Search Results: Titles starting with F from Brillig Books

NY: Military Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, forest green cloth covered boards. 128pp. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, cream cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 126pp. 96 beautiful and evocative historic photographs from the early years of the art. A tight, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp, price-clipped dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket..

Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Small thin quarto, illustrated white stiff wraps (trade paperback). 56 pp. Illustrated throughout with color reproductions of these beautiful textile weavings. A very near fine volume, crisp, clean, fresh, stiff, square with an uncreased spine. Thread of rubbing straight down along rear panel near spine, else fine. Near Fine. Uncommon.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First printing. Tall quarto, grey cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 161 pp. plus detailed captions for each of the photographs. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of John Lennon, preceded by a short text by Norman Jopling. Thereafter every page is a full page or double page photograph of Lennon, with or without fellow Beatles and Yoko Ono. Hoffman was one of the lucky few to pick up on the Beatles early in their career, and one of the striking aspects f this collection, (which includes many now famous photographs of Lennon), is the fresh innocence of John Lennon in the earlly years of the Beatles. A great collection of portraits of the most controversial and perhaps the most important voice of the English band that changed the world. This copy is tight and clean, with very fresh cloth and sparkling spine titles, with a bright, white, clean, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread volume… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. Octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 211 pp. including index. The Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh for 1993-4. A tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth, sparkling gilt titles and a pristine, bright interior, unmarked and unread in a crisp, very tight, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

Portland, ME: King Philip, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. Limited Edition. First Edition Thus. Dark forest green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and gilt spine titles. Light green endpapers. 312 pp. A fascsimile edition of the rare 1893 first edition which was suppressed at the time of its publication and therefore rare. Edition limited to 1000, making this the first edition of the full original history relatively widely available to the public. The author was a police reporter and native of Fall River. A very fine copy with deep rich green cloth and sparkling gilt titles. Interior very tight, unmarked and unblemished and apparently unread. Flawless. AS NEW..

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First Paperback Edition. Thick octavo, illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 475 pp. including index and extensive notes. Illustrated with special sections of color design sketches, photographs etc. and with many black and white photographs and reproductions. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. A definitive work on the history of one of the most renowned masterpieces of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, stiff, square, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Short corner crease at top forecorner else fine. Very near fine. AS NEW..

Boston: Little Brown, 1968. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second printing. Very thick octavo with dark green cloth spine over lime green cloth covered boards. 968 pages with massive (hundreds of pages) index. This is a Dictionary of Quotations using the same organizational method as the famous Bartlett's Familiar Quotations where the entries are arranged alphabetically by subject but you can also look up a keyword or name in the index to find your quotation. This is a beautiful volume with a remarkably fresh crisp, bright, unblemished heavy dust jacket whose matte surface is astonishingly fresh and unsoiled given this type of jacke and age of the book. The book itself is also crisp, clean, bright, very tight, very fresh white pages. there is the tiniest 2 line gift inscription at the corner of the free front endpaper and there are a handful of equally tiny marks at a few entries but the overall condition of this book is like new. Fine in near fine dust jacket. UNCOMMON..

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Publishers, (1984) Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards. 475pp. including index. A very tight, fresh and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Boston: Little Brown, 1964. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Small octavo, brown cloth covered octavo with gilt spine titles. 166 pp. The first book by this Nobel Prize winning, Spanish author and politician. A Francoist supporter, he was also something of an existentialist in this novel whose anti-hero commits, crimes and murders making it reminiscent of Camu's The Stranger. The New York Times calls it "After Don Quixote, probably the most widely read novel in Spanish literature." This copy is in excellent collector's condition; very tight, with very fresh cloth and sparkling gilt titles. The interior is bright white and the volume as a whole is completely unmarked, unblemished and certainly unread. In a similar dust jacket; equally tight, crisp, glossy, sharp, unclipped and pristine. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW. A flawless copy..

New York: Van Nostrand Reihold, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Editon. Small quarto, black boards with gilt titles and spine titles. 446pp. with index. Biographies of 215 American flag officers, admirals and commodores. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. A very fresh, clean copy in a bright, crisp dust jacket..

New York: Platt & Munk, 1933. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. Quarto, pale blue/purple cloth covered boards with color paste on illustration on approximately 3/4 of front cover. Unpaginated. [approx. 100ppl]. Generously illustrated throughout with line drawings and full color illustrations 16 of which are full page. Illustrations by Lois Lenski, Eulalie, Helen Sauder and E. Bachmann among others. This copy is in excellent condition, very tight, unmarked, with a brilliant cover paste on illustration and bright clean interior with vivid illustrations. The a faint tinge of sunning is barely perceptible at the very top edge of the boards, else fine in a dust jacket with light dust soiling to white back panel, one thumbsized triangular chip at front at lower spine corner and and very minor loss at corners. Despite the flaws noted, this is a very attractive and presentable dust jacket. Very near fine in very good dust jacket. SCARCE with jacket..

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, dark turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 127 pp. including index, bibliography and notes. Generously illustrated throughout with 94 reproductions of black and white photographs by (inter alia) Marion Post Walcott, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks and other photographers of the Farm Security Administration. A beautiful copy with very fresh cloth and bright gilt, clean, tight, unmarked and unread in a crisp, sharp, bright, glossy unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

Annapolis, MA: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Book. New. Cloth. BRAND NEW BOOK. Thick octavo, navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt cover decoration and titles and gilt spine titles. 719 pp. including general index and index of cases as well as appendices. The latest update to this classic on the rules of maritime navigation. Includes hundreds of cases on law of the sea and regulations that have adapted to the latest navigational and collision avoidance technology. Unmarked, unblemished and unread, with fresh cloth, brilliant gilt and a tight, crisp, glossy dust jacket. BRAND NEW BOOK..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Book. New. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, rose colored cloth covered boards with pink top edge stain. 79 pp. plus biographical note on author and colophon. This is the fourth book by the Pulitzer Prize winning (among other awards) poet. This is an excellent new copy, in perfect condition in almost every way. The pink top edge stain is very strong and undiminished, the matte dust jacket is tight and crisp and has no tears creases or soil and is unclippped. The book itself has crisp, clean, bright white pages which are completely unblemished. The only minor flaws to this copy are a faint sticker shadow at the top forecorner on the dust jacket front and a tiny red remainder dot on the top edge right at the spine. Still a handsome copy and NEW..

Pittsburgh, PA: Slow Loris Press, 1980., 1980. Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Octavo, white stiff wraps with printed dust jacket. 20pp. A poetry chapbook. A very bright, crisp copy in original shrinkwrap. Fine. MINT..

Avenel, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Avenel, 1991. Book. As New. Hardcover. Thick octavo, brown coated paper covered boards with gilt spine titles.692 pp. Illustrated throughout by Ben Shahn. 55 of Sholom Aleichem's tales of the Yiddish speaking Jews of the"Old Country" of Eastern Europe collected in one volume. TEXT IN ENGLISH. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, clean, glossy, sparkling dustj acket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books, 1999. Book. As New. Photoillustrated. 1st Edition. Quarto, color photo-illustrated glazed paper covered boards. 127pp. Illustrated endpapers. Generously illustrated throughout with Wegman's signature photographs of the Weimaraner "Fay". A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

New York: New York University Press, 1995. Book. As New. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Two volumes, thick octavo, orange stiff wraps (paperback). pp. 574, 581, including extensive notes, and index. A pristine set; tight, fresh, bright, crisp, square, stiff and unmarked with flat uncreased spines. Fine. AS NEW..

Boston: Little Brown, 1992. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, forest green illustrated glossy paper covered boards. 16 pp. Illustrated text with color and black and white and sepia vintage photogaphs of one of the legendary ball parks in American professional baseball. The front panel folds back and out pops a 1:80 ratio pop up model of the stadium in color. A very fine, crisp, sharp, glossy unblemished volume. FINE. Flawless. AS NEW..