Search Results: Authors starting with F from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

New York: Albondocani Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Edward Gorey. 7 3/4 inches. 54,[2] pp. including six illustrations. Publisher's marbled wrappers, paper cover label. Fine. From a stated edition of 226 copies (200 numbered copies for sale, and 26 lettered and not for sale); this copy out of series and unnumbered. The first book publication of two stories Ronald Firbank wrote during his years at Cambridge, which first appeared in Cambridge's undergraduate magazine, THE GRANTA, in 1906 and 1907. In an unpublished memoir of Edward Gorey and the Albondocani Press, Albondocani founder George Bixby recounts approaching Gorey about illustrating the work: "I thought the Firbank stories would be an ideal project for illustrations by Gorey, told him about the stories, and asked him if he would be interested in making some drawings to accompany them. He was immediately interested. 'Firbank is one of my oldest passions,' he told me. In THE BLUE ASPIC, Gorey’s spoof of opera, the hero,… Read More

Paris: United Nations Educational [Unesco], 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 27,[1] pp. including in-text illustrations. Covers toned, lightly foxed. Very good. Fourth part of Unesco's Division of Museums and Historic Monuments' MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS five-part series. The volume reports on Unesco' second mission concerning the preservation and restoration of historic buildings: this concerning Yugoslavia's early medieval Church of St. Sophia in Ochrida (Ohrid), Macedonia. The author, Ferdinand Forlati (1882-1975), was an important Italian architect and civil engineer, responsible for the restoration of many of the Veneto region's architectural landmarks.

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, [1964]. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Publiisher's green cloth, spine titled in gilt, in printed dust jacket. Light foxing in front endpapers, uneven sunning and half-inch closed tear at head of dust jacket. Overall near fine in a very good dust jacket. A longitudinal study prepared under the auspices of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health by a group of six psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists based at various institutions in New York and Madison, Wisconsin. The study follows "six creative people in the field of painting, sculpture, writing, and acting. Both the development of their personalities and of their work habits or attitudes towards work were studied over a three-year period. The book presents both clinical histories of the six artists and specific measurements of their movements during therapy. It is basically preoccupied with the question of whether an artist has to be neurotic to be creative ... " (dust jacket).

Brooklyn: Richard Fulani, 1973 (first two volumes), 1974 (third volume). Three volumes. 35; [4],31; 41,[1] pp. plus author's portrait and biography on recto of rear wrapper of third volume. Original stiff printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly worn and rubbed, else fine. The first three books of poetry by Richard Fulani, with covers printed, respectively, the pan-African colors of green, yellow, and red. The trilogy begins with Fulani's early poems, composed between 1968 and 1971, with the first part, DARK REFLECTIONS, considering on the breakthrough of new consciousness in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second part, SOULDIERS, being a tribute to contemporary African American leaders, "a few of the millions who have made it possible for us to be able to say such things as 'Black is Beautiful' and 'I'm Black and I'm Proud.'" DISCOVERY, REVOLUTION & UNDERSTANDING contains poems "dedicated to the 'endarkenment' needed to see through the blinding, white light,"… Read More