Search Results: Titles starting with C from Addyman Books

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., London n.d. (circa 1930s). Original buff boards, black to spine. B/w frontis and illustrations throughout. Extremities bumped and rubbed, spine browned. Boards soiled and upper paper to board slightly rucked. End pages browned and occasional foxing throughout o/w a clean copy. VG-.

Published by Authority of Hon. Clifford Sifton Minister of the Interior. Ottawa. No date (c.1905). First edition. No DW. A promotional handsomely produced book on Canada. Illuminated coloured title page with Canada's coat of arms. 16 tinted full page photographs, tinted b/w photos in text. Each page decorated in colour, many illuminated and photographs and drawings to each page. Original green cloth, rubbed and sl. spotted, silver text to upper board. Patterned endpapers, contents sl. shaken o/w near fine.

1862, 1868, 1899. . Chapman and Hall. London. Five Volumes bound in one. Small 8vo. Half maroon calf gilt, contrasting labels. Green boards, marbled page edges. Extremities of covers worn and slightly rubbed. Inner hinge slighty visible, occasional foxing and browning, some pencil bracketing to A Christmas Carol only, otherwise a clean and sound collection. A Christmas Carol is undated but circa 1868, The Chimes is 1868, The Cricket on the Hearth is undated, Little Dombey is 1862 and The Poor Traveller & Mrs. Gamp is 1869.

1986. Zed Books Ltd. London. 1986. First edition. Large format paperback. 428 pages. Spine lightly creased, pages browned otherwise a sound copy of a very scarce item.

Penguin Books, Inc. New York. 1946. Penguin Books. New York. 1946. First edition in Penguin, USA. Paperback. No. 595. Attractive covers, sunned with slight wear to edges. Two ownership inscriptions, one to contents page. Pages browned otherwise a sound copy.

C. Taylor. London. 1787. First edition thus. Small thick square 4to. Each section paginated separately. Each of the 80 engraved sepia portrait plates present, sculpted by Taylor, William Nutter, J. Ogborn and W. Birch using illustrations by Samuel Shelly and Robert Smirke, printed onto stipple engraved antique laid paper. Also contains 10 engraved picturesque landscapes bound at rear. 90 plates in all. Handsomely bound in full contemporary tree calf gilt, bds. sl. rubbed, expertly rebacked with original attractively decorated spine laid down, leather lettering piece, marbled e/ps. Armorial bookplate of Jane Houghton, dated 1807. Pages and plates lightly age browned o/w a very clean and sound copy of this work. It is very unusual to find this volume complete, bound from all the original parts. Over half of the known are defective and we are pleased to be able to present this scarce and unusual item.

1967. Hamish Hamilton, London. 1967. First Edition. Hardback in wrapper designed by Ralph Steadman. SIGNED presentation copy from the author "For Tom with all best wishes from the author - Freddie". Spine is slightly sunned and front endpaper is lightly creased o/w a nice clean copy in slightly soiled and browned wrapper.

The Technical Press Ltd., London. 1959. The Technical Press Ltd., London. 1959. Third printing. Hardback with DW. Illustrated and with black and white frontis. Ex library with stamps to end papers, within text and on title page. Large portions missing from a very shelf worn wrapper. Blue ink stain to upper and page edges.

1955. William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1955. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Black cloth. Ex-library copy with 'Boots' label to upper board. Boards are a little soiled and spine is dulled. Endpapers browned and some occasional very light foxing to o/w clean and sound contents.

William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1953. William Heinemann. 1953. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. SIGNED BY BOTH MAUGHAM AND SUTHERLAND, this being number 47. Bound in quarter vellum, blue cloth boards.Top edge gilt. Portrait frontis and decs by Sutherland. Four pages of facsimile pages from the original manuscript. Endpapers slightly browned. Slight marks to boards otherwise a clean and fresh copy in a slightly worn and spotted slipcase.

Pan Books. London. 1960. Pan Books. 1960. First edition in paperback. Pan No. G386. Spine lightly creased, pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy.

Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., London. n.d. (circa 1930).. Original blue boards, gilt to spine. B/w frontis and illustrations. Extremities bumped and a little rubbed with some scratching and soiling to boards. End pages browned, pages foxed o/w contents clean and sound. VG-.

Tempus Publishing ltd, Stroud. 2002. First edition. Large format slim paperback. 128pp. Illustrated. Spine very slightly sunned o/w Nr. fine.

1990. The Redlake Press, Clun, Shropshire. 1990. SIGNED Limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 210. Patterned paper covered boards, blue cloth backstrip. Slim square 8vo. Gathering is slightly loose to front inner hinge o/w a very clean copy.

1993. Little Brown, London. 1993. First edition thus. Hardback with DW. Colour and b&w illustrations. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Slight shelfwear to DW, which is price-clipped. o/w a clean and bright copy.

The Hogarth Press, London. 1968. Second Impression. D/W. Boards slightly worn at extremities. Wrapper slightly worn at extremities. 3cm tear to top edge of upper panel. pc. VG+/VG+. ISBN 701200227.

n.d. (c1940). W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. Not dated, c1940. Early Edition. Hardback. DW. Boards are slightly sunned with occasional light foxing to contents. Hinges a little loose with slight lean to spine. Generally a bright copy in worn wrapper with portions missing to head and tail of spine.

Charles C. Thomas, Illinois. 1964. First Edition. DW. Wrapper soiled with closed tear, extremities bumped and spine sunned. Boards sound and a nice clean copy. VG-/VG.

1972. John Long Edition. 1972. First Edition. DW. Tail of spine bumped. Contents clean, with no ownership inscriptions. Wrapper is a little soiled, and also rubbed and worn and has a couple of small closed tears to rear joint of spine. VG+/VG.

Bestseller Library. 1960. Bestseller Library. London. 1960. Paperback. Covers creased and worn and pages are browned otherwise a good clean copy.