Search Results: Titles starting with C from Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 1995. First trade edition. Hardcover. Near fine. SIGNED. Quarto [28.5 cm] 81 pp. Hardbound in black paper-covered boards with gilt decoration. Comprehensive numbered bibliography with brief annotations. A useful item for the Crumb collector. With a bookplate that has been signed by R. Crumb mounted to the front pastedown.

Logan, UT: Cache American, 1935. Paperback. Very good. 196 pp. in orange printed wrappers, stapled binding. Residential and business listings. worn at extremities, small split at foot of spine, very good over all.

The Herald Journal, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto [20 cm x 26 cm] Glossy gray, white, and black pictorial boards. Near fine condition. A photographic history focusing on every day life in Logan, Hyrum, Providence, Wellsville, Richmond, Mendon and Lewiston. With photographs of the Main Street parade, Bearded postmen, Baxter children, First Boy Scout Troop, a 70th birthday celebration, Hiawatha Safety Bicycle Club, Brenchley Brothers Blacksmith Shop, Richmond Tabernacle and more.

New York: Time-Life Books; The American Wilderness Series, 1977. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Ernst Haas. SIGNED. 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth with glossy illustrated paper over boards. Very good. The front cover is just a little bit warped. There is a previous owner's short inscription on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with a handful of short closed tears and chips to the edges, and toning to the rear panel. There is an $8.95 price sticker on the front inside flap. Photography by Ernst Haas. A journey in book form through southern Arizona and northern Mexico, guided by former park ranger and desert rat, Edward Abbey. This copy is inscribed by Abbey to Earth First! cofounder Ron Kezar on the front free endpaper.

New York: Time-Life Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 184pp. Quarto [26 cm] 1/4 black cloth with glossy illustrated paper over boards. With the hourglass on the last page. Very good. The front board is just a tiny bit warped, and the corners of the covers are ever so slightly rubbed. The price-clipped dust jacket is in good only condition with a large open tear in the top edge of the rear panel that measures 1 inch wide by 1 and 1/4 inches deep. The edges have numerous short and long closed tears as well. The longest closed tear measures 3 inches long. There are 4 pieces of tape backing the tears along the top edge. Photography by Ernst Haas. A journey in book form through southern Arizona and northern Mexico, guided by former park ranger and desert rat, Edward Abbey.

New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 376pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with the title stamped in bold white ink on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's bright red top stain. Very minor lean to the spine; trivial bumping to the bottom fore-edge corners of the boards. In the scarce dust jacket in very attractive condition, with mild toning and light rubbing to the edges. Dance 61. A strange mix of horror, crime, and science fiction, featuring dust jacket art and a frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Lynd Ward was not only a talented printmaker, but he was a socially-conscious storyteller as well. "Gods' Man," a modern morality play, was the work that built his reputation.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. As new/As New. [INSCRIBED] 297pp. Octavo. [23cm]. 1/4 dark blue paper over tan boards. Title stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket is white with embossed design on front panel and picture of author on rear panel, spine reads "Special ABA collectors edition" along with book title and author's name. Signed on title page by author with inscription that reads "To _______, all the best" Aaron Crown comes from a long line of shady Cajun characters, and rumors of Klan ties swirl around his family—so his arrest for the murder of a black civil rights leader would seem to be an open and shut case. But when the man who worked hardest to put Crown away ascends to the governor's mansion, detective Dave Robicheaux begins to suspect that Aaron may be innocent of the crime. Soon key figures in high places start pressuring Dave to drop his investigation...but that only makes him more determined to uncover the truth at any cost.

New York: Viking, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. 582pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth spine with black paper covered boards, and the title stamped in copper on the spine. Map endsheets. Remainder mark to foot of the text block. The rear board is a little warped and the edges of the boards are subtly faded. In the dust jacket, with rubbing to the surface, and two small tears to the edges, backed with tape. Reisner's seminal work on water use in the American West is even more relevant and compelling today, when the Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and crucial water supplies like groundwater are both dwindling and mostly unregulated.

New York: Penguin Books, 2017. revised and updated edition; later printing. Paperback. New. 633pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. [INSCRIBED]. 297pp. Octavo. [23cm]. 1/4 dark blue over tan boards. Title is stamped in gold gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed "To ______, all the best," and signed by author on the title page. From the author's website: Aaron Crown comes from a long line of shady Cajun characters, and rumors of Klan ties swirl around his family—so his arrest for the murder of a black civil rights leader would seem to be an open and shut case. But when the man who worked hardest to put Crown away ascends to the governor's mansion, detective Dave Robicheaux begins to suspect that Aaron may be innocent of the crime. Soon key figures in high places start pressuring Dave to drop his investigation...but that only makes him more determined to uncover the truth at any cost.

Pocatello, ID: Blue Scarab Press, 2003. First edition, 1/100. Paperback. [12pp.] Octavo [21 cm] Tan stappled wrappers. Fine. This volume is forth in a series of chapbooks featuring Southeast Idaho writers under the Pocatello Blend title.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 96pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Minor rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the boards; previous owner's discreet ink stamp on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities. The rear panel is just a trifle soiled. Celebrated 20th-century American poet May Swenson was a Utah native who died in 1989. This is a first edition of her second book.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Octavo. Black cloth. Very good/Very good. Minor discoloring to boards due to moisture. Jacket has a small closed tear to head of cover with minor nicking at corners. Author has inscribed the volume on the front free endsheet. Celebrated 20th-century American poet May Swenson was a Utah native who died in 1989.

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 96 pp. Octavo. Black cloth; ends lightly rubbed. Light rubbing and soiling to dustjacket with two 1/2 inch closed tears to the rear panel; else very good. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to the Rocky Mountain poet and anthologist, Thomas Ferril. This was Swenson's second book. Celebrated 20th-century American poet May Swenson was a Utah native who died in 1989.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Octavo. Black cloth. Very good/Very good. Minor discoloring to boards due to moisture. Jacket has a small closed tear to head of cover with minor nicking at corners. Author has inscribed the volume on the front free endsheet.

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 229pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Green cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Light yellow endsheets. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. There is a very small stain on the fore edge of the text block. The text block is cracked at the center, however the book is still very sturdy. The pages are tanned. The author wrote under the pseudonym "Barry Gray" and under his own name, Robert Barry Coffin. His books include "'Married Life at Hillside,' 'Out of Town,' and 'Infelicities of Married Life.'.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 308pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards, with bumping to the spine ends and bottom fore-edge corners of the covers, fading to the gilt on the backstrip, and foxing to the top edge of the text block. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle, with his name plate on the front pastedown. Bleiler Checklist. A first edition of Maugham's satire of London's literary society.

Genève [Geneva]: Editions Du Sablier, 1919. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very good/Very good. Frans Masereel. 104pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Plain wraps with a printed French-fold wrapper. P. 23 and opposite page heavily darkened. Wrapper toned (more so at the spine), and lightly soiled. In the publisher's glassine wrapper, with a small loss from the spine's head, along with light chipping to the spine's foot. French text. Written in pen after "Exemplaire No" is "d'Editeur." Ritter C a) Nr. 11. With 10 woodcut illustrations by Flemish artist Frans Masereel. One in an edition of 706.

[Washington, D. C.]: [Government Printing Office], 1850. Leather bound. Fair. 976pp. Octavo [23 cm] in contemporary quarter brown leather over marbled boards, with gilt spine title (California Message and Correspondence 1850). Front board and front free endpaper nearly completely detached. Abrasion and small hole to front free endpaper where it had been adhered to pastedown, dampstain to upper margins of early text. Four fold-out maps.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good. 236; 28pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Ex-library, with library numbers rubbed out on spine and a small numerical stamp on the verso of the title page. Spine a bit sunned. Hinges glued. Ex-libris Joseph M. Gleason, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Gleason was a Californian Catholic priest, educationalist, historian, and collector of books and photographs. Walter Mulrea Fisher's account of his four years long stay in California in the 1870s.