Search Results: Titles starting with C from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

Paris: Cartier Bresson Collection 0. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade catalog, in English, of the Parisian purveyor of laces and embroidery goods, 12 pages (including covers), printed in red and blue, elaborate 19thC graphic design. Undated, likely 1890-1910. This is the 2nd of 4 albums on cross-stitching; others in the Cariter-Bresson Collection promoted on the last page for crochet and lace. Laid-in is a transfer pattern sheet on tracing paper of lettering fonts from Pirocraft Industries, Chicago. EPHEMERA STITCHING CROSS-STITCHING NEEDLEPOINT SEWING EMBROIDERY.

Belfast: Fred Bradbury and Municipal Techinical Institute, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. staed fifth thousand on title page, second edition with a new preface to this "new edition" before the preface to the first. Short 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 292 + xxi. With tables and figures in how to calculate weight, warp and conditioning in different fabrics woven from different yarns. The advertisements in rear have detailed illustrations of textile machinery. Bookseller ticket for Lord & Nagle Co, Publishers for Textile Book Sellers, 144 Congress St Boston on front pastedown. Some abrasions to the pastedown in rear, else a solid, better than very good copy. Not uncommon in special library collections, but seldom seen available for purchase.

London: George Routledge & Sons 0. 1st or early editions. Soft cover. Very Good. 2 titles of Caldecott's Picture Books in original editions, presumed firsts, each listing on back cover three sections of other publications of R. Caldecott: Picture Books One Shilling each (8 titles), Picture Books Five Shillings (Vol I 4 titles Vol II 4 titles), and Collection of Pictures and Songs Ten Shillings and Sixpence (8 titles) Uniform cover wear and soiling to both.Rear cover detached from Farmer's Boy. Internals much nicer. nd c 1870.

London: George Routledge & Sons 0. 1st or early editions. Soft cover. Very Good. Two titles of Caldecott's Picture Books in original, early editions each listing on back cover three sections of other publications of R. Caldecott: Picture Books One Shilling each (12 titles) , Picture Books Five Shillings Vol I 4 titles, Vol II 8 titles) and Collection of Pictures and Songs Ten Shillings and Sixpence (8 titles). Covers uniformly soiled, internals much nicer. Nd c.1875.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Lewis, Allen (woodcuts). First printing, lacking dustjacket. Newberry Award winner.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Clean, sound, better than very good copy in hard-to-find dw that mathes design of book covers - somewhat soiled with some incidental narrow loss here and there along edges. more at spine tips. Quite presentable as a collectible copy.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Lacking Dustjacket. Solid, clean copy - no name, inscriptions or bookplates - lackind dw.

Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Unread copies, as new. In black, cloth-covered slipcase.

Lucerne: C.J. Bucher, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Continuous run from 1975 to 1981, 16 volumes, library bound, with private school stamps here and there. Internals as new.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Solid clean copy, 4to, buckram binding. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. BOOK ARTS.

Calgary: Folio Gallery/ Waterous & Co, 2002. 1st Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Artist Edition - #518 of 800 copies signed and numbered (of the total of 2000 printed). Oblong, fine - an apparently unused copy - in unclipped, slightly rubbed dustjacket. Plainly signed by photographer Gibson on the title page.

NY: Random House, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. NY TImes critic Brooks Atkinson's copy, inscribed to him by playwright Lee; "Nov 1, 1957. To Brooks Atkinson, without whose interest, concern and help there might have been many many unpurchasable rewards and gratifications not the least of which is a published copy to inscribe. With friendship and deep gratitude. James Lee" Indeed, Atkinson gave Career - about a young man trying to get ahead on the stage - a very positvereview, calling it ''fundamentally knowledgeable and discerning.oObviously, Mr. Lee knows what he is writing about,'' Atkinson wrote ''-- the spurious enthusiasm for old friends, the cynicism and squalor, the ruthless competition, the corruption of personal character, the affront to personal dignity.''.

West Hartford VT: The Countryman Press, 1945. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. Rungius, Carl. #267 of 1250 copies. As new copy in publisher's slipcase.

Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson, 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first or certainly early edition, 1853 on title page, 1852 on copyright, in publishers tight weave brown cloth with a gilt-pressed image of an impoverished young boy and girl and a monkey front with blind-ruled and stamped border. unobtrusively rebacked with nearly all original spine with gilt laid back down, original polished yellow endpapers, short 8vo, 128 + 16p of illustrated Henderson catalogue of juvenile titles( eight new books, each with a full page engraving, plus 8 full page engravings in text, one which is the pictorial in gilt on the cover. The treatment of Italian orphan immigrant might have been charming then, now it would be Italo-phobic, anti-immigrant even. (I mean, the pet monkey trope alone!) Contemporary (19thC) bookplate of Isabel Douglass. Covers rubbed. Marginal light stain not affecting text for a few middle signatures.

NY: Hastings House, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very nice copy of Dennison book on the Caroni River. An apparently unread copy, illustrated with b&w photographs in better than very good dustjacket with slightly sunned spine. Bookshop ticket for the American Book Shop in Caracas top corner ffe.

NY: Liveright, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with warm wishes" with charming black penned illustration a delightful face of the sun outlined in red felt marker as balloon on a string held by arm outstretched all observed by a block-stamped Tin Woodsman (on the ffe). Near fine book in better than very good dustjacket.

NY: William Morrow, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. First edition, blue covers, titles stamped in red, with Dubious Bridegroom last title on Perry Mason titles listed in rear. Inscribed on the ffe by Gardner to the legendary Marlene Dietrich with his tribute to her volunteer efforts in WWII: "To Marlene Dietrich who has given so generously of her talent to help keep us a great nation. Yours Erle Stanley Gardner March 1949". Indeed, the German-born Dietrich ( 1901-1992), after becoming an international sensation with The Blue Angel and then emigrating to Hollywood where she made hugely successful films in the 1930s, dedicated notable efforts to humanitarian causes during World War II: entertaining on tour Allied troops, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and advocating for American citizenship for those fleeing Europe. For boosting morale on the front lines during the war, she received honors from the United States, France, Belgium and Israel, and… Read More

Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1912. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce first illustrated edition and first stand-alone book edition of the American classic, mock-heroic poem, printed at The Caslon Press in Chicago. Very nice condition with a new, paper backstrip applied, matching the green background of cover with pictorial of a bat draped in a big, black bow. Corners moderately worn, a short closed tear bottom of page in front of book. Contemporary owner signature ffe. "Casey at the Bat" was first published in The Daily Examiner in San Francisco on June 3, 1888. A month after the poem was published, it was reprinted as "Kelly at the Bat" in the New York Sporting Times.

First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Pamphlet, very good condition.

NY: Abbey & Imbrie, 1911. Soft cover. Good. Two-tone pictorial covers, stapled spine, approx 5 x 8", 176 pages, mostly b&w, profusely illustrated, 2 pages of flies in color. Loss to front cover around edges, and paper over spine, still firmly bound, internals clean.