Titles starting with F from Century Books

Simon & Schuster, 1984. Hardback 1st S&S printing Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. A little corner wear, else book is fine. Dust jacket has a few small edge tears. One of my favorite novels of all time with a delightful touch and a perfect cast of characters: Granddaddy Jake, a 99-year-old reprobate who keeps kicking with his special Ol' Death Whisper whiskey; Tiny, a gentle giant who spends his days building perfect fences; and FUP the duck who runs the household. ISBN: 0671509101 ... more information

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Faber & Faber, [1994]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. A little scuffing, edgewear and one small closed tear on dust jacket. Red on spine faded. Anthology of murderous tales covering Axe to Zarathustra. Writings from authors as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, Dostoyevsky, Lord Byron, and Ted Hughes. 575 pages. ISBN: 0571167527 ... more information

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HarperCollins, 1996. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Tiny nick on base of dust jacket spine, else fine. Jim Chee and the now-retired Joe Leaphorn are reunited in this mystery surrounding a man who fell to his death 11 years before. Leaphorn's first case as a private detective. ISBN: 006017773x ... more information

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Harper & Row, 1967. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on endpapers. An illustrated guide to native trees, covering their characteristics, range, and value to man. 119 species described accompanied by drawings, range maps, pictorial glossary and a streamlined guide to identification. ... more information

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Viking, 1967. Hardback 1st Edition Good in Good dust jacket. Previous owner name on endpapers, very small tear (less than 1/2 inch) on bottom of last 30 pages, else book is fine. Dust jacket has some small edge tears, chips at spine ends. Text and photos devoted to the wild side of the arboreal world: trees that thrust their roots into the air, produce flowers and fruit underground, make noises, change their sex, commit suicide or produce their own rain. No staid or boring trees here, only the eccentric... more information

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HarperCollins, 1993. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Set in 1900, the novel tells the fictional story of a Kentucky farm wife who creates a national stir by giving birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. ISBN: 0060167807 ... more information

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Jason Aronson, [1975]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket sunned with some small edge tears. Previous owner name on top edge. ISBN: 0876682069 ... more information

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Lyford Books/Presidio, 1994. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket 'Although Fenwick Travers is a cheating, drunken, sycophantic libertine; a charlatan; an adulterous, cowardly, gluttonous blackguard; a bounder; a dastardly, caddish, philandering mountebank; a poltroon; a besotted, lecherous, scheming toady; a roué; a sybaritic rapscallion; and a rakehell, he remains a thoroughly lovable fellow.' The second Fenwick Travers book - this time he's off to the Philippines. ISBN: 0891414800 ... more information

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Bridge Publications. Hardback As New In original shrink-wrap. Comprehensive bibliography & reference guide to published and selected unpublished works. ... more information

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Little, Brown, 1947. Hardback 1st American Edition Good condition Gray cloth w/ orange letting. Spine quite sunned. Small sticker mark on first free endpaper, toning throughout. Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred dies at his family's estate, and Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to investigate. Also features Alleyn's wife, Agatha Troy, who has been hired to paint Sir Henry's portrait. The character of Agatha is much like Marsh herself. ... more information

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Summit Books, 1991. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Fine dust jacket. Novel of Brendan, a young, retarded man who escapes from an institution and learns about life, and Beatrice, the young retarded woman with whom he falls in love. ISBN: 0671731556 ... more information

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Viking, [1975]. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. 150 family-style recipes from firehouses in all 50 states. ISBN: 0670315516 ... more information

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Andre Deutsch, 1995. Hardback 1st U.K. Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket Using previously unpublished correspondence and other research material, author examines the almost mythical love/hate relationship between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. ISBN: 0233989412 ... more information

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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Fine dust jacket Remainder mark, else fine. Journey through four generations of the Stassos family. Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winning author. ISBN: 0374181136 ... more information

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U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1954. Softcover Good condition Previous owner stamps. Spine faded. All plates present in back pocket, including several geologic maps. ... more information

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St. Martin's, 1995. Hardback First Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Includes 'With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope' - the detective team's first case. Also 'Sister Alice' and 'The Gorgon Field' and two previously unpublished stories: 'Torch Song' and 'All for One.' Introduction by Robin Wilson. ISBN: 0312130759 ... more information

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Fred. Rullman, Inc., undated. Paperback Good+ Libretto published for the Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera. Original price on cover, 30 cents. 40 pages. Covers browned. Contents Very Good, bright and clean. ... more information

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Grosset/Putnam, 1999. Hardback 1st Edition New in dust jacket. More than 100 distinguished writers offer personal reflections - all original to this collection - on their favorite books. Contributors include: Diane Ackerman, Dave Barry, John Barth, Ann Beattie, Rita Dove, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gail Godwin, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Grumbach, Pete Hamill, Tracy Kidder, Elmore Leonard, Doris Lessing, James McBride, Frank McCourt, Arthur Miller, Peggy Noonan, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Robert B. Parker, N... more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Softcover Advanced Reading Copy Fine condition Nick Lamp is on the run, suspected of murdering Taiwan's underworld boss Cao Dai. His run to safety takes him through an unraveling web of false identities, duplicitous women, corporate espionage and shocking revelations. Set in Taiwan and Hong Kong. ISBN: 0679440399 ... more information

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Free Press, 1998. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Fine dust jacket. Book is new, unread. Tells the story of the alliance between Leonard da Vinci and Machiavelli and their ambitious plans to create system of canals that would make the Arno River navigable from Florence to the sea - one of history's greatest 'might-have-beens.' Fascinating look at the friendship of two of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance. ISBN: 0684844524 ... more information

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