Search Results: Titles starting with F from small volume

Palo Alto, CA: Sweetbrier Press, 1980. New Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 4to. xii [8] 37 pp, [i-ii] iii, 33 pp. The original two volumes bound in one. New introduction by Leonie Bell. Green cloth with gold titling to spine and pictorial black dust jacket. Light rubbing to DJ mainly at folds, corners, and edges. DJ unclipped with price in tact. Cloth exterior and interior text both nearly pristine. With 38 bright color full-page reproductions of Curtis' roses. Laid in at front is publisher's 32 pp stapled pamphlet "A Book List On Old Roses," containing related material offered for sale. Full title: A Facsimile Edition of Beauties of the Rose Containing Portraits of the Principal Varieties of the Choicest Perpetuals With Plain Instructions for Their Cultivation.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Blue cloth in black, white and blue dust jacket. First edition. Discoloration, chipping and tiny tears to dj. Boards gently pushed. PO's inscription in ink to ffep. Seventeen speculative essays on the Earth, The Solar System, The Universe and The Human Mind. Jacket design by Gotfryd. Binding sound.

London: Ernest Nister, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Ellis, Tristram. Large 8vo. Unpaginated [91]. Pictorial boards backed in olive green cloth, with gold titling and cover image of a parrot with open wings. Soiling and scuffing to boards, slight board exposure at edges and dampstain to lower fore corner of both boards, not affecting text block. 2 small closed tears to spine cloth at rear joint, light chipping to spine ends. Pale green endpapers illustrated with butterflies and bees, faded at edges. Small bookseller's label to rpd. Previous owner's pencil inscription to verso of frontispiece. Illustrated throughout, with color frontis and 5 tipped in color plates. Some scattered foxing, heavier near plates. Leaf containing "Tea Party" plate has heavy chipping to edges, likely previously detached and refastened. Text clean, binding sound.

London: Rogerson and Tuxford, 1857. Cloth. Very Good. Small 4to. Plain rust-colored cloth with gilt titling to spine. Six non-consecutive issues of Farmer's Magazine bound together, containing: August 1855, December 1855, February 1856, August 1856, March 1857, April 1857. With 3 fold-out plates and an engraved portrait. Some foxing scattered throughout, heavier opposite plates. Some soiling to cloth and splitting to hinges, binding lightly shaken but sturdy.

[New York]: Henry Holt and Company, 1940. Cloth. Good. Bruller, Jean. 4to. 92 pp. Blue cloth with darker blue printed illustration to front board. Lacking dust jacket. Spine cloth split at foot of front joint, chip to head. Corners bumped with slight board exposure, cloth somewhat faded. Boards bowed, binding shaken but sturdy. Interior very clean, with few small soil marks scattered to margins. Pictorial endpapers and bright chromolithographic illustrations throughout. Translated by Rosemary Benet.

London: Groombridge and Sons. Third Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo.192 pp. [12] Modern rebind in brown cloth with white paper spine label, black titling. Speckled soiling scattered throughout text block. 5 colored engravings. With an account of their haunts, habits, and characteristic traits. From the author of "Nests and Eggs of Familiar Birds", "Beautiful Butterflies", "Beautiful Shells", "Humming Birds", etc. Lacking 3 colored plates.

[Providence, RI]: Eagle Beach Productions, Inc, 1991. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 113 pp. Flexible paper wraps. Light soiling to front and rear wrappers. Start date inscription for filming "July 12th-Start-" in blue ink to front wrapper. In Providence's predominantly Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five men endure the consequences of their choices. Originally shot and released in theaters in black and white; distributor required the film to be colorized for the video release, against director Michael Corrente's will, making it the only film made by a still-living director to be colorized.

Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 304 pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Scuffing to front and rear wrapper. An in depth analysis of the female sexual deviant. Complete and unexpurgated. Foreword by Dr. S. Wolman.

New York: Pinnacle Books, 1971. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Illustrated paper wraps. 188 pp. [4] Scuffing to wrappers, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Misogynistic dystopian fantasy novel from the author of "My Lady Evil" & "A Reunion of Strangers

York, Maine: Volunteer Veteran Firemen's Association, 1957. Limited edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 68 pp. Red paper wraps. Front and rear panel sunned. Interior clean. Limited numbered edition of which this is No. 374. Brief history of the Volunteer Veteran Firemen's Association of York, Maine. Music and Lyrics for 77 songs of the firefighter.

Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 1871. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 32 pp. Beige paper wraps. Discoloration to front and rear wrappers, chipping at corners and spine ends, faint foxing to title page. Fund Publication, No. 6. A recounting of stories Latrobe was told as a child from his eldest sister regarding her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, who in 1811, built and operated the "New Orleans," the earliest boat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in a fortnight. Latrobe himself an inventor, created the "Latrobe Stove", a coal-fired heater that could insert into an existing fireplace.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Cloth. Very Good. 24mo. 46 pp. Tan cloth with brown titling. Light soiling to cloth, damp stain at hinge. Binding sound. Novelette set in the woods of New Hampshire from entomologist and author, Annie Trumbull Slosson.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1887. Very Good. 12mo. 305 pp. Rust orange cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine, small landscape tableaux in black at top edge of front board, bordered in gilt. Light soiling, darkening to spine cloth. Corners bumped, spine ends lightly chipped and frayed. Some wrinkling to cloth at boards. Floral endpapers. Interior uniformly toned but clean. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "Rev. A.J. Chaplin / With the kind wishes / of the Author / Dec. [?], 1888." Previous owner's (F.P. Chaplin) name in faded brown ink to half-title.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915. Wraps. Good. 8vo (23 cm x 15 cm). 31 pp. Stapled pamphlet with printed paper wraps, lightly browned and curled at edges. Ex museum library, with deaccession stamp dated 1916 and removal mark from withdrawn sticker to top edge front wrapper. Interior lightly toned but clean. Contribution from the Bureau of Entomology, L.O. Howard Chief. Dated August 14, 1915. With numerous enlarged figures showing the flea's anatomy and life cycle.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1960. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 160 pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. First edition. Moderate soiling to front and rear panels, creasing at spine. Pages toned, mottled soiling to top edge of text block. Pulp novel of an adolescent girl meeting a mature sailor at a church dance on the precipice of her entering a convent. Cover painting by Victor Kalin.

Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1839. Wraps. Good. 2.7 x 4.25" 64 pp. Tan wraps. Chipping and soiling to wraps, heaviest along spine. Light foxing throughout. Parable of a family with an alcoholic patriarch winning over their devout neighbors.

New York: T. B. Harms & Co, 1890. Sheet Music. Good. 14 x 11 in. folded quire, 8 pp. Cover printed with decorative black text. Previous owner's name in ink to top edge of front panel. Splitting to spine fold, mended. Light chipping to edges, faint staining throughout.

Lowell, MA: H.B. Greene, 1900. Pamphlet. Very Good. 14 cm x 9 cm white paper card bifolium. Front printed in red and dark teal, with floral art nouveau decoration. Inside verso holds a single pressed bean flower, appx. 12 cm in length. Small break in stem at top, leaves and petals browned. Recto has a Bible verse from 2 Samuel 17: 28, 29: "Brought wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and Beans, and lentiles...." Exterior lightly soiled, spine crease rubbed, corners gently pushed. Reverend Harvey B. Greene of Lowell, Massachusetts collected, preserved, and distributed these flowers from Palestine, a popular souvenir of the early 20th century.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Green, Elizabeth Shippen. 8vo. [4] 39 pp [1] + frontispiece and 2 color plates. Yellow-green publisher's cloth binding with green titling and ruling, paste-down cover illustration. Rear board sunned. Interior clean.

New York: Scribner & Welford, 1880. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Good. 8vo. 18 cm x 23.5 cm. Unpaginated [32 pp,] Floral pictorial boards backed in yellow cloth. Scuffing and soiling to boards, heaviest at corners. finger soil to margins. Partial ink transfer from floral images to opposite page of a few leaves scattered throughout. 32 chromolithographic leaves designed by Viola [Giraud, Elizabeth Jane] and printed by Emrik & Binger.