Search Results: Titles starting with F from Underground Books, ABAA

San Francisco: Hacket-Freeman Gallery, Inc, 2006. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10" X 9". 48pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalogue of art by F. Scott Hess, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Hacket-Freedman Gallery January 5-February 25, 2006.

New York: Regan Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 231pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. White paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in red. Top corners of boards are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Black-and-white photographs throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lillian Ellison, known in the ring as the Fabulous Moolah, is one of wrestling's pioneering veterans and heroines, both in and out of the squared circle. When wrestling first caught the attention of the public, Moolah had a ringside seat. Appearing on the scene in 1949 as a "valet" for some male wrestlers, she was introduced to the crowd as a "slave girl" dressed in revealing leopardskin. But the woman who got into the business for the "moolah" wouldn't remain a valet for long, and soon Moolah turned her humble beginnings… Read More

Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2006. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". x, 325pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Sticker to spine and rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Definitions of the terms "coaching" and "mentoring" tend to be ambiguous and are often confusing for clients who need to assess the benefits of these activities. Facilitating Reflective Learning Through Mentoring and Coaching provides clarity by offering a theoretical framework presenting coaching and mentoring models together with examples of how they can be applied in practice. Robust theory is backed up by practical exercises, case studies, training workshop templates, learning partner handouts and tools for selecting prospective mentors. Important guidance is also given on sensitive areas such as the boundary between mentoring or coaching and therapy, and the need for codes of practice.(Publisher).

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1915. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5". 160pp. Rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Hinges are cracked but binding remains sound. Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was an American poet and novelist. She gained recognition for her literary works during the early to mid-20th century. Widdemer received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1919 for her collection "The Old Road to Paradise," making her one of the few women poets to have received this prestigious award. Apart from her success in poetry, Margaret Widdemer also wrote novels and children's books. Some of her notable works include "The Rose-Garden Husband" and "Why Not?" She explored various themes in her writings, ranging from love and nature to social issues. The Factories, With Other Lyrics is Margaret's first book.

Rodale, 2005. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 7/8". 392pp. Inscribed by Rigel Crockett to title page. Mild cover wear, with a few indentations to jacket. Quarter-cloth with yellow paper over boards and spine backed in green cloth and letterd in gilt. A touch of shelfwear to binding, else fine, sound, and firm. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very nice signed first American edition of Rigel Crockett's account of the 1997 voyage of the barque Picton Castle.

Duluth: Essence of Light, 1994. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 46pp. Very mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Fairy illustrations throughout.

London: John Ouseley, Ltd, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. "I want to tell you that in this beautiful and marvellous world there are things far more wonderful—and yet real—than anything you have ever read about in fairy books..." So begins your invitation into the fairy-land of fern-culture through the pages of this 1910 guide to pteridology for children. In Fairy Plants: A Fern-Book for Children, we find the life cycle of a fern from spore to full growth through the language of fairies; the book begins with fairy-like and gem-like fern spores flying out and beginning their adventures from the Male Fern's miniscule spore box, or "wonderful box," and the transformation of this spore into what can truly be called a plant is detailed scientifically but also as much like when "a swan is changed into a beautiful girl." There are also chapters devoted to notable ferns and how to distinguish them, and even folklore for such ferns as the Moonwort, out of which Queen… Read More

Nashville: First Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 11" X 9 1/2". xi, 119pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This catalog explores the psychological and social implications contained in the hybrid creatures and fantastic scenarios created by contemporary artists whose works will appear in the exhibition Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, which opens at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts in February 2012. Curator Mark Scala's introductory essay focuses on anthropomorphism in the mythology, folklore, and art of many cultures as it contrasts with the dominant Western view of human exceptionalism. Scala also provides an art historical context, linking the visual fabulists of today to artists of the Romantic, Symbolist, and Surrealist periods who sought to transcend oppositions such as rationality and intuition,… Read More

New York: Warner Books, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 16 1/4" X 10 3/4". Tear to rear cover at spine. Paper sculptures are clean and unworn. Collection appears complete with 4 story books and 16 affixed press-out pieces. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Features... - Hansel and Gretel - Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Little Red Riding Hood - The Three Little Pigs Open the cover of this spectacular playset and a 3-dimensional village of famous fairytale houses appears right before your eyes: the ginger bread house from Hansel and Gretel; the bears' house from Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Grandmother's house from Little Red Riding Hood, and the straw, stick and brick houses from The Three Little Pigs. This playset includes four illustrated story booklets and punch-out characters to move throughout the beautifully illustrated scene. Children will love acting out these well-known stories - and combining the elements of each to create new ones of their own.(Publisher).

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xxxiv, 634pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in tan cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Faint strip of toning to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unity Born in 1883, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Arab states, Faisal… Read More

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10" X 7". viii, 353pp. Very mild rubbing and wear to covers and edges. Light smudging to bottom edge of text block. Slight curl to front cover. Pages bright, clean, and unmarked, Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this text on Japanese Buddhist art.

New York: TOR Publishing Group, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 415pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This volume comes with: -limited-edition metal bookmark -limited-edition laptop sticker ABOUT THIS BOOK: SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE. From Jennifer L. Armentrout, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, comes the beginning of a searing fantasy romance series for adults, Fall of Ruin and Wrath. Featured in Cosmopolitan! Most Anticipated from HuffPost Books • BookRiot • PopSugar • Paste Magazine • SheReads • The Nerd Daily • Goodreads • r/RomanceBooks and more! Long ago, the world was… Read More

Martinsville: Bookman Publishing and Marketing, 2004. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xviii, 231pp. Mild shelf wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Light discoloration along fore-edge of title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Falling In Love With Yourself: Love and the Inner Beloved is an easy-to-read introduction to the deepest mysteries of spirituality. Culled from the writings of the greatest philosophic thinkers, it explains core-truths of spirituality, which is not some exotic pursuit. Spirituality is love. It is not easy to live spiritually. So, this is also a practical guide. It shows how the use of spirituality can brighten, lighten, and enlighten our lives.(Publisher).

Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to front free endpaper. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 205pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of blue cloth over boards. Light bump to tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas's grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she's wearing different clothes and driving a new car. When she arrives home, her life is familiar but different. There is her house, her husband. But in the world she now inhabits, Silas is no longer dead, and his brother is disturbingly changed. Elisa has a new job, and her marriage seems sturdier, and stranger, than she remembers. She finds herself faking her way through a life she is convinced is not her own. Has she had a psychotic break? Or has she entered a parallel universe? Elisa believed that Silas was doomed from the… Read More

New York: Russell & Russell, 1973. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 3/4". xvi, 134pp. Lacking dust jacket. Gray cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Mild shelfwear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very solid copy of this extended case study of low-income urban families in the 1940s.

Boston: Sense Publishers, 2012. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxii, 181pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What is it like to be YOUNG, GIFTED AND WORKING CLASS in contemporary England? How do working class family values support high educational achievement? What do researchers and policy makers have to learn about giftedness from working class families? These provocative questions are explored in this ground-breaking book. Most studies of giftedness focus on the characteristics of individuals, and draw upon psychological frameworks to understand them. Participants in most gifted education programmes are recruited disproportionately from the higher social classes. Sceptical of the concept of giftedness, Mazzoli Smith and Campbell question conventional methodologies, using a narrative approach to understand how four families of working class origins, each with a gifted child,… Read More

New York: Ecco, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 371pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else's? Does she have other motives? She… Read More

New York: Riverhead Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Printing. 9 1/4" X 6". 306pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in purple. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way past all that has been said - and left unsaid - to save each other? Could they find a way back to being okay again, or maybe for the first time?… Read More

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Samuel Southard: "To Matthew Patton / with best regards / Samuel Southard / May 28, 1989." 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". 96pp. Bound in full tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in fred. Mild edgewear to binding, firm, tight, and sound. Bookplate of Matthew H. Patton to front pastedown. Very occasional and inobtrusive mark to pages throughout. A solid and presentable signed first printing of the work of pastor, missionary, professor and scholar Samuel Southard (1925-2017), who served as Professor of Psychology of Religion at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Director of Research for the Presbyterian Church, U.S., lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Director of Georgia Mental Health Institute, and Professor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, penning 27 books and over 100 articles in publications such as Pastoral Psychology, Journal of Pastoral Counseling,… Read More

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Franklin Library First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 461pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown leather over boards. Five raised bands to spine with six gilt compartments. Dust-spotting to all-gilt edge. Tan sild bookmark sewn in. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With information sheet from The Franklin Library laid in. A handsome copy of this signed limited edition collection of stories by Edna O'Brien. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice wondrous, despairing, moving examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.(Publisher).