Rock Springs
by Ford, Richard
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned dark gray and light gray boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 177 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed by Ford on the title page in blue ink. A collection of short stories. As new copy in clear mylar over wrapper.
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The Constant Couple
by London. S. Fores
London: S. Fores, 1786. Stiff Wraps. Orig. colored engraving. Near fine. 25 x 39 cm. Colored engraving signed WM 1786 lower left corner. King George III and his wife Charlotte riding toward Windsor; vividly colored, bright and fresh. Road marker toward Slough is ignored as the King's cane points straight to Windsor Palace.
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The Farm Yard
by London. F.W. Fores
London: S.W. Fores, 1786. Boards. Orig. illustrated lithograph in a multitude of colors. Fine. 27.5 x 37 cm. Hand colored lithograph from S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse. Caption in right corner read "Man Traps & Spring Guns. Brightly colored print, colors fresh and clean.
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The Gord-Ian Knot still Untied or the Disappointed Dido still in Despair
by London. S.W. Fores
London: S.W. Fores, 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with publisher note at bottom right, "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido, arms raised, rails, "Ah me, a luckless Maid, thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts, the one for ever gone... Read More
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Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
by Foresta, Merry A. et al.
Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine.. 176 pages. Landscape 4to, 26 x 33 cm. Photographs in color and black and white. Bibliography.
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Rauschenberg
by Forge, Andrew
New York: Abrams, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated and printed boards. Very good. Rauschenberg. 231 pages. 27 x 29 cm. With 153 illustrations, the 47 in color are printed on glossy stock, some are foldouts. For reasons unknown, perhaps the attribution of being a pop art movement presentation, the text of the work printed on many of... Read More
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Where Our Christmas Customs Come From [MINIATURE BOOK]
by Forgue, Norman W.
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1966. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. publisher's red calf lettered in gilt. Fine. 28 unnumbered pages. 3 cm. 2.5 cm. Title page printed in red and black, marbled endpapers. Design and typography by the author.
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Mondernt Svenskt Glas; Utveckling * Teknik * Form
by Stockholm. Jonson & Winter Forlagsaktiebolag
Stockholm: Jonson & Winter Forlagsaktiebolag, 1943. First edition. Wraps. Orig. illustrated gray wrappers. Very good. 256 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Nearly 200 photographs of modern Swedish glass designs. Chapters contain commentary by experts with map locations of cities responsible for modern glass production. Included are products from Orrefors, Sandvik, Kosta et al. Owner inscription free front endpaper.... Read More
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The Old Houses Of Stratford-Upon-Avon
by Forrest, H.E.
London: Methuen, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 180 pages. 19 1/2 x 13 cm. 37 illustrations: photographs and drawings. Index. Bright, crisp copy. Owner inscription.
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The Story Of A Red-Deer
by Fortescue, John William
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1935. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. 125 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Ten decorations in color by Dorothy Burroughs, plus title vignette. Printed in red and black on Batcheler hand-made paper under the direction of Loyd Haberly. Limited edition, copy 231 of 250. Prospectus laid-in. This Welsh press... Read More
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Sabbath Bells Chimed By The Poets
by Foster, Birket (Illustrator)
London: Bell And Daldy, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. 112 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Revised by Joseph Cundall with his monogram. Text by Charles Willingham at the Chiswick Press with Birket's illustrations (engravings) printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Initial letters also colored by hand.... Read More
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Sabbath Bells Chimed By The Poets
by Foster, Birket (Illustrator)
London: Bell And Daldy, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. 112 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Revised by Joseph Cundall with his monogram. Text by Charles Willingham at the Chiswick Press with Birket's illustrations (engravings) printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Initial letters also colored by hand.... Read More
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The First Violin
by Fothergill, Jessie
New York: J.W. Meyer and Company, ND. Three quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Teg. 2 Vols. Near fine. 292, 275 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Illustrations by G.W. Brenneman. Originally published 1896 by Brentano's. Bright, fresh set, Parts I-II, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt.
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Propos d'un intoxique by Jules Boissiere
by Foujita, Tsuguharu (Illustrator)
Paris: Javal & Bordeaux, 1929. First edition. Orig. decorated wrappers in glassine clear wrappers. Fine in very good tan board chemise in original matching tan slipcase with spine and front cover paper label. Foujita, Tsuguharu. 241 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 54 of 97, one of 50 on Japon Imperial with colophon noting plates in... Read More
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The Nature of Nature
by Fowles, John
Covelo: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated beige cloth. Fine in fine taupe slipcase. 99 pages. 25.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 20 of 185 signed by John Fowles and Aaron Johnson, printed on mouldmade Waterford paper. Belgian linen binding with eight full page colored woodblocks by Aaron Johnson. As the author notes,... Read More
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The Magus
by Fowles, John
New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. lime green cloth, spine head and foot slightly toned. Very good in very good dust wrapper housed in clear plastic over wrapper. 582 pages. 24 x 16 cm. The first novel written (but second published) by British author John Fowles which is centered on a small... Read More
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An Introduction To Linear Drawing; Translated From The French of M. Francoeur; With Alterations And Additions To adapt It To The Use Of Schools In The United States. To Which Is Added, The Elements Of Linear Perspective; And Questions On The Whole
by Fowle, William B.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little & Wilkins, 1828. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. pale roan lightly spotted. Very good. 86 pages. 18 x 11.5. Host of text illustrations, and two large fold-out plates. Originally published 1827, this edition is enlarged -- added are Elements of Linear Perspective and the "Questions." Generally clean and fresh, paste-down endpapers toned.
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Synopsis Of The Newcastle Museum Later The Allan, Formerly The Tunstall, Or Wycliffe Museum: To Which are Prefixed Memoirs Of Mr. Tunstall, The Founder, And Of Mr. Allan, The Late Proprietor, Of the Collection; With Occasional Remarks, On the Species, By Those Gentlemen and The Editor
by Fox, George Townsend
Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. illustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from... Read More
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La Vie En Fleur; Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud
by France, Anatole
Paris: Les Editions d' Art Devambez, 1924. Paperback. Orig. pale blue illustrated, silk textured wrappers. Fine. Brissaud, Pierre. 295 pages. 25 x 16 1/2 cm. Nine colored etchings with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 157 of 450 on Rives paper. Brissaud, a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and engraver trained at the same Parisian workshop as Andre... Read More
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La Revolte des Anges
by France, Anatole
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1946. Hardcover. Orig. light blue thick boards. Very good in matching very good slipcase. 315 pages. Limited edition, one of 220 on sur velin de Rives with black and white etchings by Pierre Watrin, both full paged and within the text. Interior fresh and clean. The novel presents the classic Christian story: the heavenly war between... Read More
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Seance du 5 germinal, l'an III de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible; 5 Egalite, Liberte
by France. National Convention (1792-1795)
Paris: Bulletin De La Convention Nationale, 1794. Original Wraps. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. 8 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Partly unopened. Lettres Des Representans Du Peuple En Mission Dans Les Departemens, A Nice, le 25 ventose, l'an troisieme de la Republique une et indivisible. Turreau, representant du peuple, envoye pres les armees d'Italie et des Alpes. a... Read More
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Arti Florentine La grande storia dell'Artigianato; Volumr terzo I1 Cinquecento
by Franceschi, Franco & Gloria Fossi
Firenze: Giunti Gruppo, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 304 pages. 29.5 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated, mostly with color plates. Series of nine commentaries by various authors. General Bibliography. Text in Italian.
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Junius: Including Letters By The Same Writer, Under Other Signature, (Now First Collected.) To Which Are Added, His Private Letters Addressed To Mr. H.S. Woodfall
by Junius (Sir Philip Francis?)
London: Printed by G. Woodfall, 1812. leather_bound. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. 3 vols. Very good. 336/248,516,509 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Folding facsimiles, first published 1772 this is considered the best collected edition of these controversial letters presumably written by Sir Philip Francis to discredit the Duke of Grafton for his policy in the American... Read More
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A Shaggy Dog Story
by Franfort, Ky. Whipporwill Press
Frankfort, Ky: Whipporwill Press, 1983. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth with front cover paper label. Fine. 6 pages. 5.5 x 7 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 100 in Caslon type, signed by j. Hill Hamon. A story printed during the summer dog days of 1983.
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You Are Now My Enemy; A Brief Monograph Regarding The Friendship & Correspondence Of Two Journeymen, Including What Drew Them Together, What Split Them Apart & How Their Trade United Them
by Franklin, Benjamin & William Strahan
Kirkwood, MO: The Printery, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half blue morocco and marbled boards. Fine. Unpaginated, approx. 28 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 100. Facsimile letter from Franklin to Straham tipped-in on front pastedown, portraits of Franklin and Strahan tipped-in, ornamentation and borders in red and blue ink. Complimentary card from the publisher... Read More
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