Search Results: Authors starting with F from Collectible Books

1. Stated first edition. Minor rub to dj and light spotting to dustjacket and endpapers. Bookplate on frontendpaper. Pages clean, tight and bright.

1. First American paperback edition. Published in 1986. 144 pages including index. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. 24 color plates and over 100 black-and-white illustrations. His life, times and work. Appears unread, clean, bright and tight.

SIGNED by author John Fisher Anderson below his frontis photo. 119 pages. 5x7 inches. 1st edition 1922. Published by Times-Mirror Press, Los Angeles. Blue cloth hardcover has full-sized embossed illustration of land, palm trees and sky in orange and dark green. 39 b&w photos, full-page islands map and color photo of Kilauea volcano. Faulted by removed fep, and previous owner name and location on back of frontis. . . Traceable provided in the USA.

1. First published Sept. 1920. Browned paper covered boards. Paper spine mostly chipped away. Previous owner name and 1920 date on front pastedown. Contemporary newsclippings laid in including: Jan 30 1933 orbit of Sara Teasdale with her newsprint photo glued to back of rear endpaper; newsclip photo of Edith Wharton glued to top page margin of her poem 'In Provence'; news photo of Robert Frost glued above "";To Edward Thomas"";; painting photo of Edwin Arlington Robinson glued below his poem 'Tact', plus clippings about him laid in along with others. Shadow tanning from newsclips. Binding tight; hinges intact.

1. Title continues, ""...69 Through Oklahoma"". 1936. 1st ed. Historic Oklahoma Series No. 2, University of Oklahoma Press. 46pp. Yellow stapled card covers. 3 full page maps. 4.75 x 5 inches. Has small piece of clear tape on top edge, bookplate inside front cover, split below bottom staple along spine; else clean, bright and tight. Radar 1431. Originally known as the Osage Trace, this road led from St. Louis across Missouri into northeastern Oklahoma to Texas. History of indians, travellers and settlers along the way.

1. Stated first edition. 1985. Little Brown and Company. Original $19.95 on front dj flap. Brown cloth with bright silver letters to spine and front cover emblem. Clean, bright, square, crisp and tight. Appears unread. Untorn dj is very lightly bumped and rubbed.

1. First edition 1927. NOT the reprint. Published by Marine Research Society, Salem, Ma. By George Francis Dow. xxxv,349pp.+1p.(ad). Includes index. 7.5 x 10 inches. Howes D-438. No dj. Original black cloth with gold spine lettering. 50 listed and described illustrations including frontis. Cloth lightly rubbed and intact. Text tight and bright with NO foxing, NO tears and NO handwriting. One faint thumb-sized dampstain at the extreme top edge of one page only.

1. First edition 1927. NOT the reprint. Published by Marine Research Society., Salem ,Ma.. By George Francis Dow. xxxv,349pp.+1p.(ad). Includes index. 7.5 x 10 inches. Howes D-438. No dj. Original black cloth with gold spine lettering. 50 listed and described illustrations including frontis. Cloth lightly rubbed and intact. Text tight and bright with NO foxing, NO tears and NO handwriting. One faint thumb-sized dampstain at the extreme top edge of one page only.

1. Stated First Printing 1961. Spine of untorn dustjacket is sunned, with light tanning overall. Dj spine scratch archivally back taped. Endpapers tanned with bookplate on fep. Cloth edges also faded. Else book appears unread, clean, bright, and tight.

1. 1947 1st ed. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. xvii, 236pp. Includes biblio, index & 29 listed illustrations. ""...THE STORY OF SERGEANT WINDOLPH The Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn as Told to Frazier and Robert Hunt with Explanatory Material and Sidelights on The Custer Fight."" Pictorial dj is torn and chipped on top and bottom edges, not affecting lettering, not price-clipped. Pages clean with with light creasing, binding tight. Tanning from dj flaps. Windolf served under Custer's command and was a member of Benteen's troop in the 7th Calvary. ""... a German immigrant who had joined the American Army...did not serve with Custer in the bloody battle at Little Big Horn, he was a part of the famous expedition against the ""Hostiles"" and saw plenty of action under Custer's command...events leading up to the massacre, the investigation that followed....""

1. MEMORIES OF BUFFALO BILL BY HIS WIFE, IN COLLABORATION WITH COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER. D. Appleton & Co. New York London MCMXX.(1920) Frontis portrait photo of Colonel William F Cody. Ex-lib. Maroon cloth. 326 clean, bright and untorn pages. 8.25""; x 5.5"";. Hinges intact. Light spine and corner wear.

1. 1980 Pantheon Books. Stated First American Edition. 245 pages. Unread. Pages clean, bright, square and tight. Unclipped dustjacket shows a .25"" tear at top center edge of spine, and a 1.5"" scratch. Some small light age spots to boards and cloth.

1. Stated first American edition. Faulted by browning to inside flaps, pastedowns and front end paper. Otherwise clean, bright, tight and unread. Untorn pictorial dustjacket is faintly surface rubbed.

1. First edition. First printing. Beufort. Dustjacket spine ends lightly bumped. Tiny faint spotting on textblock eges. Else clean, bright, tight and appears unread.

1. Authorized translation from the second enlarged and improved German edition by A. Duane M.D. Appleton & Co., NY. C1892, 1893 on title page. ""First American edition was published by Appleton in 1892, and issued successively in 1893, 1894, 1896 & 1898. 2nd American ed. issued in 1899."" xiii[1],788p.+12p.ads. 6""x9"". Clean brown cloth, pressed borders on covers; Spine w. gilt letters, splits to 1/2 of cloth edges, small tears to ends. Fep missing, hinge paper cracking; cords holding. Repairable. Pages clean, crisp, bright & tight. Includes index & ""numerous"" b&w plates including 12 pages of instruments. Tipped in color plates: 1 full-page photo-engraving, ""Neuro-Retinitis"" by C H Davis, and between 4 pages, 5 others 3x3"" numbered & titled, ""As shown by the De Zeng Luminous Opthalmoscope. De Zeng Optical Co., Philadelphia"" (Google: ""Text-book of Ophthalmology Fuchs 1893"" for this edition online.

1. 1937 Stated first edition. Bobbs-Merrill. Translated by Anita Brenner. 256 pages. Top edge red. Light brown cloth with brown letters to spine and front cover, plus red design on front cover. Small bookseller notation in pencil at top outside corner of front endpaper: "";Very Scarce First Edition Diego Riviera Illustrations"";. Otherwise clean, no fraying, corner tips very lightly bumped. Illustrated dust jacket taped at top of spine and rear corners. Tape lower rear corner shows under 1/2 inch chip.

1. Cover continues, ""...Ambush...by Indians Near Ft. Boise..Ensuing Butchery..Her Escape With A Small Remnant of the Party...Horrible Experiences, Being Forced..to Eat Human Flesh..Hardships and Wanderings..Rescue by the Relief Expedition from Ft. Walla Walla."" Title page reads, ""Left by the Indians/Story of my Life/Emeline L. Fuller"". ""Reissued in an Edition of 200 Copies by Edward Eberstadt 55...New york City 1936"" [4],40,[1]pp. incl. ports. 3pp. portraits. 4.5 x 6.25 inches. Original light blue printed wraps. 1/2 inch tear to front cover. Clean and bright. ""Only account by a survivor of the sufferings of the 1860 Ute-Myers emigrating party of 54 members, all but 15 of whom perished from hunger or were killed by Indians on the Snake River in Idaho. Among overland disasters, equaled in horror only by that of the Donner Party; cannibalism was resorted to in both cases."" (Howes 407). Scarce.

1. 1988 Institute for International Economics. First edition. Center crease along spine, re-glued center hinge crack, minor edgewear.