Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Bookworm

New York:: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2008.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light gray boards with black at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Purple endpapers. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by David Frankland; jacket design by Jay Colvin. This was the author's first book, and the beginning book in a series. Card catalog description: ''Twelve year old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the prince of Bohemia took form her father, and is aided in her quest by Roma boy and his sister.''

Stanford, California:: Stanford University Press, January, 1945.. 6th Printing; Revised Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: tan and rust colored cloth; a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; the jacket is drastically price clipped.. small 4to (about 10.25 inches tall) . Appendix, references. Map endpapers. Description: Includes chapter Illustrations, numerous photographs, and a map. Originally published in 1940, the revised edition has been enlarged with new illustrations and a more complete account of the Market Street Cable Railway Company and the Sutter Street Cable Railroad Company. Foreword by Carl I Wheat.

New York:: Crown Publishers, 1980.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: orange boards with rust colored cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is faded at the spine, otherwise Very Good.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Hiroko. Suspense novel about a psychopathic killer of zoo animals. The jacket blurb states that the author ''has a degree in animal behavior from the University of California, Berkeley. In preparation for 'Caged', he has traveled extensively, visiting virtually every major zoo in the country.''

Pleasantville, New York:: ImPress / Reader's Digest, 2003.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series with semi-uniform bindings; green binding with white text and decoration; Fine condition.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Pale green endpapers. Description: Originally published in 1942, this edition is from the Reader's Digest reprint series, The Best Mysteries of All Time. The text is complete and unabridged. Includes an About the Author(s) note at the rear. This copy includes the publisher's insert.

Palo Alto, California:: American West Publishing Co, 1969.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: mustard color cloth; a Very Good; with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. The dust jacket is faded at the spine.. 8vo (9.75 inches tall) . Index, bibliography, appendices. Description: Well illustrated in black and white with maps, historic photographs and contemporary art -- over 100 illustrations. A vigorous, perceptive review of the California story.

Self Published, 1923.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: heavy paper covers (sort of like a paper version of pressboard); art on cover; one corner is creased; Good condition. The binding is center-stapled format, but the heavy covers are bound on over the stapled text block.. 12.25 inches tall by 9.25 inches wide . Description: Several black and white photo illustrations. The book represents an ode to the California redwood, but more an ode to redwood lumber than to the tree itself. Gives a bit on the natural history and distribution of the tree, and a few paragraphs covering logging history. This is followed by much on the properties and uses of the wood. The last portion of the book is devoted to the history of The Pacific Lumber Company. The text is printed with wide margins to allow for marginal headers. Written and designed by The H. K. McCann Company; printed by Wm. G Kreicker & Co.

Santa Ana, California:: Hillcrest Press, 2002.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with gilt text; the spine is slightly slanted; a Very Good book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. 4to (about 11.25 inches tall) . Index. Gray endpapers. Description: Features 303 color illustrations. In the one hundred and twenty year period between 1850 and 1970, California has been the home to a large number of extremely talented and versatile watercolor artists. While some became nationally recognized, most were largely overlooked until recent years. Rather than discussing California watercolors on a strictly chorological basis, the first three chapters of this book are divided into three sections dealing with different stylistic approaches -- traditional and modern realism, the California style, and abstract and non-objective watercolors. In the fourth chapter are 555 biographies of artists who produced watercolors in California during this period. Whenever possible the details of the artist's lives and… Read More

New York:: Random House, 1950.. Later printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover, the top edge tint is yellowish; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Illustrated endpapers. Description: Illustrated with drawings by Lynd Ward who also supplied the jacket and endpaper art (these not credited, but the style is clearly his). The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. May McNeer is the author of two other books in the Landmark series: The Alaska Gold Rush and War Chief of the Seminoles (both of these were also illustrated by her husband, Lynd Ward).

Chico, California:: Stansbury Publishing, 2017.. 1st Printing, Limited.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with gilt; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Notes, index. Description: Includes a few black and white illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Northern California's Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars. Using centuries old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, the Mountain Maidu tribelets' warriors, resisted settlers' seizures of their territories. Making a strategic shift, in 1887, they acquired bases in the neighboring Yahi's Deer Creek Canyon. They merged with renegades and Yahi fighters, called Mill Creeks, whose raids had terrified Maidu and Tehama County farmers through the mid-1850s. Meanwhile, quarrels between miners and farmers and with John Bidwell continued as Civil War loyalties undermined unity against the Indian raiders, now out of Deer Creek. In 1863, Bidwell urged the Interior… Read More

Berkeley, California:: University of California Press, 1982.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: bright red cloth with gilt spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Red endpapers. Description: Includes a few black and white illustrations. Author Neal Harlow recounts the efforts of president James Polk and his agents -- the timorous Sloat, the elusive Fremont, the egotistical and domineering Commodore Stockton and the brave if bumptious Captain Gillespie -- to capture and hold California ''if possible.. without any strife.'' Yet strife there was. A companion volume -- California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846 - 1850 followed later (issued in paperback in 1989).

Stanford, California:: Stanford University Press, 1948.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with black text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. small 4to (about 10 inches tall) . Index. map endpapers. Description: Well illustrated with black and white photographs taken by the author, and includes four maps.

Stanford, California:: Stanford University Press, 1948.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with black text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. Bears original bookstore tiny label on the rear endpapers -- Gardners' Book Shop of Stockton, California.. small 4to (about 10 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: Well illustrated with black and white photographs taken by the author, and includes four maps.

San Francisco:: Self Published, 1926.. 1st Edition, Limited.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with gold; the edges of the text block are darkened and foxed, rubbing to the spine ends, otherwise Very Good condition.. about 8.75 inches tall by 6.25 inches wide . Description: Several black and white illustrations. Printed by H S Crocker Co of San Francisco. A limited edition: this is number 188 of 1250 copies.

Self Published, 1965.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: hardbound with thin boards; light rust-colored cloth with darker rust text; some areas of discoloration and small stains to the front board, the thin boards are slightly warped: Good condition.. 10.5 inches tall by 7.75 inches wide . Index. Description: A brief narrative and history of California's historical monuments. Illustrated with small drawings and black and white photographs, and includes a full-page map. Published by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Part of a series. ''Spread in an irregular pattern over the 700 mile length of California are 42 official State Historical Monuments. They vary in size and shape from a tiny adobe house to a castle of unsurpassed grandeur. They memorialize the gentle Father Serra, the fiery Pio Pico, a determined Bidwell, the beloved Will Rogers, the benevolent Sutter and a kindly Vallejo. Two are monuments which recreate centuries of Indian civilization. Two recall the restless wanderings and the… Read More

New York:: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Description: Dust jacket illustration by the author.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: this binding is atypical for the series -- not the usual 'tweed', but plain reddish-brown boards with the earlier vignette used for this series (looks like a running wolfhound); (this running dog vignette was later replaced with the device showing series title on a small banner with G&D in the center); a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Originally published in 1903; the most recent date given here is a 1931 copyright renewal; this edition from the Famous Dog Stories series is circa 1950s, and is not illustrated, other than three small black and white drawings (not credited). The jacket art bears the artist's signature, but I cannot make it out.

New York:: Harper & Brothers, September, 1954.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth; a Very Good book with a Good+ dust jacket; the dj is price clipped.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Description: Harper's code 'I-D' indicates a printing date of September, 1954.

New York:: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Fine book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket would be near fine but for an area about one by two inches on the rear panel where the surface of the paper seems to have been peeled away -- a 'skinned' spot.. 9.78 inches tall by 8.75 inches wide . Description: Vivid, colorful illustrations enliven this children's alphabet book with a Caribbean theme. From Anancy to Zombie, this includes a few unfamiliar terms (explained at the rear). '''P' is for Pan: Beat this steel drum, feel your body shake. 'R' is for Roti: Eat like bread, flatter than a bake.''

Paducah, Kentucky:: Collector Books, 1983.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark navy cloth with bright gilt text and decoration; Very Good condition; the pricing pamphlet also Very Good.. 4to (about 11.25 inches tall) . Description: The book is devoted almost exclusively to images. A foreword and index at front comprise all the text. The photographs are labeled, but there are no captions. An example of the labels: a page header giving pattern name (Cambridge Square) and labels for each individual piece: (3797/22 / 7 in. Salad Plate). This includes a separate insert, a stapled pamphlet giving pricing information. These prices are of course well out of date, but may still be helpful in establishing relative value. This pamphlet is dated 1983. When using this guide it important to note the page numbers referenced are those printed at center, near the top. The page numbers printed at bottom are quite erratic and are the page numbers from the original Cambridge catalogs. This was originally published in 1978.

Sacramento, California:: Arcade House, 1979.. 1st Edition.. Paperbound: center-stapled format . BINDING/CONDITION: a paperbound booklet; center-stapled format; Near Fine condition.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Reading list. Description: The panoramic cover art is from a painting by Carl Rakeman, ''1857 -- The Camel Express''. The inside front cover reproduces a painting by Ernest Narjot, ca. 1857, ''Horses Drinking at Stream With Camels in Background.''; and the inside rear cover features one by an unknown artist , ''Camel at Ft Tejon, California, 1857-1861.'' Also includes several black and white illustrations. A brief history of the use of camels in the American southwest in the 1800s.