Titles starting with C from Quill & Brush

New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Spine ends and tips very slightly rubbed, otherwise fine in bright dustwrapper with minor edge rubbing (mostly to spine ends) and an unobtrusive closed tear in upper edge of front panel. ... more information

London: Longmans, Green, 1928. INSCRIBED second U.K. impression: "For Mrs. Guy Campbell / With all the best regards of her friend." Top corners lightly bumped, slight unavoidable offset to endpapers, page fore edges faintly foxed, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dustwrapper sunned at spine with few short, closed tears, corners nicked and spine ends chipped away (shallowly). ... more information

New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First edition of this collection of essays. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

Chicago: Orange Judd Company, 1905. First edition. One of 500 numbered large-paper copies. A story beginning in New York in 1873 and going through to the scene of Custer's final battle. Illustrated throughout with 96 photographs, sketches and classic Western art by Edward Deming and others. Fictional but realistic story based on fact. An elaborate production: a large book, with marbled end-papers, bound in full Indian smoke-tanned buckskin with a pictorial front cover and fringes. Howes M-935. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press (1984). First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Hyperion (1996). First edition. Fine to new in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster (1982). First edition. INSCRIBED, "For --- As close as I could come to writing about book scouting. Larry McMurtry." Remainder man on bottom edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster (1982). First edition. Advance uncorrected proofs, with "Oct. 11" publication in ink on front and publisher's blurb taped to first blank page. Fine in yellow printed paperwraps. ... more information

(London): The British Library (1999). First edition thus, with a new introduction by the author. The first reprinting of O'Brian's first two books, published under the name Richard Patrick Russ in 1930 and 1938, respectively. There were 1000 copies published in total. This is one of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Two volumes, fine in pictorial boards with leather spines, housed together in a red cloth slipcase. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First edition. The play based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper with slightly soiled rear panel and nicked tips and spine ends. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber (1937). First edition. A book of poetry. INSCRIBED, "For Alan --- from George Barker," and (illegibly) dated. Fine in slightly soiled yellow dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1976). First edition. Page edges slightly soiled, otherwise fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. ... more information

N.Y. & London: Authors & Newspapers Assoc., 1907. First edition. "Notice to Purchaser" tipped to front free endpaper. Very good or better. ... more information

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839. First edition. A little book of life lessons for children. Frontis black-and-white scenic plate, tissue protected. Gift inscription, boards slightly soiled, touch of rubbing to edges and corners, foxed throughout, otherwise very good or better. Scarce. ... more information

New York: Random House (1977). First edition. Very good with previous owner's name on front endpaper (last name inked out), a few notations in margins, and names pencilled next to list of characters; in a lightly soiled dustwrapper with very minor edge wear. ... more information

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in price clipped dustwrapper. ... more information

NY: Wm. Morrow, 1980. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Uncorrected proof with touch of soiling, otherwise fine. ... more information

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition, second printing, with terminal advertisement pages numbered 1 through 6 and 8, and battered type on pages 436 and 437. One of 500 copies. There were 1,000 copies in the first printing. Parkman traveled to Fort Laramie where he joined a band of Sioux and went with them to the Black Hills and then on to the Oregon Trail. One of the classic overland narratives, and Parkman's most popular work. Listed in the Grolier 100 and Printing and the Mind of ... more information

London: Gollancz Ltd., 1961. First edition of his first book. New endpapers added, and minor cover, otherwise very good. Lacking the dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Walker and Company (1962). First American edition of the author's first book, the one that introduced the world to British Intelligence Officer George Smiley. SIGNED by le Carre on the title page. Fine in very lightly soiled white dust jacket with small chip to head of spine. ... more information