Search Results: Titles starting with C from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Slight wear to extremities, some bubbling to cloth; slight darkening to fore-edge; dust jacket sunned, chipped, and soiled with slight loss at spine ends and corners, tape repair to verso Very good. LMM-00348A. Calder Willingham. End as a Man.  New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947. First edition. Octavo. 350pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver to spine, original unclipped dust jacket, listing price $2.75. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

New York: Random House, 1929. Limited edition, No. 1,408 of 1,470 copies. Cloth. Spine slightly darkened and leaning; lightly rubbed and darkened to boards. Very good.. Rockwell Kent. Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Rockwell Kent, illustrator. Candide. New York: Random House, 1929. Limited edition, No. 1,408 of 1,470 copies. Signed by Rockwell Kent. Quarto. 111pp. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Publisher's cream-colored pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, patterned endleaves. .

Minor wear, ink-stamp of Ronald K. Siegel to front pastedown, else fine. JBS-435. Joseph Berke and Calvin Hernton. The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretative Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish. London: Peter Owen, 1974. First British Commonwealth edition.  Octavo. 288pp (indexed). Publisher's black hardcover paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of £4.50net. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Minor shelfwear, light toning, else fine. SJK-38. Laura E. Richards. Frank T. Merrill, illustrator. Captain January. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. Limited edition, No. 91 of 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by the publisher and author.     Twelvemo. 128pp. Illustrated with etchings after drawings by Frank T. Merrill. Rebound in red half morocco over marbled paper-covered, stamped in gilt to spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endleaves. .

Slight paper loss to front free endpaper; light wrinkling to half-title, with previous owner's pressure stamped, upper corner clipped; jacket a bit chipped and worn. Very good. KWH-389. Joseph Heller. Catch-22. New York: The Modern Library, 1966. First Modern Library edition.  Small octavo. 443pp + 2pp ads. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in silver to spine, front cover in blind, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.95. .

Spine slightly sunned and leaning; extremities gently rubbed and edgeworn; ownership erasure to inscription page; offsetting from (still present) news clipping to title page; minor toning; jacket sunned and torn in two, repaired with clear tape to verso. An about very good copy in a fair jacket. LMM-00303A. Cecil Beaton. Photobiography.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition.  Pencil Inscribed by Cecil Beaton to front free endpaper: With all good / wishes & many thanks / Cecil Beaton.  Small quarto. 255p. Illustrated with b/w photos by the author. Publisher's beige and black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original pictorial dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Slight vertical crease to spine; light wear to dust jacket, else fine. KWH-392. [SIGNED] Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Signed by Anne Tyler and additionally inscribed on enclosed post-it: Please! No more! / (Or I'll never have / time to write any / new ones.) at. Octavo. [276]pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in black to spine, front cover in blind, green top-stain, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $6.95. .

Minor shelfwear; slightly sunned to spine ends and board edges; light toning; occasional pencil markings throughout; price-clipped jacket a bit rubbed, sunned, and chipped. Very good. LMM-272. Sven Hedin. Bernard Norbelie, translator. Chiang Kai-shek Marshal of China.  New York: The John Day Company, 1940. First edition. Octavo. 290 (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in silver, top edge stained green, original illustrated dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

A fine copy. SJK-408. Hilary Knight. A Christmas Stocking Story. New York: Katerine Tegen Books, 2003. First edition.  Signed by Hilary Knight.  Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by the author. Publisher's illustrated glossy hardcover boards, original unclipped dust jacket. .

Minor wear to slipcase, else fine. CDK-85. Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.  New York; Columbia University Press, 1956. Facsimile of first edition. Sixteenmo. 166pp. Brown quarter cloth. Slipcase. .

Slight rubbing and soiling to boards; light toning to endleaves; else fine. AYW-382. Russ Meyer as told to Adolph Albion Schwartz. A Clean Breast! The Lives and Loves of Russ Meyer, Vols. I -3. Hollywood: The Hauck Publishing Company, Inc., 2000. First edition. Three quarto volumes. 359; Illustrated with numerous b/w photos throughout. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spines and front covers. From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). His personal copy, with official ink-stamp from his estate. Please note that this unusually heavy set (approx. 20 lbs.) will require extra postage. .

Slight yellowing to pages and edges. Good. JBS-301. Raúl Botelho Gosálvez. Coca. La Paz, Bolivia: Libreria Editorial "Juventud", 1987. Octavio, 139pp. Paper wrappers with green pictorial cover with black lettering to spine. .

Light creasing and wear. Very good. JBS-329. Basilia Lafuente. Coca y Cocaina: Una Visión Distinta. Bolivia: Quipas. 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 129 pp. Publisher's wraps with black lettering to white spine, full-graphic front cover. Text in Spanish.  .

Fine.. Aleister Crowley. Cocaine. San Francisco: Level Press, 1973. First separate publication of Crowley's essay, originally published in the October 1917 issue of The International. Twelvemo. Unpaginated [32]pp. Introduction by David Hoye. Cover art, full-page illustrations, and illustrated chapter headings by April Funcke. Staple bound in red illustrated paper wrappers with publisher's address given as "700 Diamond". .

Creases and folds to edges of wrapper, otherwise very good. JBS-308. Nathan Mutch, M.D. Cocaine: Being a Paper Read Before Ye Sette of Odd Volumes on April 24th, 1923, at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant. Volume LXXVII. London: Huggins and Co. 1924. Limited Edition, No. 5 of 165 numbered copies. Sixteenmo. 37pp. E. Sullivan, bookbinder. Blue wrappers with black letting to cover and spine.  .

A fine copy. JBS-305. Cardwell C. Nuckols. Cocaine: From Dependency to Recovery. Bradenton, FL: Human Services Institute, Inc. 1987. First Edition. Octavio, 118pp. with index. White wrappers, red and black lettering to spine and cover. .

Fine. JBS-318. David E. Smith, M.D., Donald R. Wesson, M.D., and Nancy A. Eiswirth. Cocaine in America. Center City, MN: Hazelden. 1981. Octavo. 14pp. Blue paper wraps with black letting and graphic to cover, saddle stapled. .

Fine. JBS-323. Sidney Cohen, M.D., D.Sc. Cocaine: The Bottom Line. New York: The American Council for Drug Education. 1985. Octavo. 43pp. Blue wraps with red lettering to cover, saddle stapled.  .

Fine. JBS-326. W. R. Spence, M.D. Cocaine: The Unseen Dangers. Waco: Health Edco, Inc. 1987 Octavo, 15pp. Mauve wrappers, saddle stapled. .

Some chipping to edges, creases to spine, scuff to back cover. Good. JBS-328. Sigmund Freud. The Cocaine Papers. [No place]: Afghani Oil Press, 1975. First American edition. Octavo. 64pp. Black wraps with grey lettering to cover, saddle stapled.   .