Search Results: Titles starting with F from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom's book on the vastly talented Michigan teams that went to the NCAA finals in 1992 and 93, but couldn't get it done in the end. Well predates the author's Tuesdays with Morrie fame. Fine in a near fine jacket. 3rd printing.

New York : Borzoi Books, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Wallace's first book, he would go on to write wildly popular novels throughout the 60s and 70s. This book looks at such figures as Alexander Selkirk (the basis for Robinson Crusoe) Dr. Joseph Bell (an inspiration for Sherlock Holmes) and several others. First edition stated, VG in a VG price-clipped jacket with a couple of small chips to edges. Book is in quite nice condition, with quarter bound with bright red cloth and rose colored boards.

Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First Edition. Book has damage to pp 41-48 (jagged tears bottom right corner, text not affected). Jacked has minor soil, darkening of spine, closed tears. In mylar

New York: Viking, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated first edition, first printing, in as-new condition. Jacket shows only the tiniest hint of wear, but IS price-clipped.

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Multiple Newberry award-winning Peck's wonderful novel about three small-town children travelling to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Fine in a fine jacket (with exremely minor wear at top of spine). First printing.

New York: St Martins Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A first printing of this novel from popular "chick-lit" author. VG in like jacket--slight lean to book, a little bit of wear to jacket, including some minor dings/fingernail creases to rear jacket panel. Totally decent reading copy.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Signed by author on the title page. First editionA mystery set in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook from author favorably reviewed by Washington Post, others. Fine in fine jacket.

New York: Delacorte, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A nice clean copy of this popular young adult novel. Fourth printing, fine in a nearly fine jacket with minimal shelfwear.

Ecco/Harper Collins, 2004. Advance Reader's Copy . Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Fine Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps, promotional copy on back cover.

Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. Preface by Nadine Gordimer, edited by Barney Simon. The autobiographical novel of an outcast in a society of outcasts, a black thief in apartheid South Africa. VG paperback, unmarked and very clean.

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of this lovely exploration of winemaking in France. Fine in a fine jacket, not price-clipped or remaindered.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Frazier (Great Plains, On the Rez, etc) offers here a history of his family's experience in America, tracing both sides of the family back to colonial times. First printing, fine in a fine jacket--not remaindered or price cllipped

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Very nice copy (albeit very likely a book club edition) of Frazier's history of his family down through many generations. Touches on the towns his family inhabited, and the events they experienced. Near fine (faint band-shaped mark, presumably from production process, to lower portion of boards), Jacket has a touch of shelfwear, but overall fine.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Signed by author on a front free endpaper. Selected short stories, w/an introduction by Philip Roth. From the Franklin Library's First Edition Society, this is an as new copy of the true first edition. Full leather w/gilt page edges, marbeled endpapers, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine and boards, ribbon marker. Still in original packaging from Franklin.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Galdone, Paul. A nice copy of this book about a young man apprenticed to a naturalist in rural Tennessee. Book is near fine--pages somewhat faded. Jacket has small chip at head of spine, significant soil to rear panel. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition 1961.

Macmillan Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Williams, Herbert. No cover (presumably as issued). Pages somewhat yellowed, else very nice--a clean and tight copy. With illusatrations by Herbert Williams

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Popular science writer Gleick's prescient take on how the rapid pace of technological advancement allows us to do things more quickly, but accelerates our life to the point where it's hard to notice individual events. First printing, fine in a fine jacket.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First Edition . Hard. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First English printing, near fine in a fine unclipped jacket. The tale of a globe-trotting trip made with the author's thirteen year old daughter and her small dog, full of the characteristic Bemelmans wit and charm. Pages a touch yellowed, jacket quite good with no tears, in protective plastic covering.

New York: Random House Inc, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Second printing of author's memoir of an inspirational and influential priest from his childhood, who provided him with guidance throughout his life. Notable for controversy develeoping after book's publication, when author's daughter accused him of sexual abuse. Jacket bent slightly at top of front panel, a bit loose at rear flap, tiny bends to a couple of page corners.

New York: Putnam Pub Group, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of this fascinatiing look at a veteran foreign correspondant's look at the re-unified Germany. Fine in a NF jacket.