Search Results: Authors starting with C from Mac Donnell Rare Books

[Emerson, Ralph Waldo] Carlyle, Thomas. CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Boston: James Munroe, 1838-9. 4 vols. First edition, first printings. Original blue-green cloth, gilt. Minor wear and a few stray marks, but a very attractive sharp set of this rare collection of Carlyle's works, edited by Emerson. The edition was 1,000 copies. The first two volumes were printed and published together in 1838, and last two volumes were published together in mid-1839. After the four volumes were issued, Carlyle bought 260 sets for distribution in England with a cancel title page, leaving 740 for the American market. This set… Read More

Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES `ALICE.' [Oxford: for the Author, 1876] Single leaf, folded to four pages, as issued. First edition, first printing, and rare in the correct first printing. Fine copy. Williams & Madan once described the first printing of this little leaflet as "the rarest of the Carroll items excepting the first issue ALICE." When a few more copies came to light, he revised his earlier statement. When examples are found they are usually MacMillan's post-1880 reprints or later printings done for Dodgson. This copy has all the measurements and… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] Duke's Cigarettes. MARK TWAIN, SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. [New York: probably Knapp & Company, Lithographers & Printers, Park Place, ca. 1887-89] First edition. Original color lithograph and gilt trade card featuring Twain's portrait together with a scene from A TRAMP ABROAD at top. Fine bright example. On verso are a list of the other forty-nine personalities included in Duke's `Great Americans' series: Thomas Edison, U. S. Grant, Samuel F. B. Morse, Oliver Hazard Perry, Henry M. Stanley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, O. W. Holmes, H. W. Longfellow, J. G. Whittier, etc. The size and format make it likely… Read More

[TWAIN, MARK] [Clemens, S. L.] MARK TWAIN CIGARS, LIKED BY ALL. [Baltimore: Parker Metal Dec. Co., ca. 1913-1931] Tin advertising sign, 10 x 28 inches, printed in raised red letters on a yellow background, within red border. This is the sign used to advertise the five cent cigars whose unused inner box labels are commonly seen; the sign is quite scarce, the result of a small cache of these signs found years ago inside the wall of a house. The proofs for the cigar box label and cigar band were dated 1913, but the trademark was not registered until 1931, after production had begun. This brand of cigar, distributed by Wolf… Read More

Twain, Mark [Clemens, S. L.] Collier, Robert J., ed. IN MEMORIAM PETER FENELON COLLIER. New York: Privately Printed, 1910. First edition, one of 985 copies, signed by the editor, Collier's son, Robert J. Collier. Gray boards, gilt, t.e.g., uncut. Mild rubbing, else a fine crisp copy of this fragile volume that is usually found in terrible shape. Contains the first printing of a Twain condolence letter at page 81. Also includes letters from Theodore Roosevelt, society friends, minor authors and editors, and informative obituaries from major magazines and newspapers. Robert J. Collier had taken control of his… Read More