Titles starting with C from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

New Haven, Conn.: C. Cowles,, (1893).. 8vo, ca.150pp [pp.17-32 only, repeated numerous times, with some pages out of sequence], b/w illus. throughout. Orig. cloth-backed wrappers, chipped, lib. cat. label at front cover, ffep and first leaf detached, otherwise a very good, clean copy. . Cowles manufactured couplings, bolts, reach plates and sockets, shifting rails, canopy top standards and other carriage fittings, 'made of the best Norway Iron and finely finished.' ... more information

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Elzeviriana. Anno, 1635.. 12mo, (24), 561, (70 index), (1 blank)pp, engr. title, 3 hors texte folding engr. maps, 5 full-page woodcut illus, portrait medallion, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lettrines. Full cordovan red morroco (ca.1900), spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, a.e.g., gilt-ruled ruled turn-ins, old bookseller cat. descript. tipped-in at ffep. Occasional mild foxing, a few old marginal annotations, clean 14mm tear extending from top margin P2, else... more information

New York: Redding & Co.,, 1880.. 12mo, 198pp, Bound in a wallet-style limp leather, a.e.g. Good.. Printed in a strange (Masonic?) code made of English letters combined with astrological figures. ... more information

Tucson: University of Arizona,, 1940.. 133pp, 51 plates, some in color, misc. maps and line drawings. Wrappers, edge-toning otherwise fine.. Biological Science Bulletin No. 4. ... more information

Banning: Malki Museum Press,, 2006.. 4to, x, 291pp. Printed wrappers. Fine.. The Cahuilla language is a member of the Uto-Aztecan language family. This dictionary completes the description of the language which has been carried out by Professor Seiler over many years, and facilitates access to his Cahuilla Texts (1970, University of Nebraska), as well as many illustrations of points discussed in Cahuilla Grammar (1977, Malki Museum Press) and an abundant resource for comparative Uto-Aztecan Studies. Firs... more information

Berkeley:, 1920.. 8vo, pp.316-380. Original printed wrappers, accession number, rubber- & blind-stamp of the 'Indian Arts & Crafts Board.' Very good.. First appearance of an early study of the Cahuilla by a student of Kroeber. 'About Hooper, we know little except that she worked as a University of California research fellow in 1918. But we can see that she had an extraordinary talent as a field ethnographer, since she collected truly significant and esoteric data, and reported it accurately. He work cont... more information

New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press,, 1923.. 8vo, xi, (1), 265, (3 ads)pp. Publ. royal blue cloth, gilt lettering and vignette, t.e.g., mild wear at extremities and rubbing at cloth, otherwise a nearly fine copy.. First Edition in English. Originally published in 1821, Byron's play is here translated back into English from d'Olivet's French version, with commentary, which the latter prepared in order to attack Byron's metaphysical views. ... more information

[Helena]: Western Press/Historical Society of Montana,, 1958.. 8vo, xiv, 147pp, 26 b&w photoplates. Tan cloth, red lettered, dust jacket, fine in spine sunned dj with lt wear to spine head.. First Edition, limited to 2000 numbered copies of which this is number 90. Dispels the myths surrounding Martha Cannary aka 'Calamity Jane.' In unusually fine condition. ... more information

Urbana: University of Illinois Press,, 1949.. 8vo, ix, 138pp, illus. Cloth. Fine copy in a tattered dust jacket.. First Edition of a pioneering work in computing, based on a series of lectures given at the University of Illinois in 1948. The first four chapters are devoted to analogue devices, particularly differential analyzers, including a device the author constructed in 1934 from toy parts. Chapter 5 is devoted to digital computers, which the author clearly prefers. Chapter 6 describes Babbage's mach... more information

London: Science Museum, 1975.. 8vo, viii, 102pp, 30 illustrations. Blue wrappers. Very good.. First revised edition, first issued in 1926. ... more information

(New York): Dodge Publishing Co.,, 1916.. 8vo, 52 leaves, full color top sheet illus., dec. borders, orn., inits., loose sheets bound with original ribbon at top edge, in original box, a pristine, very fine copy in very good box with minimal wear.. Full color illustration by Maxfield Parrish of Sinbad and crew aboard a dhow at sea graces this rare calendar for 1917 featuring inspirational text on weekly leaves. ... more information

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, , 1945.. 12mo, 124pp, with black & red illustrations throughout. Original blue wrappers, spine faded, nearly fine.. First Edition, from the printer's estate. The title is actually misleading, as it is more of a little guidebook to Los Angeles museums, restaurants, writers, customs, and things to do, published for the benefit of 'The Fashion Group' of LA, with ca. 90 women members. ... more information

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, , 1916.. 12mo, 63pp, tipped in color frontis. by William Keith. Orig. boards, gilt, endpapers browned, very good.. Printed at the Philopolis Press. As Irwin says in her introduction, California is the place 'where everybody is born beautiful and nobody grows old.' The mythology of California was already well in place by 1916 and this is perhaps its first manifesto, a description and analysis of the California personality. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1913.. 8vo, xviii, (2), 326pp, frontis., 15 photo plates. Orig. publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, very good in glassine jacket.. First Edition of this classic work, a beautifully written account of the author's horseback ride from Los Angeles to San Diego, and from there up the coast to Oregon. Realizing that automobiles would soon change the face of the state, Chase determined to make a trip by horseback before such a journey would become impossible. The book recalls Stevenso... more information

Santa Monica: Hennessey & Ingalls,, 1980.. 4to, 95pp illus. throughout. Wrappers. Very good.. First Edition, inscribed by the author, featuring work by Greene & Greene, Irving Gill, Arthur Heineman, Sylvanus Marston, Marvin Rand et al. ... more information

San Francisco: Dept. of Natural Resources/Div. of Oil ,, 1949.. 8vo, 81pp, 7 large foldout maps and field cross sections. Illus. wrappers, very good.. Vol. 35, No. 1, Summary of Operations reporting on the Paloma and Huntington Beach oil fields, the Kirby-Hill gas field, production statistics for California oil fields, Jan - June 1949, etc. With an index of all annual reports and oil and gas maps available. ... more information

San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co., , 1888.. 8vo, 333pp. A very good copy in the orig. cloth. Very good.. First Edition of an imaginative tale of early exploration. 'Being apparently a weird fiction, to ascertain its purpose would be as difficult as to find the individiual who has read it. Pp. 141-186 are occupied by a remarkable poem in a superlative doggerel, relating chiefly to San Francisco, from the arrival of the San Carlos to the advent of Denis Kearney and the Spring Valley water ring, which is o... more information

Beverly Hills, California: Hillcrest Press,, 1985.. 4to, 133pp, 400 color illustrations. Cloth, dust jacket. Very nice.. First Edition. ... more information

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror,, (1901).. Oblong 8vo, 131, (3)pp, 20 halftone photo-illus., b&w text drawings throughout. Shaved tree bark upper board, black lettered and illus., firm card lower, stringbound, lt stain, soiling and edgewear to bark, neat repair at joint, internally fine in very good binding.. First Edition of this unusually bound, fragile volume, featuring verse on familiar California locations. Rarely seen in this condition. Constance Farris was an illustrator active around the tunr-of-centur... more information