Search Results: Authors starting with F from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

[Rome: Carlo Bestetti, Edizioni d'Arte, 1960]. Unpaginated: [38] pages plus frontispiece. Original plain wraps laid-into printed paper portfolio with title on the front panel and illustrations on the verso. 35 x 25 cm. Small, light stain to two pages, not affecting illustrations; book is otherwise fine. Portfolio is very good with small stain on front panel and uniform sun-fading to spine and front panels. Small areas of glue residue on unprinted portions of gutter of portfolio (evidently, a previous owner had tipped the book into the portfolio and it was later freed; see photo). FIRST EDITION. One of 1,500 copies. Text in Italian and English. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs and several mounted color plates. Issued on the 50th anniversary of the Fabiani family's fashion house, this work focuses on Alberto Fabiani's work in the 1950's. Includes essays by Giorgio Ottone and Irene Brin.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1921. 320 pages, plus color frontispiece and numerous plates, reproducing 115 photographs. Original pictorial cloth stamped in green, white, and blue; top edge gilt. 23 x 15 cm. Spine a little sunned and soiled; a tiny bit of flaking to cover illustration; neat, early gift inscription on front free endpaper; light foxing to margins of plates and facing pages; still a very good copy. FIRST EDITION. The author visited Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. In his preface, he touts the advantages of traveling by automobile. John Thomson Faris (1871-1949) was a publisher and Presbyterian minister who wrote several other travelogues. "This is a handbook for the traveling public written by a professional. Like most modern purveyors of the tourist trade, Faris traveled by auto, stayed but little in one place, and indulged in no social commentaries that could offend… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. [6], 182, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Nine drawings printed with the text. Original patterned paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and tips, lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. 20 x 13.5 cm. Very good in fair to good, price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; a little tanning near the edges of the front board. Minor foxing to frontispiece with negligible impact on the image; foxing to title page as well, but none elsewhere. The jacket has a jagged 3-cm long chip to the center of the spine panel, several other chips with a slight impact on lettering, a long tear along the fold between the front panel and front flap, tissue repairs to verso, and sun-fading to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. The subtitle on the dust jacket reads: "A Story in Jazz." The adventures of a free-spirited young woman, Ruby Burke, late of San Francisco, traveling in America and Europe, with delightful illustrations by Eldon Kelley (b.… Read More

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1924. 216 pages. Original black cloth stamped in gold. [23 cm.] Some very light rubbing to cloth, corners and base of spine a trifle bumped, tiny nick to edge of front board, three small, inconspicuous bubbles to cloth at base of front board, still a very good copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front flyleaf. It reads: "For Herman & David Salinger: Hearty Greetings, from Charles J. Finger." Complete with eight colored woodcuts (including frontispiece) by American artist, Paul Honore. Tales of outlaws in the Australian bush, including Ned Kelly.

Wilmington, Delaware: The Wemyss Foundation, [circa 1966. Date mentioned in the text]. 10 pages. Original printed wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Very good plus. Minor soiling to wraps. FIRST EDITION. An essay on social conformity, the impact of technology, and cultural change in post-war America. Fishwick writes: "Once upon a time every man was a tiger. He roamed the jungle (that is, the open marketplace) with stealthy tread and padded paw. . . . Then came the day of the zebra, with his gray-flannel stripes, togetherness, and tendency to run scared. Twenty years after World War II, old warriors ask: has the Land of the Free become a Zooful of Zebras?" (p. 1). The title and theme are derived from Tom Wolfe's senior thesis at Washington and Lee University, “A Zooful of Zebras: Anti-Intellectualism in the United States“ (1951). Fishwick was Wolfe's mentor at Washington and Lee, and Wolfe called him "the most magnetic teacher I have ever known" (“Encyclopedia… Read More

Raleigh, N.C.: Commerical Printing Co., 1930. viii, 376 pages. Numerous full-page photographs (portraits and few views) printed with the text. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt emblems on the front cover. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Good. Spine is partially faded, gilt is a bit dull, some spotting to the spine and covers, name on front free endpaper. Leaves are just a little toned, but clean. FIRST EDITION. The book is in two parts, with Arnold Lloyd Fletcher writing the history of the American Legion and his wife, Mae Pitzer Fletcher, providing the account of the work of ladies in the American Legion Auxillary. Each provides sketches of individual posts/units in addition to a history of the larger organization. One of Mr. Fletcher's chapters provides a brief discussion of the "Negro Posts of North Carolina" (pp. 194-197).

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, [1867]. Small 8vo. 406 pages, plus frontispiece portrait. [12] pages publisher's ads. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt, with single gilt rule on spine and triple blind rules on covers; brown coated endpapers. [19 cm.] Spine faded to tan; some fading and spotting to covers. Faint name on front free endpaper ("George R. Watkins, '67," a naval paymaster from Baltimore.) Foxing to frontispiece and title; offsetting to title; moderate marginal damping to lower corners of first few leaves. Text is generally clean with only a few minor spots or traces of foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. Letters from Forney's 1867 travels in England and on the Continent. John Wien Forney (1817-1881), a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was an influential newspaper editor, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1851-1856, 1860-1861) and Secretary of the United States Senate (1861-1868).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Issued as no. 665 of Harper's Franklin Square Library, New Series. 281 pages, plus [2] pages ads, lacking the final [4] pages of ads. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Original printed wraps, lacking the rear wrap. Else good only. The spine is chipped and fragile, but holding and with most lettering intact; small chips to front wrap, not affecting lettering; stains and browning to front wrap. Upper corners a little bumped; occasional light marginal soiling; faint marginal scratches to one page; faint offsetting to two other pages. Early bookseller's ink stamp on front flyleaf (Kleinteich's, Brooklyn). Housed in custom-made cloth folder and quarter red morocco slipcase with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Slipcase shows a few traces of rubbing and soiling to the leather but is otherwise in very good condition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The scarce FIRST STATE, with the first page of ads describing "Two Years in the French West Indies" as "in… Read More

Nashville, Tenn.: Confederate Veteran, 1901. xv, [i], 404 pages, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. Numerous full-page portraits and maps printed with the text. Errata slip tipped-in. Original dark red cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial flag centerpiece stamped in red, white, and blue. 24 x 17 cm. Good. Spine sun-darkened, worn at ends, and with small chip at base; corners worn. Front hinge started but holding; binding cracked after frontispiece, also holding; front free endpaper cleanly detached and present. Frontispiece and the portions of the title page not protected by the tissue guard are tanned; mild age-toning throughout; a few traces of marginal soiling or foxing. Provenance: Signature of T.C.M. Thompson dated Aug. 1902 on the front pastedown and that of his brother, Waddy Thompson, on the front flyleaf. [They were both sons of Hugh Smith Thompson (1836-1904), the Citadel instructor who led the attack on the Star of the West and who later served as governor of South Carolina. Thomas… Read More

Los Angeles: Savage and Savage, [1951]. 64 pages. Original black cloth stamped in silver. [22.2 cm.] Good plus in very good dust jacket. Light edge wear to boards. Top edge soiled, a little soiling to endpapers, tape mark on front free endpaper, but text is clean. Jacket is slightly wrinkled and bumped at the head of the spine panel, and shows some sun. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. No. 39 of 999 copies numbered and signed by the author. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR (unsigned), on the dedication page. Also present are a TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, and an AUTOGRAPH POEM (unsigned), all laid-in. The presentation inscription reads: "For Eleanor Jeffrey Schoberlin, whose conversation deserves a Boswell." Mrs. Schoberlin, of Phoenix, had some aspirations as an author and corresponded with a number of contemporary writers. Her husband was Melvin Harold Schoberlin (1912-1977), a noted Stephen Crane scholar and… Read More