Search Results: Authors starting with F from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Printing. Hardcover. 0-442-22468-0 . Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrated with charts and graphs. Full number line. Green illustrated dust jacket with yellow lettering.; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; v, 202 pp; Light wear at corners, no inscriptions or writing. Two pairs of pages have marginal ink stains from the printing process. Jacket has only light wear along edges, no tears, not price clipped ($11.95), protected by mylar cover. .

Stockholm: VBB. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1980. Softcover. Issued as Special Reports 21:80.2 and 21:80.3 by the Water, Soil & Environment Division of VBB, Members of the Swedish Association of Consulting Engineers. Blue card covers, cover image of flower, pages printed front side only, well-illustrated with photos. Transmittal letter laid in, with signature of author. ; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; 53 + [54]-122 pp; Small soiled area at bottom of front cover of part 1. .

Stockholm: VBB. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Softcover. Issued as Special Report 21:81.2 by the Water, Soil & Environment Division of VBB, Members of the Swedish Association of Consulting Engineers. Blue card covers, cover illustrated with chart, pages printed front side only, well-illustrated with photos, two fold-out tables at rear. Examples are taken from Peniche, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; 65 pp; Spots of waterstaining on each cover, internally fine. .

Stockholm: VBB. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1981. Softcover. Presented at the Symposium on Geotechnical Problems in Saudi Arabia, organized by the University of Riyadh, Department of Civil Engineering, 1981-05-13. Issued as Special Report 21:81.3 by the Water, Soil & Environment Division of VBB, Members of the Swedish Association of Consulting Engineers. Blue card covers, cover image of flower, pages printed front side only, well-illustrated with photos. This copy with presentation inscription on title page penned and signed by the author. ; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; 25 pp; Signed by Author; A tiny bit of spotting to front cover, internally fine. .

Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Softcover. 0-932087-04-3 . The bulk of this work is the section on Signatures & Monograms. Additional sections are devoted to Initials & Monograms, and to Shapes & Symbols. Publishers gilt stamped green boards. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 8-3/4" x 11-1/4"; 556 pp; Minor wear along board edges, a few light impressions into the boards, sound hinges, interior clean and unmarked. .

Berkeley: University Of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue spine and gold boards, gilt spine, gold dust jacket. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 424 pp; Scuff mark on front cover, small closed tears on mylar protected jacket. .

Rochester: The Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Original legal sheep, red and black spine labels, ownership label on spine, gilt spine lettering. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; clxxx,896+xvi,[897]-1893 +xiv,[1894]-2956 pp; A binding copy. Volume I lacks most of spine covering, hinges cracked, Volume II binding complete though well-worn. Volume III binding lacks ownership band on spine, well-worn with spine covering beginning to detach. The leather has burned the outside of the free endpapers with that area now being brittle. No writing apart from ownership stamp inside front cover of Volume I. All boards remain attached; a few pages throughout have creased corners; the text blocks remain clean and free of tears. .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1969. No edition noted. Hardcover. 0-300-01121-0 . Written as a master's thesis at Oxford University, with Foreword by Martin Shubik. Recipient of the 1961 Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the field of the social sciences. Brown cloth, illustrated, errata sheet tipped in at front. Red dust jacket, lettered in b&w. ; 5-3/4" x 8-3/4"; xii, 83 pp; Little wear to covers, slight spine lean, prior owner name to front flyleaf along with $2.50 campus bookstore price (erasable), text block clean and unmarked. Jacket sunned at spine, rubbed along folds, edgeworn with small losses at top and 3/4" closed tear at bottom, in clear protectrive cover. .

Chicago, Ill.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon text addresses the science of life thought. Lavendar cloth, gilt lettering front, brown decorative endpapers. No notation of printing or publisher; OCLC records but 4 holdings including the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport.. ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 64 pp; Lightly bumped corners, spine sunned, endpapers have caused toning of adjacent leaves (including title page), rear endpaper with small loss at spine, rear hinge a bit tender. .

San Jose: The Society of Practical Christianity of San Jose, California. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. Dark cloth, gilt lettering front and spine. Press of H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco; 5" x 7-1/2"; 217 pp; Slight wear to boards, prior owner name in pencil on FFEP, solid hinges, pages clean and unmarked. .

New York: Dial Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-8037-1001-1 . ... celebrates the African-American spirit along with thirteen major American poets: Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Alexis De Veaux, Mari Evans, Darryl Holmes, Langston Hughes, Rashidah Ismaili, Haki R. Madhubuti, Walter Dean Myers, Mwatabu Okantah, Eugene B. Redmond, Askia M. Toure, Margaret Walker. Black paper over boards, purple cloth spine, endpapers and each page illustrated to accompany poetry. Dust jacket with full color wrap-around illustration. This copy with a warm inscription on the title page penned and inscribed by Feelngs to fellow artist Claude Clark. ; Oblong, 10-1/2" x 9-3/4"; [27] pp; Feelings was the 1994 Coretta Scott King Book Illustrator Award Winner for this title, the first of two. ; Signed by Illustrator; Book is lightly bumped at corners of spine, otherwise fine. Jacket has light wear at spine corners and a single 3/4"… Read More

Washington, D. C., and Fairbanks: American Chemical Society - University of Alaska Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (1997). Stated First Printing. Hardcover. 0-8412-3349-7 . Pebbled blue cloth with silver lettering, illustrated.; 6" x 9-1/4"; xxix, 279 pp; Rear jacket panel: "In the pages of this unique book, distinguished biochemist Robert E. Feeney makes a powerful case that polar explorers not only traveled metaphorically on their stomachs, they lived and died by the quantity of food and especially the quality of their nutrition (and here he distinguishes clearly between the two)." ; Book with little wear, jacket with small impression to rear panel near spine, otherwise little wear, in clear protective cover. .

New York / London: John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1957. Second Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A treatment of probability theory developed in terms of mathematical concepts. Dark blue cloth, red printed labels front and spine, gilt publishers logo front and lettering front and spine. One of the Wiley Publications in Statistics, inside of front cover alone lists additional series volumes (later printings extend this to the FFEP). First published 1950, this is the first publication of the second edition from 1957 with no mention of additional printings.; 6 " x 9"; xv, 461 pp; Boards lightly worn/soiled, bumped/starting to fray at corners, solid hinges, prior owner name inked to FFEP and dedication page, perhaps 20 pages with underlining and annotations in light pencil-mostly toward the front of the text. .

Burlingame, CA: Guittard Chocolate Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1991). Softcover. Stiff wraps, stapled, chocolate colored cover, company history, term, tips, recipes. Rear cover notes this as Volume I and provides original Retail Price $3.99. ; 5-1/4" x 8-1/2"; 64 pp; Covers lightly worn. Pages clean and unmarked. .

Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Hepburn. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1689. Softcover. Disbound, copy marked F-728A in pencil on front (Wing, 2nd edition per OCLC). Author per OCLC. This copy has the word Parliament in the title misspelled Parliamemt. In addition, there is an error in pagination though the text continues in sequence. Following the title page is page 5. Numbering is consecutive to page 40, but a second page 31 follows with numbering being consecutive to page 46. Scarce in original printed form though readily available on microfiche. ; 6-1/2" x 8-1/2"; First 2 leaves detached from remainder of text block, a few pages have small black spots dense enough to have obscured a few characters of text throughout, pages are untrimmed, though a few have marginal tears, one page has a closed tear extending briefly into the text, 2 pages have an X marked in the margin in early ink. .

Geographic Alliance. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2008. Stated First Edition; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 1-887419-00-4 . Textbook on the geography of Alaska. Coated paper baords, front cover with color photograph of geothermal activity, many additional illustrations within. This copy with a laid in handwritten transmittal letter penned and signed by Roger Pearson, within named Project Administrator for this "elementary book". ; 8-1/2" x 10"; 200 pp; Slight cover wear, hinges are sound, text is clean and unmarked. .

Geographic Alliance. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1994). Stated First Edition; No printing noted. Hardcover. 1-887419-00-4 . Textbook on the geography of Alaska. Coated paper baords, front cover with color photograph of geothermal activity, many additional illustrations within. ; 8-1/2" x 10"; 200 pp; Minor cover wear, prior owner inscription from Sitka, AK to front free flyleaf, hinges are sound, text is clean and unmarked. .

Forest, Mississippi: Dixie Print Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2005). Softcover. Not very stiff wrappers, perfect bound, front cover with photograph of oil rig, a few photographs within. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 196 pp; Author describes his 25 year career working in the oilfields near Natchez, Mississippi during a boom that began in the 1950s. . Uncommon. Worldcat has no entry for this title. Found in the trade is a 2007 edition. ; Faint creasing noted to covers, 2 pages with tiny corner creases. .

New York: W. A. Benjamin. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. Second Printing. Hardcover. Notes taken by A. R. Hibbs; Notes corrected by E. R. Huggins and H. T. Yura; Second printing (October 1962) corrected by Peter Cziffra. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, equations and tables. Off-white dust jacket lettered in black. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; xi, 198 pp; Covers little worn and lightly soiled, solid hinges, one page with three lines of underlining, pages otherwise clean and unmarked, prior owner inscriptions (two lines each - in Chinese?) on half-title and rear free endpaper. Jacket lightly soiled, worn along top/bottom edges with small losses and closed tears, in clear protective cover. .

New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-688-07093-0 . The tastes and traditions of Italy revealed through its feasts, festivals and sumptuous foods. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustrated. Dust jacket with color cover illustrations. This copy with a presentation inscription on the title page penned and signed by the author. ; 7-1/2" x 10-1/4"; xiv,530 pp; Signed by Author; Front board with bump along top edge, clean and unmarked apart from title page inscription. Jacket price clipped, otherwise little worn. .