Search Results: Titles starting with F from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Edition. The large paper, or quarto, issues. "Livre bien illustrate" - Cohen-De Ricci. Two Volumes. Small 4to (24.5 * 20 cm.) Fables, Vol I, Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts (London), 1727, pp. (xiv), 173, vignette title & 51 copper-plate vignettes engraved by Fourdrinier, Van der Bucht & Baron after Kent, Wooton & Motte. Fables, Vol II, Printed for J. and P. Kanpton and T. Cox (London), 1738, pp. (Viii), 155, frontispiece, vignette title & 16 full-page illustrations engraved by Scotin after Gravelot. Exquisitely bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Sons, the spines & dentelles richly gilt, rich purple endpapers.
A little rubbing to the bindings, otherwise a fine copy, presenting beautifully on the shelf.
"The Fables of Gay have ever been esteemed for their easy flow of versification for their wit and humour and for containing a considerable portion of moral and worldly instruction. They are not, however, without a very considerable portion of alloy." (Plumtre, 1823, iii).
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A Programme from an exhibition entitled "Fifty Years of Robert Frost…" The exhibition, held in mid-October 1943, was held to celebrate the poet's return to Dartmouth College as a Ticknor Fellow of the Humanities.
Original blue paper covered boards, title lettered in black to front board, 6.75 x 10 inches, 15pp., original envelope, loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting about Professor Ray Nash. Published by Dartmouth College Library (Hanover), 1944.
Inscribed by Robert Frost to his cousin Joseph Frost on the front cover, "RF to JF Collector." Rare inscribed with this noteworthy association.
The corners a little bumped; a near fine example.
According to the Preface: "Many Frost items privately held by members of the College were brought out to supplement the Library's Robert Frost Collection - indeed the outpouring was so generous that the display cases overflowed. It is part of the purpose of this catalogue to record the presence of some things which were not actually on view. Altogether the… Read More

A Limited Edition, 1 of 60 copies (and some out–of–series copies), this copy unnumbered, 10 copies were reserved for Steinbeck, 50 copies were for distribution by the Cohns. Small octavo, 6 (2) pp., original buff printed wrappers with hand ties, pictorial title–page lettered in black and red, wanting publisher's glassine envelope. Published by The Ward Ritchie Press for the Author and Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn (Los Angeles), Christmas 1947.
A fine copy.
This copy has notable provenance, originally being owned by Ward Ritchie, with his personal book label present. This work was privately printed at the Ward Ritchie Press as the Cohns' Christmas greeting for the year. The Cohns' are notable for being the owners of House of Books in New York, one of the pioneering Booksellers in modern first editions. (Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Hemingway Collection, University Of Delaware.)
According to Goldstone & Payne A26a:
"This elusive "A" item is a letter from Steinbeck to Arnold Gingrich, editor… Read More