Search Results: Titles starting with F from Century Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 1st S&S printing. Hardback. 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.

HarperCollins, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardback. 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.

Harper & Row, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardback. 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.

New York: Viking, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardback. 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 and exotic.

HarperCollins, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardback. 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.

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

U.S. Dept. of the Interior, July 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Chaco Culture Archeological Protection Site System 1984 written in pen on spine, else fine. 80 pages. Staple bound. National Park Service press release regarding release of the plan is laid in.

New York: Summit Books, 1991. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. 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.

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

London: Andre Deutsch, 1995. 1st U.K. Edition. Hardback. 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.

Washington D.C.: 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.

St. Martin's, 1995. First Edition. Hardback. 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.

New York: 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.

Grosset/Putnam, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardback. 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, Neil Simon, Mona Simpson, Oliver Stone, William Styron, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tobias Wolff.

Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1978. 4th printing. Softcover. God condition. Edgewear. Written by the FAO Forestry Department with the assistance of the Swedish International Development Authority. 114 pages

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. 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.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1969. Softcover. Good condition. Description of new stratigraphic units in a coal-bearing formation of southern Utah. Previous owner stamps.

North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1993. 1st English-language edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. A little smudge on bottom edge, light shelfwear. Translated from the Czech by William Harkins. A Perils-of-Pauline story mixing farce and pathos.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. 1st. Hardback. G. Black cloth has been sleightly sun-bleached along the spine. Fraying at top of spine. Endpapers yellowed. Biography of Benjamin Franklin. Many black and white illustrations by various artists.

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1992. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. How to write more and better than you ever thought you could