Search Results: Titles starting with C from Island Books

Richard Cohen,, 1999. 8vo.. First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE

St. James Press,, 1968. Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured portrait frontispiece and 13 plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Continuum,, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY,, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1981.

Collins,, 1990. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

1993. 8vo., text in Czech, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy.

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris,, 1973. Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in French, with portrait frontispiece and numerous reproductions throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM SEARLE TO TONY CHARDET WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AT END. Anthony Chardet was a leading stage director and producer working in London and on Broadway during the 60s, 70s and 80s. SCARCE.

SS Great Britain Project, [Bristol,, c.1990]. 8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Facsimile reissue of the original Melbourne edition of 1862.

Martin Secker,, [1923]. 9 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); original olive buckram, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips faded (but gilt just legible) else a very good, bright, clean, crisp set. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED SETS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN FIRST VOLUME . A further 500 numbered sets were produced for sale in the US. The definitive edition of Machen's works. The set comprises Vol. I: The Great God Pan, The Inmost Light, The Red Hand; Vol. II: The Three Imposters; Vol. III: The Hill of Dreams; Vol. IV: The Secret Glory; Vol. V: Hieroglyphics; Vol. VI: A Fragment of Life, The White People; Vol. VII: The Terror, The Bowmen, The Great Return; Vol. VIII: Far Off Things; Vol. IX: Things Near and Far. NCBEL IV, p.645.

Faber,, [1990]. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter as usual lightly sunned at backstrip.

Sabre Press, Ann Arbor MI,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Plon, Paris,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, London, and bears its cancelled bookplate on front paste-down and neat accession panel on title verso.

John Calder,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter ; taupe cloth, gilt back, backstrip faintly faded at extreme head and tail of backstrip, else a bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper with a couple of small closed tears. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.

Scottish Mountaineering Club, Edinburgh,, 1950. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous plates and maps (a number folding); red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1923.

Chatto & Windus,, 1907. 8vo., First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in blue and black, 57 fine coloured plates and 4 line illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with coloured illustration mounted in centre frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. With the separately printed addendum slip facing text.

[Privately Printed, Lincoln],, [c.1934]. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE. Darroch & Taylor 3722.

Secker & Warburg,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Caitlin's long-awaited account of life and marriage with Dylan Thomas.

Folio Society,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial green cloth, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Privately Printed,, [ c.1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, staples mildly rusted else a very good, clean copy.

Terence Dalton, Lavenham,, 1972. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.