Search Results: Titles starting with F from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Ephemera. Very Good. No Binding. H. B. Wiggin's Sons Company - Bloomfield, NJ. Approx 4x7 inch sample book of canvas cloth wall coverings, used for various applications. Circa 1928..

Poster. Good. No Binding. This is an Original FBI wanted poster. This is wanted flyer 624, Milton Xiscatti-Michel. It was issued May 5th, 2001. Heavy wrinkles, tape repaired tears and staining. It measures 12 3/4" long by 8 1/2" wide Milton Xiscatti-Michel is charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with 31 counts of shipping child pornography to the United States by computer. He is accused of having taken the pictures of children ages 6 to 11 after he told their parents he was a scout for a worldwide modeling company. A squad of seven FBI and Customs agents had gone to Paraguay to investigate the case after an FBI agent in Maryland, Michael DuBois, noticed pornographic pictures Xiscatti-Michel had allegedly posted on an Internet news group. He is accused of persuading impoverished parents to let their young daughters model for him, telling them they could become Argentine models. The girls were promised about $250 to pose unclothed for photographs..

Poster. Good. No Binding. Mr. Lundien was arrested March 10 in New York City ( the same date this poster was issued), in New York City, charged with failing to pay the subway fare and concealing a stolen weapon. He pled guilty in the wounding of the agent in Virginia and the abduction of a motorist FBI Wanted Poster. This is wanted flyer 517, Kenneth James Lundien. It was issued March 10, 1984 and he was arrested the same day in New York City. The flyer is addressed to the U.S. Postal Inspector in Wilmington, N.C. and Fay 28302 written in ink underneath the label .This poster has slight wrinkles. It also has a staple hole in the top, left corner. Posters are original and were actually posted at post offices, sheriff's offices, police departments..

Book. Good. No Binding. Bethea was a Former Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #337: On May 4, 1976, Bethea was arrested in the Islands of the Bahamas by Bahamian authorities, returned to the United States and arrested by the FBI upon his arrival in Miami, Florida. This poster is in fair condition with slight wrinkles and staining. It also has staple holes in the top, left corner. This flyer has no address label. .

Poster. Good. No Binding. This is an Original FBI wanted poster. This is wanted flyer 611, Julian Estrada Hurtado. It was issued February 11th ,2000. Slight wrinkles and very small holes around the photo. It measures 12 3/4" long by 8 1/2" wide. .

Wash.D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001. Paper. Very Good. No Binding. Wanted for bank robbery. Arrested in South Africa with her companion and accomplice, Michael Pritchert in 2003 and extradited to the US for trial. Gained a reputation as modern day "'Bonnie & Clyde's' after a series of bold bank robberies in the west..

Book. Good. No Binding. Francis John Martin was placed on the FBI Most Wanted list for escaping prison. According to the FBI Francis John Martin was able to escape a local jail with three other inmates, the others were caught rather quickly. Francis Martin who was convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault. Francis John Martin was added to the FBI Most Wanted List on December 1976 and would be arrested two months later This poster is in fair condition with slight wrinkles and staple holes in the top, left corner as well as punch holes along the right side. It also has some ink marks on the left front(see pictures)..

Wash. B.C.: Federal Bureau of investigation, 2001. Ephemera. Good. No Binding. Tarek Ahmed El-Zoghpy is wanted for the murder of a man in Prichard, Alabama. On January 23, 1999, El-Zoghpy shot and killed the victim at a service station/convenience store following a feud. The victim was the owner of the store and El-Zoghpy had worked for him. This is an Original FBI wanted poster. This is wanted flyer 627, Tarek Ahmed El-Zoghpy. It was issued October 5th ,2001. Condition is fair with slight wrinkles and staining. It measures 12 3/4" long by 8 1/2" wide. .

Poster. Good. No Binding. Robert Vance Latimer, 25 years old fugitive was killed in a shootout 1 month after the posting of this notice. He was described as an ''extremely dangerous'' expert marksman with a black belt in karate who escaped from the Arizona State Penitentiary in Florence on Jan. 23. He was wanted for shooting an agent, Carl Swanson, on March 8 at a mall in Springfield, Va. Mr. Latimer was serving time for kidnapping and armed robbery when he escaped The s poster has slight wrinkles. It also has a staple hole in the top, left corner. Posters are original and were actually posted at post offices, sheriff's offices, police departments..

NY: McGraw-Hill , 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by President Johnson on front free endpaper. A detailed look at the family history of President Lyndon B. Johnson, compiled by his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson. This book was presented to Tammy Shelton, signed and autographed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Includes a 4x6 color snapshot of President Johnson presenting the book. Twelvemo, 146pp. Black cloth spine, gilt title on spine, brown paper boards with gilt title. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. In publisher's dust jacket. Very good condition in a dust jacket with rubbing and a couple of closed tears at the edges. .

Harry N. Abrams, 1953. Print. Illus. by Rembrandt. Very Good. No Binding. Approx 7.5"x10" mounted on a sheet approx.11"x15". Very good condition. This is from one of the series "Art Treasures of the World", published by Harry N. Abrams in 1953..

New York: Random House, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed By John O'Hara. In The Farmers Hotel, a handful of strangers are stranded in rural Pennsylvania. A sudden snowfall traps the group in the titular hotel - ironically, the first day that the hotel is officially 'open'. The owner and his tiny staff (including his 'Magical Negro' bartender) play host to a group of misfits from all walks of society: two upper-class lovers are returning from a cheeky weekend of adultery, a sleazy showman and his two stripping "twin" performers and, last of all, a brash truck driver with a chip on his shoulder. The book is driven by O'Hara's dialog used to portray strangers as they awkwardly feel one another out. .

NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1963. INSCRIBED, 1st EDITION (2nd PRINTING) --'THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE'-- author BETTY FRIEDAN inscribed her book, 'For Jean Dietz - companion in a torturous hour'. Laid-in is a hand-written invitation to Jean Dietz to meet with Betty Friedan at another woman's home in Brookline, Mass., and hear Friedan 'talk about full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men --'Pretty heady stuff!' Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' is often credited with kicking off the "second wave" of feminism-- Friedan's treatise dealt with social issues such as workplace equality, birth control, abortion, and women's education; she tapped into middle-class American women's dissatisfaction with their lives, the routine of domestic life, chores and caring for children. Her book addressed women's discontent with ingrained societal sexism that limited… Read More

London: Longmans, 1889. Book. Good. Hardcover. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) is known for his prolific and sensitive writing on natural history, rural life and agriculture in late Victorian England. Though unknown to the greater part of the reading public today, Jefferies has been an inspiration to a number of prominent writers who have acknowledged their debt to him. In my view his greatest achievement lies in his expression, aesthetically and spiritually, of the human encounter with the natural world - something that became almost an obsession for him in his last years..

MIchigan: Michigan State College Press, 1953. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

NY: Knopf, 1996. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. As up-to-date as the current cosmography, as steeped in tradition as ancient agriculture, George Bradley's The Fire Fetched Down overflows with energy, humor, and intellectual curiosity. Readers will find the aesthetic detachment and technical proficiency they have come to expect of Bradley's work, but they will discover other, more immediate attractions as well. The poet sounds new notes in this book, among them the bemused intimacy of "Ode to Absent-Mindedness" and the uneasy excursion of "Frug Macabre". From lyric outburst to contemplative essay, from myths of origin to postmodern manifestos, the work assembled here is a heady variety of subject and style. Bradley manages to effect an equilibrium between inspection and introspection. By turns exuberant and wistful, informative and sly, The Fire Fetched Down is also serious fun. Bradley offers those most human of pleasures, the cultivation of… Read More

Boston: Lothrop Company, 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Five Little Peppers and How they Grew- Lovely example. Very light wear to boards. Vivid colors throughout. Superb. Lothrop Company Boston 1880.

Poster. Very Good. No Binding. CLASSIC COMMUNIST POLITICAL POSTER ART FROM EASTERN EUROPE -- c1960s. [illustration art] ORIGINAL, SUITE of (16) PRINTS -- Socialist Art-- Posters from Hungary. In excellent condition-- graphic, strong illustrations are bright and clean. Complete with the folded paper cover. (16) Prints measure 9.5"x 13". Domestic s/h $15..

NY: Knopf, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). A signed 1st printing in publisher's slipcase, distributed privately prior to the release of the trade edition. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest-- and often darkest-- corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. .

NY: Knopf, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author's twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond death's dominion. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is as… Read More