Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bygone Books

Beaux Arts Editions, 1989. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Copyright 1989,Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. With introductions by Gerald Hill, G. G. Smorodinova, and B. L. Ulyanova. Folio, red boards, 320 pages, full-page color illustrations throughout , index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities; jacket has light scuffing. Very nice condition of this beautiful book.

Winchester, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies / Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1989. Hardcvoer. NF. First edition, 8vo, glossy black / white / red pictorial boards, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE / no jacket.

Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. 4to, stapled wraps, 49 pages, 3-color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear, clean and tight. Includes the Park history, information on hiking, camping, geology, plants, animals, fishing and boating, seasons, facts of life, a road guide and park map, family fun games and an index - what's not to like? An excellent and fun guide.

NY: Stein and Day, 1981. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0812827619 1st Am edition [First published in 1981], 8vo, tan boards with burgundy cloth backstrip, 232 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear to book and jacket; jacket has slight yellowing and scuffing to white on rear panel. Frances Burney d'Arblay [1752-1840], one the the early women novel writers "before Jane Austen" who spanned the 18th and 19th centuries - Dr. Johnson said of her, "Miss Burney is a real wonder; " her life alone is a page-turner. Noted for Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, and her letters and diaries.

NY: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1st American edition, a title in the English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley, with the EML logo in gilt on front cover. This title on Burney seems to be the first biography of a woman writer in this series; a "new volume" list appended lists George Eliot. 12mo, black cloth, top edge gilt, 216 pages, [2] pages publisher ads. VERY GOOD+ condition: gentle rubbing to spine extremities, a lovely engraved owner bookplate on front paste-down with another owner name in pencil, internally clean and tight. A very nice copy. Frances Burney, 1752-1840, diarist, novelist and letter-writer... [The bookplate owner is Ruth Mary Sabin, listed in Lemperly's "A List of Book-plates Engraved in Copper" (1899)]

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Twayne's English Author Series No. 67. 1st ed. small 8vo, red boards with gilt titles and TEAS logo, 169 pages, notes, index, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD jacket: book is like new; jacket has slight edgewear, some spotting to rear panel. A short insightful analysis of Burney, in the days before she became the more proper "Frances." A lovely copy for your Burney collection.

NY: New American Library, 1980. Soft cover. VG+. 3rd printing, 4to wraps, 322 pp, b/w illustrations [drawings and photographs], bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with minor wear. "The Periods, The Styles, The Form and Function of Historical Buildings from Colonial Times to Today - more than 450 Illustrations for easy identification." [from the cover]

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 3rd printing (1969, first published in 1961), 8vo, rust cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine, 182 pages, index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities, appears unread.

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1906. First Edition . Soft cover. G. 1st edition [NAP]. Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. Quarto wraps backed in olive green cloth, xxvi, 157 pages, b/w portrait of Shakespeare. GOOD condition: edgewear, tearing to spine, front cover loose, binding is just starting between pages 32-33, light soiling to covers and last few pages, owner name inside front cover, text is clean throughout.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1922. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gordon Grant. Stated 1st edition. 8mo, tan decorated boards; 71 pages, 3 color plates; illus endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has light rubbing to edges. DJ: a few sm. chips and tears at edges; spine head top 1/4" torn; light soiling. Rare in this condition w/ dj. (in mylar). A tale of the First Americans.

NY: Henry Z. Walck, c1952., 1952. Hardcover. VG/Fair. Tasha Tudor. 1st thus edition. 48p. color and b/w illus; blue cloth boards / gilt titles on spine; 24mo (5 1/4" tall;) Condition is VERY GOOD book /FAIR - GOOD jacket: book has some lt. spotting on bottom edge of boards, spotting to top page edge, otherwise like new; jacket has some edgewear and is stained quite a bit; front panel is sl. rippled from probable tea staining, corner clipped but not the price. Jacket now in protective mylar, so looks better than all this sounds....and what could be better than a Tasha Tudor book and a nice cup of tea?!

Madison, NJ, U.S.A.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1974. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 2nd printing. 234p. black cloth. Condiotion is VERY GOOD+ / VERY GOOD jacket: faint spotting to top page edge; jacket has sl. edgewear; price-clipped (in mylar). A study of Madame de Merteuil, Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Tony Buddenbrook.

New York: Cassell & Comapny. Hardcover. VG-. No date (circa 1869), 16mo, rust cloth with black illustration and gilt titles, 126 pages. [16p. publisher ads]. b/w illustrations VERY GOOD / no jacket : light edgewear, owner name and label on front endpapers, light tanning to pages.

Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st edition (no additional printings), 8vo, spiral-bound stiff illustrated wraps, unpaginated, includes 24 plates on the recto with illustrations of china with description on the verso page opposite. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear to covers and a blue marker spot on bottom page edge.

NY: Oak Publications, 1965. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. Quarto wraps, 96 pages, b&w illustrations, musical notation. Condition is VERY GOOD: lt. edgewear, sl. sunning to spine

Los Angeles, CA: California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1937. Soft cover. VG-. 48p. stapled pamphlet wraps, color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD- : lt. edge and cover wear; tear at spine below bottom staple.

New York: Random House, 1929. Limited . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. Limited edition of 700 copies printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. 12mo, blue decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt, 248p, introduction by Emory Holloway. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: some sunning to the boards at edges and spine, spine head and tail are chipped, some pages are unopened. A nice copy of this "temperance" novel by Whitman, originally published in 1842.

Boston: Little, Brown,, 1929. Hardcover. VG. Further poems of Emily Dickinson; withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia; edited by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. 6th printing (June 1929; first published in March 1929), 12mo, dark olive green cloth, gilt tiltes, top edge gilt, 210 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: sl edgewear to spine extremities and corners; sl yellowing to eps. A nice copy.