Search Results: Titles starting with C from Flamingo Books

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, 1928-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1930 Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. (St. Louis, Missouri), 6 7/8 x 10 inches tall stapled paperbound in full color covers, printed with red border accents, copiously illustrated with period black-and-white photographs throughout, 47 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with light ink marks and creasing to the front cover. Inside, apart from a few creased page tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce California tourism brochure produced by a railroad anxious to increase its ridership to the far west. ~HH~ Contents: The Sunshine Route Through Texas-Southern California; The Scenic Route Through Colorado and Utah; Golden California; San Francisco; Yosemite; Southern California; The Mission Play; San Diego; Scenic Attractions of Southern California; Carriso Gorge; Mt. Rubidoux; Recreation and Resorts; Sports; Fishing and Hunting; Santa Catalina Island; Hollywood; Pageants and Fiestas; Healthful… Read More

John Mann. Very Good. 1834 first edition, John Mann (Dover, New Hampshire), 4 1/2 x 7 inches tall stitched pamphlet in wraps, 64 pp. Moderate foxing and slight creasing and edgewear to covers. Contemporary prior owner name to top margin of front cover. Inside, light to moderate foxing throughout, and very slight creasing to a few tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and unmarked - of this scarce tract. OCLC (No. 39237446) locates only seven copies at institutions worldwide - one at the British Library in London and the other six in prominent New England collections, including Harvard, Yale, Boston Athenaeum and libraries in Portland, Maine. Standard shipping orders upgraded free to First Class. ~I~ [0.5P] An early tract by Unitarian minister Jason Whitman (1799-1848). After his graduation from Harvard in 1825, Whitman studied theology at Cambridge and was ordained in 1830. After an initial post as pastor in Saco, Maine, he served as general secretary of the American Unitarian Association in… Read More

Am.Mus.N.H.Bul.87, 1946-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1946 First edition, American Museum of Natural History (NY) 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches tall soft bound in blue wraps, paginated 139-2165, with 1 text-figure and 10 plates. Prior owner stamp of Texas Geologist Gayle Scott (1894-1948) to front cover and half title page. Covers mildly soiled and sun-faded to spine. Damp-staining to top of front cover, half title and title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked.~~SP07~~

Le grand Hôtel Paris, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. In French. 1990 Grand Hotel (Paris), 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches tall green faux leather hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, cream pattern endpapers, copiously illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and drawings, 255 pp. Prior owner emboss stamp to upper corner of the first two blank front free-endpapers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~A~ [5.0P] 'From the Second Empire to the Present Day - 130 Years of Parisian Life.' The Cafe de la Paix is a famous cafe located on the northwest corner of the intersection of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l'Opera, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed in the Napoleon III style by the architect Alfred Armand, who also designed the… Read More

L. Corkill, 1988. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 1988 L. Corkill (Dallas, Texas), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound in orange printed covers and brown cloth tape spine, illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and map, [6], 194 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a small ink notation to the upper margin of the front cover. Underlining and marginal marks to three of the index pages. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon genealogy. ~Z~ [2.0P] Family history of Robert Cain (1791-1868), son of Bailey Cain and Catherine Rodgers. He was born in Fauquier Co., Virginia and died in Platte Co., Missouri. He married (1) Jane Burnett (1797-1849), daughter of James Burnett and his third wife, Margaret Robinson, in Shelby Co., Kentucky, 1813; (2) Jane's niece, Elizabeth Ann (Burnett) May (1813-1885) in Clay Co., Missouri 1849. Elizabeth Ann was a daughter of George Burnett and Dorothy Hardeman, born in Nashville, Tennessee, died in Colusa Co.,… Read More

FriesenPress. Very Good. 2013 first edition FriesenPress (Victoria, Canada), 6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, vii, 321 pp. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Scarce; OCLC (No. 899742720) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide - one in Cairo, and one in The Netherlands. ~SP05~ [2.0P] Three 20th century Egyptian leaders - Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak - shaped today's Egypt, but their regimes left much to be desired politically, socially, and economically. In 2011, the January 25 Revolution promised a better future, calling for 'Bread, Freedom, and Social Justice.' Cairo Rewind 2011-2013 recounts the events of the revolution against the Mubarak regime and the cataclysms that followed. Through the eyes of Egyptian-born Azza Sedky, the book recaptures the day-to-day excitement, and… Read More

Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2012-06-04. Hardcover. Very Good. 2012 Pan Stanford Publishing (Singapore, Malaysia), 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall x 2 inches thick pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams, xv, 853 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers, with mild bumping to front cover along spine. Very slight soiling to fore page edges. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~WWW~ [3.5P] Due to a great chemical similarity with the biological calcified tissues, many calcium orthophosphates possess remarkable biocompatibility and bioactivity. Materials scientists use this property extensively to construct artificial bone grafts that are either entirely made of or only surface-coated with the biologically relevant calcium orthophosphates. Porous scaffolds made of calcium orthophosphates are very… Read More

Clarendon Press, 1992-02-13. Hardcover. Very Good. 2002 reprint, Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall glossy hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), 387 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP40~ [2.0P] Volume 2 of the two-volume correspondence of English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist Richard Baxter (1650-1691), an unusually rich source of evidence for seventeenth-century history, particularly the period's involved ecclesiastical history and its intellectual, cultural, and bibliographical tastes. Volume 2 covers the period 1660-1696, with all the extant correspondence to and from Baxter.

Raven Press, 1983-01-01. Very Good. 1983 First edition, Raven Press (Lake Oswego, Oregon) issue, iv, 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches tall. Stapled pamphlet in bright yellow wraps with dark green lettering and design of the state of California to front cover, Moderate creasing to front and rear covers and some creasing to first few pages and last few pages. Otherwise a clean, bright, unmarked copy. Doane cancellations in California, three different types and the variations for the standards. ~HH~

St Martins Pr, 1987-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1987 signed and inscribed first edition, a presentation copy, St. Martin's Press (NY), 5 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches tall black cloth hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, [10], 261 pp. plus author's bio. Bump to upper edge of front board. Slight rubbing to covers. Signed by the author and inscribed to his friend and collaborator Ross White on the Acknowledgements page, where White is named. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP35~ Author Arthur Hansl (1931 - 2013) spent the first half of his working life as an actor, first working in the 1960s in Italy making action movies filmed on exotic locations around Europe, behind the Iron Curtain and in North Africa. In the 70s he made a dozen action movies in Mexico, often shot on the brink of a natural or man-made disaster. After a brief stint in the U.S. on the daytime… Read More

Atheneum, 1966. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 1966 first edition thus Atheneum (New York), rebound in 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches tall full burgundy leather bound, embossed gilt ruling and design to front cover, six raised bands and gilt design and lettering to spine, x, 465 pp. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Japanese tissue reinforcement to gutter of title page. Otherwise, apart from a couple of pages with slight creasing or marginal soiling, a very good copy, giving a gorgeous shelf appearance in a magnificent custom leather binding. ~SP30~ [2.0P] Writing from long experience as a merchant sailor himself, Jan de Hartog (1914-2002) combines a delightfully dry sense of humor with a deep knowledge and respect for the sea and for those who earn their living there. De Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. When he was 10 year old, de Hartog ran away to become a cabin boy on board a Dutch fishing boat.… Read More

The Art Lithographic Publishing Co, 1893-01-01. Paperback. Good. No date, but circa 1900, The Art Lithographic Publishing Co. (NY), 4 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches high softbound with illustrated heavy card covers. Prior owner's name and date to title page. 31 days of poetry copiously illustrated in back and white and color by Murray. Covers are rubbed, soiled and worn. Otherwise, in very good condition. ~H~

Cameron Family History Committee, 1985-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1965-1985 Cameron Family History Committee (n.p.), two 5 x 9 inches tall stapled paperbound volumes, consecutively numbered pages, index to both volumes at the rear of Volume 2, 122 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers of both volumes. A retired library set, with abrasions to the covers where labels were removed, and labels, stamps and accession marks to the first and last pages of each volume. Otherwise, a very good set - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon genealogy. OCLC (No. 21311171, 18695171) locates only four copies at institutions worldwide. ~SP15~ [1.5P] Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the known descendants of William Cameron Sr. (1764-1822), who immigrated in 1782 from Scotland to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, married Jane Linton in 1788, and moved in 1810 to Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas,… Read More

Eleanor Mae Stewart (San Diego), 1966-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1966 red hardbound Master's Thesis 'Camoens' Lusiads as a Virgilian Epic' 120pp., 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall red hardbound, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Typewritten copy, ruled, on watermarked paper. Front and rear pastedowns and free end-pages are stained/foxing and light staining to edges of pages to right side. Otherwise, a clean, bright and unmarked resource. ~~L~~ This thesis examines the extent of Camoens' indebtedness to Virgil's Aeneid in his Lusiads, in order to arrive at a better individual appreciation of each poem, and particularly of The Lusiads as a Virgilian reflective epic.

American Philatelic Society, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1971 American Philatelic Society (State College, PA), iv, 85 pp., 7 x 10 inches tall green cloth hardbound with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Front cover has a tiny bump by spine and spine tips have been bumped. Small stain to fore page edges. A.P.S. Philatelic handbooks is another volume in the continuing series. Otherwise, a clean, bright, unmarked copy of this scarce and useful reference, filled with illustrations. ~HH~

Memoria Press, 2014-01-01. Paperback. Like New. 2013 first edition, Memoria Press (Louisville, Kentucky), 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches tall paperbound, 136 pp. A very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. [d4] ~OO~ [1.5P] The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The Upper School literature study guides (Grades 8-12) continue in the tradition of training students to read actively, but have been expanded and developed to lead students through a four-stage Trivium based continuum to the acquisition and expression of the Central One Idea of a story or poem. The students are guided to read and think through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages towards the essence of a story: the central proposition that gives the story its ultimate meaning and expression. The Upper School guides require students to think in increasingly rigorous and complex ways, to make connections from the particular… Read More

Algrove Publishing, 2004-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2004 reprint, Algrove Publishing Ltd. (Almonte, Canada), 8 3/4 x 12 inches tall stapled paperbound in pale green pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with 1913 photographs and drawings, [4], 68 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~YYY~ [1.0P] Much of the Mission-style furniture found in antique shops today was made in the factories of the Come-Packt Company. They sold it both fully assembled and in the knock-down form. This 1913 catalog is a marvelous guide to the extensive range of a furniture style widely available in the market of a century ago. Includes chairs, settees, couches, tables, desks, bookcases, dining room furniture, bedroom furniture, and many smaller items such as umbrella stands, mirrors, and taborets.

Israel-American Coin Co. Good. 1966 Israel-American Coin Company (Cliffside Park, New Jersey), 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in blue and white covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white images of coins and currency, 56 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Prior owner name and date to verso of front cover. Several entries with marginal pencil tick marks. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and bright - of this scarce coin and currency catalog, which includes 1966 values. ~III~

Illinois Watch Company / Manfred Trauring, 1970-01-01. Paperback. Good. Later reprint by Manfred Trauring of 1923 issue, Illinois Watch Company (Springfield, Illinois), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound in green printed covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white drawings - charts and diagrams and detailed lists of the most esoteric and obscure parts that make up the state-of-the-art watch of 1923 - [6], 98, [2] pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, apart from very slight creasing to a few page tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce catalogue. ~Q~ [1.0P] The Illinois Watch Company traces its history back to December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois, founded by two brothers who were among the closest friends and political allies of Illinois lawyer and statesman Abraham Lincoln. In 1880, the corporation manufactured 47,065 watch movements. By 1890 the concern had established corporate offices in Chicago, New York City,… Read More

Edizioni Tecnoscienza / Technoprint, 1989. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. In English and German. 1969-89 Edizioni Tecnoscienza / Technoprint (Rome, Italy) thirteen 8 7/8 x 11 3/8 inches tall x 2 inches thick blue cloth hardcover volumes, gilt lettering to front covers and spine, three-hole punch contents bound in with brass screws (to allow for updates), various paginations, apparently complete with all revisions through 1989. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Light staining to the spines of several volumes where a label was removed. Moderate edgewear or bumping to the covers of a couple of volumes. Slight to moderate foxing to front and rear prelims, especially in earliest volumes. Micropaleontogy consultant stamp to upper margin of title pages of most volumes. Two-inch paper tape repair to upper edge of title page of Volume 1. Occasional very slight marginal soiling or foxing to a page here and there, but otherwise a near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked - of this landmark… Read More