Search Results: Titles starting with C from Backstory Books & Yarn, CBA

Bey, Hakim. Caos: terrorismo poetico e outros crimes exemplares. Sao Paulo: Conrad Livros, 2003, CXVII pp.. Traducao: Patricia Decia e Renato Resende.Very Good paperback in shiny wraps depicting the photographic face of an elephant. Binding is tight, no marks. In Portuguese. EM PORTUGUES DO BRASIL.

Schnitzler, Arthur. Casanova's homecoming. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1930, 187 pp. Second printing of The Inner Sanctum Novels series.Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good hardcover bound in illustrated paper over thin boards. There is some slight water damage to the back bottom corner. This does not extend into the inside cover or text block. There is a Meier and Frank Co. price tag on the rear pastedown: it looks to contemporaneous with the book's publishing. No marks inside book. Bind is tight.

Myles, Eileen. Chelsea girls. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. 8vo. Third Paperback Printing. 276 pp.Good paperback in yellow wraps with original price sticker on back cover. One inch rip on back cover, One cm chip out of front cover, other small nicks to cover. Now in mylar.

This first edition hardcover book with jacket is in good condition. It is an ex-library book. The front free end paper has been roughly cut out. There are minimal stamps and stickers. The dust jacket has a sticker on the spine, has been mylared by the library, and has been taped to the book. No pages are missing or ripped (aside from the FFE).
Towsen, John H. Clowns: A Panoramic history of fools and jesters, medieval mimes, jongleurs and minstrels, Pueblo Indian delight makers and Cheyenne contraries, harlequins and pierrots, theatrical buffoons and zanies, circus tramps, whitefaces, and Augustes. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1976, first edition stated, ex-library. Notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index included.

This is a very good condition hardcover book with no marks. The jacket is good plus condition with some signs of shelf wear affecting the adhesion of the plastic coating to the paper jacket. There is no loss of the plastic, nor is it peeling.
This is a Chinese-English dictionary, the majority of the writing in Chinese. It does not include an English to Chinese translation component.
Dai Mingzhong. A Comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 1997 print, 1265 pp.

This is a very good condition hardcover book with a very good dust jacket. The book has no marks and looks unread, but there is a bump on the front cover edge.
Parkinson, eds., Alan F. and Eamon Phoenix. Conflicts in the north of Ireland, 1900-2000: flashpoints and fracture zones. Dublin/Portland: Four Courts Press, 2010, 277 pp., index.

This is a very good condition paper back copy. There are no marks in the book and no significant signs of wear.
Henderson, Jane. The Constitution of the Russian Federation: a contextual analysis. Oxford/Portland: Hart Publishing, 2011, 278 pp., contains table of legislation, table of conventions, treaties, documents from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and index.

This is a very good hardcover book, showing some signs of age such as yellowing pages. The dust jacket is good plus: bright and colorful, but with significant wear at the edges, now in protective mylar.Hosain, Attia and Sita Pasricha. Cooking the Indian way. London: Spring Books, 1962, 245 pp.

This is a very good hardcover book with a very good minus condition dust jacket. The book has no marks and shows few signs of wear. The dust jacket has some foxing on its inside. It is covered in protective mylar.
Ironwood, Austin. Creative wrought ironwork. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1965, 96 pp., bibliography and suppliers, index.

Ayoub, Mahmoud M. The Crisis of Muslim history: religion and politics in early Islam. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009. 179 pp. Very good paperback copy. No marks in book, tight binding.