Search Results: Titles starting with F from Evening Star Books

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1989], 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. 8vo. [10], 261, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over pink paper boards with pink lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom textblock; dust jacket is Fine.

[London]: Faber & Faber (2019), 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [1], 1-426, [6] pp. Navy cloth with white lettering on the spine. Decorated black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of UK £20.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text black and white photographs and with four double-sided color plates. Faber's history of its publishing house, from the Great Depression to the present day. Pageblock slightly wavy; jacket has a hint of edge wear.

New York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [13], 4-437, [1] pp. Red cloth with decorations in black on the front board and pink and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Blue-gray topstain nearly faded away. Ahearn APG 038c. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A Very Good+ book with toning to the rear gutter and a tiny dark spot to the front corner; dust jacket is Near Fine with light edge wear and a touch of toning to the spine panel.

New York: The Modern Library (1966), 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 5-437, [3] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first Modern Library edition as per Toledano. A beautiful copy. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with two tiny closed tears.

New York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [13], 4-437, [1] pp. Red cloth with decorations in black on the front board and pink and silver lettering on the spine; blue-gray topstain. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 038c. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Previous owner's name and date on free front endpaper else Fine in a lightly edge-worn dust jacket.

New York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [13], 4-437, [1] pp. Red cloth with decorations in black on the front board and pink and silver lettering on the spine. Blue-gray topstain nearly faded away. Ahearn APG 038c. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A Near Fine book with minor toning to the rear gutter; dust jacket is price-clipped with light edge wear and toning to the spine panel and edges of the flaps.

London: John Stockdale, 1793. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [2], iii-xi, [1], 1-225, [1] ; [4], iii-vii, [1], 1-187, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Mid-nineteenth century paneled sheep: each board with a calf border inlaid with gilt pointillé in the border, three gilt borders on each board, gilt fleur-de-list to the turn-ins, spines in six compartments with three morocco labels lettered in gilt on each spine (two red and one brown), gilt decorations on the spine; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Beautiful marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by W. Worsfold of London. Each volume with an engraved title page, volume one with a frontispice, 51 plates, and volume two with 16 plates. Bentley and Nurmi 371A. Oxford DNB, David Nokes, "Gay, John (1685-1732)". Packer 168. Ray 1. First published in 1727, Gay's Fables achieved popularity thanks to their anthropomorphic characters and general charm. A beautiful edition of Gay's Fables, sumptuously bound. Twelve… Read More

Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1867. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [4], 5, vi-xxiii, [2], 26-358, [4] pp. Brown smooth publisher's cloth with blind rules on the boards, gilt lettering and a wolf's head in gilt on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. With 198 illustrations, done in black and white, one full-page the rest in-text. Stated third edition on the title page, but this is likely the third edition from this publisher of Croxall's Aesop. Translated from the Greek into English by Samuel Croxall. With instructive applications. A small nick to the front board, mellowing to the spine, a few leaves with imperfections in the paper.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press[1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [3], 4-235, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket has minor fraying on its edges, overall a pleasing copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 7-253, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The second book in Farmer's acclaimed Riverworld series focusing on Sam Clemens building of a riverboat and exploring the Riverworld. Currey 184. A nice copy of one of Farmer's best-loved novels. A very near Fine book with slight separation between the the backstrip and the top textblock in a Near Fine dust jacket with some mild age toning and a few hints of edge wear.

New York: Random House [1998], 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 4-372, [2] pp. Quarter navy paper over patterned light blue paper boards with light blue lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on free front endpaper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-237, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering and red decorations on the spine and front board; red topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. With fourty-four drawings by Robert Steele Wallace. First printing of the first American edition. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. A very attractive copy, basis for the 1966 Japanese film. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with the top corner of the rear flap clipped.

[London]: University of London / The Athlone Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7] 8-126, [2] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 15s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. An important work in modality, Goodman posits that all possible worlds exist in the actual world, rather than the actual world existing as one of many possible worlds. The author also explores conditionals, induction, and scientific law. Very light foxing to the extremities; jacket is foxed on its front and rear panels, the rear fold, and the reverse.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim, 1906. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [1], 2-339, [1]; [9], viii, [3], 4-196; [5], x-xii, [3], 4-308 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering and two gilt rules on each spine. Publisher's device on the title pages. Volume one translated by Julia Gulliver and Edward Bradford Titchener; volumes two and three translated by Margaret Floy Washburn. Translated from the second German edition of 1892. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Kim, Alan, "Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt". First published in German in 1886, this is the first complete set of Wundt's Ethik in English. Wundt produced copious amounts of writing for 65 years. He conducted influential research on consciousness and other topics in the philosophy of mind. Wundt is also one of the founders of experimental psychology, and played a crucial role in developing the discipline, especially in the United States. The SEP notes that Wundt's "great ambition was… Read More

New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [5], 1-332 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with eight plates of black and white photographs. This biography presents a defense of Major Reno. Rear pastedown with a newspaper clipping on the clearing of Reno's conduct taped on; jacket has a bit of edge wear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 1-188, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green cloth with black and gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece. McCue 24. A children's book that explores class distinctions and features a sympathetic portrayal of a Black character. The best friend of the main character is Black. He is the team's star left fielder. According to McCue this novel is the fifth fictional work to feature the sport of baseball. Certainly, it is an early work to heavily feature baseball (two games at least are featured in the book). The novel was first serialized in 1880, this is the first trade edition. A pleasing copy indeed. A small lean, a prize bookplate and a name on the front pastedown.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1758. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxviii, [2], 1-527, [1]; [2], 3-496 pp. Contemporary full calf with the spines in six compartments, compartments ruled in gilt with recent green morocco labels lettered in gilt on each spine; all edges sprinkled. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, volume one with four plates, volume two with three plates. The volumes also have one in-text illustration and a few engraved tailpieces. With a glossary, explaining the old and obscure words. Carpenter 116. Lowndes 2477. Oxford DNB, "Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)". According to Lowndes this is the first Tonson edition of Spenser's epic poem. Carpenter states this edition is based on that of Hughes. Includes a biography of Edmund Spenser. An attractive edition of Spenser's poem, concerned with knights, dragons, queens, noble ladies, Greek gods and goddesses, and warriors. The poem itself was dedicated to Queen Elisabeth I (with whom… Read More

New York: The Viking Press (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 3-195, [1] pp. Half yellow cloth over orange paper boards with purple lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A novel centered on a young Black woman coming of age, when she decides to leave Georgia for a new life in Chicago. Minor wear to the jacket's corners.

New York: Avon Books (1999), 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 366, [8] pp. Quarter tan cloth over white paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. A very near Fine book with a small spot of discoloration on the front and rear boards in a like dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 5-211, [5] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Fine book in a Near Fine jacket with a bit of toning to the flaps and a crease to the rear panel.