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

Berkeley: The Folk Dance Federation of California, July 1969. Comb-bound Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name to front cover. Check marks next to dance names on table of contents, otherwise interior appears unmarked. Pages slightly tanned. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 61 pages. Includes bibliography.

New York: Condé Nast Publications, June - July 1967. Digest-size Magazines. First Edition. Near Fine. Light rubbing. June: Short, light crease to bottom of spine. Very small chip at top of spine. Otherwise tight, clean, and bright. First Edition. 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.

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.

Arlington, Virginia: Center For Advantage, 2004. Playing Cards. Fine. 54 pristine playing cards in a fine cardbox box. Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck provides a practical and fun way to create winning strategies. It is a planning tool, a game, and a traditional playing card deck all in one package. The content is backed by cutting edge research on conflict strategy. Shape the battlefield. Shape yourself. Isolate and eliminate adversaries. Then seize your victory.

London: Hakluyt Society, 2009. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. First 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.

Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.

New York: HarperCollins / Ecco. 2017. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with light shelfwear. Half-inch tear to cover and jacket at top of rear hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 752 pages. In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who believes he is carrying out God's will when he assassinates Augustus Voorhees, an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children who are scarred and embittered by grief.

London: Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet, April 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 agonized as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

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: 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.

New York: Penguin Random House / Kathy Dawson Books, September 2017. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good Jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Quarter inch tear to clean and bright jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 453 pages.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light dust stains to top edge. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 371 pages.

New York: Random House / Vintage Books, June 1990. Vintage Classics Edition. Near Fine. Light dust soiling to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 297 pages. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. Hardcover. First Thus / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Dust stains to edges, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 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.

Port of Spain: Government of Trinidad and Tobago, October 26, 1983. Unbound Photocopy. Very Good. As circulated to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States. 13 pages.

New York: Basic Books, November 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked with light tanning. Spine straight and tight. Light edgewear. 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 became—to America's continuing chagrin—the 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… 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.

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