Search Results: Authors starting with F from Sawtooth Rare Books

Sydney: Picador, 2005. First Australian edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Australian edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A well reviewed novel that looks at the life of Frederick Benteen 20 years after his commander, George Armstrong Custer, is killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

New York: Putnam, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's debut book, a collection of stories about women who are waiting at Ft. Hood, Tex. for their men to return. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Slight foxing to endpages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket.The story of the lifelong relationship between W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Near fine book in a close to fine dust jacket. Signed by Fast on the front free endpaper.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Chipping to the spine ends of the dust jacket and wear to the extremities. Close tear at the bottom of the front panel. A novelization of the life of John Peter Altgeld, a German immigrant who became governor of Illinois and was controversial supporter of progressive causes.

New York: Random House, 2011. First British edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First British edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The first British edition. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. A beautiful group of black and white photos. A collection of about 100 portrait photos, many of them beat poets. Prologue by Gary Snyder, Forward by Robert Creeley and Afterword by Williams E. Parker. Signed by Gary Snyder, Carolyn Forche and Ann Waldman.

New York: Soho, 1991. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Advance Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in illustrated wrappers. An unread copy of the the advance issue of the second book by Fergus. This copy belonged to novelist Ivan Doig who contributed a blurb for the hardcover edition. Laid into the book is a series of correspondence between Fergus and Doig concerning the review. Doig's blurb for the book is handwritten on the half-title page of this book. An interesting association.

New York: New Directions Books, 1968. Later printing. Later printing. A trade paperback. A near fine copy of the fifth printing with only wear to the extremities. Signed by the author on the half title page and dated in 1997. Signed by the author.

Bisbee, AZ: Bisbee Press Collective and Cochise Fine Arts, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Paperback. First edition. Original photo-illustrated, staple bound card wrappers. Tissue endpapers. Minor creasing to wrappers, else near fine. Limited to 1000 copies, this with the two stanza colophon. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper. Signed by the author.

Harper & Bros, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Light offsetting to the front pastedown. Sunning to the spine.

New York: Putnam, 1969. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine, tight copy in a bold and bright dust jacket. Contains more than 140 receipes.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A pristine, unread copy.

Caldwell and New York: Caxton Printers and Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Pen marks on rear paste down. Four corners of jacket clipped but price of $2.50 is intact. An excellent example of this fragile dust jacket.

New York: Vintage, 1985. First edition. First edition. A fine book in illustrated wraps. A paperback original and stated first edition. This is a paperback original and marks the introduction of Frank Bascombe, 38, who would wind up again in Ford's Pulitzer Prize winning Independence Day and The Lay of the Land. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Ecco, 2012. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. By the author of Independence Day and Lay of the Land. Signed by the author on the half title page.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Advance Reading Copy. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book in illustrated, printed wrappers. Appears to be unread. This was an early edition, promoting the trade copy of Richard Ford's first book. Ford went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2009. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Richard Ford's trilogy of Frank Bascombe novels--The Sportswriter, Independence Day and Lay of the Land--are collected in one volume in this lovely copy. Signed by the author on a laid in bookplate.

New York: Atlantic, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. The author's first story collection, 10 sharply written stories set largely in Montana. An interesting association copy. Signed and inscribed by the author to fellow writer Chris Offutt: "For Chris, from Richard. With admiration. Great Falls. November 1997." Signed by the author.