Search Results: Authors starting with F from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

New York: Harcourt, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Nice first printing of this collection of novellas from the author of Crimson Petal and the White. Near fine in a like jacket.

W H Freeman & Co, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. A nice clean copy with NO notes/underlining. An examination of the effect of European contact on indigenous peoples.

Broadway Books, 2004. Advance Reader's Copy (ARC) . Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Fine Advance Reader's Copy of comic suburban observations. Regular book is now out of print.

Random House, 1954. Cloth. Very Good+/Near Fine. Harold Eldridge. A lovely stated first printing of the tenth Black Stallion novel. Lists to Black Stallion Revolts. Book is VG+ to NF. Blue boards, charming vintage bookplate affixed to FFEP, additional small inscription dates to '55. Binding is tight, corners unbumped. Front endpaper has stain to bottom edge, no pages of text affected. Unclipped jacket (200/200) about NF, with only a couple ot tiny closed tears and a little creasing at head of spine. Jacket does have a little spotting/foxing, but colors are nice and bright. In lovely, displayable condition.

Random House, 1952. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good +. A lovely stated fouth printing of the eighth Black Stallion novel. Lists to Island Stallion's Fury. Book is quite good. Beige boards, charming vintage bookplate affixed to FFEP, binding is tight, corners unbumped. First few pages have very slight crease to lower portion of page, a few early pages have minor dings at the page edge. Unclipped jacket (200/200) has some minor chipping along top edge and both spine ends, biggest is a 1/4" closed tear. Colors are bright, although there is some wear and a crease in the center (as if the jacket had once been removed and folded top to bottom). All in all, though in quite nice condition.

Random House, 1956. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. A lovely stated first printing of the twefth Black Stallion novel. Lists to Black Stallion Revolts. Book is VG+. with a bit of a lean to binding. Red boards, charming vintage bookplate affixed to FFEP.. Binding is tight, corners unbumped. Unclipped jacket (200/200) VG, with only a couple ot small closed tears (largest is 1/2 in. tear to bottom front) and some chipping at spine ends. Colors are nice and bright. In lovely, displayable condition.

Random House, 1953. Cloth. Very Good+/Fair. A lovely fifth printing of the ninth Black Stallion novel. Lists to Black Stallion's Filly. Book is VG+. Red boards, charming vintage bookplate affixed to FFEP.. Binding is tight, corners unbumped. Unclipped jacket (200/200) VG, with only a couple ot small closed tears and some chipping at spine ends. However, there is an extensive tear to the front flaps---at the bend, the flap is nearly severed from the jacket, hanging on by about an inch at top and bottom. Colors are nice and bright, would be totally acceptable in Brodart (happy to include on request).

New York: Random House, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Ward, Keith. Later printing of the Black Stallion novel that started it all. Lists internally to Black Stallion & the Girl. Book is quite good--tight binding, no markings. Price-clipped jacket has some small tears and creasing, and also a much larger 2-3 inch tear at the bottom of the spine.

Random House, 1957. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Mal Singer. First edition, stated first printing of this later Black Stallion title. Tight binding, light blue boards show some white spots but doesn't seem a condition issue, may have been that way all along. Short inscription on FFEP dates to 1957 (year of publication). Unclipped jacket (200/200) in very good condition, with one major chip (1/2") missing from bottom edge of spine. Some other minor wear to top edge, but overall in lovely, displayable condition.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Orchard Books, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of this notable Newberry Honor Book, a tale set in the future of increasingly troubled Zimbabwe. Fine in a near fine jacket (price clipped, a tiny bump to lower rear corner, perhaps a bit sunned to extremeties of jacket).

New York: Plume, 1996. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. The Kevin Bacon-related craze that is no longer sweeping the nation! Paperback (as first issued) first printing, with a bump to the lower corner. VG.

Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An examination of archaeological research done at a site in Connecticut, where Native Americans, African-American slavs, and colonists all resided in the 18th and 19th centuries. VG in pictorial wraps, with a little faint pencil underlining, and a few asterisks/exclamation marks in the margins. Excellent working copy

St. Martin's, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Unauthorized biography of Garrison Keillor. This is the first printing of this title, fine in a nearly fine jacket (some rubbing to extremeties).

Harper Collins, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent copy from a wonderful author/illustrator, jacket is price clipped

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Michael Di Capua Books, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First edition of this slightly odd book from noted author and cartoonist Feiffer. A fictionalized memoir of his own daughter's experience raising a little menagerie of animals. Fine in a NF jacket, with a little creasing to front and rear panels.

Random House, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A play from the noted author and cartoonist Feiffer, here in a hardcover book club edition from the Fireside Book club, with the monthly club leaflet included. Very good in an about VG jacket, which does have some wear to corners. Save for previous owner's name on front endpaper (a former Chicago-based theater professor), clean and unmarked internally.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Quite nice first printing of a typically thorough and engaging Feinstein book, this one focusing on the four major tournaments of 1998. Very nearly fine (tiny bump to bottom of front board) in a fine jacket in protective mylar, this is a very nice, likely unread copy.

New York: Alfred a Knopf, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Very nice clean copy of this John Feinstein mystery for young readers. Two young aspiring sportswriters work to solve the apparent kidnapping of a Russian tennis phenom at the U.S. Open. Fine in a fine jacket, this is a first printing.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. America's leading writer of sports books spends some time with the basketball players of the Patriot League, one of America's smallest division 1 conferences. He uncovers the pure joy these players take in competition. Fine in a fine jacket, appears unread, this is a first printing.

New York: Villard Books, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Fourth book from prolific sports author Feinstein details life on the men's and women's tennis tours at the beginning of the 1990s. First printing, near fine in a near fine jacket--minor bumps to corners.