Search Results: Titles starting with F from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

F IS FOR FUGITIVE, Henry Holt, 1989, first edition, fine in like photographic pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author. Kinsey Millhone Mystery #6.

F.O.B. DETROIT, Harpers, 1938, first edition, light soiling to the spine, else near fine in vg+ Cobbledick dust-wrapper with some light wear and a shallow chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Love among the auto plants. Uncommon. The apparent source novel for the film Racing for the Sun.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S LEDGER, Bruccoli / Clark & NCR, 1972, first edition., fine in slip-case as issued. 1/1,000 copies. A facsimilie of the authors actual ledger, kind of an autobiographical memoir with much detail paid to the financial aspects of his works.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD STARTER KIT / being THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED, TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE, THE VEGETABLE, ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN, TENDER IS THE NIGHT & TAPS AT REVEILLE, all first editions, all have dulling to the spine lettering save the first, all just about very good to very good copies. For the lot of 8 titles (all of which can be supplied with fine facsimile dust-wrappers for a small charge)--- 

F & SF BOOK CO., LIST #22, AUGUST, 1953, SUMMER SALE, 6 pages printed on both sides offering a wide selection of books and magazines (pulps).

FABERGE - COURT JEWLER TO THE TSARS, Tabard, 1979, first edition., fine in like dust-wrapper with 250 items on 51 full color plates and 119 black and white.

FABIAN IN COLOR, Starmont, 1980, first edition, a grouping of 8 large full color plates housed in a red cloth binding with black cloth spine portfolio. Our copy is #33 and INSCRIBED to a passed well known member of first fandom. Additionally, there is a 9th plate, black & white, entitled Moon Rider which is likewise SIGNED by the artist. Accompanied by an 8 page booklet by Fabian commenting on the art.

A FABLE, Random House, 1954, first edition., very fine (the covers snap back) in like dust-wrapper with a fine example of the publisher's slipcase which has a modest dent in the center of one of the side panels. Both a PULITZER PRIZE winning novel and a NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winner.

FABLES, Harper & Row, 1981, first edition, fine in near fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some minor abrasions near the base of the spine and the base of the front dust-wrapper panel. Profusely illustrated with a full color plate on every other page. A CALDECOTT winner.

FABLES FOR OUR TIME, Harpers, 1940, first edition, slight wear to small sections of the top and bottom edges of the boards, else a bright just about fine copy in pictorial boards in a vg/vg+ unrecorded gold-foil wraparound matching pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. Profusely illustrated of course.

FABLES FOR OUR TIME, Harpers, 1940, first edition, some light rubbing to small sections of the bottom edges of the boards, off-setting to half-title page and that adjacent to it, else a bright just about fine copy in pictorial boards in a vg wraparound matching pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. Profusely illustrated of course.

THE FABULOUS RIVER BOAT, Putnam, 1971, first edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper with a chip missing from the fore edge of the rear dust-wrapper flap which is now supplied from another copy. RIVERWORLD #2.

THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS #1 THRU #6, Rip Off Press, 1980, first edition (later printings priced at $1.25), all six issues very fine in full color pictorial wraps. Adult comics from the underground----

THE FACE AND THE MASK, Stokes, 1895, first American edition, light wear to corner tips, some fraying with a bit of cloth loss to the spine extremities, some soiling to the covers, else a good to very good copy in the publishers original green cloth binding with silver lettering and pictorial device. This collection of short stories, both fantasy and criminous, is perhaps best well known for the story entitled THE GREAT PEAGRAM MYSTERY, an early Sherlock Holmes pastiche.

THE FACE IN THE MIRROR, Arkham House, 1971, first edition., faint stain to section of the fore edge with no bleed through to the margins of any pages of the text, else fine in like dust-wrapper save for a small skinned area to the front dust-wrapper flap fold. 1/2,000 copies. 

FACE IN THE ASPIC, THE: Tales of Club Life Among the Overfed, Simon and Schuster, 1944, first edition, fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with one closed tear. A chef at a private New York club reveals tantalizing tidbits about his patrons.

THE FACE OF FEAR, Bobbs Merrill, 1977, first edition, just about fine in a vg+ dust-wrapper save for several small tears and a small chip missing from the rear dust-wrapper panel. Written under the Brian Coffey pseudonym.

THE FACE OF EUROPE in Holiday Magazine for January, 1954, first edition., near fine in wraps. A 22 page photographic essay of Europe.

FACE OF A POLITICAL CANDIDATE ON A STREET BILLBOARD, The Old Marble Press, 1975, first edition, tiny chip missing from the base of the lower right corner, else a near fine copy. A broadside printed on one side only. From the library of the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

THE FACE OF AIR, John Lane, 1912, first edition, a vg copy. A tale of the supernatural, ghosts and the sea.