Search Results: Titles starting with C from Borg Antiquarian

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. 8th Printing. Pictorial cloth. Very Good/Good. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, gray cloth with black lettering and black stamped delineation of St. Peter's basilica on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with stylized (woodblock?) depiction of St. Peter's & bridge, publisher's gray page tops, 230 pages. Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975) was an American playwright and prominent novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes-for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - plus a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. Author's debut novel, THE CABALA, was first published in 1926. Though this is a later printing, to have the author's SIGNATURE in his first novel is Very Special. Also, given its early date, to have so bright, clean, and nearly complete a pictorial dust jacket is remarkable. The dj has some wear and light… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore: Green Tiger Press / Published by Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Fine/Fine. Michael Hague. SIGNED by the Artist with EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION 4-inches o/a of a FLOWER & BUTTERFLY on the half title, 12mo (6 7/8" by 5"), pale green cloth with black lettering, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with inset panel drawn in full color by Michael Hague, who has illustrated the book with a full-color frontispiece and decorative title page, several plates and vignettes, pale green endpapers, [32] pages. VERY SCARCE, wonderfully illustrated & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the Artist. This is a precious & delightful illustrated small volume. Book is about a cabbage moth named "Fiona," who has dreams of becoming beautiful when she meets a very special shamrock, and an older lady who appreciates their beauty. A Superb gift--for a special child or ADULT--in Exceptional… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Like New/Like New. 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with gilt embellishments and tiny butterfly, pale-green endpapers, 376 pages. EXCELLENT as NEW condition. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: Arcade Publishing / Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. Harry Peccinotti. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine; illustrated with several gorgeous glossy color photos of Provence by Harry Peccinotti; archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped: $35), Index, flamboyant pictorial endpapers; xiv + 210 pages. Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in India to colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23. In March,1935, he and his wife, and his mother and younger siblings, moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years afterward living around the world, to include Paris, France--associating closely with Henry Miller and Anais Nin; then Alexandria, Egypt and Rhodes; Cordoba, Spain, and Belgrade; and elsewhere.... <br /> <br /> During… Read More

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, red quarter cloth with gold lettering over matching black boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with image of a two-faced split coin, 390 pages + [2] About the Author. Weight: 1 lb. 11 oz. Anne Perry (born 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.<br /> <br /> A Thomas Pitt novel set in Victorian London. XXth in the series of 32 novels.<br /> <br /> SIGNED and in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy. Slight rubbing to dust jacket (mainly on rear panel). No remainder marks.

Franklin Center, Pennslyvinia: The Franklin Library, 1977. Limited Collector's Edition. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Like New. George H. Jones. SIGNED by the Author on special publisher's front endpaper, small quarto, brown tooled leather with fine gold stamping and hubbed spine, special message by author Herman Wouk, Illustrated by Geroge H. Jones + double-spread map of The Cruise of the Caine, silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt [a.e.g.] plus a ribbon page divider, [xviii] + 544 pages. SIGNED PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING WAR & PSYCHOLOGICAL CLASSIC. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Lacks "Notes from the Editors."<br /> <br /> Herman Wouk (1915 - 2019) was an American author whose 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1952). It was made into a best-selling film in 1954 by Stanley Kramer, which starred Humphrey Bogart in one of his finest performances as disturbed Captain Queeg.<br /> <br /> Wouk's other major… Read More

[Napa, California]: [jessel gallery], 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Fine/Near Fine. Jessel Miller. INSCRIBED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the Author-Artist who has included a large Original Cartoon Cat Drawing on the front free endpaper, oblong quarto [4to] (10 1/2 x 12 7/8"), pictorial glossy cover of the colorful Calico Cat having tea with a bunny, chipmunk, and teddy bear, INSCRIBED beneath the large Cat's head: "You are purrrfectly Beauty-Full / with [Heart ~ Love] / Jessel Miller" "The Calico cat changes color with her environment, and rather than go against grain of life's experiences, chooses to blend and enjoy the changes."--blurb SIGNED, INSCRIBED, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ORIGINAL ART by the Author-Artist. SUPERIOR COPY: tight, clean, bright in a bright, clean dj (with a few traces of rubbing around its edges).

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good. William Matthison. Quarto (8 7/8" x 6 3/4" x 1 3/4"), original publisher's decorative green cloth with gold lettering on spine & front cover with repeating lamps of knowledge, illustrated by William Matthison with 77 full-color glossy plates (with captioned tissue guards) executed as watercolour (or oil) paintings of Cambridge sites; Index of Names & General Index; top page edges gilded [t.e.g.]; xix, [xx] + 395, [396] pages + folding map. Weight: > 2 lbs. 11.6 oz. Ex Libris Springfield Town Library. Better than usual ExLib: Has moderate-sized library plate on front pastedown & larger "Withdrawn" paper on rear pastedown; indications on lower label of spine that numbering has been imperfectly removed leaving slight white residue. Remarkably free of other stamps within. <br /> <br /> Cloth is worn; spine cap is abraided; edgewear. Rear hinge is… Read More

New York Boston: Warner Books, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on special front endpaper, 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black quarter cloth with bright blue lettering over blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped with $26.95 price) of the White House at night viewed through its fence, [viii} + 438 pages. #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of mysteries!<br/> <br/> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean with a sharp bright dust jacket in protective clear mylar. First edition and first printing with number line to "1."

Boston and New York: Desmond Publishing Company / Press of J. J. Little, N.D.. Reprint Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good/None. Photos and engravings. Folio (13 5/8" x 11 1/4" x 1 5/8"), blue decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spin and front cover with 6 3/4" tall gilt embossed Union soldier on blindstamped front cover, profusely illustrated with B&W reproductions of Civil War photos and engravings; beige wallpaper endpapers, 551 glossy pages. Weight: > 4 lbs. Handsomely illustrated folio that is filled with excellent images, maps, and engravings plus a narrative history of the American Civil War.<br/><br/>Solid copy without annotations, underlining, markings, or foxing. Light uniform age-toning to glossy paper. Covers are worn at corners and edges showing occasional white. Decorative endpapers have a few very small chips along edges.

London: The Folio Society, 1989. First Edition illustrated by Llewellyn Thomas. Cloth and boards. Like New/None / Slipcase Fine. Line drawings by Llewelyn Thomas. Thick 8vo, red eighth cloth with gold lettering over beige boards with minute floral border, Introduction by P.D. James, illustrated with frontispiece and 15 full-page B&W delineations by Llewellyn Thomas, pale gray endpapers, publisher's red protective topstain, xxi, [xxii] + 739-page thick volume in a fine red cardboard slipcase. Weight: 2 lbs. 10 oz. VERY ATTRACTIVE, WELL ILLUSTRATED, WELL PRINTED (by Bath Press, Avon), WELL PROTECTED and highly giftable edition of Anthony Trollope's classic novel in the Paliser [Parliamentary] series: CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (first published in two volumes by Chapman & Hall, 1864/65). <br /> <br /> the big question: What should a woman do with her life?<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION OVERALL! No previous owner marks.

Toronto, Ontario: A Canadian Living / Quantum Book, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Color Photographs. Quarto (8 7/8" x 11 1/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with picture of a turkey dinner, profusely illustrated with color photos of food, ornaments, and holiday objects, maroon endpapers, 191 pages + [192] Credits 2 kbs, 5 oz. "Hundreds of Ways to make the Holiday Season truly memorable!" "Featuring over 230 Wonderful Holiday Recipes / 18 Special Christmas Menus / Fabulous Features on Decorating your Home Beautifully Inside and Out / A "Just for Kids" Section Chock-Full of Easy-to-Make Gifts and Decorations / Creative Christmas Ornaments, Packages and Wrapping / Invaluable and Make-Ahead Tips and Shopping Shortcuts -- And Much More" EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! A remarkably useful… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1901. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good/None. B&W Photographs. 8vo (8 3/4" x 6"), original publisher's decorative green cloth with Art Nouveau panel on front cover with beautifully stylized golden moon and nine tri-lobed white flowers; illustrated with warm photographs of black life by the Hampton Institute Camera Club: B&W photographic frontispiece and 45 half-tone plates (several full-page & others one-third page) within decorative borders by Margaret Armstong--facing Paul Dunbar's poetic interpretations; 127 pages. No dust jacket. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was the son of two former Kentucky slaves (one being a father who managed to escape and joined the Union Army). Young Dunbar was raised and went to school in Dayton, Ohio. He became--almost uniquely in the dismal era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow--a black American poet, novelist, and playwright. <br/> <br/> Known early in his… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Scribner, 2022. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. SIGNED boldly by the Author on a preliminary endpaper, tall 8vo, bright pink cloth with white lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with bright bands of multicolors, 334 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] About the Author. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Viisit from the Goon Squad.<br /> <br /> SUPERB SIGNED COPY! No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: The Viking Press [, 1945. First Edition, Second Issue in canary yellow cloth. Cloth. Very Good/Good +. 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), canary yellow cloth stamped in blue on spine and front cover, an archival quality clear plastic cover protects the pictorial dust jacket (unclipped with $2.00 price) illustrated with an aerial view of the seaside canneries along Ocean View Avenue by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., publisher's top stain, 208 pages. Overall Very Good Condition! Solid square copy. Previous owner's name on upper corner of the front free endpaper. Light wear and a bit of rubbing to cloth corners and extremities. Front gutter has some darkening. The dust jacket is clean, quite bright, and unclipped with the $2.00 price. There is chipping mainly to the head & foot of the dust jacket's spine and moderate edge- and corner-wear. Wartime publication states on copyright page: "This Edition is Produced in Full Compliance with All War Production Board Conservation Orders"… Read More

Woodstock, Vermont: A Foul Play Press Book / The Countryman Press, Inc, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. As New/As New. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over charcoal boards, archival mylar protected map dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Cape Cod with pointing finger created by Leslie Fry, orange endpapers, 224 pages. Margot Arnold (born 1925) is the pseudonym of Petronelle Marguerite Mary Cook. She was born in Plymouth, Devon, England and has long resided in Hyannis, Mass. She holds an MA from Oxford in Prehistoric Archaeology. As a mystery writer, she is the creator of the Dr. Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower series, about a world-travelling anthropologist and archeologist based at Oxford University. In this case (10th in the series), the duo have settled into a rented home on the Cape, when a corpse is discovered in a local community college, posed in a manner to suggest clues... VIRTUALLY "AS NEW" in all respects. No remainder marks.… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1966. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine and "J de H" stamped on the front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a shp in a convoy by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, yellow map endpapers, 434 pages + [2: blank} + [2] Re: Jan De Hartog. An exciting and fact-based novel about the dangerous northern Murmansk sea route for convoys during World War II by Jan De Hartog, an experienced seaman. SUPERIOR CONDITION: clean, tight, bright with a bright dust jacket having slight losses mainly to the top and bottom of the dj's spine.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Period glossy images. Tall 8vo, dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine; profusely illustrated with some glossy color images (frontispiece et al.) plus several B&W period images; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the death of Captain Cook painted by John Webber; map endpapers, 192 pages. Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 - 2 February 1987) was a 20th-century Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963).<br /> <br /> Captain Cook is a 1972 non fiction book about Captain Cook by MacLean who wrote it out of his great admiration for Cook.<br /> <br /> SUPERB OVERALL CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.

San Diego New York London: Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Map. 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with bold gilt lettering on spine over reddish-tan boards, illustrated with U.S. map of the dog's Lewis & Clark journey,archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with painting of men and giant black dog on a raft by Bryn Barnard, 287 pages. Wonderful adventure about the Lewis and Clark expedition told through the eyes of their huge dog. Excellent map. <br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). No previous owner or remainder markings.<br /> <br /> Roland Smith (born 1951) is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. James Reynolds. 8vo, green cloth, map endpapers of the Empire of Kublai Khan, imaginative pictorial jacket of Xanadu by James Reynolds, 307 pages. Scarce and interesting historical fiction in remarkable condition with a wonderful "Lost Horizons" impressionistic colored jacket. A minor flaw is that the front map-endpaper has had a former price written on it in ink. The striking dust jacket has a couple of tiny flaws.