Search Results: Authors starting with F from Pages Past Books

VG Society for Christian Knowle London 1927 1st hardcover 8vo, 55 pages + ads, b+w photos, notes, reading list. Light random foxing. Solid and otherwise clean.

G+/no dustjacket EP Dutton NY 1968 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 332 pages, b+w photos, maps, illustrations, index, bibliography, notes. Binding with light agewear and spine titling largely rubbed off, but a solid, clean copy.

G+ some cover soiling and a little staining near spine 22 tipped-in photos Roycrofters East Aurora (1907) hardcover 8vo, 17+pp, Seventeen pages of text supportted by tipped-in photos. Text pages darkened in frame pattern of opposite page's phot

VG/VG Simon & Schuster NY 1964 1st, 3rd ptg hardcover 8vo, 398 pages. Faulk's struggle to clear his name from McCarthy era blacklisting. Dustjacket with light edgewear and short closed tear at upper right front. Solid and clean with dj bright in protective cover.

VG condition Lyons & Carnahan Chicago 1966 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 224 pages, color illustrations, glossary. Teachers' edition of 5th grade reader including stories on golfer Ben Hogan, Jim Thorpe (Bright Path) Jackie Robinson, pirates, space, Indians, science, etc. Cover lightly soiled with a few page corners turned towards end of book. Nice solid clean copy.

VG condition Charles J. Felten NY (1947) 1st assumed hardcover 4to, 126+ pages, b+w photos and illustrations.

VG normal light mailing crease and scotch tape from mailing photos Barb Fenick St Paul Nov/Dec 1980 issue #31 softcover Folio, 28pp, This is a fanzine/newsletter published "approx quarterly" with articles, photos, sales ads, etc. John Lennon cover On each of the Beatles.

G+/G condition Carrick & Evans NY 1938 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 322 pages, b+w photos, maps, indeces, appendeces. Light browning inside covers. Binding lightly cocked. Dustjacket chipped at extremities and price clipped. Protected in Brodart cover. Fold out maps in excellent condition.

Good condition with some fading of spine and binding soiling A.H. Watson illus Lutterworth Press London 1951 1st hardcover 8vo, blue cloth, 190 pages, no dustjacket, 5 full-color plates, plus b+w illustrations, owner's name front free endpaper. Nicely illustrated book of 5 children's stories centering on fairies, fantasy, magic, etc. Includes title story and "The Strange Call, The Moss Woman and the Spade of Gold, The Magic Cauldron, and The Singing Bean. " Some agewear, with soiling and fading of binding, but solid, respectable copy.

Good+ condition Fisher& Underwood illus John McBride NY (1907) 1st hardcover 8vo, 130 pages, color frontis by Harrison Fisher and 6 b+w illustrations by Clarence Underwood. Embossed butterfly design surrounding Harrison Fisher paste on oval illustration on front cover. All pages with decorated borders. Decorative endpapers. Some evidence inside front cover of removal of bookplate and endpaper has bookship bookplate. Some foxing to reverse of frontis and reverse of front endpaper. Name and 1916 date pencilled reverse of endpaper. The front paste on has some foxing with some rubbing to titling. Solid and otherwise clean.

VG Charles Robinson illus John Lane The Bodley Head London 1898 hardcover 12mo, 218 pp+, b+w illustrations. Selected by Kenneth Grahame. Book lightly cocked. Solid and clean with embossed front cover and gilt spine titling and decoration.

Good/no dustjacket AL Burt NY (1927) reprint hardcover 8vo, 282 pages, b+w photos. Includes a chapter on the navigation of the Spirit of St. Louis by Capt. RS Wood. Some foxing. Rear cover has narrow strip of chipping. General agewear and rubbing. Solid copy with gilt titling and embossed cover showing Statue of Liberty, Spirit of St. Louis and Eiffel tower.

Good+ Doubleday Doran Garden City 1928 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 252 pages, b+w illustrations and photos, index, appendix. Includes flowers, rock gardens, bird gardens, pools and aquatic, annuals and biennials, borders, gates and their planting, evergreens, shrubs, light and shadow, etc. Light random foxing. 1930 garden club gift inscription front free endpaper. Two small white marks on front cover and some darkening of paper spine title label. Nice solid clean copy.

NF/VG-condition Simon & Schuster NY 1974 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 204 pages, index. Dustjacket with 2 1/2" closed tear at spine top near rear hinge, but nice and bright in protective cover.

Good, no dj Juvenile Lipsius & Tischer Kiel und Leipzig 1929 4th Edition Softbound 8vo, 67 pp, b+w illustrations Juvenile stories of the British Empire reprinted for German pupils (text in English) set in India, Northern Canada and the West Indies. Light cover soiling and creasing with a few small shallow chips at the upper right front cover. Light pencilling to interior. Solid.

VG+ condition/no dustjacket Harper & Bros NY (1946, 47) Book Club Ed hardcover 8vo, 262 pages. A study of Soviet affairs as an outgrowth of a study of Russian history and power relationships begun in 1933. Dustjacket flaps laid in.

Good+/no dustjacket Brentano's NY circa 1926 hardcover 8vo, 94 pp, Undated; Aug. 31, 1926 pencilled inside front cover. Covers soiled; solid and otherwise clean.

Good Cupples and Hurd Boston 1889 1st thus softcover 8vo, 91 pages. Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. The Middleton- Goldsmith Lecture for 1889. Covers chipped at edges, some pencil bracketing at some end pages, spine reenforced with cloth tape and name inked upper right front cover. Medical Monographs No.2. Solid copy.

Good+ Tinsley Bros London 1868 1st hardcover 8vo, 450 + 492 pages + ads, b+w frontis illustrations, index, appendices. Biography of the English actor, playwright and stage manager. Covers rubbed with light spotting. Frontis illustrations loosening at bottom. Name inked at top front endpapers. Overall solid and clean with strong gilt spine titling and decoration.

VG/G, Good dj Mystery Alfred A. Knopf New York 1924 1st Hardbound 8vo, 319 pages, color dustjacket art by C.V. Farrow Rare dj has 1 7/8 inch chip at spine head,small triangular chip at upper left front and long L shaped closed tear across the word wargrave on front.Otherwise solid and clean in protective cover.