Search Results: Titles starting with F from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First edition (stated). Near fine in fine jacket.. First printing of the sixth Kinsey Millhone mystery. In this mid-Alphabet installment of Grafton's classic detective series, private eye Kinsey Millhone searches for a young woman's real killer, seventeen years after her new client's son already confessed to the crime. "One of my beliefs," Grafton once said, "is that we all have a homicidal rage within us." A handsome copy. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with terracotta cloth boards. In original unclipped ($15.95) dust jacket. [10], 261, [1] pages. Small ink notation to upper corner of front endpaper, else fine. Very faint toning to jacket panels.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed second printing of the sixth Kinsey Millhone mystery. In this mid-Alphabet installment of Grafton's classic detective series, private eye Kinsey Millhone searches for a young woman's real killer, seventeen years after her new client's son already confessed to the crime. "One of my beliefs," Grafton once said, "is that we all have a homicidal rage within us." 8'' x 5.25''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 262 pages. Signed by Grafton to title page. Jacket with a hint of edgewear. Binding with a touch of soil. Tight.

(New York): Random House, 1954. First printing (stated). Fine in near fine jacket and very good slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in the trenches of the First World War, the grandly conceived FABLE was Faulkner's most overtly political novel and the product of a decade's labor. Marketed by its publisher as the controversial crowning achievement of a career studded with honors and bespangled with praises, A FABLE was also perfectly crafted to give Ernest Hemingway fits with its religious symbolism: whatever his own many faults, Hemingway wrote, at least "I did not write A Fable by William Faulkner." Faulkner, meanwhile, considered it his masterpiece. A handsome copy, in the unusually well preserved original glassine jacket. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth stamped with blue and silver crosses. Dark blue topstain. Grey endpapers. In original glassine jacket. Original publisher's slipcase with printed blue and white label.… Read More

Boston: Alphabet Press, 1981. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US edition of this collection of fables executed in the style of an Renaissance manuscript, a facsimile of Marie Angel's original work. Magnificent color illustrations on every page by Marie Angel with hand lettered text. Accompanied by a separate pamphlet that translates the fables into English. Beautiful. 13.25'' x 8.5''. Original green cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. In original green cloth slipcase. Illustrated in color. [40] pages. With booklet of English translations of the fables, [16] pages. Slipcase with a touch of edgewear. Jacket with a hint of sunning to spine. Tight and clean.

London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Very good plus.. First trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this edition of Aesop's Fables, Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources, including Japanese and Chinese paintings, Art Nouveau, and classical Western art. His magnificent color plates are magnificent examples of his artistic skill. 11'' x 8.25''. Original light orange cloth boards with gilt stamping. Pictorial endpapers of birds in shades of brown. Illustrated with tipped-in color pictorial frontispiece and 22 tipped-in color plates, all with printed paper guards; black-and-white line images throughout. xvi, 152 pages. Some light wear and spotting to cloth. Front hinge cracked but firm. Leaves with a couple tiny ;closed tears, other faint signs of handling. Colors vibrant.

London: Hoder & Stoughtond, 1909. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing, out of series copy, of this large paper edition of Detmold's beautifully illustrated interpretation of Aesop's fables, with an original watercolor on parchment by Detmold tipped in. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this limited edition of Aesop's Fables, Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources, including Japanese and Chinese paintings, Art Nouveau, and classical Western art. This copy is supplemented with an original watercolor by Detmold, apparently an early iteration of an illustration of a redshank chick that would appear in his circa 1912 BOOK OF BABY BIRDS. 12.5'' x 10.25''. Original white gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt, other edges machine deckle. 25 tipped-in color plates. Unpaginated. Bookplate of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould to front pastedown. Original Detmold watercolor on parchment tipped onto verso of front flyleaf; likely an artist's copy (no… Read More

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1937. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. New edition, sixth printing of this beautiful and popular entomological work, featuring engaging writing and beautiful illustrations. Based on Jean-Henri Fabre's French entomological work of 1879, this edition of FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS features soft-focus, Art Nouveau-esque insect illustrations by E. J. Detmold. 10'' x 7.5''. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and embellishment. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Green topstain. Tipped in color frontispiece and guard paper with 11 tipped-in color illustrations and guard papers. 272 pages. Jacket with a bit of edgewear and scuffing; a couple of 1'' or less closed tears. Small old tape repair to verso. Binding with a touch of bumping spine ends. Tight.

St. Claude (Jura), France: Grappin-Dalloz, 1880. First edition. Very good.. Original hectographed catalogue of carved briar smoking pipes from French manufacturer Grappin-Dalloz - likely produced for use by company representatives. Rare trade catalogue from the renowned pipe-making town of Saint-Claude with a rather durable construction that suggests it was produced for the use of traveling company agents. Manufacturer Grappin-Dalloz was just one of many companies in the Jura department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, an area known for centuries as one of the premier wood-carving regions in all of Europe. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the city was most famous for its carved briarwood pipes, which were sold throughout the continent, often by salesmen using catalogues such as this one. Featuring more than 600 pipe designs in silhouette, many remarkably ornate (including carved heads and animals like dogs and hoses), the vast majority of the volume is hectographed.… Read More

London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1890. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of this fantasy shape book, with rhymes about the many fairies of the outdoors illustrated with vivid chromolithographs. Nesbit's method of blending the realism of the natural world with bits of magic was an immense influence in the direction of 20th-century children's fantasy. FAIRIES, published early in her career, demonstrates that her talent at bringing together the mundane and magical was present from the start. This is a vibrant example, and rare among Nesbit's significant oeuvre. 4.25'' x 4.75''. Original thick chromolithograph wrappers, saddle-stitched, shaped like a pair of roses. With original string and tassels loosely laid in. Illustrated by Sunter with 16 chromolithographs and others in black and white. [36] pages. Gift page filled in in contemporary ink, from "Mrs. Geo. E. Cooper" to "Miss Bertha L. Bowen". Wrappers with a hint of edgewear; spine with tiny glue reinforcement and faint… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first Hague-illustrated edition of this delightful 19th-century poem about the mischievous and magical residents of the forest. Michael Hague's detailed art is very much in the aesthetic tradition of Golden Age artists like Howard Pyle and Arthur Rackham. His illustrations for collections of classic stories make his art a touchstone of many childhoods. 8'' x 9.75''. Original boards. Original unclipped ($13.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Hague to title page. Publisher's review request slip loosely laid in. Clean and bright.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. Fine.. First US edition (probably preceding the British), a beautiful copy. After Potter finished her Peter Rabbit series, it was her intention to stop writing. It was only with the persuasion of her American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this book meant only for the American market. Linder notes that Potter's Lakeland friends "were quick to recognize many of the pictures with their local settings." This is a stunning copy in clean cloth, with strong hinges. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on. Lacking original dust jacket. Illustrated by Potter with 6 color plates and 20 full page and 42 smaller black-and-white drawings. 225, [1] pages. Only a touch of rubbing to spine ends.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1929. Fine in near-fine jacket.. First US edition (probably preceding the British) in the original dust jacket. After Potter finished her Peter Rabbit series, it was her intention to stop writing. It was only with the persuasion of her American publisher, Alexander McKay, that she agreed to write this book meant only for the American market. Linder notes that Potter's Lakeland friends "were quick to recognize many of the pictures with their local settings." This is a magnificent copy with the jacket clean, white and bright, rare thus. 8.25'' x 6.25''. Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on, gilt-lettered spine. In original dust jacket. Illustrated by Potter with 6 color plates as well as 20 full-page and 42 smaller black-and-white images. 225, [1] pages. Jacket with two short closed tears and minor edgewear.

London: Cassell, 1928. Near fine.. Signed limited large paper edition, one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Dulac, along with a letter by Dulac expressing strong opinions about critics, opera, and the English composer Isidore de Lara. Old French fairy tales by Perrault, D'Aulnoy and Count Hamilton, lushly illustrated by Dulac. Laid in is an interesting one-page letter entirely in Dulac's hand, offering a window into his personality. It reads, in part: "I wonder sometimes what the World [word crossed out] would do without the help of the men 'who know what the public wants.'! Their acuteness is proof against failure of any sort, their concern for the intellectual & esthetic welfare of others is paramount, their hardiness can only be compared to that of the methusalesque tortoise, their only weakness is that they do not always know what the public does not want [...] What the public wants is the opportunity for the largest possible number to hear the largest possible number of operas." An enjoyable… Read More

New York: Doubleday Page, 1909. Near fine.. Deluxe American large-paper edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by Rackham. This is the only American limited edition of this title, never issued as a typical American limited edition. Very rare in this edition in such nice condition. 12.75'' x 10.25''. Original full limp suede binding with yapp edges, gilt-ornamented spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Moire endpapers. Printed on fine paper. Featuring 40 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with guards plus a profusion of full page and smaller black and whites. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. 325, [1] pages. Repair to rear endpaper, faint crease on corner of frontispiece. Some wear to suede on edges, as is inevitable with this type of binding. Remarkably sound and clean.

New York, London, Copenhagen: British Book Centre Inc.; Maxons & Co.; Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1954. Very good plus.. Midcentury edition of Hans Christian Andersen's autobiography, with illustrations by Danish artist Niels Larsen Stevns. The introduction to this edition (the first with Jones's translation) notes that Stevns's watercolor illustrations are the first time anyone has attempted to illustrate Andersen's autobiography; he also created the frescos that adorn the memorial hall of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense. 13'' x 9.5''. Original cloth-backed yellow boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 350 pages. Copyright page with charcoal mark through "All rights reserved," slightly offset to facing page. Binding with light edgewear and bumping, a few careful infills. A bit shaken, but sound. Colors bright.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. First printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first Hague-illustrated edition of this collection of fairy stories by the beloved Irish poet, including "The Selfish Giant" and "The Star-Child," with gorgeous art by Michael Hague. Michael Hague's detailed art is very much in the aesthetic tradition of Golden Age artists like Howard Pyle and Arthur Rackham. His illustrations for collections of classic stories make his art a touchstone of many childhoods. 10'' x 7.75''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket with metallic elements. Illustrated in color. 184 pages. Signed by Hague to title page. Jacket with mild edgewear, small price label to rear. Binding with a touch of bumping to corners. Front pastedown with small crease, due to production error. Clean and bright.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. Near fine.. Signed limited edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by one of the greatest Golden-Age illustrators, Kay Nielsen. Nielsen illustrates the work of fellow Dane, Andersen, in this gorgeous deluxe gift book with a style mixing "some of the decorative design of Art Nouveau with the bold shapes of Art Deco" (Menges). Includes "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and more. A stunning production. 12'' x 10''. Original full vellum, gilt-stamped boards and spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 12 tipped-in color plates and many full-page black-and-white plates throughout. 197, [1] pages. Housed in custom window-framed slipcase. Ink gift inscription on second fly leaf. Faint toning along edges of vellum, gilt slightly effaced on spine.

London: Pavillion, 1981. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this collection of original fairy tales by Monty Python's Terry Jones, with fabulous illustrations by Michael Foreman. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11'' x 7.75''. Original blue boards. Original unclipped (unpriced) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. 128 pages. Signed by Foreman to title page. Jacket with mild edgewear. Binding with a touch of bumping to corners. Tight.

Kenosha, WI: John Martin's House, 1944. First Edition. Very good in a good plus dust jacket.. First edition of this collection of three classic fairy tales, illustrated in a charmingly 1940s Hollywood style. The fairy tales in this volume are "The Valiant Little Tailor," "Big Claus and Little Claus," and "Rapunzel." 11'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Endpapers with blue castle pattern. Illustrated in color and black and white. [12] leaves. Small owner's name to front flyleaf. Jacket with significant chips and tears, small damp stain. Binding with wear to spine at head and tail; light touches of soil to several pages. Else bright and clean.

London: George G. Harrap [David McKay], 1932. Overall near fine.. First Rackham-illustrated edition, US issue, an exceptional survival in the rare original dust jacket and pictorial publisher's box. Rackham selected and illustrated these tales from Andersen after a recent visit to Copenhagen, which "helped me to realize again the sensation I felt as a child when I first read Andersen" (Rackham's preface). Among the stories included are "The Ugly Duckling," "The Snow Queen," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Emperor's New Clothes." Quite rare and lovely to find with all the original parts intact, produced for the 1930s gift market. 9.5'' x 7.5''. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine, including "David McKay" at foot of spine. In original dust jacket with pictorial paste-on color plate, lettered in red, with "McKay at foot of spine and "Printed in Great Britain" at bottom of front flap. In original red publisher's box with same illustration but framed… Read More