Search Results: Titles starting with C from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Waltham MA: Academic Press, 2012. Second edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Quarto; xvi, 458 pages plus plates. New, unread copy. Methods in Cell Biology Volume 107. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 18th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Sausalito: Canyon Cinema, 1976. Quarto; 270 pages. Index. Photo-reproductions. Stiff illustrated softcover in near fine condition (previous owner inscription; light general wear).

New York: Century Company, 1886. 1st. Hard Cover. Hinges cracked and fragile, bookplate to ffep, o/w Very Good in original 1/2 leather boards. Small quarto; viii, 964 pages.

Stockholm: Latvian National Fund, 1952. 1st. Small octavo; 111 pages. Minor edgewear; a Near Fine copy. "The first publication on the secret structure of the NKVD in one of the Soviet Republics.

Prato: Nella Tipografia Guasti, 1839. Seconda edizione/terza edizione. Hard Cover. Ex-library w/usual flaws; o/w a Very Good copy (unused). 12mo; 219 pages & 390 pages. Italian text; no notes, underlining, highlighting.

Boca Raton FL: CRC Press, 1974. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine copies. Complete set; quarto published 1974-1980.

Rio de Janiero: 7 Letras, 2000. 1st. Paperback. new copy. Octavo; 274 pages. Tri-lingual edition (Portuguese-English-Spanish).

New York: Viking Press, 1986. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page. Large 8vo. 582 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-reproductions. A fine copy of an important work on the origins and disappearing water in the Western United States. A social history of the politics of water in the United States and the environmental destruction wreaked by dams. "Cadillac Desert details the powerful and sometimes baleful influence the Bureau of Reclamation has had on the West - pushing it inexorably toward an edge from which, sooner or later, it is bound to fall off. A long book, packed with facts, Cadillac Desert is not going to be bedside reading for the millions; but millions ought to read it, because in its pages is visible the shape of a future that we have stubbornly refused to foresee." - Wallace Stegner. The book is on the Modern Library list of the 100 most important non-fiction books of the twentieth century.

Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Firt Edition. Octavo; xiv, 222 pages : portrait, facsimile (on lining papers). Publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered in gold. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. Fine, unread copy (in original shrinkwrap).

Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1992. 1st. 1st edition thus. Collector's Edition. 4to. 751, [8] pp. Index; Maps. Illustrations. Tan leather with gilt lettering & decoration; red & black leather title labels to spine; AEG; silk ribbon marker. moire endpapers. As new. "A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325." Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1996. First Edition. Quarto; (xii), 394pp. Illustrations. Bibliography; Index. New, unread copy. Calcium and Phosphorus in Health and Disease is a valuable source of information on the role of nutrition in maintaining bone health throughout the life cycle. It emphasizes nutritional interactions with mineral metabolism and maintenance of bone health. This book presents the basic concepts of regulation of calcium and phosphorus metabolism by calcemic hormones and the structure and function of calcified tissues. It provides an in-depth review of bone growth and maintenance and calcium metabolism throughout the life cycle. Pregnancy and lactation, the effects of physical activity, and the special problems of nutrition and bone health in the elderly are addressed. It presents the basic biochemistry of mineral homeostasis and bone development and presents reviews by experts on the treatment and epidemiology of osteoporosis. This text/reference is extensively illustrated, with… Read More

Kew: List and Index Society, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quartos; vi, 268pp; iv, 269-459. Library markings but new and unused. Stiff yellow paperbacks with black lettering. Volumes 349 & 350 of the List and Index Society. The patent rolls were the government's central registry where grants of land or other gifts, the appointments of officials, pardons, leases and such matters as patents establishing boroughs, markets or schools may be found.

Yermo, CA: Published by the author, 1941. 1st. Paperback. 12mo. 57, [1] pp. Photo-illustrations. Stiff tan staplebound wrappers with title printed in orange on front cover, map printed inside front cover.. A fine copy with a hint of wear. Incidents of political and social life in Calico, boomtown of the 1880s, as related by its former residents. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Large 8vo. 178 pp. Fold-out map of California at rear. 32 tipped-in color plates (including frontispiece) with titled tissue guards, reproducing paintings by Sutton Palmer. Index. Green cloth with a signed pictorial design by Henry Hunt Clark, printed in blue, orange and yellow on the front and spine; background to titling blocked in gilt on the front and spine with top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities; repaired tear to spine head; previous owner bookplate; a very good copy. Austin writings of the beauties up and down California are paired beautifully with scenic views by Sutton Palmer including Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Mt. Tamalpais, Glendale Valley, San Diego and much more. Her inscribed sentiment translates to "Sunny days expand the soul"...a true statement for California days. (A & C Black 649; Cowan pg. 23; Rocq 16661).

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Large 8vo. 178 pp. Fold-out map of California at rear. 32 tipped-in color plates (including frontispiece) with titled tissue guards, reproducing paintings by Sutton Palmer. Index. Green cloth with a signed pictorial design by Henry Hunt Clark, printed in blue, orange and yellow on the front and spine; background to titling blocked in gilt on the front and spine with top edge gilt. A fine copy; we have not seen a better copy! Austin writings of the beauties up and down California are paired beautifully with scenic views by Sutton Palmer including Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta, Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Mt. Tamalpais, Glendale Valley, San Diego and much more. Her inscribed sentiment translates to "Sunny days expand the soul"...a true statement for California days. (A & C Black 649; Cowan pg. 23; Rocq 16661).

Hollywood: Hartwell Publishing Corporation, 1930. First Edition. 12mo; 55pp including 'Foreword,' 'Brief Guide to Pronunciation of Spanish Names' and 'A Word of Thanks.' Scarce publication in fine condition (previous owner name).

San Francisco: Bolte & Braden Co, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 301pp; Table of Springs; Analyses; numerous photo-illustrations. Decorative Arts and Crafts designed covers. Light wear to extremities; shelf wear; a near fine cop, not often found in such nice condition. A chance visit to California inspired Mr. Sanders to share his experiences travelling the length and breadth of this beautiful state. In particular, he writes of the numerous hot and cold mineral springs and their valuable curative properties. A friend of the naturalist , John Muir, Mr. Sanders included "details regarding many of the forest trees and lakelets provided to him by Mr. Muir himself

Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION from both authors to Wallace Sterling, former President of Stanford University. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 208pp. Duo-tone illustrations; fold-out family tree to rear. Tan cloth covered boards; decorated end papers; gilt titles to spine; printed in brown ink. A fine copy. Includes the translation from German of J. Bickel's journal entitled "The Fraudulent Undertaking of an Expedition by Sea from New Orleans to California by Wilson Schmitt in 1852" as well as various family miscellanea of letters, articles and personal remembrances. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing, 1933. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Folio. 32 pp. Photographic-illustrations; advertisements. Cover image of Santa Barbara Mission from a photograph by Will Connell. Illustrated wrappers in very good condition (light general wear). Includes articles on The Hillside Home of Ramon Novarro built by Frank Lloyd Wright; Robinson Jeffers & Tor House; Designing Small Lot Garden by Thomas Church; Community Theater; Modern Flower Arranging and much more.

Oakland: DeWitt & Snelling, 1913. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 8vo. 48pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait illustration of author. Stiff brown wrappers. Edges are all neat and clean; slight fading else near fine. (Cowan pg. 695).