Search Results: Titles starting with C from pacaritambo books

Montana: Falcon Press, 1993. 1st Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Constance Rummel Bergum color illus.. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1993 Falcon Press large soft cover. Beautiful color illustrations by Constance Bergum. Problem: After 27 years, the binding for the first few pages is a bit loose -not bad, but there. CONTENT: All of the important animals, economies, and activities for which Colorado is known are here in this book, i.e., 4 Corners, Pika, skiing, oil and gold. The back pages present an alphabet of Colorado history and additional animals. Lovely.

Pelican, 1997. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/New. James Rice. Gently pre-read OR perused on shelf, 1997 Pelican hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 4th printing. Bright, humorous color illustrations by the Author. Gaston, the hero alligator of "Cajun Night Before Christmas," decides to enter college but he can't find a football uniform that fits, so he decides to learn to read by getting this book of ABCs of Cajun culture. Adorable and informative. Such a deal!

Mexico: Calendario Maya, 1998. 3rd Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Vivid color drawings from the Codex. CONDITION: UNREAD c. 1998+ Calendario Maya (Mexico) hardcover (made to look and feel like a stone tablet), third edition. No DJ issued. Packaged in a burlap bag. Vivid color drawings from the Codex. CONTENT: Based on the Popol Vuh, this book is excellent for older kids or adults. The book unfolds like a Codex. The cover is "aged" a bit to appear old. The colorful illustrations are from Codex figures. Explores Maya numbering system, the Long Count, The Lord of the Night, Tsolkin, Haab, Calendar Round, Reading Stela, and how to make your own personal Stela. Wonderful for home schooling. Not good for a library - too many "parts" could be lost.

Houghton Mifflin, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Various artists color photos & maps. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Houghton Mifflin hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 2nd printing. Wonderful color photos by various artists plus a few color maps. Well, at least we have books about Pandas left. CONTENT: Robert F. Sibert Honor Award winner. "Complementing Thimmesh's thoughtful, engagingly written text are many arrestingly adorable color photographs of pandas in training and in the wild. A timely, uplifting story." From the Sibert medal-winning author of Team Moon and the bestselling Girls Think of Everything comes a riveting, timely account of panda conservation efforts in China, perfect for budding environmentalists and activists. Roughly a thousand years ago, an estimated 23,000 pandas roamed wild and free through their native China. But within the past forty years, more than fifty percent of the panda's already shrinking habitat has been destroyed by humans, leaving… Read More

Blue & Gray Press, 1984. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 2 B&W era photo sections. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1984-5 Blue & Gray Press large hardcover & dust jacket (in mylar cover), assumed first edition, no printing given. Problem: light tanning to dust jacket edges as well as some light edge wear to top DJ edge. Two B&W era photos sections. As to the publishing date, the only date is 1984. Questions welcome & answered.

Walker & Company, 2005. 1st Edition 7th printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Ptrick O'Brien color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2005 Walker hardcover (pictorial boards), but . . NO DUST JACKET, first edition, 7th printing. Great, detailed color illustrations by Patrick O'Brien. Decorated end pages. Space will never be the same! CONTENT: The planet Jurassica is in an uproar. An unidentified flying object has crashed into the mysterious moon of Eon. This looks like a job for ... CAPTAIN RAPTOR! ... hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justice, and dinosaurs in space throughout the galaxy! If anyone can solve the terrible moon mystery, it's Captain Raptor and his fearless crew! [Absolutely guaranteed to be weird! A trip!]

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: New 2019 Grand Central hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. DJ is practically covered in gold foil animals - really beautiful. No illustrations. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: Miami Beach, a white sand paradise with a history of violence, is an inspired choice of location for Thomas Harris' harrowing new novel of greed and survival: Cari Mora. Somewhere in a mansion on Biscayne Bay there rests a thousand pounds of cartel gold that Pablo Escobar, now dead, will never retrieve. Hans-Peter Schneider-the new face in our nightmares from the man who gave us Hannibal Lecter-has plans to steal the gold but he's not the only one looking for it. Cari Mora is the young caretaker of the Escobar mansion, and Hans-Peter has plans for her too; plans that involve his primary occupation as a flesh peddler of the most disturbing sort,… Read More

Macmillan, 1987. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Dennis Nolan B&W illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1987 Macmillan hardcover (gray boards with embossed griffin) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 3rd printing. The DJ is in a pink/red metallic material and does show a bit of edge wear - not bad, but there. Interior is clean and tight. Wonderful B&W illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: A young boy fills his bucket with wet sand to build a sandcastle. Soon the walls are raised and towers reach toward the sky. Carefully placing his little toy inside the castle gate, he becomes Sir Christopher, builder of castles who tames a roaring dragon and battles the ship of the Black Knights, driving it back to the sea. But one thing goes awry with the boy's special creation: he cannot order the waves to stop pounding on the castle walls. What's left is nothing but a day's dreaming on the sandy beach, and the boy vows to try again tomorrow. Nolan's poetic… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Susan Schmitt cover photos. CONDITION: NEW 2018 St. Martin's Press small hardcover (baby blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: OK, who hasn't dreamed of waking up as the family cat? "When she awoke as a cat, Dolores Tremayne saw no immediate advantage in having four paws instead of two arms and two legs." A brilliant, funny novel of love, marriage and modern life. When the cat's away, the mice will play - but who will oversee the cat? When Dolores Tremayne, a successful business executive, travels overseas, part of her remains mysteriously behind in X, the family's indoor cat. Through feline eyes, Dolores witnesses the shocking behavior of her errant husband, the stalled novelist Gerald Tremayne. Far away in Germany, the human Dolores is conducting high-powered negotiations with a prestigious auto-maker, but back at home, her husband's… Read More

Scholastic Pess, 2005. 1st Edition 5th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Wendy Watson color illustrations. CONDITION: WHAT makes this book "As New" - blank bookplate inside front cover. That's it; that's all. UNREAD/ AS NEW 2004 Scholastic Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 1st printing. Stark color illustrations by Wendy Watson. Excellent Historical Note on the Warrsaw Ghetto of WW II. CONTENT: Set in Warsaw in 1942, this picture book brings to life a little-known incident of Jewish resistance. A young girl who has escaped the Ghetto lives with her older sister who, with friends, plans to smuggle food to those still there. Somehow the Gestapo has heard of the plan and has designs of its own - dogs to sniff out the bundles of food arriving with the resisters on a train. With quick thinking, the friends gather all of the cats living in Krasinski Square into baskets and head for the station. Just as the train pulls in, the felines are let… Read More

Penguin Books, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Penguin Books small paperback, first edition, first printing. NO illustrations. CONTENT: An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our feline companions from Charles Dickens, Anne Frank, Raymond Chandler, Elizabeth Taylor, and more, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. Florence Nightingale sends care instructions to the woman who has just adopted her angora tomcat Mr. White. T. S. Eliot issues a rhyming birthday party invitation to all Jellicle cats for his four-year-old godson. Jack Kerouac's mother grieves at the death of the family cat. Jack Lemmon winkingly suggests to Walter Matthau that they go in on a cat ranch in Mexico. This utterly charming collection offers a warm and friendly look at the place that cats occupy in our hearts and lives. These thirty letters capture the profound delight of having or observing a cat, and they reveal a… Read More

Willow Creek Press, 2003. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. Tom Bloom color illustrations/color photos. CONDITION: NEW 2003 Willow Creek Press hardcover, first edition, printing unknown. Color illustrations by Tom Bloom. Color photos. published in another form in 1997. CONTENT: Stretch out in the sun. Demonstrate your independence; disappear for a couple of hours each day. Above all, pounce on what you want with all your passion. Filled with the wisdom of our feline friends and rich with witty illustrations and photographs, this delightful sequel to Dog-Mas points the way to the good life--nine times over. Purrfect for any cat lover, Cate-Chisms offers thought-provoking mew-sings, sparkling cat-signs, and the sage advice of Emily Scratching-Post and Dr. Joyce Whiskers--all the wisdom you need to land on your feet, not your head. Remember, the world is your catnip toy! Pounce on it with all your passion.

Harcourt, Inc., 2002. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Edward Gorey (Rediscovered & Illustrated by). CONDITION: NEW/UNREAD 2002 Harcourt hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, second printing. B&W illustrations by Edward Gorey. Tiny tiny edge wear at top folds of DJ. CONTENT: For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance. Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward Gorey, these short, funny pieces offer moral instruction for all types of mischief makers-from a certain young Jim, "who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion," to the tale of Matilda, "who told lies and was burned to death"-and add up to a delightful read for any fan of Roald Dahl or Shel Silverstein. Other stories: Henry King: Who chewed bits of string, and was nearly cut off in Dreadful Agonies;… Read More

Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: NEW 1988 Douglas & McIntyre hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. Fantastic archaeological/travel book off the beaten path of the Silk Road. Some things, of course, have changed since the publication of this book, but history changes daily. This is an opportunity to see archaeology up close on day 1.

History Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photos, maps, and color photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2013 History Press trade paperback, first edition. Problem: top back cover panel corner shows a crease which also creased 4 page corners as well. Not horrible, but there. The book is loaded with B&W pictures, maps, charts and there is also a nice color photo section. CONTENT: Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: a study of the sites where these early Christians lived and worked. Archeology, combined with early inscriptions and texts, offers us important clues which help us to piece together something of the fascinating world of early Irish Christianity. The book is illustrated with the author's own evocative photographs of where each saint lived and worked, drawing readers into the beautiful world which these men and women… Read More

TOR, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Fred Gambino cover art. CONDITION: NEW 2019 TOR trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Fred Gambino cover art. CONTENT: Williams continues the Universe After series with A Chain Across the Dawn, an epic space opera chase across the galaxy with witty banter, fantastical planets, and a seemingly unbeatable foe. It's been three years since Esa left her backwater planet to join the ranks of the Justified. Together, she and fellow agent Jane Kamali have been traveling across the known universe, searching for children who share Esa's supernatural gifts. On a visit to a particularly remote planet, they learn that they're not the only ones searching for gifted children. They find themselves on the tail of a mysterious being with impossible powers who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the very children that Esa and Jane are trying to save. With their latest recruit in tow?a young Wulf boy named Sho?Esa and Jane must track… Read More

Israel: Keren Grinaspoon Israel, 2015. 1st Hebrew Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Orit Bergman. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Keren Grinspoon Israel paperback, I believe first Hebrew paperback edition. Beautiful color illustrations by Orit Bergman. THIS IS NOT A BILINGUAL EDITION - all Hebrew. CONTENT: Noah and his family work hard to keep all the animals on the ark happy and well-fed. They find just the right food for every creature-except for the two chameleons. These picky eaters won't eat anything! Noah is worried! What will tempt these two? It is not until the ark's food supply is suddenly threatened, that Noah gets a surprising answer-and discovers that even the SMALLEST creatures have a BIG role to play in nature! Perfect for Hebrew school libraries.

Nancy Paulsen/PJ Library, 2016. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Orit Bergman. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Nancy Paulsen/PJ Library large paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Beautiful, charming color illustrations by Orit Bergman. Translated from the Hebrew by Annette Appel. CONTENT: Striking folk-art-style paintings illustrate this charming tale about the purpose of every creature and the harmony of nature. Noah and his family work hard to keep all the animals on the ark happy and well-fed. They find just the right food for every creature-except for the two chameleons. These picky eaters won't eat anything! Noah is worried! What will tempt these two? It is not until the ark's food supply is suddenly threatened, that Noah gets a surprising answer-and discovers that even the SMALLEST creatures have a BIG role to play in nature!

Kensington, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Kensington hardcover (brown boards) and dust jacket (embossed title), first edition, 2nd printing. CONTENT: Based on true events in pre- Civil War America, CSA. Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves-and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband's daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel's death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels… Read More

Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Paul Mann cover art painting. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Hard Case Crime/Titan Books trade paperback, first PB edition, printing unknown. Wonderful Paul Mann cover art painting. CONTENT: A sharp and funny tale of a daring art heist gone wrong-inspired by the same real-life, still-unsolved crime depicted in the Netflix hit series "This Is A Robbery." A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot, involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan - and thirty years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters. A… Read More