Search Results: Titles starting with F from Classic Books and Ephemera

Antuerpiæ [Antwerp]: Ioann. Cnobbarum, 1637. Hardcover. Very Good -. [8], 278, [2] p.: 2 full-page engraved illustrations (including portrait); 13 cm. Signatures: [3 dots]4 A-712 M8 (12mo). Contemporary parchment with blind-stamped decoration; lacking clasps. Engraved title page and initials. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Pressented from Poe Kurz at Shelby October 29th 76." An earlier inscription at lower edge of title page with oval stamp over it of Bibliotheca C.SS. R., Ilchester, Maryland. Small embossed stamp on title page verso and last page of text of Bibliotheca St. Alphonsus, Esopus, N.Y. A biographical work in prose and poetry by Cornelis de Corte (1590?-1638) about St. Nicholas of Tolentino (c. 1246-1305). Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: parchment is soiled; two holes in the parchment over the front board; lacking clasps; pages are clean and tight.

London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. xxii, 407 p.; 22 cm. Black cover with white spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes index of titles and index of first lines. Inscribed by editor, Northern Irish poet and critic Tom Paulin, to former owner on title page. Book is in Near Fine Condition: pages are slightly browning; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies L. Martinet, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good -. Breville, J. Onfroy de. From the series Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse et de l'Enfance. There is no date of publication; the publisher is known to have been active between 1888 and 1907. 58 p.: color illustrations; 33 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with paper over boards. Front cover has title "La Fontaine Fables Choisies" and color illustrations on a gilt and blue background. Back cover has a blue and white pattern. Full-page, color illustraionts by Gaston Gelibert, G. Fraipont, JOB (J. Onfroy de Breville), Firmin Bouisset, and others. Each pages of text is printed in red within a decorative border. In Very Good- Condition: ends of spine starting to fray; cover rubbed and lightly soiled; edges are rubbed; pages are clean and bright.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Paperback. Very Good +. viii, [2], 128 p.: illustrations by the author; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover designed by Diana Coe. In Very Good+ Condition: corners lightly rubbed; spine slightly faded; lower corners of pp. 49-52 creased; clean and tight.

Boston: Alphabet Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Neugebauer Pressbook. [36] p.: color illustrations; 34 cm. Dark green cloth with printed paper spine label. White dust jacket with front cover reproducing illustrated title page. With separate 16-page stitched pamphlet containing the fables translated into English by Sir Edward Marsh. Slipcase covered in matching dark green cloth. Beautifully illustrated edition of 17 of Fontaine's fables in French, with separate English translation. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Slipcase is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and solid.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. [2], xxv, [1], 386, [2] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red and white cover with gilt spine title and author's initials on front cover. Dust jacket with jacket illustration by Mark D. Summers. Stated First Edition. "In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz explores the self-portraits of eight Americans": Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: lightly soiled; minor loss at lower edge of back section; lower edge of front section creased with closed 1-cm. tear.

Weimar: Gebrüdern Gädicke, 1799. Hardcover. Good. [2], vii, [1], 514 p., 1 folded leaf with a table on each side; 21 cm. 19th-century? tree calf. "Nach den Orten alphabetisch geordnet, undmit kurzen statistischen Nachrichten versehen." Part of the series Geographisch-Technologisches Handbuch für reisende Kaufleute. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Edward B. Krumbhaar. E.B. Krumbhaar (1882-1966) taught applied pathology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1927 to 1942, was a distinguished cardiac physician, and was one of the founders of the American Association of the History of Medicine. Former owner's name written along fore-edge of title page: L? Krumbhaar. A fascinating look at German-speaking parts of Europe at the beginning of industrialization. Very scarce. In Good Condition: lacking about half of the leather over the spine; boards are rubbed; pages are lightly brown but clean and tight.

London: William P. Nimmo, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good -. Edited by the Rev. P. Hately Waddell with notes and a glossary of Scottish words and foreign phrases, and biographical and critical notes, by the editor. 366, [2], 331, [1] p., 2 frontispieces, 2 added engraved title pages; 18 cm. Contemporary black leather spine and corners with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine titles and gilt rules. All page edges speckled red. Front fixed endpaper inscribed: "E.M. Fowler from Constance C. Marx July 1881." Both added engraved title pages are dated 1867. Each regular title page has embellished "Waverley Novels" at head. Fair Maid of Perth title page is dated 1877; Count Robert of Paris is dated 1878. In Very Good- Condition: edges and boards are rubbed; small loss of leather at head of front joint; small scrapes on spine; clean and tight.

Dublin: William Jones, 1971. Good +. Printed by Graisberry and Campbell." vi, [5], 14-84, [2] p.; 17 cm. Disbound. An adaptation of Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry. The male character who seduces and betrays one of the female characters is named Lothario, the name which has come to be used to refer to men who habitually engage in that behavior. In Good+ Condition: disbound; occasional soiling and discoloration; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Temple University, 2008. Fine. iii, 85 leaves; 28 cm. White comb binding with clear front cover and white card back cover. Contents: City beautiful and Pre-Depression Economic Prosperity -- Work Relief and the Arts in Depression Philadelphia -- "Amenity for All": Expanding the Service of the Fairmount Park Committion -- Satisfying a Mission: The Philadelphia Museum of Art and New Deal Work Relief. In Fine Condition: clean and solid.

Paris: A. Le Vasseur, Editeur, 1880. Fine. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (16 x 27 cm.) from a painting by Edouard Travies (1809-1868?); engraved by Fournier et Lalaisse. Printed by R. Taneur. Undated; the publisher was active from 1878 to 1887 or later. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. viii, 523 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Blue cover with gilt spine title. Blue endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. A "path-breaking and wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell Co, 1890. Paperback. Good. 199, [13] p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with brown covers; dark brown spine and cover titles and cover illustration. Publisher's catalog on 12 pages following text. Former owner's name in pencil on first (blank) page: Mary M. Heinly, Spring City, Pa. Alfred Colbeck (1858-1933) was an English Methodist minister and author of fiction for boys. This paperback edition is much scarcer than the hardback issued by Revell at the same time. In Good Condition: cover is brittle, with resulting loss along edges; one page corner creased; pages are clean and tight.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 166 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback. First paperback edition. ISBN: 0316313173. Gift inscription from Phyllis Belk to Mary [Purcell], dated 1989, inside front cover. Many of these pieces first appeared on National Public Radio. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; scraped at upper edge of back cover; some upper page corners slightly creased; clean and tight.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. x, [2], 479 pages, 16 pages of color illustrations: 97 in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Red and yellow cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: Charles C. Bigelow, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Manhattan Edition. [12], 462 p., frontispiece; 21 cm. Dark red cloth with gilt spine title. Top page edges gilt. Many pages unopened. Contents: Familiar Studies -- Records of a Family of Engineers -- Three Letters -- Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sidney Colvin. In Very Good Condition: corners lightly rubbed; cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xv, [3], 145, [3] p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Dust jacket. "This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century . . . [and] examines the work -- written and built -- of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. xvii, [3], 330 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Dark brown cloth spine with gilt spine title; light brown paper over boards. Dust jacket. Drawings by Vivian Cohen. Stated First Edition. "Designed to clear the air, to answer questions in direct, specific, and understandable terms, and to buld a positive, responsible understanding of sexuality as a great life force." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: former owner's name on front free endpaper; one page corner creased; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: lighty rubbed and soiled; several tears of 1 cm. or less from upper edge; ends of spine rubbed.

Boston: D. Lothrop Co, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good -. approx. [200] p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards. Cover title: Famous Stories. "Copyright 1893 the Gast Lith. Co. N.Y." -- at lower edge of front board. In addition to fiction and poetry, contains history and biography, including the early life of American sculptor Theo Alice Ruggle Kitson (1871-1932), and the life of English author Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) illustrated with facsimiles of her writing. Illustrators include Charlotte Weeks, Hiram Barnes, Childe Hassam, and W.P. Bodfish, among others. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed, in particular lower corner of front board; cloth spine is unevenly faded; cover is lightly soiled; hinges are weak; upper corner of 1 leaf heavily creased; pages are clean and tight.

London: T. Tickler & Co, 1837. Paperback. Very Good -. 52 p.; 14 cm. Brown wrapper with wrapper title in black. American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck first published "Fanny," his satirical look at social mobility and New York society, in 1819. Its popularity led him to publish a version with 50 additional sections in 1821. This edition is of the longer version, running through section CLXXI. "T. Tickler & Co." was presumably a false imprint, as it produced no other works. A copy of this edition was presented to the author by his friend, the London bookseller Robert Triphook; it seems likely that Triphook himself published it as T. Tickler & Co. [see Wilson, Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1869), 405.] Satire aside, the poem provides a fascinating glimpse of New York City in the 1810s. A very scarce edition of this American poem. In Very Good- Condition: some loss of wrapper along spine; front wrapper has chip out of fore-edge and minor loss at corners; wrapper slightly soiled; light foxing… Read More