Authors starting with C from Joseph J. Felcone Inc.

1933. CABELL, JAMES BRANCH. Special Delivery. New York, 1933. [12], 272 p. Boards. Spine just a trifle darkened, else a fine copy in a fine publisher's slipcase. One of 207 numbered copies, signed by Cabell. Book and box in unusually fine condition. ... more information

1926. CABELL, JAMES BRANCH. The Silver Stallion. New York, 1926. xii, 358 p. Cloth. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase which is also in fine condition. One of 850 numbered copies, signed by Cabell. A remarkable copy of a book whose silver lettering has usually flaked off. Both book and box are fine and fresh. ... more information

1880. CABLE, GEORGE W. The Grandissimes. A Story of Creole Life. New York, 1880. ix, 448 p. + ads. Cloth. Small catalogue clipping tipped to front endsheet, else a lovely copy--very good-plus. First edition of Cable's second book and first novel, treating miscegenation in old New Orleans. BAL 2331; Wright III, 868. ... more information

1902. CADWELL, NEWTON WOODWORTH. A Farewell Sermon Delivered at Westfield, New Jersey, November 30, 1902, in the Presbyterian Church.... [Westfield, 1902.] Cover title, 15 p. Illus. Wrappers. Union County. ... more information

1988. CAIN, TIM. Peck's Beach. A Pictorial History of Ocean City, New Jersey. [Harvey Cedars, 1988]. 4to. 93 p. Illus. Wrappers. Well illustrated local history. Cape May County. ... more information

1935. CALDWELL, ERSKINE. Journeyman. New York, 1935. [8], 195 p. Cloth. In fine, fresh condition, in the original publisher's box (slightly worn, one partial split). One of 1475 numbered copies (not signed by Caldwell). ... more information

1813. CAMPBELL, JOHN. Naval History of Great Britain, including the History and Lives of the British Admirals. London: For John Stockdale, 1813. 8 vols. 8 ports., 11 maps and charts. Modern cloth over contemporary boards, modern calf spines. Rather heavy offsetting from the plates, most noticeable on each titlepage, else a good tight and clean set. Armorial bookplate of Buckle. The Stockdale edition of this classic naval history, first published between 1742 and 1744 as Lives of the British Admirals and rev... more information

1842. CAMPBELL, JOSEPH. Sermons by the Late Joseph Campbell, D.D. of the Synod of New Jersey. With a Memoir by the Rev. John Gray, A.M. of Easton, PA. Belvidere, N.J., 1842. xliv, 451 p. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). Campbell was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Hackettstown, Milford, and Kingwood. Warren and Hunterdon Counties. ... more information

1829. (DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL). Contemporary copy of a letter from New Jersey governor Isaac H. Williamson to Secretary of War John H. Eaton, Elizabeth Town, 4 June 1829. 1 1/2 pages, quarto. Unsigned. Some cellophane tape repairs at edges, else very good. Transmitting to the War Dept. to lay before President Jackson a resolution of the New Jersey legislature on the future construction of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and requesting that the federal government "cause the grounds and streams lying... more information

1850. (DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL). New Jersey. Legislature. Report of Commissioners Appointed to Investigate Charges Made against the Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies. Made to the Legislature, February 8, 1850. Trenton, 1850. 79, [1], 102, [2], 187 p. Stitched, lacks wrappers. Detailed report of a study made of the operations of the joint companies, the study having been ordered by the legislature in response to charges by Henry C. Care... more information

1850. (DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL). New Jersey. Legislature. Report of Commissioners Appointed to Investigate Charges Made against the Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies. Made to the Legislature, February 8, 1850. Trenton, 1850. 79, 102 p. Removed. Detailed report of a study made of the operations of the joint companies, which study was ordered by the legislature in response to charges by Henry C. Carey and others of fraud on the part of t... more information

1860. (MORRIS CANAL). 1828. In Chancery of New Jersey. Between the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, & Others, Comp'ts. and the Morris Canal and Banking Co., Def'ts. Bill Filed Nov. 13, 1828.... [N.p., n.d., but possibly 1860s?] 55 p. Stitched. An undated later reprint of legal proceedings between the Morris Canal Co. and the S.U.M. over the canal company's diversion of the waters of the Passaic River. ... more information

1923. (MORRIS CANAL). Report of the Committee Appointed by Hon. George S. Silzer, Governor, to Recommend what Disposition shall be made of the Property of the Morris Canal and Banking Company. Trenton, 1923. 31 p. Wrappers. Use of canal company lands and water rights, &c. ... more information

1897. CANFIELD, FREDERICK A. A History of Thomas Canfield and of Matthew Camfield with a Genealogy of their Descendants in New Jersey. Dover, 1897. 200 p. Plates, 28 charts. Cloth (spine lettering faint, endpapers a bit foxed). Essex and Morris Counties and elsewhere. ... more information

1800. (INDIAN CAPTIVITY). Affecting History of the Dreadful Distresses of Frederic Manheim's Family ... with an Account of the Destruction of the Settlements at Wyoming. Philadelphia: By Henry Sweitzer, for Mathew Carey, 1800. 48 p. Woodcut frontis. Modern half crushed brown levant, spine attractively gilt, by Morrell. A fine, fresh copy, handsomely bound. Narrative of the captivity by the Canasadaga Indians of Frederic Manheim's family, with the superb frontispiece by early American wood-engraver P... more information

1848. [CAREY, HENRY C.]. A Review of An Address of the Joint Board of Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad Companies, to the People of New Jersey. By a Citizen of Burlington. Philadelphia, 1848. 83, [1] p. Stitched. Dust soiled. A reply to the joint companies' An Address of the Joint Board of Directors ... To the People of New Jersey, published earlier in the year. In twelve "Letters to the people of New Jersey," Carey presents a scathing condemnation of th... more information

1850. [CAREY, HENRY C.]. Review of the Report of the late Commissioners for Investigating the Affairs of the Joint Companies: and of the Operations of the Managers of those Companies: By a Citizen of Burlington. Philadelphia, 1850. 78 p. Stitched. First and last leaf a bit browned. A highly critical review of Report of Commissioners Appointed to Investigate Charges against the Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, published earlier in the ye... more information

1827. CAREY, MATHEW. Philadelphia publisher. Autograph letter signed, Philada., 25 February 1827. To R. Adam [?] in Baltimore. One page, with integral address leaf. Very good. Carey tells his correspondent how to get action: "... call a town meeting ... make an address ... Collections of people are composed of very inflammable materials, & are easily excited in any cause, good or bad--whether to relieve distress, or to produce it." ... more information

1984. CARLISLE, ROBERT D. B. A History of the Montclair Golf Club. A Way of Life, 1893-1983. [Montclair, 1984.] vi, 314 p. Illus. Cloth. Text damp- wrinkled at rear. Montclair, Essex County. ... more information

1819. CARLISLE, ANTHONY. An Essay on the Disorders of Old Age, and on the Means for Prolonging Human Life. Philadelphia: By Edward Earle; W. Myer, printer, New Brunswick [N.J.], 1819. 74 p. Original paper-covered boards, paper-covered spine and printed spine label. Covers moderately worn and soiled, particularly along spine, faint dampstain on the first few leaves, but withal a very good copy in the fragile original boards. With the signature of Wm. B. Magruder, 1824. First American edition; first printed i... more information