Search Results: Titles starting with C from Alkahest Books

Boston, Twayne Publishers, (c. 1975), 1975. Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, (c. 1975), 1975. Hardcover. Pages 161,8vo, hardcover. Twayne's English Authors Series, TEAS 179. Includes index. Marron cloth, ex-library (non-circulating), with spine label, book plate and stamps. Very Good. ISBN: 0-8057-1510-X

Mexico City: Citicorp, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Doniz, Rafael. Fotografias by Rafael Doniz. Quarto. 140 pages, Edition of 2000 copies. Text in Spanish. Color illustrations, folding plate. El Mural de la Batalla; El Mural del portico; Mural de la Pared Norte; Mural de la pared Sur. Includes: Apendice: Analisis de los Pigmentos. 021210B

Chicago: J. Regan & Co. "Free Speech" Publisher, no date. hardcover. near very good. Octavo, brown cloth covers, 318 pages. Some scuffing on covers, else very good, No dust jacket. 092717C

Los Angeles: Calavo Growers of California, (c. 1949). softcover. Good +. Stapled pamphlet, approx. 5 7/8" wide and 7 7/8" tall, 15 pages. Light soil at cover edges, light crease on rear cover corner. 012204A

New York: Basic Books, (1964). hardcover. Fine/fine. Translated from the tenth, revised, German edition by E. J. F. Primrose. Dark blue cloth covers stamped in orange, 132 pages. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 020207A

Beverly Hills: Hillcrest Press, (1985). first edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto, (approx. 8 3/4" wide by 11 3/16" tall) tan cloth covers with gilt titles, 133 pages. 400 color illustrations. Includes lists of label artists and lithographers. Index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 051517A "In the seventy years from the 1880's to the mid-1950's millions of colorful paper labels were used by California citrus growers to identify and advertise the wooden boxes of oranges they shipped throughout the United States. These labels provide a social history, a history of commercial art, and a history of California business." -- from the dust jacket.

Beverly Hills: Hillcrest Press, (1985). first edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto, (approx. 8 3/4" wide by 11 3/16" tall) tan cloth covers with gilt titles, 133 pages. 400 color illustrations. Includes lists of label artists and lithographers. Index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 051517A "In the seventy years from the 1880's to the mid-1950's millions of colorful paper labels were used by California citrus growers to identify and advertise the wooden boxes of oranges they shipped throughout the United States. These labels provide a social history, a history of commercial art, and a history of California business." -- from the dust jacket.

San Francisco, A. M. Robertson, 1916,, 1916. Hardcover. San Francisco, A. M. Robertson, 1916,, 1916. Hardcover. third printing. Pages 63,12mo, hardcover, third printing. Color frontis. Covers darkened, worn at edges, Fair. 010608A

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., (c. 1951),, 1951. F. Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., (c. 1951),, 1951. F. Hardcover. first edition. Pages xvi + 251,octavo ( approx. 6 in. by 9 1/8 in.), hardcover, first edition. Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor. Mpas on endpapers, black and white illustrations. Review slip laid in. Two cover corners bumped; clean and tight, Good. 082504A

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo, 224 pages. Former owner name on front free endpaper; one cover corner light bumped. Kate is the younger sister of Peggy: "But Peggy wanted to get married more than anything else in the world, and she never gave Kate a chance when a new man came in sight." A very nice-looking copy. 020207A

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1999). First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 254 pages. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. 061507C

Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1972,, 1972. reprint eedition. Soft cover. Very good. 64 pages, softcover pamphlet, reprint edition. Revised by J. B. Palmer. Illustrated by Dennis Turner. Age-browning on inside covers, and rear cover edges. Small bookstore stamp on half-title page, else Very Good condition. 040407A Folklore, New Zealand

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1987). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. viii + 149 pages, octavo. Part of the series: Great Murder Trials of the Twentieth Century. Black and white frontis. illustrations. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. 020207A

Ft Myers, FL, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Ft Myers, FL, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, approx. 8" by 10 3/4"; 95 pages. Filled wiht black and white photo reproductions.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.,, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.,, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos, navy cloth covers with gilt titles. Former owner name on label in each volume. The set is in very nice condition. Vol. 1, 274 pages, 8 maps; Vol. 2, 236 pages, 5 maps; vol. 3, 268 pages, 4 pages of ads, 1 map. Newspaper clippings of book review tipped in. Also tipped in vol. 1 is a letter from the author to the literary editor of the Boston Transcript. 091306A

Baton Rouge, Louissiana State Univ, Press, 1991,, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louissiana State Univ, Press, 1991,, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first printing. Pages 63,octavo, hardcover, first printing. Book is in Fine condition; dust jacket spine sunned, else Very good. 082203A ISBN: 0-8071-1676-9

Washington, D. C.: The Independent Publishing Co.,, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Washington, D. C.: The Independent Publishing Co.,, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, pink cloth covers with white and black titles and cover illus., xvii + 255 pages. Includes black and white photo reproductions. Some light soil on covers. Pencilled notes on one page. 061508E

NY, Doubleday, (1989),, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, (1989),, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first edition, Pages 230,8vo, hardcover, first edition, Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. Publicity material laid in. The author, a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and an internationally recognized scientist, is best known for the synthesis of the first oral contraceptive. 073102A ISBN: 0-385 26183-7

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First American Edition, as stated.. softcover. near Very Good. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. Trade paperback, 312 pages. Ring stain on top cover, light wear. Cover design by Milton Glaser. " A high-minded American couple who seem most oddly to have got married because they admired each other's souls, and even because they felt mutual sexual antipathy settle down in Italy with inevitably fatal results." --extract from a review from the Times Literary Supplement. 040414C

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, (c. 1970),, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good +. Pages xii + 224 pages, octavo. Book is in Fine condition, dust jacket has price-clipped, a bit sunned, Good plus. 020207A