Search Results: Authors starting with F from Walden Books

The Spiro Institute. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1980. Paperback. Card covers lightly stained and creased, with some age-toning on both front and back panels; Laid in newspaper clippings have caused offsetting to ffep [Guardian, 1998], but otherwise internally clean with only light age-toning at page borders, B&W plates; Binding tight. Overall a sturdy copy with significant staining. ; 5.8 x 8.25"; 32 pages .

Sidney Janis New York,. Very Good-. 1963. Paperback. Stiff card wrappers, creased staple bound spine, creased rear bottom forecorner. Internally clean, b&w photographs, no ownership markings, binding tight. ; 28 x 21.5 x 0.3 cm; 10 pages .

Taschen. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardback. 382288880X . Dust jacket clean; Red boards firm and clean, corners sharp; Binding tight; Pages bright, illustrated with coloured plates, internally clean, no ownership markings or annotations. ; Jumbo S. ; 12.2 X 9.7 X 1.3 inches; 244 pages .

Paris: Le Collet de Buffle. Very Good. 1974. Paperback. Original printed grey stiff card wraps, inscribed by the author on the title page, covers slightly marked, leaves slightly age-darkened, text in French language. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 14 pages; Signed by Author .

Very Good. 1977-1982. Letters. A collection of 2 photographs and approximately 17 handwritten documents, which range from quickly jotted notes to full-length letters, written by the poet Harry Fainlight to his landlady, Esther Whitby who was letting Harry a small garden cell on Harmood Street, in Northwest London, for thirty shillings a week at the time. This collection also includes one letter to Esther from Harry's sister, the renowned poet and close friend Sylvia Plath, Ruth Fainlight. These numerous missives, which include a letter Fainlight wrote on prison stationary while on remand at H.M. Prison, Jebb Avenue, Brixton, London, a note addressed from a psychiatric hospital in Scotland, letters from his parents' home in Sussex, letters from the cottage where he died in Wales, and personal notes left around the house in London where Fainlight rented a room from Whitby [to whom these letters & notes are addressed]. An itemized list of the abovementioned documents and letters… Read More

Waddington Galleries. Very Good. 1989. Stiff Card Wrappers. Stiff card wrappers, unmarked; Corners sharp, bridge tight; No previous owner's markings, 14 coloured plates from exhibition at Waddington Galleries. ; 12 x 0.3 x 9.5 "; 44 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good-. 1934. First American / First in English. Hardback. Pale grey cloth boards, a trifle worn and marked, and slightly darkened at edges; lower corners a little worn. Spine slightly darkened; tiny bald patch vertically mid-spine where cloth has worn away. White text on blue printed label at head of spine, a little worn, but very intact and legible. Front joint partially exposed - binding intact, though a trifle frail. Laid-in contemporary review (in English) of the novel. Originally published as Wer Einmal aus dem Blechnapf Frisst. ; 8vo (6" x 8 1/2"); 569 pages .

Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poems, Cornwall. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardback. 0905291360 . Dust jacket stiff but lightly sunned on spine and showing some spotting on front panel, minute bumping along top edges of both front and back panels, but no further significant damage; Green paper boards clean and sharp with only minute bumping at head of spine, gilt lettering bright; Edges clean, pages internally clean and unannoted but showing mild age-toning; binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with some minimal signs of age. ; 5.5 x 8.75"; 95 pages .

Enitharmon Press. Very Good. 2002. Paperback. 1900564130 . Card cover bright and stiff, lightly age-toned at top-edge of front panel; Pages crisp, no ownership marks, B&W illustrations throughout; Binding tight. Postcard featuring illustration by Nick Wadley laid in front, signed by illustrator on rear of postcard. ; 5 x 8.5"; 64 pages .

British Film Institute. Very Good+. 2005. Paperback. 1844570576 . Laminate card cover bright, slight rubbing to corners; Pages crisp, author's signature and dedication on title page [addressed to Eva Hoffman], B&W and colour plates; Binding tight. 'Mizoguchi and Japan' is the first full-length study for over twenty years of a director hailed by Cahiers du cinema recently as 'the greatest of all cineastes'. ; 6.75 x 9.25"; 218 pages; Signed by Author .

I. B. Tauris. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2018. Hardback. 1788311442 . Dust jacket bright and clean, slight creasing at top-edge of rear panel; Cream paper boards, no significant wear; Pages crisp, author's dedication on title page [signed 'the author'], no annotation; Binding tight. 'Believing in Film' is an authoritative new treatment of how religion has commanded the allegiance of some of the most remarkable filmmakers in the canon. ; Cinema And Society; 5.5 x 8.5"; 288 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Putnam. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First. Hardback. Pale blk boards (no d/jkt); somewhat marked and worn. Gilt titling still quite bright. Binding weak, but intact. Bookseller's tick on rear pastedown. B/w maps. B/w plates -- some loose, but all present. Absorbing first hand account of Italian agression in Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia). ; 8vo (6" x 9"); 286 pages .

I B Tauris & Co Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. Hardback. 1848850530 . Dust jacket unmarked with no damage or notable wear; black boards with gold gilt lettering sharp and sturdy with no damage or notable wear; binding tight, secure; pages unmarked and crisp. A very nice, tight copy with no outward signs of previous ownership. ; 155.96 X 0.69 X 9.21 inches; 304 pages .

Abrams. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardback. 0081094116 . Dust jacket stiff, lightly sunned on spine, prior price label on rear, in removable archival film; Black cloth boards clean and sharp, lettering intact; Top-edge light6ly spotted and a touch dusty, no ownership marks, B&W and coloured plates, several fold-out plates toward rear of text block; Binding tight. ; 10 x 11.5"; 245 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1955. Hardback. Dust jacket bright and stiff with some very minor stains and rubbing, front flap clipped and spotted, back flap showing spotting and some minor chips, now in removable archival film; Cornflower blue cloth boards sharp and clean with light sunning along the top edge, gilt lettering bright; Edges dusty and age-toned, minimal spotting on end papers, but pages otherwise internally clean with no annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with some spotting.; 7.6 x 10 x 2"; 332 pages .

The World Publishing Company. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1945. Hardback. 0851193684 . [Second Impression of Tower Fiction edition with a new Introduction by the Author] Dust jacket tatty and rubbed from shelving, a number of large tears at the corners and a few small losses; Boards firm, corners bumped; Previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and free from annotation, pages age-toned; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy in a tatty jacket. ; Tower Fiction; 8.0 X 5.3 X 1.1 inches; 465 pages .

London: Cassell and Company Limited. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1921. First. Hardback. Brown boards (no d/jkt); bright; binding tight. Occasional spotting to foredges; pp clean. B/w illustrations + diagrams. Fascintaing guide to violin construction. ; 8vo (5" x 7 1/2"); 88 pages .

The Eagle Gallery, Emma Hill Fine Art. Very Good-. 2012. Paperback. Card fold out style catalogue with 9 loose pictures laid in, artist's name written in ink on front, small tear aprox 1/4" on front cover, one of loose plates creased along top edge, pages slightly age-toned, otherwise unmarked. ; 4 x 11 x 0.01"; Unpaginated pages .

St Albans: S.G. Shaw. Fair. 1813. Hardback. Faded red marbled boards; somewhat worn; remains of label pasted to front. Blk leatherette spine, very worn; front board detached but present, but binding itself intact. Interesting, extra historical material pasted to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. ; 8vo (5" x 8"); 100 pages .

London School of Fashion. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2010. Paperback. Clear laminate plastic Dust Jacket bearing some superficial scratches and marks but otherwise stiff and intact; Card covers bright and clean with no signficant marks or damage; Pages internally clean and crisp, B&W and coloured plates; Binding tight. Overall a very nice, strudy copy with little to no signs of wear. ; 9.75 x 13"; 80 pages .