Search Results: Authors starting with C from Richard Beaton

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1924]. Publisher's remainder binding: maroon cloth, with blindstamped borders on boards, and art-nouveau flower designs on spine, lettered in gilt. Lettering on spine oxidised, otherwise very good. Semi-humorous crime novel (listed in Hubin). Chuck Summers pursues clues to the disappearance of William Goodenough, through Australa and the Far East. Cable/Ewart wrote two crime novels and a collection of short stories (his best known works relate his experiences in the trenches during the First World War). Publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1924 bound in at end..

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1890. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Frayed/nckied at head of spine, otherwise good..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original red-brown buckram, lettered in gilt on spine, black endpapers. Lightly sunned, stamp on blank prelim, a little foxing, good. 3 long stories: The Solitary, The Taxidermist & The Entomologist. Cable was a friend of Mark Twain, and wrote extensively of the American South, particularly Louisiana..

London.: Hutchinson & Co., 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. Twelfth Edition. Original fine-ribbed yellow cloth, lettered in brown and decorated in gilt; green flower-patterned endpapers. Corners bumped, spine a little dulled with tiny nicks to ends, small mark on rear board, undated signature on front free endpaper, inner joint papers chipped, but joints tight: good. A highly successful New Woman novel which shocked and titillated readers (dealing with such subjects as raising children without religion, and free love) and ran through multiple editions in the year it was published..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Later style Piccadilly binding: royal blue clot; raised design of trees on top right of front board, lettered in gilt. A little foxing, otherwise very good. Caine's second novel: a melodrama set largely in the Lake District. Publisher's catalogue for March 1901 bound in at end..

London: Mills & Boon, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1916]. Original blue cloth, lettered in black on spine. Lightly scuffed on extremities, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. A collection of fantastical short stories, including characters from the commedia dell'arte, talking babies and fairies..

Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., 1872. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original green cloth. Later endpapers. Spine tips worn, erased notes/names on endpapers, bookplate of John Charrington of Shenley on front pastedown: a fair copy..

London: F. V. White & Co., 1887. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in binder's cloth, lettered in gilt. Cloth sunned to brown tiny chip at head of spine: a good reading copy..

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt: dark green endpapers. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, Note ("First Edition") on verso of front free endpaper, very good..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint [ie Second Edition]. Original blue cloth, with decorative blindstamped bands across boards and author's initials in gilt on front board. Light scuffing, signature in pencil on front free endpaper, very good. One of Carey's last novels..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Original blue cloth, with decorative blindstamped bands across boards and author's initials in gilt on front board. Light scuffing, signature (1928) on front free endpaper, very good. One of Carey's last novels..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original blue cloth with blindstamped and gilt borders on front board; black endpapers. Corners rubbed, a few light marks, trace of label on rear board, plain white label for Fasque (stained) on front board, good. Wolff [1133]. From the library of Fasque, the family home of the Gladstone family. Publisher's catalogue dated September 1889 at end. The British Library has this title listed as by Katherine OSBORNE, the Duchess of Leeds, who issued a collection of short stories entitled Cappriccios (using her title) in 1899. Possibly "Carmarthen" is a pseudonym..

Boston (Mass): Little, Brown & Co., 1891. Book. Illus. by Frank T. Merrill. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Original two-tone cloth: boards white with cameo of woman's head in white, pink and gilt; spine brown, lettered in gilt. A little marking on cloth, otherwise very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Mrs Frank D. Allen with the kind regards of the author E. J. Carpenter, May 1894..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Illustrated. Original red cloth, decorated in gilt and lettered in black. A few light marks, foxing on endpapers, otherwise clean, tight, very good. A collection of humorous tall stories. Jones has done everything: from surviving local cyclones to reaching the North Pole..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated first edition (1920). Original blindstamped pink cloth. faintly sunned on spine, front endpaper tipped in, some browning on prelims, inscription (Xmas, 1920) on front pastedown good..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated first edition [1922]. Original green cloth, with blindstamped frame on front board., lettered in black on spine. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, otherwise very good. A collection of 6 linked short stories (The Castle of a Thousand Shocks) and a further 6 independent stories. Publisher's catalogue for Spring 1922 bound in at end..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. Book. Illus. by F. H. Townsend. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Impression. Original blue cloth, decoratively blocked and lettered in gilt. A little light scuffing, undated signature on front free endpaper, a few faint foxing spots, otherwise very good.

London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Frontispiece (in colour). Original green cloth with title (in gilt) on white background on spine. Small chips to corner of white on spine, otherwise very good. One of a series of title issued in the same format by Nelson in 1910: the white on the spine rarely survives..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original blue cloth, decoratively blocked and lettered in gilt. A little light scuffing, signature (1919) on front free endpaper, a few faint foxing spots, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), good..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1922]. Original pinky-lilac cloth, lettered in black on spine. Spine sunned. Corners bumped, a few light marks on bubble to cloth at head of front board, undated inscription on front free endpaper, good. One of the last of the Castles's books (Egerton died in 1920, Agnes in 1922). A collection of short stories, mainly with contemporary settings, although a couple are in the writers' familiar historical mode. Publisher's catalogue for 1922 bound in at end, announcing this title as forthcoming..