Search Results: Titles starting with F from Whiting Books

W.E. Scull, 1909. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Embossed pictorial cloth covers, no dust jacket. Covers are darkened a bit and show rubbing wear. Tight, square binding. Clean interior. xii, [3], 17-448 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Contents by chapter title: I. The Dramatic Announcements of Cook and Peary, II. The Story of Peary's Great Exploit, III. Side-lights on the Peary Expedition, IV. Early Life and Experiences of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, V. Cook in the Antarctic and in Alaska, VI. Bradley's Account of the Cook Expedition, VII. Robert E. Peary, the Indomitable Polar Explorer, VIII. Peary Crosses Greenland, IX. Peary's Farthest North of 1905-6, X. Europe Gives Honor to Dr. Cook, XI. Receptions of Cook and Peary on American Soil, XII. The Controversy Between Cook and Peary, XIII. Interesting Scientific Work in the Arctic, XIV. Animals of the Arctic Region, XV. Terrors and Mysteries of the Polar Regions, XVI. The… Read More

Faber and Faber, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.

New York: George Braziller, 1976. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 224 pages with Bibliography. Illustrated with drawings and color plates. Includes a section on medieval recipes and a practical guide to re-creating the dishes..

Aberdeen: Roustabout Publications Ltd, 1990. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Unread, pristine copy. Pocket size format. Numerous ads for various companies..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologidsts, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Previous owner name on front cover. 223 pages with Figures and Tables. Selected papers reprinted from AAPG Bulletin..

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Scattered underlining and margin notes. Jacket shows edge wear and rubbing..

London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Unread, new condition. 4 x 6 inches. A paperback original in the Bloomsbury Quid series..

Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Tiny tear at the tail of the spine else a nice copy..

Olympia, Washington: Draham, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by the author (name only) on the inside cover and dated in the year of publication. 164 pages. Author obituary laid in. Vicky Draham Friend (1925-2021). Two works of fiction in this volume: Fall Games (194 pages) and The Bridge in Winter (164 pages). Fine copy..

New York: Viking, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed on the title page by the author. Pristine, unread copy in a protective Mylar sleeve. 340 pages with Author's Note and Chapter Notes. Biographical fiction. Publisher's Summary: "Told in short chapters, each of which presents an emblematic incident with intensity and immediacy, this novel deftly weaves together the earlier parts of the poet Robert Frost's life with his final year. In 1962, at age eighty-eight, and under the looming threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he made a visit to Russia and met with Khrushchev in a quixotic attempt to save the world from nuclear war.".

New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 1983. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 6 pages, clean, no writing..

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. Unread copy, jacket protected in a Mylar sleeve. 166 pages. Bookmark laid in from Lemuria First Editions Club in Jackson, Mississippi. From the publisher: "Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships.".

New York: Viking, 1978. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First American Edition. Light spotting/soiling to page edges. Jacket is lightly rubbed and has a small tear on the rear panel near the tail of the spine. In Brodart protective cover. A story of courage, cowardice, and survival as four children become trapped in a cave..

Little Rock, Arkansas: Generall Book Co., Publishers, 1981. Book. Illus. by Sarah MacHen Karrant. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Tiny tear at the head of the dust jacket, otherwise fine and clean. 115-page children's story, one in a series from the author, about an Arkansas family based on the author's childhood. Signed to the previous owner by the author..

New York: The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Undated exhibit catalog, 29 pages. Curated by Stella Blum, who also contributes the Introduction. Detailed descriptions for the exhibits, no photos. 0.

London: John Hogg, 1891. Book. Illus. by E.W. De Guérin. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Green cloth with color illustrations to spine and front cover. Edge wear, light foxing, and writing on the rear endpapers. Vertical creasing to most pages. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed and there is tearing at the gutter. 127 pages plus 34 pages of the publisher's book ads. Illustrations (hand-colored?) by E.W. De Guérin. Colors appear smudged or running on some of the illustrations. In the publisher's catalogue at the back of the book, Father Christmas's Stories is referenced as a volume in the Illustrated Shilling Juvenile Books series ("now numbering 9 vols."). OCLC locates only one edition, published in 1891, with only four copies found, all in the United Kingdom (Edinburgh, London, Oxford, and Cambridge). Very scarce. We find evidence of only one other title by this author (The Palace of Ideas) and nothing on her..

New York: Random House [The Modern Library], 1958. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Shelf wear, rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Cracking at the title page, but the binding is holding well. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. [ix] 682 pages followed by a listing of Modern Library Giant titles. A complete list of Modern Library titles is printed inside the dust jacket..

U.S.A.: Eakin Press, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Rear panel of jacket has a small tear at the bottom edge, otherwise fine. 187 pages with black and white photos and Index..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Book. Illus. by Adrienne Adams. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Ex-library book with the usual markings. Corners and spine ends bumped, covers soiled. Inside is clean, binding square and tight..

Chicago: McKinley Music Company, 1902. Book. Good. Soft cover. Rubbing wear. Small amounts of paper loss to the spine. Stapled booklet, all pages holding well. 30 songs. 64 pages. This songbook is for piano accompaniment only. The Violin accompaniment songbook was sold separately, each book priced at $.50..