Search Results: Authors starting with F from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1965. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Large octavo, 1088 pages; dust jacket, with price of $10.00 on front flap and a couple of short closed tears; yellow on spine ever so slightly faded. "H" stamped on ffep. First edition, stated.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 247 pages; a lovely copy in a price-clipped dust jacket, with neat archival strengthening on reverse side of jacket.

New York: William Morrow, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust Jacket by Bill Hughes. 224 pp. A Bertha Cool and Donald Lam mystery. Price of $2.95 on front flap.

New York: William Morrow, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. A very good copy with owner ink stamp on ffep, soil covers; 277 pp. original yellow cloth, top edges stained yellow.

New York: William Morrow, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. A near fine copy bound in tan cloth with green lettering and crow spine. In a very good dust jacket with chips, lettering faded spine, short closed tears. 281 pp.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 255 pages, first printing; pictorial dust jacket, with $2.95 price on front flap, and light soiling to rear panel. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

New York: William Morrow, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A Donald Lam - Bertha Cool mystery. 192 pp. A bright, lovely copy.

New York: William Morrow, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. A very good+ copy in black cloth with gilt lettering spine, gilt brick front cover. Mild cover edge wear, gilt on spine slightly faded. 280 pp.

New York: William Morrow, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Ocatvo. A near fine copy bound in original brown cloth with green lettering spine. In a very good dust jacket with small loss at head of spine, short closed tear. 280 pp. A scarce title.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 278 pages; publisher's yellow cloth printed in black - first printing. Colorful pictorial dust jacket art by Charles Lofgren and price of $2.50 on front flap. Owner name and date on ffep.

New York: William Morrow, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust Jacket by Bill Hughes. 224 pp. A Bertha Cool and Donald Lam mystery. Price of $2.95 on front flap.

New York: William Morrow, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. A fine review copy with Sep 23, 1957 date stamp on rear flap of dust jacket. In a very good+ dust jacket with minimal edge wear. 189 pp.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. October, 243 pages; colorful pictorial dust jacket by Charles Lofgren, with price of $2.50 on front flap. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

New York: William Morrow, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Octavo. A fine copy with small, neat owner ink stamp on front pastedown; 277 pp. original yellow cloth, top edges stained yellow.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine copy with minimal age toning endpapers and slight soiling dust jacket. 219pp.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo; original green cloth, 332 pages, with 100 illustrations by the author. Three booksellers tickets; yellow coated end papers; light wear at spine ends. A very good copy.

London: Charles Griffin, 1865. Hard Cover. Very Good. A Very Good hardback Second Edition in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering spine. Mild chips spine tips. Hinges cracked and archivally repaired. Owner bookplate front paste-down. Sm. 8vo. viii, 208 pp. These lectures were given before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1860-61 and constitute the origin of the Christmas lectures for young people that are still given there every year and bear his name.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 247pp., original black cloth lettered in blue and gilt; a lovely copy in an about fine dust jacket, with a 1/8" closed tear at top of rear panel.

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Advance reading copy, First printing. 339pp. Bound in original wraps designed like the first trade edition dust jacket, separation to flaps at folds but not detached and with old dried tape residue, edges and spine rubbed showing some wear to corners with light chipping to head and foot, rear panel darkened around the edges. A very good copy of a scarce and most often fragile title.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. First trade edition first printing, third binding, with variant threaded gray end papers; gray cloth stamped in black and green; with the error on page 327, line 8 is repeated on line 10. Dust jacket with price of $3.95 and without "5/57" on front flap. A fine copy, in a so near fine dust jacket.