Search Results: Authors starting with F from Peter Ellis bookseller

Faber and Faber, London.. Folding sheet with three of the panels printed with colour views by V.H. Drummond. There are two views of Russell Square, the home of Faber and Faber, and one of Woburn Square.No inscription. Fine.

Face Photosetting, London., [1968]. First edition. 367 sheets of coarse brown craft paper, each measuring 14 x 14 cm, between a title-sheet and a card backing. A strip of paper holds the sheets together. All but two of them bear photographic image, each associated with a particular date. For instance, the very first shows the window of a first class train compartment. Other numbers are derived from photos of racehorses, greengrocer labels, bus stops, sex shows, doorways, gravestones, etc, etc. A number of photographers contributed to the project. On the front sheet and one of the edges is an inkstamp of the logo of the company Face, which was founded in this year by John McConnell to take advantage of a now-defunct method of printing. A quirky production, not least in the decision to put the publishing details at the end of February.Fine in the original sturdy card mailing box. Rare.

The Sceptre Press, Knotting., [1977]. First edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Wrappers.Out of a total edition of 150 numbered copies this is one of 50 signed by the author.Fine.

The Sceptre Press, Knotting., [1979]. First edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Wrappers. A poem.Out of a total edition of 150 numbered copies this is one of 50 signed by the author.Fine.

Words Press, Childe Okeford., 1988. First edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Wrappers. Issued as Mir Poets 7.One of 75 copies signed by the author.Covers faintly faded at the edges, otherwise fine.

Turret Books, London., 1967. First edition. Octavo. 22 pages. Plain wrappers.Number 1 of 50 copies signed by the author.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Printed by hand at the Temple Sheen Press, [London]., 1912. First edition. Octavo. 32 pages. Grey wrappers. These ''home-made fairies'', appearing to a little girl in short tales of a weirdly calculating artlessness, are what we now know as imaginary friends.Covers creased and nicked at overlapping edges. Good. Very scarce - Copac lists only the copy at the British Library.

Privately printed, [London]., [1933]. Second edition. Octavo. 79 pages. Original green wrappers, printed label on upper cover. 500 copies were printed. The first printing of 1930, in grey wrappers, was almost entirely destroyed. According to a pencilled note on the title-page this copy was discovered in Lincoln Prison book shop.Covers a little creased at edges. Near fine.

The Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1977. First edition. Octavo. 33 pages. Introduction by Alan Bell. Illustrations by Jonathan Clarke. Printed on white Glastonbury paper. Marbled wrappers with no titles.Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, this copy being out of series, but with the words ''proof copy'' written in by the printer Alan Anderson.Fine.

Fantasy Press, Eynsham., 1954. First edition thus: illustrated with line drawings printed in red by Oscar Mellor who is also the publisher of the book. Octavo. pp [x], 112. Blue cloth with device in silver on front. Number 32 of 170 copies.Publisher's own copy: his signature on front free endpaper, together with ''file copy'' ink stamp. This is the most ambitious of Mellor's printing projects.Pastedowns faintly spotted. Near fine. Probably not issued in dustwrapper.

Fantasy Press, Eynsham. Autumn,, 1952. First edition. Octavo.12 pages. Stapled wrappers. Poems by Robert Bly, Martin Seymour Smith, Simon Broadbent, Elisabeth Jennings, Michael Shanks, A. Alvarez, Jenny Joseph, F. George Steiner, Alistair Elliott and Donald Hall. Staples rusted. Near fine.

Fantasy Press, Eynsham. Autumn,, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 12 pages. Stapled wrappers. Poems by Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Elizabeth Jennings, John Bayley and others.Staples rusted. Cover edges faintly faded. Near fine.

Fantasy Press, Eynsham. Summer,, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 12 pages. Stapled wrappers. Poems by Edward Lucie-Smith, Elizabeth Jennings, George MacBeth, F. George Steiner, Adrienne Cecile Rich and others. The publisher Oscar Mellor's own copy, rubber-stamped "File Copy" on upper cover and with his ownership signature on the title-page.Staples rusted. Very good indeed.

Treovis Press, Liskeard., 1980. First edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Sewn stiff wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies.Fine.

Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire., 1994. First edition. Octavo. pp [16]. Three poems by U.A. Fanthorpe and three wood engravings by Simon Brett. Pictorial boards. Prospero Poets series.One of 99 numbered copies signed by the poet and the artist.Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper.

Collins, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. A crime novel.Edges spotted. Very good in very good dustwrapper just a little rubbed and nicked at edges.

Collins, London., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. A murder mystery.Edges spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly marked dustwrapper with a short closed tear at top edge of lower panel.

Michael Joseph, London., 1948. First edition. Octavo. 163 pages. Pictorial headpiece decorations and dustwrapper design by Reginald Woolley. Two pages chipped at bottom corners, not affecting text. Tail of spine slightly bumpoed. Very good in slightly dusty, price-clipped dustwrapper with several small nicks.

Anglo French Music, London., [1919; 1921]. First editions. Quarto. Two volumes. pp 16; 15. Colour pictorial wrappers. A total of twenty-three songs with sheet music.Spines rubbed and starting to split. Foxing to covers. Very good.

Collins, London., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. A crime novel.Prelims and edges lightly spotted. Very good in very good, nicked and marked dustwrapper.