Search Results: Titles starting with F from Archway Books

Borba mirov [The War of The Worlds]Large octavo, 7 x 9.5 inches, 91 pages; covers worn, stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page, pages toned and brittle, one leaf detached but present.Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury, where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later in 1898 this translation was published by Novyi Zhurnal in a smaller, more conventional book format. At the end of 1898 a different translation was published in a different periodical and then in book format. WorldCat locates this translation only in the smaller format, a single copy in Poland.War of the Worlds has possibly had more influence on Russian literature and culture than any other novel in the English language. At the time of the Revolution, Wells was among the most popular foreign writers in Russia -- second only to Verne. Planetary invasion is a perennial theme in Russian science fiction, with War of the Worlds firmly at the root.

The Card-Player's Companion: A Description of the U.S. Playing Cards and Games Best Adapted to Our Cabinet , No. 707 –– First Edition. Published in Cincinnati, 1887, by Russell & Morgan Printing Company. 32-page pamphlet, 4.5 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15.25 cm). This is the first edition of the first catalog of Russell and Morgan (later US Playing Card Company), along with rules for pinochle (penuchle), euchre and bezique.This first edition is rather scarce. WorldCat locates UNLV only.Very light cover soil, otherwise very good condition as visible in scans. Boston stationer's rubber stamp inside front and rear covers.

12mo in contemporary leather, 3.5 x 6 inches; frontispiece, xii, 384, [30]; worn, rear board scorched with damage to last two leaves of text; binding loose. A well used non-institutional copy that has not been messed with.This is the first edition in English of the only parts ever published of Bacon's projected natural history -- his more or less complete natural history of the winds and fragmentary works on the history of life and death and the history of density and rarity. As described in the Dictionary of National Biography, "The section of the Instauratio magna that Bacon most urgently tried to accomplish was the natural histories... In November 1622 he published a volume entitled Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam; sive phaenomena universi. It contained the first installment of his natural history project—a natural history of the winds, Historia ventorum—and a plan for five others to be published on a monthly basis. In January 1623 the second part of the… Read More