Search Results: Titles starting with F from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, top edge lightly soiled, dust jacket lightly creased, chipped, and scuffed, still very good. LMM-225. Raymond Mungo. Famous Long Ago. My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. First edition. Pencil signed by Larry McMurtry and dated 1970. Octavo. 202pp. Publisher's orange paper-covered boards, blind-stamped to front cover, purple cloth spine printed in yellow, original unclipped dust jacket showing list price of $6.95. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Minor shelfwear; slight offsetting to endleaves; jacket lightly toned and creased. Very good. AYW-233. William Goldman. Father's Day. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. First edition. Octavo. 215pp. Publisher's yellow cloth, stamped in blue and black to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $5.95. From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). His personal copy, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .

Light sunning to spine and board edges; slight sunning to boards; gently bumped to upper board edges. Very good. SJK-394. Glen Beck. Rockwell Kent, illustrator. Fifty-Years: A. B. Dick Company 1884 - 1834. Chicago: Privately printed at the lakeside press, 1934. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated with drawings by Rockwell, b/w photos. Publisher's blue decorative cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover.  .

Sunned to spine; extremities gently rubbed and edgeworn; slight offsetting to endleaves; light uniform toning throughout. Very good. LMM-249. Bryher. Film Problems of Soviet Union.  Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland: Pool, 1929. First edition. Small octavo. [140]pp (indexed). Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth McPherson. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Sunned to spines; extremities gently rubbed and edgeworn; front joints cracked to volumes one and three; light toning, scattered foxing throughout; ink ownership stamps to front free endpapers. About very good. LMM-254. Ove Brusendorff. Filmen: Dens Navne Og Historie (Movies: Titles and History), Vols. I - III.  Copenhagen: Universal-Forlaget, [1940]. First edition. Three small quarto volumes. 432; 427; 448pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos, film stills. Contemporary red half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt to spines; all edges speckled red; endleaves in brown. Text in Danish. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Light wear to boards and jacket, else fine. LMM-426. Patrick O'Brian . William Waldregrave, foreword. The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, Including Facsimile if the Manuscript. London: HarperCollins, 2004. First edition. Quarto. 136pp. Publisher's blue cloth, copper-colored lettering to spine, patterned endleaves, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of £18.99.  From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

A fine copy. CDK-423. [Mormonism] The First Mormon Book: A Celebration of the 1830 Book of Mormon with an Original Leaf. Salt Lake City, UT: Benchmark Books, 2000. Limited edition, No. 264 of 290 numbered copies. Quarto. 26pp. Publisher's flecked blue Japanese bookcloth, printed title label to spine. Housed in matching custom slipcase.

Light rubbing to extremities; minor uniform toning throughout; some wrinkling to pages along gutter; jacket rubbed, darkened, and torn, starting to front cover panel. A very good copy in a good jacket. LMM-183. Robert Byron. First Russia Then Tibet. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo. 328pp. Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .   .

Slight spine lean; gently rubbed to boards; minor toning. Very good. SJK-54. Fleur Cowles, editor. Flair Annual for 1953. [Des Moines, IA]: Cowles Magazines, Inc.  1952. First edition. Quarto. 229pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's decorative red cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and boards, gilt and white with die-cut window to front cover, illustrated endleaves. .

Light rubbing and wear to spine and boards, with slight loss at spine head; light dampstaining to front endpapers; scattered staining to textblock edges. Still, very good. SJK-406. Kirk Munroe. Frank E. Schoonover, illustrator. The Flamingo Feather. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First illustrated edition.  Quarto. 222pp. Illustrated with color plates by Schoonover. Publisher's dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, illustrated pastedown to front board, illustrated endleaves. .

Minor wear to boards, ink ownership inscription to verso of half title, jacket a bit soiled and torn. Very good. KWH-372. Katherine Anne Porter. Flowering Judas and Other Stories. New York: The Modern Library, 1940. First Modern Library edition.  Twelvemo. 285pp + 7pp catalogue. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket. .

Minor wear; slight sunning to spine ends and board edges; light wear to jacket, with small (1/4 inch) closed tear to rear panel. Very good. AYW-290. Daniel Keyes. Flowers for Algernon. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. First edition.  Octavo. 274pp. Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in blue to spine, endleaves in orange, original unclipped dust jacket.  From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). His personal copy, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .

A fine copy. HFP-152. Ronalds, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher's Entomology, with Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect, and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling-Fishing. London: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1993. Facsimile edition, one of 1,000 copies printed.  Octavo. 132pp. Blue quarter leather over cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original slipcase.  .

Slight sunning to spine and board edges; gently bumped to upper corners; price-clipped dust jacket lightly chipped and soiled. Very good. CDK-100. Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only. New York: The Viking Press, 1960. First American edition. Octavo. 218pp. Publisher's green and yellow cloth, stamped in red to spine and front cover, original dust jacket with cover art by Richard Chopping. .

Extremities gently rubbed and bumped; creased to spine; light offsetting to endleaves; ink ownership signature to first blank; jacket toned and torn. A very good copy in a good jacket. LMM-260. Dr. Eric Mjöberg. A. Barwell, translator. Forest Life and Adventures in the Malay Archipelago.  New York: William Morrow & Co., 1930. First American edition. Octavo. 201pp. Illustrated with b/w photos, folding map. Publisher's brown cloth, blue printed paper title to spine, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $4.00. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Minor shelfwear, else fine. CDK-59. Isaac Asimov. Foundation's Edge. Binghamton, NY: Whispers Press: 1982. Limited edition, No. 917 of 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by Isaac Asimov and designer-publisher Stuart Schiff. Octavo. 366pp. Publisher's quarter leather over beige cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. .

Very good. CDK-77. Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1951]. Book club edition. Octavo. 679pp. .

Darkened and stained to spine; light rubbing and soiling to boards; small tear to cloth at spine head; uniform toning throughout; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; lacks dust jacket. A very good copy. JHN-118. Mary W. Shelley. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1931. Photoplay edition. Octavo. 240pp. Illustrated with b/w stills from the 1931 Universal film. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in black to spine and front cover. .

Spine chipped and peeled with areas of loss; the last leaf, in leather, is adhering to rear leather pastedown; slipcase abraded, with leather loss to edges, leather top and spine chipped and peeled, spine seam cracked, top panel separated entirely, felt lightly soiled to fore-edge; A very good copy (and a completely unique overall package) in a somewhat damaged slipcase. LMM-251. Arnold Bennett. E. A. Rickards, illustrator. From the Log of the Velsa.  New York: The Century Co., 1914. First edition. Small quarto. 307pp. Illustrated with pictures by E. A. Rickards, color frontispiece from a painting by Arnold Bennett. Rebound in 1938 by Reese Carlile David, with wood inlay pictorial wooden boards, leather spine with six bands, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, leather end leaves. Housed in a custom slip case with leather edges, marbled paper covered boards, lined in green felt.  Inscribed to half-title: Presented to Dr. Joseph L. Miller, M. D. / of Thomas, W. Va. / By Reese Carlile… Read More