The Story Of Lucky Strike
by Flannagan, Roy C.
Richmond: Np, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards, front cover paper label. Fine. 94 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Originally published for a series in The Richmond News Leader and subsequently as a pamphlet for Virginia State Chamber of Commerce explaining the history and production of tobacco. This copy was specifically published for the New York World's... Read More
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Poems And Songs; ............Together with The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second year Of The Pelopnnesian War. First described in Greek By Thucidies; Then in Latine By Lucretius. Now attempted in English By Tho. Sprat. London. Printed for Joanna Brome. 1673. Three page inroduction: "To my Worthy and Learned Friend, Dr. Walter Pope, Late Proctor of the University of Oxford. 34 pages. Appears at the end of Poems And Songs.........
by Flatman, Thomas
London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. Third Edition. leather_bound. Cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. A8, a-b8, B-M8. [L8 is a cancel]. 170 pages. Engraved portrait by White after Hayls, with the final 2 leaves of errata and advertisements. Flatman divided his career between writing poetry (in which his earnest religious temperament is revealed) and painting... Read More
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La Tentation De Saint-Antoine. Edition définitive; Vingt miniatures de Arthur Szyk
by Flaubert, Gustave
Paris: Societe D'Editions Et De Librairie Henri Reynaud, 1926. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff printed wrappers with original glassine over wrapper. Fine. 203 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 319 of 343. Twenty miniature pochoir plates by Arthur Szyk produced by Jean Saude, master of pochoir. Title page and cover printed in red and black, all plates... Read More
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A Letter From Gustave Flaubert
by Flaubert, Gustave
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1960. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. gray stiff wrappers with front cover paper label. Fine. Baskin, Leonard. 5 leaves. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300, a keepsake printed by Esther & Leonard Baskin & Richard Warren. The translation is by Francis Steegmuller. A letter from Gustave Flaubert to Maxime du Camp dated... Read More
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The Heavyweight Championship; An Informal History of Heavyweight Boxing from 1719 to the Present Day
by Fleischer, Nat
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black illustrated cloth. Near fine. 303 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs and prints. Appendix of Boxing Rules. Glossary. Index.
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An Introduction To Physiology, Being A Course of Lectures Upon The most important Parts of the Animal Oeconomy
by Flemyng, Malcolm
London: J. Nourse, 1759. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border fillets. Very good. 396 pages. 21 x 13 1/2. Born in Scotland, Flemyng arrived London 1751 to teach physiology to nascent medical students who had not been to the Universities. This work contains the substance of his London lectures. The author was abreast of... Read More
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Nineteenth Century American Painting
by Flexner, James Thomas
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 256 pages. With 230 illustrations, sixty of which are in full color. Index. KARPEL I53. "This amply illustrated popularized survey attempts touse American standards rather than European ones to access nineteenth century American painting... The more than one hundred... Read More
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American Painting First Flowers of Our Wilderness
by Flexner, James Thomas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good. 368 pages. With several color and over 150 black and white illustrations. Notes. Index. KARPEL H50. "When this book was published in 1947, it was the mostcomprehensive general history of American Painting to 1775, and it remains of value today...
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The Prints Of Louis Lozowick; A Catalogue Raisonne
by Flint, Janet
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth with black illustrations. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lozowick, Louis. 223 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. A comprehensive study of the graphic work of a leading artist of the American Scene/ Precisionist school. 16 color plates plus 414 duotone illustrations, chronology, exhibitions, and selected bibliography. ... Read More
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Etchings And Dry Points; Catalogue Raisonne By Harold J.L. Wright
by Flint, Sir William Russell
London: P & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue cloth. Teg. Very good. Flint, Sir William Russell. 114 pages. 28 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 32 of 135 signed by William Russell Flint, with an original signed dry point frontispiece signed by Flint. Signed presentation copy by Wright on free front... Read More
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Shadows In Arcady; The Angelus * The Brass Plate * The Alley in Languedoc * The Devil at La Charite
by Flint, William Russell
London: Charles Skilton, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in fine clear mylar dust wrapper in fine slipcase. 59 pages. 28 x 19 cm. William Russell Flint authored the stories herein -- three of which are true. He also designed and supervised the production of this book. Limited edition, copy 324 of 500.
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Breakfast in Perigord Essays on Various Occasions And in Diverse Moods With favourite quotations Decorated and Enlivened With 60 Illustrations & Devices
by Flint, William Russell
London: Charles Skilton, 1968. First edition. leather_bound. Quarter black morocco and decorated white canvas boards. Teg. Fine in fine slipcase. 121 pages. 32 x 22 cm. William Russell Flint wrote, contrived, designed and supervised production of this book. Limited edition, copy 282 of 475 signed by Flint. Decorated endpapers.
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The Book of Tobit and The History of Susanna Reprinted From The Revised Version of The Apocrypha
by Flint, W. Russell
London: Haymarket Press, 1929. Boards. Orig. white boards, gilt front cover fillets and lettering. Teg. Fine. 45 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Introduction by Dr. Montague R. James, and four full-page, tipped-in color plates by W. Russell Flint. Hand-set in Goudy type in a Limited Edition, copy 26 of 875. Very fresh, clean and bright copy.
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Judith Reprinted From The Revised Version of The Apocrypha With An Introduction by Dr. Montague R. James
by Flint, W. Russell (Illustrator)
London: Haymarket Press, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white boards, gilt front cover fillets and lettering. Teg. Fine. Flint, W. Russell. 49 pages. 25 1/2 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 142 of 850. Four full-page, tipped-in color plates by Russell Flint. Book handset in Goudy type and printed by Morton, Burt & Sons.
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Numa Pompilius Second Roi De Rome
by Florian, Jean Pierre Claris de
Paris: Didot L'Aine, 1786. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols.. 240, 269 pages, 12mo, 13 x 7 1/2 cm. Florian is chiefly known as the author of pretty fables well suited as reading for children. Engraved plates, publisher adverts end of Vol.II. Text and engravings clean, gilt cover border fillets, spine decorated in gilt,... Read More
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Chodowiecki Et Lichtenberg; les Tailles-Souces Des Mois De Daniel Chodowiecki Dan L "Almanac De Goettingue," Avec Les Explications De Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
by Focke, Rudolf
Leipzig: Theodor Weicher, 1901. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. Chodowiecki, Daniel. 30 pages in text. 27 x 20 cm. Twenty-eight pages of plates, usually four images per plate. Text in French. As illustrator Chodowiecki could not keep us with the demand for his work from booksellers and engravers. "He represents the feelings and affections, virtues and... Read More
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Friends, Guests, and Colleagues The MU-FU System in the Late Ch'ing Period
by Folsom, Kenneth E.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations. Glossary. Genealogyof the Li Family of Ho-fei. Bibliography. Index. An unofficial institution which personalized the bureaucratic central administration and eventually helped China to modernize, especially in the late 19th century.
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Journal 1799-1853
by Fontaine, Pierre-Francois-Leonard
Paris: Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig, ruby cloth. Fine in fine dust wrappers. 2 vols. 1373 pages. 29 x 23 cm. 46 color plates and more than 200 black and white reproductions. Text by Marguerite David-Roy, Annie Jacques, and Jean-Pierre Epron et Maurice Culot. Bibliography, Extensive Indices. Fontaine, a neoclassical architect, interior decorator... Read More
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Independence Day
by Ford, Richard
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and and tan boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper with clear mylar over wrapper. 451 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, the first... Read More
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View: The Modern Magazine; Marcel Duchamp Number, Series V. No. 1
by Ford, Charles Henry (Editor)
New York: View Inc, 1945. First edition. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers, Very good. 54 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Cover design by Marcel Duchamp. articles by Andre Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, Robert Desnos, Harriet & Sidney Janis, and Frederick Parker, plus contributions by Man Ray. Numerous black and white illustrations from photographs including a folding triptych with dye cuts... Read More
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A Piece of My Heart
by Ford, Richard
London: Collins Harvill, 1987. First English edition. Hardcover. Orig. black boards lettered in silver. Fine in fine dust wrapper in clear mylar over wrapper. 297 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on free front endpaper in blue ink. His first novel.
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The Sportswriter
by Ford, Richard
New York: Vintage, 1986. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 375 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. This novel was first issued as a paperback original in 1986, but when its sequel, "Independence Day" won a Pulitzer Prize the hardcover edition was published. Slight crease... Read More
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Wildlife
by Ford, Richard
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light gray basket weave cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 177 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. His fourth novel. As new copy in clear mylar over wrapper.
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A Multitude Of Sins
by Ford, Richard
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and and light green boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 286 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy. A collection of short stories. In 2001 Ford received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short... Read More
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Women With Men Three Short Stories
by Ford, Richard
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997. First trade edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 255 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. As new copy.
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