Search Results: Authors starting with F from Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

A small portfolio of women's fashion designs broken into four folders of loose plates, 20 plates per folder for a total of 80 plates. This copy missing one plate from the second series (1905-1910). Beautifully hand colored pochoir plates illustrating the fashions of the time, each card measuring 7 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. The year shown at the bottom of each card. Each wrapper also illustrated with a color plate. Charming original folding case with patterned papers and silk ties. Hinge paper broken as usual but covers still holding, case is slightly worn but all four paste on labels are present. Brown silk ties still there. All wrappers clean and unworn.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Bound in original dark blue cloth ith yellow titles on cover and spine, 319 pages. Patterned endleaves. The lettering on the spine is rubbed and the first few corners of text pages are creased, not affecting the title page or other preliminary pages. Light wear to the extremities. Still remaining a bright, satisfying copy of the First Edition of Faulkner's first novel. Petersen A2a.

London: J. M. Dent, (no date ca. 1890's). This small octavo is a beautiful full vellum binding withheavily gilt Art Nouveau cover design by Granville Fell. Yapp edges with scarlet ties (one tie separated and laid in). A fine copy.

Leipzig and Paris Bernhard Tauchnitz 1930 Early, possibly first, Tauchnitz edition Original buff colored wrappers with black printing. A very good copy with just a bit of spine darkening and uneveness of color. Abrasion to back cover affecting a few titles. Text block a bit squint but clean and unmarked. Back cover ads dated July 1930 Vol. 4938 Paperback

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884. A small octavo of 256 pages, finely bound in full vellum byBurn & Co., with their ticket on the rear pastedown. Top edge gilt, cover and spine titles in red and black. A small vignette of two Art Nouveau style trees in the lower right corner, adorned with the motto, " Arbor Scientiae, Arbor Vita", repeated on the title page, also printed in red and black. This lovely, chaste edition of The Book of Psalms is quite scarce in full vellum, particularly in pristine condition.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Chatto and Windus, 1908. Octavo, 442 pages, illustrated by T. H Robinson. Beautifully bound in three-quarter leather over green cloth. The spine has gilt titles and rules as well as a pictorial panel with a gilt grape cluster and leaves bordered with a double gilt rule. Top edge gilt. Minor scuffing to the extremities, else a fine copy of an attractively bound book.

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1943. A fine copy of the first edition (capital I on copyright page) in the original green cloth with silver spine titling. The book is unworn, clean and unmarked. The dust wrapper retains the original price of $2.50 and is very good with some slight chipping to the spine. This is the second issue jacket with the "non-glamour" photo of the author on the back cover. A beautiful copy.

New York: The Dial Press, 1951. Octavo. Bound in red cloth over boards with yellow titles on spine,this is a fine copy with only a very minor bump to the lower right hand corner of the cover and the slightest trace of foxing on the pastedowns. The dust wrapper, which is complete and unclipped, exhibits some moderate soiling and a few small chips. None of the lettering is affected and the red and black design of the front panel is bright and unfaded.