Search Results: Authors starting with F from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1886. Flexible cloth. VII, 70pp. I-ii & (i) -xxiii, appendices; index. 4to; original limp brown cloth lettered in gilt; 6 folding shore views; 1 large folding color map; 1 folding chart. Map with 5 splits (up to 1.5") to edges at fold lines; a partially mended 2" closed tear upper left margin; 3" horizontal split top left fold line; offset tanning to p. 32; moderate cover wear with a little rubbing and a couple of surface scrapes to back cover. The rest of the views, and chart are fine. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

London: W. G. Foyle Limited. 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies. (97)pp.; 8vo; black & blue cloth, front cover lettered in gilt; paper spine label. Without dust jacket. Consists of a page of questions, i.e. "Your worst fault, real or fancied?" with answers (confessions) on facing page, followed by about 60 pages for Confessions of My Friends, with the list of questions and no respondents in this book. Facsimile signatures of Hamilton, Coppard, and Davies below their answers. .

University of Alberta Press. Fine. 2003. Softcover. 0888643977 . Includes bibliographical references and index; illustrated with b&w photos. ; 8.8 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches; 208 pages .

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Fine. 1975. Hardcover. 0878460861 . Exhibition Catalog. 233 pp., oblong 8vo; cloth in price-clipped pictorial jacket. Photographs and other reproductions throughout, including full page color plates. Frontier America "presented here through pictorial, decorative, and functional arts is life in the western part of the United States, from Missouri to the Pacific Coast." Near Fine , with protective mylar wrap .

NY: Facts On File (1989). Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0816022151 . 8vo. 246 pgs. Black cloth; remainder stamp on bottom edge. 'The history and pleasures of the most celebrated of wines.' .

New Delhi: Baha'i Publishing Trust. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Light spot on front cover; shallow creasing along leading top corners of cover. ; Stapled yellow wrappers, printed in red. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 23 pages .

E. P. Dutton. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper over boards, orange cloth back; splotches of foxing to edges, and a vertical strip of light to moderate tanning to endpapers. In dust jacket with light wear at corners, in protective mylar wrap.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .

Paris: Librairies-imprimeries re unis (ancienne Maison Morel) [1899-1902]. Good. 1899. Hardcover. Ex-Mechanics Institute Library with their bookplate & the usual treatments, but no stamps on plates. 2 Vols.; folio; half brown leather and cloth over boards; 192 half-tone plates from this periodical in each volume one including three folding, containing illustrations and plans. Both volumes rubbed at edges,otherwise solid. From the Alfred Henry Jacobs Collection. .

Santa FE: Museum of New Mexico Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Expanded Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket with protective mylar wrap; profusely illustrated with color and half-tone reproductions. Lengthy inscription by the author. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 95 pages; Signed by Author .

Sphere. Fine. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0722134894 . Mass Market; first Sphere edition. .

New York: Wm. H. Graham. Fair. 1847. Third Edition. Hardcover. Lower front joint split 2.5 from bottom, but binding remains fairly firm; edges & corners rubbed; divot to spine title leather; front endpaper with 1" by 2" loss top edge with a bit of tear bottom portion of hinge; second free endpaper with tanning at foredge; moderate dampstain lower portion of title page; "Town of Albion No. 362 in ink top margin of title page; offset toning from type blocks on text pages. ; Full calf; black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Wagner-Camp, Becker 107: 5 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; "A sequel toFarnham’s earlier work on the Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Oregon Territory, this book begins with a section on the Sandwich Islands, and continues with a description of California prior to the conquest. Farnham goes into great detail about the missions, and gives thumbnail biographies of many of the missionaries, including Kino, Ugarte, and Salvatierra." . Read More

London: Arnold, 1917. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Poor condition. 8vo; blue cloth; plates and folding map present. Moderate to heavy foxing to endpapers, most text pages; front hinge volume 1 repaired rear hinge vol. 2 repaired;most of the plates are clean; map with foxing mainly to margins. Ownership signatures fromt endpaper.

London: Edward Arnold. Very Good. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 397 pp., 16 p. ads; 8vo; black cloth lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to covers mainly at corners with leading corner tips just rubbed through; minor tanning to endpapers with the letters ZYX in faded ink top corner of front pastedown; occasional spots of foxing at foredges; other small pencil notes on front endpaper by the late Ian Jackson including: "(Scouted by Martin Stone)." Stone was a book scout who received a fair amount of national attention. Jackson wrote an article about him for the Book Collector, and both were visitors to Serendipity Books, in Berkeley. Early writing and only novel by Farrer who became a noted traveler and plant hunter. Ian Jackson when I first met him was a noted hunter of books on botany. .

Arkansas: Printed By the Hurley Co.. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. Leading top corners bumped, with some affect to corners of, otherwise clean and solid. ; Green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Half-tone photographs throughout. Chapters on Indian relations, Pioneers, Education, Churches, Landmarks, etc.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 349 pages .

Berkeley; Salt Lake City: Bancroft Library; Signature Books. As New. 2006. Softcover. Illustrated wrappers; in original publisher's shrinkwrap. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

(Paris): Flammarion (1980). Very Good. 1980. Softcover. 2080642596 . 363pp.; 8vo; pictorial wrappers; illustrated with photographs. Light wear to front cover at foredge; spine faded with a superficial vertical crease. Text in French. .

University of California Press; Rugters Univ. Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988; 1989; 1987. Softcover. 0520063961 . Ownership name front endpapers. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 362 pages .

Nicolas-Hays. Fine. 2002. Softcover. 0892540354 . 8.2 X 5.5 X 0.5 inches; 144 pages .

Norman And London: 101 Productions. Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0806119454 . Jacket with soil primarily to white back cover; chips & tears at spine ends with external tape repair around top of spine; one inch close tear top rear edge. In protective mylar wrap. ; Cloth in pictorial jacket; 44 maps; 6 figures; black & white photographs throughout; includes bibliography, index. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 154 pages; Bonus Item: Extract. F. H. Cushing, The Zuni Social, Mythic and Religious, Systems (From "The Popular Science Monthly") . Offprint; 14 pp. , printed on one side [rectos]; printed blue wrappers. A lecture before the National Academy of Sciences, delivered in Washington, April 22, 1882. Ex-lib; rectangular stamp and sticker removal on front cover, otherwise very good condition thus. .

N.Y.: New Directions. Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0811212734 . Inscribed by the author on title page: "For Richard Zybert, Ferlinghetti." 8vo; illustrated wrappers. From the Zybert collection. .