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Californian Trails, Intimate Guide to the Old Missions: The Story of the California Missions


Hall, Trowbridge

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with moderate wear. stamped lettering on front. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Black and white pictures throughout. Light soil on text block.

Record # 2233638


Price: $31.00 

 

Calvin Coolidge - The Man Who is President


White, William Allen

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Cloth covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609228


Price: $20.00 

 

Calvin Coolidge: A Biography in Picture Postcards


Greene, J. R.

Softcover. Athol, J. R. Greene, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 101 pages. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of postcards related to the life of Calvin Coolidge. Paperback with wrap around paper cover - light foxing to paper cover. Bottom of spine bumped with tears to the paper -approx. 1/4". Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609224


Price: $15.00 

 

Cambridge


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. London, Reynal & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial end papers. 192 pages. Illustrated color and black & white plates. 4to. Beige buckram. Price clipped, color pictorial dust jacket with minor edge wear.

Record # 809187


Price: $12.00 

 

Campanile of Florence Cathedral - "Giotto's Tower"


Trachtenberg, Marvin

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages of text followed by large section of full color and black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Fading to cloth spine, and along top edge of covers. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611918


Price: $44.00 

 

Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s


Weales, Gerald

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Softcover. Bright wraps with light wear to edges, creases to front lower right corner. Previous owner's name to front half title page. Frontis illustration, The Final Close Up, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light (erasable) pencil to first chapter. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 751604


Price: $15.00 

 

Cannoneer, The: Recollections Of Service In The Army Of The Potomac (1890)


Buell, Augustus

Softcover. Washington, DC, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471193


Price: $15.00 

 

Cape Ann Through the Seasons - A Photographic Sketchbook


Chamberlain, Samuel

NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 36 black & white photos in gravure by Chamberlain. Pencil sketch on rear end papers. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 69256


Price: $15.00 

 

Capital Elites - High Society in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War


Jacob, Kathryn Allamong

Hardcover. Wash. D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white illust.

Record # 51322


Price: $20.00 

Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing MachineBrandon, Ruth
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Capitalist Romance, A: Singer and the Sewing Machine


Brandon, Ruth

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple cover boards, light fading along the top and bottom, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight tanning to edges. Looks great for its age. Biography and social history tells of the rags-to-riches story of a self-made man who epitomized the great American dream while rambunctiously flouting its conventions.

Record # 32909


Price: $15.00 

 

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: The Last of the New England Highwaymen


Waldo, Frederick W.

Hardcover. Topsfield, MA, Wayside Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. A narrative of his life and adventures, with some account of the notorious captain thunderbolt. First book published by The Wayside Press. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates, including frontisportrait. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front flyleaf. 8vo. Red and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing on back. Minor edgewear. Red/black pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear, water marks along left front edge, chips at top and bottom of spine, spine and top edge toned.

Record # 220608


Price: $19.00 

 

Capture of Fort William and Mary, The


Parsons, Charles L.

Softcover. New Hampshire , New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of paper delivered at the 77th Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Historical Society. White stapled covers with small monotone illustration and black titles, introductory notes by Joseph P. Copley, illustrated with b&w plates throughout. Mild rubbing to covers, light water mark to bottom right corner of catalogue.

Record # 806666


Price: $18.00 

 

Cardiff: From the Coming of the Romans to the Dominance of Cromwell, With a Supplementary Chapter on the Transition Which Took Place in the 19th Century When Cardiff Ceased to Be a Small Country Town


Thompson, Herbert M.

Cardiff, William Lewis Limited, 2nd, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 213 pages plus fold-out in rear of book. Contains numerous black & white plat illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Front corners slightly bumped. Small chip to front cover. Small tear to fold-out in rear.

Record # 508050


Price: $36.00 

Carroll S. Page - Calf-Skin Merchant and Banker - Hyde Park, Vermont, U. S. A.Gile, E. S.
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Carroll S. Page - Calf-Skin Merchant and Banker - Hyde Park, Vermont, U. S. A.


Gile, E. S.

Softcover. Boston, E. S. Gile, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover booklet. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some moderate creasing to page edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613927


Price: $38.00 

 

Cartoon Connection - The Art of Pictorial Humour as seen by William Hewison


Hewison, William

Hardcover. London, Elm Tree Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613861


Price: $15.00 

 

Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture 1810 - 1940


Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries. , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, sharp copy.

Record # 805617


Price: $11.00 

 

Catalog of Concord, Vt Cemeteries


Colburn, Sr., Richard A.

Softcover. East Charleston, Charleston Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Black & white illustrations. Spiral bound. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609312


Price: $50.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (14th and 15th Centuries) in The Collection of The Hispanic Society of America


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, HSA, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608458


Price: $25.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries)


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, The Hispanic Society of America, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Eighty-Six black & white Illustrations. Light rubbing to top and bottom corners of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608404


Price: $18.00 

 

Catalogue of Paintings (19th and 20th Centuries) in The Collection of The Hispanic Society of America - 2 Volumes


Du Gue Trapier, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, HSA, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 - 516 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding. Volume 2 - 446 pages. Black & white illustrations. Hinges cracked but holding.

Record # 608459


Price: $40.00 

Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School 1914-1915 - Bristol, VermontBaxendale (Principle), John O./Bristol High School
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Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School 1914-1915 - Bristol, Vermont


Baxendale (Principle), John O./Bristol High School

Softcover. Bristol, Bristol High School, 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. Catalogue of the Bristol High and Graded School - 1914-1915 - Bristol, Vermont. Covers with areas of staining, previous owners notes in pencil, chipping to paper along edges. Moisture stains to preliminary pages and to upper right edge of first 15 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Wrinkling to bottom right corner of first 17 pages. Lists graduates and awards of 1914. Unmarked text. Scarce.

Record # 614077


Price: $125.00 

 

Cathedral Church of Chester, The - A Description of the Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See


Hiatt, Charles

Hardcover. London, George Bell, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages plus ads. B&W photos, illustrations. Green cloth with ornate art nouveau decoration in black. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf.

Record # 600858


Price: $15.00 

 

Cathedrals and Abbey Churches of The Rhine


Gall, Ernst

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographs illustrating cathedrals and churches of the Rhine region. Front endpaper missing. Dust jacket shows standard wear with slight age darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609152


Price: $35.00 

 

Catherine de'Medici


Willisamson, Hugh Ross

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color, black & white. 288 pages

Record # 53750


Price: $28.00