Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Signet Classic CY412 ($1.25), 2nd Printing. MMPB, 384 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (evocative WW1 drawings). Condition: Fine. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding. A Fable is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22. (Courtesy Wikipedia).

Chicago Tribune / Spadea Press, May 11th 1969. Newspaper section 8A pamphlet in the form of a "Make-It Yourself Book" supplement, 16-page booklet folded from 2 newsprint sheets (quarto), 10.5 x 7.3 in. In Very Good condition, light page toning, clean pages (uncut and without creases), light creasing at corner tip, some separation along perforations where internal folds meet, color drawings are bright. Presented in mylar sleeve with cardboard backing to ensure it arrives undamaged. Written and illustrated by Armorel Kay Walling. Section 8A was a Sunday supplement appealing to children's creativity in addition to telling charming stories. "The Indian smiled...She said. You're the Handsomest Raindrop I've Seen...And the Fattest Raindrop was so pleased - he blushed."

Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1990, hardcover in card slipcase, pp. 166, 29+ cm tall, 22+ cm across, ribbon marker, black cloth with gold-stamped titles and glossy illustration mounted on front board, full of colour color plates of lacquer painting produced at Fedoskino. Fine in a Very Good card slipcase - test and illustrations are sharp, book corners are sharp, slipcase has crease on spine. Fedoskino miniature (Russian: федоскинская миниатюра) is a traditional Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache, named after its original center Fedoskino (Федоскино), an old village near Moscow widely known from the late 18th century. The contemporary Fedoskino painting preserves the typical features of Russian folk art. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

Franciscan, Pulaski, WI, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1999 Trade Paperback, pp. 108, 21 x 15 cm, white wraps frame an abstract front cover illustration by Marilyn Scheyer, and a rear cover author bio and commendations, multiple illustrations. In Fine Condition. "This deeply personal spiritual work comes from a young East African poet, who has been a monk, editor of a popular newspaper and a controversial political activist." The author, Nichola Otieno, won the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1996. He is now committed to the renaissance of African wisdom as the way to a new vision of life for the world in the coming millennium.

Theodore Presser Co, Philadelphia PA, 1927. Hardcover with dust jacket, lime green boards with blue titling and hut in the woods image, sheet music carefully grouped by voice type, pp. 129, 30+ x 24+ cm, tan jacket with repeated hut motif. Condition is Near Fine in Good. Book has one board corner lightly bumped. text and music are clean with hint of tanning on some edge. Jacket (in protective mylar) is lacking in places, particularly at bottom edge and spine. A very tasteful 1920s production.

The Junior Literary Guild and Alfred A. Knopf, New York, First Edition (stated on copyright page), 1932. Pictorial green cloth cover shows Freddy a la Sherlock Holmes with a false beard, pipe and deerstalker hat. Illustration by Kurt Wiese (cover, endpapers, and multiple in text). Good copy overall, book solid and square, spine faded, soiling to covers, light wear at spine top and bottom, ginge starting to become fragile, soil on front edge, occasional soil on pages. Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories on Mister Ed the talking horse and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2017 SIGNED by author ON TITLE PAGE, pp. 285, 8.5" x 5.75'' x 1", lavender boards with blue pictorial decoration (coffee shop scene) - attractive film DJ has transparent binocular opening onto image. NEW (unread) copy. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. Debut short story collection from Pulitzer Prize winning author. Beautiful copy with intriguing jacket design by Na Kim.

Nick Andors, 2013, First Edition, large-format paperback (27 x 21 cm), debut graphic novel in Fine conditon. Acclaimed debut - a startlingly beautiful crowd-sourced graphic novel written and illustrated by Nick Andors. Andors weaves a quartet of interlocking stories all set within the claustrophobic confines of dystopian Irongates, but each containing their share of disturbing visuals, characters you either pity or wouldn't want to run into on the street late at night, and unique plot twists nearly impossible to see coming.

Methuen, London, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 1927, introduction by A.A. Milne, featuring drawings from Punch. Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 88, 12+ x 10 x 0.5 inches, charming paper illustration on front board, full page black and white illustrations and 7 colour (pastel) plates with verses by E.V. Knox. DJ repeats the illustratrion on the upper board. The book is in Good condition within a Good jacket - the hinge with rear board is starting to crack, with some wear at spine bottom, pages are clean with occasional fingermarks, jacket has some open tears but is expertly preserved with mylar. An essential item for Punch enthusiasts, and Shrpard and Milne collectors alike