Search Results: Authors starting with F from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Norfolk: Crippen & Landru, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 200 copies signed by Faherty on the limitation page and with the separate pamphlet "Good Night, Dr. Kobel." Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($42.00). Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of six short stories and a novella from the Edgar Award-nominated author.

New York: Grove Press, Inc. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, bumped at the corners, tidemarks at the foot of the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, stain at the bottom edge, former owner's name and sticker on the first page, clean otherwise.

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally soiled, multiple tears and chips to the edges. Quarter green cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded at the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, dark blue top stain, clean internally. Farina's picaresque novel written during his college years and published the same year as his untimely death.

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly toned and soiled, a tear at the front spine fold. Blue buckram, toned at the spine and edges, bumped at the bottom corners. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Farjeon's novel about mysterious underground noises near the sea.

Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Louis McKee on the title page. Fine. Pictorial wraps with a two staple binding. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first issue of this literary magazine. Featured here are poems by McKee, James Wright, Greg Geleta, Joe Farley, Penelope Douglas, and others.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. U2192. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, lightly soiled at the back panel. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A paperback original combining philosophy, religion, sex, and satire.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1961. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 507 K. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, bumped at the top edge of the back panel. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A paperback original expanding on Farmer's short story of the same title.

Peoria: The Ellis Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Preface by Farmer. Near Fine. Wraps faintly toned. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first entry into the Philip Jose Farmer Society Series, this work includes Jesus on Mars and Riverworld War.

New York: Playboy Press, 1981. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed, a shallow crease down the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Farmer's "authoritative account of the greatest hero in pulp history.

Menomonee Falls: Shadow Mountain, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dan Farr. Signed by Dick Van Dyke on the Introduction page. Fine in a fine jacket.The story of a young bully learning the meaning of the Christmas spirit through a visit from the magical toymaker, Mr. Finnegan.

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Signed by Farrell on a tipped-in page. Fine in the publisher's leather binding with gilt designs. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark.

New York: Avon, 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. First printing. About very good in wraps, edgeworn and with surface rubbing. Square and firmly bound with the usual toning. One of Farrell's vivid portraits of Chicago life during the early years of the 20th century.

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and surface. Quarter black paper with black paper on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning work on sexual predators in Hollywood. A foundational text of the "Me Too" movement.

New York: Vintage Books, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed, a faint crease through the front wrap. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Faulkner's last novel, one that received the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. Adapted into the 1969 film starring Steve McQueen.

New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine. Quarter red buckram, faded at the spine, with patterned paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally. The chronological predecessor to Sartoris, a novel set in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Originally published as short stories in various magazines in the 1930s. As could be said about many of Faulkner's novels, The Unvanquished is the story of Southern characters who "survive the war by many years, but never escape its influence.

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges. Green buckram with black ink panels and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, a few instances of marginalia. The first collection of Faulkner's hunting stories, including "The Bear.

New York: Liveright, 1954. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, lightly rubbed, a ghost stain on the front flap. Dark blue buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first published novel from the Nobel Prize-winner.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, generally toned and stained, shallow chips at the edges. Orange cloth, faded a shade on the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. The first UK edition of Faulkner's second major short story collection.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First state binding. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly toned. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Square and firmly bound with a faint blue-gray top stain, clean internally. Volume Two of the Snopes Trilogy, consisting of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. In typical Faulknerian fashion, a novel of a family in Yoknapatawpha County that sees itself up against post-Civil War modernity.

Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Introduction by Carvel Collins. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, toned at the spine, closed tear at the top edge of the front panel. White cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first trade edition of Faulkner's novel originally written in 1926, a fable of a medieval knight searching for his fated lover.