Search Results: Authors starting with F from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Knopf, 1938. First edition. Hardcove textured cloth. Very Good. New Yorker profiles are widely credited as the best short biographies every written. This volume of 23 early profiles includes the lives of Vincent AsteorGeorgia O'Keefe, Father Divine, the late QUeen Mother Mary, Harpo Marx, Elizabeth Arden, and Darryl Zanuck, as well as the stories of fascinating people whose names are less familiar. This volume is specialin that the front endpaper is autographed by three authors of the provciles: St. Clair McKelway, Walcott Gibbs, and Geoffrey T. Hellman. Ex-libary from a collecction at a senior-living center, so contains libary stams on the endpapers and title page but did not circulate widely. There are a few smudge on the cover and the sdpine is sunned, but otherwise in excellent condition

A British best-seller about WWI and a romance.

New York: Edward Walker, 1852. Leather_bound. Good. Spine is badly ripped on othewise very good copy; heavy gilt engravings all over leather cover. Inked inscription "This book was given to me by my food friend Mr. Harry L. Stoutenburgh, Senior Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Poughkeepsie, NY at Easter, 1953. George G. Howell." On bookplate page presented to "Miss Ellen Budd by her Uncle Wm.

Would be "FIne" but for faded spine. The life of the inventor of the kind of radio that we know, an advance on Marconi's first wireless telegraphy. There s=us a previous owner's bookplate on the front verso endpaper and a long inscription in ink on the recto opposite a drawing of Fessenden (see photos).

Would be "FIne" but for faded spine. The life of the inventor of the kind of radio that we know, an advance on Marconi's first wireless telegraphy

Revised and updated version of the history of the cultures of South, Central, and North America before the arrival of Columbus and the other European explorers.

Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1867. Hardcover. Good. Later edition of 1859 publication (with handwritten note on flyleaf saying "Samuel G. Appel, June 15, 1868).Classic work with brown cloth cover, gold lettering on spine. Several pages had been dogeared, but interior otherwise in good shape, with 170 line drawings of grasses and other farm subjects. Cocked;. Some discoloration on the front, probably from someone setting a damp plate or jar on it. . A bit of buhbbling and dents on back cover.

appears to be unread

Very Good Plus book in damaged but complete dust jacket. This edition contains all eleven of Frost's previously published books complete. Some very minor foxing on edges of some pages.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964. First edition. harcover cloth. Fine/fine. 645 pages of letters from 1873 to 1963. Like new except for one page of handwritten notes (in ink) on previouly blank page 646.

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Copyright 1896 Very tight book with black line at top of pages indicating it was once remaindered; Edges of cover with shelf wear, slight partial separation of back cover

In the 1860's Frances Fuller Victor was asked to write a book that would dispel misconceptions about Oregon. The RIver of the West, which tells Oregon history from the point of view of "Mountain Man" Joe Meek was the result. published in 1870. Copies of the original having become extremely rare, Long's College Bookstore published this edition in 1950, apparently using the original plates for much of the book, although there is a new introduction by J. Cecil Alter. A rare treasure even as a reprint. The dust jacket Long's used is quite minimal. Its white paper gets dirty easily and there are no blurbs on the flaps.