Search Results: Authors starting with C from Dawson's Book Shop

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York- Boston, (1941 ). Good. First Edition 12 x 8 1/2 inches, 182 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities, some soiling, sunned spine.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1941 ). Good. First Edition 12 x 8 1/2 inches, 182 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities, lightly soiled, sunning to spine.

Very good. 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches, [32] pages, Stiff white wrappers with an illustration of a Japanese woman walking, in traditional costume, on upper wrapper, bound with silk string, all edges gilt, light wear to overlapping wrapper edges, Text in French. The text and the rococo borders surrounding each page are printed in deep purple, with the text set against a pale green background. Advertisement for a chocolate company on first page.

Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, Oakland, 1896. Good, some soiling and foxing to contents. 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, wrappers, some tears, stains and soiling to covers, signature in pencil on rear cover, [56] pages plus 18 leaves of plates. Record of the 50th anniversary commemoration services honoring the raising of the American flag at San Francisco on July 9th, 1846 (held July 9th, 1896) as well as services commemorating the raising of the Bear Flag at Sonoma on June 14th, 1846 (held June 13th, 1896).

Callaway Editions, Lyme, 1980. Fine. 13.5 in. x 11 in., Unnumbered pages, Cloth, Signed by the photographer in ink on title page, With 48 full page reproductions from Callahan photographs

Matrix Publications, Providence, (1980 ). Near fine. First Edition 14 x 14 inches, unumbered pages, cloth with cloth slipcase, slight fading to cloth at spine, Signed by the photographer in felt pen on half-title page.

New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1983. First Edition 11.5 in. x 9.75 in., 204 pages, Boards, Dust Jacket (Slight wear to jacket at spine), Signed by the photographer on front endpaper, Boards with cloth spine. Essay by Marianne Fulton

New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., N.p., (1986). Fine. First Edition 10 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 119 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (small closed tear at bottom of rear cover), Inscribed by the photographer to previous owner in felt pen on preliminary blank and dated "12/14/86" .

New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., N.p., 1986. First Edition 10.75 in. x 11.75 in., Unnumbered pages, Cloth, Signed by the photographer in felt pen on half-title page, With 119 full page reproductions from Caponigro's photographs. Detailed study of the ancient stone structures in England, Wales and Scotland

New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1988. First Edition 10 in. x 8.25 in., 93 pages, Cloth, Signed by the photographer in felt pen on title page

151 pages, signed by Avedon on half-title page.

The author coined the term "Outsider Art" that is now commonplace fifty years later. Text on the inside flap of the dust jacket describes the book as "a fascinating excursion into a world where hermits, madmen, drop-outs, innocents and spiritual fanatics create their own wildly imaginative art."

Liveright, New York, (1974). Very good. 10 x 7 inches, 312 pages, cloth, light sunning to spine, cardboard slipcase with printed paper label, Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund.

Arena Editions, Santa Fe, (2000). Fine. First Edition, Limited edition: No. 57 of 100 copies signed by the photographer in pen on the title page, with a platinum photograph measuring 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches on rag paper measuring 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, numbered and signed by the photographer in pencil below the image, housed in a folding clamshell case 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth with paste down illustration on front cover, Includes 69 full page reproductions of photographs by Keith Carter, includes essay by John Wood.

Thames & Hudson, London, (1955). Very good: stain to top and bottom edges of binding extending roughly 2 inches down spine. First Edition 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 163 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (fair: loss to top portion of rear panel).

CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, (1982). Near fine. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, [16] pages, wrappers, slight wear to front cover, Signed by the artist in felt pen on title page.

576 pages plus 2 leaves of color printing advertising Parker Pens, small section cut out from leaf 201-202, closed tear to 307-308, 7 ¾ x 5 inches, wrappers, laid into printed cloth cover, some soiling and wear to covers, paper yellowed in certain sections but overall a very nice copy. Johnson Smith & Co. was a mail-order company established in 1914 by Alfred Johnson Smith in Chicago selling novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. The company would put ads in magazines devoted to children and young adults such as Boy's Life, Popular Mechanics and Science Digest. Their ads appeared on the back cover of many historically significant comic books, including Action Comics #1, June 1938. The company moved from Chicago to Racine, Wisonsin in 1926, to Detroit in the 1930s, and from the Detroit area to Brandenton, Florida in 1986. The company closed in 2019 after 105 years in business.The original offered for sale here was reprinted in 1970 by Chelsea… Read More

inscribed by Struss in felt pen to Will Connell and dated 1978.
Catalogue of travelling exhibition of Struss' still photography made before and during his early career as a cinematographer in Hollywood. The catalogue is inscribed to the son of Southern California photographer Will Connell who worked with Struss as a member of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s. Laid in is a prospectus for a portfolio of platinum prints by Struss published in 1979.

William and Robert Chambers, Edinburgh, 1850. Very good. 8 x 5 inches, 32 pages, printed boards, Rebacked.

Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, 1889. Good, title page loose but attached. 7 1/2 x 5 inches, 168 pages, cloth, corners & spine lightly bumped, Inscribed by Francis Farquhar to Weldon Heald in pencil on front endpaper and dated April 27, 1946, Xi, 168 pages plus 11 leaves of plates (collotype reproductions from photographs), also numerous black and white half-tone illustrations from photographs in text.