Search Results: Titles starting with C from Keel Row Books

London; The Crime Club, Collins, 1982., 1982. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 230. Bound in red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the unclipped publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Small (2 cm) closed tear to dust-jacket else a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket. Kallen's stylish fast-moving mystery novel featuring the enigmatic duo Greenfield and Rome, described by the observer as "amongst the the most engaging yoke-fellows in literate detection".

Edinburgh; Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845., 1845. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Two volume matching set comprising "A Complete Treatise..." (pp. 281) plus "Key to the Complete Treatise..." (pp. 219). Diagrams and formulae in text. Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles. Unobtrusive damp-staining to boards and loss to spine cover cloth (approx 1 inch by 1/2 an inch) of "Key" volume. Presentation inscription from the Author to ffep of each volume and 'Tables' pasted to both paste-downs of "Treatise". Some pages unopened. Scarce.

Detroit; Cadillac Motor Car Division, 1941., 1941. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp 160. 120 figures within text. Original maroon quarter cloth with two-tone maroon and peach textured card boards. Spine split at lower joint with very minor loss and a little worn at head of spine; boards lightly soiled and a little creased. Contents clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Reference manual for the adjustment and repair of the 42-Series motor car. Scarce.

Oxford; Basil Blackwell, 1959, 1959. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiv, 370. 10 numbered monochrome plates to the rear of the book, of which two are double-page. Publishers' navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped printed cream dust-jacket. Spine tip slightly rubbed. Contents clean and crisp, with contemporary ownership stamp to ffep. two small tape repairs to reverse of top edge of dust-jacket, with associated browning, and jacket spine lightly toned. A near fine copy in very good jacket. New edition of the Shweich Lectures originally published in 1947. Includes an introduction to the Geniza material, the work of the Tibetan Masorettes and early texts including ancient translations of the Bible.

London; William Heinemann Ltd., 1930., 1930. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Small Octavo, pp. [6], 270. Bound in publisher's Persian blue cloth blocked in black on front with author's symbol and on back with publisher's windmill device, with gilt titles to spine. With the original publisher's cream dust-jacket illustrated in scarlet. Scattered foxing to text-block edges else square, neat and free from ownership marks, inscriptions or annotation. Dust-jacket lightly soiled and rubbed to edges with some small nibbles and nicks to edges, free from major loss or large tears. Overall a Very Good copy in a Very Good dust-jacket. Very Good in a Very Good dust-jacket. First edition with the correct issues points for the first printing as listed in Stott, e.g. "in" instead of "it" at p.181, line 4. This delicious satire of London's inter-war Literati, originally serialised in Harper's Magazine from March to July 1930, was Maugham's personal favourite of all the books he had written. Stott, Raymond Toole,… Read More

London; W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1939., 1939. Mass Market Paperback. Collins Mystery Novels/White Circle Pocket Novel, Volume 244. Sixth Impression. Octavo, pp. 252, [4] catalogue. Cerise pictorial card wraps in matching unclipped dust-jacket with advertisements to rear. Very light foxing to white cover panels and edge of textblock otherwise remarkably clean and bright. Jacket a little rubbed to edge with splits at rear fold; spine white panel lightly toned; initials unobtrusively inscribed to rear. A Near Fine copy in very good jacket. Mystery story originally published in 1935.

London; Secker and Warburg. 1995., 1995. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Octavo, pp. [6], 248. Ivory white publishers' cloth over boards with gilt spine titles. Original illustrated publishers' dust-jacket in ivory and scarlet. Corners and spine tips slightly bumped. Tight, clean pages with no ownership marks. Author's signature to half-title. Bright clean jacket, not price clipped. Near Fine in Near Fine. A signed first edition by arguably one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. A synchronous meeting between two widowers, a West-German art historian specialising in gravestones and a polish art restorer, leads to a well intentioned project to create a "cemetery of reconciliation". A biting satire set against the political backdrop of 1980s Gdansk.

Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2007. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. xiv, 608. 7 maps, of which 1 double-page; 55 monochrome figures throughout text. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions; dust-jacket very slightly surface scuffed to rear. The primary reference work on the subject. Second volume of the two-volume set, reflecting modern archaeological discoveries and fresh textual analysis; covers the period up to the sixth century empire of Justinian and his successors. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968., 1968. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 177, [1]. Scarlet publishers' cloth with gilt spine titles. Silver and scarlet alchemical illustrated publishers' dust-jacket. Faintly toned to paste-downs, otherwise a tight, bright, clean copy free of inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket spine-sunned with minor wear to spine-tips and corners, unclipped with bright and vibrant illustrations. Award-winning novel, and modern retelling of the Faustian myth, which defined the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

London; Chapman and Hall, 1866., 1866. Hard Cover. Third Edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo, pp. vi, 320, 320. 40 engravings by Phiz and Marcus Stone, including frontispiece. Publishers' original green cloth, with gilt titles in oval cartouche to spine and decorative foliate borders in blind to boards. Cover cloth bright but worn at corners with split to lower joint (approx 6-inches); shaken with split inner hinges. A little light toning and foxing, mainly to prelims, otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. A Good copy. Single volume edition with all the illustrations of the First Edition.

London; Folio Society, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY ARTIST. Number 673 in an edition limited to only 1000 copies for sale to members of the Folio Society. Square quarto, pp 205. 18 full page colour plates by Quentin Blake, plus numerous line drawings within text. Full deep maroon Nigerian goatskin with gilt titles to spine and upper board, top edge gilt; housed in grey paper-covered slipcase with titles blocked in gold. Pristine - appears unread. Signed and numbered by artist Quentin Blake in blue ink to limitation leaf. Minor scuffs to slipcase only- a Fine copy in Near Fine slipcase. Voltaire's satirical classic, translated by Tobias Smollett and Introduced by Julian Barnes. Candide was first published in France in 1759, and Smollett's translation formed part of his thirty-five-volume edition of Voltaire's works published between 1761 and 1765; this edition follows the first edition in English, with minor emendations.

London; Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904., 1904. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. vi, 191. Full polished tan calf, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and turn-ins with gilt armorial of Municipal Day School, Accrington to upper board. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Slight areas of surface loss to upper joint; prize bookplate to front paste-down; Fine condition. Part of the English Men of Action series in a handsome prize binding, detailing Captain Cook's life and voyages.

London; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819., 1819. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Octavo. viii, 110 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Black half-calf ; leather label with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration. Marbled paper-covered boards and all edges marbled. Edges rubbed; minor scattered foxing, mainly to endpapers. Inscribed "with the Author's compliments" to title page. Drama set on the Island of Domenica in early Elizabethan times, by Shakespearian scholar Twiss (1787-1849), MP and Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.

Lancaster; Oxford Archaeology North, 2009., 2009. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large quarto, pp. xx, 482, xxi-xl; xxii, 483-936, xxiii-lxi, [1]. 242 photographs in both colour and black-and-white, 79 tables and 571 figures all throughout text. Paper-covered pictorial boards with DVD in wallet to rear of Vol 2. Spine tips a little creased and Volume 1 slightly shaken; from the library of notable archaeologist Paul Bidwell OBE of Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, with his ownership inscription to each ffep. A near fine set. Scarce as a set. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Girl's Own Paper Office, [1934]., 1934. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 255, [1]. Captioned colour frontispiece. Publishers' orange cloth, with titles and ruled border in dark blue to spine and upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips slightly creased and upper board bruised at upper corner tip, otherwise covers clean and bright. A little very faint foxing to prelims; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket nicked & creased to edge, with lightly soiled rear white panel and rubbed spine with unobtrusive small loss. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. A Shapcott High School story. Scarce in the dust-jacket.

California; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1939., 1939. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 312, [1] adverts. Monochrome frontispiece and 5 further plates. Publisher's electric blue cloth with red titles to spine and upper board and red hunter motif to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket; red upper edges and mapped endpapers. Very light sunning to upper board edges and spine; jacket shows very slight creasing to spine tail and small areas of surface loss to edges. Overall a very clean copy; FIRST EDITION, with the first state jacket, of Burrough's third novel in the Venus series. A rip-roaring adventure in which Earth man, Carson Napier, must battle sea monsters and the living dead to rescue his beloved princess on Venus. Brought to life with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, Edgar Rice's son.

Kuwait; Tareq Rajab Museum, 2004., 2004. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Square quarto, pp [viii], 147, [13]. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Pictorial gold paper-covered boards; matching pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Jacket spine lightly sunned otherwise a Near Fine copy in like jacket. No annotation or inscriptions. English and Arabic text. Lavishly produced and well illustrated volume covering the long door-making traditions of the Middle East, which influenced countries as far afield as India and East Africa. Scarce.

London; John Cary, 1793., 1793. Hard Cover. [SECOND EDITION]. Large quarto; pp [4], Maps, 14 Directions, 11 Market Towns and Post Towns etc), [1]. General Map of Southern Britain and 46 tissue-guarded county maps as called for, all attractively hand-coloured in outline (the West Riding map of Yorkshire covering 2 leaves) with facing leaf of accompanying text. Recent polished brown half -calf, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to compartments, over original marbled paper-covered boards. Boards lightly surface scuffed. Bookplate to front paste-down; light foxing, slightly heavier to tissue guards; no annotation or inscriptions. Text for Lancashire printed twice & Cambridgeshire text absent. A very good copy in an attractive binding. A generous wide-margined copy of the 1793 edition of Cary's County Atlas. John Cary (circa 1754-1835), the foremost cartographer of roads in England and Wales of his time, was commissioned by the Postmaster General in 1794 to survey the… Read More

London; The Crime Club, Collins, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 262. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the unclipped publisher's illustrated dust-jacket. Dust-jacket lightly toned to back panel else a Fine copy in a Fine dust-jacket. Historical murder mystery set against the backdrop of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. By M. G. Eberhart, frequently referred to as America's Agatha Christie and one of the first writers to introduce a female lead to her detective fiction novels.

London; Folio Society, 2015., 2015. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo, pp. xvii, [1], 172, [2]. With 7 colour plates including frontispiece, by Fay Dalton. Publishers' gunmetal grey slipcase with silver and copper titles and decoration to spine and upper board, housed in dark grey paper-covered slipcase with pictorial onlay to side panel. A clean, bright, crisp copy which appears unread. Some exceptionally faint scuff marks to slipcase. Overall, a Fine book in like slipcase. A handsome edition of the first novel in Fleming's iconic James Bond series. With seven stylish, specially commissioned artworks by acclaimed illustrator Fay Dalton.