Search Results: Authors starting with F from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. 16 plates, including the frontispiece. First edition, limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. An account not only of the Zamorano Press but also of the other early printing establishments in California. Prospectus laid in. Original green-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with a gilt-stamped red leather spine label. A near fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket.

Loftus, Australia: Australian Military History Publications, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Profusely illustrated. Loftus, Australia: Australian Military History Publications, 1996. First edition. Definitive overview of the songs that the Australian 'Digger' and his female counterpart sang in eleven wars, from the Maori wars to the Gulf War. Quarto. Original pictorial boards; issues without a dust jacket. The boards are very lightly bowed; otherwise very good.

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 114 p. The author's first book, an examination of the presence of music in Blake's life and its effect upon his work. Fairchild (b.1942) is an American poet whose work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, and TriQuarterly. His third poetry collection, The Art of the Lathe, winner of the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award, brought Fairchild to national prominence, garnering him a large number of awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, California Book Award, Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, National Book Award (finalist), Capricorn Poetry Award, and Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships. Signed by Fairchild on the title page. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with just a hint of edgewear;… Read More

Upland, California: The Blackbird Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Of one hundred signed copies, this is number 65. A narrative poem from Fairchild's third collection, The Art of the Lathe (1998). Illustrated with linoleum cuts by Anna Alquitela, letterpress printed and hand-bound with stainless steel "hinges" and aluminum-wrapped covers, housed in a gray cloth clamshell box with a gray paper band. For her fine press edition, The Blackbird Press' Jean Gillingwators said she knew from the initial reading that her book edition would have metal covers, reminiscent of the corrugated-metal buildings that often house machine shops. However, her endeavor became a three-year ordeal when the metal hinges she planned to use were no longer available and had to be handcrafted by herself and her assistant. "The 2,200 parts arrived, drilled and cut perfectly, ready to use. We bought some miniature equipment, and Anna cut all the other tubing and wire into thousands of bitty pieces ... Binding Beauty… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Third printing. Inscribed by Shepard Fairey to Eric Idle on the front flyleaf. The seminal artist's recent art and poster works, and his triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work never before published. His signature blend of politics, street culture, and art makes Fairey unlike any other street artist working today. Quarto. Original pictorial boards over a red cloth spine with black titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Berkeley, California: Gingko Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 20th Anniversary Edition, with the poster laid in. Inscribed by Shepard Fairey to Eric Idle on the title page. Showcasing Fairey's entire body of work, from his early Obey Giant campaign to his prodigious print output, increasingly ambitious large scale street work and beyond, this massive retrospective covers 20 colorful years. Fairey helped catalyze a movement from his unique vantage at the intersection of art, popular culture, and design. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with decorative silver stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Berkeley, California: Gingko Press, Inc, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Inscribed by Shepard Fairey to Eric Idle on the title page, with an Obey Giant sticker laid in. Drawing on work from the final exhibition before the closing of New York's seminal Deitch Projects, MAYDAY is simultaneously a call for heightened awareness and a celebration of the rebirth embodied in revolutionary movements. Portraits of advocates of the working class and oppressed define the collection, with acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey staking the claim that artists, musicians, and writers such as Joe Strummer, Jean Michel Basquiat, Woody Guthrie, and Cornel West all have parts to play in stimulating response to injustice. Quarto. Original pictorial boards over a black cloth spine with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British… Read More

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The oldest complete play in the world, The Triumph of Horus was engraved on the walls of the Temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt in 110 B.C.; a written version probably existed in 1200 B.C., if not several centuries earlier. Includes a chapter on the production of the play by Derek Newton and Derek Poole. Four plates, with nineteen textual figures. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Using examples taken from everyday life, from hydraulic jumps in a kitchen sink to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in clouds, the book provides readers with a better understanding of the world around them. It teaches the art of fluid-mechanical estimates and shows how the ideas and methods developed to study the mechanics of fluids are used to analyze other systems with many degrees of freedom in statistical physics and field theory." Octavo: 167 p. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by illustrator Bob Eggleton on the half-title. A collection of the best writing from Farmer's "fictional-author period," including the controversial Kilgore Trout novel. Octavo. Original light blue cloth binding, with metallic blue titles. The bottom corners are very lightly bumped; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by editor Gary K. Wolfe and by illustrator Bob Eggleton. This first posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip José Farmer is a celebration of the impressive variety of his prodigious output, from the space adventures he published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s through the 1970s, to his acerbic satires of religion and medicine, to his fictional biographies and memoirs, to his beloved Riverworld. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with bronze titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, this novel was awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with tan and silver titles and gray and blind-stamped designs. A near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some very mild edgewear.

Oakland: The Westgate Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. This copy is Number 100 of 235 printed by Alfred Kennedy, Lawton Kennedy, and Joseph FauntLeRoy. Affectionate tribute to revered San Francisco typographer and printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947). Printed on Dutch handmade paper, with two tipped-in photogravure portraits. The errata slip is tipped in at the rear. Octavo. Original Japanese paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with a printed paper spine label. Faint stain to the top corner of the rear board; else very good or better.

Paris: J. Dumaine, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 379 p. Fourteen plates, including one folding, with three folding maps. Fay was the aide de camp of Pierre Bosquet (1810-61), the French general who played a key role in the battles of Alma and Inkerman and during the siege of Sevastopol. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fay to General Sir William John Codrington (1804-1884), who succeeded Sir James Simpson as Commander-in-Chief, and commanded the force occupying Sebastopol until the final evacuation of the Crimea on July 12, 1856. Octavo. In a later blue leatherette binding by Birdsall & Son of Northampton, with gilt titles and yap edges. Sporadic minor foxing to the contents; else crisp and clean. Inscribed by Author.

Paris: Se vend Chez Martinon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A gastronomical classic, originally published in sixty parts and presented here complete. Includes selections from Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, a selection of Bacchic songs, La Gastronomie of Joseph Berchoux, The Marquis de Cussy's L'Art Culinaire, etc. IV, XXII, (4), 609 [printer's numbering error: 567-582, collated complete], 4. Frontispiece portrait, with a title page vignette, 23 plates, and ten textual engravings. Octavo. In a one-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper binding, with a gilt-stamped black leather spine label, black stamping, and marbled endpapers. Occasional foxing to the contents, which are a little shaken, with some minor staining to a few leaves. Modest wear to the extremities; else very good.

New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A paranoid tour de force of political noir, this novel skips back and forth in time, interspersing newspaper clippings and court transcripts with the reactions and reminiscences of the politicians, generals, businessmen, journalists, waiters, and soldiers who double as the actors and the chorus in a drama over which, finally, they have no control. Fearing (1902-61) was a major poet of the Depression era, as well as an influence on the Beat Generation. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with white and black stamping. Some light wear to the dust jacket; else very good or better.

New York: Horizon Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 175 p. Drawings by A. Birnbaum. Lively and irreverent collection of deftly-rendered anecdotes concerning such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Eddie Condon, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington. Perhaps the most widely read and influential writer on jazz, Leonard Feather (1914-94) wrote the album notes for literally thousands of LPs, while also serving as a jazz reviewer for the Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to Metronome, Esquire, Down Beat, Playboy, Jazz Times, and other periodicals. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Feather to legendary jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, arranger, composer, and bandleader Benny Carter (1907-2003) on the front flyleaf. Before moving to the U.S. in the mid-1930s, the British-born Feather produced recordings and wrote compositions for Carter in London. The two remained life-long friends and frequent… Read More

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book." Textual photographs. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with green titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

San Diego: Tecolote Publications, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Blue buckram binding, with white lettering. A fine copy. Signed by Author.

Honolulu: Published by the authors, 1980. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. The first book on the history of the 'ukulele, accompanied by A Tradition in Hawaiian Music: The 'Ukulele (1980), the guide to the 'ukulele exhibit at Honolulu's Bishop Museum - the first museum exhibition devoted to the 'ukulele. Despite its iconic status in Hawaiian music, the 'ukulele was never the subject of a book until the 1979 centennial of the arrival of the Madeiran machete (the immediate ancestor of the 'ukulele) in Hawai'i prompted the Bishop Museum exhibit and this book. The driving force behind both was Leslie Nunes (1916-98) of Waialua, a great-grandson of Manuel Nunes (1843-1922), one of the three original Madeiran 'ukulele makers in Hawai'i. Leslie Nunes assembled an important collection of early Hawaiian 'ukulele and other instruments, some of which are featured in this book and served as the basis for the Bishop exhibition. Short on text and long on photographs, The 'Ukulele was followed by more… Read More