Search Results: Titles starting with F from Books of the World

October 1978. New Dell Edition. Second printing, September 1979. Very Good. Interior unmarked but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Edgewear. Dog-ear crease to lower rear corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 285 pages. Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling… Read More

Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Donning Company, 1986. First Edition, Fifth Printing, 1994. Hardcover. New. Pristine inside and out. Not damaged. No remainder mark. 216 pages. Illustrated with more than 380 photos, drawings, and maps.

London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xii + 244 pages.

New York: Viking, July 2010. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Lower front corner bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear at spine head. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 400 pages.

New York: Scholastic, September 2014. Trade Paperback. First Scholastic Printing / full number line. Fine condition. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 328 pages. A sequel to The Compound finds Eli and his family struggling to acclimate to the outside world after escaping the compound where his father imprisoned them for six years, an effort that is complicated by an intrusive media and disturbing revelations about his father's company.

Surrey, Great Britain: Dragon's World, April 1992. Hardcover in pictorial covers. First Edition. As New book / no jacket. Pristine inside and out. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 338 pages. With beautiful anatomical and botanical illustrations. Foreword by Sir Yehudi Menuhin. Written by an experienced practitioner, this clear authoritative book explains how you can use gentle, yet effective homeopathic remedies to treat everyday ailments.

New Delhi: Penguin Books India, December 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Dust stains to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 500 pages.
Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and haunted by memories of his past. He lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet-tempered half-sister, Roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And Roxana's husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the… Read More

Paulton, Bristol, England: Purnell & Sons. 1970. Staple-bound magazine. Very Good. Color photo-illustrated thick paper covers. Lavishly illustrated. Cover and internal pages are tightly secured by three clean staples. Interior is unmarked. Cover shows shelf and reading wear. Not from a library. 24 pages. Part 1 of a weekly cookery course by two of the earliest TV chefs. Contents: The Key to Simple Cooking with Poultry; How to Make Perfect Featherweight Swiss Roll; A Simple Souffle; We take the sting out of Meringues; Crunchy Pork Crackling and Proper Roast Potatoes; Non-sink Cherry Cake.

Flushing, New York: Ultimate Publishing. March 1968. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Interior lightly tanned but unmarked. Spine square and tight, ends chipped. Three-quarter inch tears to top and bottom of rear hinge. Covers clean with light reading and shelf-wear. No mailing label. Not from a library. 148 pages. Edited by Harry Harrison. Includes: Spartan Planet (serial, part 1 of 2) by A. Bertram Chandler (subsequently published as the book False Fatherland, winner of the first Ditmar Award in 1969 for the best Australian Science Fiction); The Court of Kublai Khan (short novel, 1948) by David V. Reed; Heart of Light (novelet, 1946) by Gardner F. Fox; The Great Steel Panic (short story, 1928) by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester; Incompatible (short story, 1949) by Rog Phillips; I Love Lucifer (novelet, 1953) by William P. McGivern. Illustrations by Johhny Bruck; Jeff Jones; Robert Fuqua; Frank R. Paul; W. E. Terry; Ernest Schroeder; Vogel.

Flushing, New York: Ultimate Publishing. September 1967. Digest-size Magazine. Good. Binding tight. Lightly tanned. Check marks next to titles on contents page, otherwise unmarked. Spine ends creased and chipped. Two half-inch tears to hinges. One-inch closed tear to front cover. Reading and shelf-wear. No mailing label. Not from a library. 164 pages.Edited by Joseph Ross. Includes: The Longest Voyage (novelet) by Richard C. Meredith; Same Autumn in a Different Park (short story) by Peter Tate; The Green Splotches (short novel, 1920) by T. S. Stribling; The Ivy War (novelet, 1930) by David H. Keller; Beware the Fury (novelet, 1954) by Theodore Sturgeon; No Charge for Alterations (novelet, 1953) by H. L. Gold.

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings listed). Cloth over boards, lettered in gilt. No ISBN. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. "Huntington Library, Hampton Institute" stamps to endpapers; no other markings to book or jacket. Text block pristine. Jacket clean, but clipped with chipping around the spine head. Small octavo. 136 pages.
This is a rare first edition of the second novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is the second in Harris' Guyana Quartet. Set against a background of swamp, jungle and savanna in nineteenth century British Guiana, the novel centers on the community of indentured East Indians brought to Guiana to labor on the sugar plantations. A strange drama is played out in which the chief characters are the money-lender Ram - an evil, presiding genius - the illegitimate Beti whom all men desire, and Oudin the beggar who works for several masters and belongs to none. Focusing on the traumatizing effects of slavery on West Indian… Read More

New York: Scribner, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Good+. Unmarked. Reading wear. Creasing to covers. Not from a library. xix + 330 pages.
The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the… Read More

Cincinnati, Ohio: William S. Merrrell Company, March 1968. Staple Bound pamphlet. Fine condition. Interior pristine. Securely bound by two clean staples. Light rubbing and edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, creases, or folds. 36 pages.

Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., 1899. Hardcover. Gray linen over boards, spine faded to a handsome beige. Crimson leather title band with gold lettering and border design; gilded top edge. Frontis and eight B&W plates. Very Good+ book / no jacket. No markings. Spine ends bumped. Not from a library. Very handsome on the shelf. Two volumes in one. Contents: Volume 1: Preface; Father Goriot; M. Gobseck. Volume II: Preface; Ursele Mirouet; Madame Firmiani; A Forsaken Woman; The Imaginary Mistress. xiv + 372 + xiv + 386 pages.Father Goriot is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution. It marks the first serious use by Balzac of characters who had appeared in other books, a technique that distinguishes Balzac's fiction. The novel is a noted example of Balzac's realist style, using minute details to create character and subtext. The novel follows a disparate group of three lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house during the… Read More

New York: Field Foundation, 1984. Staple-Bound Pamphlet with mauve card cover. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, otherwise as new. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Firmly bound by two clean staples. Covers clean. Not from a library. 48 pages.

New York: Popular Library, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. No additional printings listed. "FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK" noted on back cover. Very Good-. Creases to cover and spine. Interior unmarked but tanned. No ownership or library markings. Not clipped. 505 pages.
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it splits between the different candidates. With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic

New York: Bantam Books, 2011. Mass Market Paperback. Later Printing. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, with light creases. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to bottom corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 1061 pages.
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King's Landing. Robb Stark's demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist--or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors,… Read More

New York: St. Martin's, April 2001. Hardcover. First Edition, third printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 335 pages. When a renowned marriage specialist is publically humiliated by her straying husband, she fights back by trying to soften the man who made the cover of Fortune magazine's "America's Toughest Bosses" issue.

New York: Continuum, 1992. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 237 pages.

Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing. Paperback. 1995. Very Good. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, September 1995. Paperback. Very Good. No markings. Includes the pa kua mirror. Does not include the feng shui com pass and ruler. Not from a library. 112 pages. .