Search Results: Titles starting with C from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Pocket Star Books, 2004. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Half-inch tear to right side cover, middle, same to next 4 leaves. Minor edge wear and spine crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. Based on the CBS-TV series set in Las Vegas. An estranged stepdaughter of a wealthy Las Vegas businessman hounds to police to reopen the investigation of her mother's death. The disinterred body is not the presumed victim. In a parallel story, a patient at a nursing home may not have died of natural causes.

New York.: Washington Square Press by arr. w/ Albert & Charles Boni., 1961. "Complete and Unabridged". W 175. 45c cover. 1926. WSP 1st.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light lower edge short damp stain near front.. 1 First edition. 167 p. Mass-market paperback. 17 cm. Cover art not credited: woman. Set in Rome, 1920s, a modern story of good and evil, a young American of Puritan background. Author gave title to his fictional pagans, talented and wealthy aristocrats, clever esoteric, with mysterious influences in affairs of Church and State. Thornton Wilder had authored classics: "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", "Our Town", and more.

New York.: Harper Prennial / HarperCollins Publishers., 1992. First edition. 1st paperback printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Lower block remainder mark. Near fine.. Ross, Richard (Cover art by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Sequel to "My Father's Moon", in which the reader traces a woman's painful reconstruction of her identity. A portion of this novel had appeared in The New Yorker, "Hedges", 1990.

New York.: W. W. Norton., 1947. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Small area front lower corner damp stain to book. Pen-tip size short ding to spine. Clean interior. jacket missing front chip 5x2 inches, lower. Shorter spine end chips.. Kane, Henry B (Illustrations and cartography by).. 1 Green cloth over boards, gold spine titles, front canoe portage art. 272 p., Green and white map on lining-papers. Pen&Ink b&w artwork, diagrams. Nature study. Informative, detailed appreciation of North Country life in the outdoors. Dedicated to "Chief Tibeash". introduction: Portage to Contentment plus 12 chapters by sequential month. Woodcraft Index.

Richmond IN: Irvin Reed & Son, 1911. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. General soiling. A few irregularities to binding indicating weakening. Still holding. Minor edgewear. Author signature below frontispiece.. 0 315 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Frontispiece author portrait plus 69 illustrations, B&W. Stamped titles in gold. Roman helmut and sword logo, black, framed by titles. Undergraduate military academy experience: Press comments re: earlier editions; Preface; Chapter Index (9 plus Appendix), List of Illustrations.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin., 1988. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price clipped.. 1 Vinyl turquoise cloth over boards. Neon green titles, front, spine. Jacket in blues and yellows. Turquoise pages starting sections. Logos. 355 p. Audience: General/trade. American Cooking / Restaurants / Lunchrooms / Diners / Chefs. The Cafes and Their (Several) Recipes: Atlanta; Bennington; Boston; Cambridge; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles; New Orleans; New York City; Oakland; Philadelphia; San Diego; San Francisco; Santa Fe; Seattle; Washington D.C.; Williamstown MA. Cafes, addresses, phones listed at back. Do these businesses still exist from 1888. Their recommended recipes are herein.

Fawcett Books., 1995. First edition. First so stated.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Book and DJ as new. Book top page block lightly smudged.. 1 Cloth and paperover boards. 390 p. William Monk Novels (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction historical novel. Set in London, Victorian England, a city of the rich and of the poor. Inspector William Monk meets a woman who pleads with him to find her missing husband. Is it possible he was killed by his troubled brother?

Gretna LA.: Pelican Publishing Company., 1983. 2nd printing. Wraps. Very good. A few short turned-down page corners. Slight surface where. Clean, not yet colored pages. 1 Color illustrated wraparound card stock covers. 30 p. Line art Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Activity book adapted from the classic Louisiana rendition of Clement C. Moore's famous poem, this coloring book begs for color. The text uses Cajun dialect spellings and rhythm, "De chirren been nezzle / Good snug on de flo'". Lead character St. Nicklus is guided through the swamps by 'gators.

Warner Books, 1983. Unabridged.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0

Boston / New York.: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press., 1899. "Thirtieth Thousand", copyright page.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard "Johnson's Circulating Library, Amesbury, Mass. No. 6610". Random small soil patches within text. Minor separation starting after last text page. Slight spine tilt. Attractive cover.. Fraser, Malcolm (Illustrations by), and Keller, Arthur I (Illustrations by).. 1 378 p. Light brown cloth over boards; gold titles, front, spine. Illustrated in title box w/ brick red buoy, golden sky, lighthouse; 19 cm. Stitched binding. Grayscale illustrated plates (10). Engineering / construction / romance literary tale. A Cape Ann sloop is arriving in the seaside port, long-awaited and needed to complete the lighthouse approved in Washington and engineered by Henry Sanford. Huge blocks needed to form its base, and this sloop's design would get the job done. Early chapters focus on Sanford and project notes. The project would end… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company by arr. w/ Oxford University Press., 1977. 3rd Norton printing. Oxford copyright 1970. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. MInor right edge curl, front. MInor top page block age-soiling. Clean inside. Smooth clean spine.. Gaydos, Tim (Cover design by).. 1 Trade paperback (US), slightly smaller. Glued binding. 351p. Norton Library (Paperback), N861. Audience: General/trade. Reprint 18th century fiction (1794) by author also of philosophical work, "Political Justice" (1793). The "Caleb Williams" narrative themes are: an ungovernable curiosity; nobleman Falkland's love of reputation; detection of a hidden crime; dramatic courtroom reversal. Critics have called this title, "the first psychological novel" combined with the character's moral indignation indicative of social and political expose. Editor David McCracken adds to the original text a 20th century discovery of Godwin's manhuscript and later revisions. In the… Read More

Benton, Arkansas / Memphis: Benton Junior Auxiliary / Wimmer Brothers, Printers., 1989. First edition. 4th printing of 1980 edition.. Spiralbound. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. Thompson, Joanne (Divider page quilt patterns in Pen&Ink by).. 1 Wide brown spiral binding; heavy duty illustrated flexible covers. Spine and front titles. 350 p. Index. Cover different than pictured. Audience: General/trade. Cookbook: Includes Allergy and Arkansas Traveler sections. Dedicated to the frontier pioneer women who pieced quilts together.

New York.: A Dell Yearling Book by arr. w/ Houghton Mifflin., 1975. 2nd Dell printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light spine creasing, minor lower spine wear.. Mars, W.T. (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Newbery Award-winning author Elizabeth George Speare adapted the true account by Charlestown NH colonial settlers for this youth historical fiction. The lead character was developed from the imagined adventures of Miriam Willard, younger sister to Susanna Johnson. Set on the brink of the French & Indian War, the Johnson family was captured and marched to the French enclave in Montreal, where they were sold. Susanna wrote her account when she was 70. A living history replica of the Fort at No. 4 exists in Charlestown NH, with tales told on visiting.

Benton, Arkansas / Memphis TN: Benton Junior Auxiliary, Inc. / Wimmer Cookbooks, 1980. 4th printing, 5000 copies each printing of 1980 edition.. Spiralbound. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No markings. Clean. No cooking splotches. Appears new. Cover not as pictured.. 1 First edition. Wide brown plastic spiral binding, tan spine titles. Illustrated (oval framed photo on small print "wallpaper", brown, yellow tones) durable flexible covers. Index by section and recipe. 350 p. Recipes from Arkansas. Sections are introduced with full page quilt block patterns, explanation on reverse. Effort dedicated to the pioneering women who "made do" and pieced otherwise usable scraps of clothing together in decorative quilts. Unusual chapters: Allergy, with substitutions for food allergens; and Arkansas Traveler, recipes from well-known Arkansas folks beyond Benton, like Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Steel Cut Oatmeal", doctored with maple syrup. Hillary Rodham (Clinton), then First Lady… Read More

New York.: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1961. First edition. Stated first.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Interior clean. Covers have slight wear, spine fade, bumps to extremities. Light page block soiling.. 1 Color illustrated cover 153 p. 27 cm. Archival paintings, prints, drawings, maps, photographs; credited at back. Bibliography. Index. Audience: Children/juvenile. America's constant westward movement of pioneers left little frontier between settlements and wilderness. In 1849, the California Gold Rush created a new culture as droves of the hopeful arrived to attempt to make their fortunes. its history is told in 12 illustrated chapters.

London / New York.: Thames & Hudson., 1991. U.S. Edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Lower front jacket has interior damp stain, no transfer to book cover. Light surface blemishing to jacket. Minor top page block soil; clean book volume.. 1 Blue textured paper over boards; gold spine titles. Front gold encircled two dolphins. B&W photo plate section near center, 19 Illustrations. 184 p. Audience: General/trade. Preface: Spring A.D. 40, Roman Emperor Caligula stood looking out at the English Channel with his Empire's Legions. Since Julius Caesar a century before, no Roman legion had marched in Britain. What followed was "a sham" perpetrated by a "mad" ruler. Yet, historians wrote Caligula was a significant leader. Genealogical tree: The Julio-Claudian Family, followed by the historian-author's literary research, and psychological perspective.

William Morrow & Company, 2001. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Condition impacted moderately by library discard status. Last endpaper missing, stamp on title page, label lower spine. Clean.. 0 Textured blue & lt blue paper over boards. 336 p. Parry's 3rd historical novel about the Civil War, he reaches beyond the familiar to present the spectrum of humanity, the good, bad and in between of a nation at war with itself. This tale, a single officer takes note of what others discount amidst nearby combat: 40 murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. He wants justice.

New York.: Frederick A Stokes., 1916. First edition. Date on title page only. Presumed 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard, Public Library, Harvard MA, had acquired in April 1917. Limited library use has left a solid, clean book, blemished with small white front cover stain. Separated plate facing p. 280. Else wonderfully intact.. 1 328 p. Dark blue cloth over boards. Gold spine and front titles. Stitched binding. B&W photo plates, maps. Brief footnotes. 23 cm. Index. RARE in original volume. Author was a Captain, R.M.R.E., with a group headed first in 1909 to a played-out silver mining camp town in Slocan, exploring in winter with pack mules, then over two years, near Whitewater Depot, camping as they moved on in the British Columbia Province in western Canada. Experiences included forestry, meeting with native nations peoples (Quatsino), and traveling also by boats they fashioned, and paddlewheel, by road, trail, stage, and by train. Travel took them to Lillooet… Read More

New York.: Macmillan / Grosset & Dunlap / Norwood Press., 1908. 1903 original; this is 17th reprint.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Print quality of plates is economy. Front boards have bend. Paste-on, front, qtr-inch corner flaw.. Hooper, Chas. Edw. (Decorated by), Goodwin, Philip R (Illus. by), and Bull, Charles Livingston (Illus. by).. 1 231 p. Dark green cloth covered boards; B&W paste-on cover art, man & dog. Lighter green frame, titles. 20 cm. Grayscale Plates: 19 incl. frontispiece. Deckled outside page block. Classic Jack London story of the friendship between a man and a dog named Buck meeting challenges in a Klondike winter setting, early 20th century.

New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1983. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has back cover scuffing. Red ink stamp on first free end paper: "Not for Resale". Not so, source unknown.. 1 Hard cover. Black cloth and brown paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 45 Plates in black; Notes. 64 p. Audience: General/trade. The art of calligraphic abstract design illustrated by the work of "the most innovative and accomplished master of letters working today", from William Hogarth's Introduction.