Search Results: Authors starting with C from Oshtemo Book Sellers

New York, New York: Viking, 1984. Unrevised and unpublished proofs . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very fine unrevised and unpublished proofs. Bright red paper cover. No dust jacket as issued. Spine slightly darkened. Form letter tipped in to an editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.This is a story only T.C. Boyle can write. It is a story about 31 year old Felix his delusions, illusions, solutions at a low point in his life. It is a story of how he got talked into raising a crop of sinsemilla ( hi-obtain pot ) by his friend who collects antique exotica, punkettes and dry red wine. A fine collectible

New York, New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slip Case . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. Book is limited to 375 copies for sale out of a total printing of 410 copies. large 8vo. in worn slip case. Book is fine and unopened and unread with many pages uncut. Spine is slightly bumped at the spine ends which is vellum as are the sharp perfect corners corner tips also in vellum. Book is quarter bound in vellum over silver foil with silver spine lettering. Book is tight and very clean with the fore edge and bottom untrimmed.There is a fabulous Art Deco frontispiece by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer.

About this Item: First Editions Library, Shelton Connecticut, 1974. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First edition Facsimile. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell is an iconic American novel that is considered by many as a cross between Mark Twain and England s Henry Fielding. Tobacco Road is set in rural Georgia near Augusta in the depths of the depression. The story revolves round a family of poor sharecroppers and a sinful father who seeks redemption through the love of the land and the promise of "good soil". The story also revolves around the displacement of farmers by industrialization and mechanization, much like the 21st century. Book is NEW, sealed in its original plastic wrap. The size , weight, dust jacket, printing and every detail of the original 1932 first edition is identical. This is a fine addition to any fine library.

About this Item: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine, unmarked copy of Erskine Caldwell's novel of guerrilla warfare in Russia. The author was best known for the novel Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre and wrote about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States. In his later life he gave lecture dealing with the lives and struggles of poor people throughout the country. He fell out of favor with many for his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of poor whites. Book is solid, clean and quite interesting. And for all the authors shortcomings, the book is a worthwhile study.

Henry Holt and Company Inc, New York, 2011. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Special Edition. Book si in New condition, dust jacket is fine. This is the FIRST PRINTING of the 45th anniversary edition was sold at Kohl's department stores as a fund raiser to help support Kids' health and education initiatives in communities nationwide. There are signatures (Eric Carle) on the front flyleaf and at the LFEP. I think they were printed on the book when it was published, but I don't know. Book is unmarked and unread. This is an iconic book from an iconic illustrator.

About this Item: Ecco, New York, 2007. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition/first printing in very good condition with bumped tip on front cover and slight bumps to spine ends. Priced (26.95) dust jacket is very good.Book is unmarked and unread in pristine internal condition, with the authors signature on the title page dated 6/7/07. Tipped in is a picture of Joyce Carol Oates signing the book. This fine gripping story is from one of the greatest literary forces of our time, an intensely realized, masterful epic of a young woman's struggle for identity and survival in post- world war II in America. In Gravediggers Daughter, Oates had created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testament to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We were the Mulvanies. Signed by Author(s). Seller… Read More

The Donning Co., Virgina Beach, VA., 1997. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Carlton County Minnesota, has a rich history. looking at a road map of Minnesota, or even driving through Carlton county will not enlighten the visitor to the important role the county has played in the history of the Arrowhead region. Fine regional history. Signed by Author

New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book in fine condition, jacket in near fine with repairs on verso to spine ends and folds. priced ($5.00). A study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States.(1948)

About this Item: A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1904. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles D. Williams (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is very good with wear to the spine ends. Book is bound in blue cloth with gilt and red lettering and decorations. This story is intended to supplement several other stories by the author. this story deals with the " wonderful upbuilding" of the " great" West immediately following the war " Civil" and in which the best of the young characters played an important role. The people in the story are real, and its events are mainly facts, thinly veiled. An interesting and collectible turn of the 20th century novel.

New York, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is near fine would be very fine except for slight fading to spine. Jacket is fine with light toning and darkening to spine. Fep and lep lightly toned, and in light pencil is notated first ed. Priced (2.50) jacket is fine with a slightly darkened spine. Also included is a nicely repaired publishers slip case. My Mortal Enemy is a work of tragic passion- an astounding and profound study of a woman's heart. While directly presenting the end of a great love story, it sketches unforgettably the entire life of a woman, and the nineteenth century surroundings that produce her greatness of character. This is fine collectible for any library and for Cather collectors especially.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The chief theme of the novel is the subtle persecution of a beautiful mulatto girl by her jealous mistress in Virgina just prior to the American Civil War.The setting is the beautiful Virgina countryside, and the narrative is peopled with unusual characters: the mountain people, grim disapproving " Republicans" ( The party of Lincoln ), and sapphira's AFrican slaves, who are, and doubtless were meant to be, the most interesting figures in the book. This iconic book is in fine unmarked condition with a fine bright paper spine label and a fine bright paper label on the front cover. Book retains its rose top stain. jacket would be fine except it is price has been clipped. This is a wonderful collectible of the authors last novel suitable for any fine library. Protected in Mylar.

About this Item: Harper, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing is near fine, and would be new if not for a split at the top of the spine. Die cut priced (52.95) dust jacket is fine with a very small rub at the top of the front cover. Book is unmarked and untouched internally.The Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his acclaimed award winning fiction. This is a shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, a true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces,Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. Manhood for Amateurs was destined and has become a classic. Book is in great condition and should be added to any fine library.

About this Item: Harper/Collins, New York, 2007. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Oy Vay, what a book. AS NEW First edition in a priced 26.95 dust jacket. Book is pristine, unmarked and probably unread. for sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling State of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his bestselling novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier& Clay. Very fine read and a very fine book.

About this Item: International Fiction Library, Cleveland, Ohio, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition, bound in orange cloth over boards. Dust jacket is good + with wear to the extremities. Nice mid-century novel of a man searching for the American dream in Latin America.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Uankel Rabinowitz is a retired actor who reflects on his life as a Yiddish actor from the Lower East Side of New York. He faced all adversities, large and small, tragic and comic. Book is fine with tiny mark on right top of cover fold. Fore edge has a small soil spot. Jacket is not price clipped ($4.95) and is soiled and slightly chipped at spine top and top corners. Spine is darkened but still readable. Very good dirty cover.

Wilton Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Original tissue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kyffin Williams. Book is in as new condition, with original tissue, with small tear on recto. The book is Patagonia through the eyes of the two authors who signed this limited edition of 250 copies (196). Woodcut are wonderfully done by acclaimed artist Kyffin Williams. A fine collectible for Theroux collectors.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in near fine condition with slight bumping to spine ends. jacket is very good with slight wear to extremities and a trivial shallow scratch along half of the center of the slightly faded spine. jacket is unclipped ($3.50). First Edition stated and with the B-G code. "The book centers around St. Botolphs , an inland port, which once held fine fleets of sailing ships and is now left with a few small industries, a fine show of houses and the Wapshots.

New York, New York: Random House, 1979. Limited Edition . Hardcover. As New/Slip Case . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1 of 500 copy of this limited edition. Unopened and unread. Mint. Slipcase may be original to book, but it has been neatly altered.Many consider this Styron's masterpiece. Book was made into a award winning movie staring Meryl Streep who won the Oscar for best actress. A fabulous collectible.

Michael Kesend Pub Ltd, New York, 1988. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In 1840 Hans Christian Andersen left Copenhagen and began a journey that would take him through Germany, Italy, Malta and then to Greece, Turkey and up the Danube, His journey continues to Turkey and the Orient where he takes us with him to the slave markets, the bazaar, and to watch the famous Whirling Dervishes perform their strange dance. Hans Christian Andersen brings to life exotic ports of call in another age of travel. 100 years after his death. hans Christian Andersen is still considered Denmark's greatest writer. Book is as new, unmarked and spotless. Priced (21.95) Dust jacket is near fine with minor scuffs on verso. interesting and collectible.

About this Item: Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Book is very fine. Limited to 200 hardcover trade copies & 100 signed and numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is copy 63/100 . Tom Clark grew up in an Irish neighborhood in Chicago (ala Mayor Daily) whose grand father was a cop ( a great start) and distinguished himself in school for his misconduct an d for also winning a city wide spelling bee. He began his literary career as sports editor of the Fenwick High School ( great football teams) newspaper and as an usher at baseball games ( probably the Sox), race tracks prize fights and political conventions ( lots of those). He graduated from The University of Michigan and went on to Cambridge on a Fulbright scholarship. he is known for his biographies of such diverse people as John Keats, L.F. Celine Robert Creeley and Mark ( the Bird) Fidrych ( Detroit Tigers), and his gritty , back of the yards poetry. i am a Chicago… Read More