Search Results: Titles starting with F from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Iowa City: The Windhover Press, and BruccoliClark, 1975 One of 150 copies. Brown linen with printed paper label on front cover. . Tall, narrow octavo. . Tipped in portrait of Fitzgerald from a drawing by John Thein. Printed on Rives Heavy mould-made paper. A fine copy.

[Milano:] Edizioni Colombo, [1992] Wrappers. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Minor soiling. Near fine. Lovely catalogue of an exhibition at the Palazzo Andrea Doria in Genoa.

[New York:] Tabard Press, [1979] First edition. Boards. Oblong quarto. Illustrates 250 items on 52 color and 119 black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson 1787 First American edition of Moore with the second printing Langhorne's poem "Fables of Flora," which first appeared in 1784. Contemporary sheep with gilt-lettered spine. . Twelvemo. Fables of Flora with a separate fly-title and advertisement. Binding extremities light rubbbed. Crown of spine worn away less than 1/4." Small chip to tail of spine. Gilt lettering slightly faded. Front and rear hinges cracked, but sound. Light foxing and toning. The occasional minor stain. Contemporary pencil inscription to recto of front flyleaf and contemporary ink signature to verso of terminal blank. A very good, copy of a scarce book. Edward Moore (1712-1757) was a playwright and writer. His first published work was the libretto to William Boyce's best-known composition Solomon: a serenata (1743), a musical setting to the song of Solomon. His first play, The Foundling: A Comedy (1748), was acted at the Theatre Royal. Initially published anonymously in May 1774, Moore's… Read More

London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law...[et al.], 1792 A rare edition of a text that was first published in 1722. It went through numerous editions and was expanded several times during the eighteenth century. The charming woodcut illustrations are unsigned, as is the frontispiece. This edition is recorded in one copy only, at Harvard. There is no copy in England. STC notes: "The London part of the imprint is fake, probably printed at York. Contemporary tree sheep. . Twelvemo. With an engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcuts in the text, one to accompany each fable. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, some superficial cracks in spine. Several ownership notations on front endpapers, one dated 1823. A very good, attractive copy. Samuel Croxall (1688/9-1752) was a Church of England clergyman, educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. His first publications were anti-tory satires, purporting to be original cantos of Spenser, 1713-14. Several other whig celebratory poems followed. Croxall translated book 6… Read More

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1964 One of 125 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. . Thick gray paper wrappers with a printed paper spine label. . Large folio. With two original leaves (16 1/2" x 11") laid in. The leaves in this copy are the text of "Fable IX Le GeaI Paré des Plumes du Paon" and its accompanying copper engraved plate. Monograph by Frances Brewer. Wrappers have minor light wear, else a fine copy in a slightly rubbed marbled board slipcase. Brewer's work provides a fascinating history of La Fontaine's life in addition to the beautiful Memorial Edition of his Fables, published approximately fifty years after his death. La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a contemporary of Charles Perrault and a member of the quarter "Rue de Vieux Colombier," famous in French literary history, which consisted of Racine, Boileau, and Moliére. His work consists of 239 fables, divided into twelve books. His first collection of Fables Choisies was divided up into six books in two… Read More

London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 Modern half calf, gilt, with black morocco spine label. Twelvemo. Copper-engraved frontispiece and numerous charming woodcuts in text. Frontispiece with some light dampstains in blank margins, nineteenth-century ownership signature on a preliminary blank. Overall a very good copy of an uncommon edition. The first edition of the William Coxe editing of Gay's Fables appeared in 1796. Curiously, all of the Coxe editions are scarce, with OCLC listing one or two copies of the first four editions, and five copies of the fifth and last edition, which was published in 1814.

London: Willoughby and Co., [1849] First edition. Publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in blind and ornately stamped in gilt in imitation of the bindings of Charles Dickens' Christmas books. . Small octavo. Etched frontispiece, full-page etched title, and 2 etched plates (between pp. 50-51 and 88-89), all finely hand colored. With wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout, some by Edward Townsend Hartshorn (1828 - 1900) and some signed "S. White." Some rubbing to gilt. Also lettered and stamped in gilt on spine. Neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. All edges gilt. Some toning to edges and some dampstaining to bottom margin. Some offsetting from plates. Later bookplate of Walter Flinn on front pastedown. Overall a very good, tight copy with attractive illustrations and a pretty binding. Bindings imitating the style of Dickens' Christmas books were popular among publishers in the mid-nineteenth century, in hopes of producing titles to rival those of Dickens. The Faces in the Fire is… Read More

London: Enitharmon Press, 1972 One of 85 copies on Canson Inges paper, signed by the author, out of a total edition of 335 copies. Ecru cloth over red paper boards, spine stamped in black. Octavo. Fine in acetate dust jacket.

London: Printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer Senr & Junr, 1707 First edition. Rebound in modern vellum, title hand-lettered in ink on spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. Illustrated with six full-page cuts reminiscent of the "Danse Macabre" depicting skeletons, sepulchers piled high with skulls, and other morbid imagery Scattered light foxing throughout with greater degrees of foxing to signatures K-M. Repair to p. 15, touching text, but not affecting legibility. Union Theological Seminary's blindstamp on title-page, p. 113, and p. 235, and rubber ink stamp to gutter margin of p. iii. A very good copy. Josiah Woodward (1660-1712) was a Church of England clergyman, moral reformer, and writer of penny tracts, which were often published anonymously. Fair Warnings is a conduct book that serves to inspire the reader to live a moral, Christian life via frightful pictures of people on their deathbeds, "living" skeletons, powerful men contemplating their deaths, Roman Emperor Adrian leading his own funeral march… Read More

London: Printed for Payne and Foss, Pall-Mall; and William Pickering, Chancery Lane; By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1831 First edition. Publisher's blue cloth with a black-lettered paper spine label, skillfully rebacked with old spine laid down. Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with some soiling and light wear to boards. Spine label has some minor fading and a few small chips affecting the lettering. Minor ink stains to verso of half-title and recto of title page. Pencil annotations on front pastedown and ink signature on front fly leaf. A very good copy of a scarce book, especially in the original cloth. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was an English conveyor, though his literary and antiquarian pursuits were of greater importance to him. Ritson held radical political opinions and published a broadside entitled The Descent of the Crown of England (1778), which heavily criticized the 1688 revolution. He is well known for his exhaustive work Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems,… Read More

London: 1731 First edition. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt. Octavo. Woodcut folding frontispiece of Anne Oldfield after portraits by Godfrey Kneller and J. Richardson; woodcut headpieces, vignettes, and initial letters. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight wear to corners. Very minor spotting to boards. Front joint starting to crack, but sound. Intermittent slight foxing. A near fine, unrestored copy in its original binding. increasing quality of her roles and the income she earned from them suggest that she established herself quickly within Drury's company. She acted in many plays, including Hampstead Heath and Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer. In Faithful Memoirs, Curll tells a story of a contest between Oldfield and Anne Bracegirdle, both cast in the title role of Betterton's The Amorous Widow; allegedly the town judged Oldfield as having given the better performance, though it is not clear whether this truly happened or not. Her overall popularity is evident, given the two biographic… Read More

Newport R.I.: Printed at the Office of the Newport Mercury, 1807 First edition. Contemporary sheep with gilt spine label. Twelvemo. Some chipping and rubbing to sheep. Joints somewhat fragile. Largely a clean copy aside from some light occasional foxing. Two ink ownership signatures, one dated 1829 and one dated 1875, to front flyleaf. A very good, clean copy of this uncommon collection of letters. A collection of correspondence exchanged between two close friends, Sarah Osborn and Susanna Anthony, between 1740 and 1779. Osborn and Anthony were both devout Congregationalists — Anthony, in fact, broke with her parents' Quaker faith to join Osborn in the Congregationalist church. The two friends were also both teachers and abolitionists: the present collection includes Osborn's accounts of her experience teaching classes to the Black population in Newport, as well as letters exchanged between Anthony and the abolitionists Rev. Samuel Hopkins.

London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Caddel [sic.], 1773 First edition. The present work collects over a hundred letters by the fictional Lady Hariet Morley, who recounts didactic vignettes and opines on virtue, gambling, politics, poverty, and class.. Contemporary calf with gilt spine and red morocco spine label (reading "Morley's Letters"). . Octavo. Without the list of subscribers present in some copies Hinges cracking but holding firm. Rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary ink signature to verso of front flyleaf. Some light toning and offsetting, but overall a very good, clean, and wide copy of this uncommon work on the conduct and character of women. In the dedication to Queen Charlotte, the author writes, "As the following pages were written with the honest view of promoting the interests and virtue…in the character of a lady, there appeared, to the author, great propriety in inscribing them to the highest example of those virtues which he wished… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by J. Purser...[et al.], 1730 First edition. Disbound. Octavo. Occasional light foxing. Otherwise very good. ESTC records eight copies, including only three in America (Boston Athenaeum, Folger Library, UCLA's Clark Library).

Provo, Utah: Tryst Press, 2001 One of 230 copies printed. Quarter purple silk over red paper-covered boards. Title in black on front cover. . Octavo. Color engravings. Printed letterpress on handmade paper by Robert Buchert. A fine copy. This is a compilation of the poems of James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), the Hoosier Poet known for his works for children, and his dialect works. Titles include "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang," "The Nine Little Goblins," "The Pipes of Pan," "The Werewife," etc. The whimsical colored wood-engravings capture the author's spirit.

New York: Amphoto, [1989] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations. Light shelfwear. Near fine in fine d.j.

London: Printed for John Harris [by S. and R. Bentley, 1828] First edition, a work of rudimentary theology, astronomy, natural history, and geography for youth, supposedly published from the papers of a deceased "friend," with a few of Fletcher's own "emendations" and "improvements. Contemporary quarter maroon sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine. . Twelvemo. Engraved frontispiece, dated 1828. Binding extremities slightly rubbed, corners worn. Light foxing, minor offsetting from frontispiece. A very good, clean copy. With the exception of him being the Vicar of Stone, we were unable to learn anything about William Fletcher from the resources available to us. In his "Introduction," Fletcher writes, "Inspecting a few months back the literary relics of a departed friend, I stumbled upon a bundle of papers, containing some account of his early life, and the course of instruction he at that time pursued…Trusting it may promote the best interests of those little ones for whom it is intended, by leading… Read More

London: Harrap, [1925] One of 1,000 copies printed for Great Britain; 1,000 copies were also printed for the American audience. Original quarter vellum over tan-gray paper boards, gilt spine. Top edge gilt. . Quarto. Small puncture hole in spine neatly filled in, some light browning to boards. A very good copy, clean and tight.

Oakland: Mills College, 1016, First edition. Each of the ten sections (salads, vegetables, cakes, etc.) opens with a quote from a Shakespeare play, like "A morsel for a monarch" from Antony and Cleopatra for the entrees section. . Original buff paper wrappers titled "White & Gold Recipes" in gold. . 4 in. 8 in. . With a vignette of the Mills College clock tower facing title-page. The last page is blank except for the heading "Additional Recipes." Some foxing and dust soiling to wrappers. Quite clean throughout aside fro some minor toning to leaves. A very good copy of a scarce cookbook made by a Mills College home economics class. An interesting glimpse into the work of home economics program students at Mills College. Students in the program were very active in campus life, and hosted fundraisers for the college in which they sold candy and sandwiches, served Sunday breakfasts, and made dolls. In 1925, home economics students raised nearly four hundred dollars to outfit one of the Mills dorms with… Read More