Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Sensible Magpie

Stuttgart, Germany: Robert Lutz, 1926. Zweite Auflage. Gebundenes Buch. Feine Zustand. Zweite auflage. Halbleder. Fast Geldstrafe. Schˆner dunkelroter und Vergoldungsentwurf. Sehr starker Buchbau, hell, unmarkiert. 312 SeitenSecond Edition. Half-leather with beautiful dark red and gilt design. Pale blue spine label. Tight, bright, unmarked. 312 pp. (DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE IN SIERRA, PERU, BOLIVIA AND BRAZIL). 

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Pages a bit age-tanned. Dustjacket very good plus. A tiny pin-dot of a hole to front flap edge. Edges tanned. Very light shelfwear to surfaces. Silver metallic lettering debossed to black cloth spine of sky-blue boards. With 16 pages of black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 416 pp with filmography, notes, and index. This book presents a full-blooded, authentic appraisal of Bob Hope's humor and life and is a comprehensive biography of a comic institution who is also a politically influential figure. Filled with anecdotes, photographs, and plenty of jokes, William Faith probes deeper into the life of this remarkable personality.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Bump to rear bottom corner. Spinecaps gently folded under. Dustjacket very good. Some sunning to extremities. Mild scuffing to covers. Light creasing to jacket fold edges, no tears. Black lettering to spine and front of illustrated deep golden-bronze-colored, cloth-covered boards. Two 45 rpm records present in rear pocket. Very cool!! Many black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 341 pp with index. "Hear the voices of 15 famous radio commentators once again -- on the two records included with this book," (jacket front). "This book takes you back to an important era and reveals how the impact of these early broadcasters grew in importance and how their performance markedly influenced the events of the twentieth century," (rear flap). Read profiles on such voices as Lowell Thomas, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis), Walter Winchell and a dozen more.

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good. No date, c1930's. Light shelfwear to extremities. Very slight lift to front board. Age-tanned. Dustjacket good. Jacket is chipped and torn. A 1.5 x 1" chip to front panel and 2 x 1" chip to rear. Moderately soiled jacket. Sweet illustration of a young girl running with a hoop and terrior along the shore. Black lettering to spine and front of red cloth-covered boards. Black floral illustration and rules to front board. Black and white illustrations. Unpaginated. Tight. Stories include : The Three Imps, What Happened to the Pie, The Musical Mice, To London-Town, Sprung a Leak, Trotty's Almanac, and many more.

Racine, WI: Whitman, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Moderate scuffing to lightly soiled boards. Corners worn through. Delamination and tear to bottom spine. Very age-tanned. Brown and red lettering on spine and front of illustrated glossy yellow boards. 212 pp. Solid binding. Stories of the Real McCoys based upon the popular television series which ran from 1957 to 1963. Grandpa Amos and Little Luke share many adventures.

Boulder, Colorado: The Aspen Press, 1974. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First Edition. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. "A bold and dauntless hero and a brave and beautiful heroine..." Edgewear to dustjacket, former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Book itself is clean, with one very small stain at bottom of front. DJ is soiled. Red topstain (as per first edition). DJ not price-clipped -- original $2.50 price.

Alberquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press , 1935 . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. FIRST EDITION. Two bears--Cubby and his mother--further explore Yellowstone park and learn about the early history of the region. 170 pp. with black and white illustrations. Bright red cloth boards with black lettering, illustration to front board. Light rubbing to extremities. Rear board very lightly cocked with slight curve to horizontal axis. Several very small dings to top and bottom edge of boards. Three nickel-sized spots to front board; nickel-sized and half-dime sized spot to rear board. Light bump to rear corners and front bottom corner. Light spotting to top edge of front and rear endpapers. DJ price-clipped. Nine chips, one dime-sized and the others quarter-dime sized or less, to edges with 3 closed tears 0.5 inches or less. Light spotting and soiling to baords, panels, spine. Light sunning to spine and extremities. Sticker ghost to front DJ panel.

Eugene: FJF, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. SOFT COVER. Very mild shelfwear. Black lettering to spine and front of brick-red covers. Pen and ink illustration on front cover, by author. Clean, bright, solid. 249 pp. Set in rugged western Oregon, Lobelia, Verbascum is the fast-paced and wry adventure of an unusually well-read country boy runniing for his life -- and running toward it as well.

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Poor. Jacobs, Elmer. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's ex-libris to FFEP. Very mild creasing to spinecaps. Dustjacket poor but present. Clipped. Sunning to spine. Half of spine material is missing. Large open tear to top rear panel. Moderate scuffing to jacket surfaces. Gilt lettering and design to spine, gilt illustration to front of pine-green, cloth-covered boards. Green endpapers illustrated with map of United States and Nebraska. Line- drawn illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 493 pp with note and sources. From the word go, the Nebraska story is an adventure story. This book is comprised of over ninety pieces. They were chosen for their human interest, historical significance, and entertainment value. Some of the contributors to this volume are : Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Col. W. F. Cody, Robert Sturgis, Francis A. Long, Rudyard Kipling, George L. Jackson, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Sir Richard… Read More

New York, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. DePol, John. SHARP CORNERS. Very faint pipe aroma. Dustjacket very good. Now Mylar protected. Wood engravings by John DePol. 70 pp with facsimile section of Faulkner's manuscript of Father Abraham at rear of book. Clean, tight, bright. "Father Abraham is a valuable element in the study and analysis of the stages of revision and restructuring a major work goes through before it is ultimately regarded by its author as finished ," (front flap).

New York: W. W. Norton, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. FINE. Dustjackets very good plus. Mylar protected. Gilt lettering on spines of black, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 408 / 374 pp with indices. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. The First Series (1953) is comprised of papers written between the years 1922 and 1936. The Second Series (1954) are papers written from 1936 to 1946. Translations by James and Alix Strachey. "Taken together, these two volumes present all of Otto Fenichel's more significant contributions to psychoanalysis," (front flap, Series Two).

London: Stanley Nott, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. FIRST EDITION. Former library copy with pockets removed from front endpapers and library stamps to title page and p 7. Page 51, library perforation has been cut out but replaced. Sunning to spine and extremities. Age-tanning. Corners are a bit worn but not frayed. Black lettering debossed to spine of grass-green, cloth-covered boards. Five plates. 52 pp "with some notes by a very ignorant man". With a foreword and notes by Ezra Pound. "In his search through unknown art ,Fenollosa, coming upon unknown motives and principles unrecognized in the West, was already led into many modes of thought since fruitful in "new" Western painting and poetry. He was a forerunner without knowing it and without being known as such," (Ezra Pound).

Paris: Productions Musicales, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. IN FRENCH. STAPLEBOUND. 8.5 X 14.5". Mildly scuffed covers. White lettering on front of gold-color illustrated covers. 30 pp. Clean. Songs include, J'entends j'entends, Les poetes, un jour un jour, Aimer a perdre la raison and more.

Adams Media Corporation. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. A general look at "the myths and reality of Sherlock Holmes and his creator, as well as the era in which Conan Doyle's mysteries were published..." (rear panel, dj). 4to. Glossy pictorial cover. Two lightly nudged corners. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

Cologne: Konemann, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. HEAVY. Ever so slightly bumped corners. A small 1" wrinkle crease to middle of DJ spine, a couple very tiny closed tears to upper DJ edge. Silver lettering debossed to spine and front board, black boards. Bright glossy DJ. Very clean, bright, tight. Full of gorgeous illustrations and photographs, many in stunning full color. 640 pp with Bauhaus chronology, selective bibliography, exhibitions at the Bauhaus, glossary, merchandising appendix, the authors, index and picture acknowledgements and thanks. "The dynamism of the Bauhaus still fascinates us today, 80 years after its foundation and brief 14-year existence. With its roots in the Arts and Crafts movement, influenced by the German Werkbund and other reformist currents of thought, the Bauhaus was founded in 1919 and rapidly became known far beyond the borders of Germany, not least as a result of its great exhibition of 1923, launched under the slogan,… Read More

Saratoga, California: R & E Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Very mild shelfwear to jacket. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. The number 845-1 printed on lower spine. Clean, tight, bright. 28 pp followed by index, i - xxii. An important sourcebook that demonstrates the omnipresence of racism and sexism in American popular culture. Quotes from "distinguished individuals" such as Spiro T. Agnew, Susan B. Anthony, Tallulah Bankhead, Calvin Coolidge, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther, George Patton, Albert Schweitzer, Edith Wharton, William F. Buckley, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. Individuals from all walks of life, like the victims of their prejudging, are the product of an environment and of the times in which they lived.

Philadelphia, PA: Theodore Presser , 1888 . Hardcover. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Introduction to the history of music, beginning with the music of ancient civilizations and Oriental music and continuing with an extensive study of European music of the Renaissance and beyond. 183 pp. with 32 pp. chronology to rear of text plus index. Blue cloth boards with lovely black lettering and design to front board, brilliant gilt lettering and design to spine. Floral pattern to endpapers. Light rubbing to edges. Some very light foxing and age-tanning to edges.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Hardcover. FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. FINE. Dustjacket near fine. Slight shelfwear to DJ only. Metallic red lettering to spine, light gray cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. Sharp corners. No markings. 365 pp with notes and index. "This penetrating study of Shakespeare's discovery of a subjective voice calls upon deep learning in several fields: in the history of rhetoric from ancient times through the Renaissance, in psychoanalysis, in post-structuralism, in semiotics, in modern philosophy. Fineman is widely read in these fields and an astute close reader of Shakespeare's poetry, The result is an originality that few scholars would be able to emulate," (from review on DJ rear panel).

NEW YORK: The New York Book Company, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. Just a tiny bit of rubbing to extremities. The table of contents outlines every "action point' for each of the 18 chapters. 234 pp. text plus 10 pp of ads at rear.