Search Results: Titles starting with C from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by Alfonso de Orleans y Borbon, Spain's first military pilot, and one of the subjects of this book. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of photographs. Interviews with royal pilots from across Western Europe, recounting their collective history and exploits. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of photographs. Very good in original purple cloth and very good pictorial dust jacket, light spotting to edge of text and front free endpaper. Octavo. 6.75 x 10 in. 256 pp. A lovely copy, rare with historic signature.

First Edition, First Printing. With 43 illustrations and five maps and plans, with a large folding map laid in, complete. Near fine in original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and design. Ex-lib, with usual library markings and previous ownership signature on front free endpaper.
An account of the authors experiences and investigations in the Caroline Islands dealing with the natives, as well as the flora and fauna. Christian was Robert Louis Stevenson's neighbor in Samoa between 1890 and 1893 who was cultivating Australian hardwoods for the nascent forestry industry of that island. He later sold his land to Stevenson and moved further into Eastern Polynesia in search of pristine island worlds. After returning to Sydney he met Louis Becke 'who told me of an ancient island Venice shrouded in jungle, an enchanted region of archaeology far away in the sea of small islands'. From this romantic beginning Christian moved to the Carolines and produced the present detailed description of island… Read More

First Edition, First Printing (News Publishing Co., Mississippi, 1972). Inscribed by both Helen Tiegreen (author) and Alan Tiegreen (illustrator) on the front free endpaper. A lovely and very rare copy of this classic. The best copy we've seen and only one signed.

Wonderfully illustrated throughout by renowned artist, Alan Tiegreen, in bold collage-inspired, watercolors juxtaposed with black, white and gray. Carter Rabbit is the story of a young rabbit who is unhappy because he can't make noises like other animals. He becomes cheerful and self-confident, however, after he learns about all the special things bunnies can do, such as being a good listener, working with magicians, and one day becoming an Easter Bunny to the delight of children everywhere!

Alan Tiegreen is was a well-known artist and illustrator of children's books, including the beloved Ramona Series by Beverly Cleary. Tiegreen received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1957 and continued his… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original white quarter-cloth and fine dust jacket. Signed by Marion Zimmer Bradley on title page. Thick octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. A terrific copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by President Hoover to his friend and supporter, A.B. Cargill, on the front free endpaper. Just about fine in publisher's original blue cloth. First printing, as denoted by Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Lacking the rare dustjacket. Content fine, with text bright, clean and unmarred. The 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover wrote more than two dozen books throughout his lifetime, including The Challenge to Liberty, a harsh criticism of the New Deal. Hoover feared that the New Deal was a threat to the country's 'freedom of mind and spirit.' He criticized he National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration as 'fascistic,' and the 1933 Banking Act as a 'move to gigantic socialism.' Octavo, 212 pp. A very nice copy of this important work.

Charles Perrault. Group of Eight Assorted French Versions of Perrault Fairytales. All from the collection of renowned children's literature collector, Justin G. Schiller. Beautifully and uniquely bound. An incredible, one-of-a-kind set for anyone who loves classic Fairy Tales and their history like we do. Paris: ca.1826-1944. Two copies of Lettres sur Les Contes de Fées et sur l'Origine de la Féerie. Paris: Baudouin, 1826. One copy is the first edition, first printing. First edition with paper wrappers bound into later marbled binding, other copy in original paper wrappers. Some dampstaining, foxed, edges untrimmed and toned, minor edgewear, first edition with library bookplape to front free endpaper verso. Good. Collin de Plancy. Oevres Choisies de Ch. Perrault, de l'Académie Française. Paris: Peytieux, 1826. Corners bumped, moderate edgewear, spine sunned, somewhat rubbed, somewhat foxed. Very good. Contes des Fées par Charles Perrault. Paris: Théodore Lefèvre, no date [ca.1850]. Minor… Read More

Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia: 15 Volume Set: Super Questions and Answers and Amazing Facts (Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia , Super Questions and Answers and Amazing Facts. First Edition (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1980. Complete, including the extremely rare book holder! Each volume illustrated throughout with a mix of Peanuts cartoons, photos, maps, diagrams, and charts. Very clean and bright. Rare, the only one on the market thus. A wonderful set and a must have for fans of Charlie Brown the Peanuts gang!

Each volume fine or near fine, with only slight wear in a few places. Internal content fine. Boards fine or near fine, with slight wear, single small smudges on vols. 7 and 8; and very mild corner bumping in a few places. Housed in a near fine book holder, with a bit of wrinkling and edge wear to the Snoopy sticker pastedowns. 4to. Continuous paginations through Volume 15 for 720 pp + Index.

Volumes in order: #1: Featuring Your Body, #2 Featuring All Kinds of Animals From Fish to Frogs, #3:… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in fine dust jacket, one of the best we've seen of this enduring classic. The first issue book and dustjacket (stated "First Edition/ 1-B" on copyright page, unclipped price on from wrapper fly). A true collector's copy of this timeless children's tale!

First Edition, First Printing (1946). Book one of Starkey's famous Native American Series, which tells the bitter tale of the Trail of Tears when at the beginning of the 1830s, the nearly 125,000 Native Americans who lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations--were, in support of white settlers, forced by US Government to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated "Indian territory" across the Mississippi River. A deadly, harrowing journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Near fine in brown cloth, embossed and spine gilt, very slight dulling to front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. Very scarce thus. Some dj wear and chipping at and near spine head and tail. Interior fine, unmarred with prior owner's name on front free endpaper. A lovely copy; very hard to find.

First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition. Signed on the colophon by J. M. Coetzee. Black spine, ivory paper-covered boards 277 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket in a very fine turquoise slipcase. Signed on a specially printed page as part of Powell's "Indispensable" Series. J. M. Coetzee is a two time winner of the Booker Prize and the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

First Edition, First Printing. Quite rare. A year in the life of two Lapp children. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white throughout. One of the D'Aulaires' most desirable titles. Ingri d'Aulaire (1904-1980) was an American children's artist and illustrator, who worked in collaboration with her husband and fellow artist, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Born Ingri Mortenson in Kongsburg, Norway, she studied art in Norway, Germany and France, and met Edgar Parin d'Aulaire when she was a student in Munich. They married in 1925, and immigrated to the USA shortly thereafter, settling in Brooklyn in 1929. After pursuing separate careers initially, the couple turned to illustrating children's books together, releasing their first collaborative effort, The Magic Rug, in 1931. They settled in Wilton, Connecticut in 1941, and lived there until their deaths in the 1980s. Awarded the 1940 Caldecott Medal for their picture-book biography of Abraham Lincoln, the d'Aulaires published other children's… Read More

Fourth Edition (1908). A beautiful, near fine copy in original pictorial cloth and very good lightly chipped printed dust jacket. Complete with color and black-and-white reproductions of illustrations by Bessie Collins Pease. Quite rare in the dust jacket. Octavo. 110 pages. A lovely copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by President Carter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With four B&W illustrations by his daughter, Amy. President Carter reminisces about the Christmas holidays he spent as a boy, a youth, a midshipman, a naval officer, a governor, and a President. 5.5' x 7.5', 156 pp. A lovely copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Jean Auel on the half title page. Quite rare. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The first book in Auel's award winning series about a Cro-Magnon heroine navigating the ice age world populated by Neanderthals. One of the best researched novels (and series) in modern literature; a master work of historical science fiction. An excellent copy.

Fine in publisher's original quarter yellow cloth, green paper boards, green-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket with painting by Hiroko and typography by Paul Bacon. Cartographic endpapers. Thick Octavo 9'' x 6'' [10], 468 pp.

First Edition thus. Very scarce. Fine in beautiful brown leather with elaborate gilt designs and lettering on the cover and spine. Gilt top stain. An immaculate copy of this nearly 100-year old edition that presents one the finest historical novels of the Middle Ages. Originally published by Charles Reade in 1861, the story is set in of the latter part of the 15-century against a background of the Reformation, the invention of printing, and a wealth of historical characters such as Luther, Deschamps, Villon, and Erasmus (as a child), Reade weaves a rich tapestry revolving around the tragic love-story of Erasmus' parents. An amazing copy and edition of this famous tale. The only one on the market.

First Edition, First Printing (Scribner, New York NY, 1999). Signed on the title page by award winning author Annie Proulx (best known for Brokeback Mountain) and renowned watercolor artist, William Matthews. Matthews created the cover, frontispiece, and six full-page illustrations specifically for this first state printing. This collection of eleven stories by Proulx brings to life the challenges living and ranching in wind-scoured Wyoming.

Fine in a fine dust jacket; as new. Protected with a mylar cover. Octavo. 283 pp.

First American Edition, First Printing. Fine in original quarter-cloth and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Aussie slang sheet laid in. Octavo. 426 pages. A great copy.

First Edition, First Printing. The very rare, first 1888 edition. Profusely with frontispiece and 214 wonderful illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, many full page. A description of and anecdotes regarding the major coach routes across England and Ireland. Chapters include 'The Bath Road', 'The Exeter Road', 'The Portsmouth Road', 'The Brighton Road', 'The Dover Road', 'The York Road', and 'The Holyhead Road.' The text looks at the history of the coachways, and their conditions from as early as the 1600s. Very good plus in publishers original half-bound burgundy leather burgundy cloth; leather corners, with leather outlined in gilt. Raised bands on spine with gilt text and designs. top edge gilt. Some edgewear and light scuffing; edges bumped and a bit worn. Yellow boards with wood grain pattern. Content near fine, with text and illustrations bright, lean and unmarred, with only occasional light foxing. Prior owners signature on front free endpaper. Folio, 367 pp. A wonderful… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Very fine in fine dust jacket. Fine black and blue cloth and boards. Signed by Frazier on the title page. First state with misprint "man-woman" on p. 25, line 16, later changed to "mad-woman." Frazier's first novel traces the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War. It follows his harrowing journey from deserting the army to finding his way back to the woman he left behind, Ada, who waits for him, dealing with all kinds of hardships herself. The power of Ada and Inman's love, and their dedication to reuniting, is the driving force of the novel, along with Frazier's incorporation of historical context. Basis for the 2003 film starring Nicole Kidman, Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger who won the Best Supporting Actress award for the film and Jude Law who was nominated for Best Actor for the film. Octavo. 356 pages. A beautiful copy.

First Limited Edition of Eudora Welty's Collected Stories. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author, this being number 220. Fine in a very good plus publisher's slipcase with normal shelf wear and some corners a bit bumped. Rich maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt vignette to the front panel. A beautiful copy.
Eudora Welty won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her Collected Stories include the previously published collections: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories. A fantastic collector's item for the Welty fan.