Search Results: Titles starting with F from Keel Row Books

London; Harper Collins Children's Books, 2019., 2019. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR. Octavo, pp. 270, [2]. Illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards in unclipped pictorial jacket; red endpapers. Boldly SIGNED by both Walliams and Ross to title page. A clean, bright copy; Fine book in like jacket. A spoiled girl's parents go on a quest to track down the elusive, jungle-dwelling creature - FING! An action-packed tale by the much-loved best selling children's author, brought to life with illustrations by Tony Ross.

Newcastle Upon Tyne; Mawson, Swan & Morgan, 1889., 1889. Hardcover. Number 28 of the small-paper copies in this LIMITED EDITION of 175, now scarce. Duodecimo. 28,60, [3] pp. 2 fold-out tables ("Expences Occuring in travelling post from Edinburgh to London at nine-pence per mile" and "List of Carriers that come weekly to Newcastle") plus 3-page high water Table for Newcastle Quay in 1778 to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Quarter cloth with paper-covered boards; black titles. Boards lightly surface soiled, rubbed to edge and worn at corners. Sporadic foxing.

London; Tinsley Brothers, 1870., 1870. Hardcover. Octavo. 275 pp. 4 page advertisement section to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Original red cloth with gilt titles and bevelled boards. Staining & soiling to cloth, which is rubbed to edges with very minor loss at head/tail of spine; gilt dull. Light foxing to endpapers and a few sporadic fingermarks. Inner hinge cracked. Gift inscription to title page signed "From the Author" together with his initials. Scarce autobiography from the closing stages of the Franco-Prussian war.

London; Printed by Charles Whittingham for John Murray, 1833., 1833. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, one of no more than 12 copies on India paper. Octavo, pp. lx, 248. 280 head and tail-pieces by Thompson, Landells, Nesbit & others from William Harvey's drawings after Northcote's designs, including portrait vignette to title page with tissue guard. Bottle green cloth (possibly publisher's original) with gilt titles to black label to spine, and ruled borders in blind to boards; primrose yellow endpapers. Edges a little bruised with minor wear to corners and head of spine. Ownership inscriptions of one M. M. Atwood and S. Atwood in pencil to front paste-down and verso half-title respectively, and small bookplate of John Porter to front paste-down. A Very Good copy. The first printing of the second series of Northcote's 'Fables' (first series pub. 1828). Whittingham's practice was to produce 6 to 12 copies printed on India paper; Harvey, who drew the illustrations from Northcote's designs, was engraver… Read More

Newcastle; Printed by E.Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1823., 1823. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (approx 21 cm x 13 cm), pp. [2] Thumb Mark Receipt, xxiv, 376. 188 fable cuts and 135 tailpieces. Superbly bound in full maroon straight-grained morocco with 4 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and decoration to compartments, and gilt fillet to boards and dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Upper corners slightly bruised and spine tips a little rubbed. Armorial bookplate of William Henderson to front paste-down and ownership stamp of M. S. E. Colbourne to first blank. Near Fine: a superb copy in a very handsome binding. A truly collaborative effort from the Bewick workshop: over seven years engravings in Aesop's spring from the hands of TB apprentices William Harvey, Isaac Nicholson, Edward Willis, Robert Bewick as well as the master Thomas Bewick himself; the latter likely drawing all of the blocks. This copy includes the "Thumb-Mark" receipt with seaweed motif and facsimile… Read More

London; William Heinemann Ltd., 1944., 1944. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [4], 129, [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pink-and-white dust-jacket. A clean crisp copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly spine sunned and surface soiled, with a few minor nicks & creases to edge. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. War-time novel by the British and later American author (1916-68), set in a British regiment crossing a barren desert. Scarce, particularly in the fragile jacket.

Gladestry, Herefordshire; Scorpion Press, 2003., 2003. Hard Cover. SIGNED COPY. Number 22 in a Signed Limited Edition of 80 copies only. Octavo, pp [12], 420, [4] catalogue. Dark green half morocco with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. A Fine copy, boldly signed by the Author to limitation leaf. Third title in the Grant County series, with an appreciation by Val McDermid.

Brighton; Brighton Museum/Cameron & Tayleur (Books) Limited, 1980., 1980. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp. 144. Illustrated including 12 colour plates, of which 4 double-page. Pictorial card wraps. Spine and corners creased; lower cover scuffed. Tidy ownership inscription to title page. A Very Good copy. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the same name at Brighton Museum. Scarce.

London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1938., 1938. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. viii, 309. Publisher's royal blue cloth with black titles to spine and black publisher's motif to upper board in unclipped canary yellow pictorial dust-jacket; salmon endpapers. Cloth shows minor water damage and rubbing with knock to fore-edge. Contents clean and bright; no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket lightly soiled and scuffed. A Very Good book in like jacket. 'A story of the old world and the new'.

London; Joseph Robins, 1838., 1838. 16mo (45mm x 33mm), pp., [3], ii-iii, [3], 117, [3]. Complete with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Victoria; engraved title-page and 18 further plates, each with tissue guard. Publishers' dark green calf with gilt titles and cherub and floral embellishments to spine and both boards. All edges gilt. Very minor rubbing to upper board at lower corner; a little light scattered foxing to prelims and peripheral browning to some plates but otherwise am excellent copy. Ownership signature of 'June Elsey' to front paste-down. The title-page states that the work is 'Edited by Robin Goodfellow, Attendant Sprite to their Majesties Oberon and Titania" with the dedication to Queen Victoria signed off by one Robin Goodfellow of 'Moonbeam Palace, Elfinland'. Published as a children's Christmas Bondy describes the work as a pseudonymous compilation by minor authors. The author, in an afterword on the final leaf, asks friends to lend 'literary assistance' to his… Read More

Philadelphia; David McKay Company, 1929., 1929. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED U.S. FIRST EDITION (preceding the U.K. First Edition). Octavo, pp. 225, [1]. Six colour plates including frontispiece, plus numerous line drawings within text including head- and tail-pieces and full page illustrations. Publisher's bottle green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine with printed title onlay illustrated in colour to upper board. Housed in a custom-made black morocco silk-lined clam-shell box, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. Cover cloth stained to lower board, gilt dulled; minor wear to spine tips and corners; onlay slightly scuffed but bright. Ownership name & address to front paste-down. Boldly inscribed to title page "Copyright of the Author in Great Britain witheld, entered at Stationers Hall" in Beatrix Potter's hand, and "Philadelphia" crossed through by her in the publisher's imprint. Inner margin p. 108/9 creased otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy in fine clam-shell box. In 1929,… Read More

London; Collins, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo, pp. 200. Fully illustrated in colour by Michael Foreman. Mustard pictorial cloth with corresponding dustjacket. Very slight wear to corners and spine tips. Free of ownership inscriptions. Some minor nicks and creases to edges of clipped dustjacket. Otherwise Very Good in Very Good. Handsome gift edition of the ever popular fairytales by Alan Garner. With atmospheric illustrations by Michael Foreman.

London; G W Nickisson, 1845., 1845. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Volumes separately paginated : Volume I xvii, [1], 334 pp; Volume II vii, [1],332; Volume III vii, [1], 321, [1], [2] (advertisements). Book Condition: Very Good. Three volume complete matching set in green cloth with blindstamped decoration to boards & spine and gilt titles. Sporadic light foxing; minor staining to prelims Vol I with nick & associated creasing to edge of title page. No annotation or inscriptions. Vol III slightly shaken with weak inner front hinge. Spines lightly sunned and rubbed with minor wear to tips; a few small bumps to edges and corners. A handsome set. Scarce.

London; Michael Joseph, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Number 157 in a limited edition of only 300 copies. Octavo. [4], 342 pp. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Publishers' grey cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. "Exclusive Signed First Edition" limitation blindstamp to title page. Book in fine condition and appears unread; jacket very slightly creased top edge otherwise also fine. Flatsigned by the Author to title page above limitation stamp. Fourth title in the Lorien Legacies series. Scarce in this Limited Edition.

New York; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976., 1976. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. [3], 186. Publisher's white faux leather with black titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket. Light bruising to spine tips and light foxing to page block edges. Jacket is fragile with small areas of loss to edges and several closed tears; Near Fine book in Very Good jacket. Crime Club edition. Collection of 11 stories of mystery by acclaimed crime author, Ruth Rendell, including Venus' Fly-trap and Almost Human.

London; George Routledge & Sons, Limited, Undated.. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. viii, 524. Bound by Relfe Brothers Limited in full polished chocolate brown calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and dentelles with gilt armorial of Sleaford Grammar School to upper board. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Extremely minor rubbing to spine tail and prize bookplate to pdep. A clean, bright copy; Near Fine condition. Handsome prize binding of the origins of popular phrases from a multitude of authors including Shakespeare, George Washington and Sir Isaac Newton, with a contemporary bookplate dated 1912.

London; Macmillan and Co., 1909., 1909. Hard Cover. Ninth Edition. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 1158. Full tree calf by Riviere & Son, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to olive green label to spine, gilt decoration to compartments and gilt border to boards; all edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Spine lightly sunned and corners slightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate to front paste-down; no annotation or inscriptions. Handsome prize binding of the expanded collection of popular phrases from a multitude of authors including Shakespeare, George Washington and Sir Isaac Newton. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Folio Society, 2017., 2017. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. xviii, 378, [2]. Illusrated. Publishers' two-tone black and white cloth with murder weapon motifs to boards and pictorial endpapers, housed in printed paper-covered slipcase. Spine tips rubbed, with bumped head of spine, otherwise a clean bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Slipcase also bumped at upper corner. Very good in like slipcase. Text taken from the Famous Trials series published by Penguin Books between 1941 and 1945, featuring 8 cases including Florence Maybrick and Dr Crippen.

New Haven; Yale University Press, 2007., 2007. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 212. Illustrated throughout with colour and monochrome illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial jacket; pictorial endpapers. Very light bruising to spine tips and slight shelf wear to jacket edge; Near Fine book in like jacket. Dor�'s influence on early 20th century popular culture is examined in depth by three great art curators, in this lavishly illustrated volume. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915., 1915. Hard Cover. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 509, [1], 10 catalogue. 8 plates by Herman Pfeifer, including frontispiece. Publishers' bottle green cloth with gilt titles and decoration in blind to spine and upper board, in patterned green dust-jacket with brown titles. Cover cloth bright; inscribed tidily to front pastedown: "L. Whyte from G.C.W". Light foxing to text-block edge otherwise contents clean. Jacket toned to spine with a few nicks & creases to edge, minor wear at spine tips and 1-inch tear at upper edge of lower joint; Number 821 inscribed to spine. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Novel by the American writer (1871-1947), not to be confused with the contemporary British Prime Minister of the same name. A remarkably well preserved early 20th novel in its original 1915 dust-jacket.