Search Results: Authors starting with F from Lippincott Books

Phoenix, Arizona: Second Legislature of the State of Arizona, 1915. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. xii, 392 pp. with errata slip tipped in. Includes 5 black and white plates and index. Farish was the State Historian; at the direction of the legislature he wrote an 8 volume history of the state. Some low-life previous owner balanced a container of liquid on the book, which spilled, leaving blotches in the finish of the front and back boards, thus a very good and tight copy is now a good and tight one.

Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. xii, 266 pp. With publisher's brochure and a Post Office Project Bond (issued to raise funds for the restoration of the Weston Post Office and General Store) laid-in. With appendices, index. Illustrated endpapers. Photos, maps, pen & ink illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Dustjacket spine sunned

n.p.: Council Publishing Corp, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 188 pp. Appendices include: Motion Picture Production Code, Postal Obsenity Regulations, The Teen-Ager and Narcotics. Green cloth, spine titles gilt. NF

Camden, Maine: Islesboro Historical Society, 1965. Reprint of 1893 Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. In commemoration of the 175th year of Incorporation and the 200th Anniversary of the settlement of Islesborough; xii, 313, [3] pp. Illustrations include floor plans of the Islesboro Inn by the architects Wheelwright & Haven, photographs, and maps. Lists of ships built on the island, family genealogies, and inscriptions from gravestones in the island cemeteries and private burial plots. Bound in green cloth, very good condition.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 170 pp. Signed by Feininger on ffep. A Life magazine photographer, Feininger traveled the country on assignment and became interested in photographing how simply using the land had changed it. This is a collection of more than 200 black and white photographs, followed by a section where Feininger describes each photograph. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Printer's ink smear on bottom edges. Price-clipped dustjacket has sunned spine and rippled paper.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. xii, 340 pp, with notes bibliography, index. PRESENTATION copy: "For Terry with friendship and esteem Egal 10/3/90" on ffep.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 263 pages. Consists of summaries of 6 Panel Discussions with leaders of major art museums, and 6 papers presented on the subject. Includes biographies, participants, name index and subject index. Fine/VG.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Near Fine. Second printing.  xxii, 522 pp.  4to.   Softcover.  With photographs of 24 masks - false faces and husk faces - in color, and numerous b&w photographs of masks, rattles, tree carvings, ceremonial rites. "A monument to Iroquois culture"....."the most definitive, comprehensive treatment of this important and thoroughly fascinating topic that we will ever see." Volume 178 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. Published in cooperation with the Museum of the American Indian. Near Fine.

NY: Knopf, 1940. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 376pp, vi pp index, folded map in rear, photo plates. Signed by author on half-title. Dj with rubbing along edges and faded backstrip with one small chip missing from upper spine, in Mylar protector.

1907. Reprint . Paper Wrappers. Good. Reprinted from Rhodora,Journal of The New England Botanical Club. Vol. 9. No. 105. September, 1907. Pages 149 - 193. Wear to edges.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1935. Reprint . Paper Wrappers. Very Good. Reprinted from Rhodora, Vol. 37, Nos. 438-441, June -September, 1935. Complete in four parts. I: 197-222 pp, plates 352-355. II: 238-262 pp, plates 356-362. III: 272-301pp, plates 363-375. IV: 324- 341pp, plates 376-379. Wrappers have a few stains and 2 small holes, else very good.

Austin, TX: University of Texas., 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. xvi, 477, [1] pp. 41 works by Middle Eastern and western scholars about children, in many genres- scholarly articles , poetry, speeches, proverbs, interviews, short stories, folk tales, and lullabies. 4 chapter titles in table of contents are highlighted, else fine.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 273 pp. Ferro wrote for radio and television. Her work in the 1950s and 1960s included episodes of Leave It to Beaver, General Hospital, and Bonanza. Free front end paper missing, else Near Fine.

Paris: Librairie De L. Hachette, 1869. Second Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bayard, E.. 580pp, 616 figures (24 full page illustrations by Emile Bayard), index. Black leather spine with gilt decorations and title, marbled paper-covered boards. Binding is sound, corners with light wear, hinges strong. You like bugs? This one's for you.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 224 pp. Card laid-in with discolored tape reads, " Compliments of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies." Endpapers are printed map. Includes black & white photos, biographical note, notes and index.

Garzanti, 1981. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. [iv], 376, [4] pp. Includes index, bibliography. With 8 b&w plates. Text is in ITALIAN. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Charles Bell, with his name and a few marginalia in red ink. Charles Bell, writer, poet and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History".

Munchen: F. Bruckmann, 1943. Hardcover. Good. 78 pages of text in GERMAN plus 4 color plates and 93 b&w plates. Green paper-covered boards, lightly sunned, spine slant. Green cloth spine with tears at head and tail.

London: Methuen & Co, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. 514 pages. Includes 93 text maps, 2 folding maps, Appendices, Bibliography and Index. Browse related titles in our Middle East Catatlog. Owner's name on title page, note in Arabic on rear free endpaper. Pinholes in cloth along spine shoulder.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. First edition Thus . Hardcover. GVG/GVG. A-1.60 [H] on the copyright page. The Second American edition, with a revised collection of stories. With introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan, Fitzgerald's daughter, which includes a facsimile of monthly expenditures of Fitzgerald's: "House liquor $80.... wild parties $100... " Stories include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Bruccoli A9.3.a Some discoloration on front & rear boards from moisture; in other respects an attractive copy. In dust jacket, price-clipped, with some dampstaining on spine and back cover of jacket but no tears or chips.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. Hardcover. VG/Good. Second edition, First printing. A-6.60(H) on copyright page. The first state of the text. In dust jacket with $4.50 on front flap. Bruccoli A18.2.a From the library of John Michael Hayes, premier screenwriter, with his signature on the front free endpaper. Hayes wrote the screenplays and collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on four films, including Rear Window. His film script for Peyton Place was nominated for an Oscar. Fitzgerald had less success as a screenwriter. Some foxing and discoloration on free endpapers, else VG in rubbed dust jacket with some wear at edges.