Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Bookworm

Mill Valley, California:: Pickleweed Press, 1993.. 4th Printing.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; the spine edge has been reinforced with sturdy clear tape; otherwise in Very Good condition.. 4to (11.75 inches tall) . Glossary, index, bibliography, appendix. Description: Each plant is shown in a large black and white illustration -- photocopies of the plants themselves -- with accompanying notes giving common and scientific names, distribution, habitat, size, leaf and flower characteristics. The book is arranged by sections: Salt Marsh, Brackish Marsh; Fresh-Water Marsh; Riparian Woodland; and Vernal Pool. Designed to provide students, coastal planners, public interest groups, and coastal wetland fans with a useful field tool. Originally published in 1982, this is a later printing.

New York:: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 1996 - October.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: Very Good+ book w/Near Fine dj (dj is not price clipped).. Description: 8vo, 318 pages, panoramic dust jacket art by Royo.

New York:: HarperCollins, 2007.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two color boards -- green with black at the spine; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Mustard colored endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Mark Zug; jacket design by Amy Ryan. Includes a double page illustrated map. This remarkable young author was born and raised in China, moved to New York at the age of seven, and in just a few short years, mastered a new language, and had completed this novel by the age of twelve. The first of a series, this was later followed by Sword Quest and Sword Mountain.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green 'tweed' binding with series device on the front cover; the top edge tint is yellow; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Paul Laune. Sean Fitzgerald had brought his bride and his blooded horses to Mare's Nest, his Georgia plantation, just after the Civil War. He had nailed a horseshoe over the threshold as a charm, but it was little protection, for ill luck haunted the house for forty years. All the Fitzgeralds had 'an eye for a horse', particularly Kevin, Sean's young grandson who, nurtured on Gaelic folklore and the Stud Book, dreamed of the Godolphin Barb. Out of Kevin's dreams and desires came the belief that he could find a horse with a white foot, and in his faith is the substance of magic. The dream became reality and the coming of The Magnificent Barb exerted a magic influence on the careless, impoverished Irish family.… Read More

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a small portion torn from the front free endpaper (about one inch long and an eighth-inch wide); Good condition.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Cover art and interior illustrations by Paul Laune. Sean Fitzgerald had brought his bride and his blooded horses to Mare's Nest, his Georgia plantation, just after the Civil War. He had nailed a horseshoe over the threshold as a charm, but it was little protection, for ill luck haunted the house for forty years. All the Fitzgeralds had 'an eye for a horse', particularly Kevin, Sean's young grandson who, nurtured on Gaelic folklore and the Stud Book, dreamed of the Godolphin Barb. Out of Kevin's dreams and desires came the belief that he could find a horse with a white foot, and in his faith is the substance of magic. The dream became reality and the coming of The Magnificent Barb exerted a magic influence on the careless, impoverished Irish family. Dilapidated… Read More

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green 'tweed' binding with series device on the front cover; the top edge tint is yellow; a Good book, with a Poor dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Paul Laune. Sean Fitzgerald had brought his bride and his blooded horses to Mare's Nest, his Georgia plantation, just after the Civil War. He had nailed a horseshoe over the threshold as a charm, but it was little protection, for ill luck haunted the house for forty years. All the Fitzgeralds had 'an eye for a horse', particularly Kevin, Sean's young grandson who, nurtured on Gaelic folklore and the Stud Book, dreamed of the Godolphin Barb. Out of Kevin's dreams and desires came the belief that he could find a horse with a white foot, and in his faith is the substance of magic. The dream became reality and the coming of The Magnificent Barb exerted a magic influence on the careless, impoverished Irish… Read More

San Antonio, Texas:: Naylor Company, 1945.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: orange cloth with black text; the endpapers and, to a lesser degree, the interior pages are browning; the cloth in the gutter is stained from a reaction to the glue; otherwise a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is faded at the spine.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: Dust jacket art, frontis plate, and interior illustrations by John H McClelland. From the author's introduction: ''From the Texans you meet in the pages that follow, spring today's Texans and the Texas tradition. Those Texans came from everywhere. They found a country big enough to allow their egos to swell without limit. And these same egos have never yet been deflated. The only time Texans were ever licked in combat was in the Civil War, but that was an official viewpoint; the Texans weren't aware of it, and wouldn't have admitted it, anyway. Texans, it is… Read More

New York:: Notable Trials Library, 1994.. Facsimile Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series with semi-uniform bindings; brown with gilt decorations; leather at the spine; raised spine bands; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker; Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index. Marbled endpapers. Description: Includes a laid in two-page letter from the publisher and a laid in bookplate showing this to be copy number 13822. (This bookplate is imprinted with the name of the owner.) This is a volume from the Notable Trials Library under the general editorship of Alan M Dershowitz who wrote a special introduction for this facsimile edition. This was originally published by Doubleday in 1982. The publisher's letter declares, ''A medical murder mystery, a clash of First and Sixth Amendment rights, and an investigative reporter's unyielding principles are brought together dramatically here.'' Book design by Daniel B Bianchi and Selma Ordewer.

New York:: E P Dutton & Company, 1948.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown boards with red and gilt one the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is badly faded at the spine, otherwise very good.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket by H Lawrence Hoffman. The uninhibited autobiography of a Midwest lawyer. Following is taken from the publisher's blurb: ''Full of flamboyant comedy, this outrageously uninhibited book is the product of a middle western lawyer, who got his early training in a saloon, rustling sandwiches and booze for his mentor, 'Justice' Ankrom, part-time blacksmith and ranting attorney of the old fire-eating school. The author's early training has had an influence on both his hyperbolic style and his pungent subject matter. A natural writer, he tells a story with a gifted rambunctiousness of phrase, yet the touchstone of human warmth is the author's own personality, a… Read More

New York:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.. 1st American Edition, 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark green boards with silver spine text; a Near Fine book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Among his many honors, Paul Farley has won the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and the E M Forster Award. He lives in North Lancashire, England.

New York:: Random House, 1952.. 9th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with black spine text and small decoration; small white speckled spots on the cloth; the spine is severely slanted, otherwise in very good condition, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price code on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Milton Menasco. A filly sired by the Black races in the Kentucky Derby. This is the eighth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1956.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: grey cloth with black on the spine; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with black and white drawings; the artist is not identified. When disaster strikes and Hopeful farm burns, Alec and Henry ignore the warnings of experts who say ''The older a horse gets the harder it is to bring him back winning form.'' and pin their hopes for rebuilding the farm on the Black and Black Minx Again, the Black is racing against the greatest horses of the time! This is the twelfth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1948.. 17th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth; dark navy one the spine; the top edge tint is blue; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Keith Ward. This is the fourth book in the Black Stallion series. ''The red stallion stood on the cliff, silhouetted against the bare, moonlit walls like giant statue. His small head was raised in haughty defiance and his long mane, the only thing about him that moved, swept back in the night breeze. When Steve Duncan saw him he knew that there had to be a way to the interior of Azul Island, despite the walled barriers that seemed so impregnable. But little did he dream that his quest for the giant stallion would take him to a lost world and a band of horses whose forebears had carried the Spaniards to their conquests!''

New York:: Random House, 1960.. First Printing, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light red cloth with small black vignette on the front cover; black on the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Harold Eldridge. For years the readers of Walter Farley's book longed for a book where the Black Stallion and Flame meet, and of course, race. And the meeting is all those readers could have hoped for. When the Black and Flame finally do race -- it is not on a race track, and the stakes are far greater than any purse ever offered for they race against death itself! This is the fifteenth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1957.. 9th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with black on the spine; the top edge tint is light orange-ish color; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with drawings by Mal Singer. Alec Ramsay happened to be among the first to see three foreign colts when they arrived in America to be sold. They were so very like the Black that he felt they must have the same sire. Official records declared that horse to be dead, but could he be alive? This possibility drew Alec, Henry and the Black into an overseas trip -- right into a trap! This is the thirteenth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1945.. 25th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: khaki colored cloth with black spine text and small cover vignette; the top edge tint is red; a Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by and interior illustrations by Harold Eldridge. This is the second book in the series. ''A rip-roaring tale of adventure in Arabia'' -- this novel was the basis for the 1983 film in which Kelly Reno once again plays the part of Alec Ramsey.

New York:: Random House, 1941.. 30th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with small black vignette; black text and lines on the spine; the top edge tint is light red (this has a speckled appearance); otherwise a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with drawings by Keith Ward. Walter Farley began work on this novel while still in high school, and it was published while he was still a college undergraduate. He had created the ''most famous fictional horse of the century'', and the beginning of a long, much loved series of stories about horses and adventure. ''The prize-winning story of a boy's love for his horse. Alec Ramsay, a typical American boy, encounters a magnificent untamed black stallion. Little does he dream of the ties that will develop and bind them together, of the adventures they will share, of how they will electrify all America!''

New York:: Random House, 1952.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown cloth with black on the spine; the top edge tint is green; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is very good but for some fading to the spine.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Milton Menasco. A filly sired by the Black races in the Kentucky Derby. Black Minx was coal black and small. Her only disfigurement was a short tail, so short it was scarcely more than a stump. She was the first filly sired by the Black Stallion, yet there were few offers in the sale ring, enabling Henry and Alec to buy her for Hopeful Farm. But Black Minx had a mind of her own, and Henry and Alec had to use every trick they knew and invent a few new ones -- like giving her a false tail! This is the eighth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1952.. 7th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light blue-gray cloth with black spine text and small decoration; a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price code on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Milton Menasco. A filly sired by the Black races in the Kentucky Derby. This is the eighth book in the series.

New York:: Random House, 1948.. 7th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: grey cloth; blue and dark rust colors used on the spine; the top edge tint is dark aqua; owner's gift note on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Keith Ward. This is the fourth book in the Black Stallion series. ''The red stallion stood on the cliff, silhouetted against the bare, moonlit walls like giant statue. His small head was raised in haughty defiance and his long mane, the only thing about him that moved, swept back in the night breeze. When Steve Duncan saw him he knew that there had to be a way to the interior of Azul Island, despite the walled barriers that seemed so impregnable. But little did he dream that his quest for the giant stallion would take him to a lost world and a band of horses whose forebears had carried the Spaniards to their… Read More