Search Results: Authors starting with C from James Arsenault & Company

[Boston?: 1850 or 1851?]. Lithograph, 10" x 14.375" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, light crease at upper right, light foxing and toning, small black spot in left margin. A scarce and vivid lithograph illustrating the tensions surrounding the passage of the fugitive slave law. The Library of Congress provides an excellent description of this evocative print: "A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (left) holds a slave woman in one arm and points a pistol toward a burly slave catcher mounted on the back of Daniel Webster. The slave catcher, wielding a noose and manacles, is expensively dressed, and may represent the federal marshals or commissioners authorized by the act (and paid) to apprehend and return fugitive slaves to their owners. Behind Garrison a black man also aims a pistol toward the group on the right,… Read More

London, Printed: Boston: Re-printed for Henry Knox, in Cornhill, MDCCLXXII [1772]. 8vo (9" x 5.5"), no wrappers. [i-v], vi-viii, [1], [1], 10-76 pp., [1]-2 pp. pub. ad. Lacking last page of ads. Early ownership inscription of "William Baylies" on half-title. CONDITION: Fair; soiled, damp stained, chipped, lacking last leaf (p. 3 of ads for Knox's "London Book Store"). Stated 10th edition, but not the 10th American. Austin records a 1771 Philadelphia edition, evidently the first American, as well as the present edition and four others printed in 1772. Cadogan argues that chronic illnesses such as Gout are caused by "Indolence, Intemperance and Vexation," rather than being seasonal or hereditary, as was generally thought at the time. William Baylies (1776-1865) of Dighton, Mass. was an attorney and U.S. Representative. He served as a Federalist in the 13th and 14th Congresses (1813-1817) and an anti-Jacksonian in the 23rd Congress (1833-1835). REFERENCES: Evans 12341; Austin 374.

Boston: The Sherwood Publishing Company, copyrighted 1900. Fourth Edition. Preface reads "This third edition is brought up to the date of November 1, 1901." Printed by Geo. H. Ellis. 16mo (5.25" x 7"), pictorial wrappers printed in black and orange. [32] pp., numerous illus. from photos. An attractive visitor's guide to Jamaica for travelers on the United Fruit passenger steamer "Admiral Dewey", with numerous illustrations, helpful hints, and observations. An appealing Jamaica item. CONDITION: Very good, clean and sound.

Minneapolis, 1945. 8vo, printed brown wrappers. 31 pp., including 4 pp. ads, text on inside of wrappers, numerous b&w illus. A scarce compendium of articles, reviews and images describing the fifty year career and Magical Library of highly-regarded mentalist C. A. George Newmann, inscribed by Newmann to friend and fellow stage performer, Lester Klock. Includes an account of Newmann's 7,000 volume collection, which embraced technical, historical, rare, and curious items, as well as periodicals and memorabilia. According to contributor Leif Gilstad, as a child Newmann could always find the hidden objects in games, and predict teachers' questions. As an adult, he became a scholar and was known for his "Gay Nineties" blind-folded drives through town to announce his shows. Newmann's inscription reads "To my old friend LESTER KLOCK with sincere, good wishes. C. A. George Newmann. March 6 - 1946." Klock was a versatile midwestern Vaudevillian, whose various acts are documented in a scrapbook he assembled,… Read More

Washington St., Boston: Munroe and Francis, and Charles S. Francis, New York., [ca 1825]. Hardcover. 24mo (6" x 3.75"), green cloth, paper title label at spine, series label at front cover. Hand-colored lithographic frontis., viii, [1], 270 pp., [2] pp. pub. ads, with hand colored wood-engraving. Early ink inscription of "Andrew N. Wyeth, Cambridge" at ffep. CONDITION: Good, some losses to spine label, worn at extremities, remnants on pastedowns from removed paper book-cover, foxing throughout. A juvenile biography by German author Campe, part of the "Juvenile Classicks" series by publisher Munroe & Francis, intended "to be done up in a neat, cheap, and durable manner." The ownership inscription by Andrew N. Wyeth, Cambridge, is most likely that of the great grandfather of artist Andrew N. Wyeth, as one Andrew Newell Wyeth lived in Cambridge MA from 1817 to 1880. [say more on wyeth.]

Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Co.; and William S. Orr and Co., London, 1844. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo (9" x 6.25"), brown cloth, decorative gilt spine title. Vol. 1 with lithographic half-title, lithographic title p., [2], xxiv, 427 pp., [4] pp. publ. ads., numerous b&w plates, and, Vol. II with lithographic frontis. and half-title, [6], 430 pp., [2] pp. publ. ads., numerous b&w plates. CONDITION: Vol. 1: Good, worn at extremities, spine lightly cocked, foxing on plates, frontis. discolored, 1.5 x 3" damp stain on a Vol. 2 plate margin and wear in top gutter by "Illustrative Etching" page (no loss). Vol. 2: Good, worn at extremities, spine slightly cocked, plates foxed, some offsetting from plates on text, one 1.5 x 3" damp stain to bottom of half-title, frontis, and title page; sound binding.

New York: Gilberton Company, Inc., July 1948, Number 49. 8vo (10.25" x 7"), original color wrappers. [48] pp., publ. ads inside wrappers, numerous color illus., [4] pp. color illus. ads. A comic book adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in Gilberton's Classics Illustrated series. The series was created by Albert Kanter, who oversaw publication from 1941 until 1969. Twenty-five of the classic stories were illustrated by Alex Blum. The publisher's ads include illustrated summaries of other publications in the series. CONDITION: Fair to good, partially detached covers, 2 cm closed tear on right edge of front wrapper, chipping at corners of covers, sound binding, marginal light damp stains on bottom right corner throughout, double .5 com vertical holes regularly-spaced throughout center pages.

Pemaquid Beach, Maine: 1914; L. A. Moore, Printer, Boothbay Harbor. 8vo (8.25" x 6") hardcover, red cloth, gilt title on spine, pictorial gilt on upper cover. [5], numerous b&w photographic plates. Scarce history of the Pemaquid, Maine region from 1607 to 1914, including the establishment of defenses such as Fort William Henry and Fort Charles, the Indian Wars, documents from a French expedition and an English proclamation, portraits of notable figures, rebuilding efforts and more. Sequel to Ten Years at Pemaquid. CONDITION: Good +, upper cover lightly soiled, early ownership inscription on flyleaf, light damp-stain to gutters of three pages, sound binding.

Mexico: Imprenta Litográfica de Decaen, 1864 [1875]. Folio, orig. red cloth covers, gilt title and date to upper cover, renewed red morocco spine with gilt rules, white moire endpapers. [iv], 70, [i]-v, [1] blank pp. Chromolithographic title, 49 lithographs on 45 leaves (46 chromolithographs and 3 tinted lithographs, all with renewed tissue-guards), plan of Mexico City printed in black and brown with hand-colored outlines, 24" x 32.25" plus margins, and hand-colored folding map of Mexico, 19.888" x 26.5" plus margins. One of the most important books illustrating Mexico City and vicinity, this copy with more color plates than most, and including two infrequently found folding maps. A splendid document of both Mexican life and lithography, this edition of Mexico y sus alrededores has nearly double the number of color plates contained in most other editions, as well as a rather rare combination of both the folding plan of Mexico City and the folding map of Mexico, the latter also showing a large… Read More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1956. Hardcove. Sm 8vo (8" x 4.5"), plain cream Linson vellum, cover stamped in green, red, and gold, imitating inlays. xxxiii, 127 pp. CONDITION: Near-fine, small dent at spine. Number 657 of an edition of 785, "the first publication of these poems and letters" (McKitterick 124). The editor states that "[t]his edition is an offshoot of a biography of Margaret Lucas," published in 1957.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2004. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth. [1], 569 pp., maps, b&w illustrations. CONDITION: Very good, very good dust jacket.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1948. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (10" x 7"), gray cloth spine, red cloth covers. 252 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Near fine, clean interior, sound binding; Very good, dj price-clipped, slight chip at head of spine, and 1" closed tear at lower left fore-edge of back panel.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.5" x 5.25"), olive cloth stamped in blue and gold. 303 pp. Author inscription on ffep reading: "To Ernest Haskell-- both artist and the man. Marian Chapman. December 3/[19]23." CONDITION: Near-fine, top edge faintly dust spotted, light foxing to endpapers, sound binding. First edition.

[Salem, Mass.?], circa 1800. Broadside, 6.75" x 8.625", with silhouette portrait cuts. CONDITION: Good, small brown stain at top, a few light spots and old creases. A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes "correct Profiles, reduced to any size, two of one person for 25 cents, neatly cut on beautiful paper." Painting and shading are an additional 75 cents, and frames are available "from 50 cents to 2 dollars each." He also notes that the machine he uses is "universally allowed by the best judges to be more corect than any before ever invented." The blanks provided for the location in which Chapman is temporarily established, the name of the town, and the day of his departure, have not been filled in. Moses Chapman (1783-1821) was an itinerant silhouettist, who established a… Read More

Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1853. 8vo (9.5" x 6"), printed wrappers, 36 pp. A critical essay on the Hayti Mission of 1851 being a "great mistake." CONDITION: Wrappers detached, front wrapper chipped, contents clean and intact.

Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1864. 4to (13.375" x 10.75"), three quarters red calf with pebbled brown cloth over boards, "Music" gilt stamped in one of six compartments at spine, red leather and gilt title piece at upper cover reading "Robeson." 33 pieces, 4 with lithographic covers ("Children of the Battle Field"; "Highland Mary"; "Nearest and Dearest"; "We Now Must Part"). Total of 134 pp., including lithographic covers. Numerous paper reinforcements to margins. CONDITION: Covers very good-, rubbed at extremities, white stains to cloth; contents very good, occasional foxing throughout. "Children of the Battlefield" cover trimmed at right edge with slight loss to ornamental border. Scarce sheet music sold for the benefit of three children orphaned by the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated with a lithograph based on an ambrotype portrait of the children found in their dead father's hand. The music is preceded by a "Sketch" describing the melancholic scene of the slain and unidentified soldier's body… Read More

London: Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1860. Hardcover. 4to, renewed blue cloth spine with original blue cloth covers, with gilt title and illustration on upper cover, blind-stamped covers, a.e.g.; vi, 216 pp. , 9 plates, including six fine tinted lithographs. Plate identified as frontispiece bound opposite p. 17. First edition, later printing. Covering various aspects of riding side-saddle, the eighteen chapters are entitled Mounting, Dismounting, Positions of the Hands, the Leap, Critical Situations, Hunting, etc. Clarke wrote this work after recognizing a dearth of writing on equestrian techniques and practices for women on the saddle-a different technique than that used by men. The lithographs are after photographs by Herbert Watkins. Plates depict The Habit, Mounting, Dismounting, The Seat, Side Saddle on Horse's back, Malpositions, The Walk, The Canter, and The Circle.REFERENCES: Podeschi 191 for the first edition of 1857.CONDITION:… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo, black paper over boards. Frontis., [xxv], 351, [1] pp., maps, b&w illustrations. CONDITION: Very good, remainder mark on bottom edge of text block, very good dust jacket.

Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), blue paper over boards in half brown cloth, leather stamped title-author. b&w woodcut illus. throughout. Previous owner bookplate on front and back paste-downs. 35 pp. CONDITION: Very good, cover lightly scratched and slightly faded on corners and worn at extremities, with light toning at front spine-edge. Number 210 of an edition of 450 copies. "This book, which is no. 25 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications, was crowned by the Double-Crown Club as being the best produced book of its price published during 1925" (Gill). First Golden Cockerel press book illustrated by Gill, brother of the author. REFERENCES: Gill 274; Chanticleer 25; Cave & Manson 25.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Hardcover. 8vo (8.75" x 6"), green paper boards in half tan cloth with title-author leather stamped on spine. Previous owner bookplate on front paste-down. b&w woodcut engravings throughout. Author and illus. autograph on colophon. 40 pp. CONDITION: Very good, front and back covers faded and spine sunned but text-block fine. Edition 191 of 300. "Uniform with Enid Clay's Sonnets & Verses, also illustrated by Gill [his first collaboration with Golden Cockerel]." "This is no. 101 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications" (Gill). Signed by both Eric Gill and Enid Clay (Gill's sister) on the colophon. REFERENCES: Gill 293; Chanticleer 101; Skelton 38.