Search Results: Titles starting with F from White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Paris. NA. Very Good. N.d., circa 1920s. 21.5 cm at its tallest, 33 cm wide when opened at its widest. The pictorial side shows four Japanese women in traditional kimonos working on a flower arrangement, with floral decoration elsewhere in the illustration. The flip side contains promotional info about F. Marquis. The chocolatier Francois Marquis was founded in 1818 and had its premier location at the time this fan was created in the Passage des Panoramas in Paris. Wear, slight bumping, along the upper edges.

Paris: Levy, 1886. First Edition Thus. Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 1886 - 1887. With hundreds of engraved plates by Oudry. One of 100 numbered sets on "papier verge de la cuve", with double suite of plates on papier de Chine. Contemporary roan-backed boards, original wrappers bound into each of 4 vols. Some rubbing to binding. Minor foxing and soilage scattered through volumes. Overall very good or better.

Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion, 1895. First Edition Thus. Quarter Calf. Japanese paper pastedown. Leather title label. . Near Fine. Limited deluxe edition, one of 190, although this copy is not actually numbered. Oblong, 24 by 33 cm. 18 numbered leaves in each of the two parts, and a total of 28 fables rendered. The leaves are of Tori-noko papier japonais and are folded over in the Japanese-style. While the source of the tales and the publisher are French, the book is a fine expression of Japonisme that swept the Western World in the late 19th century and is very much in the style of a Kobunsha or Hasegawa publication of the same period. Light wear to binding.

Paris: Librairie Plon-Nourrit et Crediteurs. Hardcover. Very Good. Monvel, M. B. De. Oblong 10.5 by 9 Inches. Undated, circa 1900. 48 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to immortal fables of LaFontaine. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. Fabric has considerable soilage -- it is grubby around the perimeter. Small closed tear to endpaper. Otherwise tight and pages clean, with light toning. A good copy.

Vienna and Trieste: Chez Geistinger , 1815. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 14 by 10 cm. 55, 51 pp. 38 hand-colored plates (22 in part one, 16, part two). Scarce. No copies recorded on OCLC. Light age toning. Binding -- paper pastedown on thin hardcover board -- is more modern, as are the plain endpapers.

Paris: Desaint et Saillant, 1755. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oudry, Jean-Baptiste; 42 Engravers, Including Cochin, Tardieu, Prevost, Chedel, Lempereur, Etc.. Elephant Folio - over 15. 1755 - 1759. 4 volumes, 420 by 285 mm or 16.5 by 11 inches. With 276 (1 extra) illustrated plates designed by Oudry (1685 - 1755), as well as half-titles, engraved title pages, head and tailpieces. Extra plate is the second version of the plate found by page 112 of Vol 3, for the Fable CLXXII, "Le Singe et le Leopard".) Bound in is the first state of the plate, which did not have the word "Leopard" on the banner. Included, but not presently bound, is the second state, with "Leopard" on the banner. Contemporary calf rebacked preserving spines, covers panelled in gilt. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments containing urn motif, with red morocco lettering labels. Marbled endpapers. Some very intermittent spotting. Faint dampstain to front blanks of Vols 1 and 2. Hinges strengthened, rebacked. Some… Read More

Paris: Librairie Plon. Hardcover. Fair. Monvel, M. B. De. Oblong 10.5 By 9 Inches. Undated, circa 1920s. 48 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to immortal fables of LaFontaine. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. Fabric has considerable soilage -- it is grubby around the perimeter. Tear to fabric on spine. Front hinge broken. FEP detached. Pages otherwise clean, toned. A fair to good copy.

Paris: Henri Laurens, Librairie Renouard, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Morin, Henry. 4to. 199 pp. With mix of color and black and white illustrations. 12 nearly full page color illustrations. Color has a light almost pastel like palette, and illustrations by Morin have a winsome fusion of simplicity with pretty detail; or with great economy, he is able to transport us to another time, place and reality. Here are the best known tales of La Fontaine. Some wear to blue decorated cloth, with a few frayed threads along borders and cloth worn through in lower corners. Rubbing along gutter. Color blindstamped animals still bright. Inside pages are toned yet clean. A very good copy.

London: Vol. 1: J. Tonson and J. Watts. Vol. 2: J. and P. Knapton. , 1727, 1738. First Editions. Full Calf. Slipcase: Quarter Morocco. Two chemises: cloth. . Very Good. 4to. 26 by 20 cm. [14], 173, [9], 155 pp. Armorial bookplates of Bradby-Hall. Both volumes with considerable wear to calf binding, with some scratches, rubbing of joints, etc. Vol. 1 with some rippling of leaves, and scattered soiling, but never in our view disconcerting or problematic. Vol. 2 blank leaves in front and back chewed along edges. Also rippling and minor soil -- overall, other than blanks, a fresher looking volume than the first. Chemises with ribbon pulls. No issues with chemises. Slipcase has a few minor gouges on morocco, but overall solid, slipcase, and one with an attractive shelf presence. Gilt dating on the slipcase gives the date of the first volume erroneously as 1737, when in fact it was 1727.

London: C. Whittingham, for J. Johnson, B. Baldwin, F. & C. Rivington, etc., 1808. Full Morocco. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. xvi, 228 pp. 6.5 by 4 inches. 70 intricate copper engravings, one per fable, plus frontis and title portrait. Green morocco, ornamented with Greek key band, five raised bands, etc. is healthy (not dry or cracking). Some starting, even minute separation, of upper front board, holding well by dint of old, not particularly deft repair, of tape band by endpaper hinge. Some other rubbing and wear. Corners bumped or with minute loss. Interior has some minor chips and wear, and per normal, age toning, but overall clean and tight. A very lovely copy.

London: Thomas Wilson and Son, 1811. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 252 pp. The pages are heavily toned. Modern cloth binding. Still a nice copy of Bewick's immortal vignettes.

Boston, New York and London, resp.: Tappan and Dennet; William A. Coleman; Edward Moxon, 1841. First Edition Thus . Full Morocco. Very Good . First Grandville-illustrated edition in English. Extra-illustrated! 8vo. 240 by 14.5 cm. xlvii, [1], 244, [4], 339 pp. With 60 Grandville plates from the Fournier first edition of 1839, fifteen of which have been hand-colored especially for this copy, and with Grandville's head and tailpieces and numerous text vignettes. With the extra-illustration, there are an additional 36 hand-colored plates plus 17 B/W engravings by Massard, Collyer, Schroeder, etc. See Gordon Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, no. 191. Also Grand Carteret II, 357-358. Bound in full red crushed Levant morocco. Double gilt fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six double gilt bordered compartments. Gilt tooled edge corners. Scattered foxing -- most leaves unaffected, but occasionally somewhat heavy. Light wear to the binding. Still a highly attractive and unique copy.

London: T. Bensley, for J. Edwards, 1797. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Beauclerc, Lady Diana; Bartolozzi, Engraver. Folio. With bookplate of Princess Sophie, who was a daughter of King George III, and second plate of hers in slightly different style in back. Contemporary calf boards, more modern calf spine rebacking with original red title label attached thereto. xviii + 241 pp., 9 full page plates, some engraved by Bartolozzi, and also head and tail vignettes. Text pages very clean, except for offsetting, which is considerable in pages facing full page plates. Some plates are foxed in margins. A few tissue guards survive. All edges gilt. Some shelfwear to edges and corners of leather, with leather chipped or rubbed in corners. Overall, attractive volume and VG.

Paris: Henri Laurens, Librairie Renouard. Hardcover. Very Good. Robida, A.. 4to. N.d., circa 1930s. 118 pp. with mix of color and black and white illustrations. Some minor wear to blue decorated cloth, with one pinprick cut along edge. T.e.g. Color blindstamped illustration of Medieval banquet on cover still bright. Inside pages are toned yet clean. A very good copy.

Buffalo, NY: The Argo Book Concern, 1909. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Scarce collection of fun verse revolving around mostly abstract words or concepts. 8vo. 100 pp. Every other page with a colorful illustration. The format is on the right page is a word, such as "civil", "brutality", "thought", etc., defined with drollery, with a two line qualification, sometimes rhymed, pointing to the facing page on which a limerick-styled nonsense verse accompanies an equally whimsical illustration. The cover has edge soiling and some wear besides.

Farmingdale, NY: Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation, 1929. Wraps. Brochure. Near Fine. 23 by 20 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pp., including wraps. Large photos on 12 pages of Fairchild's three models of the day, including both exterior and interiors. Boasting of speeds of up to 130 miles per hour, and offering planes with some minimal creature comforts but two shorts years after Lindbergh's historic flight -- passengers are wearing fashionable street clothes on the comparatively plush seats. Fairchild was founded in 1924 and produced a good number of innovations during its history, including, as shown here, a fully enclosed cockpit. The assets of the company were sold in 2003 to M7 Alliance. Needless to say, a scarce sales promotion with no copies located on OCLC. Folded down the center at one time, with a light crease remaining. Otherwise, clean and fresh.

Chicago: N.K. Fairbank Company. First Edition presumed. Wraps. Very Good. N.d., circa 1900. 8vo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. plus wraps. With 12 chromolithographic plates, in addition to other duotone illustrations, often underlaying the text. Adaptations of a few well-known Mother Goose nursery rhymes, but most of the doggeril is original verse, with pleasantly, and none to subtly, promotes the company's product. The fairy motif runs throughout both in the verse and the illustrations.

London: Payne and Foss, 1831. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo, 207 pp. Bookplate on front pastedown. Full crushed morocco, binding by Riviere. Marbled endpapers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Signed copy.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 405 pp and fully illustrated. Part of travel series with light conversational tone. Some soilage on spine. Clean interior.