Search Results: Authors starting with F from Modern First Editions Boston

U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2001. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. First edition with number line indicating third printing. Fine, completely clean copy. Summary: The Little Ice Age could do for the historical study of climate what Michel Foucault's classic Madness and Civilization did for the historical study of mental illness: make it a respectable subject for scholarly inquiry. How Climate Made History 1300-1850. 272 pages, maps. Examines how climate affected historical events and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that confirms that the world endured a 500-year 'cold snap', the author shows how the increasing cold influenced familiar events from Norse exploration to the Industrial Revolution. 3rd Printing 3rd Printing 3rd Printing

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine copy of Volume II in near Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Norma Farber to front pages. Co authored by Robert Pack, Louis Simpson. Pages and covers are crisp, intact and unmarked. Some shelf ear to dust jacket including 1/4 inch tear at back. The Hatch Poems by Norma Farber. The Irony of Joy Poems by Robert Pack. Good News of Death and other Poems by Louis Simpson.

U.S.A.: Universe, 2000. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine or better, unclipped dustwrapper. First printing with full number line. Unread copy: pages, covers are crisp, intact and unmarked. Very light shelf wear to dust jacket which is nearing As new condition. Oblong 4to. 224 pp; With more than 175 newly commissioned and archival photographs, this book tours eighteen of Ross¿s masterfully designed holes from courses around the United States. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

HarperCollins, 1996. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine plus copy in Fine plus dustwrapper. First printing copy with full number line. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 356 pages, text in English. Fenichell shows how plastic has succeeded in changing everything it touches - and writes about its invention, development and evolving mythology. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Penguin Press, 2006. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. New/New. Brand new copy of stated First US edition. 6.5 x9.5 inches, 808pgs w/index. 49 B/W Photos, 10 Maps. Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Brand New copy of First printing with full number line. 393 pages with Notes, Glossary and Index. A non-technical account of recent astronomical research makes all that is known about the universe accessible to the average reader, in a study that integrates scientific personalities with hard facts, vivid explanations, and authoritative speculation

Chronicle Books, 2003. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. New/Dust Jacket Included. Brand new copy of 4th printing. Dust jacket not issued. Flat signed by by Peter Fetterman to front page. 150 pages, profusely Illustrated with 120 high quality B&W plates; 6.25 x 8.5 inches in size. This jewel-like, clothbound volume is a photographic homage to woman in all her glorious diversity and mystery.The work of dozens of immortal photographersHenri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Willy Ronis, Ruth Orkin, and many more. 4th Printing 4th Printing 4th Printing

U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill, 1977. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. Signed by Author on front page. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Mylar cover DJ. Both book and DJ in mint condition. 0070206384 For detailed description and photos of this book, please contact us. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Viking Press, 1974. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Fine or better copy in As New dustwrapper with original $14.95 price. A first American edition, 1974. Published first in England in 1974. Pages, cover and jacket are crisp and unmarked. Very slight yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide at pages edges, otherwise As New. Protected in clear Mylar cover. 144 pp w/index & sources, B & W/color photographic & other illus., 4to Summary: Martin Fido carefully examines England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature with the publication of Jungle Book, and Gunga Din. He provides a vivid picture of the strange and progressively unhappy life of Kipling, time period of a grim outlook to a country about to go to war, and the complete works of Kipling. Many old illustrations and photos of Kipling, his family, places he visited through the years and important people during wartime. Some color photos of his homes and artwork.

David R. Godine, 1981. Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in like dustwrapper. Deluxe edition, inscribed and signed to half title page by the author. 142 pages with drawings by Amanda Cannell. Robert Finch's selected essays, Common Ground, document one man's impassioned, informed, and inquisitive encounters with the natural world. Finch's locus is Cape Cod, that sandy, scrub-oaked, tough mutable, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean like a gesturing arm

Methuen London and New York, 1981. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. Fine or better copy in As New dust jacket. First US edition. apears unread except for lightly sunned covers- therefore labeled ' Fine or better' instead of 'As new'. 5.5 in.x7.5 in., 122pp, Index. Covers the Western tradition from feudalism to the rise of the working class and socialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. 5th or later Printin 5th or later Printin 5th or later Printin

U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1972. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Stated first printing. Mylar cover DJ. Both book and DJ in mint condition. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Random House, 1980. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Stated First edition, second printing with number line 24689753. Book in Fine to As New condition in Fine to As New dustwrapper. This is really As New copy except for very slight yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide at book pages edges. Protected in clear Mylar cover. Unread, crisp pages and cover. 0394417739 Summary: Extensive collection of letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and to him from many of his famous contemporaries,[to Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John O'Hara, E. Hemingway; from Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, T.S. Eliot, Ring Lardner. and many others to and from well-known literary figures of the twenties, thirties and forties.] often presents both sides of an exchange. None of the contents of the 1963 volume of his letters is included. Extending fromhis boyhood to the last days of his life (Dec.21, 1940),these letters provide, in a sense, an intimate biography of the author and a vivid picture of his times. Of… Read More

U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. Review copy with accompanying reviewer notice and B/W photo of author. Letter from publisher to Reviewer also included. First edition, first printing with full number line. Mylar cover DJ. Both book and DJ in mint condition. 0671472801 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Viking Press, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. Scarce new copy in like jacket. Edition not stated assumed first. Protected by archival clear cover. 224 pages, Indexed, Selected Biography. Illustrated with monochrome reproduction, drawings, photos, documents, maps; pictorial endpapers; family tree. Bagins with the first Winston (1620-88), a cavalier in the Civil War, and his son, who became the Duke of Marlborough, the greatest general of his century and the founder of the aristocratric dynasty at Blenheim. It ends with the death of Sir Winston, but, with a Duke of Marlborough still at Blenheim.

Rutledge Books, 1999. Hardcover. New/New. Brand new copy. 277 pages with biographies of 20 gretaest players of 20th century. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. Author and historian Steve Flink has examined the developing nature of the game as it became a popular amateur sport, and then inexorably entered the realm of professional sports with its large spectator facilities, television coverage, and big purses. Flink has illuminated that evolution by selecting thirty supremely interesting and consequential matches played by both men and women over the course of the twentieth century. He presents them chronologically and provides an in-depth description of each match, including what happened to the adversaries before and after the event.

New American Library, 2007. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. As New. First printing copy with full number line. As New copy. Unread copy, pages and cover are crisp and unmarked. Summary: A novel about the construction of Gothic cathedrals by the author of EYE OF THE NEEDLE and WORLD WITHOUT END (the sequel to THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH). The basis for the 2010 8-part TV miniseries nominated at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, starring Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Macfadyen and Rufus Sewell. Preface by the author. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Peter Pauper Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Fine or better copy in Fine slipcase. Pages, covers and slipcase are crisp, intact and unmarked except for previous owner's name on adhesive label inside front cover. Label might be removable. 124 pages with illustrated header page for each tale. The tales: The river god of Scamander--The muleteer and the Queen--The lady is deceived--The monks of Catalonia--The cradle at the inn--The convent gardener--The farmer's mare--The abbess' slipcase with somescuff and a nice fleuthe pastonspectacles--The progress o f wit--The wife-traders of Rouen--The over-boastful king--The foolish doctor of laws--Putting the Devil in Hell--The earmaker and mouldmender--The cudgelled cuckold--The family mortgage--The lady and the grotto--Catching the nightingale--Tricking th e greedy wife--The eel pie, or, variety--The husband and the horse

U.S.A.: E. P. Dutton, 1974. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing with full number line. Book and DJ in Fine to As New condition. This is really As New copy except for very slight yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide at bottom of book pages and back cover of Dust jacket. Unread copy, pages and cover are crisp and intact. Protected in clear Mylar cover. 0525238956 SYNOPSIS: The King of Saudi Arabia is found murdered. The President of Egypt is also assassinated. Both were struggling to cooperate with the West and were now replaced by extremists who wanted to destroy Israel. The action moves through Europe to the United States where a ship armed with a nuclear weapon holds San Francisco for ransom. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Naiad Press,Tallahassee, FL, 1989. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy, First Edition/First Printing Mylar cover DJ. Both book and DJ in mint condition. ISBN: 0941483479 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing