Authors beginning with F from Downtown Books & News (30 items)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (9.5"x6.5"). 347pp. Green cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles. Spine slant, slightly soiled fore-edge, corners slightly rubbed. Toned interior. B&W plates throughout (some foxing). Photographic dj. covered in protective mylar: not original.

New York, NY: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo (8.5” x 12.5”). Photo-illustrated paper wrapped boards. Color and black and white drawings throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Boards and text block without damage or marks. A very handsome copy.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1946. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 4to (10.5"x8"). 40pp. Burnt orange paper-covered boards with navy-stamped title & decoration. Very lightly rubbed spine extremes & corners. Covers clean & bright. Very light tone to textblock; faint pink stains to tail of some pages. Beautiful gift inscription: "Very Specially for Buckle Scott from all of us animals and Wolo" in green/red/yellow crayon with border & stars on page facing illustrated title page. IIlustrated dj. covered in protective mylar: chips missing from spine extremes & corners, 3" closed tear to lower/tail panel, toned, price-clipped.

Belfast, ME: Wings Press, 1983. 1st ed., 1st ptg. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Stapled wraps. The third collection of poetry by the retired professor of English. Wraps are age-toned. Author’s inscription on title page.

Oxford, UK: Oxford, 1644. First edition, rebound. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (7.5"x6"). 24pp. Rebound in burgundy cloth with giltstamped title. Toned; foxing to title page. Printed on laid paper, manually typeset, annotated margins. Chipped corner to title page and page 3.

Carmichael, CA: Dim Shores, 2017. First edition, limited. Paperback. Fine. 8vo (9"x6"). B&W illustrated paper wraps. 62pp. B&W illustrations by Wilson throughout. Hand-numbered 33 of 200 copies.

New York: Something Else Press, 1971. First edition, limited. Paperback. Good+. 8vo (7"x5"). 21 unnumbered pages (including covers), interspersed with tissue. Bound with two of three original metal rings. General shelfwear: top/left corner of upper corner creased. Lightly soiled/toned at edges with small rust stains around punch holes. Clean, bright interior. Silkscreened. From a limited edition of 1000. An example of Finlay's liminal work with concrete poetry.

Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2022. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo (7”x10”). 307pp. Illustrative paper covered boards. Very slight and small dent to fore-edge of boards, else fine. Pages bright but with approximately a dozen instances of small blue pen marks throughout book. Numerous color and B&W photos, illustrations and graphs. Reprint of a series of articles which appeared in the open access journal, Life.

Chicago, IL: Ziff Davis Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (8.25”x5.75”). 249pp. Green cloth wrapped boards. Gilt suitcase image to front board. Gilt title to spine. Corners lightly bumped. Spine extremes bumped. To white colored stains to front board, the larger being 1” x 1.5” roughly. Two areas of rubbing along front edge of spine extreme, the larger being 1”. Endpapers and textblock edge mildly yellowed. Sparse foxing within textblock. Inscribed by author on front, free endpaper.

San Francisco, CA: FIFTY 24SF, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated. Exterior of wraps very lightly scuffed, else fine. Numerous BW and color drawings and comics. Many of them are designs for THINK Skateboarding. Two pages of text.

New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2002. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo (9"x6"). 442pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Covers lightly rubbed. Library stamp to top-edge of textblock and college library bookplate to ffep (no other library marks). B&W maps and diagrams throughout. From the series Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. No dj. as issued.

Golden Glow Publishing Company, 1977. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo (9"x6.5"). 366pp. Navy cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles. Flat signed by FitzSimons to the ffep. Illustrated by Adele Kershaw Thornton, B&W illus. and photos throughout. Slightly rubbed corners. Endpapers foxed. Textblock edges toned. Yellow illus. dj. covered in protective mylar: sun-faded, esp. to spine, a few faint dampstains and spots to spine, corners and spine extremes chipped, NOT price-clipped ($9.95).

Boulder, CO: Blue Poppy Press, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very good/n/a. 8vo (10"x7"). 653pp. Glossy photo illustrated wraps. Shelfwear. Light toning to textblock edges. Interior bright and unmarked.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. 492pp. Blue and illustrated paper-covered boards. Small dent to the head of the upper board. Lightly rubbed covers. Interior clean and unmarked. No dj. as issued. This is volume 6 of the Consciousness and Emotion Book Series.

Athens, Greece: A New View Book, 1966. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio (10"x14"). Unpaginated. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Several scuffs to covers; edgewear. Chip missing from middle of spine, light chipping to spine extremes, chipping to inner edges of covers. Missing dust jacket, covered in protective mylar by seller. Original off-set lithography to varied color papers. Collection of concrete poems Ford called "Poem Posters", published in the year following his NY exhibition of the same name. Association copy belonging to the poet & publisher of The Jargon Society, Jonathan Williams. Inscribed "fondly for Jonathan & Tom/20xi93" & initialed to ffep. Limited edition of 950 copies. This is a Hors de Commerce copy, numbered "LC" & flat signed to colophon. Rare issue, self-published artist book.

Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2015. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to (11"x8.5"). 213pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

UK: PS Artbooks, 2013. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Super 8vo. 288pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Color illustrations throughout. No dj. as issued.

Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2000. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good -. 8vo. 163pp. Upper cover lightly creased. Minor soiling to title page.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. 1st ed., 1st ptg. ARC. Uncorrected Proofs. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Blue wraps. 408pp. Light soiling to wraps.

Carrollton, OH: Self-published, 2001. No additional printing indicated. Softcover. Near fine. 8vo (8.5”x6.5”). 157pp. Illustrated wrappers largely unblemished with minimal shelf wear. Some spotting to spine and rear panel. Textblock bright and without marks. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Also included is a signed print (5.5”x4.25”). Card shows an image of firemen at the ruins of the twin towers along with… an outhouse. I’m sure he meant well.