Search Results: Authors starting with F from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Mobile: S. H. Goetzel & Co, 1863. Soft Cover. Good binding. Octavo. 125, [1 (blank)], [1 (ads)], [1 (blank)] pp. Confederate imprint. As issued, backed in cloth with printed paper over flexible covers. Binding and covers are scuffed with some chipping to the paper at the extremities of the flexible boards; a touch of silverfishing to the cloth spine; contents evenly toned throughout. Parrish & Willingham 6313.

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xiii, [3], 324 pp. First edition. In publisher's cloth. A bright copy with only a few instances of pencil marginalia and underlining, otherwise clean.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [2], 320 pp., frontis, plates. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket; all plates are present as called for. An exceptionally bright, fresh copy in a dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and edges; though there is some early tape reinforcement to the the verso at the spine ends, folds, and edges, the jacket presents remarkably well because none of this reinforcement is visible from the front. Clark calls this "a handbook for the traveling public written by a professional" Clark, Travels in the New South II, 66. Scarce in the dust jacket.

Baltimore: J. H. Furst Company, 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. [6], 46, [2], 57, [3] pp. First edition. In contemporary cloth. Light wear to the extremities including some fraying to the corners. Closed tear at the inner margin of the title page, otherwise, generally clean.

Richmond: printed for the Board of Education [and] Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. [4], 163, [7], 82 pp. Revised edition. Backed in sheep with marbled paper over boards and black morocco title labels on the spine. Corners frayed; spine soiled and a bit worn, but the binding remains solid. Contents clean. Uncommon.

New York: Hastings House, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto. xviii, [2], 236 pp., illus. First edition. Signed by Farrar and Hines on the front free endpaper. In publisher's binding with dust jacket. A bright copy with limited shelfwear; dust jacket is sunned at the spine with a bit of edgewear. Profusely illustrated. An incredible architectural record.

New York: Random House, 1954. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [10], 437 pp. First trade edition, first printing. Bound as issued in burgundy cloth with cross motif in black and blind on the front cover; title in silver and pink on the spine. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper, otherwise a solid, clean copy in an edgeworn dust jacket with closed tear to the bottom edge at the front joint; price is clipped. A reasonably nice copy of Faulkner's second Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, 1978. Broadside. Very Good binding. Bifolium. 5.5" x 7". Cover is blank. Opening is a woodcut of a type case with a quote from Franklin's Apology for Printers (1730): "Printers are educated in the Belief, that when men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: Hence they cheerfully serve all contending Writers that pay them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute." As pertinent today as it was in the 18th century.

The American History Company, 1998. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. xiv, 342 pp., illus. In publisher's binding with dust jacket. A fairly bright copy in a similarly sharp dust jacket with only minor wear to the top edge; contents are clean. Many in-text illustrations, facsimiles, and maps--some full page. Appears to be a well researched book with notes and citations printed in the margins.

San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. [4], xvi, 208 pp., illus. First edition, first printing. In original cloth with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in a similarly sharp jacket with price intact on the front flap; clean throughout. A remarkable remembrance of a significant American literary and cultural movement, profusely illustrated.

Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xviii, 340, [2] pp. First edition. Previous owner name and number in ink on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean.

Coloniae Allobrogum: Apud Fratres de Tournes, 1750. Vellum Binding. Very Good binding. Folio. Vol I: [8], 226, [2]; II: [20], 352 pp. In contemporary vellum over boards, button and loop closures; contemporary manuscript title on the spine; vellum loosening from the turn-ins; arrested mold in some margins; foxing and general age toning. Fernandez de Otero held the chair of civil law at teh University of Valladolid and practiced before the regional high court (audiencia). This volume brings together two distinct works: one on government officials and employees in Spain and the other on the right of pasture under Spanish and Roman law. The latter work is "cum notis & additionibus Vincentii Bondeni" (i.e., Vicenzo Bondeni [1630-1704]). The officials and employees run the gamut from hangmen to night watchmen to treasurers. The pasturage work was applicable throughout the Spanish Empire, including parts of Italy. This edition was preceeded by others in 1682, 1700, and 1732.

New York: Modern Library, 1932. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 12mo. [6], 531, [1], [5 (ads)] pp. First Modern Library edition. In original green cloth over flexible boards. Spine is sunned and light worn at head and tail; spine is also a bit sunken and with a slight forward lean; internally a clean, solid copy. Toledano p. 42.

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xv, [1], 97, [7] pp. Early printing. Signed and inscribed by Finney on the title page. Trade paperback. A bright copy with little shelfwear to speak of; publisher added National Book Award sticker on the front cover. A nice copy of Finney's award-winning collection of poems.

Lowell, MA: J. C. Ayer & Co, 1884. Broadside. 8 advertisements. 4 small (approx 5" x 2.5") cards advertising Ayer & Co. with chromolithographic recto and printed verso; 1 larger (8.5" x 5.5") in the same format; 1 bifolium (once wrappers for a pamphlet) from Shiloh's Family Remedies (S. C. Wells & Co. Le Roy, NY), with chromolithographs on outer wrapper and printed advertisement and 1887-8 calendar on the inner wrapper; 1 small card for Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant with chromolithographic recto and printed verso; and 1 from Brown's Bronchial Trouches with illustrated front and black verso. Condition varies: the small Ayer & Co. cards as well as Brown's are quite nice. The larger Ayer has some edgewear and scuffing to the rear where it appeared glue down to something and removed (does not affect text); Jayne's is chipped at the bottom corner (not affecting the printed text on the verso, but just touching the chromolithograph) and some wear to the top corner; Shiloh's has holes at the fold were the… Read More

Chicago: Pictorial Printing Co, 1880. Broadside. Broadside. 18" x 12." Printed in black on salmon-colored paper, on the recto only. Old folds and abundant wrinkling, nevertheless a fairly well preserved broadside with only one very short closed tear in the margin of one fold. Very good. Laid out in three columns like a newspaper (Hence the header: "EXTRA!"), this is a wonderful advertisement for Kipp & Palmer's of Sing Sing, NY (now Ossining, NY). In comedic fashion, the firm advertises boots and shoes as well as custom work. We have been unable to locate information about this firm despite their claims that most everyone (excepting the double-amputee in the bottom left corner) buys boots from them.

1900. Broadside. Broadside. 12" x 4.5." Printed in black on olive green paper. Closed tear to the top margin, not affecting text; no loss; only light soiling. A wonderful broadside advertising "The Show of the Season" . . . "And, Say! While we are talking to you about our evening of pleasure, let us offer you the prospect of days and days of pleasure--Restored Health, by taking Wanego." Nothing subtle about that. Looking at newspaper advertisements, Nature's Remedy Co. of Philadelphia seemed to be active the 1890-1910s and these sorts of "shows" were advertised from Virginia to New Jersey. Uncommon broadside that really captures patent medicine promotion around the turn of the century. And honestly, pharmaceutical promotion hasn't changed all that much?

Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1880. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo. xvi, 508, [6] pp., frontis, port. First edition. As issued, in black embossed cloth in publisher's dust jacket, plain but for the title printed on the spine. A bit of soiling and silverfishing to the top edge of the front board as well as as small spot at the tail of the spine; some evidence of early moisture exposure to the top edge of the textblock, particularly to the top corners; there is faint toning to the top margin of much of the textblock; there is no waviness or swelling; 20th century owner name and stamp on the front endpapers; the dust jacket is generally and lightly soiled and toned at the spine; some chipping to the bottom edge of the spine and generally worn at the edges and folds, but still a solid jacket and a fairly early one at that. Haynes 6047.

Providence, RI: Bennett Wheeler, 1785. Octavo. 30, [2 (blank)], [7], [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. As issued, stitched in self-wrappers. Wrappers are a bit soiled, but largely a very nice, copy. Faint and indecipherable contemporary owner name at the top of the front wrapper. While the pamphlet is undated and many authorities including Evans ascribes it a date of 1779, Alden identifies two issues of this pamphlet: the first on ordinary paper was printed 1782 or after based on the dated watermarks, and this second issue on thick paper with watermarked paper seen in Wheeler printings of 1785. Alden tentatively dates this issue as 1785. An uncommon sermon for a significant colonial figure--Foster was a dedicated to the cause of American independence from Great Britain and while he was a colonel in the militia during the American Revolution, his greatest contributions were elsewhere. According to the West Brookfield Historical Commission "Foster was elected delegate to the First Provincial Congress.… Read More

New York: New Directions, 1937. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. 53 pp. First Edition. Full cloth with title on the spine and front cover in gold. A bright copy, clean. Dust jacket is somewhat edgeworn, but presents very well in a mylar. Price intact on the bottom of the front flap.