Search Results: Authors starting with F from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Harper and Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. A scarce first edition with condition problems. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, xiii + 328 pages with inter-textual black and white illustration, silver and gilt titles and decorations on brown cloth. In good condition over all, generally clean, light exterior soiling with moderate, shelf wear but fraying to the spine cloth at top and bottom edges and a short split started at the rear hinge; hinges and binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed, but with foxing to the endpapers and some foxing lightly scattered throughout. Without dust jacket.

T. Nelson (Thomas): London, 1873. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. Sold as a good reading copy only. 16mo, 6 1/4" tall, 120 pages with black and white illustration scattered throughout, decorated green cloth. A good, well worn, original hard cover with rubbing at all corners , binding shaken, paper mostly clean and moderately yellowed with a scribble on one and a previous owner's name, etc on the front endpaper.

[Still River, Massachusetts/]: self published, 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author. 7 1/2" tall, 206 pages, stiff orange wraps, stapled binding. A very good, clean, neat soft cover (as issued) with light shelf wear, minor soiling to the back panel; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. Collection of uplifting short stories for young people.

San Francisco, California: MacAdam /Cage Publishing, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 391 pages, green quarter-cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket, with original price.

Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1990. First thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Originally published by Mutual Publishing in Hartford. 12mo 6 7/8" tall, lviii + 367 pages, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on decorated brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. Issued without dust jacket.

Springfield, Massachusetts: New Era Publishing, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed and signed by Palmer on the title page. This is a hardcover library binding added to the original soft cover first edition with the 'withdrawn' label on the front endpaper, a pen marking on the original stiff wraps, and a blind stamp on the title page. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 98 pages, plain green cloth-covered boards with gilt spine titles over. A very good, clean, neat first edition, paper lightly yellowed.

Boston, Massachusetts: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Sold as a scarce title despite the condition. 16mo, 6 1/4" tall, 284 pages, quarter-leather over paper-covered boards; b&w frontispiece of Lafayette. A good copy only with general shelf wear, cover edges worn through to boards, leather starting to split at the front hinge, front hinge broken but holding, binding relatively solid, paper lightly yellowed but with foxing throughout, a previous owner's bookplate, and with a very few scattered underlinings.

Simon & Schuster, 1982-08-01. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 143 pages, red quarter cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, and light color fading at the cover edges; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with slight foxing to the top fore-edge. In a very good, clean dust jacket with light wear to the fore-tips and ends of the back strip, with original price.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott , 1957. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 223 pages, teal cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper just lightly yellowed and with light foxing to top fore-edge. In a very good (minus), clean, moderately edge worn dust jacket with sunning along the back strip, with original price.

New York, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 341 pages; black cloth. A very good, clean, hardcover edition with minor shelf wear, spine cloth edges faded at top and bottom; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed with a touch of foxing to the endpapers. In a good moderately worn dust jacket with chipping at the flap fold edges and back strip top and bottom the original price, and with the original price present.

Boston, Massachusetts: J. T. Buckingham, 1810. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Despite condition, offered as a scarce title. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 448 pages, original paper over boards. A good hard cover overall, interior very good, paper clean and moderately yellowed with minor scattered foxing, endpapers moderately foxed, internal binding secure, hinges weak; covers fair only, exterior generally worn, paperback strip chipped away exposing binding, boards rubbed and stained, fore-corners through to boards. This volume is in the original printer's boards as it would have been delivered to a binder for individual treatment. It is still in good enough condition to be rebound and is priced accordingly.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Bartlett, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. This short-lived version of the magazine first appeared in December, 1854. Octavo, iv + 444 + 19 pages, three quarter leather over marbled boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear and slight scuffing, but a light marginal dampstain to the upper corner of the first pages at the spine; hinges and binding tight, paper just slightly yellowed, with foxing to the endpapers and flyleaves.

New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 209 pages, yellow quarter-cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with slight shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, lightly worn dust jacket with rubbing at the upper spine edge, with original price.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, c. 1910. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, frontispiece and illustrated title page + ix + 443 pages, top edge gilt, maroon cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, rubbing at the corners, back strip cloth lightly faded, binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Gallery/Scout Press, 2019-05-28. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 326 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper white but with some yellowing along top fore-edge. In a fine, clean dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover--paper over boards. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 340 pages. A fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear, with the original price.

New York, New York: Charles Scribner, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. This edition, printed on Holland paper, is limited to one hundred and fifty copies, of which this is no. 75." Octavo, 8" tall, 217 pages, three quarter vellum over gray paper boards, gilt spine titles, and top fore-edge. A very good, internally clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, but spine vellum darkened, slight exterior soiling and foxing; hinges and binding tight, text paper cream white with slight occasional light scattered foxing.

Liveright: NY, 1985. First Edition thus. paperback. Very Good minus. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, unpaginated (approx 75 pages), illustrated wraps. A very good minus, generally clean, neat soft cover edition with minor shelf wear, cover color faded (sunning) binding tight, paper cream white but a blush of foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers.

Liveright, 1974-01-01. First American Edition, . Hardcover. Very good minus/Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xx + 418 pages, blue cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, original hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear, but spine canted (stored incorrectly); binding solid, paper cream white but with foxing to the fore-edges (primarily top fore-edge). In a good, edge worn and slightly soiled dust jacket with the original price present.

Random House/ World Landmark; NY, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. A difficult to find title in this series. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, ix + 180 pages, light red cloth. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper cream white with slight foxing to the fore-edge. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, chipping at the back strip edges top and bottom, with the original price present.