Search Results: Authors starting with F from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xi, 346pp. Fine copy in publisher's illustrated boards mostly in German.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1911. Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. 2, No. 3. Original wrappers. 8v0. 19pp. Original light brown printed wraps in fine condition - uncommon. The diary covers the period during which Fages led an expedition from Monterey northward to the Santa Clara Valley to the head of the bay and then along the eastern shore to a point not far from today's Alameda. (Cowan II pg. 201; Rocq 5680).

Newark, NJ: New Jersey State Normal School, 1933. First Edition. Original wrappers. The issues are dated Nov. & Dec. 1932 and Jan. & April 1933. 8vo. Each issue is 16 pp. Includes business advertisements. Cover artwork by Joseph Domarecki, a student at the college. Later in his life, Domarecki was President of the Audubon Artists and a member of the National Society of Painters and Sculptors and the National Society of Painters in Casein. Staplebound wrappers in near fine condition (joint starting to split on the Nov. 1932 issue). 4 issues of the newsletter for the New Jersey State Normal School at Newark, a 4 year college in New Jersey from 1913 to 1937.

Beiging: Onemoon, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 126 pp. Color plates. Black illustrated boards, without dustjacket as issued. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008. Expanded Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. 95 pp. Illustrations (many in color). Announcement (18 1/2" x 8") for lecture and book signing by David Farmer laid in. Green cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. "...the story of the life and achievements of an accomplished twentietch-century American printmaker whose career in commercial printing and color woodcut illustration came to define the art colony of Santa Fe beginning in the late 1920s.: - dustjacket flap.

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine in dustjacket (slight fading to spine; minor wear to extremities). 8vo. (xiii) 225pp. Map on rear endpaper. Orange cloth in color printed dustjacket. From historian Ralph Bieber's library, SIGNED by him on ffep. A biography of Fray Marcos and his expedition in search of the renowned seven golden cities of Cibola.

Lhasa, Tibet: N.p., 1951. 1st. Wraps. First Edition. Single sheet of rice paper (most likely 19th century), printed on both sides in the Tibetan language. Laid in to a yellow folder printed in black. Brought from Kalimpong, India, by Francis P. Farquhar, for presentation to the members of The Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, November 1951. A fine copy (corner tip of rice paper missing).

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 1st. Hardbound. Fine copy in grey cloth gilt stamped at spine. Octavo, (xiv), 221 pp. INSCRIBED on ffep 'To --- and ---,/Generous hosts, old friends/ models of enthusiasm, & /inspiration/Fondly/Marjorie and Lance/28 August 1994' Laid in is a personal and emotional tls on the author's letterhead.

New York: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 370 pp. Photo Illustrations. Signed by Ms. Farrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft, 1885. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. 8vo. iii, Part I: 118 pp; Part II: 114 pp. Color fold-out map depicting the area bounded by Stockton to Kearney streets and California to Washington streets. N.B - the area of the map north of Washington is roughly torn off & missing. Publisher's plum color cloth with gilt lettering. Fading to spine and partial front cover; wear to extremities; front hinge cracked; previous owner name; tape ghosts inside front & rear borads; 2" closed tear to rfep; a very good copy. Covers cheap labor for California, the opium problem in San Francisco, leprosy, Chinatown in Sacramento, massacre of Chinese in Wyoming and Washington territories, the Chinese question, need of missionary work, inconsistencies of the American policy, Chinese and the Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese capitalists, and much more. The map is of San Francisco's Chinatown, identifies each building individually, and is color-coded to show "joss houses", opium dens, and… Read More

Hildesheim: Olms-Wiedmann, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; xx, 427 pages. As New copy in original red cloth - unread.

London: Tate Publishing, 2002. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 4to. 240pp. Color reproductions. List of exhibited works. Chronology. Bibliography. Faint white spot on front page else fine in fine dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue to accompany the largest retrospective of Freud's work to date bringing together key works from his entire career, including over 180 paintings, etchings and drawings, some not previously published. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

New York: Schocken Books, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 112 pp. Bibliography; biography; Notes. 135 color and black & white illustrations. Translated by A. S. Wensinger and R. H. Wood. Introduction by Tom Fecht. Grey cloth in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Vaduz: Transcommercial Operating & Finance Establishment, 1995. 1st. Fine. 4to. (XXVII), 474pp; 418pp; (XXXVI), 352pp. Original green leatherette with gilt lettering and decoration. Over 2000 entries, each providing family name, color illustration of the coat of arms with symbol explanation, family history, etc. A useful reference for research into family coats of arms.

Saint Paul: Itasca Press, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Fine (page edges slightly dusty) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities with chips at corners; short closed tear).. Small octavo. 338pp. Green cloth in color printed dustjacket. Early novel by Feike, who would later Americanize his name to Frederick F. Manfred; winner of the American Academy Award. A fictionalized account of Feike's time spent in a sanatorium.

New York: Doubleday, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 429pp. Grey cloth in color printed dustjacket. Book is near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; crease lower front corner; short closed tear). The third and most dramatic volume of Feikema's trilogy, 'World's Wanderer;' he would later Americanize his name to Frederick F. Manfred.

Benfleet, Essex, England: F. Lewis (Publishers) Ltd, 1935. First Edition Limited to 200 copies; this copy not numbered. SIGNED by Richter. 4to. 55 pp + 44 full-page plates (including 20 in color); tipped-in color frontispiece. Blue cloth with red lettering in tan & black printed dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket. The illustrations in this volume give the viewer the sense of Richter's keen eye for flower painting as well as "... the joyful painting of sunlit interiors, the bustle of Continental markets and the grey scenes of industrial life and strife..." - Foreword by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014. 1st. Paperback. Octavio; xxi, 305pp. Bibliography; Index. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Illustrations. Stiff illustrated wrappers in fine condition. In the eighteenth century, booksellers enjoyed an unparalleled monopoly on the Parisian book world, leaving little room for authors who wanted to enjoy the fruits of their work alone. However, things changed in 1777; authors finally acquired the right to edit and sell their own works without the intermediary of a bookseller. Although the risks associated with autonomous publishing were real, this practice was part of the journey of a few hundred authors before the revolution. After exploring the various speeches dealing with the emergence of the modern author, Marie-Claude Felton demonstrates how writers from all walks of life chose to keep a stranglehold on the rights and the fallout from their works. She also reveals that the authors-publishers, sensitive to the quality of the books printed at their… Read More

New York: New Directions, 1968. First Clothbound Edition. 8vo. 116 pp. Index to titles and First Lines at rear. Yellow cloth with black lettering in publishers illustrated slipcase. Darkening to spine; rubbing & wear to slipcase; a very good copy. Ferlinghetti's collection of poetry, originally published in 1958, contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato". It remains one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First Edition. 8vo. 280 pp. Photographic illustrations. The front cover depicts Ezra Pound walking in Venice in 1963. Stiff photo-illustrated softcover in fine condiition (faint rubbing; appears unread). Includes articles by Ferlinghetti, Pound and Celine, Rimbaud, Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Frank O'Hara, Alan Ansen and more.