Search Results: Authors starting with F from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

New York, London: Johnson Reprint, 1979. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 261, 355pages, green cloth With folding maps.

With color photos, and architectural floor plans of the buildings.

Berkeley: OYEZ, ( 1975 ). First Edition. Good. Quarto, broadside, This is a poem from Fabilli's collection, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, done for Oakland Poetry Week, courtesy of the Holmes Book Co.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 477 pages, 3/4 green morocco, marbled boards Translated by Alexander Teixiera de Mattos of the Zoological Society of London. This is a new translation of Fabre;s entomological works.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, boards Signed by Faherty on the title-page.

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1893. Stated Second Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo, sewn self-wrappers, pencilled name on first page of text, spine perishing; measures 6 x 3.75 inches, some curling to bottom edge of top cover. Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 3. This is the variant block printed on crepe paper.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/good. 8vo, clothbacked boards, stamped name on endpaper Meant to explain to parents the benefits to children of the free expression of finger painting.

South Bend, IN: Diamond Communications, Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, xi, 548 pages, dark blue cloth Inscribed by Coach Fallon in 2000. Fallon is in the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame. A history of the first century of tennis at Notre Dame by the man who lived forty years of it. Note: the inscribee, "our artist in residence" has been blacked-out

Ottsville, PA: Mary Whitney Inc., 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 4to, estimated 200 pages, blue yearbook cloth A generic genealogical reference aid, with 3 pages specifically devoted to the Jurans families in the U.S.A.

Marlboro, VT: Tasha Tudor and Family, Inc, 2001. First, Limited Edition. Fine. Tasha Tudor. Image size: 14 x 11 inches / 17.5 x 12.5 inches, sealed in its original, cardboard-backed plastic sleeve with TT&F sticker on the back Numbered in pencil at the lower right corner, this is no. 223/500. This has it all: Christmas tree, trimmings, children, candles, corgis and more. Surprisingly scarce.

New York, London: D. Appleton And Company, 1864. Early edition. Fair. 24mo, embossed cloth, shaken Illustrated. Includes "The Little Engraver" tale which ends badly. Of his brother it is written, "After a few years he married the daughter of a rich man, and it was not long before he was elected a member of Congress: and if selfishness and bad principles are the best qualifications for that station, as I am agraid, from what I have observed, they too often are, this man possessed them in an eminent degree."

New York: David McKay Company, ( 1971). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo; xxi, 696 pages, clothbacked boards, spot on fore-edge; some plastic lamination separating from the dust jacket, which is within a mylar dust jacket protector. Signed by Farago on the front endpaper, for Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle. Farago's biography of Patton was the basis for the George C. Scott film. Here he exploits national archives for documentary sources.

New York: David McKay Company, ( 1971). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo; xxi, 696 pages, clothbacked boards; dj with a tear and a chip at head of spine. Signed by Farago on the front endpaper, probably for Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle. Farago's biography of Patton was the basis for the George C. Scott film. Here he exploits national archives for documentary sources. Laid in is a memorial booklet of Farago, 1980, by John Farago, Nicholas R. Doman, Rabbie Arthur Schneier; with photographs by Peter Fink.

University of Chicago Press, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, xv, 173 pages, white wrappers. Heritage of Sociology series. With a New Foreword by Morris Janowitz to this edition. Despite the date in the title, this study basically gives the history of the famed US Sociology Department from WWI to WWII. With biographies and photos.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, ( 1938 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 392 pages, blue cloth FDR's advisor and Postmaster General, James Farley, and.later Chairman of Coca Cola, gives his memoirs. Inscribed by Farley to John J. O'Brien in 1939. Also laid in is an engraved presentation card from Farley as Postmaster General. Chapter 2 is an effort "made to go behind the scenes in the job of nominating a man for President of the United States, to reveal the magnitude of the task, and to bring home the mistakes, the errors, and the inevitable, unavoidable mishaps. Each reader must decide for himself whether he thinks destiny or blind luch guided our faltering footsteps over these pitfalls." -p.38-9,

New York: Ballantine, ( 1961 ). First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo, 160 pages, pictorial wrappers A story of the far future where there is maximum population. [Currey p.185]. "A commentary on the meaning of humanity and love in a police state ... Expansion of a 1952 story that generated much controversy in SF because of its sexual content -ANATOMY OF WONDER." Ballantine Original Book No. 507 K.

Akron, OH: H. G. Canfield, 1886. 8vo, 92 pages, printed wrappers; the penultimate leaf of detective Burlison's text is defective and lacks text, but the following leaf (tho defective) retains the full woodcut image of Burlison. Rare. "On the night of April 3d, 1865, the Safe of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company at Le Roy, Medina County, Ohio was cracked and some $61,000.00 taken therefrom. ... Samuel M. Felker was arrested in Chicago by Detective Pinkerton, and brought to Medina and lodged in jail, where he confessed that he knew where all the bonds and money were, and that he could and would provide the same, on condition that he should be released." "... the guilty and self-confessed thieves were permitted to escape and protected in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten gains, has thus far remained a mystery. This little book proposes to give a true and faithful history of the whole matter, which will read like a romance - Preface." This tale was 20 years in the telling.… Read More

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto,.clothbacked boards Copy no. 262 of 1000 on regular paper.

Nonesuch Press, 1930. Bloomsbury Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, clothbacked boards Copy no. 262 of 1000 on regular paper.

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quartos, clothbacked boards, untrimmed fore and bottom edges, paper labels on spines Copy no. 262 of 1000 on regular paper.