Search Results: Titles starting with C from Mike's Library

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1868. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light tone, light wear. Solid oblong hardcover. ; Illustrated by forty-eight large and beautifully engraved plates. Furniture pictured includes Bedroom, Dining Room, Drawing Room and Library pieces, all in more elaborate Victorian designs. An uncommonly nice copy of this scarce mid-nineteenth-century furniture design book.; [2]+48 plates. pages .

Caracas: Editorial Memorias de Altagracia. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2009. 1a Edición. Mass Market Paperback. 980678801X . Spanish language. 1ra edición en español. "La poesía que presenta la autora es directa, muy personal y con una gran sensualidad. Indaga, con buen oficio, la tristeza, el cansancio, la vida, el amor, la ansiedad y la libertad. A través texturas, colores y sabores incita, de manera indirecta, a sentir diversas emociones o simplemente a reflexionar sobre el mundo que nos rodea." - marcybetancourt. ; Colección Celacanto .

New York: Barse and Hopkins. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1914. Paperback. Calendar is Very Good with light wear. Box top has paper chipping, 1/2" tear on one side; bottom box has two corner tears and light rub. Solid cord-tied paperback.; Boxed - 9-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Calendar has thick paper cover with gilt decor and lettering, title page, 52 decorated weekly pages with sayings, annual calendar page, and Barse ad page. Cord-tied. Upper-end Barse & Hopkins gift calendar in original box. ; [55] pages .

Los Angeles CA: Western Publishing and Novelty. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1956. Stapled wraps. Light creasing, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize paperback stapled wraps. ; Lush full color lithographic pictorial. Thirty-four photographs of California scenery on twenty four unnumbered pages plus the covers. ; [28] pages .

New York: Ivison, Blakeman & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1869. Later Printing. Hardcover. Tone, 1889 owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Later printing by the original copyright holder, Ivison, one of the major textbook publishers in the second half of the 19th-century, and printed before its merger as part of the 1890 formation of the American Book Company. Contains songs with music scores, lyrics, and small pictures of the calisthenic exercises to be associated with each song. An attractive, illustrated physical exercise songbook. ; v, 68, (1) pages .

Hartwell VIC: Sid Harta Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 1921362146 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; "In the late nineteenth century when Englishman Hugh Mitchell moves to Australia to start a new life, he has no conception of what challenges lie ahead. He is propelled into a life of drought, hardship and loneliness but swept up in the tides of change in the developing coutnry. His long persistance leads to prosperity but not before his wife, succumbing to the isolation, returns to England, leaving Hugh wiht his young son reliant upon their largely Aboriginal staff. So begins a dynasty in a land unyielding though splendid, violent though magnificent, beautiful though brutal, where lives intertwine and weaknesses arise from unexpected areas; lives are shared and lost but fully lived." ; vii, 312 pages .

New York: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 0405049110 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1916 edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co: The Camera as Historian : A Handbook to Photographic Record Work for those who use a Camera and for Survey or Record Societies. Written by three officers of the Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey. "The Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey was established in 1902, 'to preserve by permanent photographic process records of antiquities, anthropology, buildings of interest, portraits of notable persons, old documents, rare books, prints and maps, and scenery so as to give a comprehensive survey of what is valuable and representative in the County of Surrey'." In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the… Read More

Fredericton NB: Goose Lane Editions. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0864924410 . Library stamps/marks, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize trade paperback. ; ""Together with five other men, I went out on the bowsprit to stow the jib after the downhaul and sheets had been manned. The canvas was flogging so violently that the stout bowsprit whipped like a sapling . . . we hung on with every finger a fishhook as the foaming water rose up to our knees." As a young journalist in Montreal in 1911, Frederick William Wallace only dreamed of the rough-and-tumble seafaring life. Little did he know he would be hanging on for dear life just one year later aboard the Effie M. Morrissey somewhere off the coast of Nova Scotia. Between 1911 and 1917, in the last age of unassisted sail, Frederick William Wallace made seven voyages aboard fishing schooners, and with his simple box camera, he photographed the men, the… Read More

Roma: Lateran University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2004. Trade Paperback. 8846504879 . Light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize trade paperback. ; Italian language primarily; texts in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. "Descrizione: Qual è la sfida che si presenta ai moralisti dieci anni dopo la Veritatis Splendor? Più che bilancio conclusivo di un dibattito, bisogna interpretare l’enciclica come principio di una riflessione capace di dare ragioni scientifiche all’esperienza morale dei fedeli nella sua globalità. Il volume raccoglie studi ed interventi di qualificati esperti a livello internazionale sui temi più decisivi per il rinnovamento della teologia morale, quali: la prospettiva teologica dell’agire, il dinamismo pratico della ragione, il rapporto tra il bene e la persona, la dimora ecclesiale della vita morale cristiana." Atti del convegno tenutosi a Roma nel 2004. Essays contributed for… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1884. 1st thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels, rubbed, light tone, light cock and head chipping to volume I, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers.; Half leather library binding with six compartment spine, gilt spine lettering, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. First edition of the translation by Burton: Norman M Penzer; An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton; page 104. ; Ex-Library; 540 in 2v pages .

No place stated: Author's Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1915. Reprint. Hardcover. Light edgewear, light edgewear to spine label, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover. ; Bookplate printed through Tiffany & Co on front paste-down: The Rossiter W Raymond Memorial Library of the Woman's Auxiliary to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. "A distinguished mining engineer here describes a trip taken through Colorado, Yellowstone and eastern Washington in 1871." - Western Americana: An Annotated Bibliography; WA19066. Collection of sketches printed in periodicals, notable for Raymond's early description of Yellowstone, "when few white men had seen its beauties and wonders." - Preface. Contents: Thanksgiving Joe; Agamemnon; Widow Baker; Wonders of the Yellowstone; The Ice-Caves of Washington Territory; The Ascent of Gray's Peak.; 243 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Edgewear, front hinge starting, tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Recollections of camping, hunting and fishing by the author of Hints To Golfers. "Deer and bird shooting, moose, and trapping." - Richard A Hand; A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects; 1991 Scarecrow Press; H104. "My Dear Mr Hanks: I have had pleasure going through your "Camp Kits and Camp Life." As a practical guide to the camper and hunter it seems to be just what it should be. I am Very Sincerely Yours, John Burroughs." ; xii, 259 pages .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 2"peel/tear head, fore edge tears/chips, tone, library stamps/marks/labels. Solid hardcover. ; Analysis by English military officer, and later Sandhurst professor. "The campaign of Fredericksburg has been selected, amongst other reasons, as having been fought by two armies largely composed of unprofessional soldiers. The lessons it teaches, the shortcomings it reveals, are likely, therefore, to be of exceptional interest and value to that class of officers to whose consideration I venture to recommend them." - author's preface. Catalogue of the Military Library of John Page Nicholson, p 370; Broadfoot (4th Ed), p 263. The first, and anonymous, edition of this classic work of military strategy and tactics.; Ex-Library; 145 pages .

Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Ercilla. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Well toned, edgewear, owners' stamps and signature, light wear. Solid copy. ; Spanish language, Chilean edition of Brazilian novelist Graça Aranha's first novel, Canaã. "A roman á thèse, Canaan involves two German immigrants who represent opposing points of view concerning the future of Brazil: one maintains that Aryan superiority will eventually dominate while the other foresees a merger of peoples and customs leading to a future national harmony embracing both settlers and natives." - Richard A Preto-Rodas in Irwin Stern, Dictionary of Brazilian Literature, 1988 Greenwood Press; page 32. ; 289 pages .

Ancona IT: Edizioni L'Astrogallo. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Edition. Paperback. Bottom corner light bump, otherwise light wear. Solid paperback with dust jacket. ; Italian language. INSCRIBED by Author on Series page in 1977. Laid in is crisp single-fold brochure on Venturoli, including excerpts from reviews of Canto Plurale. Limited Edition, # 119 of 500. Illustrated by Emilio Greco, Valeriano Trubbiani, and Renzo Vespignani. Poetry by the late Italian art critic, journalist and essayist Venturoli. ; Il Margine; Vol. 7; 195 pages; Signed by Author .

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas: Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1996. Trade Paperback. 9687495154 . Edge creasing, light cock, spine wear, ownership stamp on flyleaf, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Spanish language.; Spanish Edition; 359 pages .

Chicago: A C McClurg. Good with no dust jacket. 1902. 1st English Language Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Both hinges starging but still firm, cover stain, tone with random foxing, Club signature 1906, later owner's signature 1942, wear. Worn but solid hardcover. ; Translation of German novelist Felix Dahn's historical romance Bissula, set in 378 AD around Lake Constance, with the Western Empire struggling against the Alemanni and the Eastern Empire under Valens about to suffer catastrophic defeat by the Goths at Adrianopole. ; 434 pages .

Paris: AIPCR Association Mondiale de la Route / PIARC World Road Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. Trade Paperback. 2840601311 . Corner bump, light cover curl, otherwise slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; Bilingual, French and English languages. ; 551 pages .

Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0895740842 . Library REBIND in hardcover with original paperback front and rear wrappers bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "We have tried, therefore, to assess the mass of these unidentified components, and gain insight into probable compositions. The components appears to be complex polysaccharides." - Introduction.; Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry : Vol 12 No 2 (1980); 57 pages .

New York: John Wurtele Lovell. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Toned, owner's signature on dedication page, rubbed at spine head and tail, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Frederic Jessel; A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming; 958. Listed ahead of the 1880 Holt edition in Jessel, thus an early American edition. As issued, this publication has no frontispiece of "Cavendish". "... collects and gives to the world a remarkably pleasant and useful series of essays upon whist and its ways and surroundings." - Saturday Review. Jones, Hoyle's contemporary and equal, gave up his surgery practice for a career as an editor of cards and amusements in popular London publications. An uncommon early American printing of what is considered one of his two finest works. ; 257 pages .