Search Results: Titles starting with F from Abacus Books

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly., 1799. Later printing. Full leather. Good. Fourth edition. Full leather over boards. 12mo, Frontispiece xi, [1] 294pp [6] advertisements. Gift inscription to ffep in ink. Occasional Foxing. Covers show wear to edges and corners with a small open tear to front and beginning of separation of the back board at the top hinge.Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives... His books envision childhood reading as a familial exercise; for example, some of his "stories" are actually plays with parts for every member of the family. Berquin's books helped solidify the creation of the nuclear family, for "if Berquin's work has a theme, it is that parents and children live in a perfect symbiosis, the parents looking after their children's interests and the children, if behaving properly, filling their parents with joy." Introductory essay to L'Ami des Enfans.

Hard cover. Green cloth with black title to spine. Octavo. 174 pages and 10 full page b/w plates of extraordinary illustrations by Wallace Smith. "Limited edition for private circulation only, consisting of two thousand and twenty five numbered copies. Only two thousand copies for sale. Published September 1922." This copy marked number 1, and appears to be from a second print run. No dust jacket (if issued). name to top of front free end paper. Very good.
A novel of decadence and mystic existentialism, Fantazius Mallare is a story of a mad recluse—a genius sculptor and painter who is at war with reason. Rather than commit suicide, his doting madness dictates that he must revolt against all evidence of life that exists outside himself. He destroys all of his work and then seeks out a woman who will devote herself to his Omnipotence. What follows is a glorious trek into a horrifying enlightening insanity.
FANTAZIUS MALLARE was circulated in a limited edition 2,000 copy hardcover, which contained… Read More

Hard cover Square folio 13" by 13" Cream cloth over boards. 164 pages. Pages lightly toned. Cover shows shelf wear, particularly to spine ends, and marks to spine otherwise very good.
An introduction by architect H. Th. Wijdeveld and many articles by famous European architects and American writers.

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [xvii] 212pp. Inscribed to Marjorie Barrett by author and Fred Rosenstock.Near fine in very good dust jacket.

First Edition, one of 500 copies. Side stapled stiff wraps. Small octavo. 37 pages. SIGNED by author with a twelve line inscription to friend Sidney (Goldfarb) a fellow poet and colleague.
Rick Fields was an accomplished author, poet and specialist in the history of Buddhism in the United States. This is a collection of poetry about his cancer, approached from a personal and Buddhist point of view.

Hardcover Small octavo. [xii] 178pp. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title to front and spine. Former owner's stamp to preliminary pages otherwise clean throughout. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. A contemporary analysis of the New Deal, in political, historical, and economic terms, written at the end of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office.