Search Results: Authors starting with F from The Brick Row Book Shop

New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832, 1832. First edition. BAL 5687; American Imprints 12383. Cloth and labels a little stained and worn; some light foxing; a very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original rose linen and printed paper labels. The first book by Knickerbocker writer and later diplomat, Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), a collection of genial Irvingesque essays and sketches that originally appeared in the New York Mirror, of which Fay was an editor along with George Pope Morris and John Inman. See the DAB.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. Cloth a little worn; tear in the rear free endpaper volume one; tear in the printed label on volume two; very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original black cloth and printed paper labels. Two pages of publisher's advertisements in volume two. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels by New York journalist Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898), followed his novel Norman Leslie (1835), which Edgar Allan Poe famously and scandalously lambasted in a review that became a cause célèbre in Knickerbocker literary circles.

London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. Edges a little rubbed; one label chipped; a few hinges starting, but sound; very good copy in contemporary state.. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary smooth brown calf, marbled endpapers, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations, brown and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettering. 22-page list of subscribers. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time, including his novel The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild (one of the great works in the literature of roguery) and A Journey from This World to the Next. Fielding personally supervised the compiling of Miscellanies, and it was his only privately published ("Printed for the Author") work. Contemporary bookplate of George Garnier on the front paste-downs, below which is the modern… Read More

San Francisco: The Brick Row Book Shop, 2009, 2009. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. New.. 8vo, sapphire blue wrappers, stitched, printed paper label, 23 pages. ¶ A slim volume of fifteen poems by the distinguished poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller whose first collection, Izmir, was published in 1959, and whose poetry has continually been published over the intervening fifty years. Arthur Freeman's poems are characterized by objectivity, clarity of design, hard focus, and vivid imagery - with a genie-in-the bottle reliance on tight but flexible form. And like all poets worth reading, his voice is unmistakably his own. Randall Jarrell once likened "a [good] poet" to "one who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times, and he is great." Arthur Freeman says he will settle for three or four, but higher estimates are welcome.

London, 2020, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. As new.. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering. 120 pages. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own. Novelist and poet Robert Nye wrote about an earlier volume of his poetry: "I appreciate the way you seem to write poems only when you have something to say, which might not otherwise be said." And Helen Vendler wrote about the same volume that Freeman's poetry "gave me such pleasures, poem by poem.".

Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883), 1883. First edition. BAL 6302, binding A.. Worn and somewhat shaken, but sound; enclosed in a cloth clamshell box.. Small 4to, original pictorial boards. 14 full-page illustrations by George Barnes. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and characters. Decorative Plaques is not found in any of the legendary first book catalogues by Seven Gables, Goodspeed, Reese, the New York Berg Collection Catalogue or elsewhere.

La Haye: (Société Typographique de Bouillon), 1772, 1772. First edition. OCLC records nine copies: four in the US (UCLA, Harvard, Princeton and Vanderbilt) and five in European libraries. Edges a little rubbed; small paper library shelf label at the foot of the spine; faint remains of a bookplate or label on the front paste-down; very good copy, in a fine contemporary binding.. 12mo, contemporary cat's paw calf, marbled paper endpapers, brown leather spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. A philosophical novel, written in the tradition of Persian letters and the Oriental tale, by journalist and revolutionary Jean-Louis Carra (1742-93) who, among other literary activities, contributed to the Encyclopedia of Yverdon. Odazir is a Syrian lord who undertakes a long journey in Europe in search of the truth about contemporary society. The tale is prefaced by a seven-page dedication to the "Grand Counsel in Aleppo: One will be surprised, perhaps, among the polite Nations of Europe, that a… Read More