Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Antique Map & Bookshop

Chatto & Windus. 1943 2nd imp.. Hardback, 5.0 x 7.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with light blue lettering to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends. Back slightly darkened. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 159 pp. The author describes his first months in WWll, in France, Belgium and at Dunkirk, before finding himself back in England, in Dorset.

Orr & Comp Amen Corner Paternoster Row Ca1870. Size of engraved surface: 25cm x 30cm. In very good condition. Red pen markings on map. Uncoloured.

London faber and faber. 1999 1st edition. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering to spine. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s signature to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 216pp. Writings by writers on meeting, seeing, missing, or just giving opinions on, other writers. Includes Johnson on Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf on D.H.Lawrence. Many well known writers have several pages on others.

London, Printed for R. Francklin, 1744 1st. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In full polished speckled calf leather fine binding, gilt line paneled boards, raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering to leather spine label. Red speckled page edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Chip to front board on top leading corner. Spine has been professionally rebacked with later leather to spine. Some occasional mild foxing spots. No penned inscriptions. Small repair to margin edge of plate at Fable I. Some minor foxing else plates clean and bright, except plate 16 which has some staining, and to adjacent pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 173pp. Illustrated with 16 engraved plates PLUS engraved frontis plate and vignette engraving to title page (18).

London. Chatto & Windus. 1929 1st Ltd. Edition.. Tall 8vo. (9x6 ins.) Green cloth bound hardback. Beveled boards. Gilt lettered leather label to spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Spine faded, some minor rubbing to label. couple of small marks and bumped corners on cloth. Bookplate to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. Signed by author and numbered 679/750 at rear. Drawings by Gilbert Spenser. 275 pp. Pages rough-cut.

London. Chatto & Windus. 1929 1st Ltd. Edition. 23/750.. Hardback, Tall 8vo. (9x6 ins.) Green cloth bound hardback. Beveled boards. Gilt lettered leather label to spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Slight fading to spine else cover clean and smart. Faint minor water stains to corners of endpapers, tape marks to free sides. endpaper. Some minor tanning to pages. Edges rought cut. Signed by author and numbered 23/750 at rear. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 275 pp. Illustrated with four B&W Drawings by Gilbert Spenser. Pages rough-cut.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, no date ca1909 1st. Hardback, approx 10.5 x 8 inches. Light brown/tan cloth with gilt lettering to spine, eagle illustration to front in red with green lettering and border to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks and minor rubbing to edges of cloth, rubbing to bottom front edge, some darkening to top page edges. Some darkening and mild foxing to prelims. Some light foxing spots to title, contents pages and p1. Some dark foxing spots to outer page edges. Plates all very clean and bright, all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 152pp. With 23 mounted colour plates and b/w illustrations in text by Edward J. Detmold. The original edition published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton.

London John Murray 1950 (1st edition.).. Size 9.5 x 7 inches. Bound in original yellow cloth, with red lettering to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (d/w. A few chips top edge. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Slight foxing to endpapers. Some very light foxing to fore edges, Else a clean and tight copy. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator). 64pp, mostly line drawings.

Phaidon Press. 1980. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed on edges. Not price clipped). Inscription on half title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 448pp. Prof. ills. with b/w and colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. "Thirty specially commissioned essays reviewing the economic, cultural and political heritage of Europe." Deliberately avoiding a systematic treatment, the authors aim to stimulate the reader's imaginative reponse to the human riches that make up the multi-faceted heritage of Europe.

Blackie & Son 1883 First issue, of the 4th state of 1st edition.. Approx 7.5 x 5 inches. In BLUE cloth with embossed and printed design to front and spine in red, black and gilt colouring. In very good condition. Corners bumped, edges rubbed, ends of spine slightly nicked at ends. Slight lean. Inner hinges cracked between endpapers with a couple of marks to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1884. Pages very clean and tight with very little or no foxing. Else a clean and tight copy. 8 full-page, tinted ills. by G. Browne. 304 pp./ cat.32pp (dated 11/83, but stating: New Series for Season 1884. Advertising: "With Clive in India", and "By Sheer Pluck" without press statements). Although stated on title-pg: Second Edition, "it was not, in fact, a new edition at all, indeed the text was not even a new impression...It was in this state that the majority of sheets from the first printing of FACING DEATH reached readers' hands" (Newbolt 10.4).

London, The Folio Society, 2011 Limited Numbered Edition 114/1000.. The gorgeous facsimiles are bound in 3 volumes : Each volume is bound in stunning white Nigerian goat skin blocked with a gilt design on cover and spine that is seductively sensuous to the touch. The volumes are housed on a sliding tray in a maroon toile vendome silk covered wooden case (31.8x23.6x20.6cm.), that is lined with maroon cloth. All three volumes are identically bound and gilt embossed except for the book number on the spine. Presented in a wooden slipcase covered in Tsarina Crush, with a sliding tray in the base for ease of use* In very good near fine condition. Near fine slipcase. Pages all clean and tight. An excellent limited edition copy. Books I & II 528 pages, books III & IV 516 pages, books V & VI 507 pages. It is printed on thick watermarked laid paper with gilt top page edges and white ribbon markers. Profusely illustrated with 88 large illustrations and 135 illustrative head and tailpieces by Walter… Read More

Dublin & London, Maunsel & Co. (& Macmillan & Co.) 1906 1st ed.. Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. In green cloth with beautiful gilt lettering and design to front and spine. top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some fading to cloth on spine and around edges of boards. Corners slightly rubbed. Else cover very clean and smart. Some minor tanning/darkening to endpapers, rear free endpaper darkened. Some areas of light mild foxing between some pages. Plates all clean and bright. No penned inscriptions. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 416pp. Illustrated with 4 full-page colored plates and 31 B&W illustrations (in text with some full-page) by Hugh Thomson.

London, John Fairburn, 1800 2nd. Large square engraved map, 22 x 20 inches. In mount 30 x 27.5 inches. In very good condition. With professional repairs and part restoration, 2 repaired tears at left edge, and at bottom in middle. Attentively restored with some names and areas of text neatly re-written by hand. Some areas of minor darkening to edges. Else a very good copy of this uncommon map of London. Circular style map of London and environs, with hand colouring, and views of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals.

F.Warne & Co. 1980 10th.. 8.0 x 5.5 inches. In yellow cloth covering with green lettering to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1982. Else a clean and tight copy. 225 pp. 3 pp glossary. The story of a circus run by animals, for animals.

Kessinger Publishing. n.d. ca 1998 Facs repr.. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. In yellow hard card covers with black lettering to spine and white title frame to front. In very good condition. Small mark to fore edge. A few neat pencil marks to contents pages. Else a clean and tight copy. 343 pp. With b/w line drawings. Facsimile reprint. Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 – 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music.

London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, ca1875 Second Edition.. Hardback, 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decorations to front and spine. Blind embossed decoration on rear. In very good condition. Some handling marks to cloth, a couple of light spots to front, some rubbing to edges and corners. Professional repairs to ends of spines. Later endpapers. Tissue guard added to frontis plate. Neat inscription to top edge of title page dated 1875. A couple of minor handling marks to pages, edge of frontis plate, a couple of small repairs to edges of p60-63. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 96pp. Illustrated with 24 full-page &W plates by Gustave Dore.

London, Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., 1935 1st thus (Ltd only 200 copies signed). Hardback, 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Cream buckram cloth with full embossed gilt decorations to boards and spine. Full gilt page edges and decorative green printed endpapers. In very good condition. Minor mark to cloth on rear else cover clean and smart. Rubbed inscription on front endpaper (paper rubbed through). Signed on halftitle page by Illustrator Rex Whistler. A couple of minor light handling marks to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 470pp. Illustrated with 10 full page plates and many smaller in text by Rex Whistler.

George Allen and Unwin LTD. 1933 1st UK ed.. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. In yellow cloth covers with dark blue lettering to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Handling marks. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Spine slightly darkened. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 288 pp. With b/w illustrations. English translation from Czech original. A collection of Fairy Tales.

Ward,Lock & Co. n.d. ca 1890.. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt and illustrations to spine and front. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to main title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 525 pp. With many b/w engraved illustrations. Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen with 32 pp biography at front.

London, Amex Co. Ltd., ca1950’s (Printed in England. A.250 Copyright 4). Large paperback approx 12.75 x 9.5 inches. Colour illustrated paper cover (Red). Stapled binding. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and spine. Staples rusted. Else cover clean and bright. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. No pen or pencil marks. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 10pp. Four full-page colour illustrations. Text also printed on inside of main covers.