Search Results: Authors starting with F from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

London: W. And G. Foyle, 1932. Limited. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. presentation copy with a Fabes' "Change and Decay" inscribed to Charles Barhurst laid in, number 149 of 750, inscribed: "To Charles Barhurst/With kind regards and/best wishes for a successful/career in the book world/from Gilbert H. Fabes/ Feb. 1932

London: The Rainbow Press, 1971. First Edition - Limited -. Hardcover. Very Good. Copy #146/300, signed by each author in black pen. Fully bound in olive green leather and covers illustrated by amazing gilded reproduction of medieval woodcut depicting pagan goddess. With hand-printed Japanese endpapers and slip case of olive green leather. Near fine.

NY: Viking, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Shepard, Ernest H.. Solid copy, near fine - no names, inscriptions- better than very good, price-clipped dustjacket.

London: Edward Arnold, 1921. Firts Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's pale blue cloth, gilt-pressed titles front and spine. xi + 383p, illustrated w/ b&w plates, folding map. Edges a bit spotted, boards, clean, internals fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.

Paris: Harrison, 1931. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Seventh publication of Harrison of Pais, printed i Germany. Limited to 25 copies. 12 mo, vellum paper coes, aeg, 26 pp housed in black cardboard box with printed titles, as issued. Near fie copy, neat owner name on free front endpaper.

West Hollywood: St. Ann Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Deluxe edition, 200 copies, this numbered 19:200, blind-stamped on bottom of rear cover of book. Black linen folding portfolio of three original prints, each numbered 19 and signed by Fee on the verso, plus black linen covered book, both housed in black, linen covered slipcase. As new all around. An elegant production.

NY: Morrow Junior Books, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, second printig. INSCIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWIG BY FEIFFER. On the title page " "To Nathanial - You draw real good!'" the siigned uderneath title. On verso, Feiffer has sketched what appears to be a self portait, bearded self in top hat and perhaps magician's cloak, again iscribed "To Nathanial" with a line extending across to the ext page where he has again signed and dated 11-7-01.

NY: Indian Mountain Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Decorated Cloth. New. Only 26 copies, this #11. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon A charming alphabet book, dealing with all aspects of book collecting and book-making. Housed in purple cloth slipcase, orange cloth with stamped titles iin yellow and blue, endpapers of lavender polka dots on purple field, 26 miniature etchings on copper, 2" square each, colored by pochoir with accompanying text for each entry created by the artist, the text printed in letterpress. Etchings printed by K. Caraccio, text printed by Sun Hill Press, printed on Rives Heavyweight Buff paper, bound by Hope Bindery & Box. Copies in the special collections of UT at El Paso and NYPL. Other limited editions by Franklin have been acquired by the Houghton Librray (Harvard), Sterling Librray (Yale), Brown University among others.

The Riverside Press, 1904. First Edition. Paper Boards. Good+/No Dj. Number 232 of 330 copies. Pages uncut. "B R" for Bruce Rogers on emblem on title page. Vellum spine darkened. Some wear to corners of covers. Two or three brown spots on first few pages. Text clean. No previous owner markings or inscriptions.

Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter vellum over decorated paper-backed boards. 338p. 19thC ownership name,Heidleberg, in black ink on title page. 338pp. Covers soiled, internals better than very good, solidly bound.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Clean, sound, better than very good copy in hard-to-find dw that mathes design of book covers - somewhat soiled with some incidental narrow loss here and there along edges. more at spine tips. Quite presentable as a collectible copy.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Lacking Dustjacket. Solid, clean copy - no name, inscriptions or bookplates - lackind dw.

NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Lewis, Allen (woodcuts). First printing, lacking dustjacket. Newberry Award winner.

A. Milar, 1749. 1st Edition, Second issue. Hardcover. Very Good. Sometimes referred to as first edition, second issue, sometimes second edition, this is the 1749 printing with errata corrected and a full list of contents for all six volumes printed in the beginning of Volume 1. Apparently, in its original binding of full mottled calf, gilt double ruled front and back with brown grain leather spine with gilt titles and devices. Some minimal wear to covers and some spotting here and there. Still, a sound, unsophisticated set of the original edition.

London: George Routledge, 1884. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. Limited edition - 250 for England, 150 for US - this #322. Five volumes complete. Large 8vo, half-leather, gilt to spine. Hinges worn a tad, internals near fine. Handsomely typeset and printed by William Clowes and Sons of London. Set owned by Brooklyn bibliophile Oscar Aurelius Morgner, whose world-class printing library was famously auctioned by Anderson Galleries, Mitchell Kennerley, president, in New York City in 1931. With his bookplate on the front pastedown in each voume.

NY: Rudder Finn Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. SIGNED BY ITALIAN SCULPTOR LUCCHESI on the half title (plainly signed, not inscribed and desirable thus). Apparaently unused book, slight rubbing to covers, more so at rear.

NY: Dutton, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, a collection of whimsical pieces, rather in the Dorothy Parker mode, but more benign, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, Some incidental spotting to boards and endpapers, and residue from paper clip ffe in about very good dustjacket.

NY: Harper& Brothers, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Author's first book. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. Stated second edition. Green cloth, black-stamped titles. Lacking dustjacket. Slight wear to cloth at spine head.

New York: Hearst Books, 1999. First Edition. Green Cloth. Fine/Fine. Robson, Stephen. Scarce. Edges and corners sharp. Glossy dj not priceclipped and virtually immaculate. Beautiful color photographs throughout.

London: The Bodley Head, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printings, all after firsts of 1958-1961, 1963. Volume 1, sixth impression, 1983. Volume 2, fourth impression, 1978. Volume 3, second impression, revised edition 1965. Volume 4, third impression of the revised edition of 1967. Volume 5 and 6, short stories introduced and edited by Malcolm Cowley, third impression, 1975. Apparently unread copies, uniformly fine in near fine, bright dustjackets, the spines of which are completely untoned, which is unusually seen for this set. The front dustjacket flaps were price-clipped to accommodate re-priced stickers from the publisher. Set owned by American stage, screen, and television actor Edward Herrmann (1940-2014) with his elegant trapezoidal monogrammed bookplate - EKH - on the front pastedown. The nicest set we have seen in original dustjackets.