Search Results: Authors starting with C from Fine Editions Ltd

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of Cain fifth novel. 8vo: [8],218,[2]pp. Publisher's ruby red cloth, spine and covers stamped in black, top edge stained matching red, other edges rough-trimmed; illustrated dust jacket by Bob Smith, priced $2.00. A superlative example (probably unread), slight fading to top edge, paste-downs stained from binder's glue, else virtually pristine, as is the jacket. A gangster-thriller, tough-guy novel, peopled with hoods, corrupt cops, and crime lords. Written during Cain's Hollywood period (and basis for the film noir "Slightly Scarlet," with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl), it was one of his first commercial misses, although it's been called "perhaps his most underrated work," which "displays Cain's storytelling at its best." (enotes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable… Read More

New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp. Drab green stapled wrappers, upper cover lettered in orange. Previous owner's name to inside front cover, else a handsome example with only very light wear to extremities. Somewhat scarce (according to Blanck, "Said to be but 1,500 copies in the first printing). Blanck, p.95. Appears as "Southern Tenant Farmers" in the author's first collection of nonfiction pieces, Some American People. First in a planned series of political pamphlets by prominent authors to be commissioned by this radical publisher, but apparently no others were published. Caldwell concludes: "The landowner-tenant system should not be permitted to exist. . . . No other system has yet appeared on the scene to take its place,… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Trade Edition (following a limited edition of 250 copies) of Caldwell's second collection of stories. 8vo: viii,264pp. Publisher's ivory cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in brown and forest green, top edge stained brown; illustrated dust jacket, by Alfred Maurer, priced $2.50; original wraparound promotional band with several closed tears. An excellent copy, top stain slightly faded, mild sunning to upper board top edge, else Fine, square and tight, and probably unread; Near Fine or better jacket, lightly edge-worn, spine and flap folds moderately sunned, as is promotional band. Coan, p. 43. Flora and Bain, p. 94. In the wake of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, as Caldwell's popularity grew, he became more successful at selling short fiction to popular magazines of the day. Capitalizing on that popularity, Viking collected in this volume twenty short stories, ranging in setting from North to South and "mostly concerned… Read More

Mount Vernon, Maine: [Privately Printed] at the Old Colony Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Near Fine+. No. 71 of 100 copies signed by Caldwell on half-title page and by the illustrator, Alfred Morang, in pencil on frontispiece below image. Slim foolscap 8vo (170 x 102mm): [4],11,[1] pp. Staple-bound stiff pink-brown wrappers printed black, owner's signature in pencil to front inside cover. Faint tide mark along lower edge of text block, also faintly visible on back wrapper, else Near Fine or better. Blanck, p. 95. A single short story, in which love is lost. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of this important debut, copies of which in a dust jacket this fine are seldom seen. 8vo: x,314pp. Publisher's tan cloth, lettering and decor stamped in forest green on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. Trivial offsetting from jacket design onto spine cloth, else a Fine, fresh copy in an about Fine jacket with a few tiny nicks at crown. Hanna 563. Flora and Bain, pp. 89, 94. Caldwell's first commercially published book (his third overall). The legendary Maxwell Perkins (Fitzgerald's editor at Scribner's) helped to edit this collection of new and previously published stories of rural life, in the deep South and in Maine, with a third section made up of a long, modernist, autobiographical prose poem called The Sacrilege of Allen Kent. The book was well-received critically (according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of Caldwell's story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Printing of this collection of 16 short stories abiout Gerogia poor whites from the author of "Tobacco Road." 8vo: 206pp. Publisher's coarsely woven slate blue cloth, spine and upper cover ruled in red and lettered in black, top edge stained slate gray, others untrimmed, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. About Fine (probably unread), spine lightly faded, else square, tight and bright; about Fine jacket minutely rubbed at spine tips. Coan, p. 43. Hanna 568. Agnew, p. 35. Short stories about poor whites in Georgia. In 1936, Caldwell began a collaboration with photographer Margaret Bourke-White that bore fruit in the 1937 book You Have Seen Their Faces. "During their month-long, thirty-five-hundred mile driving trip through the South, the two began an affair that would last on-and-off for several years, with the two occasionally living together. Caldwell's wife, Helen, who continued to live in Maine with the children, would… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Printing of Caldwell's finest novel, combining a powerful story with social protest and experimental narrative techniques. First Edition (so stated). 8vo (189 x 130mm): [6],303,[1]pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold and green, top edge stained gold, other edges rough-trimmed,title page in maroon and black; Illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine, with just a hint of fraying to spine ends, but square and tightly bound, the pages virtually pristine, without a trace of foxing. The lightly toned and dust-soiled dust jacket presents as Near Fine or better after skillful restoration to spine crown (not involving lettering or design). Blanck, p. 94 (erroneously reporting "first edition so stated on copyright page"). Coan, p.56. Hanna 564. The author's sequel (of sorts) to Tobacco Road, critiquing sharecropping and cotton farming while investigating the textile mill as an alternative for… Read More

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. Fine (hint of rubbing to spine ends); about Fine jacket (spine panel very lightly faded and rubbed). First published, in 1947, in Italian (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno), narrating an episode of the Italian Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo, where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil war—the "Resistance"—between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic,… Read More

London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row, 1751. Six parts in one volume. 4to: xvi,31,[1]; 31,[1]; 31,[1]; 32; 32; 27,[9]pp, each book with separate title page, frontispiece, and pagination, the seven full-page plates engraved by Boitard after drawings by Boitard & J. Wall, the general title-page vignette engraved by Mosley after Gravelot, with wood-engraved ornaments. Period half calf (rebacked) over marbled boards (scuffed), spine divided into compartments by raised bands, red morocco letter-piece gilt. Variant text,with lines 168 and 169 omitted on p. 17 of Book IV but footnote to line 169 printed; p. 32 of Book V with tail-piece rather than note (stating that purchasers of the imperfect Book IV could obtain of the correctly printed pp. 17-18 from their bookseller. A Fine wide-margined copy in an early binding, with superb impressions of the plates and virtually pristine pages. NCBEL II 645. Lowndes 355. Cambridge's major work, a mock-epic poem, whose… Read More

London: printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722. Full Calf. Fine. A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices, index and errata]pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Camden, 10 plates of coins and antiquities, 51 folding or double-page uncolored maps (including 42 county maps and maps of north and south Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and "The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean) "all new engrav'd," additional engravings and woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf (joints very neatly repaired), spine in seven compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces gilt; title pages in red and black. An unusually Fine set, original binding with handsome patina; pages bright, fresh and… Read More

Dublin: Maunsel & Company, 1911. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine+. Scarce First Edition of the Irish poet's reminiscences of wanderings about Donegal, beautifully illustrated. 8vo (215 x 169mm): viii,[2],56pp, with 16 full-page plates (including frontispiece) after pencil drawings by the author. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards, paper labels printed in black to spine and front cover, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, matching blue-grey end papers; attractive Gaelic book plate and Sidney bookseller's ticket to front paste-down. Joints skillfully re-enforced, minor marks to boards, light (occasionally moderate) spotting to pages, else a collectible copy in original binding with both paper labels intact. Text and drawings extracted from the author's notebook. Campbell wrote under the Gaelic form of his name, Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil. He took part in the Easter Rising of 1916, becoming a Sinn Féin Councillor, in Wicklow, in 1921. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First American Edition of this semi-autobiographical novel charting the tensions between a young woman's aims as a writer and the expectation that she conform to the conventional role of a doctor's wife. Crown 8vo (187 x 129mm): [4],319,[1]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth lettered in lime green; illustrated dust jacket (flap corners clipped). Discrete book label to rear paste-down of John K. Martin, founder of Black Sparrow Press, best known as publisher of Charles Bukowski's work. A presentable copy of this scarce edition, complete with nicked and dust-soiled jacket. Recently reprinted in the Virago Modern Classics series, when this gifted Glaswegian writer (author of notorious biographies of Robert Bruns and D. H. Lawrence) was rediscovered as an important feminist novelist. The title is taken from Henry IV, Part I: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows." N. B. With few exceptions (always… Read More

Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, brown coated end papers. Lightly rubbed, but a handsome copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Bruns C66 ("Salt water fishing on the New England Coast from sand dabs to pollack"). Bartlett, p. 16. First published the previous year. According to the preface, Carter's narrative originally appeared in the form of letters to the New York Tribune. His account was immensely popular, going through subsequent editions in 1870, 1888, and 1889. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are… Read More

Padova [Padua]: Appresso Giusseppe Comino, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528, discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to (23 x 16 cm) xxiv, 352pp, with portrait frontispiece of Castiglione after Raphael, illuminated initials and head and tail pieces throughput. Modern vellum and marbled boards, spine titled in gilt. Included is the "best and fullest biography of Castiglione, {which] was written by Abate Pietro Serassi, who had access to the family papers brought to Rome by Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga, secretary to Pope Benedict XIV." (Cartwright) A very scarce, wide-margined survival, tightly bound, contents clean with only light occasional foxing. PMM 59. Razzollini, p. 99. Gamba 296 (for Comino's complete edition of Castiglione's works from 1733, upon which this edition is based). Cartwright, v. 2, pp. 445-447. First printed, in Venice, by Aldine… Read More

Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, 1848. First Edition thus. Near Fine. Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding tight and unmarred, moderate foxing (mostly marginal) to about half of text leaves but plates completely clean and richly colored. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce, and this offers reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. Howes C 243b. Sabin 11539. Pilling 684. Graff 630. First German Edition (published originally in different form, in London, 1841), a hybrid of Catlin's two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an… Read More

t' Amsterdam: Anthony Schoonenburg, 1723. Three-quarter Calf. Fine. Eighteenth-century edition of Cats's masterpiece, with engravings by Breugel's pupil Adriaan van de Venne. 16mo (152 x 99): [22],538pp, including additional engraved title page and with two hand-colored plates (one folding), showing children playing with crossbows, flying kites, doing handstands, and the like, and 35 half-page text engravings. Bound in later three-quarter calf over marbled boards, flat spine in five compartments divided by gilt rules, red morocco label lettered in gilt. Tightly bound and clean and bright throughout. A Fine copy. Not in Landwehr or Praz. Later edition (originally published in 1625) of the Dutch statesman and poet's famous handbook on marriage, dealing with the six chapters of a woman's life (by way of comparison to the seven ages of man): youth, sweetheart, bride, woman, mother, and widow. A charming work, interweaving dialogue, prose, and verse. "Cats took inspiration from proverbs and everyday… Read More

t' Amsterdam: Hendrick vander Putte, Papier en Boekverkooper op't Water, in de Lootsman, [n.d.]. Vellum. Very Good+. Early eighteenth century edition (based on imprint) of the Dutch poet and politician's rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity, first published in Dordrecht, in 1637. 16mo (159 x 97mm): [44],673,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page to first work, two full-page portraits (of Anna Maria Schurmans and Jacob Cats), full-page allegorical engraving ("Het Derde Deel") and 51 half-page text engravings. Contemporary vellum, with "J. Cats" in manuscript to spine. Contemporary ownership inscriptions to fly leaves. Binding soiled but sound, pages and plates generally clean, with occasional browning, finger-soiling, and mild staining. Marginal loss to S3, affecting neither text nor the plate. Not in Landwehr or Praz. Cats was one of the distinguished writers of Holland's golden age, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions set him apart from the liberal school of Amsterdam… Read More

T'Amsterdam / T'Utrecht: Daniel van den Dalen. François Halma. De wed. van A. van Someren / J. en Wilhelm vande Water. Boekverkopers, 1700. Early Reprint. Vellum. Fine. Profusely illustrated edition of Cats's complete collected works, first published in 1655. Two folio volumes bound in one, each separately paged and signed, and each with additional engraved title page bearing a portrait of the author, as well as sectional title pages with engraved vignettes. [28],666 [i.e. 662: 183-184 repeated and 343-348 omitted],[10]; [18],390,[6],393-608,61,[1] pp, with full-page portraits of the author and of Anna Maria Schurman, three double-page plates, and more than 400 superb copper-engraved half- and quarter-page plates (most from the original designs of Adrian van de Venne), numerous tailpieces of bouquets, and historiated initials. Recent period-style full vellum binding by Fitterer, mustard lettering piece decorated and lettered in gilt, end papers renewed. An exemplary example in a magnificent vellum… Read More

t' Amsterdam: Abrah[am] van der Putte, 1728. Half Calf. Very Good +. Seven works by the Dutch statesman and poet bound as one, each separately paginated. 16mo (100 x 172m): [14],246,[2]; 94,[2]; 82; 86; 32; 205,[3]; 46pp (lacking the final blank), with four engraved title pages (two of which folding) by C. V. Dalen after Breugel's pupil Adriaan van de Venne, one full-page plate, and 63 emblematic half-page text plates of Dance of Death scenes and of court and country life, mostly by or after Van de Venne. Period half-calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, title label lettered in gilt. Some gathering lightly spotted or moderately toned, with neat archival repair to one plate, still Very Good or better. Not in Landwehr or Praz. Cats was one of the distinguished Dutch writers of Holland's golden age, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions set him apart from the liberal school of Amsterdam poets. Still, for nearly two centuries, he enjoyed enormous popularity. N. B. With… Read More

Paris: Chez Camille Bloch, 1921. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiece), woodcut initials and chapter heading, and inserted sheet of music. Publisher's blue laid paper wrappers, decorative title label printed in black to upper cover, edges uncut. A remarkably fresh copy, completely unopened and virtually pristine. Laboureur 194. First published in 1772, this occult romance recounts the exploits of Satan and his attempts to seduce a young nobleman by taking the form of a beautiful woman. The Le Diable amoureux inaugurated a literary style known as fantastique, in which surreal events intrude on reality, and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely figments of the character's imagination. Laboureur based his exquisite engravings… Read More