Search Results: Authors starting with F from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Tehran[?]: Published by The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, 1991. One of 5000 copies. Quarto (9 x 12 1/2 inches). Unpaginated but approximately 800 pp. with color arabesque on every page. Publisher's faux leather with gilt spine an cover lettering, patterned boards with matching patterned dust jacket and slipcase, case with minor Minor rubbing else a beautiful copy.A Quran originally written by the Safavid Persian calligrapher Ahmed bin Shamsuddin Mohammad Nirizi (AH 1087-1155). Translated from the original Arabic to Farsi byDr. Abolghassem Emami. Accomplished unger the reign of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Veryscarce in the trade.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, [1], 141, [1] pp. Numerous full page facsimiles of title pages for pioneer publications in California. Publisher's quarter black cloth over green cloth, red morocco gilt spine label. Minor sunning to label, else a near fine copy.

[Santa Monica]: [Magpie Press], 1967. First edition of this miniature book (2 1/8 x 3 inches). French-fold printing (on leaf folded to make 8 pp. but with printing only on 5 of them. Printer's sewn wrappers. Very good.The Magpie Press was operated by argaret Taylor & Roberta Nixon. Basically a panegyric to printing on the hand press it was surely issued as a keepsake from the Second International Book Fair held in Los Angeles. This was the very beginning of what we know know as the ABAA California International Antiquarian Book Fair which alternates between Los Angeles and San Francisco and is one of the largest books fairs in the world. Almost surely Glen and Muir Dawson had a hand in this as Roberta worked for Dawson's Book Shop for decades [and where I was fortunate enough to call her my friend and co-worker]. Glen Dawson was one of the founders of the ABAA.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1920. First edition. Octavo. 303 [304] pp. plus the numerous pages of photographic illustrations and the maps. Publisher's light brown cloth with green spine and cover lettering. front cover with a pictorial image of a mountain lake. Very minor extremity wear, two previous owner's signatures on front blank. A very good copy.The author was a fine promoter of the American West. Contains much of interest; Yosemite, Yellowstone, Imperial Vally, Los Angeles, the Colorado Desert. Nicely illustrated.

Albany: Luther Tucker and Son, 1856. First edition of Vol. IV of the Third Series. Complete with all 12 issues for 1856. Tall octavo. 384 pp. Illustrated throughout and with an index in the front. Publisher's blind-blocked dark brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some minor foxing, else a lovely copy.

Cincinnati: Indian Hill Historical Museum Association, (1975). First edition. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. With 80 numbered reproductions of Farny paintings (many in color). Still pictorial wrappers bound in. Nicely bound in burgundy morocco-grain cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. A fine copy of the exhibition catalog.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorns as the first volume of their First Series of Rare Americana. Octavo. vii, [1], 116, [4, bibliography] pp. plus color frontispiece and yellow fold-out Wanted poster at rear. Publisher's cloth over decorative boards, printed paper spine label, plain green dust jacket. Bookplate of renown California attorney John Francis Neylan to front pastedown else an excellent copy.Original prospectus laid in. Francis P. Farquhar contributed an 8-page foreword. Neylan negotiated Hearst's purchase of the Call newspaper and became its publisher. By 1925 the lawyer was Hearst's trusted advisor and became general counsel for all his enterprises. Although their professional relationship ended in 1937, the two remained good friends.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, [1933]. First separate edition. Octavo. 81, [1] pp. plus 2 folding maps and frontispiece portrait. Illustrated. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Slipcase. Some sunning to wrappers else and excellent copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by Farquhar and dated December, 1948. Quarto. xii, 104 pp. With nine full page illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth over olive cloth, gilt spine lettering and brown cover lettering, salmon endpapers, dust jacket (2 short tear to upper margin). A very good copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. First edition. xii, 104 pp. With nine full page illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth over olive cloth, gilt spine lettering and brown cover lettering, salmon endpapers, dust jacket. A very good copy.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. One of 550 copies of this last book published by the Grabhorns in their Rare Americana Series. Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's tan cloth over decorative boards, printed paper spine labe, plaind dust jacket. An Excellent copy.Laid in are two copies of the prospectus (one in orange and one in black), two copies of "A Souvenir of Lieut. George H. Derby" (printed by the Grabhorns in 1933 for presentation to the Roxburghe Club) and two copies of the "To our Subscribers" printed by the Grabhorns and stating that the Series has come to an end.

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880-1889. The first four volumes of a planned six-volume series: Eastward, Ho! Adventures at Rangeley Lakes. Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. Generally a bit worn with some loss to spine ends and repaired tear to cloth, slightly overopened, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Wild Woods Life; or, A Trip to Parmachenee. Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884. Slight lean to spine, shelfwear, some pale staining to covers, extremities frayed, rear hinge cracked, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Down the West Branch or Camps and Tramps around Katahdin... Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1886. Light wear to spine ends, evenly toned throughout; and Up the North Branch or A Summer's Outing... Boston: Lee & Shepard and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1889. Spine rubbed, minor foxing to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper.… Read More

Paris: Editions Nilsson, [1926]. First editions. There was a large and small edtion published; these are all the small size (3 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). La Mode Feminine is complete is three volumes. Each volume in four parts and each part with 20 color card depicting French fashion of that date and each part in a printed paper portfolio. Each volume (i.e. four parts) housed in a floral slipcase with a printed paper spine label Slipcase for the third volume with some tape repair but overall a very clean and charming set of all 240 color plates.Together with a companion volume also published by Nilsson: Les Costumes du Pays de France. This volume only has three parts of 20 cards each (complete) and have paper portfolios and slipcases as in the above. Complete with 60 color cards. A very good set. For a total of 300 cards bearing charming color illustrations of French fashion through the ages, all in their proper printed paper portfolios and slipcases.

St. Paul: Istaca Press, 1945. First edition. Signed by the author using his Americanized name on the title page (Frederick Feikema Manfred). Octavo. Publisher's green cloth in edgeworn dust jacket (price-clipped). Very clean.

Albuquerque: Merle Armitage Editions, (1947). First edition. Designed by Merle Arrmitage. Tall octavo. 87, [1] pp. including eight full page illustrations by Browne. Publisher's black cloth with red cover and spine lettering, ochre endpapers. Original pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Erna Fergusson on the front endpaper. Signed by a previous owner as well. A very good copy.

Mexico DF: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion, 1930. First edition. Octavo (7 x 9 inches). [2], [1, half-title and blank], Includes all 52 leaves of tipped-in color illustrations of folk toys of Mexican children, each with a leaf of printed explanatory text describing the toy. In the copy all the print and text leaves are loose and laid into a muslin over boards portfolio, on the spine of which someone has carefully lettered in cut out letters and reading "Mexican Toys." Original colorful front wrapper laid in as well. A very clean and complete copy. One get the impression that an enterprising teacher used it as a teach tool. Scarce in the trade.Gaabriel Fernandez Ledesma (b. 1899) was a painter, muralist, engraver, photographer, writer, editor, designer and researcher of Mexican handcrafts and folk art. Fernández Ledesma began his career working on projects related to the government, often collaborating or assisting Roberto Montenegro. In the early 1920s, he was commissioned by then education… Read More

Montpellier: Camille Coulet, 1896. First edition. Quarto. Text in French. [8], 518 pp. plus all 46 full page photographic illustrations of wine cellars at the turn of the century in France. 108 textual illustrations. One photographic illustration with some edge wear to the outer edge. Simple brown cloth with spine lettered and rule in black. A very clean and complete copy if this scarce informational guide to the best practices in wine storage and fermentation.A highly thought of publication and still sought after today as it deals with all aspects of wine making other than the growing and harvesting of the grapes. Many of these vintners are still in business today. For example there is a palte and a diagram of the caves of Moet et Chandon.An agricultural engineer by training, Paul Ferrouillat was in turn tutor at the Montpellier School of Agriculture (1881-1883), professor at Grignon (1883-1887), professor of agricultural engineering at Montpellier (1887-1897), then director of the same school… Read More

Chicago: Monument Committee, (1896). First edition. Quarto. [38] pp. All well illustrated. Publisjer's white cloth with lettering and a central device in green, all edges gilt. A superior copy.Complete with the tipped in announcement of Ringling Brothers participation in this event as well as a sheet of unused subscription blanks.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Compnay, 1871. Second edition [New and Enlarged Edition, with Illustrations]. Octavo. Illustrated. iv, 152 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Some wear to tips, spine flapping but entirely present. A very clean copy.The author spent twenty-five nights listening to Dickens' reading when he toured the United States and these are her impressions.

Hanover: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 1975. First edition. Three heavy quarto volumes. The first two are text and concern the glacial regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the third volume is the atlas. 698; 932; x + 49 maps (many folding). Complete. Publisher's wrappers. Smal; set of numbers stamped in ink at top blank margin of each over, old crease down center of wrappers of third volumes (not extending into maps), else a very clean and attractive set of this mamoth work.