Titles beginning with F from Modern Rare (73 items)

Berlin, Germany: Thomas Kellner Studios, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Thomas Kellner Studios, 2004. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 70 pages. Collection of color photographs of building facades, presented as an Artist Book. According to the artist/photographer himself, he created only a handful of copies of the book, five in all, none of which were sold commercially. There is no ISBN. The Artist Book is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Thomas Kellner: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Kellner. There is no text. 8 X 6 inch original color print tipped-in. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Thomas Kellner's "Facades". Altered/"pixilated" photographs of building facades. "I want to… Read more

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 185 pages. The author's debut memoir. Now considered a late-modern classic. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by FSG: Regular-sized volume format. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Matching cream cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography". His first memoir, about himself, followed and completed by… Read more

New York City, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 225 pages. The author's eleventh novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Olen Butler's "Fair Warning". Beautifully and flawlessly written, perhaps his finest achievement since "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". Butler shows once again how well he understands the female psyche and how unique he is among contemporary writers in being able to write about female protagonists convincingly, sympathetically, and wonderfully. "Limns a time of questioning in the seemingly successful life of Amy Dickerson, a 40-year-old art… Read more

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 124 pages. New And Expanded Edition of the photographer's classic. The First Edition Thus. Published in a small and limited print run of 1500 copies that sold out shortly after publication. Mark stated that the book is vastly superior in terms of production values to the original. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Mary Ellen Mark and Diana Hass: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Mary Ellen Mark. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ, with a portrait of "Putla" on the cover, and… Read more

New York City, NY: Scribner, 2007. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Scribner, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 246 pages. The author's fourteenth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The wraparound DJ design utilizes the famous photograph of the Twin Towers, still standing tall, surrounded by clouds. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Don DeLillo's "Falling Man". Another DeLillo masterpiece. The title alludes to the often-suppressed photograph of the man who, rather than be engulfed in flames, jumped to his death from one of the Twin Towers on 9/11. DeLillo vividly tells the aftermath through what happens to one of the imaginary survivors, Keith Neudecker. He then "rewinds" at the end and takes the… Read more

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 182 pages. The author's debut collection of essays. One of Andre Aciman's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The DJ design is dazzling, featuring an evocative and apt reproduction of Andre Kertesz's celebrated photograph, "Martinique, January 1, 1972". Presents Andre Aciman's "False Papers: Essays On Exile And Memory". Award-winning, Proustian reminiscences and reflections on the poignant and problematic experience of loss. "Ponders the nature of memory in a series of linked essays in which he not only remembers the past and revisits former… Read more

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 289 pages. The author's third collection of essays. Now considered a late-modern classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Cynthia Ozick's "Fame & Folly: Essays". Seventeen essays that offer more ample proof, if proof were ever needed, that the author is not only a fine novelist and short-story writer, but also one of America's finest literary critics. Includes essays on T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Isaac Babel, Mark Twain, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, and Salman Rushdie, among others. An Ozick essay is always cause for celebration. She writes piercingly and critically but always with an… Read more

Fairbanks, Alaska: Far To The North Publishing, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Fairbanks, Alaska: Far To The North Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 48 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of the most beautiful art photography books on a pristine natural landscape ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Dennis Witmer: Oversize-volume format. Khaki cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted on the cover and black titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Dennis Witmer. Poem, "Allegiances", by William Stafford. Text Excerpt from "Why We Photograph" by Robert Adams. Printed in duotone on pristine-white,… Read more

New York City, NY: The Library Of America, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The Library Of America, 2009. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 924 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important film collections of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in one meticulously edited and elegant volume, "Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber". ALL of the great film critic's essays. A consistently top-notch body of work that reminds us, in almost 1000 pages, how film criticism was once practiced: As an art form, in and of itself, and was treasured as such by cinephile-readers. "With serious film criticism in a serious and inexorable… Read more

Dueren, Germany: Sparkasse Dueren In Focus Galerie Cologne And Art Galerie Siegen Cologne, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Dueren, Germany: Sparkasse Dueren In Focus Galerie Cologne And Art Galerie Siegen Cologne, 2010. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 74 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Thomas Kellner: Oversize-volume format. Orange hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Kellner. Essay by Dr. Gunter Zehnder. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Dueren, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published in conjunction with the award given to Thomas Kellner. Re-presents and gathers together, in one exquisitely produced volume, Thomas… Read more

New York City, NY: Soho Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Soho Press, 1998. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 312 pages. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Advance Reader's Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a tiny, one-time-only print run as a softcover original only that was not sold commercially. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Edwidge Danticat. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its earliest publication format, Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones". Her breakthrough novel. A writer of limpid, luminous, and often achingly poetic prose, Danticat is The Real Thing: A writer without a "message", but with a sensibility, mastery of the English language, and acute powers of observation and insight distinctly her own. Every book… Read more

New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 296 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Antonio Lobo Antunes' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Antonio Lobo Antunes' "Livro de Cronicas/Segundo Livro de Cronicas" in a felicitous English translation. Literary gems on his beloved Portugal. "Alive with the poetry of the everyday and tinged with the gentlest of self-mockery" (J. M. Coetzee). "Antonio Lobo Antunes chooses to manifest his debts to Freud, Joyce, and Faulkner on the surface, but in the depths, he is a great original. His is a very dark and searing vision of reality at its fiercest, and will… Read more

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 140 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Fazal Sheikh and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Khaki cloth boards with maroon titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued.… Read more

Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 1998. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 244 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Fazal Sheikh and Hans Werner Holzwarth: Oversize-volume format. Ribbed maroon cloth boards with white titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Quotations from great Afghan poets interspersed with the photographs. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Fazal Sheikh's "The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan". The photographer's stupendous images of… Read more

Göttingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Göttingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 163 pages. Two-Book Set, issued as such by the artist/photographer. Collection of black-and-white photographs. One of Fazal Sheikh's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as hardcover originals only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Fazal Sheikh: Regular-sized, two-volume-set format. Black pictorial hard boards with red titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Pamphlet inserted in each of the volumes. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Fazal Sheikh's "Ramadan Moon/A Camel For the son". His ground-breaking… Read more

Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. None of the copies was sold to the public. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards, as issued. Photographs by Wayne F. Miller. Except for one line, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the spine, as issued. Presents Wayne F. Miller's "FDR Funeral April 14, 1945". Memento mori of a transcendent event and Presidency. "The faces of some of the thousands of mourners who lined the streets of the nation's capital as… Read more

New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 454 pages. The author's third novel. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Bobbie Ann Mason's "Feather Crowns". A triumph. "In her longest, most ambitious work, Bobbie Ann Mason chronicles the spiritual and emotional journey taken by Christie Wheeler, a Kentucky farmer's wife who gives birth to quintuplets in the spring of 1900. The evocative physical detail, tart dialogue, wry humor and striking ability to capture the rich complexity of working people's lives that distinguished Mason's earlier books are linked to a more overtly philosophical quest for meaning that… Read more

Tubingen, Germany: Claudia Gehrke Verlag, 1991. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Tubingen, Germany: Claudia Gehrke Verlag, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 224 pages. Artist Book. Collection of sex photographs. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Marlon Shy and Carla Subito: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and photo-performances by Marlon Shy and Carla Subito. Together, they are also known as Fetisch Park. There is minimal text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Tubingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Fetisch Park's "Die Innige Verbundenheit Siamesischer Zwillinge". Or "Fetisch Park:… Read more

New York City, NY: PAJ Publications, 1986. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: PAJ Publications, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 316 pages. The author's fifth collection of film criticism. One of Stanley Kauffmann's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. This is the rarest of Stanley Kauffmann's books. Published in a tiny, one-time-only print run as a hardcover original for distribution to libraries and university collections only. In austerely elegant black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The quality of the paper used is such that it will NOT fade and with proper care, will last for 1000 years. Without DJ, as issued. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Stanley… Read more

New York City, NY: The New Press, 2001. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The New Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 153 pages. ISBN 1565846621.