Search Results: Titles starting with C from acornbooks

New York, New York: Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988 DJ with hint of rub to upper corners and head of spine panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Illus. with several B&W drawings. Essays, reviews, interviews, and speeches by Sendak on a variety of writers and illustrators. Incl. Notes on First Publication. 216 pp.

New York, New York: Random House, 1984 No prev. owner name or markings. DJ with lightly sunned spine panel, hint of rub on upper edge, and a 1/4 inch tear at head of spine panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Stated First Edition with number line beginning at '2' as per Random House's method for First Printing at time of publication. Page 44 error is corrected. Recipes for pasta, pizza and calzone from fresh seasonal ingredients in the Mediterranean style favored by Alice Waters and featured at her Berkeley, California cafe and restaurant, Chez Panisse. Beautifully illus.in B&W and color. Incl. Garden Notes, Glossary of Ingredients, and Index. 196 pp.

New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1982 DJ in plastic cover. Illus. with 158 watercolors, drawings and photographs, incl. 84 plates in full color and 1 map. 200 pp.

Portland, Oregon: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2010 Hint of rub to spine ends and corners of covers, and very slight incomplete crease to upper corners of last third of pages. No prev. owner name. Signed by Lidia Yuknavitch with signature only on the title page.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 Fine. Author's first novel. Signed by Garth Risk Hallberg with signature only on the title page. Heavy book.

Radnor, Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Co., 1973 Light rubs to corners, lower edges of boards and tail of spine. DJ with corresponding slight rubs. DJ in plastic cover. Prev. owner name on front free endpaper. Dedication Copy inscribed and signed on half-title page to prev. owner: "For _____ with thanks [,] Daniel Rhodes". Author's first book. Illus. with B&W photos and charts and color plates. Incl. Glossary, Appendix and Index. (xix) 330 pp.

New York, New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2010 Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Signed by Stacy Schiff on the title page. One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of 2010, and winner of the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Illus. with B&W maps and color photos. Incl. Notes, Selected Biblio, and Index. 368 pp.

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 Fine. DJ in plastic cover. Illus. with B&W photos. Indexed. 707 pp. Heavy book.

New York, New York: Scribner, 1999 Very slight rubs to corners of boards and tail of spine. No prev. owner name or markings. DJ with light rubs at corners, a few light soil smudges on rear panel, and slight wrinkle to upper edge of rear panel. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Annie Proulx on the title page. Illus. with full- page plates in color. Short stories, one of which is "Brokeback Mountain", originally published in "The New Yorker", Oct. 13, 1997, then as a paperback original in 1998 in the UK. Finalist for the year 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

New York, New York: Harper / HarperCollins, 2016 Fine. Signed by Ann Patchett with signature only on the title page. Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1949 Fading on blue cloth-covered front board, lightly darkened edges of text block, no prev. owner name. DJ price-clipped, slightly darkened, and light wear to extremities. Signed by both authors with signatures only on blank page before half-title page. Detailed description of buttons with over 570 illustrations. Illus. in B&W with frontispiece in color. Incl. chapters on the history of button making, and an Appendix: List Of American Button Makers and Outfitters. (xix) 409 pp. Heavy book.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1994 Hint of rub at corners of boards, otherwise Fine. No prev. owner name. DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Michael Connelly with signature (initials) only on the title page.

London, Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton, 1985 Slight fading along lower edges of boards and light rubs at spine ends. No prev. owner name. DJ with slight rubs at edges and a few scuff marks on surface of rear panel. B&W drawings at beginning of each chapter (illustrator not identified).

New York, New York: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2001 Light rub at corners and slight rub at edges of green paper-covered boards. No prev. owner name or markings. DJ in plastic cover. Signed by Jonathan Safran Foer on the title page and on p. 203 at his contribution, "If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe". Also signed by Barry Lopez on p. 19 at his contribution, "Emory Bear Hands' Birds". Illus. with full-color tipped-in plates of Cornell's work, plus endpapers illustrated in color featuring Cornell's work. This book came about from Foer's passion for the art of 20th century assemblage artist, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). Foer contacted noted American writers for contributions of original work inspired by Cornell's avian-themed assemblage boxes. Twenty-one writers and the editor have contributed fiction and poetry. (xvi) 239 pp.

New York, New York: The Penguin Press, 2013 Fine. Incl. Appendices: Four Recipes, and A Short Shelf of Books on Cooking; plus Selected Sources, and Index. 468 pp.

New York, New York: Little Simon / Simon & Schuster, 1997 Signed, "Best Wishes! Robert Sabuda" directly on right-side page of first pop-up. No prev. owner name. Illus. in color with Sabuda's humorous and delightful scenes of cookie counting activity from 1 to 10. Ten double-page fantastic pop-ups. All pop-ups fine and working.