Search Results: Titles starting with F from Second Wind Books LLC

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. Green gilt cloth boards. Former owner's neat signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a highly amusing unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.   First edition. The usual Murdoch cohort of sexually and intellectually confused friends and relations do much to muddle their own and everyone else's lives.

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition. Very good.. Cloth and patterned paper boards, gilt spine.  Title page printed in red and black. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Introduction by Shane Leslie. First English translation from the French by H. B. V.  Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, offsetting to front and rear endsheets, slight fray to crown of spine, internally very good. Limited edition, number 928 of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Part of a series of eighteenth-century French romances published by Chapman & Hall in the 1920s. This work was first published in French in 1744, and, according to the translator's note, had not been reprinted in any language since 1782. It is the story of a fairy who transforms herself into a doll after escaping from her husband into a shop, and is thereafter taken up by an Abbé who apparently is a fop and a poor lover. La Poupée makes it her business to teach the young cleric what women really want.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket.  . .

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Paper decorated boards. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies, this being No. 391, and number thirteen of the Woburn Books. Some little loss at very crown of spine, offsetting to endpapers, else good in a fairly good dust jacket with a few chips and a fragile spine, enclosed in a mylar outer jacket.  "May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories, and poetry.  She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising event. Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of modernist poetry and prose, and she is attributed with first using the term 'stream of consciousness' in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of Dorothy Richardson's novel sequence Pilgrimage (1915-1967), in The Egoist, April 1918" - extracted… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontispiece portrait, and three further black & white plates. Near fine in a slightly nicked, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing, preceding the British edition. Elizabeth Tudor grew up in the Court of Henry VIII, he being her father with his second wife Anne Boleyn. After Henry tired of his wife, annulled his marriage and ordered her execution, the two-year-old Elizabeth was declared illegitimate yet later reinstated as Princess. Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic, was born in Scarborough in 1887 and educated privately at Renishaw Park, the estate which her family owned for more than six hundred years. She first attracted public notice in 1916 when, with a group of other young poets, she began to edit an annual anthology, Wheels (which can be seen elsewhere on this website).

New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first impression. Very good / good. Octavo. Black cloth and grey embossed boards. First edition, first impression. 206 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. Shelf wear on lower edge, sunning to top edge as often seen, a few instances of spot soiling in text and fore-edge, else very good; dust jacket toned at upper edge with some flaring to top and bottom, closed cut through upper edge of spine, a credo  written on the verso, else a good unclipped copy.  From the extensive collection of a San Francisco collector, started in the 1970s and held for over fifty years in their personal library. .

London: John Murray, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Deep blue cloth, paper label. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

[San Francisco]: City Lights, 1971. First edition. Very good.. Pictorial card wrappers, printed in black. 157 pp. First edition. Wraps very lightly rubbed at edge, text block clean and very bright, very good or better copy.  First edition. From the verso of the lower wrapper: "Before he died in Mexico in 1968, just four days short of his 44th birthday, Neal Cassady had written the jack blurb for this book: 'Seldom has there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true.'" A wild ride.

London: Duckworth, 1933. Small octavo. Cloud-printed boards, title stamped in red. First edition, limited to 1000 copies on laid paper. Small poetry bookshop label on front free endsheet, else about as fine as could be desired in a near fine, unclipped, matching cloud-printed dust jacket. 38pp. FIFOOT EA26a.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition. Vanessa Bell.. Demy octavo. Cloth, gilt stamped spine. First edition, second impression. All copies of Flush designated as a "Large Paper Edition" are second impressions, according to the bibliographies. Frontis and plates. Four original drawings by Vanessa Bell, and six other illustrations. Usual tanning to cloth at edges and spine, otherwise a good plus copy in imperfect, soiled cream dust jacket that lacks most of the spine panel, with ghosts of past cellotape at the edge of what had been the spine panel.  Woolf's brilliant biography of a dog; not just any dog, but the poet Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spaniel Flush. Flush not only played an active part in human life and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog estimated by all who knew him as a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration.  "FLUSH is only by way of a joke. I was so tired after THE WAVES, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning letters, and the figure of… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. Vanessa Bell.. Octavo. Cloth, gilt stamped spine. First American edition. Pinkish brown cloth, lettered in silver, edges trimmed; white endpapers with brown line drawings by Vanessa Bell printed on each. Frontispiece portrait of Flush, two further full page portraits in text. Gift inscription on border of rear pastedown, else very good.  Woolf's brilliant biography of a dog; not just any dog, but the poet Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spaniel, Flush. Flush not only played an active part in human life and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog estimated by all who knew him as a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration.  "FLUSH is only by way of a joke. I was so tired after THE WAVES, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life. I wanted to play a joke on Lytton [Strachey] -- it was to parody him. But then it grew too long, and I… Read More

London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First edition. Good. Cloth, paper label. First edition (1500 copies printed). Spine cocked, endsheets a bit foxed, else a good copy in chipped and darkened dust jacket, with tears at joints and lacking crown of spine panel.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 11 of one hundred copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large octavo. Cloth. Thirty-two illustrations. First British issue, bound up from U.S. sheets. Near fine in pictorial dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Winterthur & Munich: Verlag Buchdruckerei Winterthur AG. & Verlag Hermann Rinn, 1952. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. Portrait. Black and white and color photographs, fold-outs, plans, perspectives, and other drawings of Wright's well-known modern period of commercial and domestic architecture. Wrappers worn at extremities and some shelf wear, but a good copy published in German with captions in English. SWEENEY 858.

London: Faber & Faber, 1946. First edition. Near fine./Very good.. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Hunting love and the elusive fascist in post-war France. A near fine copy in a very good, lightly nicked and foxed typographic dust jacket.

London: Aurum Press, 2003. Tall octavo. Cloth with gilt spine. Family genealogy on front and rear endpapers. xv,[1],320pp. Forty black & white plates, many full-page. Prologue, list of illustrations, endnotes, and index. Fine in fine dust jacket.  Cameron was at the center of a circle of English artists and writers who shaped a generation of Victorian culture. Working in the 1860s, when photography was still in its infancy, Cameron defied the conventions of the scientific photographic establishment to insist that photography could be an art form.