Search Results: Titles starting with F from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Two volume set in publisher's slipcase. Slipcase lightly stained, toned and rubbed; one inch tear along one panel joint. 1950 Hard Cover. Continuous pagination, xvii, 1615 pp. "...cover his busy years as Governor of the State of New York and President of the United States. During these years he had less and less time for consideration of family matters and there is, therefore, a radical reduction in correspondence between members of the family. Consequently, these two volumes contain whatever family letters are available and, in addition, correspondence with those people with whom he established a close personal relationship..."--Introduction

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. First edition. No jacket. Light general wear. 1994 Hard Cover. xxii, 503 pp. "I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print." F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-six when he wrote this lament to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in 1923 - two years before Scribners published The Great Gatsby. Soon after Gatsby appeared, Fitzgerald wrote to H. L. Mencken, "I think the book is so far a commercial failure - at least it was two weeks after publication - hadn't reached 20,000 yet." Gatsby turned out all right in the end. But while Fitzgerald's roller-coaster reputation fell precipitously in the years approaching his death in 1940, his stature in American literature has risen steadily in the five decades that followed - the strongest restoration in American literary history. Yet his life and work have remained obscured by myth and… Read More

San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2011. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 5x0x7. Reprint. A fine copy. 2011 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. "Celebrating the creative side of failure: "F" stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. This funny book for teens celebrates the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to. F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register' A: Mariah Carey), the humanities (Q: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common' A: Unusual names), math, or other subjects, Richard Benson's book proves that while everyone enjoys the spectacle of failure, it's even sweeter to see a FAIL turn into a WIN. Contains 250… Read More

Carrollton, TX: Squadron / Signal Publications, 1990. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 11x0x8. Faint edge wear. 1990 Stapled Binding. 50 pp. Developmental history, actual pilot interviews and unique capabilities of the stealth weapons system which had a major role in the Gulf. Over 80 photos, two 3-view dwgs, 16 detail dwgs, plus color paintings.

London: Plymouth Press, 1998. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 6x0x9. Reprint. Minor general wear. 1998 Soft Cover. 64 pp. No doubt the finest fighting machine within the Western inventory today, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is hampered by only one real problem: cost! It therefore has met with relatively little export success and such belongs to a very elite club. The Eagle was conceived as a result of a two-year study including two six-month studies by industry, to find a fighter replacement for the Douglas F-4 Phantom in the counter-air threat role. The concept called for an aircraft that was capable of meeting the 'Beyond Visual Range' (BVR) intercept as well as having the ability to counter the close-air threat. Arising from this study came the 'F-X fighter' which ultimately became the F-15 Eagle that we know and respect so well today.

Carrollton, TX: Squadron / Signal Publications, 1976. Stapled Binding. Good. 8x0x11. Wrappers rubbed. 1976 Stapled Binding. 50 pp. Contains photographs and technical information on the F-15 Eagle, published shortly after the jet was unveiled.

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1980. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x11x16. Stein, Larry. One inch tear to spine base. 1980 Large Softcover. "Here in this striking volume, Faberge Eggs: Imperial Russian Fantasies, these eggs are presented in a way that will bring enjoyment to countless lovers of art and beauty everywhere with their splendor and virtuosity. It presents some of the most spectacular achievements of Peter Carl Fabergé, a goldsmith of consummate artistry and ingenuity.

Alexandria, VA: Time Life Books, 1986. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 12x9x0. Spine faded. 1986 Large Hardcover. 143 pp. Tells the stories of a sultan's mysterious journey, a trip to Asgard, magical islands, mountains filled with sleeping warriors, a fairy world, a land of demons, enchanted woods, and a knight's quest.

New York: The Viking Pres, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. 286 pp. Inanimate objects take life and animals speak in T. F. Powys's collection of fables, which was first published in 1929: a dish-cloth and an old pan, lying on a rubbish heap, discuss the emotional intricacies of the household that has discarded them; the efforts of a determined spinster to marry off all her furniture end in tragedy; a rabbit takes advice from a viper to avenge the death of her son. Set in the Dorset countryside that also inspired Powys's novels, these are tales of morality, original and surprising, as all good fables should be.

Germany. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Printed in Germany, no date or publisher listed. Edge wear with minor loss along top edge, ink name on frontispiece, minor ink marks throughout. Unpaginated. French text. Front cover depicts a fox and a stork drinking at a table. 4 color plates. The Selected Fables, put into verse by M. de La Fontaine, simply called Fables de La Fontaine, are three collections bringing together two hundred and forty-three allegorical fables published by Jean de La Fontaine between 1668 and 1694 . Most, inspired by the fables of Aesop, Babrius and Phaedrus, feature anthropomorphic animals and contain an explicit (presented at the beginning or end of the poem) or implicit moral. The author invents a genre breaking with the Aesopic, evangelical and humanist traditions, where the style and spirit more than the subject are intended to be didactic. A model of classical French, these apologues were used from the beginning of the 18th century as a teaching aid by… Read More

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1887. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dore, Gustave. Rebacked with new leather, gilt titles and decorations sympathetic to original style, first gathering repaired at binding with tissue. Boards lightly stained, front matter lightly foxed, pages 25-32 and 49-120 darker than the rest (these editions often used different paper stock that toned at different rates). 1887 Full-Leather. lxiv, 839, [3] pp. Royal 4to. 12 3/4 x 10. Leather boards with gilt decorative borders, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Translated into English verse by Walter Thornbury, with 86 full-page engraved illustrations and numerous vignettes by Gustave Dore throughout. First published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literature. This edition includes all the fables (nearly 250), as well as An Essay on the Life and Works of Jean de la Fontaine, The Life of Aesop, the Phrygian, a dedication to Monseigneur the Dauphin, a… Read More

London: William P. Nimmo, 1877. Reissue. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Corner, J.M. Front endpaper removed, first gathering loose but included, minor split to cloth along rear edge of spine, small sticker remnant on spine base. 1877 Small Hard Cover. xviii, 288, 12 pp. Color frontispiece by J.M. Corner. A collection of 196 fables by Aesop, followed by an index and a collection of Moral and Entertaining Anecdotes by other authors, translated into English.

Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Dent in rear jacket panel, jacket reverse lightly foxed. 1974 Hard Cover. 149 pp. Humorous true story of the medicine show era by the son of Doc Kelley, Canada's "Fabulous Kelley," the greatest medicine man who ever lived.

NH: Midway Publications, 2000. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Near fine. 2000 Large Softcover. 88 pp. Black-and-white illustrations. "...illustrated by three events that occurred while the author was employed as a Postal Transportation Clerk during the late 1950's. Throughout the following chapters I'll try to explain how carnivals differ from circuses... and what carnival people are really like."--Introduction

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First edition (Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 1520). No jacket. Address label on front paste-down endpaper. 1957 Hard Cover. 177 pp. Tom Mix (1880–1940) was an American motion picture actor, director, and writer whose career spanned from 1910 to 1935. During this time he appeared in 270 films and established himself as the screen's most popular cowboy star. Mix's flair for showmanship set the standard for later cowboy heroes such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. His horse Tony also became a celebrity who received his own fan mail. SGSL: "Has some material on rustlers and outlaws.

New York: Bantam, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. Acknowledged as “America's most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone ) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2023 Hard Cover. viii, 293 pp. A doctor’s powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40-year quest to find a treatment for multiple sclerosis. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our understanding of the genetics, immunology and treatment of MS, and led to the development of B cell therapies―the most effective therapy for all forms of MS and the only therapy currently in place for progressive MS patients. The Face Laughs While The Brain Cries is a riveting memoir that follows Dr. Hauser from his unorthodox upbringing among the colorful cast of characters responsible for his development into a tenacious… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x0. First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed, foxing to ridge. 1977 Large Hardcover. 207 pp. Contains 177 illustrations, 24 in color, of every British monarch from William the Conqueror to the present.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. 214 pp. "From the author of the acclaimed Ruined by Reading, a new book about making connections in our increasingly disconnected and technologically mediated world. Following Ruined by Reading, Face to Face takes the author from her solitary life in books to her shared life with others--from the most marginal encounters on the street to the close relationships that sustain her. Beginning with the title piece--a witty and insightful look at how the telephone has changed the way we relate to each other--Schwartz leads readers through a landscape of our attempts at connection. The author encounters a brilliant student silenced by his experiences in Vietnam and a page turner whose grace eclipses the performance of the pianist she assists. Schwartz makes peace with a cat, loses interest in a date, catches a… Read More

Dayton, Ohio: Nas' Naga, 1979. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1979 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Poetry by Roger W. Russell using his Shawnee name. Russell also wrote Indians' Summer and attempted to sell the film rights to Warner Bros.