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

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1967. 8vo. xi, [3], 145, [1] pp. Quarter-blk over beige linen, w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition.

[Brockton, MA]: F.W. Glasier, [Standard Printers], 1905. Oblong 8vo. 9 x 5.75 in. [32 pp (unpaginated).], photo-illustrated throughout. Illustrated tan softcovers, cover art of stylish woman walking her dog in black, red & tan, reminiscent of Will Bradley cover art (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce souvenir brochure touting the successes of the Brockton, Massachusetts Fair, which featured a “Fakir’s Row” Midway selling American pop corn and potato chips, horse racing, horse jumping, cattle judging, and The Four Lukins trapeze act, including one part suspended from balloon. The 1905 Brockton Fair also featured the appearance of Augustus Roy Knabenshue’s (1875-1960) Airship, who only a few months earlier in Oct., 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair had made the first dirigible flight in America. While giving his demonstration, the engine misfired, and Knabenshue lost steering control, and the airship drifted into a flagpole tearing the gas bag netting,… Read More

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., [1932]. Tall 8vo. 272 pp. Colour frontisp., 7 colour plates, woodcut-engraved borders, illustrations by Nielsen. Red publisher’s cloth, colour plate by Charles Augustus Federer (1880-1966) on front cover (minor rubbing, slight shelfwear, toning to endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art by Federer (minor chipping head of spine, some rubbing, edgewear, minor closed tear), still VG/VG- copy. First Garden City Books edition of this work with the magnificent Art Nouveau illustrations of Kay Nielsen. The famed Danish artist and illustrator took 12 years to complete the original edition published in 1924, and the resulting plates are filled with long sweeping lines, macabre and ephemeral qualities, with stylized figures. Federer (1880-1966) illustrated several of the Garden City Books edition dustjackets, and covers, and is best remembered for his spectacular fairy tale murals in the Danbury, CT library.

New York: Modern Library, [1952]. Thick 8vo. xxi, [1], 746 pp. Blue cloth, red & gilt lettering, w/ verso of d.j. listing to 370 titles, wonderful cover art, NF/NF. First Modern Library Giant edition, No. G-76, containing 177 Fairy tales. Uncommon in original dustjacket.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1934. Folio. 9.75 x 13 in. [48 pp (unpaginated).], colour plates and black & white plates throughout. Quarter-blue cloth over colour-illustrated boards, cover art by Lorioux (some edgewear, minor dampstain to spine, a few pages w/ evidence of a young child trying to aid the illustrator), still a G- copy. First Whitman omnibus edition of this delightfully inventive rendition of Fontaine’s fables by one of France’s most beloved artists. In 1919 he was recruited by Walt Disney who was driving an ambulance at the time following World War I, and hired him to illustrate his works released in French. Lorioux would leave Disney in the early 1930’s when he refused to relocate to California to join the studio,

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1996]. 4to. 159, [1] pp. Colour frontisp., 6 colour plates. Full burgundy-coloured calf, elaborate gilt & red illustrated decorative border on front cover & spine, gilt lettering, raised bands, silk endpapers, a.e.g. NF copy. First Easton Press edition of this beloved collection of Fairy Tale stories by the noted author of Babes in Toyland, and the wonderful illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith.

New York: Fox Duffield and Co., 1904. 4to. vi, 178 pp. Illustrated title in red & black, colour frontisp., 6 colour plates, numerous text illustrations, historiated initials, illustrated head- and tail-pieces. Beige pictorial publisher’s cloth, cover art by Betts, colour-illustrated endpapers (very minor dutsoiling, shelfwear), still an excellent bright copy, from the library of Donald Alexander Skene (1898-1938), reporter for the Portland Oregonian, served as a United States Marine during World War I, and graduated Yale University in 1920. First edition of this adaptation of the wildly popular stage musical operetta composed by Victor Herbert and libretto by Glen MacDonough including a number of Mother Goose nursery rhyme characters and a Christmas-themed production. Chapin (1880-1920) wrote many popular fairy tale books, stories for syndication, and pieces for stage and silent films. Betts (1877-1959) was a noted illustrator during the golden age of book illustration, studied with Howard Pyle,… Read More

[Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. M. Gros, 155, rue de belleville, 1961]. 4to. 10 x 10 in. [14 pp (unpaginated).] Colour-illustrated throughout, w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket, still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale, with voiceovers including Denise Bryer, Jocelyn Page, Judith Whale, Gillian Wood, and Peggy Butt. Bryer (b. 1928) is perhaps best remembered as the voice actress as Twizzle in the late 1950s Adventures of Twizzle, Terrahawks science fiction series, as well as the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Worldcat locates 1 copy (National Library of New Zealand).

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs. & Co., 1895. 12mo. xxxvi, 392 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. 150 text illusts. Illust. gray cloth, silver, red & blk lettrng on frnt cvr & spine (soot soilng on cvrs, edgewear, some rubbng, slght bmpng to crnrs), still a G- copy, inscribed by the author on 2nd flyleaf to Miss Anna Springer, 1895. First edition, inscribed, of this fascinating collection of fairy tales, based on the author’s naturalist studies of the behaviors of ants and spiders. McCook (1837-1911), is perhaps best remembered for his expansive work American spiders and their spinning work, 1889-1893, and he had most of the illustrations executed by Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1965]. 8vo. xvi, [2], 349, [1] pp. Illust. title, numerous plates, illusts. Green cloth, blk & gilt lettrng on spine, w/ d.j. cover art by Trina Hyman (mnr chppng hd of spine, edgewear), VG/VG-, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition, stated of this excellent anthology of fairy and folk tales collected by the famed folklorist in oral interviews with native Gaelic speakers.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1924. 8vo. vi, 299, [1] pp. Illustrated title page, colour frontisp., 5 colour plates. Pictorial blue publisher’s cloth, cover art by Preston of the Queen of Fairy drifting towards the end of the garden, illustrated endpapers (minor spotting & soiling to cover, dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG- copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon illustrated fairy story by the Canadian author, who edited a children’s page in a Montreal newspaper before World War I, and set against the backdrop of the “Valley of Color-Days” over the Rockies and lay between them and the Selkirks. Preston (1888-1958) was a noted American artist and children’s book illustrator based in Beverly Farms, MA, whose illustrations graced many publications of Houghton Mifflin and Little Brown, and her fairy illustrations draw from Robinson, King, Clarke, and Jessie Wilcox Smith.

[Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, 1960]. 4to. 10 x 10 in. [14 pp (unpaginated).] Colour-illustrated throughout, w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket, still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale, with voiceovers including Marjorie Westbury, Judith Bailey, Judith Whale, Michael Murray, Alan Rowe, John Whale, and Tony Church as Bluebeard. Westbury (1906-1989) was an English radio actress and singer for over 50 years, best remembered as Steve Temple, wife of Paul Temple in the long running series, as well as Elsa Strauss in the Hilda Tablet series. Tony Church (1930-2008) was a founding member of the new Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall, and later appeared in Tess, Krull, and the 1963 BBC production of As You Like It. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Bowling Green).

[Paris: Printed in France at the Imp. Ruegger, 73, rue Pigalle, 1960]. 4to. 10 x 10 in. [16 pp (unpaginated).] Colour-illustrated throughout, w/ 10 in. 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP inserted into rear pocket, still retaining original protective sleeve. Colour-illustrated stiff softcovers (slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition in English of this Atlas Tale-Spinners interactive version of the beloved fairy tale, with voiceovers including Robert Hardy as Robin, John Wood, Geoffrey Lewis, Tony Church, John Baddeley, Ralph Hallett, Judith Whale as Lady Marian, and others. Robert Hardy (1925-2017) is best remembered as Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films, and Winston Churchill in many different productions. Worldcat locates 1 copy (National Library of New Zealand).

London: Bracken Books, [1986]. Tall thick 8vo. 453, [1] pp. 32 colour plates. Tan boards, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. VG/NF copy. Facsimile edition of the 1922 original published as Myths & Legends of China.

Dublin & Cork: Folklore of Ireland Society by The Talbot Press, [1944]. 8vo. xvi, 166 pp. Frntsp. Green boards, gilt lettrng (vry mnr rubbng, slght shlfwr), VG copy, w/ frmr ownrs bkplate on frnt pstdn. Second printing of this excellent anthology of fairy and folk tales collected by the famed anthropologist in oral interviews with native Gaelic speakers.

New York: Stein and Day Publishers, [1972-1974]. Four vols. 8vo. 239, [1]; 227, [1]; 224; 192 pp. Half-blue cloth over green boards; half-black over blue-green boards, half-black over red; half-red over green boards, w/ d.j.s., cover art all by David Pether, NF/NF set. First American editions of the first four titles in the Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone mystery series set in Regency England.

[New York]: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1925. 8vo. x, 145, [1] pp. Numerous diagrams, photos, text illusts. Burgundy ribbed cloth, gilt lettrng (slgt shlfwr), w/ pamphlet laid-in fro Krebs Pigment & Color Coporation Zinc Yellow Primers catalogue, NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce history and technical work on the properties, history, mineralogy, applications, and manufacture of zinc oxide.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 15 Picadilly, 1839-1855 [i.e. 1878-1882]. Three vols. viii, 574, viii, 302; viii, 588 pp. Numerous charts, diagrams, 17 engraved plates (13 folding), no ads at rear of vol. I, vols. II & III w/ half-titles. Uniformly bound in green pebbled publisher’s cloth, embossed ruling in blind on covers, gilt lettering on spines (minor bumping, edgewear, rubbing, inner hinges starting in a couple vols., light fraying to spines), still a VG- sound set, w/ former ownership markings on endpapers, title of Vol. II, from the library of Sheldon Jack Brown. First Quaritch “Facsimile Reprint” edition of Faraday’s epoch-making work in the related areas of electricity and magnetism. His “Researches” reported his discovery of electro-magnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and the identity of electrification, as well as the differences of the electrical capacities of various substances. These discoveries led to the development of the technology of the electric motor, other… Read More

New York: Random House, [c. 1948 (1949)]. 8vo. [4], 247, [1] pp. Illust. title, numerous illusts. Beige cloth, red & black lettering (minor edgewear), w/ d.j. cover art by Ward (minor edgewear, creasing), still NF/VG copy. First edition, early printing of this 1st title in the series about the Red Stallion Flame, listing to ads for Black Stallion & Satan on rear flap.

New York: Random House, [1950]. 8vo. [4], 307, [1] pp. Illust. title, numerous illusts. Red cloth, white & blue lettering, w/ d.j. cover art of harness racing by Menasco (minor chipping & foxing to spine, back cover), still NF/G copy, w/ former ownership marking on ffep. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of this 6th title in the Black Stallion series about a son of the Black Stallion and harness racing, listing to Black Stallion & Satan on back cover.