Search Results: Titles starting with F from Stillman Books

At one point, "What looked like bad news quickly turned to the Newall's advantage, however, and led to Beaumont's development of his world-renowned 'History of Photography' and to his becoming founding curator of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House."
Focus is a warm, witty and wise look back at a life rich with experiences and friends. The list of people who worked with and cared about Newhall reads like a who's who of twentieth century photography. Many are represented by photographs taken by Beaumont or Nancy Newhall or by works of their own, some previously unpublished.
"As a look at the development of the practice and appreciation of photography in this century, 'Focus' is unequaled, as a glimpse into the formation of a connoisseur it is remakable; and as a work of eloquent, warm prose it will take its place among the great autobiographies of our times."

From the back cover: "This remarkable book, from the creators of 'The Human Body', reveals in breathtaking three-dimensional illustrations the miraculous story of life before birth. The human male and female reproductive systems, the fertilisation of the egg and the subsequent development of the baby are described in outstanding detail." There are 6 large and wonderful pop-ups plus several smaller pop-ups with interesting information on how such a small speck of jelly turns itself into a human being.

From the d.j. flap: "Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Gail Carson Levine's Newbery Honor-winning Fairy dust and the Quest for the Egg, comes an artfully-crafted bound volume containing Levine's original story alongside high-quality reproductions of David Christiana's stunningly detailed illustrations. This edition also includes an introductory letter from Gail Carson Levine."

Mint in original shrinkwrap. Opens to a magnificent pop-up scene with the splendour of the fairy-tale palace, from its marble pillars, romantic balustrades, towering turrets and immaculate gardens, to the royal bedchamber, the throne room, the bustling kitchen and secret passageway. Read the story of a very special day at the fairy-tale palace and enjoy classic tales of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Free-standing figures and moveable models.
Design and illustration by Herman Lelie and Maggie Bateson.

Another beautiful edition featuring Cicely Mary Barker's wonderful group of Flower Fairies.

Fairies, Fairies, Fairies all over the place, and who does them better than Cicely Mary Barker. A later printing but still a wonderful book to have, especially in this condition without flaws. Lots of little envelopes and little books to open.

Reprint of the 1974 edition with 32 extra photos by Jon Naar as well as an Afterword in which he reflects on the project and the meaning it has taken on in the intervening decades. A VG+ copy.

#4 in a series of 9 titles published, featuring Staff Sargeant Karl Alberg of the RCMP. 1st Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine d.j.

First edition hardback binding in publisher's original plain brown paper covered boards, title label to the front cover.
Contains twelve tipped-in photogravure plates with detailed text between each plate. Title sticker on front board: "Famous ETCHINGS from DURER to WHISTLER. FOLIO I. Also J. W. T. Turner, Alphonse Legros, William Strang and others. " All etchings are in fine condition and laid-on thick, heavy paper.
Large book, may require extra postage.

From the d.j.: "In the early 1970's Tomi Ungerer, the artist and children's storyteller, moved with his wife Yvonne to a farmstead on the wild Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. For several years he lived there a life of self-sufficiency, painting, writing, sculpting; and also learning, with Yvonne, to be a farmer, a herdsman and, where necessary, a butcher. This is a record, in vivid words and enchanting pictures, of the years they spent there; observing the wild animals, their own domestic flock and the lives of their dour, hardy neighbors in the small town of Gulf Harbor. The result is an extraordinary record and a revelation."
Illustrated with dozens of b/w and colour drawings and paintings.

Editor Joan Fisher. Introduction by Robert Elman. From the d.j.: "People can be divided into two groups: those who grew up on a farm and those who wish they had grown up on a farm. This book will please, surprise, and inform both. Hundreds of full-color illustrations, rendered with perception, wit, and accuracy, offer a heart-warming look at life on the farm--the way it was and the way it is, though now only in remote areas such as the author/illustrator's own, which happens to be in Holland."
The begining of Robert Elman's Introduction: "Rien Poortvliet is a vivid chronicler of Dutch life and landscape, a genre painter who seldom wanders far in search of subjects for his pen and brushes. Yet his work has been welcomed as enthusiastically in America as it has been in Europe. Clearly the reason is that his seemingly provincial, rural themes are astonishingly cosmopolitan, his insights and appeal international. He is a latter-day Boswell (and occasionally a Hogarth) on tour in his own land, the kind of… Read More

From the d.j.: "Set in and around Iddesleigh in Devon, Michael Morpurgo touchingly evokes the bonds between farm and farmer, grandson and grandfather. The spirit of rural life is superbly captured in Michael Foreman's wonderful illustrations, making this another irresistible offering from this acclaimed author-illustrator partnership."

A short piece that was reworked into the short story Spotted Horses and eventually incorporated into The Hamlet, which Faulkner finally completed for publication in 1940. "Father Abraham" is a valuable element in the study and analysis of the stages of revision and restructuring a major work goes through before it is ultimately regarded by its author as finished--in this case the snopes trilogy, of which The Hamlet in Volume One. Second printing.

From the Introduction: "To the children of J.R.R. Tolkien, the interest and importance of Father Christmas extended beyond his filling of their stockings on Christmas Eve; for he wrote a letter to them every year, in which he described in words and pictures his house, and his friends, and the events, hilarious or alarming, at the North Pole. The first of these letters came in 1920, when John, the eldest, was three years old; and for over twenty years, through the childhoods of the three other children, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla, they continued to arrive each Christmas. Sometimes the envelopes, dusted with snow and bearing Polar postage stamps, were found in the house on the morning after his visit; sometimes the postman brought them; and letters that the children wrote themselves vanished from the fireplace when no one was about."
"In this book it has been possible to give only a few examples of Father Christmas' shaky handwriting, and of the decorations of the letters and the envelopes. But… Read More

Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Bound in genuine leather; satin endpapers; satin bookmark; gilt edges. A Fine unread copy. An unused Easton Press book plate laid in.

A collection of the best Uncle Remus stories, selected from 7 Remus volumes. Sturdily bound and abundantly illustrated with a. B. Frost's immortal drawings, this is a book which will be valued for generations by families and libraries. Selected, arranged and edited by George Van Santvoord and Archibald C. Coolidge.

Front, back and spine all look great on the outside (colour and b/w), but the inside of the jacket has considerable foxing. Also some foxing around the edges of the flaps. A few chips top and bottom of d.j. as well. From the front flap: "There is a lot of wonderful baseball in this Chip Hilton story, and a lot of good sportsmanship and clean manhood besides. These friends of Chip's have what it takes to pull a demoralized and strife-torn team out of the dumps and get it back bustin fences again at the end of the story." From the back of d.j.: "The same faculties that have made Clair Bee one of the top athletic figures in the country have made him a successful writer of sports stories for boys."

Paper is "browned" because of poor paper used and first 20 pages have a crease in top corner. SIGNED on the half-title without inscription. 13 short stories.

"Fern Hill" (1945) is a poem by the Welsh poet , Dylan Thomas, first published in Horizon magazine in October 1945, with its first book publication in 1946 as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances.
For this book, the intriguing illustrations are by Murray Kimber.

2nd printing with a few extra poems than the 1922 edition. I don't recall reading much of Ms. Millay's poetry before, but I really enjoy the few I've read in this collection. The various size of pages is a nice touch too.
THURSDAY
And if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you! I do not love you Thursday--So much is true.
And why you come complaining, Is more than I can see. I loved you Wednesday,--yes--but what Is that to me?