Search Results: Authors starting with F from Alba's Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Groundbreaking study of the role of tin in modern society by a noted authority and economist. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is fine if price-clipped. In a Mylar plastic cover.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth with white titles and white and red design of a villa in the woods. Novel about a Lucia-like character by the author of the Lucia series. A clean, unmarked, bright copy free of chipping to the designs. Extremely scarce.

New York: Severn House, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Trevor Newman. A sensitive novel of a woman's affair with her husband's brother. Has all the first edition points. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked in a Mylar jacket cover.

Hudson Hills Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Quarto . Yvonne Jacquette Color Plates. The definitive work on Jacquette, with splendid color reproductions. A superb copy, unmarked and tight.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. First American Edition-Second Impression. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto . Plate Illustrations. Original maroon gilt cloth. Same format and quality as the first printing of 1942. A clean, unmarked, tight set in a fine slipcase.

New York: Random House, 1940. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo.

New York: The Macmillan Publishing Co., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Stated first printing. The story of five Black citizens of Washington, D.C., four of them teens, who changed education in their high school. A fine if price-clipped copy, clean and unmarked in the Mylar jacket cover.

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece. Out of print

Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Well-written stories of Black Chicago. A superb copy in a Mylar dj cover.

The Geological Society of America, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographic Plates. A superb copy, clean and tight. Bulky volume (765 pages); requires extra postage. Contact us.

E.P. Dutton, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Will G. Mein Woodcuts. Superb plates by Mein. Original green gilt designer cloth with gilt pastedown picture of a road, gilt top foreedge, tissue interleavings and deckle edged text. A clean, unmarked, tight copy, scarce thus.

London: The Citadel Press, 1948. First CP Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Duodecimo. Helen Monro. A beautiful edition of this classic, with superb woodcuts by Helen Monro (wife of Harold Monro, of The Poetry Bookshop). A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

London: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Definitive biography of the 19th Century German novelist and folklorist. Book is fine and unmarked in bright spine gilt. Price clipped jacket is foxed at edges and spine but protected by a plastic cover.

New York: (GRACE) The Wise-Parslow Company, 1927. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Johnny Gruelle. Original quarter red cloth and pictorial boards in the rare dust jacket with $1.00 flap price. Engaging children verse illustrated and designed in the style of the Raggedy Ann books. Rubbing to board and jacket edges; small chips to spine tips; else a whole, clean and bright copy in a Mylar jacket cover. Very scarce.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece; Charts and Tables. A series of lectures on chemistry given at Cornell by an eminent German scientist. Original blue gilt cloth. A clean, unmarked copy.

Washington: U.S. Cuba Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. An important resource for scholars of the Cuban Revolution and U.S.-Cuba relations. With extensive index. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo. Cited as a landmark horror story in Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 621, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 148. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2- 27. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-84. Bleiler (1978), p. 70. A superb copy, clean, unmarked and tight.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Fritz Kredel. Book is fine and unmarked. jacket has a tiny chip to the middle edge of the spine and a small corner nick, and is otherwise fine and protected by Mylar plastic. An attractive oldie.

J.H. Sears, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. Photographs. Biography of the Chaplain-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War. Much of interest to Civil War scholars, especially concerning U.S. Grant. Rare photographs.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto . Guy Arnoux. Original black cloth with title label. Beautiful period bookplate. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.