A Book to Begin On: Indian Children of America
by Margaret C. Farquhar
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY MARGARET C. FARQUHAR IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the half-title page. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1964 stated 1st edition. Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, nicely illustrated thruout by Brinton Turkle. Signed by Author.
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A Book to Begin On: Lights
by Margaret C. Farquhar
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY MARGARET C. FARQUHAR on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1960 1st edition. Tight and VG (with very light offsetting at the endpapers and pastedowns) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light soiling to the rear panel... Read More
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Wallypug Tales
by G.E. Farrow
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1902. Pictorial boards. Very Good. Alan Wright. Folio, circa 1902. Part of a long line of wonderful color-plate children's books issued by Raphael Tuck of London. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, light cover soiling, edge and corner wear, else clean, tight and VG. The crazy adventures of King Wallypug of Why, who must do... Read More
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Memoire Sur Les Vexations Qu'Exercent Les Libraires & Imprimeurs de Paris: Publie D'apres L'Imprime De 1725 et Le Manuscrit De La Bibliotheque De La Ville de Paris
by Lucien Faucou
Paris: Le Moniteur Du Bibliophile, 1879. Collectible; Very Good. A clean, well-preserved copy of the 1879 1st thus. Handsomely rebound in a 1/4 light brown calf over russet cloth. Bright gilt-lettering along the spine, immaculate boards and endsheets. Tall octavo, 111 pgs.
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Helen: A Courtship and Missisippi Poems
by William Faulkner
Tulane University and Yoknapatawpha Press, 1981. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 1981 1st thus. Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 166 pgs. Housed in a custom-made, quarter-morocco box.
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These 13
by William Faulkner
New York: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Cloth. Very Good +. A very solid copy of the October 1931 stated 3rd printing. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its duotone cloth, with very light spotting along the spine. Lacking its original dustjacket.
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Hallucinations et Realite Perceptive and Les Appartenances Du Delirant (2 Vols.)
by Henri Faure
Paris: Presses Universitaires De France, 1965. Original wraps. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR HENRI FAURE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE JOSEPH P. KENNEDY FOUNDATION on the front free endpaper of Vol. I. A sharp copy to boot of the 2 volume set, 1965 and 1966 1st editions respectively. Both volumes clean and VG+ to Near Fine in... Read More
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Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
by Joan Simon and Susan C. Faxon
Andover. Massachusetts and New Haven: Addison Gallery of American Art and Yale University Press, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. As new/as new. A pristine copy of the catalogue based on the November 2010-February 2011 exhibition at Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art. Tight and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, vivid color and crisp black-and-white illustrations thruout. ... Read More
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by Sheila Faye
New York: Tower Publications, 1963. Original wraps. Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1963 1st printing. Bright, crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Pocketbook, Midwood F344. "It started as a party game, a one-time only experiment -- but it became a habit none of them could break.
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Lucian Freud
by William Feaver
New York: Rizzoli, 2007. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 2007 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket and a Fine pictorial slipcase. Tall quarto, 362 illustrations.
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Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey: 1838-1938
by Federal Writer's Project Works Progress Administration, State of New Jersey
Monroe Township, New Jersey: The Monroe Township Committee, 1938. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Uncommon Federal Writers Project title, part of the wonderful American Guide Series, which was overseen by the WPA. Clean and VG+ in its original pictorial wrappers. Octavo, 140 pgs.
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Semi-Classical Approximation in Quantum Mechanics
by V.P. Markov and M.V. Fedoriuk
Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1981 1st English language edition, translated from its original Russian by J. Niedderle and J. Tolar. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with one tiny closed tear along the front panel's bottom-edge. Octavo, #7 in Reidel's formidable... Read More
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Hold Me!
by Jules Feiffer
New York: Random House, 1962. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good +. Jules Feiffer. A handsome copy of the 1962 1st edition, in its less common hardback. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($2.95), VG+ dustjacket, with just a bit of rubbing and abrading along the front panel. Octavo, the entire text essentially in cartoon-formatted Jules Feiffer panels.... Read More
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Jim Dine
by Jean E. Feinberg
New York: Abbeville Press, 1995. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1995 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with one very small closed tear along the spine crown. Quarto, dark cloth, part of Abbeville's wonderful "Modern Masters" series.
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My Brother Larry: The Stooge in the Middle
by Morris "Moe" Feinberg
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1984. Original wraps. Near Fine. Drew Friedman. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR MOE FEINBERG, "LARRY'S" BROTHER. on the front pastedown. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1984 1st paperback edition. Crisp and Near Fine in its wonderful pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Steve Allen, Appendix by JACK KEROUAC (!!). Also includes a laid-in, contemporary-to-the-period... Read More
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Europe the World's Banker 1870-1914: An Account of European Foreign Investment and the Connection of World Finance with Dilpomacy before the War
by Herbert Feis
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1930. Cloth. Very Good +. A tight, well-preserved copy of the uncommon 1930 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its dark-green boards, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. A bit of light blotching at the rear panel, very light soiling to the rear pastedown and the facing rear free endpaper. Octavo, Introduction... Read More
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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
by Edited and Designed by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman
Philadelphia: The Falcon Press, 1962. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Louis Kahn. The uncommon 1962 1st edition of the notebooks and drawings of pre-eminent American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). Solid and VG- to VG in its beige wrappers, with with light soiling to the panels and mild staining along the rear panel's top-edge. Light rubbing as well at the... Read More
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The Vault of Horror: Volume 1 (Issues 1-6)
by The EC Archives (William Gaines and Al Feldstein)
Timonium, Maryland: Gemstone Publishing, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 2007 1st thus, which constitutes Volume One -- Issues 1-6 of "The Vault of Horror", from the EC Archives. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, top-quality color reproduction thruout. Foreword by R.L. Stine (of "Goosebumps" fame).
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Taming the Beast: Silver by Earl Krentzin
by Jeannine Felino
Stuttgart: arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022. Laminate boards. Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of this 2022 monograph devoted to silversmith and jeweler Earl Krentzin (1929-2021), whose work “centered on a love of toys, movement, and the mechanical arts.” Octavo, in its striking laminate boards. With a foreword by Martha J. Fleischman and a contribution by Josephine Shea. The first study... Read More
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Television: Its Methods and Uses (In the Rare Dustjacket)
by Edgar H. Felix
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. The 1931 1st edition --in the very uncommon pictorial dustjacket-- of this (extremely) early textbook on the uses and methods of the nascent invention known as television. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG- to VG dustjacket, with chipping (especially along the spine crown and tips) and several small... Read More
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Naked City
by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
New York: Essential Books, 1945. Cloth. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY WEEGEE IN HIS CUSTOMARY GREEN INK on the dedication page. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1945 true 1st edition (with the coarse covers instead of the smooth covers). Clean and Near Fine in its oatmeal cloth, with bright blue lettering to the front panel... Read More
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Shelter Trees in War and Peace
by Ephraim Porter Felt
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, 1943. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A solid, well-preserved copy to boot of the uncommon 1943 1st edition. Tight and VG (with light offsetting at the front gutter) in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light soiling to the panels. Thick... Read More
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Ely S. Parker: Spokesman for the Senecas
by Harold W. Felton
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Lorence F. Bjorklund. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1973 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (just a touch of light offsetting at the endpapers) in a bright, price-intact ($4.25), Near Fine dustjacket. Nicely illustrated throughout by Lorence Bjorklund.
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Angels, Anarchists & Gods
by Christopher Felver
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY TAYLOR MEAD, JOHN ASHBERY, ANNE WALDMAN, JOHN GIORNO, ERNESTO CARDENAL AND EILEEN MYLES across their portraits. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Folio, very impressive black-and-white portraits thruout.... Read More
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Les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils D'Ulysse (2 Vols.)
by Francois de Selignac Fenelon
Paris, 1768. Full calf. Very Good. Handsome, presentable examples of this early, 1768 edition, complete in 2 volumes. Both volumes solid and VG in their contemporary-to-the-period full calf, with bright gilt-titling and elaborate gilt-decoration along the spines. Light wear along the hing es, otherwise sharp, with virtually no foxing or soiling to the text to speak of. 16mos,... Read More
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