Search Results: Titles starting with F from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Imprenta Nacional, Bogota, Colombia, 1916; First Edition; 8vo; 287 pages; printed wraps. Over 200 fables in verse demonstrating universal moral truths, offered for purposes of restoring honesty, responsibility, integrity, and charity to Colombian society,which Pombo viewed as being in a disreputable state at the time. All entries either authored or personally collected and translated into Spanish by distinguished Colombian national poet Jose Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (1833-1912) and first published here after the discovery of the lost manuscript after the author’s death. Very Good, binding tight, sound and square, text clean, crisp, bright, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind, pages unopened. Text in Spanish. Quite rare.

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1991; First Edition; 8vo, 240 pages. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no previous owner signatures or any other markings of any kind, not price-clipped. An attractive copy.

Huerta de San Vicente / Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain, ca 1990; Portfolio of five color drawings by Spanish author/poet Federico Garcia Lorca, executed between the years 1927-1930. Reproduced here in fine quality serigraph for the Museo Federico Garcia Lorca in a limited edition of 500 by Jose Luis Suarez at Taller de Serigrafia El Molino in Granada, using a hand press on 13" x 9 1/2" heavyweight 250 gr. Guarro Super Alfa paper. All prints pristine and Very Fine, interleaved with protective parchment slips and enclosed in the original decorative color portfolio with green silk tie. Scarce.

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1989; First Edition; 8vo, 223 pages. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. A crisp and sparkling copy.

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1987; Fifth Printing; small 8vo, 113 pages; illustrated. Color illustrations and substantive descriptive text for fifty of Oklahoma’s most prevalent bird species, by George Miksch Sutton, Curator of Birds at University of Oklahoma’s Stovall Museum from 1952 to 1982 and author/ illustrator of over fifteen bird books. Complete list of over 400 Oklahoma birds at the back, with both common and scientific names. Beautifully illustrated in color by the author. Very Good Plus, in color illustrated wraps.

Harper & Brothers, NY, 1929; First Edition, first printing, August, 1929; 8vo, 361 pages; blue cloth; yellow titles and decorations; illustrated end papers. Source for the 1931 Paramount motion picture of the same name starring Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. Very Good, with scattered foxing on the top and bottom page block edges. Text clean and crisp, binding tight, sound and square, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. No dustjacket.

Creative Age Press, NY, 1945; First Edition; 8vo, 295 pages. An effort to repudiate the opinion that Jews are cowards and will not fight. Traces back twenty centuries, showing the part played by Jews in war. Foreword by Curt Reiss. Very Good, in a VG- dust jacket that has a sunned spine and a small chip at top center of the front panel. Internally clean and crisp, binding tight, sound, and square, corners sharp.

Whittlesey House, NY, 1939; First Edition, second printing; 8vo, 239 pages; illustrated. Stimulating source of fresh ideas and techniques for photographs, authored by Jacob Deschin, writer of the "Camera Angles" column for Scientific American, contributing editor of Popular Photography from its inception, and camera editor for the New York Times from 1941 until his retirement. Twenty-four full-page photo illustration plates. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, corners sharp, no ownership signatures. In a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket that has a small (1/4") chip on the back panel adjacent the shoulder.

Bison Books, Nebraska, 1978; First Edition; 8vo, 298 pgs. Collection of oral folk tale performances of the Zuni, translated by Dennis Tedlock. Very Good Plus, in illustrated stiff wraps.

Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 1992; 4to, 138 pages. Illustrated catalogue for the June 10 & 11, 1992 auction featuring the works of 134 important American, Latin American, and European artists, containing descriptions, provenance, and auction estimates for each. Prices realized circular laid in. Fine, in color illustrated stiff wraps. Soft crease at lower right of front cover.

Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 1993; 4to, 132 pages. Illustrated catalogue for the May 19, 1993 auction featuring the works of 155 important American, Latin American, and European artists, with descriptions, provenance, and auction estimates for each. Prices realized circular laid in. As New, in color illustrated stiff wraps.

Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 1993; 4to, 136 pages. Illustrated catalogue for the February 24, 1993 auction featuring the works of 170 important American, Latin American, and European artists, containing descriptions, provenance, and auction estimates for each. Prices realized circular laid in. As New, in color illustrated stiff wraps.

Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 1991; 4to, 132 pages. Illustrated catalogue for the October 28, 1991 auction featuring the works of 164 important American, Latin American, and European artists, containing descriptions, provenance, and auction estimates for each. Prices realized circular laid in. As New, in color illustrated stiff wraps.

George Barrie, Philadelphia, 1880; Nineteenth century etching after the painting by George H. Boughton (1834-1905) depicting the "Smokers’ Rebellion" or "Pipe Plot" which took place in 1639 when a multitude of furious Knickerbockers sat themselves down in front of the house of governor Willem Kieft and stubbornly commenced a smoking marathon in defiance of his recently imposed tobacco ban. Kieft, first governor of New Amsterdam, proved himself to be a somewhat star crossed administrator, constantly at odds with his constituents and ultimately alienating even the board of directors of the Dutch West India Company responsible for his appointment. In the end, the colonists emerged victorious and Kieft was eventually removed from office. A complete description of the event is amusingly told by Washington Irving in his "History Of New York, From The Beginning Of The World To The End Of The Dutch Dynasty." A fine quality aquatint photogravure by Goupil & Cie. on 16… Read More

The Viking Press, New York, 1980; First Edition; 8vo, 428 pages. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that has two small (3/16") closed edge tears and associated soft wrinkle at the top extremity of the spine panel. Previous owner name in cursive on top left corner of front paste down. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp.

Dial Press, New York, 1957; First Edition; 8vo, 223 pages; red cloth; white and yellow titles. First book by master story teller Harold Brodkey, a collection of nine short stories: "The State Of Grace," "First Love And Other Sorrows," "The Quarrel," "Sentimental Education," "Laurie Dressing," "Laura," "Trio For Three Gentle Voices," "Piping Down The Valleys Wild," and "The Dark Woman Of The Sonnets." Brodkey, a notoriously obsessive personality, took over 30 years of writing, rewriting, and numerous publisher firings, before agreeing to release his monumental next book, "The Runaway Soul," praised by critic Harold Bloom as "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Enthusiastic blurbs on the rear dust jacket panel by Frank O’Connor, John Cheever, Mark Schorer, and Nancy Hale — who ranks Brodkey with J. D. Salinger as post war youth’s greatest literary… Read More

John Howell Books, San Francisco, 1991; First Edition, limited to 5,000 copies; quarto, 130 pages; blue cloth; gilt spine titles and front board decorations; front page block edges untrimmed; illustrated. First publication of the 1775 journal of Father Vicente Santa Maria, member of the very first Spanish voyage of exploration into San Francisco Bay. Text on the left in the original eighteenth century Spanish, and corresponding English translation on the facing pages. Reproductions of four early Spanish maps, plus six color illustrations created by Louis Choris in 1816. Fine, no dust jacket.

State Water Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, 1956; First Edition; oblong quarto, 72 pages. Compelling photographic record of the effects of the devastating floods which struck California in 1955. Sixty-seven full-page b&w photographs chronicling the destructiveness of the flooding from Northern to Southern California, each with descriptive caption, plus a memorial listing of the 47 dead. Published by the State Water Resources Board in March of 1956. Very Good Plus condition, in printed blue card wraps.

Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1966; First Edition; Quarto, 450 pages; illustrated. An expansive survey of Art Nouveau and its many forms of expression in painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, bathroom design, ceramics, lighting, glass, jewelry, applied arts, fashion, wall paper, fabrics, carpeting, typography, book design, etc. Authoritative introduction by notable writer, poet, and art historian Andre Breton. First English language edition, translated from the French by Patrick Evans. Profusely and beautifully illustrated in color and black & white. Near Fine, spine very slightly sunned, in a Very Good original acetate dust jacket that has small chips at the tips of the upper corners. Clean, crisp, and attractive.