Search Results: Titles starting with C from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

A giant, 690 page tribute to Alexander Calder's early career, the first of two volumes, concentrating on the years from 1898 to 1940.Calder triumphs in so many areas of design and engineering, including the invention of wholly new forms of sculpture, working with joy and unsurpassed skill. With over 350 illustrations.

150 reproductions, with 4 folding plates.The legendary holdings of the Royal Library include the largest collection of Canaletto's drawings in the world. A favorite painter with the British aristocracy, Canaletto spent years working in England and left behind numerous studies and a body of drawings that are masterpieces, in their own right. Highly collectible.

New York: Dutton, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. White's fourth novel, after A Boy's Own Story, in which he stretches his literary imagination to include the whole tradition of European Romance and crowds a beseiged city with fabulous characters and erotic adventures. SIGNED on the title page.

As Dinesen's fame and popularity have grown, so have the number of her rediscovered writings.
These eleven tales span her entire career, from youthful experiments to fragments she was still working on at the time of her death in 1962.
Hardcover, with former owner address to first end page.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/good. Grass's second novel, set in Danzig like The Tin Drum. A parable of German society's relentless suppression of anyone who stands out. Book is in excellent condition with cat motif blind stamped to front cover. Jacket, with wonderful design by Grass himself suffers from some surface damage and loss to back corners and edges.

The highly sought-after, third collection of 12 short stories from a master of the genre.
This collection has achieved a kind of modern classic status.
Hardcover with jacket. Very faint foxing to book edges.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition thus.. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First published in 1940 in this collected edition with all the unique illustrations by B.T.B, as wellas new ones and an introduction by Quentin Blake. This immortal work contains Cautionary Tales for Children; New Cautionary Tales; A Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children; More Peers; A Moral Alphabet. Included are such favorites as Matilda, who told lies and was Burned to Death; Jim, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a Lion; Rebecca, who slammed doors for Fun and perished Miserably; and the curiously instructive beasts who range from microbes to frozen mammoths. If you do not know whole chunks of this book by heart, then you should remedy that at once.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First UK edition, second printing. Near Fine/near fine. With devastating caricatures by Marc of all the leading lights of London, this epic poem conjures up the full nightmare facing Prince Charles, and this was 30 years ago

The rare, true first printing, with "first edition" on copyright page, correct code I-B, denoting September 1952. Book good, with aging to boards, and owner name to first end page. Unclipped jacket ($2.50) has some wear, with two chips to spine edge. With 4 blurbs to back and publisher is just 'Harper and Brothers'. A lovely, collectible copy of one of the most sought-after children's classics, with brilliant drawings by Garth Williams.

293 pages. Ramblin' Bob's first volume of reminiscences, which slightly have the feel of having been dictated to an assistant?
Book has minimal wear, with clean, unclipped jacket.
Hardcover.

New York: The Pace Gallery, 1988. First printing. Paperback. As New. A catalog from a show of 8 giant paintings by Close in pointillist mode, with enormous fold-out reproduction of 'Lucas' 1988 and close studies of himself and other painter friends.

A pictorial record and abbreviated version of the great Statesman's life, by his official biographer.
Churchill's epic grasp of history and assumption of a leadership role at a vital moment of the Second World War made him one of the most significant heroes of modern times.
192 pages.

"Cities of the Red Night is not only Burroughs' best work, but a logical and ripening extension of all of his great work..." claims Ken Kesey of this culmination of ten years writing.
Burroughs re-imagines vast swathes of American history, incorporating many characters from his previous visions, as he celebrates his return to living in New York City.
Hardcover. Slight fading to jacket spine.

A very good copy of an early collection of poems.
Book has slight dirt to block edges
Very good jacket is clipped.

Berendt's somewhat awkward attempt to insinuate himself into Venetian society while researching various scandals, from a fire at the Fenice to a feud on Murano.
A clever follow up to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, but I kept wanting him to leave the nice people alone.
A perfect copy of the first printing.

Hardcover.

New York: Scholastic, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Pullman loves to weave dramatic childrens' stories, in the tradition of Hansel and Gretel, where innocence is pitted against implacable evil, but love saves the day. This tale of a master clockmaker and his evil creations has all the elements to chill the marrow of your bones.

London: John Murray, 1953. First UK edition. Near Fine/near fine. With wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, a map and 40 pages of photographs, this is one in a series of lavishly produced tributes to Stark's unusually fierce obsession with exploration. Constantly goading the authorities at home and abroad and overcoming the political climate and her own physical shortcomings, she blazed a tail for all future women explorers. some small tears to jacket edges.

London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. As New/near fine, with small edge damage. Two linked novellas, that owe a bit to Roald Dahl and J. G. Ballard. These were Will Self's first real novel, his first book being short stories and display his strange, intimate and shocking commentery on human actions. Salman Rushdie calls him "already a cult figure.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. . First UK revised edition. . Hardcover.. Fine in near fine dust-jacket. . This revised collection includes 34 new poems and represents Durrell's essential poetic core. Book and jacket are in pristine condition, apart from slight dulling to spine. Previous owner name to first end page.

3rd Printing of Second edition
A typical British wartime product, this is printed on tissue-thin paper, to save resources, but nevertheless contains the complete works.
With a graphically bold period jacket that belies the slimmed down nature of this volume.