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

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.

New York: Assouline, December 2021. Hardcover. Pictorial linen over boards in a thick luxury slipcase. As New book in an As New slipcase. Pristine inside and out. 304 pages, 280 color illustrations. 12.3 x 10.6 x 2.3 inches. 6.8 pounds. Heavy item: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that accompanies Jane Campion's film The Power of the Dog. This book offers an in-depth look at the making of the movie, including film stills, set photography and quotes from the cast and filmmakers. Every aspect of production and post-production is explored, from acquiring the book rights to writing the screenplay, from casting to finessing the score. The layers are peeled back to reveal how Campion and her team were able to create such a complete and believable world. Written and directed by Academy Award winner and Palme d'Or recipient Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog is a haunting western set in 1920s Montana, adapted from Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the… Read More

Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1967. Hardcover. Reprint. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Dust stains to top edge. Jacket has light edgewear including a 1/4" tear at bottom of rear flap fold. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 77 pages.

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.

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: 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. Light rubbing to jacket. No tears, creases or folds. Black remainder mark to bottom edge. Not from a library. 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… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton / Coronet, April 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Third Impression, 1993. Very Good+. Interior is unmarked. Spine is square, tight and uncreased. 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.

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: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interiors pristine. Spines straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Just the slightest reading wear to lower corners. Not from a library. No remainder marks. Not clipped. A matching set of Willa Cather's three best selling books with series-design wraps by Cary Thor Brown. 1031 total pages.

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.

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.

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: Vintage, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Third Vintage Books Edition, "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. 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.

London: Arrow Books / Random House, September 2000. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior lightly tanned, otherwise pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 323 pages. A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds. Da Chen was born in 1962 in a town over 50 hours train journey from Beijing. Persecuted because of his family's landlord status, Da was an easy target for the farmer-teachers and bullying peasant boys. Whilst his older brother and sisters were forced to work in the fields, Da tired of the chaotic schooling of the Cultural Revolution and found solace with a band of good-time thugs. Following the death of Mao, an academic meritocracy was reintroduced. Da determined to escape Ch'ing Mountain, where he ran around barefoot and… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1973. Hardcover. First Printing (stated). Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket rubbed with half-inch tear to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xv + 383 pages.