Search Results: Authors starting with C from George S. MacManus Company

(PETROLEUM). B.C.L. Oil on the Brain. Broadside, 6 1/4" x 9 3/4", printed in double columns. An amusing verse of a young Yankee who seeks to make his fortune in Pennsylvania oil. To be sung to the tune of "The Cork Leg.

1871. CABECA DE VACA, Alvar Nunez. SMITH, Buckingham (trans.). Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. New York: [J. Munsell], 1871. Limited ed. 4to. x, [2], [11]-300 pp., frontis., port. In modern calf-backed cloth boards. Binding is fresh. Previous owner name obscured on the title page. Contents with dampstaining including a pronounced tideline to bottom margin of the pages throughout, occasionally touching text, else very good. Sabin 84383. Field 229. Limited edition of only 100 copies. "With the possible exception of Benavides' `Memorial,' the `Relation' of Cabeca de Vaca is probably the most important of the early works on the western country" - Eberstadt 104-036. Smith died while this edition was in the press and Field praises it as "a fitting monument to the earnest scholar and gentleman who first made the valuable Relations of Cabeca available to those who could not read it in the original." Scarce in this edition.

COSGRAVE, John O'Hara II. CABELL, James Branch. There Were Two Pirates. A Comedy of Diversion. Decorations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Orig. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1946. First edition. A fine copy.

CABELL, James Branch. Straws and Prayer-Books. Dizain des Diversions. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. First edition. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 70. A fine copy.

1929. CABELL, James Branch. The Way of Ecben. A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman. Orig. cloth-backed boards. N.Y.: McBride, 1929. First edition. A fine copy.

PYLE, Howard. CABELL, James Branch. Gallantry. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Harper's, 1907. First edition, first binding. The author's third book. Some soiling, but a very good copy.

CABELL, James Branch. The White Robe, a Saint's Summary. 4to. Orig. calf-backed oaken boards. N.Y.: McBride, [1928]. First edition. Boxed. Fine.

CABELL, James Branch. Something About Eve. A Comedy of Fig-Leaves. Orig. cloth, dust jacket (chipped and somewhat dust soiled). N.Y.: Robert McBride & Co., 1927. First trade edition. Fine.

GREFE, Will. CABELL, James Branch. The Eagle's Shadow. Illustrated by Will Grefe, Decorated by Blanche Ostertag. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. Bruccoli and Clark II, p. 61. A very good copy.

(VIRGINIA). (LYNCHBURG). [CABELL, Margaret C.]. Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg. By the Oldest Inhabitant. Richmond: C.H. Wynee, 1858. 1st ed. 363 pp. Orig. cloth. Cloth rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, bottom 1/4 missing from front free end paper, scattered foxing, else a very good copy. HOWES C-3.

1889. CABLE, George W. Strange True Stories of Louisiana. Orig. cloth. Illustrated. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1889. First edition. BAL 2350. A very good copy.

1881. CABLE, George W. Madame Delphine. Original pictorial cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. $850.00 First edition of the author's third American book. BAL 2333. Wright III: 870. Presentation inscription from the author on ?-title: "To Eugene Field, the warmest wishes of G. W. Cable." With Field's bookplate on the front pastedown and his ownership signature ("Eugene Field, 1892") on the front free endpaper. Cloth slightly rubbed, else very good.

1902. YOHN, F.C.. CABLE, George W. Bylow Hill. With Illustrations in Color by F.C. Yohn. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1902. First edition. BAL 2371. A very good copy.

1880. CABLE, George W. The Grandissimes. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1880. First edition of Cable's second book. BAL 2331. Wright III, 868. A very good copy.

1901. CABLE, George W. The Cavalier. With Illustrations by Howard C. Christy. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1901. First edition. BAL 2368. Near fine.

1894. CABLE, George W. John March, Southerner. Original cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First edition. BAL 2361, state 2 with 3 blank leaves at rear. Wright III: 869.Presentation inscription from the author on verso of front free endpaper, "The Portrait of a Period. Yours truly, G. W Cable, Northampton, Mass., 1919." A very good or better copy.

1899. CABLE, George W. The Cable Story Book: Selections for School Reading. Edited by Mary E. Burt and Lucy Leffingwell Cable. Original pictorial cloth, housed in custom navy morocco-backed cloth slipcase, inner cloth chemise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition. BAL 2366. Presentation inscription from the author and editor on front free endpaper, "Dear Mrs. Haggin, With compliments of the author & editors. That is dear Mary Burt's handwriting up there, and I am eve Yours truly, G. W. Cable, N. Orleans, 1906. (First edition)." Spine ends and corners very slightly rubbed, else very good or better.

1914. CABLE, George W. The Amateur Garden. Original cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition. BAL 2382. Essays on gardening. Light rubbing to rear top corner, else very good or better.

1881. CABLE, George W. Madame Delphine. Orig. decorated cloth. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. First American edition. BAL 2333. Wright III, 870. A fine copy.

1884. CABLE, George W. The Creoles of Louisiana. Original decorated cloth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. First edition. BAL 2338. An ethnographic study. Spine lightly sunned, else very good or better.