Search Results: Authors starting with C from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Moscow: Pravda, 1967. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. 61,[3] pp. Original pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Moderate wear and light stains in wrappers. Very good. The first collection of stories by Truman Capote published in the Soviet Union, in a special book supplement to OGONIOK, the popular illustrated Russian magazine founded in 1899. The stories were translated by the famous Soviet translator Sulamif Mitina (1922-2000), who had also rendered Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, and very other modern English-language writers into Russian. The book contains a short biographical sketch of Capote, the title story, and three additional stories: "Jug of Silver," A Christmas Memory," and "Children on Their Birthdays." With an interesting illustrated Soviet advertisement on the back encouraging pedestrians at train stations to "Use bridges for crossing!"

Boston: The Berkeley Press, 1919. First Edition. [1919]. [2],12 pp. Original blue wrappers, stitched, printed cover label. Near fine. A short history of William Caslon and Calson Oldstyle type, by Boston's Berkeley Press, with a brief description and advertisement of the press's services. Scarce, with OCLC listing five copies.

Orléans, France: L. P. Couret, 1794. Small quarto. Bifolium, 4 pp. 3/4-inch of loss at upper corner (with no loss to text). Soft early horizontal fold. Very minor foxing. Very good. The 1794 French Revolutionary decree transferring the former royal collections of scientific, technological, and artistic objects to newly designated state inventories, naming the commissioners of each to form the new commission temporaire des Arts. Forty-three commissioners and twelve categories of objects are named, offering an informative view of cultural authority and material taxonomy at the height of the Revolution. Almost immediately upon the overthrow of the French monarchy in 1792, members of the National Convention embarked upon the urgent and staggering task of protecting the massive royal collections and reorganizing them according to Republican and Enlightenment ideals. Within months, the famous Jardin du Roi and Cabinet dHistoire Naturelle were newly established as the Muséum National dHistoire… Read More

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 189 pp. Original green and silver cloth over boards, spine gilt. Boards slightly bowed, else fine. Scarce.

New York: Lines, 1966. 11 inches. 3,22,[1] leaves, printed recto only. Pictorial covers, side-stapled. 1966 ownership signature of Michael Silveitz in title page. Some wear and uneven toning in covers, else very good. Clark Coolidge's first book of poetry, published by Aram Saroyan under the LINES imprint. Cover by Coolidge. Clay and Phillips, p. 210.

Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose, 1855. Softcover. Very good. [129]-160 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to edges of wrappers, else fine. Anglophone Quebecer Unitarian periodical, including an article on the Crimean War by Canada's first Unitarian minister, the Rev. John Cordner.

Paris: Le centre de documentation anti-maçonnique et anti-marxiste, 1935. 7,[2],8-91 pp., including double-page chart, plus [2] pp. of publisher's advertisements. In French. Original printed wrappers. Newspaper clipping from August 29, 1940, on "Les responsabilités de la Maçonnerie" laid in.Wrappers moderately worn, front wrapper creased at upper-outer corner, contents toned, occasional contemporary pencil marks. Very good. A far-right, anti-Masonic, anti-Semitic screed listing scores of pro-masonic organizations and hundreds of contemporary "agents of freemasonry" in contemporary French politics and media by name. An illuminating double-page chart, "Pouvoir Occulte Judeo-Maçonnique," maps the collaboration between the Freemasons, Socialists, Communists, and bankers from their international organizations to their representation in the French Senate. The author, Henri Coston (1910-2001), enjoyed a long career of writing anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic tracts before, during, and after his enthusiastic… Read More