Search Results: Titles starting with F from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.75), lightly toned. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering with black and blind stamped crosses on the front board. Firmly bound with a slight foward lean and a faint top stain, former owner's bookplate and two ghost marks on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A shift from Faulkner's usual Southern setting, instead opting for World War I France and the Christ-like Corporal Stefan.

London: S. Grosvenor, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Cuts by Thomas Bewick. Fair. Quarter blue leather with red buckram on the boards, faded at the spine with chips at the head and foot and a split running up the bottom three inches. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned endpapers, newsclippings of a portrait of Bewick and one of his cuts tipped-in on the verso of the half-title, clean otherwise. A collection of forty-one fables that, according to Brown's Preface, illustrate Natural History.

London: David Nutt, 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Limited to 550 copies. Complete in two volumes, housed in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy stamped "With the Author's and Publisher's Compliments" on the front endpaper of each volume. Very Good. Wraps toned, bumped at the corners and edges. Square and firmly bound, one of the front flyleaves loose in Volume I, some foxing to the preliminaries, clean otherwise. A literary rather than typographical reprint of Caxton's first English edition of Aesop's classic fables.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), wrinkling to the laminate throughout the jacket. Black boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Here "Ayrton deploys to the full, in these illustrated fictions cast as buttresses to unreliable reality, the cunning that informs his work in bronze and the imaginative flight that distinguished his novel The Maze Maker.

New York: Dutton, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Fourth Printing. Inscribed by Keeler on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, bumped, some surface rubbing, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean to the spine, toned at the endpapers, starting at the front hinge.

Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Olive wraps lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, bumped at the bottom-right corner, clean otherwise. A history of the crime and trial as well as a call to action to fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the death penalty.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), bumped and with creases throughout, chips at the spine edges, former owner's name written on the back of the jacket. Black buckram with red ink panels with white ink lettering and rules. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, red top stain, clean internally. Jackson's second novel, his follow-up to The Lost Weekend.

New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Co-chaired by Ricahrd L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, and Henry W. Kendall. Edited by John Tirman. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, curled at the edges. Square and firmly bound, lightly toned pages, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A critical account of Reagan's Star Wars program. The book is divided into three parts: "an introduction that explains the origins of space weapons and the historic struggle over the course of American defense policy, and rewritten, updated versions, addressed to the layman, of two recent USC reports.

1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A collection of three works, all inscribed by Dickey and with a TLS addressed to the inscribee. Falling is a paperback and Puella and Central Motion are hardcovers in their issued jackets. All three volumes are in Near Fine condition with minor wear, some bumping and small closed tears. While Dickey is most famous for his novel Deliverance and its film adaptation, he began his writing career as a poet and even won the National Book Award for his collection Buckdancer's Choice.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Parker on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Quarter black paper with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first Sunny Randall novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by A.H. Gross. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly toned and soiled, bumped at the top edge. Quarter red cloth with black cloth on the boards, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. Singer's classic work about the Moskat family in Warsaw from the late 19th century to the start of World War II.

City of Industry: Collectors Publication, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. CP 21267. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned. Square and firmly bond with toned pages, clean internally.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (7/6 net on front panel and spine), generally rubbed and worn, multiple closed tears and small chips, some tape repairs on the verso. Tan cloth, toned at the spine, pushed at the corners. Square and bound with some reading wear, slightly foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. A collection of thirty-seven Dr. Thorndyke detective stories categorized as either "Inverted" or "Direct.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Inscribed by Hurst on the half-title. Fair. Covers present but detached from the textblock. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A short volume about one of the best-selling authors of the first half of the 20th century. In addition to the critical appreciation by Grant Overton, there are essays about Hurst's novels by David O. Edwards, Heywood Brown, Winifred James, and Robert Littell.

New York: Random House, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Second Printing. Very Good. Wraps faded at the spine, bumped at the edges and corners, creased at the top joint, remaindered at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Portland: The Mosher Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 500 copies. Near Fine. Blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly toned at the preliminaries, clean otherwise. Wade's second collection of poetry, divided into sections of lyrics, travel poems, and sonnets. The poem "For Edgar Allan Poe" won England's Poetry Studies prize for poem of the year in 1935.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, bumped and creased at the edges, some shallow chips at the fore-edges. Firmly bound with a forward lean, some chips to the bottom-right corners, clean otherwise. This issue features Slaves of the Fish Men, one of Burroughs' Carson of Venus stories.

New York: Ballantine, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Lester Del Rey. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped, toned, chipped at the edges. White boards with red lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Vallejo's work that appears alongside the work of writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and others.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and soiled at the edges. Green buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of eight Woolright stories with an Afterword by Barry Malzberg.