Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Bookworm

London:: Andrew Dakers Ltd, no date.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo, 220 pp, index, many photo plates BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth, sewn-in ribbon place marker; scattered pencil notes, and a few ink notes, otherwise the book is Very Good-, with a Good dust jacket; the dj is NOT price clipped

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: Book & dust jacket are both Near Fine (dj is not price clipped).. Description: 8vo, 246 pages, index, maps.

New York:: Harper & Row, 1973.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red boards with pumpkin-gold cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Peach colored endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art and interior drawings by Dino Kotopoulis. Note: the print and year strings are located at the rear.

New York:: Clarion Books, 1991.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue binding; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. about 10.25 inches tall by 8 inches wide . Red endpapers. Description: Illustrated in black and white and color by Larry Wilkes. This collection of tales from the traditional folklore of eastern Europe reflect a wide range of human emotions and reveal a characteristic preoccupation with routines of family, church, and community life, and a humorous, ironic perspective on people and their affairs. Some of the tales are stories of romance and adventure: gods on a mountaintop help a young girl to wealth and happiness in The Twelve Months. A man, transformed into a noble animal, finds his true love in The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon. Fables teach about the origin of man and the creation of the world from an egg (God's Cockerel), and of the injustice with which a friendly gesture is too often rewarded (A Good Deed… Read More

Minneapolis, Minnesota:: Winston Press, 1980.. Trade size paperback . BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; a Good+ book.. Small 8vo (about 7.5'' to 8'' tall) . Description: This is part of the publisher's Practical Theology Series.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green 'tweed' binding with vignette; top edge tinted dark; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. small 8vo (7.75 inches tall) . Illustrated endpapers. Description: The Grosset and Dunlap reprints of Terhune's dog stories were issued in two different formats. The earlier issue was done in cloth with the head of a collie blind stamped on the front cover. The endpapers for that series featured two dogs on the left hand page with a stream or road separating them from a single 'windswept' collie on the right hand side. This listing is for a copy form the later series issue which featured dust jackets by noted wildlife artist Bob Kuhn. The binding was either solid color cloth or 'tweed' with a vignette of two collies running. The endpaper scene shows those same two collies on the left hand, and the right hand side shows a single collie leaping into a pond. This scene (reproduced in black and white) is from one… Read More

Grand Rapids, Michigan:: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2001.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index, bibliography. Description: Includes several b&w illustrations.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with vignette of two running collies; top edge tint is a dark shade; owner's name stamp on the front endpaper, a Good book, with a Fair dust jacket.. small 8vo (7.75 inches tall) . Illustrated endpapers. Description: The Grosset and Dunlap reprints of Terhune's dog stories were issued in two different formats. The earlier issue was done in cloth with the head of a collie blind stamped on the front cover. The endpapers for that series featured two dogs on the left hand page with a stream or road separating them from a single 'windswept' collie on the right hand side. This listing is for a copy from the later issue which featured dust jacket art by noted wildlife artist Bob Kuhn. The bindings for those were either solid color cloth or 'tweed' with a vignette of two collies running. The endpaper scene shows those same two collies on the left hand, and the right hand side shows a single collie leaping into a… Read More

New York:: St Martin's Press, July, 1999.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket by Michael Storrings. This is the fifth novel in the Master William Falconer mystery series. ''Eastern horsemen rampage across the European mainland. These are the Tartars, and in 1268 they reach the end of a long ride. Now, having driven their pillage to the very ends of the earth, they cross the English Channel under a banner of peace. They claim to seek audience with the king. The people of Oxford, unwilling hosts to the Tartar delegation, greet their arriving guests with cold silence. Within hours, the tartar ambassador is dead. It appears someone murdered him, but how? Magic? Master William Falconer doesn't think so. On the case once again, this committed scientist knows a rational explanation lay behind the death, or he thinks he knows.''

New York:: Alfred A Knopf, April, 1977.. 6th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth with impressed title on the front cover, silver spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. (teeny-tiny bit of the dollar sign still visible).. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by R D Scudellari.

Santa Fe, New Mexico:: Writers' Editions, 1936.. Limited to 430 copies... Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: rose-colored cloth with gilt text; Very Good condition; no dust jacket.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Green endpapers. Description: From the publisher's prospectus (laid in): '''You asked me, K' the author of these poems has written in a recent letter, 'why I have called this book Familiar Journey. I ask you in turn what else I could have called it. For love is not something that belongs to any one of us, but a road we travel, a ritual journey, an ancient pilgrimage.' The title poem images a literal journey along a road familiar to its author; a journey she travels frequently through a landscape of many vistas, in which the aspect of mountain, sky and river-bed changes at each bend in the road. The poem is figurative as well; this whole singing suite of poems deals with that journey between the inward and outward world which is familiar to all who let life happen to them as landscape happens on a… Read More

London:: Michael Joseph Ltd, January, 1960.. 3rd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black paper covered boards; owner's name, and an ink bookstore stamp, the spine is very slightly slanted, the boards are slightly bowed: a Good book; the dust jacket has a few pea sized chips at the corners, otherwise a Very Good- dust jacket; the dj art is clean and bright with very good color; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Richard Barton. This was originally published in 1959.

Waterville, Maine:: Five Star, 2005.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (8.75 inches tall) . Description: A novel of ranch life and a serial killer in Montana. This copy is Inscribed and Signed by the author. This was originally published in 2004.

New York:: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . Description: 8vo, dust jacket art by Brenden Hitt. This is the author's first novel. BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding -- paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; the book is slightly cocked, otherwise Very Good, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dj is NOT price clipped.

New York:: Arbor House / William Morrow, 1989.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Red endpapers. Description: This was the author's second novel. His first novel, ''Hardcover'' was the winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel award.

Sydney:: Finch Publishing, 1996.. Trade size paperback . BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; small stains on the insides of the covers, one dog-eared page; a sound reading copy; Fair condition.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Index, bibliography, appendices. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. ''Men talk about their lives from the 1930s to today.''

New York:: Modern Library, 1950.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with gilt and dark green; the top edge tint is olive; owner's name on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 21 in the Modern Library series. The only printed date is a 1950 copyright. Dating by the ML guide, this shows to be from Spring 1957. The list of 379 ML titles on the verso of the dust jacket includes Caesar, Gallic War; does not include Lewis, Cass Timberlane. The dust jacket rear panel style: i ; binding style: 8. This was originally published in 1862, issued in installments in a Russian literary periodical. Introduction by Herbert J Muller; includes a biographical and bibliographical note.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1984.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series in semi-uniform bindings -- the volumes vary in size and color, but all are in leatherette binding, with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and extensive gilt or silver decorations on front, back, and spine. Note that this series in leatherette did not come with a ribbon place marker. This copy in Fine condition.. 8vo (9 inches tall) . Decorated endpapers. Description: Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese.. This is from the Franklin Library series, The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers. (Also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books.)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1984.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series with semi-uniform bindings in quarter leather -- cloth binding with extensive gilt decorations, with leather at the spine; all edges gilt; raised spine bands; ribbon place marker; this copy is in Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Marbled endpapers. Description: Illustrated in black and white by Engelbert Siebertz. This is part of the Oxford Library of The World's Great Books series, published by Franklin Library.

New York:: Bantam Books, November, 1987.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with a wide strip of red cloth at the spine; a vertical spine dimple, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Description: The jacket blurb here seems to imply that this political thriller is Steve Sohmer's first novel: ''Sweeping and suspenseful, it heralds the exciting debut of a major talent in Steve Sohmer.'' This is misleading, as Sohmer's first novel, ''The Way it Was'' was published (to excellent reviews) in 1966. Sohmer was a television executive, had his own motion picture company and was a Shakespearean scholar; some of his Shakespeare material was written as Stephen T Sohmer.