Authors starting with C from Bartlebys Books

Chapel Hill, NC:: UNC Press,, 1938.. First edition, 1/200 copies. 8vo. 198 pp. title-page facsimiles. Original blue cloth, gilt spine title. Very good. (3440) ... more information

... more information

... more information

London:: Chapman and Hall,, 1843.. First British edition. 8vo. xii, 436 pp. 24-page publisher's catalogue, dated September, 1846. Sabin 9889 (quoting Edinburgh Review): " A more genuine book, in air, as well as in reality, it would be difficult to find." Original brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Very good. ... more information

Berkeley, (CA):: Published by the university,, 1893.. First ed. 8vo. 63 pp. Besides Kellogg's inaugural address, includes speeches by Joseph Le Conte and David Starr Jordan. Rocq 435. Orig. printed tan wrappers. Very good. (1238) ... more information

Sacramento, (CA):: State Office, F.P. Thompson, Supt. State Printing (for the University of California, Berkeley),, 1877.. First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Errata slip tipped in. Includes a 63-page report from Professor Eugene Hilgard, Prof. of Agriculture. OCLC locates six copies (Huntington, Stanford, Harvard, Miss. State, Oregon State, Library Company of Phila.). Orig. printed light green wrappers (soiled). A little foxing and interior soiling, but a good solid copy. (1240) ... more information

Huntington, WV:: Paragon Ptg. & Pub. Co.,, nd [1920].. First edition. Small 8vo. 164, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Not in Nevins. Dornbusch II, 1429, locating only "xerox copies" (31st Virginia Infantry). Original gray cloth (soiled). Very good. ... more information

(Newark, NJ:: Olsen Press) "With the kind permission of the Harvill Press London," ,, [1960].. First edition thus, 1/110 copies printed privately on Fabriano, a mould made paper, made in Italy. Square 8vo. 189 pp. Drawings by Elsa Schmid. Text printed in red and black. Inscribed on the colophon: "Alice Longworth from Helen Cutting, the paper-maker. June, 1960." Campbell's translation was first published by the Harvill Press in 1951. Quarter-suede and gilt-stamped purple boards, gilt... more information

London:: Chatto & Windus,, 1879.. 8vo. xvii, 441 pp. 40 page publisher's catalogue, dated May, 1879. Original purple cloth (faded), gilt title on spine; persistent foxing, some marginal pencil notes by a contemporary reader, else very good.  First edition. Inscribed "From G. Campbell" at the head of the title page. Howes C-91. Clark New South I, 36: "The author, a member of Parliament with long service in the British foreign office in India and Africa, was especially interest... more information

Richmond, (VA):: Ayres & Wade,, 1864.. 12mo. 48 pp. Illustrated. Original decorated tan wrappers (rubbed). Very good. First edition. Parrish 7682. ... more information

Paris:: L. Cordier,, 1826.. Sixième edition, ornée de figures et cartes. 24mo. Six volumes in three: xvi, 196; (4), 180; (2), 191; (4), 191; (4), 178; (4), 172 pp. Six engraved plates, a frontispiece to each volume, two folding maps. English editions are sub-titled: "As related by a Father to his Children, and designed for the Instruction of Youth." Later navy cloth-backed marbled boards, leather spine labels, original rose or pink wrappers bound in. Some soiling, but very good. (1... more information

Montreal:: M. Longmoore,, 1867.. Second edition (first published the previous year). Small 8vo. 196 pp. Illustrated with eight mounted albumen prints (the first edition was issued with ten, though they were "less realized than those of the second edition" according to Goldschmidt) by Notman, two of Niagara, including one of the suspension bridge, one portrait of an old trapper, views of Montreal and outdoor scenes. With the contemporary ownership signature "Mrs. Simcoe" at the head of t... more information

London:: Longmans, Green,, 1903.. First edition. 8vo. xii, 342, (1) pp. Illustrated, two maps, one folding. Neate 769: "One of the classics of Canadian mountain exploration and climbing." Original gilt-stamped charcoal cloth. Very good. (842) ... more information

Philadelphia, :, 1835.. First edition. 8vo. 18 pp. Folding map (9 x 29 inches): Map and Profile of the Route of the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad. Laid down from surveys made under the personal direction of William Strickland by John C. Trautwine; the map, not described in Modelski Railroad Maps of North America: The First Hundred Years (Washington, 1984), delineates the proposed route from Wilmington, Delaware, to the Bay of North East in Maryland. Strickland (1787-1854), a prominent architect and e... more information

Cincinnati, (OH):: Morgan and Sanxay,, 1836.. Sterotype edition" (first published in St. Louis in 1820, then reprinted in Cincinnati in 1825, 1827, and 1830 and annually there, 1832-1841). Oblong 4to. 200, 40 pp. Shape-note notation for three or four voices. All of the early editions are uncommon in trade. OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition (UCLA, Chicago Public, Manchester College, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Boston Public, Appalachian State, Duke, Moravian Music Foundation, Princet... more information

Various places:, ca. 1880-1890.. mostly boys with simple tackle, as pictured on nine advertising trade cards, most 3 x 4 ½ inches, for New England businesses (one from New Jersey), primarily clothing concerns, but including an organ manufacturer, soap manufacturers, a confectioner, and a dye house; advertising copy printed on the verso of four cards. Some rubbing, but a very good lot. For the nine trade cards, $100 ... more information

Phila., (PA):: Carey & Hart,, 1848.. First edition. 8vo. 474 pp. Carey (1793-1879) succeeded his father, Mathew Carey, in the family publishing business, but earned wider recognition as an economist; in this work "he announced himself the foe of the free-trade system ... giving definitive statement to his opposition to the Ricardian theory of rent, maintaining that the order of occupation has been from poorer to better soils, and that the progress of associated labor and capital must always bring ... more information

4to. 1 page, in full: "Dear Sir, / Yours of the 6th I have just recd. / I cannot furnish you with a list of the books I have given. They were delivered to / Mr. Dickinson several days since, by / Your obt. Servt. / Mathew Carey." Folded; a little browned, but very good. ... more information

4to 2 pages, approximately 225 words. In part: "I hope you will believe I am as well disposed … to conduct our business on liberal & fair principles. I have too high an opinion of your sense of justice to have any doubt upon this subject. But the cruel rapacity to which I have fallen a victim, has so far straitened me as to require considerable circumspection in my disbursements. … You may buy at 3 or 6 or 9 months credit, whatever amount you see fit of Quarto Bibles, on note, & in t... more information

The first title includes five supplements that appear to be unrecorded, as they are not described by any bibliographical source consulted. Charleston, (SC): Walker, Evans & Co., 1859. First edition of each title. 8vo. 38, (2), 7, 12, (10), 10; 27, 28 pp. A unique compilation of reports by a special military commission created by the South Carolina legislature in 1858 to assess the military preparedness of the state in anticipation of war. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt, expertly rebacked in matching ... more information