Hand: Self Portraits by John Coplans
by John Coplans
New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988. Very Good. New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (23x23x05cm); 46pp. Twenty-one full-page close-ups of Coplans's hands, taken by himself; one three-page pull-out image. Coplans's artist's statement, as released by the gallery for the opening, is laid in. Heavy ivory card covers with deep French flaps, over sewn gatherings. Covers are... Read More
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Collected Poems
by A.E. Coppard
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 99 pages. Printed dust jacket. Apricot boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges with a couple short closed tears radiating from edges. Boards show some light dust soiling along edges. Brief exposure to... Read More
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Oeuvres de François Coppée: Poésies 1864-1869
by François Coppée
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, [1876?]. 16mo. Three-quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. 221p. Portrait frontis. Covers scuffed along fore-edge and bottm, with some light bumping to corners and spine ends. Pencil note on flyleaf, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound.
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Alfieri and Goldoni: Their Lives and Adventures
by Edward Copping
London: Addey and Co, 1857. Very Good +. London: Addey and Co., 1857. First Edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); 295pp; collated complete. Contemporary full light brown calf with gilt and blind stamping and red leather label to spine. Marbled page edges and endsheets. Minor scuffs and scratches to covers and board corners and spine ends bumped. Potential paint spots... Read More
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The Roar of the Crowd
by James J. Corbett
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Very good/Very good. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Reprint of the G.P. Putnam's Sons edition. Photographic dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with a few small tears and a couple scuffs to face. Spine ends nudged with a small tear... Read More
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Flora of West Virginia
by P. D. Strausbaugh; Earl L. Core
Grantsville, WV: Seneca Books, Inc, 1978. Very Good. Grantsville, WV; Seneca Books, Inc., [1978]. Second Edition stated. Octavo (21.5 cm). Publisher's cloth binding with text stamped in gilt. Black and white illustrations. xl, 1079 pp. Chip (1cm) to front cover cloth with some mild biopredation. Binding sound. Corners square. Edges foxed. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, a... Read More
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Light and Shade 'round Gulf and Bayou
by Corinne Hay; Julia Ann Mountfort [illus.]
Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1921. Very Good. Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. Signed by the author with "Easter Greeting" but no dedication on front free endpaper, dated in publication year. Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); 222p. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Boards lightly edgeworn with a small scuff and a sticker shadow to front, along with... Read More
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Listen, Bright Angel: A Panorama of the Southwest
by Edwin Corle
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Stated First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); Publisher's rust orange pictorial dust jacket with price intact ($5.00). Boards full bound in rust orange cloth with silver stamping. Fore-edge deckled. Jacket lightly bumped, creased, and rubbed with sunned spine; verso toned. Boards... Read More
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Presidents Are People Too [Signed]
by Frank Cormier
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacekt; 186pp. Light edgewear and creasing to dust jacket. Spotting to cloth sizing; touch of edgewear. Binding sound. Dust soiling to top edge, interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy. Signed by Frank Cormier to... Read More
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The Chocolate War: A Novel
by Robert Cormier
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Very Good+/Very Good. [New York]: Pantheon Books, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [6],253pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, spine panel sunned, very faint foxing to top textblock edge, else a Very Good and sound copy. The author's critically... Read More
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Cornell University: A History [Four volume set]
by [Cornell University] Waterman Thomas Hewett; Frank R. Holmes & Lewis A. Williams, Jr. [eds.]
New York: The University Publishing Society, 1905. Very Good. New York: The University Publishing Society, 1905. First Edition. Four large octavo volumes. Black and white photographs and illustrations including frontis portraits to each. Red and white cloth with leather label and gilt stamping to spines; top edges gilt. Boards edgeworn; spine ends tugged; general soiling and smudging. Volume... Read More
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The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich
by Cornell Woolrich; Ellery Queen [fwd.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (20.5 cm); 286pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards in red cloth with blindstamped 10 to front and black lettering to spine; black topstain. Jacket lightly shelfworn with with one shallow closed tear at top... Read More
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The Collector's Whatnot
by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot [pseud. Booth Tarkington], Milton Kilgallen [pseud. Kenneth L. Roberts], Murgatroyd Elphinstone [pseud. Hugh MacNair Kahler] [comp.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Very Good +/Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 147pp+8ads. Illust. throughout w/ 24 plates, collated complete. Publisher's intact jacket wrapped around manila boards with paper labels to front panel and spine. Jacket creased and generally soiled, rubbed, toned, and torn with minor loss to head of sunned spine.... Read More
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Théâtre de Corneille [Horace B. Sargent's Copy]
by Pierre Corneille
Paris: Garnier Frères, 1870. Very Good-. Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d., ca. 1870. "Nouvelle Édition Collationnée sur la Dernière Édition Publié du Vivant de l'Auteur." 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments, marbled endpapers; [4],502pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards rather rubbed, leather a bit dried and spine crown pulled, else Near Very... Read More
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About John Cage
by [John Cage] Philip Corner
N.p.: s.i., 1970. Very Good. N.p.: s.i., ca. 1970s. Presumed First Edition. Two corner-stapled foolscap leaves (35.5cm); xeroxed from typescript accomplished in manuscript. Moderate wrinkling and toning, old fold lines, else Very Good. Evidently unrecorded study by the musician and musical theorist Philip Corner, borrowing text by Cage (reproduced from typescript) and adding his comments (reproduced... Read More
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Les Explorations et les Voyages des Fourmis
by V[ictor] Cornetz
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1914. Very Good. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments; xxii,[23]-192pp.; illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed, especially at spine ends, with outward bow at fore-edge, spine leather toning to green, preliminaries foxed and stock uniformly darkened due to inferior paper quality, else... Read More
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Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur [The Warlord Chronicles: III] [Signed]
by Bernard Cornwell
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First American Edition. Signed by Bernard Cornwell without inscription at title page. Octavo; 436pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green and yellow boards stamped in red. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; a few smudges to... Read More
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Belt Buckle Sample Catalog
by [Trade Catalogs] [Fashion] Hollander Metal Product Corp
Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp, 1950. Very Good. Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp., [ca. 1950s]. Six-panel folding trade catalog with 58 belt buckle samples. Belt buckles tied down and numbered and first four sample pages are labeled either bronze cast, bronze + brass wire, or steel wire. Variance in design and size are subtle though apparent.... Read More
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F. Corneli Curti Augustiniani De Clavis Dominicis Liber
by Cornelius Curtius [a.k.a. De Corte]
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii / Andreas Frisius, 1670. Very Good-. Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andrea Frisius], 1670. "Editio novissima aucta, emendata, & figuris aeneis exornata." 24mo (13cm.); full 19th-century brown morocco, gilt spine in five compartments; [36],158,[20]pp. (collated complete); added engraved title page and eighteen engraved illustrations in text, mostly full-paged. Ex-St. Michael's Monastery with their... Read More
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Voyage d'Exploration sur la Littoral de la France et de l'Italie. Rapport a M. le Ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux Publics. Sur les industries de Comacchio, du Lac Fusaro, de Marennes, et de l'Anse de l'Aiguillon
by M. Coste
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1855. Good. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1855. First Edition. Large folio (34.5cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, decorative endpapers; [4],xxviii,[4],184pp.; eight leaves of lithographic plates bound in rear including folding maps (one hand-colored) and double-paged views. Boards quite soiled and rubbed, boards crudely reattached, joints reinforced, textblock and plates foxed, the hand-colored map torn with rather... Read More
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![Twentieth Annual Catalogue of Coventry Eagle Cycles [Wrapper title: Coventry Eagle Cycles]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/498/1722498513.0.m.jpg)
Twentieth Annual Catalogue of Coventry Eagle Cycles [Wrapper title: Coventry Eagle Cycles]
by The Coventry Eagle Cycle and Motor Co
Birmingham, UK: The Colmore Press, 1910. Very Good+. Birmingham, UK: The Colmore Press, 1910. Side-stapled slim octavo, embossed and printed cream card wrappers (22 cm). Illus. throughout. Wrapper covers lightly stained with blue ink (?) on recto and verso, rubbed and toned at margins with rusting at staples and slight curling to bottom corners. Brief pencil to front... Read More
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![No-To-Bac Makes Weak-Nerved Men Strong [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/287/1722287585.0.m.jpg)
No-To-Bac Makes Weak-Nerved Men Strong [wrapper title]
by [Tobacco; Addiction; Impotence] The Sterling Remedy Co
New York: The Sterling Remedy Co, 1895. Very Good. New York: The Sterling Remedy Co., 1895. First Edition. 12mo; illustrated wraps; 32pp. Chips and wear to wraps; ownership stamp to rear; binding sound; pages toned but unmarked; Very Good. Quite uncommon and unsubtle pamphlet promoting "No-To-Bac" a pill for kicking the tobacco habit and thus restoring men's nerves... Read More
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![Mathilde; ou, Mémoires tires de l'histoire des Croisades [Four Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/538/839/1714839538.0.m.jpg)
Mathilde; ou, Mémoires tires de l'histoire des Croisades [Four Volume Set]
by Madame Cottin
Londres: Colburn, 1809. Very Good-. Londres: Chez Colburn, Libraire, Conduit-Street, Bond-Street, 1809. Four volumes; 12mos (17.5cm); contemporary green goat over drab paper-covered boards, gilt spines, all edges marbled. Leather and boards rubbed and worn with extensive exposure at corners, Vol. I with coin-sized loss of paper to upper cover and rear board paper entirely lacking, foxing to preliminaries.... Read More
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![The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing [alt spelling: The Compleat Angler] [Two volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/550/067/1674067550.0.m.jpg)
The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing [alt spelling: The Compleat Angler] [Two volume set]
by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
Chiswick, UK: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham, Sold by Thomas Tegg, 1826. Very Good. Chiswick, UK: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham, Sold by Thomas Tegg, 1826. Reprint. 16mo. 291; 264pp. Illustrations including engraved titles and frontispieces. Bound in modern brown morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; recent plain endpapers. Light wear to... Read More
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Church and State in Social Welfare [Inscribed and Signed]
by Bernard J. Coughlin
New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. Near Fine/Very Good-. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; xii,[4],189pp. General shelf wear, jacket spine rather sunned and crown chipped, tiny loss at bottom of rear flyleaf, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and... Read More
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