Search Results: Authors starting with F from Caroliniana

New York: Triangle Books, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. Vintage reprint of this hard to find title by Erle Stanley Gardner writing under the pseudonym A.A. Fair. Toning to pages, damp stain to upper corner of text block, dust jacket rubbed and creased, chipped at corners and edges, dj corners trimmed, rear panel of dj completely separated from dj spine.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Book with tape ghosting to endpapers, old glue residue to verso of rear endpaper, in a nice unclipped jacket.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Old bookstore stamp to front endpaper, handwritten lending library notations to front endpaper, paper abrasions where a library pocket was likely removed to rear endpaper. Upper corner of front cover bumped, dust jacket in nice condition with mild rubbing.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. An attractive copy with hint of dust soiling to covers, hint of wear to corners and spine tips, slight rubbing to jacket with a few tiny chips along upper edge of jacket.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with hint of staining to front cover, offsetting to front endpaper, rubbing to jacket, small closed tear to upper edge of front panel of dj, few tiny chips to dj.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with slight page toning, hint of wear to corners and spine tips, rubbing and yellowing to jacket, which is a bit chipped at spine ends, original price of 2.50 intact.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First UK edition. A nice copy with upper corner of front cover bumped, sunning to DJ spine, slight spine tilt.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket, 224 pp. Toning to pages, edge wear and tiny chips along edges to dust jacket, soiling and rubbing to dust jacket, old book store tag on front flap of dust jacket, dust jacket corners trimmed. A Crime Club Selection, Celia Kent returns to Hotel Bienvenu in France after several years to find the building and its occupants in a state of disarray. One guest's pet tortoise disappears, creating a chain of events that lead to murder and leaving many questions in its wake.

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. 8vo, red striped boards with beige cloth spine. Second printing. A good, sound copy with rubbing and wear to boards, darkening and discoloration to spine, light toning and foxing, spine slightly tilted.

Newburyport, Massachusetts: Edward M. Blunt, 1794. Tall 16mo, bound in full leather, 158 pp. Front cover detached, rear joint cracked with upper portion of rear cover detaching, lacking pp. 49 to 57, first few leaves damp stained, binding worn.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Oblong 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, color illustrations. First American edition. Foxing to endpapers, mild cover wear, foxing, chipping and tearing to jacket.

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania: The Record Herand, 1936. 8vo, 35 pp, tan wrappers. Very good, toning to pages, bit of smudging to covers.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. 7 x 4.5", orange cloth hardcover with blue dust jacket, xix, [3], 835 pp. Second printing, part of the Viking Portable Library. Selected by Dorothy Parker, with a introduction by John O'Hara. Very good with rubbing to dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1953. Octavo, original salmon cloth boards in the original dust jacket. A wonderful vintage copy of this Jazz Age Tale. Some foxing to endpapers, large personal ex-library plate to front pastedown, dust jacket with foxing and moderate toning, fading to spine, wear and creasing along edges, chipping to corners and ends of spine, closed tear to front top edge and rear top edge.

Lunenberg, Vt: Stinehour Press, 1980. 4to, with original slipcase, decorative cloth, with Limited Editions club ephemera laid in. Limited, numbered edition printed for the Limited Editions club, signed by illustrator Fred Meyer. An excellent copy, lacking glassine jacket, bit of toning and wear to slipcase, tiny smudge to upper text block edge.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Hardcover, brown cloth, with dust jacket, 473 pp. A very nice copy with owner name stamped to front endpaper, mild rubbing to jacket, tiny chip to jacket at head of spine.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. 7 x 4.5", orange cloth hardcover with no dust jacket, xix, [3], 835 pp. First printing, part of the Viking Portable Library. Selected by Dorothy Parker, with a introduction by John O'Hara. About very good with soiling, wear and bumping to covers, owner inscription to front endpaper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Hardcover, grey cloth, 356 pp. Introduction by Malcom Cowley. Scribner's seal on copyright page, 1951 date on title page and copyright page, original $3.50 price intact. A very good copy with paper abrasion to front pastedown, toning and closed tears to jacket, chip to lower edge of front panel of jacket.

Lunenberg, Vt: Stinehour Press, 1980. 4to, with original slipcase, decorative cloth. Limited, numbered edition printed for the Limited Editions club, signed by illustrator Fred Meyer. A nice copy with mild wear to slipcase, lacking glassine jacket.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1974. 8.5 x 6", cream cloth with gilt, text block edges gilt, 178 pp. A limited edition, part of the 100 Greatest Books of All Time. A very good copy with discoloration to covers, sunning to spine, and hint of soiling to ocvers.