Search Results: Titles starting with C from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed third printing of the third Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the hard-boiled private detective continues an investigation on behalf of a murdered client. Millhone's vigil after the death of her client stirs up memories from her own past, and she pursues the loose threads that no one wants her to follow. THE GUARDIAN reported on the influence of Millhone on other noir and crime writers, such as Meg Gardiner, who said: "With every page I wished: Kinsey Millhone, be my friend. Beyond that [she] showed me how a female series heroine could work." 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey boards. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 244 pages. Signed by Grafton to title page. Jacket with a hint of edgewear, one tiny closed tear. Sharp.

New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1995. Fine in fine jacket.. Doubly inscribed first edition of this energetic rhyming ABC, full of vividly illustrated city-dwellers dressed in mercilessly depicted high mid-90s style. 9'' x 11''. Original glossy pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($16.00) dust jacket. Unpaginated. Inscribed by author and illustrator on half-title page: "E is for Enjoy! Nikki Grimes / Happy reading! Pat Cummings." Minor edgewear.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of the third Kinsey Millhone mystery, in which the hard-boiled private detective continues an investigation on behalf of a murdered client. Millhone's vigil after the death of her client stirs up memories from her own past, and she pursues the loose threads that no one wants her to follow. THE GUARDIAN reported on the influence of Millhone on other noir and crime writers, such as Meg Gardiner, who said: "With every page I wished: Kinsey Millhone, be my friend. Beyond that [she] showed me how a female series heroine could work." A terrific copy, with no flaws to speak of. 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($14.95) pictorial dust jacket designed by Abby Kagan. [10], 243, [1] pages. Signed by Grafton in black felt pen on title page.

New York: Viking, 1997. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this charming tale of veggie friendship between a cabbage and a stalk of aspsaragus. Jamie Wyeth comes from a particularly prestigious American artist family - he is the son of of celebrated mid-century visual artist Andrew Wyeth, and the grandson of N. C. Wyeth, a pillar of the Brandywine school of illustration. His eye for texture and small details lends his art to the picture book format, though he has only illustrated three titles over his illustrious career. 8.5'' x 10.25''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($15.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [24] pages. Inscribed by Wyeth to title page. Jacket with a bit of sunning to spine. One corner of binding a touch bumped. Bright and clean.

[Philadelphia]: [American Philosophical Society], 1793. Very good.. Presentation copy extract from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. III, featuring the first US publication on the education of deaf people. A prize dissertation proposing spelling reform into 30 letters to represent English, the enduring legacy of this article is in the related essay at the rear on teaching deaf people to speak. This essay suggests different strategies depending on the age of the learner: just as in acquiring foreign languages, children have more practical facility than adults. But for older students, learning in conjunction with reading is important - though greatly complicated by the lack of standardized spelling (a problem that inspired the main portion of this pamphlet, and also tackled by Webster in this era). The essay also briefly mentions sign language. A friend of Thornton's, Thomas Gallaudet, would later found early educational programs for deaf students. A landmark in American… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First edition, in first state jacket, of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of conflict and mistrust aboard a destroyer, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Humphrey Bogart. Herman Wouk drew on his own experiences aboard destroyers in the Pacific theater to craft his narrative of internal and external conflicts. Rather than being an action-packed reflection on the adventure of war, THE CAINE MUTINY focuses on the minutia and procedures that keep the war machine turning, and the tough decisions that must be made when things break down With Humphrey Bogart in the indelible role of the unstable Lieutenant Commander Queeg, the 1954 Hollywood adaptation of the novel was the second-highest grossing film of the year. An enormous bestseller at the time, the true first edition is uncommon. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. Original unclipped ($3.95) color pictorial… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Fine.. Signed limited first edition, one of 250 copies, of this collection of essays by Sendak on illustrators and authors of children's books of the past, including Potter, Disney, Caldecott, Parrish, Claud Lovat Fraser and more. 9'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth, gilt-stamped central vignette, gilt-lettered spine. In original cream slipcase with illustrations by Sendak. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Cream endpapers. [8], 216 pages.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of the National Book Award finalist, featuring a man turned into a dog after a quarrel with his wife. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK! and its associated films. 10'' x 8''. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped ($7.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, a bit of sunning to spine. Tight.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1925. Near fine in very good box.. Original Jazz Age calendar with a vivid original Parrish cover, featuring inspirational quotes from Emerson, Longfellow, Ruskin, Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and more. 8'' x 6''. Collection of sheets printed rectos only, tied at top edge with original blue ribbon as issued. In original box with printed new year sentiment and small corner landscape. Faint toning to leaves. Ink owner name on bottom of lower lid; some annotations within calendar in same hand, including a number in shorthand. Box lid a touch concave, a couple closed tears repaired with tape. Parrish cover bright.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1916. Very good plus in very good box.. Original WWI-era calendar for the modern business man with an original Parrish cover, featuring motivational aphorisms like "Be Ambitious: To rest content with results achieved is the first sign of business decay." A scarce ephemeral document of the 1910s featuring a renowned artist and inspirational quotes and proverbs. Many are directly commercial: "Time is Money"; "It is the quiet worker that succeeds"; and "The true art of salesmanship is to sell something at a price that has a profit in it." The American dream of bootstrapping in calendar form. 8'' x 6''. Collection of sheets printed rectos only, tied at top edge with original red ribbon as issued. In original box with printed new year sentiment and small corner landscape. A touch of wear and some faint foxing to leaves. Box lid a touch concave, a few short closed tears to flaps.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1956. First edition. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this reflection on the work of an architect who died before his time, who nonetheless had an important impact on mid-century modern California residential style. 8.75'' x 8.75''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped ($6.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and color. 92 pages, including index. Bookplate of Dolph Warren Zink to front flyleaf. Jacket with 2" closed tear to rear joint, a few smaller closed tears; light rubbing and mild soil. Mild foxing to first and last few leaves. Sound.

Madrid: Renacimiento, 1926. First edition. Very good.. Rare signed true first edition of this novel of Mexican immigration to the United States from one of Bolivia's most celebrated writers. A social novel with romance overtones set in the Santa Clara Valley during the mission period of California's early statehood, the story of CALIFORNIA LA BELLA revolves around a love triangle between Resurrección, the beautiful daughter of an Italian immigrant of questionable background, and her two suitors: the kind but naive Pablo Guilarte, recently arrived from Mexico, and the more sinister Ralph Quinones, whose plans to kidnap Resurrección are foiled only when he is arrested for running an illegal business. Alarcón, who was teaching and living in California when he began the novel (but finished and sold it during a trip to Spain, hence the imprint), weaves alternating plot lines with commentary on the dangers of opium, sympathetic accounts of Ralph's difficult life, and descriptions of California's… Read More

New York and London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Near fine in like dust jacket.. First edition, first issue of one of the best-loved works of American literature, in scarce original dust jacket. Jack London's animal fiction has captured the hearts and imaginations of generations of Americans. A socialist, animal activist, and eugenicist, London was a complex man who participated in unemployment protests and the Alaskan Gold Rush. The working dogs of Alaska clearly left an impression on him, leading to several pieces of canine literature, the most famous of which is CALL OF THE WILD. Published in 1903, CALL OF THE WILD hit the shelves in the second year of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency; Americans were hungry for the outdoors and red-blooded adventure stories. With its narrative of civilization pitted against instinct, the title was enthusiastically received by critics, and was an immediate hit. Brooklyn Daily Eagle reviewers note that London "does not make the mistake of endowing his [dog] hero… Read More

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 1991. First edition (stated). Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Signed first printing of the first volume in Foster's 'The Damned' trilogy. 9'' x 6.25''. Original half black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($18.95) pictorial dust jacket with painting by Syd Dutton and design by Darrin Ehardt. 341, [3] pages. Signed by Foster on title page. Small closed tear to middle of jacket spine, else only minimal edgewear.

Palm Desert, CA: Death Valleu '49's Inc, 1961. Near fine.. Details the Nevada - California Border Survey of 1861, reprinted from the 1861 files of the SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Stapled wrappers. Four pages of photographic images. 73, [1] pages. Ink owner stamp to first leaf. Minor toning at edges. Touches of rubbing/shelfwear. Clean and sound overall.

New York: Donahue, 1916. Very good plus.. A short story of the Campfire Girls, a popular fiction series from the early 20th century based upon a girls' club very similar to the Girl Scouts. Officially incorporated as a national organization in 1912, the Camp Fire Girls was a youth development program meant to teach girls the skills of outdoors self-sufficiency. It was a nonsectarian group that still exists today as a gender inclusive organization. In its early years, the org took a problematic approach to camping, dressing white girls in approximations of traditional clothing of Indigenous nations, including "playing" various tribes. The Art Nouveau-influenced images of this publication capture the cheerful appropriation of those years of the program. A nice copy, much scarcer than the books in the series. Folio. Original color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with 6 full-page color images and brown illustrations in line. [16] pages (including wrappers).

Rocheser, New York: Stecher Lithographic Company, 1916. Fine.. An uncommon title adorably illustrated by Price, later the co-founder of Fisher-Price Toys and the company's first Art Director. 10.5'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Price with very beautiful color lithographs, plus red and blue illustrations throughout. Tiny rubbed area on cover.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Signed first printing of Steven Kellogg's classic story of animal-loving Arnold's quest to convince his mother lo let him adopt various pets... including a bear and a dinosaur thawed from a glacier. Kellogg has written and/or illustrated more than one hundred children's books. He is a recipient of the Regina Medal for lifetime contribution to children's literature, and his books have won numerous awards such as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award, and the Parents' Choice Award. In 2011 he donated his archive to the University of Findlay's Mazza Museum. 10'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($4.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Kellogg to title page "from your friend," with original drawing of a smiling bear. Jackey with mild toning, a bit of edgewear. Jacket with mild edgewear. Clean.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. Very good in near fine jacket.. First printing of this Sherlockian mystery, by the author of THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION and THE WEST END HORROR. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter green cloth with yellow boards. In original unclipped ($19.95) dust jacket. 224 pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Front hinge just barely starting at title page. Touches of shelfwear. Else bright overall.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1927. Later edition. Very good plus.. Beautifully bound 1920s edition of Shaw's play that pits an idealist poet against a practical cleric for a woman's affections - in attractive Art Deco fine binding. The second of Shaw's "Plays Pleasant" trilogy, CANDIDA was first published in 1898. The play did not prove to be particularly popular in London, but found more fertile ground in New York in 1904, with Shaw himself remarking on the "Candidamania" that swept the city. The play saw a revival in 1924, which again captivated audiences, and was still running when this edition of the play was published. The unsigned binding of this copy exhibits a strong and prescient design sensibility: the motif embodies the Art Deco style of the late '20s, but would also not look out of place on a 21st century fine binding. A lovely copy. 7'' x 4.5''. Contemporary full brick red goatskin with linear gilt tooling, five raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 78, [4] pages, paginated… Read More