Search Results: Authors starting with C from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

About surrealist activities in France and California.

Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1823. First American edition. Modern cloth, leather spine label. 119, 108 pp. Mild discoloration to text paper.

Plombières-les-Dijon: Ulysse, Fin de Siècle, 1990. First edition. Original wrappers, slightly dust-marked. Unnumbered copy. Acrostic poems.

Champaign, Illinois, 1968. Revised edition. Stapled into printed plastic cover. Printed for inclusion in S.M.S. portfolio no. 4. Fine.

Rome: Alexander Gardanus & Franciscum Coattinum Socios, 1587. Second edition, the first having appeared in 1581. Pp. 34, (10), boards, with leather label, extremities worn, interior in very good condition with occasional old marginal ink corrections.

London: Hogarth Press, 1935. First edition. Tan wrappers. 43 pp. A very good copy with modest wear and a smattering of foxing, light stain to front wrapper, ownership signature. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 27. Woolmer 362.

Helskini: Eurographica, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, as new. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.

New York: P.F. Collier, 1893. First edition. 12mo, 216 pp. Original salmon pink wrappers, spine chipped, slight edge wear; very good. Forbes 4414.

Providence,R.I.: Matrix Publications, 1980. First edition. Grey cloth in a grey cloth slipcase with a color photo pasted on, unpaginated ca. 150 pp., mainly color photographs. Fine in a very good slipcase with some fading. 37 X 37 cm. Extra shipping.

Paris: Editions de l'etoile, 1984. First edition. Wrappers, 107 pp. "Perfect-bound" text block had separated from the covers, then internally re-hinged with clear tape. For this famous piece, Calle worked as a chambermaid in a hotel in Venice for three weeks, in order to photograph the guests' belongings.

8vo. iv,132 pp. printed in double columns: Archibald Constable, 1816. First edition. 8vo. 288 pp. folding map. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Sides a little rubbed, else fine; an attractive copy, though lacking half-title. Vivid and detailed description of Hawaiian life and customs "An account of Campbell's journey to China and Japan, and along the coast of Alaska.His description of the Hawaiian Islands is of great value". Forbes 448; Hill 244.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. First edition. Dark blue cloth, stamped in silver. Fine copy. The red has faded from the otherwise near fine dust jacket, obliterating the lettering on the front cover and spine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1933, 1933. Yellow cloth boards. A nice copy, in lightly used dust jacket. First edition.

Paris: le Terrain vague, 1965. Avant-propos de Jean Ferry. illus. 29 cm. Illustrated cover. Limited ed. of 1565 copies. First edition. One of 1500 copies, this one not numbered. Fine copy in dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Judah Dobson and A. Sherman, 1825. Second American edition. Modern cloth, leather label. 360 pp., 4 plates (colored stipple engravings). Mild browing but an excellent copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First American edition. Cartier Bresson. Small folio, original yellow boards. Cover design by Joan Miro. 1 cm chip at the top of the spine, smaller chip at its base. Caption leaflet loosely inserted.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. First edition. Two volumes, cloth, very good in dust jackets. Crane AA9.a.

New York: Knopf, 1925. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Decorated paper boards, green cloth back, pink paper spine label, yellow and brown paper slipcase, without spine label, spare label tipped to rear endpaper. Slightest fading to spine else a fine copy, one of 185 copies printed on rag paper, numbered and signed, ten of which were not for sale.

Lincoln: Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, 1894. First edition. Original decorated cloth, a very fine copy, rare in this condition. Cather was on the editorial staff, and the yearbook includes a poem "Anacreon," and a short story, "The Fear that Walks by Noonday," by her.

New York: Knopf, 1925. Third printing. Tan cloth, a very good copy. Inscribed by Cather to Katherine French Burnham. Although Burnham was a member of the California Bookplate Society, her plate is not present. Crane A14.a.iii.