Search Results: Authors starting with F from Old Algonquin Books

NY: St. Martins, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. The second mystery with Owen Keane, ex-seminarian-investigator. Publisher's review sheets laid in. First printing.

San Francisco: MacAdams/Cage, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Author's first novel is set in Britain during the 15th century War of the Roses. Signed by author on title page. Signed

NY: Stein & Day, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London in 1820's and Edmund Blackstone must protect Princess Victoria. Light edgewear at bottom of cloth spine. Dust jacket has edgewear & small chips First American edition.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Biography of baseball player including his role in the civil rights movement. 382 pp, index, photos. First printing.

NY: St. Martins, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Sweeney & Wheeler are hired to help build defense case for poet accused of assaulting her lover. First printing.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1977. First edition. Unknown. As New/as new. Profiles of 15 news commentators famous in radio days. Two small records included in back pocket of book. 341 pages, photos. Publisher's review slip laid in.

S. Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Young Cambodian refuge woman and American woman in New England resolve their personal ghosts.

New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. No statement of edition. Partly fictionalized story of the famous race horse for young readers. 326 pages. Illustrated by Angie Draper. Price code on jacket flap 395/395. Bound in dark rose cloth boards. Tiny bump on bottom corner. Dust jacket has a 1" tear, a couple of tiny chips at corners, and a crease on corner of front flap. Clean and straight with a mylar cover on the dust jacket.

New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Author Farr was producing editor on radio documentary program "The March of Time". Dust jacket has light edgewear.

NY: Walker, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Mystery introduces P.I. Duncan Ames. First printing.

NY: Pocket Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Actress/detective author Farrell writes mystery of both of these worlds in NYC. Review copy with slip & PR sheet laid in. First printing.

NY: Pocket Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second mystery with actress/private eye Annie McGrogan. Review copy with review slip & PR sheets. First printing.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good +. Assaulted woman continues to be stalked. Dust jacket has light crease and slightly off center on spine. First printing.

New York: Norton, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Biography of famous Confederate General (1824-1863). 560 pages, index, bibliography, map endpapers. Small crease on corner of one page, else fine/fine. Heavy book.

NY: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A science fiction tale set in the year 2226, and the transformation of humans into godlike creatures. Book in tan cloth & green boards with slight fading to the endpapers and pastedowns. Dust jacket has a short rear flap crease, light edgewear, and a tiny chip at fold.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed limited edition #281 of 299 copies printed for Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith in August 1931 with Faulkner's tiny signature. Tan cloth boards, brown spine with silver stamped titles, silver top page edges. Cloth is slightly darkened around edges and slightly worn through at two corners. Page margins toned around edges. A light erasure on front free endpaper. No dust jacket as issued. Housed in an fine recent slipcase with copy of title page on side. Our photos don't show the color right: both the boards and the box are actually more tan, not gray.

New York: Random House, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Stated first printing. This edition includes corrections not in the 1958 edition. Collection of the first fiction Faulkner published while in New Orleans in 1925 in the Times-Picayune and a literary magazine. Also included is an additional essay by Faulkner called "Sherwood Anderson". Edited with preface (dated 1967) and introduction by Carvel Collins. Fine book in blue cloth boards. Dust jacket has original price intact and the 5/68 date on bottom corner. Slight edgewear on jacket.

New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. First edition, green cloth, dark gray/black top edges, jacket design by M.McKnight Kauffer. Price of $3 is intact on dust jacket flap. Tiny nick on bottom board edge. Dust jacket has couple of 1/4" tears and a few small rubs on spine.

New York: Modern Library, ca 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. ML 61.2. Blue boards, gold titles in red box. Pink top edges. White dust jacket with blue, brown and tan illustration. Price $1.95 on dust jacket. Ca. 1961 printing per list of titles inside jacket. Half-inch tear on dust jacket and very light wear at top of jacket spine.

New York: Modern Library, (1950). Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. ML 88.5, Ca 1952 printing per titles inside jacket. Gray boards with gold titles on green box and green top page edges. Previous owner's name at top of front free endpaper. Yellow and black price-clipped dust jacket has light edgewear and a few rubs on spine but is bright and clean.