Search Results: Authors starting with F from Downtown Books & News

Victoria, Australia: Allen Lane / Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine/No Dj.. 8vo. 334pp. Blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated slipcase. Exterior of slipcase lightly scuffed. Endpapers decorated with family photographs. Afterword by Jan Carter. Neither the photographs, or the afterword are present in previous editions.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1946. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 4to (10.5"x8"). 40pp. Burnt orange paper-covered boards with navy-stamped title & decoration. Very lightly rubbed spine extremes & corners. Covers clean & bright. Very light tone to textblock; faint pink stains to tail of some pages. Beautiful gift inscription: "Very Specially for Buckle Scott from all of us animals and Wolo" in green/red/yellow crayon with border & stars on page facing illustrated title page. IIlustrated dj. covered in protective mylar: chips missing from spine extremes & corners, 3" closed tear to lower/tail panel, toned, price-clipped.

London, UK: William Reeves Bookseller Ltd, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (9"x6"). Navy cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Color frontis. B&W illustrations. Spotting to upper joint & fore-edge. Light creasing from head to tail of the upper cover cloth. Tail corners bumped. First/last pages & textblock edges foxed. Missing dust jacket.

Belfast, ME: Wings Press, 1983. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Stapled wraps. The third collection of poetry by the retired professor of English. Wraps are age-toned. Author's inscription on title page.

Oxford, UK: Oxford, 1644. First edition, rebound. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (7.5"x6"). 24pp. Rebound in burgundy cloth with giltstamped title. Toned; foxing to title page. Printed on laid paper, manually typeset, annotated margins. Chipped corner to title page and page 3.

Carmichael, CA: Dim Shores, 2017. First edition, limited. Paperback. Fine. 8vo (9"x6"). B&W illustrated paper wraps. 62pp. B&W illustrations by Wilson throughout. Hand-numbered 33 of 200 copies.

New York: Something Else Press, 1971. First edition, limited. Paperback. Good+. 8vo (7"x5"). 21 unnumbered pages (including covers), interspersed with tissue. Bound with two of three original metal rings. General shelfwear: top/left corner of upper corner creased. Lightly soiled/toned at edges with small rust stains around punch holes. Clean, bright interior. Silkscreened. From a limited edition of 1000. An example of Finlay's liminal work with concrete poetry.

Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2022. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo (7"x10"). 307pp. Illustrative paper covered boards. Very slight and small dent to fore-edge of boards, else fine. Pages bright but with approximately a dozen instances of small blue pen marks throughout book. Numerous color and B&W photos, illustrations and graphs. Reprint of a series of articles which appeared in the open access journal, Life.

San Francisco, CA: FIFTY 24SF, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated. Exterior of wraps very lightly scuffed, else fine. Numerous BW and color drawings and comics. Many of them are designs for THINK Skateboarding. Two pages of text.

Lingle, WY: L. G. Flannery, 1964. Limited edition. Flex covers. VG/VG+/VG+/VG+/VG+. Small 8vo (6"x4.5"). Tan/brown/orange fuzzy flex covers with silverstamped titles. General shelfwear. Five consecutive volumes of a six volume set (missing vol.6). All from a limited edition of 1500, but numbered differently. Light tone. Volume 1 starting at head of rear hinge.

Oxford, England: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo (8.5"x5.5"). 411pp. Photographic wraps. Spine creases, else fine.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. 492pp. Blue and illustrated paper-covered boards. Small dent to the head of the upper board. Lightly rubbed covers. Interior clean and unmarked. No dj. as issued. This is volume 6 of the Consciousness and Emotion Book Series.

Athens, Greece: A New View Book, 1966. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (10"x14"). Unpaginated. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Several scuffs to covers; edgewear. Chip missing from middle of spine, light chipping to spine extremes, chipping to inner edges of covers. Missing dust jacket, covered in protective mylar by seller. Original off-set lithography to varied color papers. Collection of concrete poems Ford called "Poem Posters", published in the year following his NY exhibition of the same name. Association copy belonging to the poet & publisher of The Jargon Society, Jonathan Williams. Inscribed "fondly for Jonathan & Tom/20xi93" & initialed to ffep. Limited edition of 950 copies. This is a Hors de Commerce copy, numbered "LC" & flat signed to colophon. Rare issue, self-published artist book.

Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2015. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to (11"x8.5"). 213pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

UK: PS Artbooks, 2013. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Super 8vo. 288pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Color illustrations throughout. No dj. as issued.

Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2000. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good -. 8vo. 163pp. Upper cover lightly creased. Minor soiling to title page.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. 1st ed., 1st ptg. ARC. Uncorrected Proofs. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Blue wraps. 408pp. Light soiling to wraps.

San Jose, Costa Rica: Museum of Costa Rican Art, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Imperial 8vo. 200pp. Red & illustrated paper covered boards. Small dent to upper cover; bottom corner slightly bumped. Signed by author & translator Francisco Echeverria to title page. Text in Spanish & English. Color plates throughout. No dj. Covered in protective mylar.

New York: Random House. First edition thus, limited. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Typographic paper-covered boards with spine label. Covers toned. Red pen mark to upper cover. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers, slightly sun-darkened edges. Soiled topedge of textblock. Foxed endpapers & first/last leaves, pages toned. Color frontis with tissue, colored borders throughout. Cardboard slipcase with paper labels: soiled, dampstains, cracks to spine extremes & head joints. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 344 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 2 from the New Fine Book Series.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo (9.5"x6.5"). 552pp. 1/4 blue cloth & orange paper with giltstamped title to spine, deckled edges. Lightly toned interior. B&W photographic plates. Illustrated dj. covered in protective mylar: rubbed, spine extremes chipped, top/upper corner taped, toned, NOT price-clipped ($14.95).