Search Results: Authors starting with C from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1926. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 29, (iii), colophon; illustrated with three black and white plates and two maps at the centerfold; cream stiff wrappers;. Poetry in the "Epic Style". Scarce in today's market.

(Chicago): Triumph Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xxi, (i), 215; illustrated with black and white photographs; red cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;.

Philadelphia: J. Lippincott Company, 1915. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt, in a dust jacket. 176pp. plus 16pp. book ads. Very good in a good jacket, chipped and soiled.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor edge wear else a solid very good copy. Octavo; pp; (x), 225; black cloth lettered in red;. Callaghan attained some fame working in Paris in the 1920's and hanging with Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. A very talented Canadian writer.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiv, (iv), 238; three maps and decorations; cream cloth and terra-cotta boards, lettered in black in a dust jacket; Remainder mark;. Camuto, a frequent contributer to Fly Fishing magazines, writes beautifully of these lovely forest clad streams.

(New York): Regan Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (xii), 290, index; profusely illustrated with color photographs; cream cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport -- in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1999. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; 449, (i), with index, Series List, colophon; illustrated with fifty-six plates including a portrait frontispiece and maps, many plates in color; decorated brown cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge and lettering;. The author, originally an American, married a Russian Prince in 1899 then moved to that country for the next 18 years to raise her family. This is her account of the Russian Revolution.

Np: Beaux Arts Editions, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; 368, index; Approx. 200 color and black and white plates; green cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; A tasteful gift inscription on the front free fly leaf else a very good copy; An encyclopedic treatment and a treasure for the devotee of Irish Culture. The glorious legacy of Irish art and literature has survived centuries of foreign invasion, famine, and civil war to offer a rich portrait of a proud and complex country and her people. Beginning with the ancient Celtic sagas preserved for centuries in an oral tradition, to the recording of these pagan epics and the Christian gospels by early Christian scribes in some of the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts of all time, the legacy continues down to the Dublin of James Joyce and the Belfast of Seamus Heaney. Literature in the finest tradition has long been acknowledged as one of Ireland's most precious gifts, but less well known is the… Read More

(New York): Basic Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. Octavo; pp; xv, 511 with index; Illustrated with black and white photographs, Family Diagrams; white cloth and cream boards in a pictorial dust jacket;. TR had several women who influenced him greatly, his Mother, Sisters, Alice, Edith & Eleanor.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Authorized edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; vi, (2), 3-483, (iii) 24; appendix; book catalogue; frontispiece portrait and line drawings; brown cloth, gilt, coated yellow endpapers; Very good, minor wear at head of spine. Quite scarce.

Middleboro Ma: Privately Printed, 1905. Only Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Octavo; pp; 12; original printed self-wrappers;. Very scarce; OCLC locates just four copies; Carrington enjoyed some success in the Civil War but later along the Bozeman Trail, he commanded Ft. Kearney & Lt. Fetterman whose command was wiped out in Red Cloud's War.

Seattle: The Argus, 1917. First Edition. Wraps. Internally very good, wrapper has edge wear and some soiling at the edges. Quarto; pp; 80; profusely illustrated with photographs; original printed color pictorial wrappers;. This issue dedicated to the Northwest, & Seattle; wonderful photographs, cityscapes, wilderness, Big Trees etc. Boosterism & More.

London: Gibbings And Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. xxi, (i), 316 with index; Profusely illustrated with black and white plates, 350 in total; pictorial green cloth, gilt;. The work is organized geographically by country of origin.

Banaras India: Privately Printed, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; vi, 60; printed paper covered stiff wrappers; wear to the paper spine else very good. Inscribed and dated 1964 by the author. Caste in Hindu Society.

London: J. Stockdale, 1902. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Colby College Library; library bookplate, residue of pocket at rear, wear at spine foot where label has been removed, clean and tight. else a very good copy. Octavo; pp; xvi, (ii), 449, (18), index; with a large folding chart, smaller charts; three quarter brown leather and marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. this is an early 19th century book that has been rebound circa 1895-1910, from the binding style. The scarce enlarged second edition. An important economic study of Great Britain first published in 1782.

(Fairfax: Odysseus Editions, 1995. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; pp; 306, index and bibliography; Illustrated in black and white; full gilt decorated red leather, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, Moire endpapers. Published for Firearms Classics Library of the National Rifle Association and its National Firearms Museum. With a chapter entitled, "The Guns Of Teddy Roosevelt".A handsome printing of a solid reference book.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (6" x 9.5"), burgundy and tan boards in dust jacket. 273pp. Map endpapers. A hole in the dust jacket corresponds to a hole in the front joint. Otherwise a very nice copy. Chapell, his Brazillian wiffe and two young sons Kayak the entire length of the Yellowdstone river encountering all the natural denizens of the area and the unusual mix of people- environmentalists, Cheyenne & Sioux, ranchers, big businessmen and movie stars- who live in unspoiled America.

Boston: George E. Whitaker, 1917. Wraps. Very good. Zion's Herald: Wednesday, Volume XCV Number 41, October 10, 1917. Boston: George E. Whitaker, 1917. Quarto; pp; 27; photographs; original printed paper self wrappers; & Zion's Herald: Wednesday, Volume XCV Number 46, November 14, 1917. Boston: George E. Whitaker, 1917. Quarto; pp; 27; photographs; original printed paper self wrappers; Stories include Women's Suffrage; Prohibition; Segregation Laws; The Return of Tammany Control / Defeat of Mayor Mitchel in New York City;. Charles Henry Parkhurst (April 17, 1842 - September 8, 1933) was an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the evidence he collected, his statements led to both the exposure of Tammany Hall and to subsequent social and political reforms.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. 232 with index; Frontispiece portrait and facsimile of a letter; burgundy cloth, gilt. A sound copy. A classic.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. 232 with index; Frontispiece portrait and facsimile of a letter; burgundy cloth, gilt. A sound copy with minor wear at the extremities and a few faint stains. Some indentations on the back cover. A classic.