Search Results: Authors starting with C from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., [1936]. 8vo. viii, 309, [1] pp. Burgundy-coloured ribbed cloth, gilt lozenge front cover, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover art of rearing horse on pinned page (minor edgewear, light dustsoiling, couple very small closed tears), still NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this anthology assembling Cabell’s prefaces to the deluxe Storisende ediiton of the “Biography of the Life of Manuel” outlinging “the course of prudery among editors, publishers, and the reading public, never sparing an individual.”

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930. 8vo. xxvii, [1], 291, [1] pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine (minor dustsoiling, slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. Arts & Crafts cover art illust. of woman in orientalist-style dress (minor scuffing, edgewear, upper fore-edge reinforced on back), still VG/G copy. First edition of this anthology drawing from such works of Cabell’s as The Silver Stallion, Chivalry, Jurgen, Something About Eve, The Certain Hour, and more.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960. 8vo. 320 pp. Text illusts., photos. Orange cloth, black lettering (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. (couple minor closed tears, wear to corners), still VG/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this excellent history of the decisive B-17 Flying Fortress bombing raids on the ball-bearing factories of Germany during World War II.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1947]. 12mo. 121 pp., plus 1 pp. publisher’s ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers (slight shelfwear), still NF copy, w/ neat ownership label of Hiro Wakabayashi (1930-2017), Japanese-American and Korean War veteran on pastedown. Early Pocket Books edition, No. 443, of this noir mystery, which served as the basis for the 1946 MGM film noir starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, and Hume Cronyn, directed by Tay Garnett.

Cleveland & New York: World Publishing [1946]. 8vo. 258 pp. Black cloth, turquoise-coloured lettering (uniform interior toning as usual), w/ d.j. cover art photos of Joan Crawford & Ann Blyth from the movie, photos on tack cover (minor chipping head & foot of spine), still VG/VG- copy. Early Photoplay printing, of the Warner Bros. movie tie-in starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Michael Curtiz directed. Joan Crawford won Oscar award for role.

[Stourbridge & Birmingham, England: Taylor, Law & Co., Ltd., 1930]. 8vo. 31, [1] pp. Printed & illustrated throughout in sepia and pink, text illustrations, photo illustrations. Photo-illustrated softcovers in sepia & pink (slight shelfwear), NF copy. Second edition of this advertising catalogue and promotion for Tala Works Icing sets for cakes, and cake decorating.

Chicago: Published by the Author, 1923. Oblong 4to. [2 pp]., 60 plates, each with explanatory text of facing plate on verso (most in colour, some tinted photos), [8 pp.], plus 2 illustrated publisher’s ads. Embossed ribbed blue cloth, gilt lettering, octagon-shaped colour plate mounted front cover of decorative cake icing piece (very minor bumping to corners, front hinge starting, edgewear), still VG- copy w/ former ownership signature on title. First edition of this beautifully printed work on Jazz Age decorative cakes. There are cakes for New Years, birth announcements, Easter, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, cakes with macaroons, Marzipan decorated cakes, caramel sugar baskets, post card cakes (very beautiful), and many others. The recipes and ads at the end offer the instructions and equipment to produce these beautiful confections.

[Helena, MT]: The Western Press, Historical Society of Montana, [1958]. 8vo. xiv, 147, [1] pp. Numerous photo plates. Tan cloth, red lettering, w/ d.j. (slight scuffing, slight sunning to spine), VG/VG copy. First Western Press edition, No. 115 of 2000 copies, of this excellent biography of the famed Calamity Jane, i.e. Martha Jane Cannary-Burke, Army Scout, and close friend of Wild Bill Hickok.

New York: Henry Holt and Co., [1927]. 8vo. xii, 347, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous plates, illust. endpapers by Margaret Freeman (mnr chppng & fryng hd of spine), still G copy. First edition, 2nd printing of this excellent biography of the famed Calamity Jane, i.e. Martha Jane Cannary-Burke, Army Scout, and close friend of Wild Bill Hickok.

London: Hutchison, [1972]. 8vo. 248 pp. Plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght dustsoilng to fore-edges), NF/VG. First edition of this work examining the 19th-century precedents for freedom of speech.

Chicago & New York: N.K. Fairbank Company; Lithographed by G.H. Buek & Co., [1897]. 4to. 8.5 x 11.75 in. Six colour chromolithograph leaves, printed on thick paper stock, each with image on recto, calendars & lettering in blue & gilt, punch sewn through upper margin by white silk braid (very slight shelfwear, slight rubbing), NF copy. First edition of this exceptional and brilliantly printed Victorian chromolithograph calendar for the famed Fairy Soap Company during the Gilded Age. These splendid images of fairies draw from paintings by Gustave Liebscher (1870-1953), known for his figure and cityscapes; Eugene Grivaz (1852-1915), a Belle Epoque artist who exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Switzerland; Charles Schabelitz (1844-1905), best remembered for his Buffalo Hunt painting; Albert H. Sonn (1867-1936), noted American artist well known for his watercolours, and striking commercial art; Walter G. Read (1863-1950), an excellent artist, perhaps best known for his famed watercolour painting of… Read More

[New York & Hartford, CT]: Equitable Life Assurance Society, Osborn & Betancourt, P.B. Donovan Real Estate & Insurance Agency; Gray Lithograph Co., [1897]. 4to. 8.25 x 11.25 in. [6 pp (unpaginated).] printed on thick paper stock, accordion-style which extends out to 25 x 11.25 in, three raised & embossed colour chromolithograph plates w/ calendars & lettering in blue & gilt (minor edgewear, very minor rubbing to hinges, minor lifting & offsetting on 1 plate), still VG bright copy. First edition of this finely printed Victorian chromolithograph calendar for the famed Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States during the Gilded Age. Incorporated in 1859, the Equitable Life Assurance society was known for decades as one of the largest life insurance companies in the country, and maintained a vast sales force. These independent agents actively cultivated clients, and advertised heavily through calendars, greeting cards, brochures, and other printed mediums.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Paternoster Row, 1866. Thick 4to. xii, [2], 239, [1] pp. Woodcut-engraved & illustrated title in red & black, illust. half-title in red & black, red & black frontisp., many leaves printed in blue, red, yellow, or green, woodcut-engraved plates, historiated initials, head- and tail-pieces, woodcut borders. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt ornamented designs on front & back cover, gilt decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. (very minor rubbing at hinges, minor rubbing to corners, very slight tidemark to fore-edge of first couple leaves), still a NF copy, bound by Riviere, w/ their stamp on lower fore-edge of inner ruled dentelle on front pastedown. First edition of this lavish Victorian work celebrating the life span of man in the 12 months of a calendar year, beginning with the infant in January, the schoolboy in February, the apprentice in March, as well as the soldier in June, the philosopher and statesmen in September, and more.… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Sunset Press, 1901. 8vo. 160, [4] pp. Photo frontisp., over 100 photo illustrations, text illustrations, illustrated ads. Limp tan cloth softcovers, backed in stiff paper, printed red lettering & design on front cover, brown cloth spine (minor edgewear, scuffing, slight chipping to couple corners), still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated hand book and program for the Epworth League, a Methodist young adult association, which details the sights and adventures in pre-1906 San Francisco prior to the Great Earthquake and Fire. The photos illustrate many of the buildings and businesses lost in the disaster, and provides a fantastic insight into the wonders of late Victorian California.

Nevada City: Nevada County Historical Society, [1987]. 4to. [6], 216, [2] pp. 100s of photo illusts., text illusts. Illust. white cloth, illust. & lettered in red & blk (slght bmpng to crnrs), signed & numbered by author on dedication page, NF. First edition, No. 830 of 2000 copies about the Narrow Guage railway which ran from Nevada City to Grass Valley.

Yreka, CA: The Siskiyou News, 1934. 8vo. 99, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 17 photo plates. Red publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor bumping to corners, shelfwear), still VG copy, signed by author below portrait. First edition, signed, of this companion volume to the author’s previously published Lore and Legends of the Klamath River Indians (1929). This work includes not only Klamath Indian legends of the Frog in the Moon, the White Deerskin Dance, and The Coyote teaches the Indian How to Make Flint, but also accounts of Klamath Indian tribal members, efforts to secure fishing rights, and even how Johnny Southard (Mad Bull), a Karouck from Happy Camp won the Marathon race from San Francisco to Grants Pass, OR over 485 miles in 1927.

San Francisco & San Carlos, CA: William N. Mills, Printed by Sequoia Printing Co., Inc., [1955]. 4to. 16 leaves (i.e. 28 pp. w/ misnumbering), including 8 photographic plates, 2 ship’s plans. Blue printed softcovers, cover art of Ship Balclutha on front cover (minor toning, shelfwear, some uniform interior toning), still VG copy, w/ former ownership markings on verso of front cover, & back cover. from the library of Captain Olaf Hansen (1877-1959), Danish-American sea captain from Seattle, WA. First edition of this scarce work on the restoration of the Ship Balclutha, a Pacific Lumber ship, and the last vessel to the fly the flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii, with much of her timber shipments headed to Australia to supply mining timbers in the Broken Hill Mine. Later renamed the Star of Alaska in 1904, then the Pacific Queen when she was moored off Catalina Island and starred in the Mutiny on the Bounty featuring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, and finally purchased by the San Francisco Maritime… Read More

[Los Angeles, CA: Farmers Market, Gilmore, 1947]. Oblong 8vo. 9 x 6.25 in. [52 pp (unpaginated).] Colour and black & white photos throughout, double-page colour centerforld pictorial map by Alex Perez. Colour-illustrated caricature softcovers of patrons in the Farmers market, wraparound cover art by Perez, designed w/ fold over flap, and mailing address slot on back cover for 4 cents postage (minor shelfwear), VG copy. First edition of this wonderfully printed post-World War II brochure on the beloved Farmers Market, and all of its amenities, including the restaurants, butcher shops, bookstores, and nearby racetrack for Midget Car and dirt track racing. Cross was best known for his commercial photography in Los Angeles, especially his architectural images.

Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, [Westernlore Press], [1960]. 8vo. xv, [3], 322, [2] pp. Title in red & black (pasted on publisher’s label), numerous photo plates. Green cloth, silver lettering, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art photo of Date Garden in Coachella Valley (price-clipped), NF/NF copy. First edition of this memoir describing the efforts of William L. Paul pioneering the Date Garden near present day PGA West in 1902, and the formation of the Coachella Valley Growers Association.

Alturas, CA: Irma Williams Laird, [Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy], 1971. Tall 8vo. viii, [2], 147, [1] pp. Title in red & black. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates, 1 large folding map at rear. Red cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition of this curious history of Modoc County, and of the Modoc Indian Wars, by a descendant of the California 49’er pioneers who settled in Modoc, Siskiyou & Shasta Counties, and includes photos and family accounts. Although a relatively modern local history of the Indian Wars surrounding the Indian peoples known today as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, it should be noted that the author retains a number terms in her narrative such as “Squaw”. Also included are extensive bibliography, place names, and list of the first registered voters in Modoc County.