Search Results: Titles starting with F from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1868. Hardcover. Very good. Royal octavo; pp; xxxii, 667 with index; Frontispiece plus over two hundred seventy woodcut illustrations by Grandville; Full leather, decorated with a gilt rule border and spine decorations, at center is an oval inset of a rooster in copper with an opal set in at the bottom right, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; The binding has been professionally rebacked, but many years ago; Intermittent foxing, predominately in the first 50 leaves, edge wear and corners worn, otherwise very good. This volume is from the home of President Theodore Roosevelt and later resided in Alice Roosevelt's home in Washington DC. It bears the bookplate of Edith Kermit Roosevelt, TR's second wife. There is a note in Edith's hand on a preliminary stating that the book was "Bound by Mrs. Flour", a second line reads, "Alice should have this". This was acquired through Alice Roosevelt's decendants in 2010. A beautifully bound edition of a classic book of… Read More

New York: Alexander V. Blake, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Some intermittent toning, a damp stain lightly affects the last few leaves else a very good copy of a lovely 19th century book of fables. 16mo; pp; vi, (vii), 8-251; "embellished with numerous engravings on wood"; black cloth boards decorated in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt;. One hundred fourteen brief fables, each with an application, Quite entertaining.

New York: Mannados Book Shop, 1945. Only Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo, pp; 43; seven black and white cuts of Remington Bronzes and other oil paintings; original printed pictorial paper wrappers; light soiling to wrapper, else very good. OCLC locates just one copy at Texas A & M. Inside rear cover reprints Owen Wister's "Autumn On Wind River". Mannados specialized in Western Americana and Frederic Remington. Very instructive catalogue, 436 items as varied as Remington's first Western oil painting, "Cowboys Driving Horses To Water" at $2500, or Theodore Roosevelt's Medora Edition of Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman at $5.00. Both were great buys!

San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company for the Washington Novelty Company, 1955. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 48; profusely illustrated with views in color and black and white, large folding map at rear; original glossy printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Washington D.C. during the Eisenhower Presidency.

Chicago: Sam Stone, 1904. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Miniature, (2 1/4" x 1 1/4"); pp; 225, appendix; Illustrated by A. J. Klapp, twenty plates; original printed pictorial red paper wrappers;. Campaign item. Miles #869. Miles states blue wrappers and canvas, red is a variant. It has been reported that these were tossed to crowds of probable voters at rallys.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, green gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. 326, (1)pp. Illustrated with photographs in black and white and drawings by Norman Irving Black. Very good condition.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1926. Large paper edition. Limited edition, 1/375 copies of which 350 are to be sold. Printed at the Riverside Press. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp. xvi, (ii), 250 with index, cream cloth and blue boards, gilt in a cloth dust jacket with paper label; Illustrated, frontispiece portrait, other portraits and photographs. Lght soiling;. Introduction by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1935. First Edition. Wraps. wear at top right corner else very good. folio; pp; (16); illustrated with seventeen full page color plates of American Indians; original color stiff fiber wrappers;. Portraits of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gall, Rain-In-The-Face, Crow Big-Foot, Tecumseh, King Philip, Black Hawk, Plenty Coups, Pontiac, Wolf Robe, Osceola, Red Cloud, Geronimo, Joseph, and Petalesharo, Rear panel features Chief American Horse. Below each portrait, there is a short biography about that particular individual. Handsome stylized portraits; Scarce.

Louisville: Baldwin Law Books Company, 1916. First & Only Edition. Hardcover. A good or better copy, shaken but sound.. Octavo; pp. (viii), 336; blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;. Monaghan 2149; Chapters include: The Assassination of Francis Baker by Isaac B. Desha, in 1824; The Assassination of Solomon P. Sharp by Jeroboam O. Beauchamp; The Richardson-Waring Tragedy; The Wilkinson Trial; The Trial of Matt F. Ward; The Execution of Sue Mundy; Thompson-Daviess Tragedy; Assassination of Judge John M. Elliott; Judge Richard Reid, Cowhided by J.J. Corneilison; The Tolliver-Martin or Logan Feud; The Goebel-Sanford Killing; Swope-Goodloe Tragedy; The Colson-Scott Tragedy; The Goebel Assassination; The Hargis-Cockrell Feud and the Death of Judge James Hargis. Very scarce.

Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2000. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 24; illustrated with over 40 highly finished color plates; original printed paper wrappers. Catalogue from the gallery exhibition.

Boston: Pucker Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 32; illustrated with over 40 highly finished color plates; original printed paper wrappers. Catalogue from the gallery exhibition.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Square octavo; pp; xvi, 128, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; burgundy cloth and cream paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, green cloth decorated with fern motif. Top edge gilt. 362pp. with index and glossary. Illustratedwith "over two hundred illustrations from original drawings and photographs". Good or better. Some edgewear; title ink rubbed from spine. The author includes a section on "fern-photography" to encourage picture taking rather than collecting specimens to protect native ferns.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (x), 161, (i), notes; blue cloth and green paper covered boards, lettered in blue in a pictorial dust jacket;. A collection of 12 short stories which are connected by common themes of memory and loss, and by the interplay of reality and fabrication. From the author of "A Glance Away", "Brothers and Keepers" and "Sent For You Yesterday", which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1983.

New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (1993). Quarto (7.25" x 10.25"), green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 437pp. with index. Former owner's embossed stamp. "In close to 300 original recipes, the new Greens style includes exuberant salads, soups, the legendary crusty Greens pizzas, curries and hearty stews, grilled vegetables; and intriguing turnovers made with filo pastry, tortillas and savory doughs..."

London: Hutchinsn & Co, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo (5.25" x 8.5"), green cloth with white ink title. 328, (8)pp. with index and publisher's ads. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A quarter size stain on the back cover and a small spot on the front. Ink is starting to rub from the title. Most of the wonderful photographs were taken by the author.

Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, Printer, 1860. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Octavo; pp; 33; financial charts; original printed paper wrappers;.

Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. (ii), 336 with index; Three lithographic insect frontispiece plates, and woodcuts; embossed black cloth, gilt; wear and chipping at spine ends; Previous owner's name on the front free fly leaf; Presentation orange bookplate from B. P. Johnson Secretary of the New York State Agricultural Society. Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1879) was a natural historian and entomologist. His early studies were of both natural history and medicine, which he studied at the newly formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1854 he became the first professional entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society (commissioned by the State of New York). This made him the first occupational entomologist in the United States. His vast studies of many insects helped scientists to solve some of the problems of crop damage caused by insects. Many of his notebooks are now the property of the Smithsonian Institution. Fitch also discovered the Rodent Botfly Cuterebra… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (xii), 465, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; gilt decorated black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. A Clean bright copy!

(New York): William Morrow, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 336, notes, bibliography, index; Illustrated with photographs; blue cloth and boards in a pictorial dust jacket;.