Search Results: Authors starting with F from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Harper & Row, (1974). First edition. 8vo, ix, 144 pp. Publisher's light purple paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered dark purple cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket, lightly soiled, with a 3 inch closed tear at the lower panelThe author "developed and tested the recipes in this book in his own kitchen, over a ten-year period."

New York: Theo. H. Gary Co., 1921. Folded hair net wrapped in tissue enclosed in the original pictorial envelope. The envelope measures 4.5 inches by 5.75 inches.
Envelope lighly toned, with slight edge wear, otherwise very good. The hair net enclosed is unused & seemingly as new.
The envelope depicts a comely young woman against a pinkish-yellow background touching her bobbed hair. Clearly using the hair net, the caption below reads "The Finishing Touch."
"Unicom Hair Nets are hand made of expertly prepared human hair thoroughly sterilized and carefully inspected. It is our aim to produce hair nets of unrivaled excellence, giving thorough satisfaction."

New York: O'Sullivan Rubber Company, 1912. 16mo, 20 pp,, with illustrations in color Cord bound pictorial wraps. Not found in OCLC as of 11/26/2022.
Covers with short separation (1.5") at the top of the spine, lightly soiled, modest edge wear including a short tear at the rear cover, otherwise very good.
"When it comes to grace, the poetry of motion, woman, as she is more beautiful than man, so best acquires and exhibits in her walk the grace that is proof of health and beauty, and a demand for the homage of man."
Presumably, these qualities are most easily achieved by wearing shoes equipped with O'Sullivan rubber heels as available from the P.L. Barney Shoe Company of Lynn, Massachusetts. Please note, this advertising piece does not include examples of specific footwear but does, oddly, provide a brief description of Chinese water torture which is likened to the experience of walking in ill-fitting shoes.

Chicago: Stone-Field Corporation, 1955. Group of 115 wool (mostly) fabric swatches attached to 75 cards, with descriptive text (8" x 10.5"), promoting the company's line of products for the 1955 - 56 season, with approximately 71 pieces of related ephemera, contained within a hinged box (13" x 10" x 4") comprised of faux crushed black morocco over boards, with clasp & handle.Box well worn including cracks, splits, & dents. Ephemera & sample cards very good but occasionally showing evidence of use.A fabulous sample case providing everything needed to secure a path to success in the exiting world of door to door sales! Ephemera includes two price lists, one for the customer & another "confidential" list (no doubt demonstrating the enormous profit potential for the salesman), business cards, envelopes, several pieces of salesmanship advice, lay away information & forms, order forms, two illustrated folio catalogs (one spotlighting fall & winter fashions; the other for "16 ounce French Back Serge" with 3… Read More

Paris: Belfond & Cie; Comite des Coiffeurs de Paris, 1892 First edition. 8vo, [2] pages of text followed by 62 lithographed plates by Westfield, concluding with a [2] page index. Contemporary marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered green morocco, original illustrated wraps bound in. Text in French Spine faded to brown, edges moderately rubbed, hinge cracked at first blank page, some internal soiling, toned throughout, good or betterThe plates depict coiffure & head dress from "Antiquite Romaine" through the Second French Empire.

Boys Town, Nebraska: Father Flanagan's Boys Home, no date [1939]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Father Flanagan at the first page: "Father Flanagan/ Boys Town, Nebr.,/ Xmas 1939." Tall quarto (12.25" x 9.25"), 16 unnumbered pages & covers, profusely illustrated from photographs. Original pictorial light card covers, stapled.
Lightly soiled, modest edge wear particularly at the corners, lower cover irregularly browned, otherwise very good or better.
"There is no such thing as a bad boy."
Father Flanagan (1886 -1948) revolutionized how orphaned and disadvantaged youth are cared for and will no doubt be declared a saint by the Catholic Church imminently.

Leipzig, Paris, Bologna: The Albatross, Modern Continental Library Volume 389, (1938). "Copyright Edition, not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A." Duodecimo (7.25" x 4.5"), 252, & [4] pages. Publisher's printed & decorated stiff paper wraps in matching dust jacket.
Slight edge wear, lightly toned, previous owner's name & date in ink at the half title page, otherwise very good in like dust jacket, lightly rubbed, briefly browned at the spine, with a couple of nicks, short tears, & tiny losses at the folds & edges.
Quite possibly the first European edition. Uncommon in general, particularly in dust jacket.
"William Faulkner holds such a place in modern American literature that a new book by him is bound to awaken the interest of the discerning reader. The quality of his work depends largely on his power of evoking atmosphere, and this series of episodes of the American Civil War is all the more vivid in that Faulkner is himself descended from an old Southern family in which the… Read More

[Warrenton, Virginia]: Piedmont Press, (1993). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Evans & Gott at the title page. 4to (11.25" x 9"), v, 107 & [1] pages, with folding map laid in & illustrations from photographs & art work throughout. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket featuring art by Catherine Stettinlus Zimmerman.
Covers slightly splayed, minor foxing at upper cover, pastedowns, & early leaves, otherwise very good in rubbed & wrinkled dust jacket, foxed mostly on the verso, with a bit of edge wear & brief archival tissue reinforcement (verso only), still good or better.
"Shaped by this country's rough and tumble early frontier history and forged by the raw will of a few people who lead it out of Indian times, The Plains has weathered the storms of the Civil War and reconstruction, the Great Depression, fire and the crash of its economy, emerging from every turn as a hometown to declare with pride ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

London: Editions Poetry Limited, (1945). First edition. Duodecimo (7.5: x 5"), 118 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, margins lightly sunned, otherwise very good in good, moderately rubbed & soiled dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & closed tears.
"Personal Landscape was a magazine run in Cairo by Robin Fedden, Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer, and it printed the work of writers, who through the fortunes of war had become "exiles" in Egypt ..." ~From the dust Jacket.
In addition to poetry by Durrell & others, the book includes "acute critical articles on subjects as varied Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Shakespeare's Dark Lady, and some remarkable translations from the modern Greek of George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou."

St Paul, Minnesota: Women Unlimited, [volume 1], number 1, March, 1970. First edition 8vo (8.5" x 6.5"), 35 pages. Mechanically reproduced from a typed manuscript in stapled, printed, yellow paper wraps.
Poorly printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good Ms. Olah's essay, comprising the first 31 pages, takes Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State firmly to task, asserting among other things that his theory of capitalism causing private property is in error & that the actual cause is male supremacy. Following the essay, Helen Victry contributes a history of the labrys, a double axe commonly associated with female divinities. Described as a serial in OCLC, with 13 copies located under 2 accession numbers, no further issues appear to have been published.

Cleveland, Ohio: Women Speak Out for Peace & Justice, November 1, 1970. First edition. Folio (14" x 85"), 6 pages, three stapled sheets printed recto & verso by mimeograph or similar process.
Folded once horizontally, lightly browned, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
The 24th issue of this uncommon periodical. Editor Sally Chancey was identified by FBI informant Julia C Brown as a member of the Communist Party during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist Activities in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948, First Edition 8vo, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered & decorated in blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket, lightly soiled, with brief edge wear "This is the blues story of Dupree, a nice guy, a simple guy, a trombone player who thought he knew his way around but played his music from the heart This is the story of Betty, the singer in the band, who sang her music sweet but from the hips" ~from the dust jacketWhat could possibly go wrong?

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 (title page), with copyright date of 1920. Later printing circa 1930's. Octavo (9.5" x 7.25"), x, 199, & [1] pages plus 8 color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a large Parrish-illustrated pictorial label applied to the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket which replicates the applied label. Pictorial endpapers, title page illustrated in color, top edge stained pale red.
Please note, given the advertisements for "Scribner Illustrated Classics" on the dust jacket, this edition is circa 1930's.
Binding lightly soiled, slightly toned internally, last leaf of text roughly opened causing small loss in the margin (printing unaffected), otherwise Very Good or better in dust jacket which is browned mostly at the spine, moderately soiled, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & small losses, still a Very Good & unusually nice example.
A really nice copy, particularly uncommon in dust jacket, which features the… Read More

Eastland, Texas: Victor Cornelius, Inc, no date [1940 -1950]. Group of four broadside flyers promoting Western Movies, each with halftone illustrations from photographs Small folios (13" x 9.5") printed recto only on light paper
Brief edge wear including short closed tears & tiny losses at the corners, light toning, otherwise Near Fine
Includes:
The Drifter starring Buster Crabbe, released in 1944; Pioneers of the Frontier starring Bill Elliott, released in 1940; West of Dodge City starring Charles Starrett, released in 1947; Marshal of Heldorado starring Jimmy "Shamrock" Ellison & Russ "Lucky" Hayden, Released in 1950.

Philadelphia: Cinema Associates/ distributed by Fanfare Films, Inc., 1961. Folio (15" x 10.5"), 4 pages, illustrated, on glossy paper.Folded three times horizontally causing color break, slight edge wear, rubber-stamped "Fanfare Films" on the front cover, otherwise very Good. Characterized by IMDb as Neo Noir, the film revolves around insurance investigator "Duke Wallace" who, "using his special technique with women," is looking into the murder of a colleague.

New York: I.F.E. Releasing Corporation, (1954). Folio (17" x 11.25"), 6 pages, illustrated, on glossy paper.Folded once horizontally causing color break, modest edge wear, lightly soiled, otherwise very good. A sexy vintage pressbook for the 1952 Italian film released in the United States in 1954: "Refugee Franca Gabre (Eleanora Rossi Drago) comes to the Po Valley with intent to use her obvious attributes and man-swaying talents to gain some security. A gals gotta do what a gal's gotta do ..." ~Courtesy IMDb.

[New York]: Barwood Films, May 8, 1990 "Director's 5th Draft." 4to, 130 leaves printed recto only mechanically reproduced from typescript, bound in gilt-lettered black fabricoid simulating crushed morocco.
Binding lightly soiled, couple of bruises, "170" in black marker on the title page, otherwise Very Good.An original screenplay for the wonderful 1991 movie starring Nick Nolte & Barbra Streisand (who also directed) As described by Variety, the Prince of Tides is "a deeply moving exploration of the tangled emotions of a dysfunctional Southern family, this lovingly crafted (though unevenly scripted) film of Pat Conroy's novel centers on Nick Nolte's performance of a lifetime. Bringing her usual strengths of character to her role as Nolte's psychiatrist/ lover, Barbra Streisand marks every frame with the intensity and care of a filmmaker committed to heartfelt, unashamed emotional involvement with her characters."
Although nominated for 7 Academy Awards, Prince won none Nolte, however, did receive a… Read More

[Bluffton, South Carolina: Sam Burnett, no date, ca. 1995]. Original photo shot with infrared film & developed in house using selenium toner, one of twenty-five examples signed & numbered in pencil by the photographer. The image measures 12.25 inches by 8 inches & is matted & backed to 20.5 inches by 16 inches. The label of Hilton Head Island's Pink House Gallery is applied to the back.
The mat is mounted to the backer, otherwise fine.
A beautiful image depicting a fully nude young woman sitting in tall grass at night on the beach at Pine Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

New York: Viking Press, (1982). First edition. Quarto (11.5" x 11.25"), 108 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's gilt lettered black cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Previous owner's small embossed stamp at title page, otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket with slight edge wear including a couple of nicks.
Although primarily featuring beautiful women, a few examples of the male nude are also included.
"The human body will forever inspire artistic interpretation, for we will never cease to be fascinated by the most beautiful form on earth. The nude figure finds exuberant expression in the work of the French photographer Lucien Clergue, who for more than twenty years has photographed nudes in settings as varied and as provocative as the moods expressed in his images." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Venezi: Marsilio Editori, (2016). First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 447 pages, profusely illustrated (often in color). Publishers pictorial paper over boards lettered pale gray on the spine & covers. Text in Italian & English.
Lightly rubbed, brief edge wear, small shadow on the rear cover from now removed label, otherwise very good.
"A century of Italian interior design seen through the work of its central figures, from Gio Ponti to Franco Albini, from Carlo Mollino to Luigi Caccia Dominioni, from Umberto Riva to our own day. A compelling story, accompanied by a visual atlas of 250 projects, illustrated with more than 1,000 archival images and explained by by critical and theoretical essays that address the theme of the exhibition held at the XXI Triennale di Milano ..." ~Excerpted from the back cover.