Search Results: Authors starting with F from Frogtown Books, Inc.

John Murray. First Ed. Blue Cloth. very good. Engravings.

Columbus Ohio, 1896. Bright Blue Cloth. Fine Condition.

Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1851. First Edition. 12mo. Dark Green cloth covered boards with dark green pebbled leather spine stamped in gold. Decorative gold rules. Red glossy marbled endpapers. 219 pp. Red and white headbands. Tooled raised bands. Panels decorated with single gold flower. Some rubbing in spots along joints of spine. Corner tips lightly rubbed. (See photos) Overall binding is clean, tight and attractive. Joints supple. Inner hinges strong. Small stain (see photo of title page) which penetrates prelims. Inscription on upper right corner of title page. Overall a very good to fine copy..

Los Angles Country Museum of Art, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine/fine. Photo Illustrated.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1927. First Edition. Pictorial gray cloth cover stamped in blue and green. 259 pp. 8vo.9" x 6". Extensive index and fold-out map. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. Fine Condition. A clean, beautiful copy.. With frontispiece in color and 61 doubletone illustrations..

Random House, 1951. First Ed. Cloth. Very good plus/very good.

Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1983. Full Leather. Fine.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition of author's second book. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/2". Dark blue cloth covered boards. Decorative blue coated paper endpapers. 319 pp. Small tear to the top of the spine. A touch rubbing to extremities. Some smudging of cover finish. Binding and joints solid but book does require gentle opening. Overall very good..

Toledo, Ohio: Len Beach Press, 1979. First Edition. Mustard colored cloth stamped in brown. 415 pp. including index. Book is fine./Dust jacket has a two 3/4" closed tears. Overall, crisp, clean and very good to fine.. Over 1,300 collectible items are shown with 71 individual color plates.. A compilation of the history and noteworthy wares of Libbey Glass, this book records the heritage of a factory whose prestigious accomplishments often escape the recognition it deserves from curators, dealers and collectors of antique and historic American glass. It is the only updated monolithic book about the business founded in 1818 as the New England Glass Company, moving to a new factory built in Toledo in 1888 after which the name was changed to Libbey Glass Company. Today, as part of Owens-Illinois, Inc., it continues to operate as America's Oldest Glassmaker. Pictorial History pages highlight the people, places and events over Libbey's more than a century and a half history. Milestones are reviewed in… Read More

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. Paperback 8vo. 260 pp. As new.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1931. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/16 x 5-3/4". Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Decorative green printed endpapers. 313 pp. Book is in fine condition./Dust jacket has shallow chipping at top of spine and several closed tears. Dj spine a little sunned. Overall good plus to very good.. With woodcut decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. This is the circle of a certain phase of American life, American beauty, if you will, that began with magnificent Captain Orrange Oakes in the 1600's and ends with the homecoming of old True Baldwin of Chicago.

1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. very good. Carol Ruhl.

Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1984. Original copyright is 1964. This edition printed in Korea for Korean Students only in 1984. Three volumes. Perfect bound 4to. Text in English. All books very good to fine.. Illustrated with many graphs and figures..

Scribners, 1895. First Edition. Blue Cloth. fine.

Scribners, 1920. 1920's. hardback. some chipping to the front cover - otherwise very good. Parrish, Maxfield - 8 color illustrations.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Beige cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in brown and gold. 448 pp. including index. Map endpapers. 28 photo illustrations. Paper clip indentation on prelims. Book is tight and clean and very good./Price clipped jacket has a damp stain along the fore-edge. You can see it in the photo. However, the damp stain is only barely visible along the book's cover fore-edge..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Twentieth Edition, Revised. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Green pebbled cloth covered boards stamped in gold and black. 327 pp. Front hinge tender. Overall condition is very good to fine..

Bonanza. First edition. hard cover. fine/fine.

jewish Publication Society, 1949. A Stated First Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good.

Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1850. 8vo. 7-7/16"x 4-7/8". Blind stamped brick colored cloth covered boards. 354 pp. Frontispiece engraving of the Ohio Penetentiary and several other plates presenting prison life. Some rubbing to extremities and cover. Wrinkled free front endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Tight, very good copy.. The following work, kind reader, was not premeditated, when I accepted the appointment of chaplain to the penitentiary of Ohio; but it came into my mind, at first, as a more suggestion, and grew up into its present form by the force of circumstances, rather than from calculation. Having formed, many years ago, the habit of journalizing the principal events of my life, I found myself at my old practice soon after entering upon my duties in the prison: everything in relation to the prisoners, to the officers, to the discipline of the institution, and to whatever stood connected with it, without any particular intention, was recorded; and, in this way, by the time I had been… Read More