Titles beginning with F from The Bookworm (102 items)

London:: Andrew Dakers Ltd, 1955.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth; ribbon place marker; there is considerable markings, notes, etc in the text -- no text is obscured, some pages unmarked, but some have much writing in the margins; graded Fair due to markings, with a Fair dust jacket.. 8vo (9.75 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: Many black and white photo plates. There is no printed date; dates mentioned in the last chapter ('A Radiant Tomorrow'), indicate this probably published in the mid 1950s. Italian journalist and author Felice Bellotti became interested in the region of the Belgian Congo and this book is the result of his studies of its customs and laws, its manifold species of wild life and vegetation, the prodigious natural resources and the fascinating people. The author was especially interested by the sociological problems of the Congo tribes: the continuing and baneful influence of the witch doctors in certain areas, the problems of polygamy, the history of… Read more

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige 'tweed' like cloth with black spine text; a Very Good book with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: Portrait frontis plus two sections of black and white photo plates. Humphrey Finney arrived in New York from England in 1921, with the American equivalent of 46 guineas, a spotty education, and a passion for horses. He was on his way to Michigan, where he was to take a job on a horse farm, and thus to begin a lifelong career which would involve him in virtually every aspect of the horse world and would culminate in his years as president and then chairman of Fasig-Tipton Company, Thoroughbred Auctioneers. In this book he recalls, in a lively and lighthearted way, the people and the horses he has known. Humphrey also talks of his association with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II where he was instrumental in… Read more

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.

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: 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:: 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.

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:: Random House, 1957.. First Printing, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with series device on the cover; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Index. Landmark endpapers showing world map. Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. This is Number W-30 in the World Landmark series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. For 1100 years Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, had flourished and guttered like a jewel in dark world. For while the Dark Ages drew a curtain down over Europe, ancient culture was kept alive in this Eastern center. Constantinople alone preserved Greek art, Roman law and Christianity itself. It soon became the strongest and the richest city in… Read more

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.

London:: Geoffrey Bles, 1955.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with white spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. small 8vo (7.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Gillian Wood. I guess one could say this was Far and Away the author's Best book. The publisher declares ''Here is a new author for children'', and so far as I can tell this was his only book. ''The three children in this book are unbelievably lucky. They meet on the shore, a wild and one-eyed sea captain smoking a pipe. Captain Hornpipe, immensely friendly, in spite of his odd appearance, takes the children on far and away the best adventure they ever had to an island where their every wish is granted. The children enjoy themselves, each with their own ideas about fun. If they had not brought those ideas with them, the island would have become -- in a twinkling -- Far and Away the Worst.''

London:: Evans Brothers, October, 1951.. 6th Edition.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound, center-stapled format; Very Good condition.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: This is from a series of booklets put out by the Young Farmers' Club. Many black and white illustrations. Contents: In the Stable. Working in Chains. Shaft Work. Foals and Young Horses. Keeping the Horses Fit . Breeds of Heavy Draught Horses.

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:: 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:: 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.

New York:: Alfred A Knopf, 1966.. First Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: chartreuse binding with red; the top edge tint is yellow; very faint speckle stains on the fore-edge of the text block, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. small 4to (10.25 inches tall) . Appendices, indices. Decorated endpapers. Description: The title page is printed in red and black. Decorative illustrations, plus a few instructional drawings by Tom Funk, who also supplied the dust jacket art. Book and jacket design by Warren Chappell. The author takes the reader through each of the four gastronomic seasons, starting off with a review of its special pleasures and with practical shopping notes, followed by a wide assortment of favorite recipes that utilize the particular season's abundance and that range from fancy to simple. Always eager to broaden their knowledge of food and their own repertoire, the de Groot family highlights each season by… Read more

Oroville, California:: American West Publishing House, 1962.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; center-stapled format; age stains to the cover; wear to the spine; this has been re-stapled; Fair condition.. about 11.25 inches tall by 8.25 inches wide . Description: Illustrated. This is an issue from a magazine of local history for Oroville in Butte County, California. Articles in this issue includes The Muddle of the Middle Fork by Bill Talbitzer; The Inland Navy That Fought for Gold by Wallace Kunkel; The Buried Treasure of Bidwell Bar by Holt Morris; Fishing on the Feather by John Isley; The Hangin' of Hong-Di by Bob Bennett; and more.

England:: Newlad Publishing Company, September, 2000.. 2nd Printing.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Good condition.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Glossary, index. Description: Several color photo plates. An easy to follow guide to feeding herbs to horses. Discusses individual herbs and their actions. Latin and common names. Alternative therapies. A fully descriptive section details common ailments and how herbs may help.

London:: Corgi Books, 1971.. Mass market paperback . BINDING/CONDITION: mass market paperback; Good condition.. 12mo (7 inches tall) . Description: T Lobsang Rampa states, ''It is said, 'It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.' In my first ten books I have tried to light a candle, or possibly two. In this, the eleventh book, I am trying to feed the flame.'' This is ''mainly concerned with answering some of the many questions which Dr. Rampa's readers have put to him over the years. It covers such subjects as Life after Death, Suicide, Meditation, and Ouija Boards.''