Search Results: Authors starting with F from WhoByBooks

Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. This makes for an interesting copy... the word 'edited' has been scratched out on the front cover and whited out on title page. It has been signed/inscribed by the editor [ To __ love Ekbert 11/4/83 ]. Lightly sunned at board edges with the rear top corner moderately bumped. Glassine DJ. B&W photos of each of the interviewees being: Olson, Duncan, Snyder, Creeley, Bly and Ginsberg.

Toronto: Subway Books, 1986. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Limited to an edition of 300 copies of which this is # 181. 22 pps. Rubbed at spine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Number 2 in the Indian File Books. Lacking DJ. Rust cloth with buff and brown pictorial boards in a geometric design.

Toronto: HarperFlamingo Canada, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. I have lived many times, Dr. Jung." Thus is the story of Pilgrim the man who cannot die the man whose very "existence matches the long trail of human history". Previous owners name on FFEP.

Toronto: Viking, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Slight lean to spine. A small splatter of coffee-like stains to front cover. A light 1.5" score to upper front DJ.

Toronto: Harper Collins, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Another fine work by the award winning writer of The Headhunter and The Wars.

Penguin, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New/No Jacket. The first novel by this new and exciting writer. It is "the story of two sisters, caught in the eye of their mother's mental illness." French flaps.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. REPRINT. Originally published in1885. Some water staining to blue back boards. [T.E.G. ] Nice old bookplate on Front Paste Down.

Granta Books, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. Edited by Richard Ford with a signed book plate by him laid in. A paperback original.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 1 cm closed tear to head of DJ spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is the first American edition (the true first published by Woolf at the Hogarth Press) and is a 'sketch book of Alexandria through the ages'. Forster laments the fact that there was no serious history of the city at that time and hoped this might fill something of the huge hole...included are poems by C. P. Cavafy. Top stain in midnight blue with coloured end papers. Mottled discolouration on front with some sunning on back cover. First American edition.

Hemel Hampstead, Hertfordshire, U.K.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine.

Toronto: House of Anansi Press Ltd, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada. Essays on: Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin. Some tanning & creasing to spine, dated Christmas 1982 on first page.

Oberon Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. An earlier collection of poems by this wonderful, conflicted, Canadian poet. A fine book in a dust jacket with some shelf wear and a 2 cm tear at top front left. Very scarce.

Ottawa: Oberon Pr, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. An excellent collection of poems by this Canadian (and often ignored) poet. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with some shelf wear. Cover art by Robin Fox.

Ottawa: Oberon Pr, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the poet's first volume of selected poems edited by writer and fellow poet Tom Marshall. This collection draws from all of her previous poetry (Dangerous Season, 1969 through The Deepening of the Colours, 1986). Fine in near fine dust jacket (light sunning to spine). Cover portrait by the poet.

Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A great novel by the great Mexican writer. Artemio Cruz is on his death bed. A powerful and wealthy man, he lays dying at the age of 71 and remembers and what he remembers parallels the struggle of his country. A fine book in a VG- dust jacket (price clipped with a few closed tears and chip near base). Translated by Sam Hileman.