Search Results: Authors starting with F from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Times Books, 1977. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 291pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs. No previous ownership marks, no name, no book-plate. A celan, square, tightly bound copy. Very good in a good dust-jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Longman's Green and Co. 1920, 1920. Cloth sans dustjacket. Foreword by Sir Robert Greig. Good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1980. Paper portfolio containing 8 full color plates reproducing covers from Starmont House books. Small, 8 page staple bound pamphlet laid in, providing comments and reflections on the art-work. A limited, signed portfolio, with artist's signature and limitation number 536 on plate number one. White paper portfolio shows minor toning / soiling and light wear to upper fore-edge corner. All plates are in excellent condition. Fine in good+ folder. Mailed flat with cardboard backer, Priority and International orders charged actual postage. . Limted/numbered/signed. Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Artwork.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 401 pages. Notes, Index. Illustrated with drawings and photographs in black and white. First edition, first printing with full number line. A probing examination of popular culture and antisemitism in European history focusing on dietary proscriptions and associations. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket, now protected by a new Brodart cover. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1986. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Large book, 847pp., over 60 authors included. No name, no book-plate, etc. Near fine copy in very good jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Altogether, 55 accounts of famous archaeological discoveries, from the development of the field in the early 1700's to the late 20th century breakthroughs made possible by computer analysis. Illustrated with color and monochome plates. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Gemsco Inc., 1941. Original softbound edition, blue wrappers stapled. 48 pages. Ship Index. Illustrated throughout with photographs of every class of ship in the fleet. First edition, published as the 'Two-Ocean Fleet Edition'. A comprehensive pre-war survey of the U.S, fleet and its air arm, from battleships to patrol craft, fighter and torpedo aircraft to training models. With an additional section on U.S. Coast Guard cutters and patrol craft . No previous ownership marks. Moderate wear to blue covers with rubbing mostly confined to spine and light age soiling to front panel. Overall a sound, tight, internally clean and unmarked copy. Good. . First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Gotham, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 332 pages. Source Notes, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, second printing. No previous ownership marks, but from the private collection of Carmen Orechio, former NJ State Senator, recently deceased (02/26/2018). No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, pristine and as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

UK: Bulldog Magazines Ltd., 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine, large format-- folio. 82 pages. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Includes articles on the Crown Jewels, Shakespeare, Ironbridge, Historic Scotland, et alia. A sound, unmarked copy with no tears. Slight bump to lower fore-edge corner. A copy that has been read but is in clean, very good condition. Oversize, media mail only. .

UK: Bulldog Magazines Ltd., 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Magazine, large format-- folio. 82 pages. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Includes articles on the Settle to Carlisle railway, Prehistoric Britain, Stowe, the painters and composers of Sufflok, et alia. A sound, unmarked copy with no creases or tears. A copy that has been read but is in clean, very good condition. Oversize, media mail only. .

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. Book. Illus. by Falconer, Ian. Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, white pictorial boards, repeating artwork on publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 36 pages. Illustrated throughout with color drawings by author. Silver Caldecott Honor badge affixed to front dust-jacket cover. Later printing. No previous ownership marks. From an adult's collection, book is pristine and like new. Dust-jacket is also near like new with no visible faults. As new in a near fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 603pp., Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustyrated with photographs. No name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc, A clean, square copy, Mild toning to inner dust-jacket flaps from age, else a very good+ copy in like dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1989. Full tan leather with gold gilt in stylized design on both covers and spine. Dark peach moire endpapers and satin ribbon marker. Collector's edition, complete with collector's notes laid in. Illustrated with maps and photos. A beautiful, unread copy.. Collectors Edition. Full-Leather. Very Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Spring Books, 1969. Large coffee table book recounting 27 major military confrontations from the battle of Rocroi in 1643 through World War II's Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Profusel y illustrated in color and black and white. Cloth in price-clipped dustjacket. Very good_ in near very good dustjacket.. Reprint. Very Good+/Near Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Book. Fine. Soft cover. re-issue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 249 pages. Bibliography, Index. Re-issue of the title first published in 1951, first printing thus. "But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass," said Whitman later in life. Even if the quote were apocryphal, the poets' fascination with music and opera in his early life would lend credence to its veracity. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy. Like new. .

Londion: John Bale, Sons & Danielson, LTD,, 1916. Green cloth. Extensively illustrated. T.e.g. Inner hinges cracked with old tape repair visible on front hinge. Original publishers cloth moderately shelfworn and mottled. Small typed poem tipped-in to verso of titlepage. A good copy, text and illustrations very clean. Boards shakens but holding. An extremely heavy book, (900 pages), please contact for supplemental postage charges based on destination.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Librairie Honore Champion, 1964. Paperback. 339 pages. Text in French. Unopened.. Light gray card covers toned to light brown at extremities. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound copy with most signatures sealed along top edge and fore-edge. French language edition. Good.. Second Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Berkley Caliber, 2009. Hardcover, white boards in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 240pp., Bibliography, Index. Copiously illustrated with vintage original photographs of the Pacific naval and air war against the Japanese in the Pacific. First edition, first printing. Includes DVD in sleeve at rear. Remainder stripe on bottom edge. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Overlook Press, 1990. Large trade paperback. 305pp., Illustrated with 75 photographs and drawings. First paperback edition, third printing. Comprehensive martial arts dictionary, containing over 2,000 entries arranged alphabetically. Entires range from technical nomenclature pertaining to karate, judo, aikido, kendo, et alia, to hundreds of specialized definitions of subjects ranging from techniques, styles and weapons to advanced fighting theories. No previous ownership marks. A new copy, unread and unmarked. Very fine.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Basic Books, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 554 pages. Extensive Bibliography and Index. First American edition, first printing with full number line. A history Britain's early development of the bomb and Churchill's reluctance to pursue and fund the project, resulting in America being the first to successfully harness the power of the atom. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .