Search Results: Authors starting with F from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Oxford: History, 1964. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. Offprint from History, volume XLIX (1964), pp 171-184. In near fine condition, signed to upper cover by Zaidi and inscribed "To Prof. Robinson with compliments 16.7.64". From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Near Fine 1964

Vermont State Geologist, 1928. Soft cover. Very Good. pp 1-25 An article signed by its author B F Howell on the 'small strip of shale, the St Albans Formation [which] extends some miles north and south of St Albans, Franklin County'. This offprint is signed in the top right hand corner of the front cover - 'Professor Wells with the author's respects.' The text is complete and clean and bound in the original dark green printed wrappers. This forms part of a large quantity of natural historical pamphlets recently acquired by Modernfirsteditions. Very Good 1928

N/A: N/A, 1979. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. [16] Artist's book of linocuts inspired by the work of the Netherlandish artist Peter Breugel. Several of the cuts are signed in the plate 'B.F. [19]79' but we can find no record of the book or its author; no imprint is given. Stiff card wrappers, upper cover with woodcut, twelve full page woodcut images with a few words of engraved text that begins: 'Peter Brueghel, the Artist Saw it from both sides:' followed by a series based on the deadly sins and non-cardinal virtues. A very little browning to the covers, otherwise fine. Near Fine 1979

London: London Transport Board, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine in glossy green cloth. Beautifully illustrated with 124 full-colour plates; artists include Rex Whistler, Dame Laura Knight, Jacob Epstein. In near fine jacket; spine a little sunned. A crisp copy in unread condition. We have recently acquired the library of Harry Horlock Stringer who was a leading British potter at the old Fulham Pottery in the 1950's where he concentrated on earthenware. Later he moved to Taggs Yard in Barnes, south west London, where he built and ran his own school, welcoming pupils and making friends such as Ginger Rogers from across the world at a time when studio pottery was enjoying newfound popularity. Stringer experimented with his own glazes and firing techniques, and wrote a book on Raku, becoming a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, editing the association's journal for a time and exhibiting widely as well as lecturing at home and abroad. Additional postage may be payable on overseas orders.… Read More

Durban: Durban Museum, 1936. 220 x 143 mm. Good. Offprint from the Annals of the Durban Museum, Vol III, part 5, 31st March 1936, pp 1-12. In good condition in marked wrappers, especially the lower cover, with a central horizontal crease, internally clean. Nicely inscribed to upper cover "This describes the little pebble I gave you". Good 1936

London: George Rainbird and Ruari McLean, The Curwen Press, 1954. The Gospel According to St Luke, Chapter 2, verses 1-20, taken from the Authorised Version of the Bible printed by The Curwen Press in black and red ink and beautifully illustrated with line drawings by J F Doeve. A limited edition, one of five hundred copies, designed and produced in Christmas 1954 for the friends of George Rainbird and Ruari McLean, founders of the publishing house George Rainbird Ltd. Printed Christmas card laid in. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt pictorial decoration, protected by a plain paper dust wrapper which is lightly soiled and chipped to the spine end and corners. J F Doeve 1954

London: S.P.C.K, 1964. pp 278 Very good in pale green cloth, spine tanned, occasional light spotting. Bookplate of the Revd Hugh Scott-Charles, and ownership inscription of C J R Armstrong. The text is clean apart from a few ticks in ink to the bibliography and one page of the introduction which has been browned by a newspaper obituary of the author. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1964

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp 709 This is bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes' copy, whose signature and notes in pencil appear on the first free end paper. Near fine in fresh brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. The dust jacket is very good, spine tanned and spotting to upper cover. Extra postage charges may apply as this is a heavy volume. Near Fine 1957

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1931. xvi, pp 1-294. First edition. The autobiography of the legendary rower and coach Steve Fairbairn in its very uncommon dustjacket. The book is Very Good in the black publisher's cloth binding lettered in yellow, boards a little scuffed and spine lightly creased, outer leaves and edges foxed, top corner torn from the front free end paper, no adverts to the rear of the book; with the original mauve pictorial dustjacket which depicts two silhouetted eights in action on the front panel of the jacket. The jacket is good, faded, torn across the front panel which has a small damp stain, chipped to corners and the foot of the spine. Steve Fairbairn is credited with revolutionising rowing technique in the Britain in the early twentieth century through his pioneering work at Jesus College Cambridge and his subsequent publications. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1931

London, Hull and York: A Brown & Sons Ltd, 1910. Soft cover. Near Fine. Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1910, pp233-447 [index]. Near fine in green printed card wrappers, unmarked, clean and crisp throughout. Near Fine 1910

Surrey: Harris Family, 1901. Excellent. Very Good. A collection of portraits of members of the family of Richard Harris of Walworth, Surrey whose coat of arms is reproduced in colour on the second page. Contains 12 10x14cm photographic reproductions of engravings and other photographs dating from c1750- 1910, one per page tipped in to card within an attractive bespoke binding of red leather with gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Very good condition, edges rubbed, the leather is protected by a home made felt cover embroidered with the crest and motto of the family. The engravings are well annotated, the photographs, which include a daughter in ballet costume, are unnamed. Attractive bookplate of Stan Robinson to front pastedown. A most interesting collection. Very Good 1901

Oxford: The University Press, 1842. Lancastrian Parr-Hesketh-Fleetwood-Childers family Book of Common Prayer. Bound in pretty black morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Filled with family ephemera including a printed biography of Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood on the front pastedown, the bookplate of 'Parr Aughton in Ormskirk' opposite with a gift inscription: 'Louise Debonaire Knowlys. The gift of her Godmother Maria Charlotte Childers 1845.' The following blanks have a Parr family and additional Hesketh genealogies. Printed prayers and other inserts with two swatches of childrens' hair from the 1860s have been tipped in before the service for the Burial of the Dead, both daughters of Geoffrey and Annie Nightingale. Manuscript genealogies continue across the final blank leaves. The book was acquired from the collection of the Hesketh-Fleetwood family at Meols Hall in Southport on the Lancashire coast. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1842

Paris, Lille: J Lefort, 1898. Very Good. pp 592 Custom-bound French missal which has been embellished with family mementoes as an aid to prayer and meditation including a 1944 letter written by 'R Sagnieres', a grieving mother, to Lieutenant Cherassus from Embrun in the Haute-Alpes asking for more information about 'la mort de mon cher fils' and begging for the return of some of his possessions, 'son portefeuille, qui doit contenu des photo, Ce me serait une grande consolation...' The preoccupation with physical memories and relics of the dead runs through the volume with thirty or so items contained within the prayer book, each lodged at a page containing an appropriate printed prayer often with extensive finger marking to those pages where the relics have prompted and supported prolonged religious meditation. The book is bound in polished black goatskin with the gilt initials 'R.A.' - a member of the Arduin family - to the upper cover; fleur de lys endpapers; photographs of family members laid in… Read More

Exeter: Unpublished, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. pp 11 An annotated typescript copy of the biography of Richard Thornton of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, 1714-1772 from The London Review: foolscap pages tipped in to a marbled covered accounts book, with related genealogical ephemera. Also typed copies of the wills of Mr Richard Thornton 1778-1865, from the Pall Mall Gazette, and Thomas Thornton Esq of Brixton; Also a family tree, obituaries of family members and a letter laid in from W G Hoskins of Exeter. In very good condition, worn to spine but binding firm. Very Good 1961

London and Manchester: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 200 Calligraphically inscribed volume of Lancashire verse with a handful of authorial corrections to the text. Skelton has dedicated the book on the verso of the first blank: 'Presented to Mr Ralph Rigby, with the Best Compliments of the author, John Fawcett Skelton. Oct.r. 1885' in red ink. In the same hand there are corrections to pp 44, 51, 57, 70, 154, 155, 172, 179, 182. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with decoration in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers. A very good copy of a scarce volume. Very Good 1876

Paris: Le Parti Communiste Francais, 1952. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. pp32 Les Conferences Educatives du Parti Communiste Francais, 2e serie, numero 1. Near fine in printed card wrappers, a few tiny spots to the upper cover. Near Fine 1952

Copenhagen: Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History and Historical Geography, 1964. 220 x 143 mm. Near Fine. Offprint from The Scandinavian Economic History Review, volume XII, No 1, 1964, pp 26-60. In near fine condition, signed to upper cover by the author and inscribed "Professsor K E Robinson, respectfully yours Ole Feldbaek". From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the… Read More

London: Peter Dring; Anne Seile;, 1661. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 394, pp40 and pp103. Three titles by Owen Feltham bound in one volume in clean red buckram with gilt spine lettering, amateur repair to the back strip. Pages crisp although with staining throughout. Armorial bookplate of Julius Charles Hare and Maurice Powell. Very Good 1661

Paris: De L'imprimerie De P Didot L'Aine, 1799. Very Good. pp226 Edition stereotype, dated "An VII" (1799) according to the French Republican calendar, volume I only. In a French Didot binding of red leather with gilt spine lettering, all edges gilt, aqua coloured watered silk end papers, engraved frontispiece, many engraved plates. The soft red leather binding is rubbed to the covers and edges and especially to the spine which is chipped at the ends but the binding is tight. Internally near fine, crisp and clean apart from some stains to the first few pages. This book belonged to the family of Richard Cromwell Warner who has inscribed the first blank with the story of how as a child his grandfather, Richard Warner, had thrown volume II out of the porthole of a ship on the way to the West Indies in order to avoid any further study of French! A beautifully produced little volume. Very Good 1799

London, Durham: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy; George Andrews, 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, pp 1-119, plates. An early scientific study of practical mechanics by Thomas Fenwick, colliery viewer; the third edition to which is added the principles of the conversion of motion. Good in buff paper covered boards, typed paper spine label, boards soiled and upper board detached but the binding is tight, pages clean, errata slip present. Complete with 4 splendid fold out plates of technical drawings. Ownership label of Dr Sydney Ross of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Very Good 1824