Search Results: Titles starting with F from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Pictorial paper backed in green cloth, folio, unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated in color, pictorial endpapers. Wear at extremities, internally clean and bright with sound binding.

Enitharmon Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Black & white cloth spine over red paper-covered boards, 8vo, 79 pp. #31 of 85 copies on Canson Ingres paper, signed by Raine at colophon. Originally set to be published in 1946, these are war-time essays & sketches by the noted poet and scholar.

Estes and Lauriat, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Ochre cloth elaborately decorated and illustrated in black and gilt, 8-1/4" x 6-1/2", unnumbered pages, illustrated with engravings by W. St. John Harper and W. F. Freer, floral endpapers, all edges gilt. Mild wear at extremities, faded spots on front board, gilt is bright and fresh.

Reading, Mass: Young Scott Books, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9. Stewart, Arvis L. Signed by Author(s). From the personal collection of Ed and Elaine Kemp. Signed by the author and inscribed thus: "Ocean cottage reading - even if on the wrong coast - for Ed and Elaine and Jennifer. With affection. Peter Neumeyer July 20, 1981.

Cincinnati: Lincoln & Co. Printers, 1831. Hardcover. Good. Full tree-calf leather binding with gilt decorations and lettering to spine, 8" x 5", 400 pp., frontispiece, a few in-text woodcuts, charts, etc. Leather worn at edges, large section of front board not uniformly aged, foxing to pages, a few stains to some pages, generally good to very good condition. "Many families have owed their prosperity full as much to the propriety of female management, as to the knowledge and activity of the father." (p. 156) This sentence sums up so much of the importance of cookbooks of this era! Several chapters involve farm-work, but much of it is still relevant to cookery: from a detailed layout of a kitchen garden to instructions on harvesting, butchering, making evaporated milk, the restoration of tainted meat (no, thanks), and the use of herbs and minerals in a variety of medicines and farm & home uses. The cooking recipes are most thorough about meat, and seem influenced by British cookery.

Horizon Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Refregier, Anton. Red cloth spine over orange paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine with gilt decoration to front board, brown endpapers, 8-5/8" tall, 192 pp. Owner's bookplate to front endpaper, else near fine; dust jacket with one taped tear to top of front panel, moderate rubbing to white background, price intact. From the Greenwich Village restaurant The Cookery, the authors present recipes "to be prepared at home, where there are cooks, not chefs." The Cookery ran for thirty years, and had three locations. It closed & reopened in the mid-1980s under new ownership, although Barney Josephson remained a part owner.

Duffield & Company, 1915. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus; red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Moderate darkening to spine. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay, the only film to feature all three Pickford siblings.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated; full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine panel; dust jacket plain black with light blue lettering and flaps; 7-3/4" tall; 288 pp. Very Good with gift inscription to front endpaper, short closed tear to title page; dust jacket has closed tear to spine panel, tiny chip at top of front joint, original price of 7/6 net intact. -- Margery Sharp is best known for her book The Rescuers, which, although written for adults, was popular with children and spawned another eight books and eventually the Disney film. Several other of her novels were turned into films or plays. Fanfare for Tin Trumpets is her second novel (and her first successful one, according to Sharp); the New York Times review declared: "Light novels dealing with the enthusiasms and disillusionments of youth are so frequently sentimentalized or incredibly burlesqued that it is a pleasure to find so neat a balance of… Read More

New York: Aladdin Books, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Doremus, Robert L. Inscribed by Author(s). First edition, tan cloth boards with blue titles on spine, 4to, 213 pages, illustrated by Robert L. D, inscribed by author on front free endpaper and dated 1950; pages clean and unmarked, binding tight; dust jacket creased and chipped in places.

Orange Judd Company, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, beveled edges, full brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, brown clay-coated endpapers, 7-3/4" tall, 204 pp., illustrated. Light wear to spine ends, small light blemish to pages 44-45, foxing to page edges, small tear to rear endpapers at hinge. The binding shows many classic Victorian elements, from the title banner, to the intricate botanical decoration in black, and even has a hanging indoor plant on the spine.

London: George G.Harrap & Co Ltd, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. First U.K. edition. 293 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt titling; remainder mark on bottom page edge. Price clipped dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve. Edited by Ray Pierre Corsini.

Westview Press, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 96x10x144. Reprint. Trade paperback, cover photo of Feynman juggling. Clean & unmarked text.

Oxford University Press, 1968. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing of the OUP edition, which is an authorized reprint (with corrections) of the second revised edition published by Martinus Nijoff in 1948. Burgundy cloth boards in pink dust jacket, burgundy endpapers, frontispiece and a few plate illustrations. No flaws found to book, dust jacket has minor fading at edges, light wrinkling at edges. "This book is not a history, but rather of story of the colony [Macao], centred round typical personalities of the time. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping, box will weigh 4 lbs.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NAP. Full brown cloth boards with black lettering under illustrated dust jacket; pictorial map endpapers, 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". Edgewear to spine ends of DJ, price-clipped. DJ and endpapers by Miguel Covarrubias. Jorge Amado, Eduardo Barrios, Juan Carlos Davalos, Horacio Quiroga, Jose Ruben Romero, Eduardo Mallea, and more.

Limited Editions Club, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Illustrator(s). Hardcover, full pictorial cloth binding with leather spine label, within black paper-covered slipcase, 13" x 9-3/4", signed by illustrator at colophon, #746 of 1500 copies. Designed by Eugene Ettenberg & printed at the Stinehour Press. Slight wear to book; shelfwear to slipcase; generally a very nice copy, LEC newsletter laid in. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.

The Viking Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed (name only) on front endpaper by author. Black cloth boards under black & red DJ, price $4.50 intact. Slight toning to spine panel. An early novel from the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Stockholm: Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalts Forlag, 1950. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover, tan covers with black lettering, sewn gatherings, 11-3/4" tall, 158 pp. + 13 plates. Wear and some loss to covering at top and bottom of spine, one note written about location of a photographed artifact. Gift inscription from Bjorn Kjellstrom, then president of the Swedish Ski Association, to Fred Hutchison McNeil, the first president of the Pacific Northwest Ski Association. An archaeological study of skiis, including a great chapter by Gosta Berg on "The Origin and Development of Skis," this copy with a great association of the gift between two ardent skiers.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second printing, same year as first edition. Full purple cloth boards with gilt lettering under pictorial dust jacket, 7-5/8" x 5-1/4", 89 pp. + colophon. Many pages unopened. Dust jacket has original $2.00 net price on front flap, short closed tear and two moderate stains to top edge of front panel, chipping to head of spine affecting the "F" (which is very close to the edge), rear panel looks nice, good color all around.

New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Pictorial blue cloth with red illustration and titles, 4to, 80 pages, illustrations throughout by L. J. Bridgman; a well kept copy; sunned dust jacket with 3 1/2 inch closed tear to front panel, now protected in mylar cover. A delightful edition of this nursery classic.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated; small 4to, unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout by the author in shades of blue, green and brown; bit of wear at tips and spine ends, internally clean and sound; clipped dust jacket chipped at corners and spine ends with a couple of small edge tears, small scuff mark on spine, now in protective mylar. An early book by the renowned author & illustrator of the popular Max & Ruby series. Told with great good humor this free-wheeling fantasy is an antic account of evolution with the quality of a child's imagining.