Search Results: Titles starting with F from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with black spine lettering/decoration. 275pp. Very good. While internally tight and bright and a superb near fine, the binding shows quite mild edgewear only. A sharp first edition of this "Crime Club" mystery, whose title page notes "A murderer framed an alibi so clever that it could only be broken by the stars!" Author actually was an Alabama physician by the name of James William McQueen (1900-54) and penned a handful of other mysteries, some with a medical them such as "Murder in the Surgery" and others with provocative titles such as "Sex Is Such Fun." Lacks jacket, but still scarce in the true first edition.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 281pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Bit of foxing to couple of preliminary leaves and more to page edges; small front pastedown ownership signature; jacket spine sunned. Tight and nice first edition of this study of the influential literary critic.

New York: F.W. Woolworth Co, 1919. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff beige wrappers with raised red and gilt lettering and pictorial blindstamping. 32pp. Numerous illustrations, green pictorial borders. Near fine. Handsome first and only edition of this lovely commemorative keepsake from the pioneering American five-and-dime store. Superb, bright condition.

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970. Square 4to. 179pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Early (not first) printing of this photographic tribute.

N.p.: Westvaco, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, slipcase. 171pp. Frontispiece, decorations, decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Minor archival slipcase repairs. Tight and handsome copy of this Christmas keepsake published by this Virginia paper firm in an unspecified limited edition. Hoosier humorist, columnist and playwright Ade (1866-1944) first published this in 1899.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. xxv, 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Tight, attractive first edition of this study of the noted memoirs of such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Jane Addams, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright and others.

New York: Random House, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green pictorial cloth. xxi, 359pp. Numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. Tight, clean and handsome first edition of this "sprightly social history of Chicago from 1820 to the present day."

Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson, 1995. Paperback. Narrow small 4to. Stiff green wrappers. (9pp). Fine. The famed Chicago attorney attempts to imagine what Miller might have said were he called to testify in the famous obscenity case against him. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies signed by Gertz on the colophon leaf; in addition, Gertz adds "Sincerely" and signs again on the half-title page.

N.p.: Teleword, Inc, 1962. Single leaf 4to press release + two 10" X 8" black and white still scenes. Near fine. Each photograph has film name inked on bottom margn. Press release from a U.S. distributor for this foreign film starring Milos Kopecky as Baron Munchausen and Jana Brajova as Bianka. "An entirely original film technique combined with the use of vibrant color returns to us, in a contemporary setting, the legendary Baron Munchausen."

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 195pp. Fine/fine. A pristine, tight first edition of this study of Hemingway's portrayal of writers in his works.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1948. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 176pp. Near fine/very good. "Crime Club Selection," a Detective Book Club edition in tight, handsome condition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jerome Connolly. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 316pp. Numerous illustrations, maps, line drawings. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and clean and quite presentable.

New York: The Fairfax Press, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 144pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine sunned; couple of archivally-closed (on verso) jacket edge tears; small red remainder dot on bottom page edges. Reprint edition -- a revised reprint of the 1947 Scribner's first edition. Clean, tight, decent copy.

New York: The Fairfax Press, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine sunned; couple of archivally-closed (on verso) jacket edge tears. Reprint edition -- a revised reprint of the 1947 Scribner's first edition. Tight, clean and nice.

New York: The New American Library, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey paper over boards with green spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 215pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear and age toning. Just a book club edition of this murder mystery, but tight and attractive.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. Hardcover. Wide 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 40pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this delightful survey of stone architectural ornaments.

New York: Geo. A. Leavitt, 1870. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue blind-ruled cloth with ornate gilt spine lettering and decorations. 365pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map. Very good. Some binding edgewear, mainly at spine head and tail; bright blue area on front board suggests long-ago rental library label; ownership inkstamp on front pastedown and front flyleaf. A tight and decent later printing of this 1865 text, a volume in this publisher's "Young American's Library of Modern Heroes" series. Rather worn, but a presentable and handleable early reprint edition -- and actually rather uncommon.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 432pp. Very good/very good. Slight bit of mild jacket wear. Tight, clean and handsome first edition of this Washington, D.C. fiction -- signed large and bold by Wicker in black ballpoint on an inner flyleaf.

Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 127pp. Color illustrations. Fine/fine. A handsome and tight first edition, bearing a lengthy inscription by the author in black marker on the front flyleaf: "To Sue, / Thank you for visiting / my country! I am glad / you loved it! / Please come back! / Best wishes / Joseph Lekuton." Tale of this nomadic Kenyan.

Fort Wayne, IN: The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, n.y. [ca. 1935?]. 32mo envelope with folded fake parchment broadside (opens to narrow 4to). Fine. Promotional item.