Search Results: Titles starting with F from NEXUS BOOKS

No Place: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First edition. With numerous photographic illustrations, ten appendices and an index. A VG+ copy in original gilt lettered dark blue and black cloth (was not issued with a dustwrapper). Fore edge slightly soiled but otherwise a very sound, tight copy..

New York, N.Y.: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 2005. Reprint; softcover. A Fine copy in new condition.. New.

Sidney, British Columbia: Gray's Publishing, 1963. First edition, hardcover, 302 pages. With sixteen pages of b.& w. photographs. Pioneer days in Western Canada described by a pioneer and lyrical storyteller. A clean, firmly-bound VG+ copy with previous owner's name written on half-title page and verso of contents page. The cheap paper is a little age-browned as usual and there are a couple of old tape stains on front and rear endpapers. In a lovely Near Fine dustjacket which is extremely bright and attractive (and is now protected in a clear mylar sleeve). A very nice copy of a quite elusive book..

Sidney, British Columbia: Gray's Publishing, 1963. First edition, hardcover, 302 pages. With sixteen pages of b.& w. photographs. Pioneer days in Western Canada described by a pioneer and lyrical storyteller. A clean, firmly-bound Very Good copy. The cheap paper is a little age-browned as usual. In a VG- dustjacket which has small pieces of clear tape at head and heel of spine (jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve). One of this author's more elusive books..

London, England: Penguin Books -- Great Ideas, 2008. Reprint. Slim paperback. A Fine, brand new copy.. New.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. First edition; softcover. A Fine copy in brand new condition.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). New.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. A Fine copy with no inscription or book-plate, and no other flaws. In a Near Fine dustjacket (tiny amount of wear at one corner tip)..

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. First printing. Small softcover book. A volume in the 'Very Short Introductions' series. A Fine copy: clean, bright, and unmarked; absolutely new and unread.. New.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. First edition. Very faint ink name on top corner of front endpaper, else a Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket which has a 1/4 inch closed tear at head of spine. A very bright, tight copy..

Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada: First Presbyterian Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1979. Stapled booklet, sixteen pages. A short history, with some photographs. A VG+ copy: clean and unmarked..

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. First edition, second printing, hardcover, 257 pages. A clean, bright Fine copy (i.e. in virtually brand new condition), in a VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket (very slight edgewear when examined closely) which is now protected in a clear mylar cover. A lovely copy. The photographs in this book include one of a poster distributed during the period, attempting to persuade young British women to emigrate to the Canadian West with the text: "URGENT! Thousands of nice girls are wanted in The Canadian West. Over 20,000 Men are sighing for what they cannot get -- WIVES! Shame! Don't hesitate -- COME AT ONCE. If you cannot come, send your sisters. So great is the demand that anything in skirts stands a chance. No reasonable offer refused. They are all shy but willing. All Prizes! No Blanks. Hustle up now Girls and don't miss this chance. Some of you will never get another.".

New York: Avon, 1974. First printing; a paperback original. Pictorial wrappers. Spine perfectly tight, bookstore stamp inside front cover and 1/4 in. skinned area where original price was printed on front cover. An almost Near Fine copy, very clean and pleasing. His spaceship captured in a magnetic field and pulled beneath the earth into an underground city, Flash Gordon jumps to safety only to be caught in the web of a giant man-eating spider, then saved by a titian-haired beauty....

New York: Avon, 1974. First printing; a paperback original. Pictorial wrappers. Spine perfectly tight, bookstore stamp inside front cover and 1/4 inch skinned area where original price was printed on front cover. A Near Fine copy, very clean, unrubbed and pleasing. After his scientists design the Tempendulum, a machine that can transport people backward and forward through generations of time, Ming XIII sends his evil henchmen back to change the course of history by assassinating Flash Gordon....

New York: Avon, 1974. First printing; a paperback original. Pictorial wrappers. Spine perfectly tight, bookstore stamp inside front cover and 1/4 in. skinned area where original price was printed on front cover. An almost Near Fine copy, very clean and pleasing. Kidnapped, auctioned, forced to perform as a trapeze artist in a circus of slaves, Flash foils his evil blue captors and, with the help of Dr. Zarkov and Dale, escapes the planet Mesmo, and then dispatches an expedition to end forever the tyranny on that planet....

Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997. Reprint; softcover. A Fine, brand new copy: no flaws at all. Pristine.. New.

Chicago: Moody Press, 1967. First American edition, second printing. The author's life as a Christian missionary on the Tibetan border during the turbulent period immediately preceding the Chinese Communist invasion. A tight, bright Near Fine hardcover in original gilt-lettered blue boards. No inscription or book-plate, no internal markings. In a price-clipped VG+ dustwrapper with a few tiny edge-tears and mild fading along spine strip. An excellent copy..

Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1993. First edition, hardcover, 393 pages. A Near Fine (nearly new condition) copy, completely clean and free of markings. In a nice bright, slightly edgeworn VG+ dustjacket. An excellent copy..

New York, Barnes & Noble, 1960. Fourth revised (reset) edition, known as the 'Student's Edition'. One hundred and ninety-two facsimiles of pages from books printed at presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an historical Introduction by Stanley Morison. A Fine hardcover copy in a Fine dustwrapper..

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First printing; hardcover in dustjacket. Interesting small inkstamp on front blank endpaper: 'The Little Brown Shop'. A VG+ copy, clean and firmly bound with very little wear, in a VG dustjacket now protected in a clear mylar sleeve..

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd., 1952. Tenth printing of this omnibus edition. A bright, unworn VG+ or better copy, in clean red boards with black lettering on spine. No inscription or book-plate. In a Very Good dustjacket with just slight edgewear (jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve). A very nice copy indeed..