Authors beginning with F from Trumpington Fine Books Limited (246 items)

Harry N. Abrams, 2006-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 216pp. (blue-grey & black spine) Large 8vo. landscape sized. 2005. First impression. A Near fine copy in lovely fresh, tight, clean condition in very good jacket. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has an expertly closed nick (with slight rubbing) to the upper corner of the rear flap of the jacket and a couple of creases to the extreme upper corner of the rear flap. The jacket has light or slight shelf wear. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight well preserved copy in very good jacket.

Devon: Merlin Books Limited , 1988. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed; IInscribed By Author. Inscribed By Author Type: Presentation Copy 287 pp. A presentation copy with the authors inscription to the title page. Dust wrapper in very good condition, a very slight bump to the top corner of the front board, lightly affecting the corner of the wrapper. Clean interior. A very good copy.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Small. Fabres, Oscar. Unpaginated. 1945. First edition. Small 4to. sized. A very good, clean, tight copy in good jacket. Charming colour lithographic illustrations throughout. A very good copy in good only jacket. A very neat blue ink gift inscription (Christmas 1945) to the upper corner of the front endpaper. The first owner's blue ink name and address (in a child's hand, but quite neat) to the head of the front endpaper blank (Janette Victoria Scott Rustwood 16 Ottoline Drive Troon Ayrshire'. No other inscriptions or additions to the text. Sun fading to the binding cloth - head and tail of the spine where the jacket is chipped. The upper two board corners a little bumped. A few other light marks to the boards - nothing much. The jacket has been price-clipped; there are several chips to the jacket - the largest being at the tail of the spine and a number of short… Read more

Thames & Hudson, 1991-10-01. Hardcover. Like New. 240pp. (Gold & Black) 1991. First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The text supported by numerous colour photographic reproductions. The slightest of soil marks to the head of the rear endpaper and final leaf - bearly noticable. A super, tight, well preserved copy.

BiblioLife, 2008-10-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 348, 1 (ads. )pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1902 revised third edition. Hardcover. Original publisher's laminated boards. This copy is published by BiblioBazaar. This copy has a picture of a leaf on the front board and not a lighthouse as in the library photograph. A Near fine copy in lovely fresh, tight, clean condition. No inscriptions.

Taschen America Llc, 2002-12-26. paperback. Very Good. 8x1x10. 200pp. (grey-brown and white-blue spine) 4to. sized. 2002. First edition. A very good fresh, clean, tight and bright copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour. A light crease mark (which doesn't show much) to the upper corner of the front card cover and the tail of the spine with a light bump. A very good, clean, tight and bright copy.

London: Oxford University Press, 1973. 1st English Edition. Blue Buckram. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. Ambrus, Victor G. 195pp. A very good first english translation edition copy ( 1973) in wrapper ( white spine). 8vo. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine . Numerous illustraitions throughout. There is a light bump to the tail of the spine and a little soiling to the head of the front board. Slight bump to the tail of the front board. There is a little soiling to the front fore edges, not affectiing the page margins. No inscriptions. Clean and tight The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and has been laminated, resulting in a little creasing to the wrapper. No nicks or tears. A very good copy in a good plus wrapper.

Whittles Publishing, 2015-09-28. paperback. Near Fine. 7x1x9. 511pp. (grey-brown spine) 8vo. large sized. 2015. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by some illustrations. Appears very little read or unread. Slight shelf wear to the front card cover. A very well preserved, fresh, clean, tight and bright copy.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. 93pp. 5 lithographic plates as called for. 1831. First edition. Over all - a very good copy bound in contemporaneous quarter green cloth over paper-covered boards. A copy with wonderful provenance. To the front endpaper is a bookplate of Thomas Grahame who was the dedicatee - the book being dedicated to him. Then to the front paste-down is the bookplate of Henry Winram Dickinson (1870-1952). Henry Winram Dickinson (28 August 1870 – 21 February 1952) was a British engineering historian and biographer who spent much of his career at the Science Museum (1895–1930), where he rose to be senior keeper of the mechanical engineering department. William Fairnbairn was born in Kelso - the Scottish borders 1789. In 1803, the family moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where in 1804, the young William gained employment as a millwright, before… Read more

Northern Times, 1998. 2nd Edition. paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. 283pp. (peach coloured spine). 4to. large sized. 1998. 2nd revised edition. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour and b/w. Some light creasing to the extreme tail of the rear card cover. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine copy.

HopeRoad, 2022-05-26. hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 9x1x10. 302pp. (red spine) large 8vo. Hardback - rarer as such. 2022. First edition, first impression. A very good plus, clean, tight and bright copy in like jacket. Original publisher's red boards - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. Light bumps to the head of the spine. The jacket has not been price-clipped. A very good, clean, tight well preserved hardback copy.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1978. 1st Edition. Cream Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. pp.180. A lovely fresh copy. The head of the spine of the book is turned in but this is concealed by the dust wrapper. The dust wrapper which has been price clipped, and has a small area of loss to the upper area front of the cover, measuring 1.1cm by 0.3cm. Otherwise super clean, tight copy.

London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1909. First Edition. Maroon Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N/a. 249pp. 1909. 8vo. First edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in original publisher's burgundy cloth boards - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. The head and tail of the spine a little bumped and slightly rubbed. Some foxing to the fore-edges - scattered elsewhere. A name crossed through on page 14 in pencil and a correction made in the margin. A very good, tight, clean copy.

Excellent Press, 1994-10-31. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x1x12. 255pp. (blue spine) 1994. First edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. Original publisher's black boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in b/w. No inscriptions. The head and tail of the spine are bumped with slight associated creasing to the overlying jacket. Light bumps to three board corners. The jacket has been price-clipped and has some shelf wear. A very good, clean, tight copy.

Uckfield, United Kingdom: Naval Military Press, 2014. Reprint. Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - Large (over 7¾" - 9¾"). 276pp. (grey-brown spine) No date. Circa 2014. 8 vo. large sized. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine or fine facsimile reprint by the Naval Military Press of the 1958 first edition by the Aberdeen University Press. No inscriptions. A lovely card covered copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 1st Edition. Blue Boards. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 217pp. A super copy - first edition. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Slightest of discoloration to the lower board edges and head and tail of the spine, hidden under the wrapper. A slight soil mark to the front fore edge. Fresh and clean. Dust wrapper not price clipped. Light rubbing to the edges of the wrapper with slight shelf wear. A very good copy.

Cornwall: Peterloo Poets, 1992. 1st Edition. Pictorial Card Covers. Mint/N/a. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Illustrations. Signed; IInscribed By Author. Inscribed By Author 63pp. A super copy of this first edition (1992) signed presentation copy, with the authors inscription to the title page reading ' Helen, with every good wish, Ursula Lewes April 1994'. 8vo. (white spine). There are slightest of bumps to the head and tail of the spine and to one card cover corner. Very fresh, clean and tight. A near fine copy.

London: Tom Stacey, 1973-05-31. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. 251pp. (green spine). 8vo. sized. 1973 Tom Stacey reprint or second edition of the now very scarce first edition. A very good, clean, tight and bright hardback copy in similar jacket. No inscriptions. Original publisher's green boards - gilt embossed to the spine. Around 4 or so circular light impression marks to the front board - the largest being around 3mm in diameter with their corresponding impression marks to the jacket. Apart from this, the jacket has not been price-clipped and has some light shelf wear. A very good copy of a scarce publication - even this the reprint edition.

London: Macmillan & Co Limited, 1940. 1st Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. 388pp. A lovely copy of this first edition. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs and line drawings. Pictorial paper covered boards with slight sunning to the spine. Light or slight rubbing to the board edges and to the head and tail of the spine. Pencil name and date to the top corner of the front end paper. A couple of slight scratch marks to the front fore edge - appears to be a printing flaw. A couple of page corner tips are slightly turned, leaving a neat crease. Clean and tight. A very good copy.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons (Berkley), 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Di Fate, Vincent. 217pp. 1971. First edition. 8vo. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. This copy has G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York to the tail of the title page but it also has the mention of Berkley Medallion Books to the copyright page (G.P. Putnam first) which is relevant because it has 'Berkley' to the tail of the jacket and not Putnam. The jacket has been illustrated by Vincent Di Fate - it has around 9 bodies drifting into space from a tower which rises from the sea and is predominantly blue. No inscriptions. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. The leading and lower fore-edge rough-cut. A bump to the tail of the spine with some associated rubbing to the overlying jacket. A light or slight bump to the tail of the front board. The jacket has been price-clipped. There is slight rubbing to a couple of… Read more