Search Results: Titles starting with F from Frogtown Books, Inc.

Barre Mass: Barre Publishers, 1968. Small 4to. 9-1/4" x 7". 60 pp. With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Book is in fine condition./Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear. and a little minor edgewear. Spine of jacket is a little darkened. Overall very good.. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Catherwood. New gleanings by Victor von Hagen from the British Museum and the University of California at Berkeley serve to flesh out the shadowy figure of the great architect, explorer and artist Frederick Catherwood. Catherwood is best known for his magnificent lithographs of Mayan ruins, the drawings of which were made on four expeditions with John Lloyd Stephens in the 1840's. This book is an account of Catherwood's life, travels and work among the ruins of the ancient world in Egypt, the Middle East, North Africa and Central America. Until Mr. von Hagen's studies, Catherwood had been a nearly anonymous figure. His life was marred by lack of appreciation by his contemporaries, his enterprises… Read More

Western Publishing Company, 1970. A Big Golden Book. Tall quarto. Glossy illustrated boards.Full color decorative endpapers. Tight, clean, very good.. Rojankovsky.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. Forty-two of these fables were published in "Poems," by Ennis Rees, University of South Carolina Press, 1964, and are printed here by permission. Tall 8vo. 210 pp. including index. A beautifully produced book in fine condition./Jacket is slightly faded at top margin and on the spine and a little on back panel, Overall fine condition.. WIth illustrations by J. J. Grandville. The wit and vigor with which Ennis Rees retells these one hundred and eighty-seven traditional tales will appeal to readers young and old. As he says, "I have tried to re-create selected fables in verse for our time, and to do it in as lively a way as I could consistent with simplicity."

London, 1819. First edition. 8 mo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 gilt green morocco and pink, purple and green marbled paper boards. Matching marbled endpapers. Raised bands and tooled gold panels. 156 pp. Three hand-colored aquatint views of building on the island by J. Clark. Fine condition. Firsthand account of Napoleon's treatment and living condition while exiled on Saint Helena published during Napoleon's lifetime.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. Small 4to. 10-3/4" x 7-3/4". Illustrated glossy paper covered boards. Six double page spreads with pop-up and some lift tabs. Fine.. Art Director: Borje Svensson, Designer: John Strejan. Paper Engineer: James Robert Diaz.

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt Co, 2006. First edition. Black paper covered boards, orange spine stamped in gold. Book in fine condition./Jacket also fine..

Franklin library, 1977. Franklin Library. Full Leather. fine. Grippo, Robert Lo.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1884. Beige cloth stamped in gold and brown. 8vo. 8" x 6-1/4". 320 pp. All edges gilt. A little fraying at spine ends. Corner tips slightly rubbed. Front end paper splitting along gutter but hinge is firm.. See how full literature is of man's admiration of women!" "Is it so full? I remember many bitter things about women." "You will find, my dear young lady, that ill-natured comments in literature about women are merely as specks upon fruit. The picture of woman as painted by our poets, for instance, fairly transcends in splendor everything else in the world of letters." " Why not have a sort of reading club?" said Mr. Bluff. Let us meet weekly and each of us bring the best he can find about woman - all that exalts her, that glorifies her, that sets forth her charms, her liveliness, her virtues - in brief, all her perfections." Thus began the search for all the best poetry pertaining to women in the English language. "A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions,… Read More

Folio Society, 2008. First Edition Thus. Pictorial binding. fine in fine slipcases. Julian De Harvaez.

Canterbury Classics, 2011. Leather. fine.

George W. Jacobs, 1890. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. Seven Color Illustrations.

Double Page & Co, 1909. First. Suede Spine. Very Good - wear to corners and a little chipping to the bottom of the spine. Rackham, Arthur.

Paw Paw, Michigan: Paw Paw Press, 1980. Stated First Edition. Comb binding. 161 pp. Contains 30 stories of fallen troopers with black and white photographs and photo portraits. Comb binding a little rolled but could be carefully readjusted. Card stock covers are a little faded. One coffee splash at top of front cover. Overall sturdy and clean. Very good.. When the "Michigan State Troops" were signed into existence by Governor Albert Sleeper on March 27, 1919, the force consisted of fifty officers, four cars, five motorcycles, three trucks and an undetermined number of horses. The Governor probably didn't anticipate that this underequipped, quasi-professional agency would become the Michigan State Police, a modern, efficient law enforcement organization, which today consists of over 2,000 officers and 800 civilian employees, with duties ranging from the "Detroit Freeway Patrol" to protecting the residents of isolated homes and cottages in the upper peninsula. However, by the nature of the task,… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. First edition, Second printing. 4to. 13-1/4" x 10". White cloth covered boards both blind stamped with spine stamped in green. Color photo endpapers.190 pp. Book in fine condition./Jacket near fine but for a little ruffling at top of spine.. Principal Photography by Christopher Little and Thomas A. Heinz. Measured Drawings by L. D. Astorino & Associates, Ltd.. Such a breathtaking book about the most famous modern house in America. This charming and provocative book is the work of the man best qualified to undertake it, who was both apprentice to Wright and son of the man who commissioned the house. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. closely followed the planning and construction of Fallingwater, and lived in the house on weekends and vacations for twenty-seven years - until, following the deaths fo his parents, he gave the house in 1963 to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to hold for public enjoyment and appreciation. This is a personal, almost intimate record of one man's… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. very good.

Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1916. cloth. very good.

1981. 3rd printing. hardcover. fine/very good - chipping to the jacket.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1853. First Edition. Leather spine. very good.

Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1981. Full Leather. fine. Pamphlet included.

Easton Press, 1977. Easton Press. Full Leather with silk like end papers. fine. Eichenberg, Fritz. Book-Plate laid-in.