Search Results: Titles starting with F from Sue Lloyd-Davies Books

Tuscaloosa And London: University of Alabama Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2003. Presumed First USA Edition. Hardcover. 0817312161 . NO Dustjacket. In Near Fine black boards with bright metallic blue titling to the spine. The book is now in a now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Fine. (xiv) + 372 pp. "This collection grew out of the F. Scott Fitzgerald conference that convened in Princeton at the centennial of this author's birth (1996). Bringing together dozens of scholars and commentators, the conference and the book celebrate the growing legacy of Fitzgeralds's art. The subjects of these 19 essays reflect the contributors' wish to shine new light on less-frequently discussed aspects of Fitzgerald's work. Topics include Fitzgerald's Princeton influences and his expression of catholic romanticism; his treatments of youth culture, the devil, and waste, parallels in the work of Mencken, Cather, and Murakami; and the… Read More

London: Henry Holt. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805004602 . A near fine book with light toning to the page edges as always found with this type of paper. Quarter bound with black cloth covered spine running into the front and rear boards, with salmon covered paper-covered front and rear boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. A little VERY light 'turning' to the head/tail of the spine from storage, but NO damage. In a near fine d/w that is NOT price clipped, and only marked as 'near fine' due some slight discolouration to the top edges of the inner flaps, o/w FINE. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks As NEW. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.The page fore-eges have a very few, very scattered and very light foxing (very pale spots) - negligible - o/w NO inscriptions or marks. Plain cream endpapers. (10) + 261 pp.… Read More

London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. Paperback. 0905649028 . Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Chronology. 132 pp. Illustrated covers. Edges of pages lightly sunned. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKS. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 002456; 8vo Oblong .

W KENT & CO 1857 1ST EDIT H/B. Hardcover. GOOD SMALL LOSS TO LOWER EDGE OF P19 SOME GRUBBY MARKS TO PAGES ENDPAPERS RATHER GRUBBY & SMALL STAIN TO BEP FBW; 9422 .

SUNBURST BOOKS 1995 H/B. 1995. Hardcover. 1857781759 . GOOD D/W GOOD EXLIBRIS USUAL STAMPS & MARKSCREASE TO FEP SOME SMALL STAINS BOXGK; 8376 .

London: Fairylite (C B London). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Paper Covers, Staple Bound. No date (c. 1940s/50s) Full colour pictorial covers. Internally COLOUR & B/W ILLUSTRATIONS with the title - no text per se! A rather cheap /pulp publication but an interesting period item with 'D' for Dixie Dan, 'N' for Nine Nigger Minstrels, G for Gardens so Gay, etc...........,. A slim 12pp In VERY Good clean condition.; 9807; 8vo .

LONDON: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 1969. Hardcover. 0171380304 . Hardback. Good plus/very Good/Fair (sl Chipped and knocked). First Edition. 8vo Thick. A SCEPTICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF PROSTITUTES, THEIR CLIENTS AND THEIR PIMPS IN LITERATURE. ILLUS.; 60628 .

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 H/B. 1989. Hardcover. 0197222978 . GOOD EXLIBRIS USUAL STAMPS & MARKS SPINE & TOP OF BOARDS SUNNED BOXGJ; 8345 .

MACMILLAN 1995 S/B. 1995. Paperback. 0333600010 . READING COPY EXLIB USUAL STAMPS LABELS ETC PENCIL UNDERLINING GRUBBY MARKS TO TITLE PAGES SOME SMALL CREASES BOXGBW; 8544 .

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: PATRICK STEPHENS LTD. 1989. Hardcover. 185260025X . Hard Cover. Good Plus/Very Good. First Edition. Minimal Ex-Lib. 8vo. Illus.; 49084 .

BRACKEN BOOKS 1995 H/B. 1995. Hardcover. V GOOD D/W V GOOD EXLIBRIS USUAL STAMPS & MARKS SPINE OF D/W SUNNED BOXGJ; 8351 .

Near Fine. Paperback. No Date c. 1910/30? EARLY Edition. Quarto Series No 18, but no Publisher or Illustrator given. Thin childs booklet containing black and white and/or colour illustrations for each and every letter of the alphabet. Pages uniformly browning with age but still nice and bright. A really crisp copy. Pictorial wraps.; 61159; 4to Slim Booklet .

Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott and Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, blind stamped sl. decorated boards, with a gilt title to the spine, but no publishers legend. The head and tail of the spine is a little scuffed, chipped, faded and bumped, but complete. All hinges sound. Yellow flecked endpapers. x + 394 pp. The Author's Dedication reads " To Virginia, My Dear and Only Daughter.........I have not attempted to describe the Opera, the Ball-Room, the Matinee. These, the Highways of Fashionable Life are open, in our country, to the multitude. I have wandered into paths less frequented and tell what I have seen; hoping to show the effects of a system, in which pleasure is the chief aim, on the Heart and on the Destiny of Woman." Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1890) ......"Captain and Mrs. Eastman were stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from 1841 through 1848. Already an accomplished artist, Captain Eastman recorded the daily… Read More

LUTTERWORTH PRESS 1948 1ST EDIT H/B. Hardcover. GOOD FOXING MAINLY TO E/PS & PAGE EDGES BOXJZ; 9754 .

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. Presumed First UK Edition. Paperback. Tall Paperback. Good Plus. Covers a little marked/stained /chipped/torn but sound. Internally pages browning but o/w VG. 'ORDERED BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS to be printed 30th June 1948'. LARGE FOLD OUT MAP of Nigeria. This is mainly on Africa - with particular relevance to NIGERIA and the Colonies. ; 8vo (tall) .

USA: CAROL PUBLISHING GROUP. 1990. Paperback. 0806511753 . Very Good. 1st Thus. EX LIB MINIMAL MARKS. 8vo - over 8" - 11" Tall. REVISED AND UPDATED EDN. PROBABLY A PAPERBACK WHICK HAS BEEN LAMINATED AND TURNED INTO A HARDBACK BY LIBRARY. INSCRIPTION ON REAR OF FRONTISPIECE. ; 60590 .

KOGAN PAGE 1995 C/B. 1995. V GOOD EXLIB STAMPS & LABEL BOXHM; 8826 .

BASIL BLACKWELL 1991 C/B. 1991. GOOD EXLIB LABEL & STAMPS SMALL AMOUNT PENCIL UNDERLINING TO P3 BOXCT1; 8775 .

SIMON & SCHUSTER EDUCATION 1994 C/B. 1994. V GOOD EXLIB LABEL & STAMPS BOXHJ; 8776 .

ALLEN LANE 1979 1ST EDIT H/B. Hardcover. NR MINT FBP; 9316 .