Search Results: Authors starting with C from Books of the World

New York: Street & Smith Publications. August 1960. Digest-size Magazine. Good. Interior lightly tanned but unmarked. "-20" penciled on front cover. Spine chipped with half-inch tear at bottom. Edgewear. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Title morphing into Analog. Cover art by Schoenherr for "Adaptation" (short novel) by Mack Reynolds. Includes "Pushbutton War" (short story) by Joseph P. Martino; "Report on the Nature of the Lunar Surface" (short story) by John Brunner; "A Taste of Poison" (short story) by Christopher Anvil; "The High Crusade" (Hugo Finalist, serial, part 2 of 3) by Poul Anderson; "Needed: One Aphrodite Project" (science fact) by R. S. Richardson; "The Formation of the Elements" (science fact) by Alastair Cameron; "People Need help" (editorial). Illustrated by Schoenherr and van Dongen.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. Digest-size Magazine. June 1980. Very Good. Edited by Stanley Schmidt. Cover by Paul Lehr for "The Humanoid Universe" (novelette) by Jack Williamson. Includes "Have You Heard the One. . .?" (novelette) by Spider Robinson; "One Time in Alexandria" (novelette) by Donald Franson; "Rings of Death" (short story) by Paul J. Nahin; "Given A, Then Bee" (short story) by Dean R. Lambe; "Downeast Encounter" (short story) by Thomas A. Easton; "Beyond First Contact" (science fact) by M. David Stone; "In the Beginning. . .Was Campbell" (special feature, John W. Camp bell remembered) by Kelly Freas; "Twilight Song" (The Alternate View) by Jerry Pournelle; "Hyperdemocracy" (guest editorial) by John W. Campbell (reprint). Illustrated by Paul Lehr, Jack Gaughan, Broeck Steadman, Bob Shore, and Val Lakey.

First Edition. New York: Condé Nast Publications. June - July 1967. Digest-size Magazines. Very Good+. Mack Reynolds's novel Computer War first appeared in print when it was serialized in two parts in the June and July 1967 issues of Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction magazine with cover art (June) and four interior illustrations by John Schoenherr. Published in 1967, Computer War is an allegory about the Vietnam War. The highly advanced Alphaland (a corporatist state along the lines of Mussolini's Italy) makes war on the technologically backward Betaland. And despite their technological supremacy it all goes terribly wrong.... Also includes "The Man from P.I.G." (novelette) by Harry Harrison and several others.

London: Hakluyt Society. 2009. Staple-bound pamphlet. 1st Edition. Near Fine. Securely bound with two staples in heavy paper wraps. Dog-ear crease to top corner, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 24 pages (last blank), 6 figures. Lecture Delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Hakluyt Society, 27 June 2008.

New York: Coward-McCann. Hardcover. 1968. Brown cloth over boards with black print to spine and facsimile signature to cover. Deckle edge. Good+ book with no jacket. Old price sticker to front pastedown, otherwise interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Light soiling to cover. Light dampstain to top edge. Nice reading copy. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 271 pages.

New York: Scribner, October 2008. Hardcover. First American Edition / full number line. Quarter-bound in black cloth over boards with red paper sides; title in silver to on spine. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Lower corners bumped. Rubbing and edgewear to jacket. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 323 pages.A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill and converge upon the innocents.

London: Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet. April 19, 1990. Mass market paperback. Third Impression 1993. Very Good+. Interior is unmarked. Spine is square and very tight. Cover lightly rubbed. Dust stains to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 462 pages. Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Quarter-bound in black paper over boards with patterned red paper sides; title in gilt on spine. As New book in a Fine jacket. Light rubbing to jacket. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 453 pages.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, September 2006. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Quarter-bound in black cloth over boards with black paper sides; title in metallic red on spine. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Rubbing to jacket. No tears, creases or folds. Black remainder mark to bottom edge. Not clipped. 339 pages.Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats, and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the "Chat Room," Salvo translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between Central African… Read more

New York: Condé Nast Publications. March-May 1970. 1st Edition. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Interiors unmarked. Richard & Nancy Carrigan's science fiction novel The Siren Stars first appeared in print when it was serialized in Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact's March-May 1970 issues with a cover and six interior illustrations by Kelley Freas. This novel explores the dire challenges that arise when Earth receives beckoning messages from an advanced civilization.

New York: Barnes & Noble. 1993. Hardcover. First Thus / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Dust stains to closed edges, otherwise As New. Not from a library. Not clipped. Not a remainder. 660 pages. Contents: O pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; Alexander's Bridge; The Profile; The Willing Muse; Eleanor's House; On the Gull's Road; Flavia and Her Artists; The Marriage of Phaedra; The Garden Lodge.

New York: Basic Books. Trade Paperback. 1996. First paperback printing / full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked with light tanning. Spine straight and tight. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 329 pages. The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and becameto Americas continuing chagrinthe father of the Chinese missile program. Born in China in 1911, he came to the United States during the 1930s, earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, and made major contributions to aeronautics, rocketry, and other fields. After applying for U.S. citizenship in the 1950s, however, he became an innocent target of the Red Scare and was deported. Then, instead of assuming the leadership role in America's missile and space programs for which he appeared destined, he helped create the Chinese missile and space program that later supplied the Third World with Silkworm missiles. Tsien's incredible life… Read more

New York: Bantam Books. Trade Paperback. May 1996. Good+. Notes and underlining, otherwise very nice. Spine straight and tight. No tears, no creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 224 pages. Both a personal odyssey and a practical blueprint for new management strategies, The Soul Of A Business shows how to re-shape a business to manage for the common good: the good of the company, the good of the employees, and the ultimate good of the community that company serves. Tom Chappell, eco-entrepreneur and co-founder of Tom's of Maine (the leading producer of environmentally-friendly personal care products in America) used his personal quest for meaning as a springboard for a new management style that emphasizes spiritual values as the basis for real commercial success. Chappell and his company have proven that working people at every level can realize personal values and meaning in their jobs without compromising excellence, and competitiveness.

New York: Vintage. Trade Paperback. Third Vintage Books Edition. April 2001. "Completely revised and updated." New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. xxii + 232 pages.

Cincinnati, Ohio: William S. Merrrell Company, March 1968. Staple Bound pamphlet. Fine condition. Interior pristine. Securely bound by two clean staples. Light rubbing and edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, creases, or folds. 36 pages.

New York: Dutton, 1977. Trade Paperback. 1977. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light reading wear to covers. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. c.150 pages. Hundreds of illustrations. 8.5 x 11 inches. The whole wonderful backstage story of Broadway's smash hit musical by Annie's co-creator, lyricist, and director, Martin Charnin.

Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 1981. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp. Corners sharp. Foxing to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 536 pages.

New York: Penguin Books. 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Tanned. Foxing to top edge. Shelf and reading wear. Not ex-library. Not remainder. Not clipped. No markings, no tears. 547pp. .

Scarsdale, New York: UPD Publishing. February-May 1978. Digest-size Magazine. First Edition. Near Fine. Lightly tanned. Mild shelfwear. Bindings are straight and tight. Sharp corners. Interiors are pristine. Covers are clean and bright. February and May covers have with mailing labels. March and April covers have label ghosts. The Faded Sun: Kesrith, nominated for the 1979 Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for best science fiction novel, is the first volume in Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy, the principal account of the Mri Wars era of Alliance-Union universe. It first appeared in print when it was serialized in four parts in the February, March, April, and May 1978 issues of Galaxy magazine. Cover art (Feb) and fifteen interior illustrations by Amy Harlib. At the beginning of the this first volume, the regul have just concluded a forty-year war with humanity. As part of the peace, they are ceding the desert world of Kesrith to humanity. However, they have neglected to inform its inhabitants, the mri,… Read more

Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in original clamshell case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). CDs show only minor signs of prior use. Not from a library. Suitable for a gift. These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations ever since Hitler and Nazism were destroyed: How could a man like Adolf Hitler and a movement like Nazism come to power in 20th-century Germany, an industrially developed country with a highly educated population? How were the Nazis able to establish the foundations of a totalitarian regime in such a short time and hurl the whole world into a devastating war that would consume millions of lives? As you travel back in time to answer these questions, you'll gain fascinating (and sometimes troubling) insights into the historical nightmare sparked by Hitler and his beliefs. You'll discover who voted for the Nazis and why; how the Nazis campaigned, and what they appeared to stand for; why there was… Read more