Search Results: Titles starting with F from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Richard R. Smith. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Owner writing on front free endpaper, . jacket tattered, boards rubbed.. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Many photos. Blue cloth binding titled in silver. Biography of the vaudeville entertainer and impresario. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages .

NY: Dorling Kindersley. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Soiling to pp. 8-9.. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0789426412 . Inscribed by the author on the title page. Relief print illustrations. A children's book about a young girl named Hannah who helps her parents run a station on the underground railroad. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .

NY: Smithsonian Institution. Very Good; Front cover scratched.. 1983. Softcover. Catalogue from an exhibition of Faberge jewels and decorative items held at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, April 15-July 10, 1983. Many photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages .

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper, jacket . toned and lightly tattered.. 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint of 1889 collection of essays by George Bernard Shaw, Hubert Bland, Annie Besant, William Clarke, The Lord Olivier, The Lord Passfield, and Graham Wallas. Postscript by Bernard Shaw "Sixty Years of Fabianism". Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Walter Crane. Red cloth. xliii, 246pp, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn along edges and at . head and foot of spine, pages toned, owner name on half-title.. 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial burgundy cloth binding, Gray topstain. A lovely copy of the Nobel Laureate's allegorical novel about trench warfare and passive resistance in World War I. The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages .

NY: Abbeville Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0896599647 . Index, bibliography, map. Color photos throughout by Vadim Gippenreiter. Art, architecture, culture, and history of the three beautiful cities in Central Asia. Blue cloth binding titled in gilt. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 191 pages .

Toronto: Public Library. Very Good with no dust jacket; Faint foxing to boards.. 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. 0920601154 . Halfbound gray cloth over green boards. One of 1,500 copies of this reprint of this 1731 literary collection with engravings by the Bickhams. Afterword by Jill Shefrin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed at corners and head and tail . of spine.. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorative boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine. A collection of poems by the Long Island University Professor. Laid in is handmade Christmas card signed by Winthrop and Carleton Palmer with pen and ink design by Carleton Palmer on front. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages .

Paris: Garnier Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper . missing, light foxing to endpapers.. N.D.. Hardcover. Quarterbound red leather with four raised bands and gilt stamped spine compartments on spine. Red marbled sides. Many engravings by J. J. Grandville. Text in French. Handsome illustrated copy of La Fontaine's fables with biography and literary commentary by Lemaistre. xliv, 416pp. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Tours, France: Maison Alfred Mame Et Fils. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges cracked, foxing.. 1929. Later Printing. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with tan cloth spine. 16 color plates and numerous other black and white illustrations by R. De la Neziere. Text in French. La Fontaine's fables with de la Neziere's dramatic color illustrations of anthropomorphic storks, foxes, lions, donkeys, frogs, and other animals. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 159 pages .

NY: Gramercy. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name whited out on front free . endpaper, jacket rubbed.. 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 9780517100837 . Reprint of this 1909 edition of more than 300 of Aesop's fables, with 23 color plates and many other black and white illustrations by Edward J. Detmold. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages .

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned and heavily chipped and missing sections at spine, owner initials written on front jacket panel, owner name and address on front free endpaper. 1900. Hardcover. Halfbound gray cloth with chromolithograph illustrated paper-covered boards. Front cover illustration shows rabbit watching frogs jump into a pond surrounded by carnations and violets. Elegant black and white illustrations throughout, some signed with initials RH. First title in the Altemus Illustrated One Syllable Series. Scarce in jacket. Color illustrated jacket. ; Altemus' Illustrated One Syllable Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages .

Carno, Powys, Wales: Laura Ashley. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket shelfworn, page tops foxed.. 1983. Hardcover. 0950891304 . Reading list. Profusely illustrated. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 165 pages .

Delmar, NY: Self Published. Very Good; Covers scuffed and sunned.. 2005. Softcover. Catalogue filled with color photos and descriptions of fiber art by Estelle Kessler Yarinsky. Inscribed by the artist on the title page. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 30 pages .

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 0300051530 . Blue cloth. xi, 242pp. Black and white illustrations and photos, acknowledgments, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. A fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of image making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. (from the front jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

St. Louis, MO: Fox Theatre. Very Good; Covers lightly worn.. 1985. Softcover. A history of the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. Many black and white photos and illustrations. A few pages of color photos. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 60 pages .

NY: Good Reading Rack Service. Very Good. 1955. Softcover. Printed stapled wraps. Adaptation of Fortune magazine article advocating nuclear power and predicting that atomic batteries will be commonplace by 1980 and that many homes will be powered by small atomic generators. Great graphics. One of the booklets produced by New York City publisher Good Reading Rack Service which made pamphlets like these designed for large companies for free distribution to their employees in cafeterias and break rooms. They cover many social issues with a conservative, pro-business slant. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pages .

Cincinnati: North Light Books. Very Good. 1999. First Printing. Softcover. 9780891348900 . Color photographs and index. A craft tutorial on using everyday materials such as socks, shirts, and towels to make clothing for dolls without sewing or ironing. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages .

NY: Chartwell. Very Good. 2016. First American Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0785834923 . Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations. A lovely copy of this art therapy book for adults. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Fawcett. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Spine cocked, jacket scuffed.. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 0449905306 . Signed by the late author on the title page. Author photo on rear jacket flap. The first book in the Inspector Monk series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages .