1281. [Childers, Erskine] Wilkinson, Burke.

The Zeal of the Convert [The Life of Erskine Childers].

Gerrards Cross, Smythe, 1978. Octavo. VIII,256 pages. Illustrated with photographs, map. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Name of preowner on endpaper.

1282. Chilton-Young, Francis.

Electrical Apparatus for Amateurs. In Five Parts. Part I – How i made my Telephones and got them to work in my House by G.H.Sayer / Part II – The Domestic Electric Light by George Edwinson / Part III – Magneto-Electric Machines / Part IV – A Cylindrical Electrical Machine by C.J.Clark / Part V – How i built my first Coil by R. Williams.

London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895. Octavo. VIII, 104 pages. Illustrated with numerous explanatory Sketches and Diagrams. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Minor damage to spine. Binding starting to separate cleanly from bookblock. Needs to be glued. Else in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare publication wth wonderful telephone-building illustrations.

1283. Chilton, Charles.

The World in Peril.

First Pan Books Edition. London, Pan Books, 1962. 11 x 17,5 cm. 191 pages. Original Softcover. Foxing to all edges. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1284. Ching-Tzu, Wu.

The Scholars. Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang / The Author’s Portrait and Illustrations by Cheng Shih-Fa.

Third Edition. Peking, Foreign Language Press, 1973. Octavo. Frontispiece, 607 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in original slipcase. Unusually Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket. The Volume itself as new, basically unread ! Rare in this condition !

1285. Chipps Smith, Jeffrey.

The Northern Renaissance.

England, Phaidon, 2004. 21.8cm x 16.1cm. 447 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1286. Chisholm, Roderick M. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of six (6) first edition offprints by and on Roderick M. Chisholm, all from the library of his friend and colleague Henry David Aiken, most of them signed and inscribed by Chisholm and one signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: 1. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Reichenbach on Observing and Perceiving” / 2. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Philosophers and Ordinary Language” / 3. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Contrary-To-Fact Conditional” / 4. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Defeat of Good and Evil” / 5. Roderick M. Chisholm – ″Sentences about Believing” / 6. Roderick Firth – “Chisholm and the Ethics of Belief” [signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: “Henry – with best regards – Rod”].

Harvard / Brown University, 1946 – 1969. 8°. c. 80 pages. Original Offprints / Stapled. All offprints in very good+ – near fine condition.

1287. Chittister, Joan.

The Fire in These Ashes – A Spirituality of Contemporary Religious Life.

Herefordshire, Gracewing, 1996. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XI, 178 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1288. Chlumsky, Milan.

Das Heidelberger Schloss in der Fotografie vor 1900 [The Castle of Heidelberg in 19th century photographs].

Heidelberg, Edition Braus, 1990. 4°. 139 pages with numerous black-and-white-photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of wear.

1289. Chomsky, Noam.

The Minimalist Program [SIGNED by Chomsky with Bookplate / ExLibris of one of his fans “Greg ?”].

Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1995. 8°. 420 pages. Original Softcover. With few signs of external wear only. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper. [Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series].

1290. Christ, Dorothea / Suter, Margrit (Redaktion).

Neue Sachlichkeit in Basel. Unwirkliche Wirklichkeit. Kunsthalle Basel. 20.Januar bis 24. Februar 1980.

Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, 1980. 27 cm x 21 cm. 43 seiten. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen Illustrationen. Illustrated Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.