Giant
by Edna Ferber
London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. First British Edition. Octavo (18.9cm); yellow dust jacket with 12/6 net price intact; boards in red cloth with gilt lettering; 384pp. Jacket chipped at folds, with some general smudging and toning to surface and a bit heavier darkening and foxing down spine; tape reinforcement over spine ends... Read More
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People and Power: A Study of Political Behavior in America
by Harvey Fergusson
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1947. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket; [8],241pp. Extensive chips and tears to jacket margins including a few small losses along top edge of upper panel and spine crown, spine panel faintly splattered and red portion faded, corners... Read More
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![A Coney Island of the Mind [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/827/123/1602123827.0.m.jpg)
A Coney Island of the Mind [Inscribed and Signed]
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New York: New Directions Book, 1958. Very Good +. [New York]: New Directions Book, [c. 1958 but ca. 2000s]. Thirty-Ninth Printing. Slim octavo; publisher's white pictorial wrappers; 93pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed "For Rick / Ferlinghetti" on half title page.
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Frog in the Throat
by Elizabeth Ferrars
New York: Doubleday, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Doubleday, 1980. Stated First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 185pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; boards bound in grey wax cloth with red stamping to spine. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to spine and corners; tear forming along bottom edge; surface-level scratching and scuffing to front panel. Boards clean... Read More
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Sequence of Events and Other Stories [Signed Limited Edition]
by Elizabeth Ferrars
Helsinki: Eurographica, 1989. Fine/Fine. Helsinki: Eurographica, 1989. Limited to 350 copies, of which this is no. 170. Publisher's card wrappers around unmarked textblock with deckled top and fore-edges. Jacket gently scuffed and shelf worn but otherwise clean and Fine. Signed by Ferrars on title page. The 12th in Eurographica's signed limited series of mystery and spy author's works.... Read More
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No Peace for the Wicked
by Elizabeth Ferrars
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); [8],211pp. Light shelf wear, light soil to textblock, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound.
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Terrible Tractoration!! A Poetical Petition Against Galvanising Trumpery, And The Perkinistic Institution. In Four Cantos. Most Respectfully Addressed To The Royal College Physicians
by Christopher Caustic [pseud. Thomas Green Fessenden]
New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. Very Good. New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 192 pp., with half title; four plates, complete. Contemporary calf with gilt stamping and red title label to spine. Light scuffing and edgewear and binding sound. Recent ownership stamp to front pastedown and contemporary ownership inscription of Rick Waterman to front fly... Read More
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Program for the 4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival with Original Handbill
by [Charlotte Moorman] 4th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival
New York: Charlotte Moorman, 1966. Very Good. [New York: Charlotte Moorman, 1966.] First Edition. Quarto; side-stapled self-wrappers; [3]ll. printed on rectos only. Previous folds, stock uniformly a bit yellowed, else Very Good and sound. Accompanied by original handbill to the same event, held August 20, 1966, in Central Park, and promising chamber music, performance art happenings,... Read More
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Reini Kugel: Lover of this Earth [Signed]
by Jake Falstaff [pseud. Herman Fetzer]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Signed by Falstaff at front free endpaper to a Dorothy Powell Russell with inscription, "and if she finds in this some trace of skill, let her be reminded that a great part of its author's practice... Read More
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[Print] Presidents of the United States
by [Abraham Lincoln] Augustus Feusier
Philadelphia: F. Bouclet, 1861. Very Good. [Philadelphia]: F. Bouclet, 1861. Original color lithograph (68x54cm). Mounted to matte backing; marginal tears and soiling; rubbing and a few scrapes around title; colors remain bright; a Very Good copy. This large, vibrant lithograph was issued to commemorate Lincoln's first inauguration, depicting the first sixteen Presidents, with George Washington at top,... Read More
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The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands
by [Smithsonian Institution] Jesse Walter Fewkes
Washington, [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1907. Very Good. Washington, [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1907. Large octavo (29 cm); 220pp+93plates. Illus. throughout. Boards in khaki green cloth with gilt illustration and stamping. Rubbed, bumped, and shelfworn with binding wobbly but holding. Previous owner name and inscription to first free endsheet. Foxing throughout with minor underlining at a few pages,... Read More
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The Eyre Affair [Signed]
by Jasper Fforde
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. Very Good +/Near Fine. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm), [viii], 384pp + 3 ads. Publisher's red dust jacket with price intact (£16.99). Boards full bound in bright blue cloth with silver stamping on spine. Dust jacket margins and spine ends are slightly creased and bumped. Board corners sharp;... Read More
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The Woman Who Died a Lot [Signed]
by Jasper Fforde
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. First Edition. Octavo (20.4 cm), [x], 384pp + 6 ads. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket intact with price (£16.99). Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping on the spine. All four illustrations present plus 5 faux ads in back. Dust jacket margins lightly bumped... Read More
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F. Holland Day
by [F. Holland Day]; Pam Roberts, Edwin Becker, Verna Posever Curtis, & Anne E. Havinga
Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000. Near Fine. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000. First Edition. Small quarto. 144 pp. Black and white photographs. Gray cloth boards with photo illustration mounted to front and stamped in white. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.
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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
by [Johannes Kepler] J.V. Field
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Very Good +/Very Good +. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; 243pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; red cloth boards stamped in gilt; errata slip to preliminaries. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges. Boards gently nudged at spine ends; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very... Read More
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The Doughgirls: A Comedy
by Joseph Fields
New York: Random House, 1943. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],204pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece and two leaves of plates. Dust jacket rather chipped and worn especially along flap folds, dark but shallow dampstain along edge of rear jacket panel... Read More
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![Anniversary Waltz: A New Comedy [Inscribed and Signed to Producer Joseph H. Hyman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/700/433/1694433700.0.m.jpg)
Anniversary Waltz: A New Comedy [Inscribed and Signed to Producer Joseph H. Hyman]
by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields
New York: Random House, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, [1954]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's boards, black topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [10],186pp.; photo-illustrated title page, two leaves of plates. Jacket margins a bit chipped and toned, black ink (or wax?) splatter to rear jacket panel, boards a bit rubbed,... Read More
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Nelly's Version
by Eva Figes
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Stated First American Edition. Octavo. 218 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Illustrated wraps. Covers a touch edgeworn with some creasing at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Part of the Pantheon Modern Writers Original series.
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Winter Journey
by Eva Figes
New York: Hill and Wang, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang, 1969. First American Edition, stated. Small octavo (19cm); 119pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards in orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow closed tears along edges, with a small paperclip indentation at top front and general... Read More
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Stano Filko II, 1965-69: Tvorba, Works - Creation, Werk - Schaffung, Ouvrages
by Stano Filko
Bratislava: A. Press, 1970. Very Good. [Bratislava]: [A. Press], [1970?] First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; [16],99pp.; half-tone illus. throughout. Wrappers rather worn at extremities, lamination starting to bubble, ex libris of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Library to front free endpaper and ghost of shelf sticker to upper cover, else Very Good and... Read More
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New Cinema Bulletin, Vol. 1, no. 1, May, 1967 [All Published?]
by [Film-Makers' Cinematheque] Jonas Mekas [ed.]
New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1967. Very Good. New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (27cm) pictorial bifolium. Stock a bit toned with brief soil to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Possibly the only issue published of this review of avant-garde filmmaking. Contents include reviews of short works by Tony Conrad and Carl Linder,... Read More
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Soixante Planches Gravees par A. Guillaumot Fils Costumes & Coiffures du XVIIIe siecle d'apres Desrais, Cochin, Watteau fils, etc.
by Auguste-Etienne Guillaumot fils
Paris: Librairie H. Cagnon, 1880. Very Good. Paris: Librairie H. Cagnon, n.d., ca. 1880s. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); slightly later brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; [2]pp. + sixty leaves of engraved fashion plates (collated complete). Moderate wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, leather spine ends scuffed... Read More
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Not Wanted on the Voyage [Signed]
by Timothy Findley
Toronto: Viking, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: Viking, 1984. First Canadian Edition. Octavo (23.5); [x],352pp. Illustrated dust jacket (unclipped with no price printed) over gray and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow closed tears and some toning to verso. Boards are sturdy and square with light nudging at spine... Read More
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The Butterfly Plague [Signed]
by Timothy Findley
New York: Viking Press, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; [8],376pp. Light wear to jacket extremities with a closed 1" tear along front joint at tail, boards bumped at corners, textblock margins lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Signed by... Read More
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American Art Posters of the 1890s
by David W. Kiehl; Phillip Dennis Cate; Nancy Finlay
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (12.25" x 9.5"); 199pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Jacket shows light rubbing along top edge and some fingerprinting to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound... Read More
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