Search Results: Authors starting with F from Boyd Used & Rare Books

[San Jose]: [King Conservatory of Music], 1908. Soft cover. Very Good. Gray wrappers over saddle-stitched. Light wear. Internally clean and unmarked. Illustrated. pp. 44, [6]. Oblong, 6 x 9.3 inches. No copies located on OCLC. Rare. The King Conservatory of Music of San Jose, California, operated between the years 1895 and 1920. It was incorporated in 1894 and managed under the direction of its founder and dean, Frank Loui King (1858-1914). King had been a resident of San Jose since 1879, having come from Melbourne, Australia. This catalog for the school year ending December 1908, includes a faculty roster, portraits of Loui and Frank King and a few of the instructors, photographs of the front of the school building and several of school classrooms and the auditorium, two floor plans of the school, descriptions of the courses, a year-by-year list of alumni for the years 1895-1906, the 1908 roster of students, and a roster of amateur and private students.

Chiloquin, OR: Marsh Works Designs, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by the author/artist on the title page. Can be read as a stand-alone story book for children about the mountain that became Crater Lake in Southern Oregon. It also features a more detailed story for the benefit of older readers. Light edge wear, stress crease on spine; light evidence of use. Unpaginated (about 21 pages). 8.25 x 8.25 inches.

Paris: H. Lecene et H. Oudin, Editeurs, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Half green calf with pseudo-marbled paper boards; ornate gilt tooled spine with a burgundy title block; binding by E. Worrall. Light wear to extremities. Endpapers of the same pseudo-marbled paper. Bookplate of Beatrice Mary Chamberlain on front-paste down, as is the bookbinders label. Heavy foxing to leaves. pp. xii, 453, [5]. 17.3 x 11 cm. Contents: Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Prosper Merimee, Michelet, George Sand, Balzac. Bookplate of Beatrice Mary Chamberlain. [Presumed to be the British educationalist, political organizer, and half-sister of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who was born in 1862. She was educated, in part, at a private girls school in Fontainebleau. Fluent in French, she also helped organize the French Wounded Emergency Fund at the start of World War I. This volume was bound by E. Worrall, a notable bookbinder of Birmingham, the city for… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Book is bumped and lightly worn at head and tail of spine. Fore edges are bumped/rounded. Very faint partial glass moisture ring on front board (has not raised finish on cloth). Gift inscription date Jan, 1932 on ffep. No other marks. Binding is sound. Dust jacket has edge wear; heaviest at top with closed tears and chips. One larger closed tear across front and smaller tear to back have been mended with acid-free document tissue. Age toning to spine and fore edges. Light general surface soiling. Not price clipped ($4.50 net). DJ has been placed in an archival Brodart cover. No date given; ca. late 1920's to 1930. Translated from the French by Dorothy Galton. Rare dust jacketed copy. 6 x 8.75 inches. 317 pages.

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1900. Hardcover. Good. Cloyd Chapman's copy, with his custom bookplate. Second impression. Black cloth. Bit of fraying at head of spine; copy is a somewhat worn appearance; prominent vertical scuff pattern on front cover; spine cocked. Interior is generally clean. More than sixty in-text illustrations. Index. xvii, 325 p. A scarce copy with an interesting association. Cloyd M. Chapman (1874-1944) was an assistant in Thomas Edison's private laboratory from 1899 to 1905.

Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Book is very slightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a tiny bit of wear to edges. Dj has been placed in an archival quality protective mylar cover. First edition (FPu), 1983.

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio bound in blue leather; original blue cloth sides with gilt pictorial (Hobson's Conduit) and lettering; board margins are raised leather with gilt rules. Cloth a bit scuffed; worn spot at foot of spine. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Six page letterpress introduction with historic and illustrative notes for each engraving, by John Willis Clarke. 40 x 28 cm. A handsome collection of views of Cambridge, England, drawn and etched by the Cambridge native Robert H. Farren (1832-1910). 25 engraved plates, each with its own etched title page. Also, there are engraved pictorials for the title-page, dedication page, the head of the Introduction, and the table of contents page, plus three smaller pictorials in the front. Tissues are missing for the table of contents and two of the plate title pages. Some tissues have dusty edges. Previous owner's name at head of flyleaf. Gerry Frank was an American soldier from Oregon who fought in the European… Read More

Boston: Privately Printed, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good-. One of 175 copies printed for private distribution. Boards in quarter black cloth with buff paper sides. Paper title block on spine very chipped. Interior is clean and unmarked. Seven illustrations on plates (including frontispiece), each with tissue guard. 47, [2] pages. 8.75 x 6.25 inches. A history of Boston Common through the colonial days up to the start of the Revolution in March 1776. Illustrated with original engravings, views and map of the Common, which were in the collection of the author's father, Dr. James Bourne Ayer. Mary Farwell Ayer (1878-1954) was an alumna of the Miss Winsor's School and the Baldwin School. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1901 and did graduate work at Radcliffe (1901-1902) and Simmons College (1905-1906). Contents: Introduction. [I] The Colonial Period. 1630-1692. [II] Provincial Times from 1692-1761. [III] Pre-Revolutionary Days. 1761-1775. [IV] The Outbreak of… Read More

[Cairo]: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. Second edition. Light wear to card covers. Interior is clean and unmarked. 102 pages. Fatma Moussa Mahmoud (1927- 2007) was an Egyptian academic, translator, and literary critic. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy of English Language and Literature from Westfield College, University of London, in 1957, and taught at Cairo University up to her last days. Contents: 1) The Early Beginnings of the Novel in Egypt. 2) The Literary Clubs [Cairo] of the Early XXth Century. 3) Zeinab [novel by Mohammed Hussein Heikal] and the Novel of Country Life. 4) The Early Novels of Tawfik Al-Hakim. 5) The Passage to Europe. 6) The Peasant as Hero. 7) Naguib Mahfouz and the Development of the Arabic Novel. 8) The Novel as a Record of Social Change. 9) Alexandria and the Later Novels of Fathy Ghanem. 10) The Egyptian Quartet of Fathy Ghanem. 11) The Bolti Alley [novel by Saleh Morsi] and Widening Scope of the Arabic Novel. 12) The Changing Role of… Read More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Fourth printing, February 1932. Brown cloth boards stamped in green. Green topstain. Pictorial endpapers. Pages clean. Dust jacket shows edgewear; a few closed tears; rubbed; the $1.00 price on spine scratched out; clipped. Front flap of jacket has the publisher's rubber stamp stating that it is a "Cheap Edition" made from the original plates and is stamped with the price of $0.90. DJ in a clear archival sleeve. 271 pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Translated from the original French by Eric Sutton. In a scarce Boris Artzybasheff-designed jacket. A novel set on a rubber plantation in the jungles of the Malaya peninsula. Henri Fauconnier (1879-1973) was a French writer and part of the Groupe de Barbezieux. In 1930, his novel Malaise won the Prix Goncourt, an award given to "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year.

Milan, Italy: Anabasi, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Book has a little wear to fore edges as well as spine edges. Tiny bumps to fore edge corners. Inscription on page prior to title page. All other pages are clean and binding is tight. One Very light crease down spine. Italian Language. 175 pages.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with yellow/orange lettering on spine and front. Very slightly spine cocked. Blue and white floral endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chips at spine ends, corners, and with a small chip to top edge of front panel; spine darkened and scuffed; not price clipped ($2.50); partial splits at hinges (three very small pieces of archival tissue on verso); in an archival mylar sleeve. 349 pages. Faulkner's second novel.

Paris: Les Horizons de France, 1954. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps with glassine cover. Some notation on glassine. Previous owner's name on ffep, else book is clean. Avec des portraits et fac-similes de dessins et pages de carnets inedits. 16 plates including portrait frontispiece. 130, [2] pp. 7.5 x 5.5 inches. French language. This copy is from the collection of French and Romance Language specialist Reino Virtanen (1910-1987). Virtanen taught at the University of Nebraska from 1954 to 1978 and was a guest professor at UCLA. He was the author of several books, including "The Scientific Analogies of Paul Valery." He purchased this book while on a research sabbatical in Paris during the summer of 1962.

Junction City, Oregon: Danish American Heritage Society, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good-. First printing stated. Wraps show some light signs of wear; small soiled spot on rear cover. The story of a boy who was uprooted from his home in Junction City, Oregon, when his father, E. M. Favrholdt, a minister for the Danish church, decided to return to Denmark in 1933. The author was 13 at the time. The narrative is interspersed with actual letters to and from Visti. 216 pages.

Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1938. Hardcover. Good-/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on title page on the occasion of the opening of the Seattle Historical Museum in 1952. Light goldenrod colored cloth boards with blue lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Hole in upper margin of title page (where paper clip had been). Additional damage from paper clips on a handful of leaves. More than seventy illustrations. Dust jacket spine lightly faded; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. 206, [6]. Stories covering nearly four hundred years of Oregon and Pacific Northwest history, beginning with the Spanish vessels off the coast in the sixteenth-century, and continuing with fur traders, the missionaries, and the settlers arriving in covered wagons, and concluding with the gold rushes of Alaska and California. Contents: - Sir Frances Drake - The First Maps - Juan de Fuca - Russian Fur Forts - Nootka Harbor - Captain Cook - Mears' Fort - Captain Vancouver - Puget Sound -… Read More

[Portland, OR]: [self published], 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. Comb-bound in stiff card wraps with clear plastic cover protectors.The rear plastic cover is damaged. The title page features a hand written dedication to Branford Millar, President of Portland State College, where Fedde was a adjunct professor of History and International Law from 1956 to 1983. Includes three fold out reproductions of hand-written documents. Bibliography. 220 pp. 11" x 9". OCLC notes 7 copies (5 in the U.S.). Gabriel Bernhard Fedde (1909-2007) was an American lawyer and professor of history and law with an extensive and distinguished career. He joined the Oregon Bar in 1936 and presented cases before the 9th Circuit Court as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. He was fluent in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German and English, and had a reading ability in Latin, Dutch and some Icelandic. He lectured widely as an academic expert both in the United States and in Scandinavia. In 1977, King Olav V of Norway awarded him… Read More

U.S. Soccer Communications, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple-bound in glossy covers. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Commemorative yearbook for the U.S. Men's National Team, published in the early stages of the qualifying tournament for the 2006 World Cup. Fully illustrated. Includes team roster, stats, team portraits and action photos, and player feedback to personal questions.

San Diego, CA: Nakladom Avtora, 1977. Hardcover. Good-/Good. In the Deadly Circle: a Chronicle. Appears to be a personal narrative from World War II (1939-1945). Nine pages have underlining in pen. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear with some chipping at the head and tail of the spine. Dj in protective mylar cover. 14.5 x 20.5 cm. 239 pages. Ukrainian language.

Geneva, Switzerland: David Feldman SA, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Philately catalog for the auction held on May 6, 2004 in Geneva. Clean. Gray felted boards. There is a small puncture in the spine gutter on the back side, otherwise the boards are in very good condition with some minor scuffing. Interior is clean, bright, and crisp. 82 pages. French and English language.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. First edition. ''Now First Published'' stated on front cover. Saddle-stitched in wrapper. Covers firmly attached, but lacking any material over the spine. Pages show damp staining around top gutter area. vi, 35 p. 7 x 4.25 inches. The first American edition (November 1827) preceded the English edition, which was published in London by John Mardon in 1833. The foreword here states that ''The following hymns were written expressly for the use of Mrs. Heman's own children. She has consented to their publication, in the hope that they may be useful to others [...] To the Hymns are added two beautiful little poems before published, addressed by Mrs. Hemans to her children.'' Contents: Introductory Verses; The Rainbow; The Sun; The Rivers; The Stars; The Ocean; The Thunder Storm; The Birds; The Sky-Lark; The Nightingale; The Northern Spring; Paraphrase of Psalm CXLVIII; To One of the… Read More