Search Results: Authors starting with F from Aardvark Rare Books

New York: Random House, 1966. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Good Only. Octavo. Green cloth binding over blue-gray boards with black, yellow and white arrow design to front. Rubbing soiling, some spotting to extremities. Spine lean. Reading copy of this classic mid-sixties narrative of late Beat-ish artistic culture. Farina was a handsome folksinger-writer of Cuban-Irish descent, who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. Farina was a handsome Cuban-Irish folksinger-writer who paired up in life and music with Mimi (Baez) Farina, to produce several of the most lovely, and at times haunting melodies of the era. Their vocal harmonies, augmented by combination of dulcimer and guitar were, powerfully evocative, even at times transcendental. At age 29, Farnia tragically died in a… Read More

New York: Random House, 1941. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good Dustjacket. Keith Ward. The Black Stallion is in its own special corral at the pinnacle of beloved children's stories. This timeless novel for young-or-not-so-young- adults remains a shimmering electric-black archetype in the center of the field, long after others horse tales have faded from memory. Author Walter Farley's initial tale of a boy (Alec Ramsay) and a spirited horse surviving a shipwreck on an island in Africa eventually inspired more than thirty additional horse tales. Octavo. Stated First Printing. Beige boards with black horse-head profile to front board, and black lettering with red stripes to spine. This is a spectacular copy, nearly fine but for the top corners of two leaves (pp. 101/102, and 103/104 which were bent over by a reader in need of a bookmark). Just the slightest bit of discoloration to bottom and top edges. Corners sharp, lettering bright. The dustjacket is generally bright with the… Read More

Peoria, IL: The Ellis Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Limited Edition, #337/500. Signed by the author on the numbered edition page. Sunning to rear cover. Two stories by the great American science fiction and fantasy writer: Jesus on Mars, and Riverworld War. Preface by the author.

Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. John Pound (Cover). Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6 in., pp. [12], 205. Cover art by John Pound. Cream cloth-covered boards with embossed initials in blind to lower front right corner; copper title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Two small nicks across top of front board. Beige endpapers. Unmarked interior. Small chip to top of dustjacket front. Protected in mylar. "River of Eternity is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). It is an early version of what became Farmer's popular Riverworld series of novels (1971-83), in which all of humanity has been resurrected and resettled on an artificial "river planet"." (from Wikipedia).

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1937. First Edition. Very Good / Good. Octavo, 5.4 x 8.25 in., pp. 265. Blue cloth boards wth gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Sunning to top and bottom quarter-inch of spine. Right top corner of front free endpaper (presumably bearing previous owner's name/address) clipped off. LIght age-toning to pages. Rubbing and small chips to edges of dustjacket. 1 in. x 1/4 in. chip to bottom of dustjacket spine. 1.5 in. closed tear to top of dustjacket at hinge. Howard Fast's first full-length novel.

New York: Random House, 1948. Stated Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.5 in., p. 247. Black cloth boards with blue and gilt title and gilt dotted-line design to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Several larger chips and closed tears to dustjacket's front and spine, but front picture and text unaffected. Price clipped. Prtected i mylar. Sold by "Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco."

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus in Good Plus Dustjacket. 8vo.Green cloth with spine titles in black. Signed by Bob Feller on front free endpaper. Previous owner's inscription (Dad from ____, Date) to half-title. 258 pages, photos. Cover bright with some light edgewear. Rubbing to extremities, with some fraying to top of spine. Sunning to top edge of book. In price-clipped dust jacket with photo of Feller on the front. Jacket has some light edgewear and is in a mylar protector. Name on front inside board, text clean, binding tight.

Chicago, IL: The Hotel Monthly, 1904. Eighth Edition. Leather-bound. Good Only. 16mo, 5.75 in. x 3.5 in., pp. 241, xiii (advertising). Illustrated with frontispiece of author. Flexible burgundy leather covers, with gilt title to front. Rounded board and leaf corners. Rubbing to extremities. Corner repair to bottom corner of front board. Chips to top/bottom of spine. Booksellers sticker over ink stamp on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature (a chef) to front free endpaper. Bookseller's ink stamp to title page. SPine and hinges are tight. On title page: "Eighth edition (revised), comprising two books in one." A pocket sized reference guide for chefs in hotels, clubs and restaurants. Chapters include entrees, garnishes, soups, sauces and others, followed by separate chapters for Breakfast, Lunch and Supper, as well as an index and pronouncing glossary of culinary terms. Many professional tips, recipes, ingredients, miscellaneous food folklore and food remedies.

St. Louis, Missouri (USA): Milliken Publishing Company, 1960. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Wonderful Staplebound pamphlet (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), published just this side of JFK, probably provided to local utilities in order to mass-promote their message: "Live Better...Electrically". Fabulous period artwork to both front and rear covers. Front depicts an aproned and bejeweled, svelte and shapely, blonde, a wooden spoon absentmindedly cocked in her right hand, with her braceleted wrist relaxes in her left pocket. In front of her is a bowl of dip surrounded by canapes, and in the background, behind the lovely modern electric stove, are two smiling carefree women and one man bathed in shimmering light (electric, of course!). On the rear cover is the man of the house, in front of his double electric oven (and through the glass panel of the top oven, one can see a roast or ham. He is making ice cream sundaes, flanked by his electric dishwasher on the left, and his electric blender on the right. He too is… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina: Old South Galleries, 1970. Map. Very good plus. Colorful, historic novelty map of Beaufort, South Carolina consisting of street names with drawings of all the buildings within each block, and all four sides bordered by famous plantation, historical homes, ports, forts, chapels, churches, etc., notices of British, French, Spanish and Scottish landings, town seals tokens, coat of arms, etc. Map no doubt includes the narrow coastal inlet off the Beaufort River where the events of February 24, 2019, which included the mysterious disappearance of Mallory Beach, then subsequent discovery of her body nearby, began to close the legal loop around Alex Murdaugh. Surveyed and delineated by Marie Fenner in 1969. Very frameable. "Beaufort, S. C. was called the most aristocratic town of its size in America - the "Newport of the South" - before the War between the States. A city of rich history, Southern hospitality and casual seaside charm, the "Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands"… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Good Plus. 16mo, 5.6 in. x 4.25 in., pp. 89. Illustrated with sixteen drawings and photographs. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine.Rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Light age-toning to unmarked interior. Hinge split at p 77/78, but mull holding well. Information, instruction and recipes to nourish a large, hungry crew. Among other needs, the manual offers instructions for making an oven in a dirt bank and an open trench.

Boston, Mass: W. G. Corthell, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 12mo.pp.[2], xv, 285, [3]. Decorated dark-mustard color cloth boards, in black stamped design, with a seven-storey gilt pagoda to front board. Gilt lettering to spine, ruled in black. General shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, and still very tightly bound. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Stab-holes (for stitching) visible along both front and rear hinges. Frontis of eight Chinesemen and women, engraved by Russell and Richardson of Boston, and 15 additional illustrations throughout. At its face, appears to be a standard, nineteenth-century culture-theft by a "superior" Christian, who slums amongst the fascinating "heathens". Chapters include (but are not limited to): The Status of women; Child-Life in Cathay; Foot-Binding; Habitations; The Inconvenience of Heathenism; Spiritism; The Kitchen God; The Origin of a Fete; Buddhist Nuns; Loan-Associations; Native Female Evangelists; Orchid Loses Seven-Tenths of Her… Read More

Los Angeles/New York: Stanyon Books/Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in very good dust jacket. Decorated turquoise boards. Small octavo. Some edgewear to bottom, cover bright. In price-clipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket. Photo-illustrated with movie stills and memorable quotes.

Oxford, England: Henry Frowde, Oxford Warehouse, Amen CornerThe University Press at Oxford, 1880. Leather-bound. Good Plus. 96mo. (Miniature) 3 1/2 in. x 1 in. Black leather, with gilt titling to front cover and spine ("New Testament") All edges gilt over red. Thin gilt dentelles. Shelfwear to leather. Black endpapers. Front endpaper detached. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper (W.M. Bullard, M.D.). Lovely little pocket size bible.

Boston, Mass: Gregg Press, 1976. Stated First Printing (Thus). Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 192. Limited edition of 500 copies. Frontispiece illustration by Richard Powers. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Green cloth boards with gilt title on red panel to spine. Unmarked interior. Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (1911-1995) was an American writer, mainly known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. His most popular novels are "The Body Snatchers" (1955) and "Time and Again" (1970), although throughout his career he published nearly 50 novels that encompass the noir, thriller and comedy genres. Finney's novel "The Body Snatchers" has been adapted into film four times.

Dublin, Ireland: Luke White, 1792. Third Edition. Leather-bound. Boards Poor, Interior Very Good. 8vo. 22 cm. Contemporary speckled leather with gilt border to both boards, over beautiful stone marbled endpapers of rose, aquamarine, grey and white and cream. Two front boards detached. Hinges weak, leather flaking. Title page absent Volume 2. Lacks all plates and map.Bookplate of the Lancaster Observatory of Arts and Sciences and the YMCA. In sum, old set of books, boards detached, no map or plates, but an exhaustive history of India. Vols. 1-2 contain the history of Mu ammad K sim ibn Hind Shah. Vol.3 is an original work by Alexander Dow.

London, England: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1802. First English Edition. Leather-bound. Boards detached, but interior Very Good. 8vo. Boards (front detached, rear nearly so, both present) appear originally etched with an acid treatment, resulting in a mottled surface, similar (only) to catspaw. Gilt chain border to boards, which are scuffed and rubbed. gilt spine and partially perished red leather title label. Very nice grey, red, white and black stone-marbled endpapers, bordered with gilt dentelles. xv(i), 405pp. Head and foot of spine chipped. Text tight and clean. Old ink inscription, top of title page listing name, and where buyer purchased this volume.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Plus in Good Dustjacket. R. Emmett Owen. Octavo. Light green, cloth-covered boards Brown lettering in black outline. Mild rubbing to extremities. Edgewear to dustjacket and several small chips and closed tears. Fabulous cover and endpaper photographs. "Tom Slade is now engaged in the unique and adventurous. capacity of dispatch rider behind. the lines; a form of service replete in its possibilities, not only of military but of romantic adventures..."

Paris, France: Libraire Plon, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. IN FRENCH Folio. Red cloth-bound volume of all 85 issues of "Psst...!" (the stylized title being a direct, satirical jab at Zola's "J'Accuse!". 15 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. Blind-ruling to both front and rear panels. Not paginated consecutively, but each issue four pages in length. Primarily cartoons and caricatures. Text in French, and advertisements. Age-mottled red boards of textured cloth, with a simple one-word gilt title to spine (PSST...). Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to individual issue wraps, occasional light toning and staining to the margins of one or two pages. On the whole, internally quite clean and bright. A complete run of a stridently antisemitic French-language newspaper that began publication only a fortnight following the launch of Emile Zola's famous "J'accuse...!" published in L'Aurore to protest the false accusations made against and jailing of the Alsatian Jewish French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus.… Read More

San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1937. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good / None. Tall Quarto , covered in elaborately marbled boards of brown, orange, red and silver, with fine-printed spine label. No jacket. First published in London in 1839, by Smith, Elder and Co., Master printer John Henry Nash undertook a project to reset and reprint this important California classic. Introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestley. Letter from Dr. John Forbes (the author's brother) to the printer, preceding Alexander's dedication. Facsimile of Alexander Forbes' signature, preceding Introduction. Ten illustrations, including frontis. Large folding map of California at end of work. Howes in Usiana writes: "First book in the English language devoted exclusively to California and of permanent value on its Indians and early missions" (F-242). Very slight rubbing to corners, Spine (and label) somewhat darkened. [xxxi], 229. Large folding map at rear.