Search Results: Authors starting with F from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Hildesheim, Germany: Olms - Weidmann, 1987. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 370 pages of text. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. Minimal spotting to the closed page edges. Contains 20 essays. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare..

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1962. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 309 pages. Original hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. The unclipped dustjacket has tiny chips to the top of the spine from rubbing, minor browning to the spine and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Signed by the author on a special tipped-in page with no further inscription. Kroch's & Bretano's First Edition Circle bookmark included. The text is clean and unmarked. Stated: First Edition..

New York: Sanitary Fair, 1964. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. Civil war; 4 pages; 19.8cm; performance program..

New York, NY: Arco Publishing, Inc, 1985. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 143 pages of text, including an index. Grey hardcover cloth binding. Unclipped dustjacket protected in archival mylar. Contains over 100 patters, illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Quilting, Crafts, Hobbies, Quilts..

London: James Ridgway & Sons, 1837. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xx, 443 pages of text including an index. Original boards are quite darkened, worn and chipped at the extremities, rebacked with a leather spine within the past 30 years. New endpapers. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, one fold-out plate (slightly mis-folded and slightly foxed at the folds), and 39 in-text engravings. Institutional stamp on the back of the title page and on the final blank following the index. The text is clean and unmarked. One of the numerous works written during the 19th Century in an attempt to stem the rising tide of scientific evolutionism. The author argues that no early convulsions of the earth, such as those supposed by the geologists, could have taken place because there could have been no deluge "before moral guilt could possibly have been incurred" or to say, before the creation of mankind. First edition..

New York: Da Capo Press Inc, 1970. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Reprint edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xvi, followed by about 120 un-numbered pages of text. Original green hardcover binding with minor shelfwear. No dustjacket. This is an unabridged republication of the first edition of "The Art of Graveing and Etching" published in London in 1662. It includes as a supplement the title page of the posthumous 1702 edition and the chapter added to that edition describing the construction of the copper plate press and the method of printing plates. With a new introduction by Jacob Kainen. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition of the Da Capo printing..

New York, NY: Dauber& Pine Bookshops, Inc., 1930. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 159 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minor browning to the top edge, and minor scuffing to the rear board; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of the author. With an introduction and notes by F.W. Hodge. The text is clean and unmarked. First thus edition..

New York, NY: Beechhurst Press, 1952. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Quarto (4to). 236 pages of text, including a bibliography of the artist's colour plate books, and an index. Red hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear; clean and bright. Unclipped dustjacket with moderate rubbing to extremities, including several tiny chips, small creases and minor soiling; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with 21 colour plates protected with captioned tissue guards, and 70 black & white drawings. A clean, tight and attractive copy of this publication..

Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company, 1957. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). x, 265 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with numerous chips, tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. Contains 97 black & white illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New York, NY: American Express Company, 1873. Autograph. Very good+ condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Quarto (4to). An engraved stock certificate, issued by the American Express Company No. 10874 for 12 shares valued at $100 each to Chester Hair of Syracuse, NY on February 3, 1873. Illustrated with a vignette of a dog's head. Printed in black ink with orange center background design. Signed in black ink by the president of the company "Wm G. Fargo" and by the Secretary and Treasurer. This certificate was cancelled in 1894, with a stamp on the front, and several cancel punch holes. Neither the stamp or any of the punch holes affect Fargo's signature, which is legible and attractive. The Treasurer's signature is heavily affected by punch holes. In 1844 Fargo organized, with Henry Wells (1805-1878) and Daniel Dunning, the first express company (Wells & Co.; after 1845 Livingston & Fargo); in 1850, Wells became president and Fargo secretary of the… Read More

Detroit, MI, 1874. Book. Michigania; religion; broadside poem..

Muscatine, IA : Prairie Press, 1935. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [vi], 32 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor sunning and shelfwear, mainly to the spine. No dustjacket. Number 174 of 190 copies numbered on the colophon and signed on the half-title page. This copy has an additional lengthy authorial inscription and is signed on the front endpaper and dedicated to fellow poet and neighbor H. Clark Brown, with Brown's Tokaniya bookplate on the inside front cover. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). x, 374 pages of text including bibliography and index. Hardcover binding. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. A few pages creased at top edge from paperclip..

Lake Forest, IL: By Author, 1966. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [iv], 28 pages of text. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal soiling and a surface tear from the careless removal of a price sticker on the front panel; protected in archival mylar. Contains color illustrations by Marion Douglas Farwell. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 254 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor sunning to the spine, numerous small spots of fading to the boards, and minimal shelfwear. The endpapers are lightly foxed. The price-clipped dustjacket is slightly sunned on the spine, with minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Although the page edges are lightly toned, the text is clean and unmarked. The first printing of this publication after Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949..

Towanda, PA: Fazekas Publishers, 1997. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Quarto (4to). 148 pages of text. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of letters. Signed and inscribed by the author on the inside front cover. The text is clean and unmarked..

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2001. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xii, 545 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear. The text is clean and unmarked. Includes contributions by Lindsay P. Cohn, Ole R. Holsti, James A. Davis, Paul Gronke, David R. Segal, Peter Freedman-Doan, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley and others..

Hong Kong: Chung Chi College, 1962. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 402 pages including an index of names and subjects. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Endpapers are illustrated. Chapter headings decorated with woodcut illustrations. Unclipped ustjacket is slightly rubbed at the extremities, with a few tiny tears; protected in archival mylar. Publisher's prospectus laid-in..

Dusseldorf, Germany: Econ Verlag, 1970. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 198 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustajacket with one tiny chip and a few creases; protected in archival mylar. Previous business owner name and address handwritten neatly on the title page. The text is clean and unmarked. Text is in German. First edition..

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1963. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 181 pages of text. Hardcover binding with slight dusting to the top-edge of the closed pages. Unclipped dustjacket shows minimal shelfwear to the extremities, with two tiny tears; protected in archival mylar. Signed by the author on a front endpaper with no further inscription. First edition..