Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Curiosity Book Shop

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1926, 1926 Very Good/No Jacket. Red cloth, gilt title and spine. Early reprint. Light-to-moderate rubbing to extremities and boards. Prior owner name front endpaper; four small military library inkstamps to title page; no other library marks. Clean and tight.

Color illustrated paper-covered boards. With misspelled title on title page (Cam Fire Girls), no indication of publisher, place, or year, this volume appears to be a cheap bootleg reprint circa 1920, around the same year of the original Whitman printing. Also, there are supposed to be one frontispiece (present) and 4 text illustrations; although the 4 text illustrations are listed with page numbers in the front of the book, two of the drawings are not present, with text only on the indicated pages. Otherwise the story appears to be complete, and binding is intact with no missing pages. Illustrated book advertisement endpapers. Heavy bumping andwear to cronersand spine ends. Some moderate discoloration of half of rear board; light scuffing to boards. Text pages age-browned but clean and unworn.

Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1968 Staple-bound blue card; 40 pages. Includes "An Account of the Fight at Carrizal by a Survivor." One of only 250 copies, Limited Letterpress Edition, with note on copyright page stating "only one edition of this book has been printed, after which the type was melted." INSCRIBED/SIGNED by author at upper title page. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings, including one map drawing, and reproduction black-and-white photographs. Very faint cover edgewear. Clean and intact.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1948 Brown cloth. "The campaign ending at Princeton on January 3, 1777 [a critical nine-day period] was "the feat that turned the scale" and set the smoldering fires of the Revolution flaming throughout the Colonies." Light-to-moderate rubbing to corners and spine tips. Clean and tight in a moderately edgeworn dust jacket, with most wear (small chips and closed tears) along upper front panel.

Ottawa: Commission of Conservation, 1913 Cloth. Fair+/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-Bearing Animals. With maps and plates. Moderate-to-heavy wear of cover extremities. With bookplates, stamps, card pocket, etc. Binding shaken and loose; lower rear hinge starting to give way; one map detached; otherwise intact. Some ink brackets and underlining pp. 8-10; otherwise clean.

Agincourt, Ontario: Methuen Publications, 1977 Good+. Third edition. Cover moderately edgeworn and rubbed. Prior owner name half-title page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Toronto: Canadian Nature Magazine, 1947 Very Good. Staple-bound; 64 pages. Third edition. Seventy-five typical birds in 15 habitat groupings, with seventy-five pen and ink drawings by Shorrt; four pages of bird studies by Arthur Nelles; eighty-five black-and-white photographs by Eric Hosking, Hugh Halliday, W. Bryant Tyrrell and others. With one-page article entitled "The Double Conservation of Bird and Plant Life," New England Wild Flower Preservation Society, Inc., 1932, laid-in. Light browning to spine and front cover margins. Prior owner inscription inside front cover. Otherwise clean and intact.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929 Later printing; previous copyrights 1921, 1922. Riverside Library edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Politically-incorrect firsthand account of Osa and Martin Johnson's South Seas encounters with noble savages, monkey people, painted savages, head-hunters, and cannibals. Art-deco style red-on-black dust jacket by J. Perkins features stylized drawing of native head in profile. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Prior owner inscription on front endpaper. Small red inkspot to front andpaper near fore edge has blotted from red dust jacket flap. Otherwise clean and tight. Light water spotting to front and rear panels of dust jacket, but no other indication of water damage; no odor. Light-to-moderate edgewear to jacket extremities. Red coloring gone from spine due to sunning. Irregular 2" x 1/2" scar of unknown origin to center of front panel alongside illustration, showing pale spot. Few careless pressure marks to front… Read More

New York: Arco Publishing Company Inc., 1976 Very Good/Very Good - Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Very light wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Clean and tight.

Greenwich, Connecticut: The Seabury Press, 1955 Cloth. About the office and work of bishops, along with historical background. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SIGNED by author on free front endpaper.

Worcester, Massachusetts: Sanford and Davis, 1889 Original blue cloth; gilt spine; top edge gilt. Fourth edition; first in book form. Previously published in numbers in the "Worcester Palladium" of 1855; by request reprinted in that paper 1857-1858, and again in 1874. Frontispiece engraving by J.W. Barber represents a view of the north entrance to the village of Worcester in 1839. Historical accounts of early Worcester, a joint production of newspaper founder and editor Knowlton and writer Wheelock. Inscription on front endpaper from "E.O.P.L." to Francis H. Lee. Lee lived in Salem, Massachusetts and for a time was Curator of Numismatics at the Essex Institute. He seems to have been active in local historical affairs. Light-to-moderate rubbing of cover extremities. Clean and tight.

Rockland, Maine: The Courier-Gazette, 1972 Fictional but realistic account ("Maine as it used to be") of the son of a Maine farmer who becomes the "Man Who Dares" and Governor of his state. Dust jacket moderately-to-heavily rubbed and moderately edgeworn, with 2" x 1/2" chip at upper front panel; now protected in mylar.

New York: The New York Book Company, 1910 Good-/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Pictorial cloth; simple black and white decorative endpapers; with single frontis drawing. Reprint. One-page Alger biography/bibliography adjacent to first page of text. Cover extremities moderately-to-heavily rubbed; moderate cover stains. Front endpapers scarred at lower portion near hinge, having been stuck together, then pullled apart. Otherwise clean and intact with age-browned text.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1908 Dark blue, geometric-patterned cloth; decorated paper pastedown title and spine label. With black-and-white frontispiece illustration. A series of month-by-month quotations and sayings, each with decorative eagle/flag/grain stalk/stars margin in blue and month names in red ink. Rice (1859-1939) was a lawyer and lecturer who favored patriotic subjects. Spine moderately sunned. Prior owner names and inscription on front endpaper. Clean and tight.

St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1910 Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fourth edition; original copyright 1898. "A work equally useful to the Clergy, Religious Communities, and Faithful." "Translated and adapted to the wants of the American public" by Thein of the Diocese of Cleveland. Moderate-to-heavy wear at head and tail of spine. Hinges broken and carefully glue-repaired/reinforced; binding shaken but intact. Blank front endpaper missing. Prior owner name upper title page. Text clean and solid.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co. Ltd. Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One hundred photographic plates. No date; circa 1925. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; light-to-moderate cover smudges. Prior owner name at upper front endpaper; interior otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1952 Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. The author states that he has tried to use the dispute between Tito and Stalin to "illuminate the motives and intentions of the Soviet rulers." Cover extremities and spine lettering lightly rubbed. Dust jacket worn at extremities , moderately discolored, and with single 1" closed tear at bottom front panel. Otherwise clean and tight.

Ames, Iowa: Championship Books, 1980 Very Good. With each of 60 pages devoted to one coach and drill, with the coach's black-and-white photograph, the name and description of the drill, and sometimes accompanied by a diagram.

Ames, Iowa: Championship Books, 1980 Very Good. With a page devoted to each of 60 different coaches and drills, with a black-and-white photograph, name of drill, and description of drill, sometimes with a diagram.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933 Blue moire cloth. Romantic novel set in Boston. Moderate wear to cover extremities, with two minute tears at head of spine; short, faint scrapes to cloth at front cover fore edge and tail of spine. Bookplate inside front cover with corresponding shadow to front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight.