Titles beginning with F from small volume (32 items)

Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor, 1953. Wraps. 8.5 x 5.75 in. 15 [1] pp. Stapled paper wraps printed in black. Very faint wear to wraps, interior lightly toned but clean. Address delivered by President George Meany at the opening of the Seventy-second Convention of the American Federation of Labor, St. Louis, Mo., September 21, 1953.

Palo Alto, CA: Sweetbrier Press, 1980. New Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 4to. xii [8] 37 pp, [i-ii] iii, 33 pp. The original two volumes bound in one. New introduction by Leonie Bell. Green cloth with gold titling to spine and pictorial black dust jacket. Light rubbing to DJ mainly at folds, corners, and edges. DJ unclipped with price in tact. Cloth exterior and interior text both nearly pristine. With 38 bright color full-page reproductions of Curtis' roses. Laid in at front is publisher's 32 pp stapled pamphlet "A Book List On Old Roses," containing related material offered for sale. Full title: A Facsimile Edition of Beauties of the Rose Containing Portraits of the Principal Varieties of the Choicest Perpetuals With Plain Instructions for Their Cultivation.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Blue cloth in black, white and blue dust jacket. First edition. Discoloration, chipping and tiny tears to dj. Boards gently pushed. PO's inscription in ink to ffep. Seventeen speculative essays on the Earth, The Solar System, The Universe and The Human Mind. Jacket design by Gotfryd. Binding sound.

London: Rogerson and Tuxford, 1857. Cloth. Very Good. Small 4to. Plain rust-colored cloth with gilt titling to spine. Six non-consecutive issues of Farmer's Magazine bound together, containing: August 1855, December 1855, February 1856, August 1856, March 1857, April 1857. With 3 fold-out plates and an engraved portrait. Some foxing scattered throughout, heavier opposite plates. Some soiling to cloth and splitting to hinges, binding lightly shaken but sturdy.

London: Groombridge and Sons. Third Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo.192 pp. [12] Modern rebind in brown cloth with white paper spine label, black titling. Speckled soiling scattered throughout text block. 5 colored engravings. With an account of their haunts, habits, and characteristic traits. From the author of "Nests and Eggs of Familiar Birds", "Beautiful Butterflies", "Beautiful Shells", "Humming Birds", etc. Lacking 3 colored plates.

Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 304 pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Scuffing to front and rear wrapper. An in depth analysis of the female sexual deviant. Complete and unexpurgated. Foreword by Dr. S. Wolman.

Syracuse, NY: Finishine Laboratories, Inc, 1949. Wraps. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 in. 188 pp + [22 pp index]. Tan paper folder enclosure fastened with brads, printed with bold blue titling. Wraps soiled with heavy creasing and chipping to edges. Hardware and houseware product catalogue with black and white images throughout. Thick cardboard "Stix Color Card" at rear, with 27 enamel lacquer color samples. Chart detached and soiled at edges. 4 order blanks bound in at rear. Some small markings from previous owner, otherwise clean.

York, Maine: Volunteer Veteran Firemen's Association, 1957. Limited edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 68 pp. Red paper wraps. Front and rear panel sunned. Interior clean. Limited numbered edition of which this is No. 374. Brief history of the Volunteer Veteran Firemen's Association of York, Maine. Music and Lyrics for 77 songs of the firefighter.

Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 1871. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 32 pp. Beige paper wraps. Discoloration to front and rear wrappers, chipping at corners and spine ends, faint foxing to title page. Fund Publication, No. 6. A recounting of stories Latrobe was told as a child from his eldest sister regarding her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, who in 1811, built and operated the "New Orleans," the earliest boat to travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in a fortnight. Latrobe himself an inventor, created the "Latrobe Stove", a coal-fired heater that could insert into an existing fireplace.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Cloth. Very Good. 24mo. 46 pp. Tan cloth with brown titling. Light soiling to cloth, damp stain at hinge. Binding sound. Novelette set in the woods of New Hampshire from entomologist and author, Annie Trumbull Slosson.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1887. Very Good. 12mo. 305 pp. Rust orange cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine, small landscape tableaux in black at top edge of front board, bordered in gilt. Light soiling, darkening to spine cloth. Corners bumped, spine ends lightly chipped and frayed. Some wrinkling to cloth at boards. Floral endpapers. Interior uniformly toned but clean. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "Rev. A.J. Chaplin / With the kind wishes / of the Author / Dec. [?], 1888." Previous owner's (F.P. Chaplin) name in faded brown ink to half-title.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915. Wraps. Good. 8vo (23 cm x 15 cm). 31 pp. Stapled pamphlet with printed paper wraps, lightly browned and curled at edges. Ex museum library, with deaccession stamp dated 1916 and removal mark from withdrawn sticker to top edge front wrapper. Interior lightly toned but clean. Contribution from the Bureau of Entomology, L.O. Howard Chief. Dated August 14, 1915. With numerous enlarged figures showing the flea's anatomy and life cycle.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Illustrated wraps. 160 pp. First edition. Rubbing and scattered discoloration to wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Pyramid Book G511. On a moon-blotted night of swirling fog a naive woman destined for the convent meets a lonely sailor at a church dance in Liverpool.

Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1839. Wraps. Good. 2.7 x 4.25" 64 pp. Tan wraps. Chipping and soiling to wraps, heaviest along spine. Light foxing throughout. Parable of a family with an alcoholic patriarch winning over their devout neighbors.

New York: T. B. Harms & Co, 1890. Sheet Music. Good. 14 x 11 in. folded quire, 8 pp. Cover printed with decorative black text. Previous owner's name in ink to top edge of front panel. Splitting to spine fold, mended. Light chipping to edges, faint staining throughout.

Florence: Giannini Press, 1940. Wraps. Very Good. Giannini Jr., Giulio. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Unpaginated [32 pp.] Green and gold block printed paper wrappers with pasted on title label. Some puckering and fading to inner pastedowns and toning to facing pages. Deckle bottom and fore edge. XIV Pen and Ink Drawings by Giulio Giannini Jr., printed in bold brown and beige ink and captioned in pale orange, each image measuring 4.5 x 4.5 in. Few faint soil marks scattered throughout, otherwise near fine.

Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1940. Wraps. Good. 4to. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 197 [198-202]. Plain off-white paper wraps in orange and blue DJ. Spine paper cracked, some soiling, chipping, and closed tears to wraps. Foxing to text block edges. All text in French, with contributions from prominent historians and curators. Numerous color plates showing images from the museum's collection.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Green, Elizabeth Shippen. 8vo. [4] 39 pp [1] + frontispiece and 2 color plates. Yellow-green publisher's cloth binding with green titling and ruling, paste-down cover illustration. Rear board sunned. Interior clean.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 182 pp. Yellow cloth hardcover in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Chipping to dj, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Light rubbing to cloth. Bookplate of previous owner Katie Strayer to half-title. Otherwise interior clean, binding sturdy. "The unconventional Campbell Family, first introduced in The Precious Days, now manage to weather a double barreled revolt in Haiti" - from dj flap.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Cloth. Near Fine. London: Frederick Warne & Co. 19 cm x 22.5 cm. Unpaginated. [12 pp.] [c. 1880s] Cloth-backed flexible lithographic boards. Light scuffing to front and rear boards, faint speckled discoloration to endpapers. Otherwise clean and sound. Poems for children, fully illustrated throughout with bright chromolithographs depicting young girls enjoying leisure activities such as playing Violin, Tennis, frolicking on a beach and taking their babydoll on a scenic stroll. From the Forget Me Not Series. Cover price of One Shilling. Advertisement for Sir John Bennett's Ladies Gold Watches at rear.