Search Results: Authors starting with F from DeWitt Enterprises

Broomfield, CO: Clear Image Press, 1981. 359 pages. Illustrated. "True Facts and Experiences" of 30 years as a bus driver for Continental Trailways around Colorado and beyond. Gift inscription ffep. Slightly cocked, partial separation from spine at front hinge. Covers rubbed/ interior pages mostly clean. Loose spine. Includes author's business card advertising this book.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, Cincinatti, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1925. 110 pages. Gilt titles. Corner bumps and shelf wear with corners worn through. Interior crisp/clean.. Stiff Boards. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Englewood, Colorado, U.S.A.: Westcliffe Publishers Inc, 1993. As New in shrink wrap.. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Lancaster PA: Lancaster Press, Inc. , 1926. 433 pages. Limited Edition - one of 700 printed for the subscribers. Undated (circa 1926). Frontispiece "Benj. West" by Matthew Pratt, and Fronting Preface "Washington" by Gilbert Stuart. Plus 17 additional plates (protected with tissue). Unusal library stamps, labels and markings. Edge and corner wear to covers with corners bumped and worn through to boards. Spine backstrip reglued at back edge. Smudging on some interior pages; generally crisp and clean.. Limited/First Edition. Blue Cloth. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Pueblo West CO: Pueblo West Publishing, 1994. 160 pages. Illustrated family history - Ruth L. Seder; descendents of Virgil A. Stewart and Cordelia Dougherty of Henry and Benton Counties, Missouri. Bottom corners of back cover and pages in second half very slightly bent, otherwise crisp and clean.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co, 1923. 258 Pages. Woodblock illustrations, frontispiece, uncut. Front hinge loose. Waterstains along gutter throughout and some top right corners. Shelf wear, corner bumps and some dog-eared top right page corners.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Honore', Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Steamboat Springs CO: Steamboat Pilot, 1976. History of Moffat County, Colorado. 248 pages + index and illustrations list. Gilt titles. Illustrated.. Discoloration on map/foreword pages (from former newspaper clippinig) and paper clip mark on pg 12 for several pages. Spine slightly cocked with bumped lower spine end. Otherwise very clean inside and out.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good +.

Steamboat Springs CO: Steamboat Pilot, 1978. History of Moffat County, Colorado. 323 pages. Gilt titles. Illustrated. Very slight shelf wear with bumped spine ends. Interior crisp/clean. Former dealer price penned inside front cover.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Near Fine.

Golden CO: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1995. 160 pages. Highly iillustrated history. Minor bend to right edge of front cover, to top right corner of cover and title page.. Soft Cover. Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press, 1928. Vol I - 620 pages, Vol II - 636 pages. Gilt titles and top edges. Pictorial endpapers (map). Illustrated. Usual library stamps and markings. Covers have moderate wear. Vol I tape repaired front hinge and several front pages with piece of heavy green repair tape across backstrip extending 1" each side of cover. Vol II both hinges starting. Empty pocket at back - missing map of the Philippine islands. Clear heavy tape across backstrip securing library shelf label. Pages age yellowed but clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Malone NY, 1952. 102 pages. 150 year sesquicentennial history of Malone, New York - Star of the North. Illustrated. Many local ads. Maroon Leatherette. Covers loose from book block, edge wear - mostly to spine ends, scratches to covers and some smudging to pages.. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1928. 331 pages. Frontispiece Eddie Foy in "That Casey Girl" his last play. Illustrated. Usual library labels, stamps and markings. Eddie Foy (b. Edwin Fitzgerald) Actor, dancer, vaudevillian b. Mar. 9, 1854 (New York City) - d. Feb. 16, 1928 (Kansas City, MO). When his Irish immigrant father died, six year old Foy began performing in local saloons to support his family. He played the variety circuits for years in a series of song and dance acts, eventually rising to musical comedy stardom in such Broadway hits as The Strollers (1901), Mr. Bluebeard (1903), and Mr. Hamlet of Broadway (1908). Foy specialized in eccentric routines and costumes, often appearing in drag to hilarious effect. He spoke with a slurred lisp that audiences adored. Foy had several wives, the third of which gave him eleven children, seven survived. Foy earned tons of publicity with stories about his spirited brood, whose misbehavior he pretended to indulge far beyond the strict… Read More

Nashville, TN: Mcquiddy Printing Co, 1945. Silver titles. 562 pages. Indexed. Terrific genealogical resource with birth, death and marriage records for at least 17 eastern states. Wills and abstracts, deeds and indentures, census records, bible and cemetery records, pension records. Bookplate on front flyleaf. Hinges are starting. Covers and spine rubbed and spotted; shelf wear. Title page loose. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1927. Dept of Geology, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. 55 pages. 17 illustrations. 4 fold-out water color map plates (Glacial, Relief, Drainage and Generalized Soil Map, all of the Regions of Chicago). Large 28 x 40" folding map in pocket in back cover (Base Map of Region of Chicago with township detail). Maps overall in VG-F with only minor fold wear and one tear to Glacial, ½" at edge where attached. Indexed. Gift inscription to Robert London signed and dated by author 5/29/'27. Interior crisp/clean. Yapped covers have bent edges, minor edge tears and corner bumps. 2" tear at top of backstrip. Lower back corner of cover missing ½" corner piece and is slightly water stained. Tiny stain on front cover and small surface area tear on back cover.. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.