Search Results: Authors starting with A from Frey Fine Books

Siam Society, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. 12mo., xi, 280 pp. Dark red cloth with elephant illustrations in bright red dust jacket. The dj has light edge wear and rubbing. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1840. 2nd edition. Cloth. Good. 2nd edition, later printing. A Good copy. 12mo., 214 pp., illustrated with engraved plates. Bound in the publisher's tan cloth, with gilt title on the spine. Some soiling to the boards. Previous owners' gift inscription on a front end paper, dated 1888. Plates foxed, text generally clean. Howes L448. Realistic sketches of Southern humor. Georgian born Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was uncle and mentor of Confederate General James Longstreet.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. oblong small quarto, white cloth, 1st US ed. (1978), 172 pages, NO DJ. Owners blind stamp inside.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 2nd edition, Revised. Cloth. Very Good. 2nd edition, revised. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 485 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles and floral design in red. End papers coated grey. Light edge wear particularly the spine's crown and foot. Previous owner's book plate on the front paste down. The front free end paper is torn in half, with the lower half missing. An attractive copy with bright gilt lettering.

New York: Random House, 1956. 1st printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Good. 1st edition, 1st printing, stated. A Very Good + copy in Good dust jacket. 12mo., 163 pp., illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Bound in grey cloth with b&w illustrations affixed to the front board, in tan dust jacket with title on an orange field. The dj. bearing the price $2.95, has edge wear, with the tips exposed, spine tanned. Old booksellers tag on the inside paste down. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. 1st edition. Cloth. Good. 1st edition, 1849. A Good copy. 12mo, 304 pp., bound in blind stamp decorated red cloth. Spine missing. Cloth is soiled and rubbed. Text edges dusty. Scattered light foxing. Beautifully illustrated title page, printed by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia. Frontis portrait loose but present. By the end of the 1840s, Sinclair started to experiment in color printing along with his premier rivals P. S. Duval and Wagner & McGuigan and won first and second premiums, respectively for this work, at the 1848 and 1849 Franklin Institute Exhibitions of American Manufactures.

Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1858. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1858 edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 218, (3) pp., illustrated with engraved title page, engraved plates, and text drawings; with 3 pages of the publisher's ads at the rear. Bound in the publisher's blind stamped cloth, with the title on the spine. The spine is sunned, with the lettering faded. Very mild edge wear to the spine's crown and foot. Text is clean and bright. A Very Good copy.

North Carolina Museum of History, 1989. Soft cover. Fine. 1st edition. A Fine copy. Quarto. Illustrated grey wraps. vii, 113 pp, illustrations. Fine.

Boston: D.K. Hitchcock, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. Good. dark green cloth spine over brown marbled boards, 1st ed. (1836), 576 pages. Edgeworn & scuffed boards, spine ends lightly worn, owners name inside, scattered foxing throughout (some light, some heavy); text Very Good. A Good copy.

New York: Lockwood Publishing Company, 1970. 1st US edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good +. (1970) 1st US edition. A Near Fine copy in Good + dust jacket. Small 4to., 77 pp., illustrated with b&w photographs, charts, graphs and drawings. Brown cloth in tan and brown printed dust jacket. the dust jacket has edge wear, soiling and a few small closed tears. The dust jacket, priced at $10.00, is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

New York: American Craft Museum, 1992. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. A Near Fine copy. Square octavo. Illustrated wraps. 55 pp, color illustrations.

Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House. Fry and Kammerer, Printers, 1811. First American edition. Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st American editions. 2 volumes, matching in binding and provenance. Both volumes Very Good. 8vos. [Vol.1]ix, 325; [Vol.2] 299, (2 pages of ads) pp. Uniformly bound in early American full tree calf, with titles on red morocco labels on the spine; title and volume number in gilt. Light shelf wear, with each volume having a small crack along the front joint. Previous owner's name and 1821 date on a front end paper and title page of each volume. Minor light scattered foxing. An attractive set, Very Good or better. *** While technically not a set, both volumes were published by Dobson in 1811 (originally published in London in 1809), and were bound by the previous owner, John P. Thomas, as if they were a set, with a volume number at the base of each spine. The first volume, On The Constitutional Origin and Treatment of LOCAL DISEASES, is… Read More

Newton, NC: Catawba County Historical Association, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. oblong small quarto, grey hardback, 1st ed. (1989), unpaginated in As New Dust Jacket. Light soil to top edge, otherwise clean / unmarked. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Old soldiers parade in Catawba County.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition, 1954. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth, 301 pages. Jacket is edgeworn, lightly scuffed. SIGNED. A bumped corner, title page lightly foxed. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Signed Presentation by the Author to his cousin.

Beyrouth: Dar Maktabat Al-Hayat, 1980. Cloth. Very Good +. (ca. 1980) A Very Good + copy. 4to., text entirely in Arabic (except for the English title on the rear board. Light edge wear along the edges. Bound in a faux vellum cloth with title and decorative design in gilt. A handsome book. Written by the Syrian physician Ibn Ab Uaybi'ah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author's contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes.

Oxfod: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1961. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing. A Very Good copy. 4to., xvi, 599 pp. Gray cloth with gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Previous owner's names on the end papers.

New York: Warner Bros, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 338 pp., bound in purple paper over boards with illustrated dj. Fine in fine dj. --------------- A dark novel about a baseball star, stalked by an obsessive fan.

Bussum: THOTH Publishers, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition thus, 2012. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. 4to, 143 pp., bound in tan cloth in full color photo illustrated dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, dust jacket has very minor rubbing along the edges. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag, 2006. 1st edition. Paperback. Near Fine. trade-size blue & brown wraps, 1st ed. (2006), 40 pages, SIGNED. Lightly bumped corner, otherwise Near Fine. Signed presentation by the Author.

Yale University Press, 2008. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, with full number line. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo.,xxvi, 379 pp., illustrated with b&w plates and maps. Black paper boards in tan, pictorial dust jacket. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.