Search Results: Authors starting with F from Glenn Books

New York E.P. Dutton and Company 1891. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Holiday ivy at corners. Corners worn. Chipping at spine extremities. Cover illustration of the Magi remains bright. Front hinge starting. Missing front free endpaper. Internally clean. Illustrations in black and white by Edmund H. Garrett..

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. Slight bubbling pastedowns, otherwise would be fine. Essentially no wear. From ther Morrow Junior Books series. A lovely story, especially for an embroiderer! . First Edition, Second Issue. Green Cloth. Nearly Fine/Fine. Small Quarto.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. Purple cloth-covered boards. . Rebacked. Corners repaired. Black leather spine label. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Covers lightly worn, professionally restored. Historical introductory essay by Thomas Wright. Illustrations by Fairholt. Issued with a total of 46 full-page plates, including the frontispiece of a book-cover of Italian workmanship and an ornate title-page with hand-colored vignette. An additional 11 chromographic plates and 32 black and white or sepia plates. This copy is MISSING plate number 3 "Shield of Cuir-bouill". All others are intact and in excellent condition. All have tissue-guards and an adjacent page of explanatory remarks. Many additional illustrations are found in the text material. Free edges of untrimmed sheets have varying amount of soiling and minor tearing. This large collection of artifacts was auctioned at Christie's in 1896, as a long newspaper article affixed to the front flyleaf attests to. From swords to rings,… Read More

Leavenworth: Fort Leavenworth Kansas, 1959. 6pp. Excerpts from an address by Alan W. Farley to the Fort Leavenworth Historical Society, 17 November, 1959.. Wrappers. Nearly Fine.. Thin Octavo.

Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1969. Rear cover shows light soiling. Dust jacket is chipped at corners with 1" to 3" section missing from rear panel. Protected now in a Brodart cover. Fore-edge has two subtle brown spots.This copy is AUTOGRAPHED BY THOMAS HART BENTON on the portrait frontispiece page. A program from "Book and Author Dinner" sponsored by the AAUW of Kansas City, from the Plaza Inn Hotel, dated April 25, 1969 is laid-in. A featured speaker that day was Benton. Mr. Benton's autograph was most likely obtained at that dinner. 80 lithographs are listed. They are presented in chronological order from ":The Station" in 1929 to "The Little Fisherman" in 1967. They appear on the recto of the page with title and description on the adjoining verso. Chronology and bibliography at the conclusion. Mr. Benton (1889-1975) was a native Missourian. He was a fore-most American painter and muralist, best known for his depictions of people and… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1953. Front top corner bumped. Spine sunned. Dust jacket is chipped at spine extremities and shows some soiling. Internally very clean. Peterson A28f. 251pp.. First English Edition. Light Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear./Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. Portrait frontispiece by S. Curnow Vosper. 233pp. A total of eight essays on fishing. From the Easton Press Library of Fly-fishing Classics. A crisp and clean copy. This book was first published in 1919. . Collector's Edition. Full Butterscotch Morocco. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. Salmon paper-covered boards. Several small stains bottom of front cover. Author's FIRST BOOK. A series of poems including the title poem followed by others in categories of people, places, ideas, love. 90pp.. First Edition. 1/4 Black Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Garder City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Woodcut decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Jacket is unclipped, few chips at spine extremities, two small brown spots. A very clean copy. 313pp. Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novbelist and playwright. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel "So Big". . First Edition. Red Cloth. Nearly Fine/Lightly Chipped .. Crown Octavo.

New York: New Directions Books, 1964. 56pp. Cover edges very lightly toned. Internally a very crisp copy. . Fourth Printing. Illustrated Wrappers. Minor Toning of Covers/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

New York: New Directions Books, 1958. Two very small nicks front joint. 93pp. + 2-page advert. A crisp copy throughout. Louis Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was an American poet and social activist. He was one of the founders of the Beat movement started in San Francisco in the mid-1950's. . Thirteenth Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Minor Wear/No Jack`. Thin Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. Toip edge stained green. From the Grosset and Dunlap series, "Western Stories for Boys". This being the 11th story, listed on front blurb. Illustraed endpapers. Frontispiece illustration by J. Clemens Gretta. Internally crisp and clean throughout. A very-well preserved copy. Rear dust jacket panel lists books in the "Ted Scott Flying Series". 219pp. First Edition. Red Cloth. Nearly Fine/Lightly Chipped. Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927. From "The Western Stories for Boys" series. Inscription on front free endpaper dated xmas-1936". Covers are clean and show essentially no wear . Bottom corner of front cover is bumped. The color-illustrated dust jacket is chipped and creased at spine extremities with 1" piece missing at top, missing 'X' and "B" of title. See photos. A clean copy throughout. 212pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Almost No Wear/Chipped Dust Jacket. Illus. by Walter S. Rogers. Octavo.

St. Louis, Missouri: William K. Bixby, 1905. Vellum spine. The facsilime edition of the author's book for William Buskett. With vignettes by C.M. Seyppel. Preface by Roswell Field, the author's brother. This copy has the limitation tag bound-in but is lacking the copy of the letter from Buskett to Bixby. See BAL 5793.. Reprint Edition. Paper-covere43d Boards.. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Quarto.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Sewn-in bookmark. From the4 Easton series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Illustrated by T.M. Cleland. Front cover is marred by a scrape into the leather, the reason for the lower price. (See photo). We would have graded it fine without the flaw. First published in 1749. 790pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Burgundy Lea. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Small closed tear top of front panel of the dust jacket. Priced $4.95 front blurb. A very clean copy. "When the herp of this novel leaves his dull, poorly paying job one day, to go home to the wife who no longer excites him, he stops at a newsstand where he always buys his evening paper and receives in his change a Woodrow Wilson dime. This dime becomes his passport into a parallel world very much like his normal one, only better!! (From the front blurb). By the aauthor of "The Bodysnatchers". 190pp. . First Edition. Blue Cloth. Fine/Nearly Fine. Octavo.

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1896. Spine l;ettered in gilt. Gilt vignette of marsh bird on front cover. Front hinge just starting to crack. Chapters on birds, mammals, plants-some mention of bird and squirrel shooting. 474pp.. First Edition.. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1919. Old tape-reinforced spine. Staple binding has loosened. Color cover illustrations still quite vivid. Corners rounded, free-edge chipped. Cartoons are clean throughout. See Overstreet p.397.. First Edition. Color Pictorial Heavy Wrappers. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Small Quarto.

Boston: Ball Publishing Company, 1910. Brown cloth spine. Corner rounded. Hinges reinforced with old tape. Tape repairs free edges of first four and last three pages. One free corner torn and missing, without any loss of illustration. Quite clean throughout. See Overstreet p. 397 for details of the printings. The classic cartoon series was first published in 1907. . First Edition. Brown Paper-covered Boards. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket. Oblong Octavo.

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1933. "An historical sketch with special reference to the pioneer publisher, Oliver Ditson Company, Inc." Frontispiece map of Downtown Boston in 1722. Illustrated throughout with portraits, maps and buildings. 146pp.. First Edition. Tan Wrappers. Minor Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo.