming a "surplus woman" looking at a future of taking care of her grieving mother. What will Violet risk to protect the life she had made for herself? 6x9.25 in. With acknowledgments, 321 pg.

Harcourt. New York. 2007. Brown boards with gold lettering to spine. Slight push to spine ends and small (0.25 in) dent on top of front/back of pristine brown boards. First edition (stated) with A...B first printing code. Unclipped ($25.00) fine jacket shows nominal shelf wear and is protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in blue ink by author on title page. The story takes place in early circa 1700's London. A pregnant young girl moves to the city & given a job to avoid the scandal her pregnancy would cause. As the story evolves the young girl comes to realize the nature of her master's obsession. It's not good..... 9.25 x 6.25. 382 pg.

Crown. New York. 2011.Quarter-bound in gray with gray paper boards and blue lettering to spine. First Edition, first printing with requisite number line ending in "1". Inscribed by author in purple ink on title page. Damp stain on lower back board that does not extent into the pages.
The memoir of a folk music legend tells "What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it." (Author's Note). You may recall the Grammy Award winning song "Both Sides Now" (written by Joni Mitchell) or her contemporaries such as David Crosby, Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman and Stephen Stills. 9.5x6.25. 354pg.

Eakin Press. Austin,TX. 1999. Bright blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Assumed First Edition, first printing with no subsequent printing shown on copyright page. Flyleaf shows Discard and The Senior Center stamps. Upper right front board has been bumped. Inscribed by the former Soviet Intelligence Officer and the novel's protagonist (Zoya Zarubina, 1920-2009) on the flyleaf. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with wrinkling to several edges. Jacket shows no price and is protected with removable mylar cover. Zoya Zarubina is a name perhaps lost to history yet played a part in numerous historical events: in her mid twenties she became a member of the KGB who later went on to become an interpreter for Joseph Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Tehran and Yalta conferences. She later worked at the Potsdam Conferences and Nuremberg Trials and still later, translated the atomic secrets stolen from the United States. She has served as the Dean of the English Language Department at the Foreign Language… Read More

G.P. Putnam's, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1998. first US edition, first printing with number lline ending in "1". burgundy paper covered board with cloth spine.unclipped dustjacket. 2 small tears on corners of good+ DJ. prior owner listed.8vo.356pp. Kay Scarpetta begins another case, this time against a killer who uses fire to mask his crimes.

Harper & Row. New York. 1980. Pictorial cover has bumped spine bottom and creases in several pages from prior owner folding as a bookmark. Unclipped ($7.95) has a large (1 - 1.5 in) piece missing on the spine with the 0480 code on the front jacket flap. Is Nina Terrance a pet crow or not? A heartwarming story by the author of Julie of the Wolves.

New York: Knopf, 1995. Book of the Month Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine DJ dated 9/95. First Trade Edition (stated).Front/rear endpapers map the Lost World. 8v0.393pp. Six years after Jurassic Park, there are rumors that something has survived.

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1980. Quarter bound in red with black paper boards and bright gilt lettering to spine. Congo imprinted on front board. First Trade Edition stated on copyright page. Normal shelf wear for book over fourty years of age with corresponding wear to top-edge. Unclipped ($10.95) jacket shows shelf wear, small crease and chip on front and upper back. Print code 11/80 on back jacket flap. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover. Crichton's fifth novel (under his own name) follows an expedition looking for diamonds in the rainforests of the Congo; and investigating the mysterious deaths of the prior expedition. Made into a 1995 movie that had bad reviews (and several Golden Raspberry Awards) the film still grossed $152M worldwide. 5.75x8.5 in. Including References, 348 pg.

Phaidon Press. London. 1975. Near fine First Edition with green boards and gilt lettering to spine.Spine slightly bumped with some fading at bottom of boards. Inscribed on half title page by William P. Cumming. Very good clipped jacket has minor shelf wear that is protected with a removable mylar cover. William Cumming (1900 - 1989) was a historian of cartography and professor emeritus of English at Davidson College. Prof. Cumming selected and wrote captions for 240 pre-1800 illustrations of people, events, battles, and maps. Full-page color reproductions are included of such well-known works as John Singleton Copley's Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, the presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress by John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart's head of Washington, and Van Blarenberghe's surrender at Yorktown. (Ref.: The J. of Am. History). 10.5 x 7.5 in. 352 pg.