Search Results: Titles starting with F from Voewood Rare Books

Leiden: Chez Luzac & van Damme 1786, 1786. First edition with these illustrations. Three volumes. 8vo in 4s. 195x115mm. Vol. 1, Tome Premier (1786), Tome Second (1764): pp. xxiv, [4], 79 [1bl], two engraved frontispieces, 45 engraved plates; [4], 78, 50 engraved plates. Vol. 2, Tome Troisieme (1770) and Tome Quartrieme (1775): pp. [4], 69 [1bl], 43 engraved plates; [8], 108, 45 engraved plates. Vol. 3, Tome Cinquieme (1786) and Tome Sixieme (1786): pp. xliv, II, 89 [1bl], 42 engraved plates; iv, 152, 50 engraved plates. Beautifully bound by P. Affolter (signed on verso of front free endpaper) in tan calf, gilt triple fillet to upper and lower boards. Spine with five raised bands, four compartments decorated with a thistle motif surrounded by gilt stars and dots inside a decorated border, second compartment with a maroon label lettered in gilt and third compartment with a brown label decorated and lettered and numbered in gilt. Dentelles decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt;… Read More

Paris: Editions Garnier Freres. 1962, 1962. First edition thus. 8vo. 186x115mm. [vi], xxxviii, 576. Introduction, notes etc by Georges Couton. Illustrations from earlier editions are reproduced throughout the book. Green full morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Green, yellow and white headbands. Some fading to spine. Internally fine. A very nice copy in an excellent binding.

London Hutchinson and Co. 1907, 1907. First edition. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Fifteen black and white illustrations by J.R.Skelton.Some cracking and tears to the hinges. Some spotting to the edges. i-viii; 374pp. 32 pages of publisher's advertisements.

Japan Self Published 1981, 1981. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Unpaginated. 47 colour plates. Black cloth with title and author stamped in English in silver on upper board and in Japanese on the spine. White card slip-case with a photograph on its front and the title and author printed in black in English and Japanese. Slip-case is protected by a plastic wrapper. Both book and case are in fine condition. The photographs in this, the last of Gocho's three published works were taken between April 1978 and October 1980. As with his other work, there is a sense of Gocho's detachment from the world around him, born in part perhaps from his own difficult circumstances. He was born in 1946 with a rare degenerative illness which prevented him from growing to full adult height; he was only four feet tall. Furthermore Gocho knew from an early age that he would not live beyond middle age; he died in 1983. "Shigeo Gocho's final series, Familiar Street Scenes, marks a significant departure from the… Read More

New York: Ridge Press 1965, 1965. First Edition. Presentation copy to John Morris, legendary photo-editor of Life Magazine and New York Times: "Nov. 1965. For John, with much love and admiration for what you are and who you are. The first person I knew in photography - to me you're still the greatest. Most sincerely, Ken." Small 4to. pp. 208. Numerous b/w illustrations. Slight discolouration at edges. Cream cloth boards, gilt lettering on upper cover, black lettering on spine. Dust-jacket almost complete but some tears, worn and discoloured at extremities. A very good copy. An oversize item: please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside the U.K.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1866, 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. [4], 303 [1bl]; [4], 290; [4], 283 [1bl], 4pp. publisher's adverts and 20pp. publisher's catalogue. Original brick red blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spines, pale yellow endpapers. Binding is Carter variant A. Very slight bumping to corners and bottom edges. Internally very good. A nice set in excellent condition. The first volume has the ownership inscription of Mrs George Holgate Foster (repeated as Mrs G.H. Foster on the front pastedowns of the other two volumes). Records show a George Holgate Foster and his family living at The Holme, Inner Circle, Regent's Park. He was the Chairman of the London Joint-Stock Bank. His job and his house (one of the grandest private residences in London) mark Foster out as the very antithesis of the idealistic and downwardly mobile Felix Holt. Whether Foster's wife, whose copy this was, absorbed Eliot's radical political… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1866, 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. 303; 290; 284 + 4pp. publisher's adverts. Original tan blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Vol. 1. Spine darkened and frayed at head. Vol. 2. rubbed on joints, biro mark on upper cover. Vol. 3. Rubbed on joints and nicks at head of spine, neatly repaired. Overall, a good clean copy. Vol. 1. 'Dadie' Rylands annotations on front pastedown endpaper. Book-plate of Justin McCarthy. Stamp on title-page. A very good copy. Rylands annotations refer to a different catalogue entry for this book which has been attached to the front free endpaper with a paper clip. It states that the blue binding is more rare. He also has noted details about Justin McCarthy who was an Irish writer and politician and an MP from 1879-1900.

Paris: Éditions arts et métiers graphiques 1933, 1933. Twenty loose leaves (title page and nineteen black and white photographs) in a cream coloured board folder, spine in cream linen with a black and white photograph of a woman on the upper cover. Housed in a blue purpose made box lettered in gilt on the spine. There is some rubbing and wear to the folder itself and to the photograph on the cover. Plate 8 has a small closed tear to the left edge, plate 13 has a small tear to the upper left corner and a crease along the left edge and plate 20 has a small tear to the lower right corner and a crease the bottom edge. Otherwise, the plates are in very good condition. Sasha Stone (1895-1940) was born Alexander Steinsapir in Russia. Having settled in America in 1913, he served in the US Army during WWI. After his discharge, he worked as a sculptor in Paris and then a painter before turning to photography. His images demonstrate the eye of a sculptor and these examples of the female form have a classical… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1973, 1973. First edition. 235x286mm. pp. [iv], 124. 110 black and white photographs by Richards with accompanying text for some of the images. Photographic illustrated paper boards. Some bumping to the corners and head and foot of spine but otherwise in very good condition and the contents are excellent. Lacking dustjacket. This is Eugene Richards's first book. It was born out of his work with VISTA, (Volunteers in Service to America) which he joined in 1968. This was a government programme established as an arm of the so-called" War on Poverty." Following a year and a half in eastern Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. This collection reflects the hardship of life together with the racial and political tensions in this desperately poor part of the southern states. An important document in excellent condition.… Read More

London: Faber & Faber 1952, 1952. First edition. 8vo. pp. pp. 126, 40, 8. Coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates. 48 monochrome illustrations taken from photographs, 1-40 are by Angus McBean, the following 8 illustrations of small stills are enlargements from the negatives of the actual film. Further illustrations in the text. The book presents the original text of the play, together with new scenes written specially for the film by Eliot, together with illustrations of sets, details of costume and architectural decoration, and is very much the definitive document of Eliot's important historical play set in the twelfth century. Original blue cloth, maroon blocked and silver and blue lettered spine. Grey and pink pictorial dust-jacket lettered in black and pink, small tape repair to upper rear cover.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. 1931, 1931. First edition. 8vo. pp.xx.243. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver. Beige dustjacket lettered in turquoise. Illustrated with photographs, maps and reproductions of artworks. An account of the people, history, culture and customs of Finland. A very good copy.

Leipzig Parthenon Verlag -31 1929, 1929. 4to, 12 issues bound in 2 vols. 225, 256pp, illustrated throughout text and with seperate colour plates. Fine in Fine blue 1/4 morocco with 4 raised bands with gilt rules and gilt titles to spine, speckled boards and endpapers with only the lightest of shelfwear. 'Der Flagellantismus Als Literarisches Motiv' was published between 1929 and 1932 by pioneering German sexologist Ernst Schertel by his own Parthenon Verlag publishing company. Following the nazi seizure of power in 1933 all such publications were suppressed with many publishers and authors sent, at best, into exile, and, at worst, into the new 'Wild Camps' at Dachau and Sachsenhausen. A slightly ironic result considering some of the senior nazi figures' predilection for similar material (Goering and Streicher spring to mind). These, then, represent the quintessence of Weimar-era 'decadance' and are considered one of the Holy Grails of BDSM culture. Originally bound in 4… Read More

London: Strahan & Co. 1872, 1872. First edition. 8vo. 182x123mm. pp. ix, [i], 97 [1bl], [4pp advertisements]. Original illustrated paper wrappers, slightly soiled and with repair and a little loss to the spine. Some foxing but overall a very good copy of fragile little book, rare in the wrappers. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a Scottish writer of some talent and contemporary success who is best remembered now for this work and the controversy surrounding it, especially his coining of the epithet "The Fleshly School of Poetry" to describe the work of Swinburne and Rossetti. The previous year, Buchanan had published his views on Rossetti in the Contemporary Review using a pseudonym. This led to outrage among the pre-Raphaelites and the 'outing' of Buchanan as the author. Undeterred, Buchanan revised and expanded the essay into this pamphlet, publishing it under his true name. More outrage ensued with Swinburne describing Buchanan, in a newspaper article, as "a polypseudonymous libeller".… Read More

Bedford: Printed and Sold by W.Smith 1798, 1798. First edition. 8vo in 4s. 223x130mm. pp. xii, 351, [9]. Six contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Green buckram, maroon morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some marking and rubbing and a split to the cloth (c45mm) at joint with lower board. Some slight foxing in places but otherwise very good internally with the charming plates in particularly good condition. It is rare to find these coloured. One of the front preliminary leaves has two pages of neat manuscript notes listing plants from Abbot's book that are found in the "best natural pastures". Title page has ownership inscription of a "Mrs Jones". Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of F. Kuhlicke who was senior modern languages master at Bedford Modern School and an authority on Bedfordshire history. Flora Bedfordiensis has been described as a "model of a county flora", listing 1325 flowering plants and providing descriptions and details of where they grow. It is an early example of the genre; only… Read More

Didsbury and Manchester: The Author 1898, 1898. First edition, signed by the author. 25 x 16 cm. pp. xvii, 332, [2]. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Black and white photographic illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt pictorial design, top edge gilt, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Nicked at foot of spine, upper corners knocked, spine dulled.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd 1937, 1937. pp 60. Original cream boards with the insignia of the Order of the Garter stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Covers in very good condition. Beautifully printed in black and red. Interior is in excellent condition save for some modest spotting and discolouration to the end papers. This is a lovely copy of the full order of service for the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother), the 80th anniversary of which falls year. An interesting and scarce item.

Kjobenhav [Copenhagen]: J.Jorgensen & Co. 1893. A catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh in Denmark. 170x135mm. Text block 155x125mm. Unpaginated. 36pp. In original grey paper wrappers, with title, date and floral decoration on the front cover. Bound into blue half cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Some slight rubbing to the boards but the catalogue itself and its delicate wrappers are in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat locating only two copies, one in Denmark and the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. This modest little booklet listing the works of art displayed at Den Frie Udstilling in 1893, captures an important moment in European art: it records the public bringing together of the work of Gauguin and Van Gogh and it also marks a crucial step in the establishment of the reputation of Van Gogh. Den Frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition) was founded in 1891 as a protest against the narrow and conservative admission policy of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg… Read More

London: William Heinemann 1935, 1935. Presentation copy: 'For Juliet Foyle with the compliments of Horace Brodzky London Nov 4/35'. First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], 17, 40, recto only. Portrait frontispiece and 40 illustrations, chiefly nudes. Horace Brodzky, 1885-1969, was a student at the School of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, but spent most of his creative life in London. He was one of the earliest Australian artists to embrace the modern style of the twentieth century. Original buff cloth with initials on upper cover and spine lettered in brown. Grey dust-jacket lettered in maroon, torn in two with edgewear and some loss to spine and lower and upper cover. �

New York and London General Music Publishing Company Inc and Novello and Company Limited. n.d. [1964], 1964. First edition. 307x240mm. pp. 12. Illustrated paper covers. In fine condition. Inside rear cover has the label "From The Library of John K. Martin". The four Lawrence poems are Aware, Thomas Earp, December Night and Quite Forsaken. Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) began his studies in his native Italy. He had links with Berg and Schoenberg and his early work was influenced by their atonal experimentation. Between 1925 and 1940 he divided his time between Paris and Rome and adopted a more tonal, neo-classical style, writing ballet music for Diaghelev. In 1940, he moved to America where he remained for the rest of his life combining composition with teaching. These Lawrence settings were composed for and dedicated to the Queens College Choral Society where Rieti taught between 1955 and 1960. "Rieti's oeuvre stands apart in its specific clarity, gaiety and sophistication of a kind… Read More

Vaduz, Liechtenstein Michael Arthur Film Productions [1979], 1979. 118 A4 leaves (plus cover) printed on recto only. Bound in a white spring binder with black card at the back and a transparent plastic cover on the front. In very good condition. A short note in "Box Office" magazine for July 30th 1979 reads: "Freezing Down will begin filming in November in Albany N.Y. as an Arthur Cohn production. Melvin Sokolsky is the director. The plot concerns a man's return to life after a cyrogenic suspension. Paul Mayersberg has written the screenplay based on the novel by Anders Bodelsen". There is, however, no trace of the film's having been made. Mayersberg's previous screenplays in the 1970s were Siddhartha and the cult science fiction film The Man who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie. Mayersberg wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence which also starred Bowie. An interesting item of unpublished sci-fi film history by… Read More