Search Results: Authors starting with F from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1954 223pp. Signed by author to front free endpaper. Condition: Some light wear to dustjacket corners.. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: The Vendome Press, 1997 Hard cover, quarto, 288pp. In publisher's maroon cloth binding with gold lettering, in dustjacket. Illustrated book of manuscripts and early printed books in the great libraries of Italy. Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket which has tiny chips at the edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1943 Paper wraps, 12mo., 45pp. French text. Condition: Very Good. Mild dust-soiling to covers. Pages unopened. ** French booklet covering the infamous scuttling of the French navy fleet at Toulon, on 27th November 1942. This was done at the orders of Vichy France in order to prevent German forces from using the ships in their war effort. The vast majority of the fleet, 77 vessels in all, were destroyed. In was a difficult endeavor, with many of the ships being moored at the quayside, and so in relatively shallow water - in order to scuttle them, their hulls had to be blown open. The account narrated in this booklet was done soon after the event, and describes the viewpoints of various witnesses. With black and white plates, including photographs of battleship "Le Strasbourg" and cruiser "La Marseillaise", both of which were destroyed that day. ** The author, Yves Farge (1899-1953), was a prominent member of the French Resistance. He was appointed "commissaire de la… Read More

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1995 Sofr Cover, quarto, 149pp. Harold Stanley Marcus (1905 - 2002) was president of the retailer Neiman Marcus, which his father and aunt had founded. He began his book collecting career whilst in college in Boston. Condition: Fine.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Boston/New York: Lee and Shephard/ Charles T. Dillingham, 1890 Reprint of the 1887 edition (12th edition). Hard cover 12 mo in green publisher's cloth with title blocked in gold to front board and in black to spine, with tan floral end papers, 73 engraved illustrations by various artists, including Nat. Brown, C.W. Reed, M.M. Tidd, F. Myrick, E.H. Garrett, F.C. Hassam, and W.H. Bricher. CONDITION: Lacking foldout Map, otherwise Very Good Minus. Light soiling and rubbing and to boards. Text block edges a bit dusty. A few pages within are soiled, (showing use as a guidebook would.)** Full of vintage advertising, as well as numerous engraved prints, many illustrating the author's methods of transport available for the early tourist. Articles recommend travel routes from Boston, some of the perils of camping, favorable fishing spots and the like.**Captain Charles Alden John Farrar (1842-1893), publisher of this guide, trained as a printer in Boston as a teen, later becoming a newspaper editor. His… Read More

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936 Hard cover, in tan cloth with titles in brown ink, with the original, unclipped dust jacket, with mylar protector. 8vo., 508 pp. Chicago author James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was most famous for the semi-autobiographical Studs Lonigan trilogy, completed just prior. He looks at some of the same themes of urban poverty here, writing about several generations of two immigrant, Irish-Catholic American families, the O'Neils and the O'Flaretys. Condition: This is a very clean, Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. There are some chips to the head and spine of the jacket and tape on the top front. The binding is firm and pages bright. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut State, 1985 208pp. Inscribed to front free endpaper - hard to make out if this is the author or not. Condition: Book is about Fine. Dustjacket has a few very minor marks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1957 Hard cover, demy octavo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in blue paper covered boards, the spine in darker blue cloth with gilt titles, First Edition, 138 pp. Protected by the original glassine wrapper (Very Good)and slipcase (Very Good Minus), the book itself is Very Good Plus overall. This has no copy number indicted on the limitation page. Includes frontispiece portrait,title page, diary entries and much of his poetry. ** Author Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) aka "Max Brand," wrote more than 400 full length pulp novels , excelling at western fiction, poetry, humor and journalism. He was also the creator of the character Dr. Kildare, removing o Italy in his later years to write screenplays for MGM. His life story reads like one of his titles. Orphaned at the age of 13, he attended college at the University of California and embarked on a most prolific writing career, using a variety of pseudonyms. He was killed in action in Italy… Read More

Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884 Hardcover. Octavo. pp (2) vi 160. Number 16 of a limited edition of 162. Scarce edition combining two works by James Fea, the second of which is hard to find in the original 1775 edition. Condition: Front hinge cracked. Lower half of spine label missing. Covers dust-soiled. Else near Very Good. ** The author, James Fea, was from a family with deep root in the Orkney Islands. He describes the geography of the islands, its customs and its people. In particular, he shows great empathy with the struggles of the inhabitants to earn a living when much of the commerce was seasonal.. First Edition thus. Hard Cover. Good.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Published for The Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, University of North Carolina Press, 1957 Contains the bookplate of noted historian and author, Arthur M. Schlesinger (whose work is also noted in the Bibliography). Hard cover, 8vo., in white cloth with red illustration to front board and titles in red to spine, 138 pp. Condition: Good Plus. Exterior cloth is somewhat soiled, spine sunned. Interior is clean and firm. Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. and College of William and Mary were sponsors of the Institute from which this conference publication arose. About half the book consists of an extensive bibliography meant to engage potential graduate students to the field of study and lead the way onward to primary sources. William N. Fenton's introductory essay discusses the field of historical ethnography, in relation to our understanding of the peoples of the Six Nations. He discusses the value of source material found in… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1954 Hard cover, 8vo., 111 pp. Limited edition: number 78 of an edition of 250. In publisher's orange/red cloth binding with gold decorations featuring the coat of arms of the Marquess of Winchester. First published in 1930 as "The Heroines of Ancient Persia". Include illustrations taken from various editions of the original manuscript book. Condition: Near Fine. Some ink marks to covers, and rubbing to gilt. ** Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (940 - 1019 or 1025), more commonly known as Ferdowsi or Firdausi, was the author of an epic poem of the story of Iran, the Shāhnāma or "Book of Kings". The story of its creation is itself the stuff of folklore: the Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni commissioned Ferdowsi to write the epic poem for which he was promised a gold piece for every couplet completed. Given the choice of pay-as-you-go or a lump sum on completion, Ferdowsi chose the latter. Thirty years later, he finished the poem and asked for the 60,000 gold piece recompense. The sultan produced… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866 Set of Ten volumes. "New Edition" published 1865, 1866, 1867. Hard cover 12 mo, (5 x 7 1/2 inches) in three quarters tan calf and red cloth, with five raised bands to the spine, gilt with applied leather labels in red and black. Condition: Very Good Minus with occasional loss to applied title labels, light scuffing to the cloth, and signs of shelf wear to corners, some mild toning to a few volumes. Joints firm. Two nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplates to prelims, including J.H.W. Lockhart Ross, who we have not been able to trace, but is likely a relative of John Gibson Lockhart,(1794-1854) another important Blackwood's Magazine contributor in this period, husband to Sir Walter Scott's eldest dauhgter, and whose portrait is the frontispiece to Volume 4. Marbled edges to text block remain pleasingly bright.**The material has been abstracted from Edinburgh's Blackwoods Magazine, where Prof. Wilson was a frequent contributor of essays,… Read More

Chicago: Frank M. Morris, /printed by R.R. Donnelley at the Lakeside Press, 1896 Hard cover, 12mo, (measuring 4 1/2 x 6 inches) in quarter-black cloth over gray paper-covered boards, titles printed in black. Unpaginated, printed on recto only. Limited Edition No 138 of 150 copies printed on Japan vellum paper. Features elaborately hand-colored, medieval-style initial capitals within the text. Condition: Very Good. Foxing to front board, minimally to pastedowns. Light rubbing to spine. Signature of Edwd. Willard to front paste-down in old ink. This is a small press reprint of the Author's self-published 1894 pamphlet of random biographical facts, written to satisfy the child-like questions to which he seemed to be perennially pestered with by fans of his work. An engaging Introduction by his friend and fellow author Francis Wilson, acts, in part, as a bibliography. Eugene Field (1850-1895) Chicago journalist and contributor of humorous essays, known as "The Poet of Childhood," for works such as… Read More

London: William P. Nimmo, 1875 703pp. In three-quarter leather binding with five raised bands to spine and gilt lettering. Comprising works by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), who is one of the first English novelists. The titles in this volume are: "Adventures of Joseph Andrews", "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", and "Amelia". Fielding also wrote many plays, including "Tom Thumb". *** Fielding is known for founding the Bow Street Runners, London's first full-time police force. *** Condition: About Very Good, with some wear to the corners and edges of the covers.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Stromness: John Rae, 1922 160pp.John Firth (1838 - 1922) was a Scottish writer on folklore. Condition: Corners bumped. Owner's inscription to title page.. Hard Cover. Very Good-.

London, Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis , [1913] Soft cover, 12mo, (measuring 3 1/2 x 7 inches) in japanese vellum over paper, yapp edge, the cover design by Glasgow Artist and book designer Jessie M. King, (1875-1949) showing a view of a village with a church steeple at the end of a path going over a rise in the countryside, framed by overhanging branches of Horse-chestnut in bloom. This cover design, unsigned, and with hand lettered titles to both the front of the wrap and the spine, also has a single sprig of horse-chestnut on the rear of the wrap, and is done in black, green, green-grey, yellow, red and turquoise. Inside, the headers are printed in terracotta. Printed Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh. 39 pp., plus iv pp (including 2 pp. publisher's ads.) CONDITION: Very Good.Minus. The wraps are interesting to compare to the other numbers in the series, which show minor variations in the color choices. Overall, very bright and attractive, if slightly soiled to the rear side. Inside, unfortunately there is… Read More

London/ New York: Adam & Charles Black/The MacMillan Company, 1904 Hard cover, large 8vo, in publisher's maroon cloth binding with art nouveau style design of red, green and pink carnations in a vase, top edge gilt, Titles and top edge are gilt. 236pp + 4pp ads, first American edition, stated publication date June 1904. MacMillan listed as American sales agents. CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Spine is sunned, slight dulling to exterior decoration, as well as a drop of white paint on upper right cover. Hinges are fine, and text block is tight. Prelims are browned. Moderately foxed throughout, although the lovely color illustrations are clean, being on different paper stock. Labelled tissue guards protect the 80 full-page color illustrations' vibrant hues.**The book cover design is by Boston-born Albert Angus Turbayne (1866-1940) and contains his signature beetle cipher made of his initials "AT" on the bottom right of front board. Turbayne was considered one of the premier book binding designers… Read More

London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. and E.P. Dutton and Company, [1909] Hard Cover, 24mo, (4 x 5 1/2 inches) in decorated red cloth blocked in gold with a design of falling roses, the titles in an oval to the top board and along the spine, 47pp. undated but circa 1909. Contains four black and white illustrations by the Scottish artist, Jessie M. King (1875-1949.) The cover illustration is not by her. The tissue-guarded frontispiece illustration by King plus three additional black and white full page illustrations within the text, are each signed with her monogramed initials and titled with hand-lettering. Undated, but bibliographer cites a 1903 contract for these illustrations by King, and surmises this particular variation was from circa 1909. (see below) **CONDITION: Very Good, with some small marks to top of boards., more noticeable to rear board. A few signatures are slightly loose, but holding firm. Christmas inscription in old ink dated 1909 to ffep., plus a second… Read More

Boston: Printed by Hollis & Gunn., 1857 Hard cover, 18mo (measuring 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), in publisher's original brown fine ribbed cloth, with blind-stamped borders and foliate design to both boards; title in gilt to spine. 204pp. Condition: Good Minus. Evidence of once being in (or at least near) a fire affects the top edge of the text block, as seen in photos, causing some discoloration. Slightly cocked. Small losses to cloth on top board. Minor foxing to endpapers only. A quarter-sized hole to ffep. also bearing owner's stamp, Issac Dyer, Skowhegan, Maine. The volume is a brief and yet comprehensive survey spanning the history of America. It begins with the fifteenth-century exploration and political settlements of the Spanish and Portuguese, and the later French and English colonies, the American colonial era, through to the political ramifications of the contemporary slavery issues as they affected the conduct of the burgeoning Civil War.**The author, Cyrus D. Fletcher (b.1821) was the… Read More

Paris: Delarue, Libraire-Editeur, 1111 In French. Circa 1900. Imprimerie de W. Remquet et Cie, Rue Garancière, N.5, Paris. Hard cover, 16 mo, finely bound in in half leather with decorative printed tan, white and blue paper -covered boards; the spine in five raised compartments with gilt banding, titles, and three gilt designs with geometric and foliate elements within double bands; cream silk paste downs; black silk ribbon bookmark; no date of issue; all edges gilt; xvi, 212 pp. includes index. Condition: Good Plus. Some wear to corners and at head of spine. Light foxing to preliminaries, light age-toning along page edges, in particular, is uniform throughout the book. A bit shaken. However, the many charming illustrations within combined with pleasing typography makes this still a charming item. ***Author Jean de la Fontaine (1621 - 1695) was the most famous fabulist of French literature.** The artists include Henry Emy , which was the pseudonym of Armand Louis Tèlory (1820-1875), French… Read More