Search Results: Authors starting with F from Mossback Books

Van Nostrand. New in New dust jacket. 1982. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, Unworn Unread and NEW in NEW DJ, showing a snake and a gun. Very interesting take on this genre: 90 most popular characters; why people read crime fiction; 500 novelists; crime fiction: 11 sub-genres.....; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Northwestern University. Very Good+. 1971. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, ex-libris , tight binding, clean unmarked pages, cover have light wear, light and occasional margania in pencil, else VG+. 277 pages of historical socialogical analysis of a Christin/native religious movement part of a workers group in native Katanga. Would make max weber proud. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Vendome Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. First Edition :. Hardcover. Large quarto hardcover, very tight binding, pages white as snow, covers unworn, very faint sunning on edge, else FINE in VG+ DJ, tiny tears, now in clear mylar jacket preserver. Solid copy. Features classic photos from around the world, 19th century ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

U. of Tennessee. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, tight binding, clean unmarked pages, covers unworn, foredge faintly smudged, else NFINE in VG++ DJ, untorn and in clear mylar jacket protector. "...no aspect of Bbel is left unilluminated." -DJ ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Walker. As New in As New dust jacket. 1989. First Edition :. Hardcover. 0802710824 . Quarto hardcover, unworn and unread else AS NEW in AS NEW DJ. A crisp copy. Filled with photos along with history by the great Joe falls. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Ace Putnam. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. First Edition :. Hardcover. 0399132309 . Octovo hardcover, unworn unread and AS NEW in AS NEW DJ, now in clear mylar wrap. Solving future overpopulation. ; Dayworld Trilogy, II; 7.9 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches .

Del Rey Books (Science Fiction and Fantasy). Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, very tight and bright unworn and FINE in bright DJ, faint rubbing on back panel, else FINE, now in clear mylar jacket protector. This book caused a sensation when published as it depicted human-alien sex. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Phantasia Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Limited Edition: 100 copies. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, tight and bright, pages unsullied, covers unworn, else FINE in FINE DJ, now in clear mylar jacket protector. A beautiful copy. Fifth book in the World of Tiers series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Phantasia. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition : Signed. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, flat signed on title page by Author, unworn and quite FINE in bright DJ, light scuff on back panel else NFINE, now in clear mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co. Very Good. 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. Two matching large octovo hardcover, ex-libris, pages are unfoxed, the covers are lightly worn, else VG+ . The classic history of this frontier city. Volume 2 ends with page 1476. Illustrated with steel engravings (? ) of notables including Palmer, Book, A Wayne, Bagley, etc etc; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; pages .

University of Massachusetts Press. Fine+. 1988. First Edition :. Softcover. Octovo in wraps, edges knife-sharp, unread and very FINE, like new. Like a syllabus with three updated bibliographies of primary and secondary materials........; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Wise-Parslow Company. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Large octovo hardcover in orange cloth, tight binding, very bright unmarked pages, faint shelfwear, else VG+++. Includes: The following are the fairy tales in this book: "Little Peachling (Momotaro) ," "The Two Frogs," "The Wonderful Tea-Kettle (Bumbuku-Chagama) ," "The Mirror of Matsuyama (Matsuyama Kagami) ," "The Prince of the Reed Plains," "Chin-Chin Kobakama," "The Boastful Bamboo Tree," "Schippeitaro," "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow (Shitakiri Suzume) ," "The Wonderful Waterfall," and "The Stone Cutter." Beautifully illustrated by Frederick Richardson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Somerset Collection. As New in As New dust jacket. 1996. First Edition : Signed. Hardcover. Oblong quarto hardcover, Signed/inscribed by author on title page, unread unworn and as NEW in AS NEW DJ. Laid-in is a single sheet: "Pineapple Rag" the author's newsletter. Story of a princess trapped in a tower, and how during the giving season all becomes well. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

McGraw Hill. Fine. 1919. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo in fine green cloth covers , pages still crisp, none marked or torn, covers have no discernable wear, else FINE. Solid copy. Illustrated, fold-outs. Autos, trucks, tractors. Compression, cylinders, theory of four cycle, cooling, combustion, power, etc etc. These could be second generation engines. Rare in this condition. Fast shipping in cardboard, shipped by truck, new engines. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Thames & Hudson Ltd. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0500340706 . Octovo hardcover, tight binding, fresh pages; faint rubbing to tips of covers, else solid and quite bright internally; the dustjacket has a price clip, prior owner name, else bright in clear mylar jacket protector. This book provides a cross section of characteristic themes and qualities of this period, the country house in transition, an increased knowledge of principal proponents to this style. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Very Good. 1819. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover 1/2 leather (black cloth spine) over buckram cloth, tight binding, clean unfoxed text, edges marbeled, wear to tips, short tear in gutter, else VG; still a solid copy. Fearon traveled much of the country, was not enthusiastic of what he saw, slavery, Lazy New Yorkers, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Verso. New. 2010. Softcover. Octovo in glossy wraps, Unread Unworn, else as NEW. "...easily among the most consequential works of recent French scholarship ......one of the most exciting scholarly books ever written on printing. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Only edition?. Elephant folio, heavy cloth over boards, folder with 20 loose plates, three silk ties, about VG+, the cover. The plates, are hand drawn (copies of course) 10X13 inches tipped onto heavy boards, some boards have marginal toning one has a stain which does not affect the plate, which measure 14X20 inches. Will describe two of the plates: "St. Luke as a scribe, seated on his emblem(a sheep), a manuscript, English, early XIIth century"; And "An early scribe and his tools, England, XIth Century." .

Liveright Publishing,. As New in As New dust jacket. 2016. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover, unworn unread and AS NEW in AS NEW DJ. "One more small masterpiece" from Feiffer; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Schirmer/ Mosel. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover, tight binding, clean fresh unmarked text, else FINE in FINE pictorial DJ. A solid copy containing 96 pp. Text in German, but the rest of the book about 80 pages are in the uniuversal language of photos- 71 plates in stunning duotone. View the troubador as a young man, perhaps at his height in creativity. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .