Search Results: Titles starting with F from Second Life Books Inc

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First edn. 8vo, pp. 543. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Photographs and facsimiles. Owner's bookplate on pastedown, o/w a nice tight copy in worn dj. F.D.R.'s letters, from childhood through his years at Harvard.

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First edn. 8vo, pp. 674. Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. Photographs. A VG copy in little faded and soiled dj. From his honeymoon to his battle with polio.

Cleveland: World, 1951. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 219. Articles by Gertrude Stein, Heywood Broun, Edmund Wilson and others. VG; no dj.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1978. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 166. Edited with an introduction by Alan Margolies. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Fine in slightly soiled dj.

NY: Warner Books, 1993. First printing. 8vo, pp. 359. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in slightly chipped dj. The story of the greatest class ever recruited in college basketball, the Fab Five of the Michigan Wolverines.

London: Water Scott, 1890. Walter Crane. 8vo. Edited by G. Bernard Shaw. Laurence BB7c. Reprint of the 1889 edition with a new cover by Walter Crane. Moderate handling wear but a VG copy. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas and Hubert Bland.

London: Water Scott, 1890. Walter Crane. 8vo. Edited by G. Bernard Shaw. Laurence BB7c. Reprint of the 1889 edition with a new cover by Walter Crane. Moderate handling wear but a VG copy. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas and Hubert Bland.

NY: Random House, 1954. First printing. 8vo, pp. 437. A VG tight copy, no dj.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First English edition. 8vo, pp. 391. Fine copy in chipped dj.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1974. 4to, pp. 111.Paper wraps. Illustrated. VG. A catalog for an exhibit at the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. First Collected Edition. Folio, pp. [648.] A nice clean tall copy with the half-title; with some minor foxing. Bound in contemporary calf (chipped, front cover separate), Bookplate. Macdonald 37a. NCBEL II 447. Pforzheimer 326. Wing D2278. A collection of some twelve thousand verses, which "again show Dryden's energy of thought and language undiminished by age" (DNB), including paraphrases or translations of the first book of the ‘Iliad', some of Ovid's ‘Metamorphoses', and tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio. There is also a poem ‘To my Honoured Kinsman John Driden', verses addressed to the Duchess of Ormond, and lines on ‘A Fair Maiden lady who died at Bath' [the wife of Lord Abingdon]. The preface, written in fine prose, contains an excellent appreciation of Chaucer as well as attacks on Milbourne and Sir Richard Blackmore, and a reply to Jeremy Collier's attack on the stage.

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943. 4to, pp. 124. Illustrated by the author. Illustrated paper over boards. cover somewhat worn at ends of spine, o/w VG in worn dj.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 210. With review slip laid in. Head and tail of spine creased. Extremities rubbed. Dust jacket faded and creased w.

NY: Harper, 1940. Square 8vo, pp. 324. Owner's signature on pastedown, part of flyleaf cut out, o/w Vg in somewhat scuffed and chipped dj. Thurber's fables, plus illustrations for such poems as Ben Bolt, The Sands o' Dee, etc.

Minneapolis: University Book Store, 1900. 12mo, original wraps (lacks cover)79pp. A VG uncut copy. This is an interesting little book of fables in the style of George Ade, having to do with student life. Not in NUC, we have been unable to trace the authors.

NY: Viking, 1954. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 342. A fine copy, one of 400 large paper copies. This copy is not signed, but is inscribed by Moore on the front e.p.: "For Dr. Harold L. Baldwin | a litterateur and versifier | from Marianne Moore who is | always a beginner! | Marianne Moore." Bound in red cloth, bookplate neatly removed from e.p., a fine copy.

Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1929. Third printing. Dash, Joseph Eugene. 8vo, pp. 254. Illustrated in black and orange by Joseph Eugene Dash. Red cloth, with paper illustration on front and gilt lettering.Corners and ends of spine little scuffed or worn, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY: Bloch, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 263. Illustrated wtih photographs. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Owner's name on flyleaf, edges somewhat soiled, cover slightly scuffed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and browned dj. From the website of the Jewish Women's Archive: 'Hannah Greenebaum Solomon dared to go out into the world and establish the first national association of Jewish women. A superb organizer, Solomon emphasized unity, and orchestrated agreements among Jewish, gentile, and government groups on local, national, and international levels. Solomon was not only the celebrated founder of the National Council of Jewish Women, but also an important force for reform in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Her work grew out of her sense that "woman's sphere is the whole wide world." But at the same time she believed a woman's primary responsibility was to her family. For Solomon, there was no more powerful role than that of the Jewish mother.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. 4to, pp. 240. Bibliography, index. With 266 illustrations, 163 in color. Published to accompany an exhibition of Javanese batiks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Essays on the history, craft, and social settings of batik, as well as illustrations of the work and the product. Fine in lightly scuffed dj.

NY: Knopf, 1981. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 176. A nice copy inlittle scuffed and chipped dj. Author's first book, originally published in England as Lantern Lecture.