Search Results: Authors starting with C from The Kelmscott Bookshop

Nancy: Editions Serpenoise, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Near fine in olive green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Stamp to front free end page and to copyright page. Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Red and white illustrated dust jacket with white and black title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 231 pages. IN FRENCH. FREHIS/110215.

Paris: Librairie Militaire, 1846. Hardcover. Good+. Hardcover. Good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt title to brown title label on spine. Soiling to front board and spine. Minor bumping to edges. Marbled end pages. Damp stain to bottom edge almost every page, about 1.5 inches upwards from the bottom edge and branching one inch outwards. This does not Affect the text which is clean and bright. 229 pages. French Language. FRE211011.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good+/Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. 12mo. In tan paper covered boards with tan and blue illustrated Dust jacket with black title to front panel. Minor chipping and toning to Dust jacket. 20 pages. PRIV/121505.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Vg/Vg Dj/presentation copy Health. HEA111141.

New York: Nan A. Talese with Doubleday, 1999. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Mint in mint dj; 1st edition; 353 pp. Religion. REL/10022.

Westport, Connecticut and London: Meckler, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Slight bumping to bottom corners. Pristine interior. 144 pages. BIB/110916.

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. "Countering the widely accepted interpretation of William Morris's Earthly Paradise as an expression of retreat from Victorian ugliness, Blue Calhoun asserts that the poem embodies a pastoral response to that troublous age" (jacket). Near fine in near fine illustrated dust jacket with orange title to front panel and off white title to spine. Fading to spine. Pristine interior. 263 pages. MOR/062910.

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Hardcover. "Countering the widely accepted interpretation of William Morris's Earthly Paradise as an expression of retreat from Victorian ugliness, Blue Calhoun asserts that the poem embodies a pastoral response to that troublous age" (jacket). Near fine red cloth covered boards with silver title to spine. Pristine interior. In very good green illustrated price clipped dust jacket with orange title to front panel and white title to faded spine. Small closed tear to front panel of dust jacket. 263 pages. MOR/050112.

Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2009. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. Number 29 of about 114 copies. According to Mark McMurray, this marvelous book was published in conjunction with Cat's Head Press of Quebec. It is a book of bon mots, bagatelles, and tableaux de l'imprierie as told to an American. It is also a sometime type specimen and leaf book. It is an inventive and fascinating book comprised of fourteen leçons, lessons, in English and French concerning the Arts of the Book and various other old and new topics. In an announcement for the book, it states that the lessons and topics are collected from found and fabricated texts by the two main semi-fictional characters, Cal & Prosper, exiles on a visit to Paris to learn the art of printing. Lecons recalls printers past and present who have produced books in Paris and McMurray has created his own look at printing history in Paris. Bound in flexible quarter dark vellum with grey-brown paper boards, with white spine label to front cover. Printed in… Read More

Guild Publishing, 1990. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with color plates and line drawings throughout. 224 pages. South America. SAME/8052.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Hardcover. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. Good plus in brown paper covered boards with leather spine titled in gilt. Front board is present but detached and rear board is nearly detached. The spine, hinges, and boards are heavily chipped and worn. Bookplate of David Bixler to front pastedown. Inscription on front free endpage and clipping about the author pasted down on verso of front free endpage, else interior is very clean. Printed on fine paper. A good candidate for rebinding. Quarto. 134 pages. POE/121812.

New York: F.J. Ficker, Law & Job Printer, 1879. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in grey wraps. Some chipping and slight darkening around edges of wraps. Chipping to corners of pages. tears to pages at outer corners throughout. Pages are brittle.Text clean. 31 pages. New York. NY1/6130.

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. Very good- in brownpaper covered boards with illustration to front board. This book has been expertly rebacked with blue cloth. The original spine has been pasted down on top of the modern material. Rubbing to boards and soiling to rear board. Wear to spine ends and corners. Spine rolled. Minor smudging and browning to margins of several pages. Pen markings to a few pages. Text is overall clean and bright with chromolithographic plates by Hoffmann. Text in German fraktur. 176 pages. GER112071.

Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in oversize wraps/folded at middle Periodicals. PER2/3222.

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./219 pp./an original drawing by Aaron Sopher on front flyleaf Education. EDU11142.

Bergamo: Instituto Italiano D'arti Grafiche - Editore, 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Marroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor rubbing to boards. Library stamp to front free end page and tape to first page of advertisements. Minor Foxing to several pages. Browning to edges of pages. Illustrations throughout. IN ITALIAN. 151 pages. Italian Travel. ITTRA/082108.

London: Neville Spearman, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. "The letters collected in this volume provide notes for chapters in the lives of Mark Twain and George W. Cable, especially from the summer of 1881 through February 1885, the period of their chief intimacy" (jacket). William Gibson's Copy with his ownership signature in pen to front free endpaper. Gibson was a noted Twain scholar. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Smudge mark to front endpaper, else clean interior. In red dust jacket with black title to spine and front cover. Minor rubbing to jacket and minor wear to edges. 134 pages. LIT/031518.

New York: Street and Smith, No date. Paperback. Good + in Wraps. Paperback. SCARCE. 8vo. Good+ with worn illustrated front wrapper and chipping to the spine. Black title to front wrapper and to spine. Chipping, rubbing and creasing to front wrapper. Rear wrapper missing. Yellowing to pages. 305 pages. Arrow Library, No. 187. Literature. LIT1/3142.

Separat-Abdruck Aus Carl's Repertorium Fur Experimental-Physik. XVI. Band, 1880. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. In Wraps. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo. In original wrappers; browned and lightly chipped at edges and spine. Wrapper is almost detached from pages inside. Interior is lightly browned but text bright. In German; 2 pp. SCI/021104.

Paris: Librairie Guillaumin et Cie, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Ex-libary with stamps to title pages and evidence of stickers removed from spines. Volume I is 588 pages plus large, color fold-out map; Volume II is 619 pages; Volume III is 597 pages; Volume IV is two parts bound together - 244 plus 408 pages.