Search Results: Titles starting with F from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1972). Hardcover. 0-912006-10-2 . Brown cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, yellow endpapers, includes four sections of b/w photographs. This copy signed byauthor below his name on title page. Additionally, laid in is a b/w photograph of Bunnell inscribed by him on rear to the Hon. Marcus Jensen. ; 6" x 9"; 387 pp; Jensen was a businessman and big game guide from Douglas. He also served as Mayor of Douglas. See https://akleg.gov/100years /bio.php?id=1198 for more.; Mild wear to book. Jacket lightly worn along edges, not price clipped ($7.95), in clear protective cover. .

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1947). Hardcover. This little book has been prepared for second-year college Spanish classes and for third- and fourth-year high-school classes. The editors believe that it is a good practice to omit English as much as possible from a Spanish textbook. For this reason the directions for the exercises and notes are given in Spanish. Tan cloth lettered in red and blue, introduction in English, rest of text in Spanish, color illustrations (in caricature) on plates, Vocabulary at rear.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 174 pp; Covers/corners lightly worn, soiled and sunned along edge, solid binding, no inscriptions, clean and unmarked within. .

St. Ingbert: Röhrig UniversitätsVerlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. 3-86110-128-9 . Light pink wraps with French fold flaps, covers illustrated with wrap-around grouping of photographs, illustrated with photographs, text in German. ; 6-3/4" x 9-1/2"; 407 pp; Covers lightly soiled and creased at corners, pages clean and unmarked, some are slightly creased at upper right. .

Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Softcover. Additional contributors: Stephen Shrader, Louis Simpson, Robin Skelton, Gary Snyder, and William Stafford. Scarce first issue. Wraps with cover illustration of postcard showing California Big Trees Lumber Crew at Booles Tree, 2 pages of photographs. ; 5 x 8.5"; 73 pp; Slight wear to spine and to upper right corner of pages, no tears, no writing. .

New York: Bantam Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1993). First Edition; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 0-553-09139-5 . Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, light green endpapers, Illustrations by Cynthia Schafer. Green dust jacket lettered in red and white. Uncommon signed, this copy with a presentation inscription penned and signed by the author on the half-title: July 5, 1996 / _______, From Green Gulch to the Green Kitchen! It's been a pleasure to work with you. / We miss you! / Best wishes / Annie. Heavy, USPS Media Mail as expected, others extra.; 7-1/4" x 10-1/4"; xxiv, 437 pp; Signed by Author; Front board stresses and bowing slightly outwards, hinge is not cracked, book want to open to the title page. Very little cover wear, slight soiling limited to the page edges, no inscriptions, pages clean and unmarked. Jacket lightly edgeworn, a few light scratches, not price clipped, protected by mylar cover. .

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1920). First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers green cloth with black lettering, frontispiece and additional illustrations. ; 5" x 7-1/2"; 134 pp; Covers worn esp at corners and spine ends, front hinge well cracked (nearly detached), signatures are loose. The entire (sewn) binding is still holding together but must be handled carefully or repaired. Prior owner name in pencil to FFEP, another stamped to rear flyleaf, pencil notes inside rear cover and briefly on one other page. Otherwise clean and unmarked. .

New York: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. Softcover. "This pamphlet has been prepared for the purpose of assisting fire department officials and others who may wish to determine the condition of fire engines. It may also be of use in testing the capacity of new engines with a view to their acceptance by a city." Stiff red stapled wraps, illustrated with photos and tables. May, 1938 reprint of Fourth Edition.; 4-1/2" x 6-1/2"; 56 pp; Covers soiled, pages generally clean and free of tears or writing. .

New York: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. Softcover. "This pamphlet has been prepared for the purpose of assisting fire department officials and others who may wish to determine the condition of fire engines. It may also be of use in testing the capacity of new engines with a view to their acceptance by a city." Stiff red stapled wraps, illustrated with photos and tables. January, 1941 reprint of Fourth Edition.; 4-1/2" x 6-1/2"; 56 pp; Covers soiled, crease at lower right of front cover impacting the first pages, pages generally clean and free of tears or writing. .

Forest Grove, Oregon: Normount Armament Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Reprint; Third Printing thus. Softcover. US Combat Bookshelf series. Stiff tan wraps, perfect bound, well illustrated. ; 6" x 9"; 123 pp; "Any muffler or silencer -- (any device for diminishing the explosive report of a portable weapon) is positively ILLEGAL to possess unless properly registered under the National Firearms Act, with Director, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C." ; Spine with slight lean, thinned area to front cover with light soiling, small stain and wear to last (blank) leaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. .

[San Rafael, California]: The Dominican College of San Rafael. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1928]. Hardcover. Light green paper boards, black cloth spine, each member of the Class of '28 is presented with two-pages - with a tipped-on b&w photo at left and a personal description at right, contents include poetry, prose, art, etc. No advertising; List of Patrons at rear. Title page error denotes date as MCMXVIII (1918). Printed on laid paper bearing the watermarks Alexandra and Made in USA; untrimmed along top and right edges. A desirable copy, with 22 of the 26 members of the Class of '28 having signed the page with their photo, many additional signatures collected at rear.; 6-1/4" x 8"; 163 pp; The school was named for St. Dominic de Guzman and traces its roots back to 1850. It moved to San Rafael in 1889 from Benecia and is today the Dominican College of California. Originally only for women, it became co-educational in 1971. See the Our Campus History page on… Read More

Riga: A. Val'ter. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1915. Hardcover. Wine boards, blue endpapers. An uncommon edition of an ordinary book.; 5.5 x 7.75"; 91 pp; Boards worn at corners, boards and pages with light soiling, a few dogeared pages, pencil owner name to Preface, a few pencil notations and a pencil inscription in Russian at the rear. .

Washington, D.C.: NASA. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1967. Softcover. Prepared by contractors for the NASA Electronics Research Center Guidance Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ; 6" x 9"; 215 pp; Minor cover wear and soiling. "celestial mechanics" written on cover, Space Engineering Library stamped as well. Slight corner wear, pages clean and free of tears or writing. .

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-7645-8779-X . Navy cloth, blue illustrated endpaper, well-illustrated. Blue illustrated dust jacket. ISBN 978-0-7645-8779-5. First Printing with full number line. Sticker on jacket notes that this was The IACP Cookbook Awards Cookbook of the Year. This copy signed and inscribed by author on FFEP: Eat healthy/and sustainable/Paul Johnson/2007. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 8" x 9-1/2"; 438 pp; Signed by Author; No wear to book, no writing apart from noted inscription. No wear to jacket, protected by mylar cover. .

Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. A volume in The Jules Verne Library. Translated by Henry Frith, printed by the Crystal Palace Press. Publishers blue cloth with cover illustrations front and spine. This volume with the bookseller stamp for Doxey, Importers, San Francisco. Undated copy, later 1880s to early 1890s. ; 5" x 7"; 270, [2] (ads) pp; William Doxey would become a printer and later publish The Lark. ; Covers worn, discolored spine and area of front panel, waterstaining at spine top seen only from outside the book (not visible on pages), prior owner name stamped on FFEP. Spine cocked, hinges remain solid, a few creased corners, one with a tiny loss, foxing to page edges. .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustration include fold-out maps. White dust jacket with lettering and design in blue. ; 6-1/2" x 9"; vii, 432 pp; Covers lightly worn at corners and spine top/bottom, solid hinges, light soiling to top and right edge of pages, no inscriptions or markings. Dust jacket worn along top/bottom edges with small losses, not price clipped ($6.50), in clear protective cover. .

Springfield, VA: Nataraj Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. (1992). Hardcover. 1-881338-24-X . Bound in indigo cloth, front cover with illustration in white, front and spine lettered in white, brown endpapers, color pastedown illustration as frontispiece, additional b&w illustrations within text, unnumbered Plates section illustrates 63 items - some on color. Jacket in dark blue and olive, illustrated with color front pastedown illustration Copyright page notes: First published in the United States by Nataraj Books ... in association with Rekha Prakashan, 16, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, India. ; Oblong, 9-3/4" x 10"; 82 pp; Cloth and endpapers have some wrinkling as from production, little wear, solid binding, no inscriptions, clean and unmarked pages. Jacket front pastedown with closed tears, lightly worn along edges with small closed tear along bottom edge.. .

Chicago, Illinois: Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Good with no dust jacket. (1943). Softcover. Written during World War II, the title poem is written for You women with your men far overseas. Publishers green cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, frontispiece reproduces etching entitled "Winter Solitude," by Mr. Ernest Melchert. Title page with publisher's device of the Alderbrink Press. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper. ; 5-3/4" x 8-3/4"; 77 pp; Signed by Author; Covers sunned, especially at spine (gilt dulled). lightly bumped at corners, prior owner sticker to front free endpaper, a few minor page faults (one with leaf having wrinkled corner, one toned (as where a newspaper article might have lain), one with a fingerprint. .

New York, Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1995). Hardcover. 0-8091-0473-3 . Blue paper boards, gilt spine lettering, red endpapers, illustrated with 4 pp of b&w photos. Light blue jacket, red lettering, illustration on front,. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Laid in is a 1995 newpaper clipping with a review of this title. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; 374 pp; Signed by Author; Book bumped at bottom of spine. Jacket with fine scratches, lightly shelfworn along top edge, a bit more worn along bottom edge with a 1/2" closed tear near the spine, unclipped ($19.95), in clear protective cover .

London: Macmillan & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1869. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Original publishers green cloth, blind stamped front, gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Same date on title and copyright pages. This copy bearing the authorial inscription "With Dr. Winslow's Particular Regards" on the reverse of the front free endpaper.; 6" x 9"; viii, 492 pp; Cloth lightly soiled, worn at top of spine, small tear at spine bottom, bumped at lower right corner. Solid hinges. Pages clean and unmarked. .

San Jose, CA: Izkinelli Productions. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1979). Softcover. A [vintage] restaurant guide to 21 cities from Post Costa to Pleasanton. Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, black cover lettering. ; 5-1/4" x 8-1/4"; ix, 248 pp; Covers lightly worn/soiled, paper toned, inked notes listing additional restaurants on one rear flyleaf .