Search Results: Titles starting with C from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Pocket Books Inc, 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. First printing with no additiona printings listed. Near fine with clean wraps, red-stained pages. Internally tight and clean with the typical toning.

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Fair. Quarter cloth with marbled paper boards, heavily rubbed on the cloth, paper, and spine pastedown. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, chipping to the first advertisement, half-title page, title page, and the first page of the novel. According to the Encyclopedia Masonica, this is the most widely read Masonic novel. It was later reissued by Doran in the early 20th century. Seemingly rare in this binding.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers Inc, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Roth on the title page. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar, Personal Appreciation by Meyer Levin, History by Harold U. Ribalow. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine and front panel, a small chip at the top edge, partially split at the fold of the front flap. Grey buckram with black ink panel and gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Roth's beloved novel of David's coming-of-age in Brooklyn, named one of the 100-best English-language novels since 1923 by TIME Magazine. This copy is inscribed to Hollywood producer Ed Spiegel. Alas, given that no adaptation of the novel exists, Spiegel did not succeed in the arduous journey from book to film.

San Francisco: City Lights. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Olson's classic criticism of Melville's work and Moby-Dick specifically.

City of Industry: Collectors Publication, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. CP 21204. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned. Square and firmly bond with toned pages, clean internally.

New York: Modern Library. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly toned. Red buckram with black ink panels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, clean internally.

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited and arranged for publication by E.A. Brininstool. Limited edition of 800 copies, this one signed by Spotts on Brininstool on the limitation page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price) lightly toned and rubbed. Blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A day-by-day account of the Washita Campaign of 1868-69 against the Arapahoe, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Comanche in Kansas and Oklahoma, a controversial moment in American history compared to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

Los Angeles: Fox Searchlight, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. A "For Your Consideration" script issued when the movie was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Includes a Preface by each writer. Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed and with a few creases. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Hill on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.00). Quarter black cloth with dark grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Hill's collection of poetry that "decries the misrule of his native England, where influence and national memory are bought and sold for pocket change.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, rubbed at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The definitive biography of Hitler's head of German intelligence during World War II.

New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine, complete in the issued slipcase. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board, with a pictorial paste-down on the front. Square and firmly bond, clean internally. Originally published in 1966, this is the second Evan Tanner novel.

New York: Putnam, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Fourth Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), generally toned, some rubbing to the laminate, chipped at the head of the spine. Purple and black cloth on the boards with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, pages slightly toned, clean otherwise. Originally published by the Olympia Press, Candy is an absurd satire of American life, compared as a whole on the dust jacket to Nathanael West's "A Cool Million," and as a character to Lolita, Kitten, and Holly Golightly.

London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, generally toned, stains at the front panel, foxed at the spine, a chip at the bottom of the front panel. Green cloth, stained and bumped at the corners, with a red ink panel on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, foxed at the edges, clean internally.

London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [n.d]. Hardcover. Very Good. With an Essay by Thomas Tyrwhitt and a Memoir and Critical Dissertation by Charles Cowden Clarke. Complete in three volumes. Very Good. Half-leather bindings, generally rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sparse foxing throughout the textblocks.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Smith on the title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), generally soiled and rubbed, faded at the spine. Red boards, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, stains at the edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The second Roman Grey novel, this one seeing him tasked with protecting a Royal Crown of Hungary against plots from anti-communist Hungarian-Americans and an ex-Nazi art thief.

New York: New Directions, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third Printing. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($12.50), faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges, a tear at the bottom-right corner of the front panel. Beige cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, sparse foxing at the edges, clean internally. This printing is the first appearance in book form of Canto LXX.

New York: New Directions, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), faded and with a tidemark on the spine, lightly soiled and bumped otherwise. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some pencil notations throughout. A collection of all the Cantos completed before 1952, including "The Pisan Cantos.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Early Printings (1912, 1913, 1909. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and Edited by Frederick Engels. Revised and amplified according to the fourth German edition by Ernest Untermann. Very Good. Matching red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine, a few bumps and spots of rubbing. Square and firmly bound, toned and stained at the edges, matching bookseller's tickets inside the rear boards on all three volumes, clean otherwise. A nice early set of one of the most important works of economic and political thought.

Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($39.95), some surface staining. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a few stray stains at the edges, gift inscription on the half-title, clean otherwise. Here, Piketty "analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. With assistance from Rose Friedman. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), rubbed and with some tidemarks near the bottom edge, chipped at the bottom of the front panel. Blue cloth, pushed at the corners, faint tidemark matching that of the jacket, gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, stamped "U of C Oct 26 1962 $3.95" on the front endpaper, extremely faint tidemark on the rear endpaper, clean otherwise. Friedman's work that outlines his position about the importance of capitalistic competition in economics and politics.