Search Results: Titles starting with F from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

San Diego, CA: Green Tiger Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Coco's story for children, about a fiddler's son who shows townspeople how music is heard by the heart. Essentially a folk tale, but written contemporarily, well-illustrated with monochrome linoleum block plates, and formatted as if it were verse. Eugene Bradley Coco is a children's author and known for his adaptation of Disney's Peter Pan. The first book illustrated by Robert Sabuda, whose life-like, yet stylized linoleum block illustrations are an artistic departure from his usual paper engineered pop-up books. In a deep, forest green cloth over boards and printed in Raleigh Demi-Bold type on fine, stiff paper. Unpaginated. No dust jacket, as-issued. In absolutely clean, defect-free, Fine condition.; Linoleum block; Thin Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22 pages .

Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Second Revised Edition. Booklet. Front cover has a slight wave vertically and a tiny bend to the tail corner. Previous owner's signature on the half title and inside the front cover of the folder. Three, short notations in pencil inside the rear cover paper. Spine and fore edges of the folder are sun-lightened and the pastedown is darkened along the edges where it is glued to the cover cloth.; This is one of the classic works about ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging that stresses harmony and a balanced form. Along with tea and the tea ceremony, and appreciation of incense, Ikebana is one of the traditional Japanese arts of refinement. The detailed text presents the art as practiced in the 19th Century and is illustrated with 141 black and white line drawings of arrangements, details, and containers. The book is string bound between two, green, illustrated paper covers. This early edition… Read More

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Light soil and wear to covers, spine ends, and tips. A white spot and two light spots to the front cover. Front endpaper has a creased corner, 1/4" closed tear at the head, and a "ghost" offset from a sticker that isn't present.; A reprint from one of R. F. Fenno & Company's original series of approximately thirteen pamphlets of Oscar Wilde's poetry issued by R. F. Fenno & Company. The table of contents list the poems; Impressions: I. Les Silhouettes II. La Fuite de la Lune, The Grave of Keats, Theocritus: A Villanelle, In The Gold Room: A Harmony, Ballade De Marguerite, The Dole of the King’s Daughter, Amor Intellectualis, Santa Decca, A Vision, Impression De Voyage, The Grave Of Shelley, and By The Arno. This poetry was generally derided by Wilde's critics as lightweight and derivative of Algernon Charles Swinburne's work. Some of these poems are reprinted… Read More

Cambridge: The Pym-Randall Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Stiff wraps. This poem is an homage to George Herbert, the influential Welsh-born, English-educated "metaphysical" poet of the 17th century, state orator, and priest of the Church of England. His best-known religious poems are The Temple, The Country Parson, and Jacula Prudentum. Written by Grey Ruthven, Irish-born hereditary peer, poet, European Chair of Sotheby’s, fine art dealer, Member of the House of Lords, and Minister for the Arts in Margaret Thatcher's government. This is copy 88 of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies in a total edition of 126. Signed on the colophon by the author, Grey Ruthven. The Pym-Randall Press was founded by James and Joanne Randall and was best known for publishing emerging poets, issuing small letterpress printed editions. Designed and printed by William Ferguson, frequent printer to the press. String bound in deep purple, mould made,… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Tiny dent to the tail of the rear board. Pinpoint dot to the tail of the front board. Publisher's clear acetate wrapper is scuffed, with a tiny chip at the spine head.; Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021) was a widely acclaimed poet, literary translator, editor, and translator, garnering numerous international awards, fellowships, grants, and residencies. Grouped in 4 chapters, these 48 poems demonstrate Eshleman's fluid, prose-like, free verse style that that has been variously termed surrealist, Postmodernist, and 'American grotesque.' With the author's in-text line drawings on two facing pages, reproduction of a cave painting, and Notes on chapter contents. This is copy 112 of a limited edition of 200, numbered and signed on the colophon by the author. Paginated 145,[blank],[1],blank,[1]. Inscribed by Eshleman to "Elizabeth & Joel / Dear friends : I… Read More