Search Results: Titles starting with C from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1960. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. The tremendously successful Confederate commerce raider during the American Civil War. A very good copy, corners lightly worn, covers a bit scuffed, spine slightly sunned, without dust jacket. (200p., 15 illus., appendix, biblio., map endpapers.)

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (830 pages, photos). This is a virtually mint copy of the First American Edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

London: The Jazz Book Club (by arrangement with Peter Davies), 1963. First Thus (No. 42) . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 12mo (285 pages). Biography of the eminent New Orleans clarinetist, George Lewis. This is a very good copy of the lovely British Jazz Book Club edition, in a dust jacket that is moderately faded at the spine, else fine.

MN: Motorbooks, 2011. Softcover. Very Good. This is a very good copy in wraps. There is some light wear on the back cover.

Oseola, WI: Motorbooks, 1986. First Edition . Softcover. Very Good. (122 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs). Some pages loose.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. From the sidelines in Crimea and the Civil War to the thick of combat in WWII and Vietnam. A very good copy, in dust jacket with worn corners & tear at top edge. (240p., over 300 photos, biblio., index.)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Folio (288 pages; illustrated with color and black and white photograph). This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket. A rare book on Hockney’s photocollages with text by New Yorker art critic Lawrence Weschler.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,Publishers, 1918. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (96p., 73 illus., plan, 3 facsimiles). The history of a significant World War I training center in Massachusetts (76th & 12th Divs.) A good copy, boards & spine soiled & stained, corners worn, inkstain in right margin from front paste-down through p. 28, endpapers slightly foxed, gift inscription on front free endpaper: “To Mother from Son, Feb. 19, 1918, Camp Devens,” issued without dust jacket.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. The literary and military biography of the prolific and long-standing career of Charles King, who was decorated for serving in five wars and published 62 books in various genres over the course of his life. A fine copy, in like dust jacket (187 pages, 33 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index).

Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1944. First Thus (Cohen D103.1). Pamphlet. Very Good. 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (22 pages). This very rare pamphlet reprints an “Introduction” by Churchill as PM, delivered at Westminster, London on May 11, 1944, together with addresses by Canadian PM Mackenzie King; the Lord Chancellor Viscount Simon; and Clifton Brown, Speaker of the House of Commons. Originally published in Ottawa, this wire-stitched printed paper pamphlet is in exceptionally good condition, formally address-stamped and postmarked on its rear face as a mailer.

Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1941. First Thus (Cohen D81.1). Pamphlet. Very Good. 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (16 pages). This exceedingly rare pamphlet contains addresses delivered at The Mansion House, London, on September 4, 1941, by Churchill as P.M.; “Canadian P.M. Mackenzie King; and Sir George Henry Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of London. Originally published in Ottawa, the wire-stitched, printed paper pamphlet is in very good condition.

Ottawa: Naval Historical Section, Canadian Forces Headquarters, Dept. of National Defence, 1965. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Mostly destroyers; shore bombardment and escort. A good copy, corners and edges frayed, 2 discreet stamps for the Canadian Embassy in Brussels on front end paper, contents fine, without dust jacket (167p., circa 100 illus., many maps & charts, appendices, biblio., index, 3 color maps on end papers).

Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1974. First American Edition aa. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (520 pages). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Israel, Egypt, the U.S. and the Soviet Union: their maneuverings and confrontations over the Suez Canal, June 1967 to October 1973.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Phaidon, 1982. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (239 pages, illustrated with black & white and 43 color plates) . This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons , 2008. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (624 pages). New book with dust jacket, the dust jacket has a piece missing at the top of the spine.

New York: Modern Library, 1994. First Modern Library Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (165 pages). As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (370 pages). As-new copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Library of America, 2002. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in publisher’s shrink-wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: Quartet, 1978. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (236 pages). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

Wokingham, UK: RJ Wyatt, 1995. Reprint . No Binding. Very Good. 8vo. By the commander of the detached squadron of King's Dragoon Guards that captured the Zulu king at the end of the Zulu War, Ngome forest, 1879. The original 1879 printing is extremely rare, while this facsimile reprint, privately published, is merely scarce. A very good copy (20 pages).