Search Results: Titles starting with F from Lighthousebooks, ABAA

England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., (1994). First Edition. Royal octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 154 pp. Neat bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Throughout the 1950s, the distinctive wail of the north American F-86 Sabre was as familiar a sound in the skies of the free world as the crackle of the Rolls-Royce Merlin had been a decade earlier. Most of all, the Sabre is remembered for its air superiority role in the Korean War, when, high over the Yalu River, it tangled with Russia’s MiG-15 in the world’s first jet-versus-jet combats close to the speed of sound. It was in the cut-and-thrust of high-speed air battle over Korea that the Sabre captured the imagination of the western world, but its contribution to halting the march of communism did not end there. It was the F-86 that gave the fighter pilots of the principal NATO air forces their first taste of high-speed jet flight, and enabled NATO’s air power to hold the line in Western Europe at… Read More

England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., (1994). First Edition. Royal octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 154 pp. Neat bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Throughout the 1950s, the distinctive wail of the north American F-86 Sabre was as familiar a sound in the skies of the free world as the crackle of the Rolls-Royce Merlin had been a decade earlier. Most of all, the Sabre is remembered for its air superiority role in the Korean War, when, high over the Yalu River, it tangled with Russia’s MiG-15 in the world’s first jet-versus-jet combats close to the speed of sound. It was in the cut-and-thrust of high-speed air battle over Korea that the Sabre captured the imagination of the western world, but its contribution to halting the march of communism did not end there. It was the F-86 that gave the fighter pilots of the principal NATO air forces their first taste of high-speed jet flight, and enabled NATO’s air power to hold the line in Western Europe at… Read More

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1901. Octavo, full-color illustrated boards backed by blue cloth (hardcover), unpaginated. Upper cover illustration is a full-color scene of a group of children and a gray cat playing with a large laundry basket that has been converted (with use of a broom and bedsheet) into a play ship. Very Good, with wear to edges and foxing (age darkened spotting) to cloth covered spine. bright gilt still outlines letters and corners of upper cover; illustration still bright.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. Limited Edition. Limited edition reprint of the 1909 edition. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates, and a number of black & white line drawings. Octavo, Bound in full brown leather with gilt decorations, including an eagle on the front cover, gilt lettering, silk endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon-marker, 152 pp. Fine.

New York: Education Division, Paintex Products Corp., 1926. Quarto, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, 20 pp. Color illus. Very Good.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [May, 1962]. First Edition. 12mo, boards (hardcover), full-color illus. paper label, full-color illus. endpapers, 59 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with foxing (age darkened foxing.

Paris: Editions du Caprisson/Hachette Antilles, (1978). First Edition. Folio, orange cloth with color photo on front cover (hardcover), text in French & English, [iii], 167 pp. 11 leaves for an unused amateur photo album. Color photos throughout, maps. Travel book & photo album. Fine in cloth slip case.

Baltimore: Redwood House, Inc., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the Author (Founder and First President of Civitan International). Small quarto, black & gold illus. cloth (hardcover), xxx, 394 pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing to covers. Illustrated with numerous b&w photos. History of Civitan International.

Hutchinson of London, 1961. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), 179 pp. Fine, with bookplate; in a Very Good dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: In the last war Group Captain Leonard Cheshire became a legend. That he won a Victoria Cross was almost an inevitable outcome. But since the war his work on behalf of suffering humanity has made him an international figure, loved with reverence and humility. The Cheshire Homes are known throughout the world, but what are they? And how did they come into being? Above all, what made Leonard Cheshire turn from war to serve his fellows? In The Face of Victory Leonard Cheshire tells with a wealth of fascinating detail just how this astonishing change in his pattern of life came about. Of how, not long after he had seen an atom bomb dropped on Japan, he started on the path that brought him up against almost impossible odds, and brought a host of his fellows deep in his debt, not only in Britain but throughout the world. Running through… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1967]. Quarto, brown cloth (hardcover), 119 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signiture, in a Good dust jacket with some soiling to covers and shelfwear that includes several chips along top edge. “A noted artist-illustrator presents a pictorial gallery of the men and women of the American fronteir West -- the personalities who made it the rough-and-ready, always colorful, sometimes cruel palce it was. Here you meet -- in pencil portraits, background drawings, and through word sketches that capture the essence and flavor of each character -- the cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, marshal, riverboat captain, vaquero, peddler, gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook, missionary, and all the rest -- fifty-four individuals from the period between 1800 and 1900...His book is vibrantly alive with the spirit of a unique and unforgettable era in America’s history.”

Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1958. Quarto, softbound (stiff, stapled, b&w photo. illus. wrappers), unpaginated. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature.

New York: SImon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, blue & white boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 411 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Facing Up is like a powerful dose of truth serum injected into the body politic of America’s debate over budgets and deficits, investment and productivity -- and, ultimately, the future of the American Dream. In these pages, Peter G. Peterson, former United States Secretary of Commerce and one of Wall Street’s preeminent investment bankers, dares to speak the “unspeakable” truths that most of Washington’s establishment, Democrats and Republicans alike, find too politically dangerous to acknowledge to the public.

Cambridge University Press, (2000). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 301 pp. Light underlining; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Death, a topic often neglected by historians, is in this book given the attention it deserves as one of the most important aspects of personal and societal experience. Facing the “King of Terrors” examines changes in the roles and perceptions of death in one American community, Schenectady, New York, from 1750 to 1990. A remarkably thorough study, this work incorporates a wide variety of topics, including causes of death, epidemics and the reactions they engendered, rituals surrounding dying and burial, cemeteries and grave markers, public celebrations of the deaths of important figures, reactions to war, and businesses that profited from death. Combining an in-depth look at patterns of death in society as a whole with an investigation of personal responses to such cultural customs, the book… Read More

Raleigh, N.C.: State Department of Archives and History, 1952. Octavo, softbond, uncut, xxxii, 66 pp. Map, photos, decorative initials. Very Good.

Baffalo, NY: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1972. Quarto, black faux leather, 57 pp. Fine. Study investigates effects of stress and grammatical contrast on retention and deletion of stystem morphemes and content words on an imitation task.

Tallahassee: The Florida State University, 1962. First Edition. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 108 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to first few pages. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Classification of Factors; The Theoretical Framework; Statistical Procedure for Location Study; General Findings of Florida Survey; Location Factors in Urban and Rural Counties; A Postscript on Recent Development.

Lake Helen: Lake Helen Civil League, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Oblong 16mo, printed self-wrappers, stapled, [20] pp. Photographs. Good; covers detached, otherwise clean and in-tact.

Pittsburgh: United Irish societies Bicentennial Committee of Western Pennsylvania, 1977. 2nd edition. Octavo, softbound, v, 132 pp. Portraits, maps, illus. Very Good; spine slightly cocked.

Evanston: Northwestern University Studies, 1947. Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities No. 16. Octavo, cloth, viii, 135 pp. Fine.

Miami, FL: Hallmark Press, 1996. First Hardback Edition. Octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illus. boards), 56 pp. From Introduction: Located just a few miles from downtown Miami, Fairchild Tropical Garden appears a tropical oasis amidst the bustle of Southern Florida. Spread out over 83 acres is the largest collection of palms, cycads, tropical and subtropical plants in the subcontinental United States.