Search Results: Authors starting with F from De Wolfe and Wood

Topeka: Topeka Board of Trade, 1868. [3] pp. Single folded sheet. Fourth page blank but used as notepaper of accounts related to the costs and income of a school that was likely the college of St. Bethany. This was a female college, and accounts mention a Mrs. R.S. Baldwin who was teacher of natural history, mathematics and a house mother. In good condition with spotting. The piece e numerates various aspects of business and in the city of 4,000 and mentions the Union Pacific railroad. The Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was soon to reach the city.

Housed in a new case and mounted on linen.

New York: Random House, 1954. A Fable by William Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1954. 437 pp. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Stated first printing. Very good condition. Very minor wear to the dust jacket around the edges and spine. Spine is lightly sunned with minimal fading. Slight tanning to the page edges. Solid copy.

London: The Bodley Head, 1984. First edition. A first edition of the authors' first novel Very good in dust jacket The lower front flap of the jacket clipped Signed by the author on the title page 203, [1] pp.

Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1856. 354 pp. Binding rubbed, interior foxed and light damp staining. Finley was a Methodist minister who was raised on the Ohio frontier. He ministered to the Wyandot tribe and later was the minister at the Ohio state penitentiary for four years. He describes the issues and problems in the prison and offers advice on what could be done to improve conditions.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. New York: The Viking Press, 1935. 154 pp. Stated second printing on inside of dust jacket. Very interesting artwork from Boris Artzybasheff. General wear to the entirety of dust jacket. The back upper right corner has a sizeable tear that affects part of the spine. Some rubbing to the spine. The back inside flap of the jacket has a small tear at the top and the bottom inside corner has been bent. Tanning to the jacket most prevalent around the edges and spine.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1914. 316, 307 pp. A lovely set bound in blue morrocco and marbled paper covered boards. In very good condition with minor rubbing to the bindings Madame de Sévigné (1626-1696) was remarkable woman writer known especially for the many letters written to her daughter. The letters vividly capture her life and thoughts. Eventually the letters were published, and this dictionary is useful in explaining many of the people and places she visited.

Cleveland: The Penton Press, 1913. Bound in blue pebbled morocco. Unpaginated. Illustrated with a frontis portrait. Bound in blue morocco and decorated, lined and lettered in gilt with inset of a red and green tulip in the center of the front board. Includes silk endpapers. OCLC locates 8 copies. Very good with insignificant rubbing to the binding. Limited to 100 copies and inscribed by the author's father. Ford's father Joseph Butler was an Ohio industrialist and founder of the Butler Institute for American art. Ford wrote poems about friends, family and here Ohio home. Illustrated with prints of ink drawings with one image almost certainly of the North Union Ohio Shaker stone mill in what is now Shaker Heights.

1864. Civil War Dairy of Allen David Frankenberry (1841-1909) from March 7 to September 8, 1864 covering much of the time he was in the Signal Corps in Georgia. There is war content, accounts of foraging, cooking, and camp life. Well written with very good detail. The diary ends about a month before the battle of Allatoona where Frankenberry may have sent one of the famous signals to hold the fort. "Frankenberry, while attending college at Waynesburg, Greene county, enlisted on August 20th, 1863, in Company K, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, better known as the Anderson Cavalry, serving with this command as Orderly at Headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland in the field until January 14th, 1864, when he was transferred to the signal corps, U.S.A., where he remained until discharged from the army, June 20th, 1865." (find a Grave).