Search Results: Authors starting with C from Ash Rare Books

New York : Avon Book Co., [ca. 1945]. An early reissue of the story on which the famous 1944 Billy Wilder film (scripted by Raymond Chandler), with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson was based. New Avon Library No. 60. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [vi],(11)-191,[v]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; some rubbing and light wear; slight scratch to upper wrapper; mild creasing; text tanned, but a reasonable copy of a fragile production.

London : Curtis Warren, (1952). First edition. "A unique example of post-war British SF mediocrity ... the main action and dialogue is obviously based on the author's then recent wartime experiences in the R.A.F." (Harbottle & Holland A47). Earth's space armada is tricked into departing for planet Alpha, while the devious Martians plan to invade Earth. Crown 8vo (19cm). 127,[i]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a design by Gordon C. Davies; a little rubbed and creased; small repair to front wrapper; staples rusting; a good copy. Faint stamp of a Sheffield bookshop on rear wrapper. Just a single copy (Liverpool) located in major UK libraries.

Manchester : John Heywood, 1895. First edition. The authentic memoirs of the legendary Manchester detective, widely thought to be a model for Sherlock Holmes - an unorthodox policeman who relied on a mastery of disguise as well as a network of informers. The man who solved the Manchester Cab Murder, he became the first Superintendent of the Manchester C.I.D. in 1897. Reminiscences of thieves, card-sharpers, fraudsters, burglars, race-course crooks, bullies and cadgers, bogus railway bonds, confidence tricks, arsonists, anarchists, gambling hells, and much else. A supplementary volume was published at his own expense in 1901. Demy 8vo (23cm). 464pp. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrations. Original green armorial cloth gilt; top edge gilt; lightly rubbed and a little worn; cloth a little discoloured in places; internally clean and a reasonable copy of a difficult title.

London : Panther Books - Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1954). First edition. High official rebels against Earth's repressive regime - and there was a girl, clever, shrewd and daring - "Typical Campbell dystopia, filled with disturbingly grim and realistic medical and scientific details" (Harbottle & Holland A59). Panther Book 160. Crown 8vo (19cm). (142),[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a design by John Richards; slight wear and splitting at tips; some creasing; a couple of tiny chips; staples rusted; text a little tanned, but a good copy of a fragile item. Just two copies (Bodleian and Liverpool) located in the major UK libraries.

London : Anthony Blond, (1963). First edition. "A birdie of a book" from the late lamented Paddy Campbell. "May be read with enjoyment (as I have just proved) even by people who don't know a mashie from a mashed potato" (The Sphere, 13th July 1963). Crown 8vo (19cm). (144)pp. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Original green boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the original pictorial Quentin Blake dust-jacket - also very good.

London : Map Collectors' Circle, 1967. First edition. A chronological cartobibliography, listing and describing 83 early western maps of Japan, with twenty-eight plates. Map Collectors' Series No. 36. Crown 4to (25cm). 22,[ii]pp. Plates. Original stapled wrappers; a few faint marks, but a very good copy.

London : Jonathan Cape, (1946). First edition in English of the banned "Die Blendung" (1935), his first and only novel, translated from the German (under Canetti's personal supervision) by Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997). A Head without a World, Headless World and The World in the Head. Post 8vo (198 x 133mm). 464pp. Bound in a smart recent half black morocco, banded and gilt; marbled sides; a few slight marks and faint creases, but a very good copy.

London : HMSO, (1991). First edition. A full-scale history, by one of its most distinguished archivists, of the keeping of the "people's evidences", from the founding of the PRO in 1838 and the absorption of the State Paper Office in 1854, to becoming "the greatest store of material that has ever been gathered in one place". Royal 8vo (26cm). [2],(xii),(632)pp. Plates (two coloured). Portraits. Original cloth; just faintly bruised, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

London : Castle Books [ca.1954]. First edition. Published by Castle Books of Grays Inn Road, distributed by the Gaywood Press, and apparently the thirty-fourth "Ace Capelli" title - a writer (according to the publishers) being spoken of as a second Raymond Chandler. The Capelli name was originally used by Stephen Daniel Frances (Hank Janson), and later taken over by Geoffrey Pardoe, Norman Lazenby, and others. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a little rubbed, slightly worn and creased, with some marks to rear wrapper; staples rusted, but a good copy. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Ralph Stokes for the Gaywood Press, [ca.1952]. First edition. "There were seven names on the list from the commissioner, and one name on that list would have paid a million dollars to get hold of it. That name handled the new drug racket that was sweeping the town and threatening the whole of the States" - Ace Capelli was a house name used variously by Geoffrey Pardoe, Stephen Frances (Hank Janson) and Norman Lazenby. Although over thirty Capelli titles are known, only fourteen or so are represented in major collections. Crown 8vo (19cm). [iv],9-(116)pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - blonde in need of a prayer; some light wear and creasing; spine and part of rear wrapper lightly discoloured; small puncture, without loss, to cover and first few leaves; staples rusted; text lightly tanned, but a good and serviceable copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Ralph Stokes for Gaywood Press, [ca.1953]. First edition. "Both wore black overcoats, and black fedoras with snap brims. They looked like two black crows. On the table were two battered briefcases. Rio's case held the barrel and the magazine, while Frank's held the butt end of a Thompson sub-machine-gun" - campaigning newspaperman brutally shot down. Ace Capelli was a house name used variously by Geoffrey Pardoe, Stephen Frances (Hank Janson) and Norman Lazenby. Although over thirty Capelli titles are known, only fourteen or so are represented in major collections. Crown 8vo (19cm). [iv],9-132pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some minor wear and creasing; parts of rear wrapper a little nicked and soiled; staples rusted; some spotting of prelims and edges, but a good and serviceable copy. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Ralph Stokes for the Gaywood Press, [ca.1952]. First edition. "I was a construction gang foreman, not a private eye or a cop. I'll admit that my one taste of hoodlums some weeks ago had whetted my appetite for the detecting racket ..." - Ace Capelli was a house name used variously by Geoffrey Pardoe, Stephen Frances (Hank Janson) and Norman Lazenby. Although over thirty Capelli titles are known, only fourteen or so are represented in major collections. Crown 8vo (19cm). [iv],9-132pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a sprightly design by Leonard Potts (1902-1978); a little chipped at extremities; covers a little marked; some creasing; staples rusted; text lightly tanned, but a reasonable copy of a scarce and fragile item. No copy located in any major library worldwide. `

London : Phoenix Press, [ca.1950]. First edition. "Hang it all, Felicity, it's a bit thick when I can't kiss my own wife". Marriage begins with some issues. In the "Snappy Novels" series, published from Phoenix's post-1949 Kennington Lane address. Crown 8vo (19cm). 64pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; spine splitting; diagonal crease to upper wrapper; staples rusted; text a little marked in places; a reasonable copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

London : Editions Poetry London, (1945). First edition. A wartime anthology - with twenty-five poems on the fighting forces, nine on factories, and much else besides. Contributors include Honor Arundel, Maurice Carpenter, Idris Davies, Jack Lindsay, John Manifold, Hubert Nicholson, Paul Potts, John Pudney, John Singer, Randall Swingler, and many others. Edited by Carpenter, Jack Lindsay and Honor Arundel. Crown 8vo (20cm). [2],(viii),164,[ii]pp. Original blue-grey cloth, lettered in gilt; edges a little spotted, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - a design in turquoise, red and white - a little worn, soiled, torn and spotted.

London : Hamish Hamilton, (1959). First British edition. "A barrister has secretly adopted the child of a woman whom he himself had successfully prosecuted for murder. Of course, he gets murdered. The plot turns not only on who killed him, but on which of his children was the adopted one" (E. D. O'Brien, Illustrated London News, 3rd October 1959). With a concluding eleven pages of notes on the background and sources for London in 1865. Crown 8vo (20cm). (236),[iv]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in silver; a very good, bright, clean and sound copy in the striking Val Biro dust-jacket - also very good.

London : Hamish Hamilton, (1947). First British edition. The mystery of a man who comes back to London from the dead. "It looks impossible, insoluble; it turns out clear as day, a neat little crime, an excellently human motive. This is Carr at his best" (Illustrated London News, 23rd August 1947). Also published in New York the same year. Crown 8vo (20cm). (256)pp. Original navy cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt; a few slight marks; a few spots to top edge, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the dust-jacket - a dramatic design by Harold Hookway Cowles (1896-1987) - with a few tiny marks and scuffs, but also very good.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1987). First edition. A sequence of over 350 letters from Lewis Carroll to his publishers, indicating the extent to which Dodgson thought about (and insisted upon) the physical format of his productions - also illustrating many facets of Victorian publishing. Edited and introduced, the notes quoting extensively from the Macmillan replies, by Morton N. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo. A volume in the Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History series. Medium 8vo (24cm). [2],(x),384,[iv]pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Original cloth; very good indeed in a just faintly marked dust-jacket.

New York : Universal, [1953]. First paperback edition. "She fanned his emotions to white heat - but she was his boss's wife" - an "explosive theme" handled with "taste and understanding". Originally published as "Bondage" in 1934. Uni-Book No. 59. Foolscap 4to (19cm). 124,[iv]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - a design by Bernard Safran (1924-1995); spine a little worn at foot and slightly sunned; staples a touch rusted; text lightly tanned, but overall a very good copy. No copy of this edition located in any major library worldwide.

[London] : Cambridge University Press for the National Book League, 1947. First edition : one of the copies issued in cloth, with the plates not included in the wrappers issue. A major exhibition catalogue, with a foreword by Sadleir and an introduction by Carter. Demy 8vo (22cm). (xiv),(50)pp. Sixteen plates. Original cloth; a hint of rubbing; endpapers slightly spotted, with a short repaired tear to rear free endpaper; but a very good and bright copy in the original dust-jacket - lightly worn and slightly tanned.

London : Trefoil Publications, (1987). First edition. Loosely inserted is an autograph note, signed with forename, from Sebastian Carter. Well illustrated studies of Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Koch, William Addison Dwiggins, Eric Gill, Victor Hammer, Stanley Morison, Hans Mardersteig, Jan van Krimpen, Georg Trump, Joseph Blumenthal, Robert Hunter Middleton, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger. Demy 4to (25cm). 168pp. Portraits. Illustrations. Examples. Original boards; a very good copy in the dust-jacket.