Search Results: Titles starting with F from Boyd Used & Rare Books

New York: American Union League Society, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Book has half-bound leather at the corners and spine. Bumping with wear and exposed boards and the fore edge corners. About 1cm square missing from tail of spine at front edge. Small cracks to leather at front spine creases near top and bottom edges. Wear to spine and spine edges. Previous owner has stamped his name on front paste down, as well as title page and frontispiece. One other small date on ffep. Black and gilt title on spine. Maroon boards and leather. Gilt top edge to text block. 1899. No other printings indicated. 7 x 9.5 inches. 640 Pages.

Long Beach: California State University Long Beach, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Covers rubbed; scuffed along edges; small sticker ghost in upper left corner of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages fine. Illustrated in color. [72] pages. 9'' x 12''. Rare. One copy noted on OCLC (New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University). Color photos throughout showing work by each of the members of the 2003 Art Department faculty at California State University-Long Beach. Includes biographies with photo portrait of each member. Introduction by department chair Jay Kvapil. Faculty featured: Archie Boston, Kendall Brown, Doug Buis, Florian Claar, Domenic Cretara, Tanya Cummings, Linda Adair Day, Constance Glenn, Todd Gray, Jen Grey, David Hadlock, Thomas Hall, Elizabeth Hartung, Peter Holliday, Tor Hovind, Elizabeth Kenneday, Karen Klienfelder, Tom Krumpak, Jay Kvapil, Libby Lumpkin, Tony Marsh, Christopher Miles, Julia Miller, Kristen Morgin, Lara Nguyen, Cynthia… Read More

Paris, France: Hotel Drouot, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. These two catalogs have been bound into dark green boards with gilt titles on the boards and spine. Green marbled end papers. Book has a little chipping to the finish at the extremities. The catalogs have been bound in their original condition, complete with slightly tape-stained wraps and some pencil notes on a very few pages. Wraps are age toned. Pages are starting to age tone at edges. 7.5 x 11 inches. French Language. Rare. Catalogs full titles are as follows: --Catalogue des Tableaux Ancens et Modernes. Objets D'Art et D'Ameublement ances et de style Faiences et Porcelaines Anciennes. Objets de vitrine, Objets varies. Bronzes, Pendules Sieges et Meuble Tapisseroes di XVI siecle Tenture, tapis Dependant de la Succession de Madame la Comtesse Dave de Fitz-James. Hotel Drouot 15, 16, 17,, & 18 Decembre 1902 --Collection de Monsieur X... Anciennes Faiences Francaises de Aprey, Les Islettes, Lille, Marseille, Moustiers, Nevers,… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on ffep. Stated First Edition. First printing (with full number line). Light blue cloth boards pictorially stamped in purple. Cloth shows light sun-fading to spine and along top edge. Interior is clean and crisp. Dust jacket not price clipped; in a clear archival sleeve. [32] pages. 9 x 7.5 inches. A young Peruvian boy living in the Andes with his grandmother takes his first harvest to market with the aid of magic flute. Illustrations and calligraphy by Carlos Llerena Aguire. Carlos Antonio Llerena Aguirre (b. 1952) was born in Peru and is an award-winning illustrator, artist and printmaker. He was staff artist for the Village Voice and the San Francisco Chronicle and his drawings and woodcuts have been published in the New York Times. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Philadelphia University of the Arts, Syracuse University, California College of Arts and… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Ira and Larry Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good+. Catalog for the auction held on May 28-30, 2001 at the Holiday Inn in Beverly Hills (Ira and Larry Goldberg Sale No. 10). A b/w catalog plus 6 pages of color photographs. Clean and square, very slight edge wear. Interior is free of any writing or marks. 314 pp.

New York, N. Y.: L. B. Fischer, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Pictorial boards (identical to dust jacket). Illustrated endpapers. Interior is clean and pages are crisp. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket shows very minor edgewear; not price clipped ($1.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. [28] pages. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. A very attractive copy. Three of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales (The Real Princess, The Little Tin Soldier, and Thumbelina), charming illustrated by Dick Hart.

Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University, 1973. Soft cover. Good+. Saddle stitched book has a little spotting on the wraps. A few small stress creases along the spine edge. One very faint crease to the front wrap. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Uncommon. 56 pp. 8.5" x 11

Karachi, Pakistan: Kitab Publishers, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. First Edition. Blue cloth boards. Uneven fading to cloth on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 98 pages. Dust jacket shows uneven color on front panel; minor general soiling; chipped at head of spine; in an archival mylar sleeve. Anthology of Urdu poetry, covering the period circa 1690 to 1905. The jacket claims that this is the first anthology of Urdu poetry to appear in English. The Pakistani author and critic, Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) provides the nineteen-page introduction and biographical and contextual introductions for each of the authors. These poems were translated throughout the 1940s, many having appeared in various journals in Pakistan, India and U.K. The poets represented are: Mohammed Vali [Wali Muhammad Wali, 1667-1707], Mirza Rafi Sauda [1713-1781], Khwaja Mir Dard [1720-1785], Mohammad Taqi Mir [Mir Taqi Mir, 1723-1810], Insha Allah Khan Insha [c. 1752-1817], Bahadur Shah Zafar… Read More

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. First edition, as indicated by the (I) that appears on the last page of the text. An eye-witness record of an outstanding American success--the occupation of Japan under General MacArthur by a senior writer for Life. Upper corners of boards are bumped. No writing or marks. Minor discoloration to endpapers, text pages are lightly age toned. Dj has a bit of edge-wear and a closed tear on the bottom edge of the front panel, not price clipped (2.50), in mylar. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. 258 pages.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the Viscount on front free endpaper, plus a handwritten note on Follodon letterhead and original envelope tipped to flyleaf (original recipient's bookplate on front pastedown). Quarter buff cloth and brown papered sides. Paper title label on spine is scuffed; corners a bit bumped. Extra illustration tipped to verso of frontispiece, else internally clean. Illustrated with several attractive blockprints: frontispiece, title page, chapter headpieces and ending vignettes. v, [3], 168, [4] p. A collection of essays on miscellaneous topics by Sir Edward Grey. The pieces include his reflections on the pleasure of reading, the enjoyment of nature, recreation as told through his personal recollections, public life (as statesman, Minister of Parliament, etc.), Fallodon's water fowl, fly fishing, and an essay on Wordsworth's autobiographical poem 'The Prelude'. Each had been previously published, except ''The… Read More

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. Orange topstain. Interior is unmarked, clean, and pages are crisp. Dust jacket shows wear at ends of spine (including a small chip near top) and at its corners; a couple closed tears on rear panel; not price clipped ($2.50 on rear flap). DJ in archival sleeve. x, 278 pp. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Gass's autobiographically-based novel, recalling his family's experiences and struggles in Ohio during the last years of the 1890s. This is an American story of a family with its back up against the financial wall, wherein the whole family rolls up its sleeves after father buys a wretched little laundry, and battles for independence amid the various changes in economy, technology, and society. "Villains and crooks, farmers and shopkeepers, servants and joy-girls, union leaders and bankers, sheriffs and hunted men, society leaders and the submerged, and even the… Read More

Decatur, Michigan: Van Buren Regional Genealogical Society, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. Card covers. Interior clean and unmarked. 44 page name index (including more than 5000 names). pp. [12], 1-311, [44]. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Genealogies for families in that settled in the Michigan counties of Berrien and Manistee, being the genealogical pedigrees for Dale Vernon Baugher, Sr. (1900-1960), Myrtle Jane Keigley (1900-1989), Alfred August Schultz (1908-1966), and Ruth Marie Kortright (1914-1973) and their descendants. This work is arranged and organized in a "descendancy" format of with individual sections for the Descendants of William Adams, John Baugher, Manley B. Coon, Wells Crumb, Christian Diesing, Johnson Edmondson, Henry Jacob Falkenburg Sr., Gideon Gilson, Frederick Jetzke, Andrew Keigley, Simeon Meacham, August Carl Miehlke, Robert Peterson, Augustine Probst, Franze Schultz, Adam Snyder, and John Stout.

London: Darton & Co. Holborn Hill, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. No date (published circa 1850). Red boards with gilt and blind stamped design on front cover and gilt lettering and flower in vase design on spine. Tips of corners a bit exposed. Side edges of spine has a couple worn areas. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Illustrated title page and frontispiece (each showing dampstain in lower corner). The endpapers advertise Darton's Holiday Library with 11 titles listed. 228 pp. 5.75 x 3.5 inches. First published in 1835 as Social Tales for the Young. Chapters: The Mail Coach, My Three Uncles, The Old Lady's Complaint, The Shepherd's Fountain, The Hours of Infancy, Economy, Hoc Age, Old Things and New Things, The Swiss Cottage, Obstinacy Punished. Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851), aka Mrs. Sherwood, was an English author of children's literature.

Philadelphia: Office of ''The Evening Telegraph, 1874. Soft cover. Fair. Early edition of A Fancy of Doctor Ox and The Tour of the World in Eighty Days, both having appeared in the pages of The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph during the June & July of 1874. Translated expressly for The Evening Telegraph by Stephen William White. (All other early American editions feature the George M. Towle translation). Missing wraps. Final leaf of advertising chipped. [3-8], 9-124, [6] pages. 9 x 5.75 inches.

1903. Hardcover. Fair. A novel from the popular Danish author Jenny Blicher-Clausen (1865-1907). Half bound leather on ornate black boards. Endpapers have a seaside and seagull design. Binding is fragile. Leather at spine edges is cracked. Board edges worn. First ffep is missing. 271 pages. Danish language.

New York: Viking Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Harrison on half-title page. First Edition (''First published'' statement on copyright page). Perceptibly erased penciled price on half-title. Dust jacket lightly rubbed around edges, small spot of discoloration on front flap, not price clipped; in archival mylar sleeve. 160 pages.

Auckland, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1931. Soft cover. Good+. Sewn Binding soft cover has light wear to corners. Some spotting along spine edge. Light general surface soiling to wraps. Rare publication. 99 pp. 12cm x 18.5cm

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. Yellow cloth spine with green lettering and orange papered sides. Previous owner's name and date on ffep, else internally clean. Dust jacket shows light wear; not price clipped9($8.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. 254 pages. Hair-raising novel about the Grand Prix auto circuit, roaring from Palermo to Le Mans, concerning the competition between a champion and his rival, for both the checkered flag and a rich, beautiful, but inexperienced, American girl.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Book has a tiny bit of bumping to front fore edge corners. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has a little edge wear. Fore edge corners are worn with small chips. Head and tail of dj spine have a little wear with tiny chips. Fore edges of dj are chipped. Price clipped. Second edition, 1965. 215 pages.

Chapel Hill, NC: Hispanofila, 1977. Soft cover. Fair. Staple bound booklet has creases to the wraps on both front and rear. Fore edge corners are slightly bumped and curled. Age toning to wraps; heaviest near spine. Round damp stain to last three leaves of booklet. This is an extract from Hispanofila No. 61. 6.6 x 9.3 inches. 10 pages. Spanish Language.