Titles starting with C from Savoy Books

Norwich, NY: Cenango Union Book and Job Printing Office, nd [1850s]. 14 x 5 3/8 inches. Text within ornamental border, wood cut portrait of group. Blue ink at top border, very good. Early "mountain" music theme group. Lists program and personnel. . ... more information

New York: St. Martin's, (1962). 8vol cloth. Pp. 120, illus in color and b&w. Sl. warping, otherwise a near mint copy.. ... more information

Np., nd. Typescript mimeograph, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Pp. 142, fastened. In a morocco-backed cloth clam shell case. A presentation copy, inscribed "Pour Ruth et Mark en toute amitié. Jean Renoir." A production script for Jean Renoir's war-time drama set in Paris. He adapted the play from his French original first for a world premiere student production in 1960, when he was a Regents Professor at UC Berkeley, and for a WNET television production in 1973, during which he fell ill and turned ... more information

Traduit de l'Anglois...avec des notes & observations sur la culture; par M. Lezermes. Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1788. 8vo, modern marbled boards, calf spine gilt, morocco label. Pp. xxii [i.e. xxiv], 278, (2). A fine copy, with the half-title. First French edition of Marshall's landmark work, the first botanical treatise by an American. Marshall's botanic garden was a focal point of early American horticulture, and a major source of American plants for European distribution. The French edition con... more information

Bloomington, Ill: Pantagraph Stock-Printing Establishment, 1885. 8vo, orig. color printed illus. wrappers. Pp. 51, (1); illus. Minor rubbing; a very good copy. A handsomely illustrated catalogue of French draft horses from a leading breeder, including a chapter on percherons. . ... more information

Np: 1886. 24mo, printed wrappers, stitched. Pp. 8. Short -title list of 171 juvenile volumes, with blank spaces for another 50 or so ; judging by diminutive format, printed for the readership.. ... more information

Paris: Chez Vilmorin-Andrieux, 1895. 8vo, marbled boards, cloth spine; pp. 88. 16 full-page b&w plates. A very good copy.. ... more information

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. 12mo, limp cloth gilt. Pp. [ii], 64. Illus. Some foxing, marginal wear; very good. Introductory manual of general agricultural practices, by the author of the popular Book of the Farm.. ... more information

Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra,, 1860. Lg. 8vo, morocco spine, marbled boards (scuffed,) decorative endpapers; pp. xiii, 724. Ex-lib, with a few, mostly unobtrusive, library stamps. Inner hinge starting at title leaf; otherwise internally a very good, bright copy.. ... more information

Np, nd [Trinidad:Mirror Office, 1902]. Cover title. Portfolio, 16 x 12 inches, containing 29 loose photographic plates, complete. Moderate wear to binding, ties lacking, some narrow chipping and other marginal wear to plates; a very good set. Very scarce suite of photo plates from André's expedition on the Caura River in Venezuela. as described in his book A Naturalist in the Guianas (London 1904). The majority of the plates show scenes of village life of the Waiomgomo people, as well as river vi... more information

London: For J. Pridden [1765.]. Folio, stitched, uncut. Pp. 9, (1). Folding engraved frontis. Creased at center, with a light stain at inner margin. A very good copy. "Fifth edition." An early folio edition from the first year of publication of an oft-printed comic staple of 18th century theater, generally cited as the first English comic monologue. Stevens was an actor and author of a libertine bent, who scored a huge success with this parody of an academic lecture on physiognomy, propped with fi... more information

London: For R.B. Seeley,, 1838. 8vo, original cloth (top of spine worn). Pp. 315. A good copy. Second edition. Moral emblems and the like; little horticultural interest. ... more information

Albany: J.P. Lyon, 1915. First edition. Thick. 4to, orig. green cloth, gilt lettering. Pp. xii, 371. Frontis plus 56 full-page color plates. Slight rubbing to extremities; internally fine.. ... more information

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, nd [1870's]. 8vo, color printed pictorial wrappers. Pp. 91, illus. Some wear to spine; a very good copy. 42 carols, each with vignette. A pretty McLoughlin cover.. ... more information

New York: William H. Murphy nd [ca. 1846-1856]. 12mo, yellow illustrated wrappers, stitched. Pp. 71-136, (2). Frontis.; vignette illus. Fine. A robust collection of forty-six minstrel dialect songs, words only.. ... more information

Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother nd [1851.]. 12mo, illustrated wrapper (rear wrapper lacking, stitched). Pp. 71, (1). Frontis. port.; title vignette. First edition of the first offering from a notable series.. ... more information

Aided and guided by experience and the compulsion of circumstance as regards both the individual and the community as a whole, on the long road of human evolution. Keighley: Printed for the author by Messrs. Wadsworth & Co., The Rydal Press, nd [1916.] 12mo, print ed self wrappers. Pp. 55, ucut. Wrappers chipped at edges, sm library release stamp. Sole edition, initialled presentation copy, with a small photo of the author tipped in. A privately printed sampling of mystical essays and poems, according t... more information

New York: A.T.De La Mare, 1928. 8vo, cloth; pp. 186, illus. Presentation copy; very good.. ... more information

Springfield, Mass: Geo. W. Sargeant, 1873. 12mo, stiff cloth wrappers, printed over-label. Pp. xii, (2), 70. Second edition, with a printed label "Presentation Copy." A full acting edition, with descriptions of parts, props and costumes, of a play intended to be staged by amateur companies in small towns, and surviving broadsides indicate this was the case. An 1870 printing is recorded by a single copy on OCLC.. ... more information

(Civil War - Facsimile Wall-Paper Newspaper.) The Daily Citizen, J. M. Swords, Proprietor. Vicksburg, Miss. Thursday, July 2, 1863. Note. July 4th 186 3. [Np, probably 1860's.] Single folio wall-paper sheet, printed one side o nly. Edges chipped. The July 4th wall-paper issue of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen, with the appended text by the newly occupying Yankee forces, is perhaps the most famous printed artifact of the Confederacy, and was alm ost immediately reproduced in facsimile editions. Clarence Bri... more information