Search Results: Authors starting with F from Bygone Books

Chawton, UK: Chawton House Press, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 1st ed, SIGNED by the author on the title page ["Ava Farmer"], 8vo, blue leatherette boards, 206 pages, bookmark from Chawton House Press enclosed. Condition: NEW. A sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' wherein we revisit some of Austen's best characters ten years after the close of her most-loved novel. "Ava Farmer" is the nom de plume of Sandy Lerner, founder of the Chawton House Library, home to early women writers, in Chawton England, in the home of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG-. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 1st edition (stated), 24mo, mustard cloth, 56 pages, color illustrations by the author. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has slight edgewear, spine head slightly tanned, internally clean and tight; jacket has a 1" missing piece from spine head, a 1/2" chip at front bottom, corners and spine tail have tiny chips, slight tanning to flaps, price is intact (in protective mylar). A very nice copy in the uncommon jacket.... a charming Field story.

Boston, MA: Little Brown / The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum, 1982. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0316289876 1st Am edition [stated], 8vo, sea blue cloth, 52 pages, b/w illustrations, map, select bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: remainder spot on top page edge, otherwise just the slightest of edgewear. Fowles's home and central setting to his "The French Lieuenant's Woman" as well as Jane Austen's "Persuasion" [scene of Louisa Musgrove's infamous jump from the Cobb].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st ed., 8vo, ivory boards with black backstrip, 303 pages, b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Condition is NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE jacket: very nice copy of this biography that sheds new light on our understanding of Emily Brontë's personality, experience, and writing - all from a feminist perspective rather than the traditional patriarchal view of Emily.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Soft cover. VG+. Woodcuts by An Unknown Hand. Cover says "Bound at the Printing Office Williamsburg Virginia; colophon states "The present Volume has been prepar'd, printed and publish'd at the Office of the Peter Pauper Press in the town of Mount Vernon, New York State." With a preface to the "Courteous Reader" by Paul Leicester Ford. 8vo, wraps with paper label on front cover, bound in marbled paper, 77 pages, woodcuts by An Unknown Hand. VERY GOOD+ condition with just the slightest curl to the cover corners.

London: Daily Mail, [no date, circa 1953 ]. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 8vo, red boards illustrated and lettered in blue (cover is of a hot air balloon, same as jacket cover, by Hickson;) [200] pages, illustrated endpapers, with music to We Three Kings of Orient Are (on fep) and Thanks for a Day by Eleanor Farjeon on rear enpdpaer, color and b&w illustrations throughout. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has lt. edgewear, lt. browning to endpapers, owner inscription on title page, otherwise text is clean and tight; jacket has typical edgewear, rubbing along folds, chipped at spine head. This issue includes pictures of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip and family photographs; articles on the Crown Jewels, space travel, marine life and tropical birds; stories by Enid Blyton "It Happened one Afternoon," Mollie Chappell "The Missing Masterpiece," Andrew Roberts "Kidnap Castle" and "The Greenhorn," and other popular writers; puzzles, verses and cartoons.

New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Robert Frost. Hard not to be King. New York: House of Books, 1951. 1st edition limited to 300 numbered copies Signed by the Author: this is number 73, and signed by Frost. A crown octavo, blue cloth with gilt titles, unpaginated. Number 11 of the Crown Octavos published by The House of Books and made by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon, New York. Condition: VERY GOOD book / no jacket: there is typical sunning the blue cloth on the spine and around the edges of the front and back boards, a penciled owner name on front eps has been erased. Internally clean and tight.