Search Results: Authors starting with F from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Fine. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 45 of 294 copies signed by Hughes and Faas. Includes critical writings by Ted Hughes and two interviews.

N.p., 1970. Modest age-toning, near-fine. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Inscribed "To Sam with admiration, Larry."

New York: John Wiley, 1854. First American edition. With library discard stamps on title, library markings on endleaves, and some light wear at extremities, otherwise in very good condition. 8vo. 184 pages. Folding table, illustrations in text. Original green blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered on spine.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards; acetate wrapper. A fine copy. DELUXE ISSUE, number 104 of 176 numbered copies.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards; acetate wrapper. A fine copy. DELUXE ISSUE, number 47 of 176 numbered copies.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards; acetate wrapper. A fine copy with one corner slightly bumped. DELUXE ISSUE, number 107 of 176 numbered copies.

London: Charing Cross Publishing Company Limited, n.d.. Minute bruising to heads and feet of spine. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. Publisher's green cloth, decorative seaweed design in black on covers, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance: Douglas C. Ewing (bookplates; sold Christie's New York, 7 April 1978, lot 92). First Edition in English. Translated from the Italian, with the author's permission, by Marcellina.

London: George Routledge, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine, pretty copy. 8vo. Original tan cloth, decorated in blue and brown, gilt-lettered, beveled boards, unopened. First edition of this humorous novel, intended as a parody of the detective/mystery story (of which the author wrote several). The dedication copy to the author's wife, inscribed on the half-title: "For my dear wife with fond love, Ben L. Farjeon. March 28th, 1893." The printed dedication reads: "To My Wife and Children and to All Who Love Honest Fun and Human Tenderness I Dedicate My First Long Humourous Story." In his Preface Farjeon notes: "This story was written in a holiday humor last summer in Cromer, and our happiest evenings were those when I read to my family what I had prepared during the day..." Sadler 866. Woolf had a long run of Farjeon, but not this title. (BA).

Hartford: [Self-published, sponsored by] Capitol Region Conference of Churches Homeward Bound Foundation, 1988. A near-fine copy with a small nick along lower front wrapper. Folio (12 x 10 inches). Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Farnsworth on the front free endpaper: "______ Thanks 3/1/88 Philip Farnsworth." Additionally signed on a laid-in brochure for Farnsworth's Homeless Project. A powerful social document, the text and images exposing the homeless conditions of Hartford, Connecticut.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 9 and 8 pages, 4to, on ruled notebook paper (of three different kinds). Rambling letters on literary matters. Farrell writes of "the number of 'average' Americans who want me to get the Nobel Prize" and of his plans "to issue a full length magazine of new work, called J. T. F's magazine... written in as careful long-hand as I can write..." The letters begin clearly enough, but decline into incomprehension at their end. (BA).

London: Elliot Stock, 1899. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A bit bowed, light wear at extremities. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered. The author's heavily revised copy of the first edition of this reasoned argument for cosmopolitanism over nationalism, by the biographer of Adam Smith, and prolific writer on political and military topics. The copy is heavily revised, probably for a projected second edition (no such edition is recorded in the NUC, and only one copy of this edition is there noted). The revisions, which consist largely of the interpolation of many thousands of words of new material, are present on interleaves or tipped in slips, while the printed text features deletions, and insertion markings keyed to the interleaves.

New York: Random House, 1959. 8vo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and with light wear at extremities, slightest toning to spine. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first printingJacket has "10/59" on the bottom of the front flap, and photo of the author on the back with no reviews.

New York: Equinox, 1932. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Fine, the envelope frayed at two upper corners. 8vo. 8 pages. Original tan wrappers, printed in brown, tied as issued; with the original unlettered white envelope. First edition. Drawings by Albert Heckman. Very uncommon with the envelope.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. 8vo. 319 pp. Rebound in green half morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Spine slightly sunned. FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S SCARCE FIRST NOVEL, one of 2,500 copies. With ownership inscription of "G. H. Faulkner March 1930," identity undetermined but perhaps a member of the author's family. Petersen A2.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. Slight wear at extremities with a few small losses, remnants of an adhesion on the rear wrapper, slightly soiled. 8vo. 315 pages. Original pictorial wrappers made from the dust jacket. Provenance: Alvin Grauer (signature on front free endpaper). First edition, the scarce publisher's advance in wrappers of the trade issue. Petersen A16; Massey 173.

New York: Random House, 1951. 8vo. Original cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Negro Cultural Center, Allentown, PA (inkstamp on front free endpaper); Daniel J. Kovacs (ink signature on pastedown). Front hinge tender; jacket with some tears and creases along lower edge, lightly toned, not price-clipped. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first state top edges stained dark grey, first issue of p.21 ["Chocktaw"], first issue jacket [mispelled "M. McKnight Kauffer"].

New York: Random House, 1957. 8vo. Original red cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly toned, pale spot on rear cover, some light wear at ends of spine, owner's signature on front free endpaper. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first printing.

New York: The Subcutaneous Press, 1979. Hardbound. A few small marks on cover and second plate with a few spots of foxing. Square 4to (11.25 x 12.25 inches). Etchings by Janet Morgan. Tan cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 30 copies.

New York; London: Peabody & Co; O. Rich, 1831. Some foxing. 4to (26.5 x 21 cm). Text paginated 1-50 consecutively. Engraved title with vignette, marked "proof," three full-page engravings of St. Paul's Broadway, Trinity Church, and City Hall, printed by William D. Smith, folding map colored in outline (mounted on linen); and 20 engraved views on ten sheets, all on india paper mounted, plates 3/4 marked "proof" and plates 19/20 and 21/22 unnumbered and presumed proofs. 19th-century English blue half morocco, marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered on spine, with binder's ticket of Kelly, Gower Place. Provenance: Dora H. Hearne(?), contemporary signature on title; John Hearne, armorial bookplate; with Goodspeed's (note at rear dated March 22, 1929). FIRST EDITION. One of the most celebrated series of early view of New York. "The Peabody prints offer fascinating glimpses of New York in the 1830s" and form "a lively document of a city in the making" (Deák). Includes views of Manhattan from… Read More

Beijing: Guangzhou Anno Domini Media Co., Ltd, 2005. First edition. Text block separating slightly at front, light wear to jacket, internally clean and fine. 4.75 x 4.75 inches. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Brown cloth; black printed dust jacket. Text in Chinese and English. Sha Fei was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).