Search Results: Titles starting with F from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Portland, OR: [Theodore Mentzer], Photographer, [ca. 1925]. Two images printed on one large silver gelatin panoramic photograph, sized 40 x 16 in., archivally mounted on foam core, and framed, with remarkable strong and bright contrast. A remarkable pair of photographs forming a large panoramic image of what appears to be a custom coach body on a 1925 Stutz Bearcat by noted Portland motoring enthusiast and auto racer, Frank Tauscher. The first view is a side view showing the 2-seat convertible fitted with wire wheels, and Continental spare wheel package, side-by-side with the second three-quarter view showing the front grill license plate and Stutz badging. Tauscher (1879-1939) was an Austrian-American wood carver who first began working for the predecessor to Doernbecher’s Furniture Company in 1890, and would continue working for the company through his entire career, and began racing automobiles as early as 1913 in a Cole winning the Inner-City Century Trophy, July 5 in the Tacoma Road Races. He… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1948. 8vo. [4], 248 pp. Pumpkin-coloured tweed boards, black lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, dustsoiling, lending library price markings & pocket on ffep.), w/ d.j. cover art by Immerman Studio (minor shelfwear, rubbing), G/VG copy, from the J.K. Gill Lending Library, still managed after the War by pioneering bookseller, Adah Margaret Ewing (1882-1971). First edition of this Lt. Bill Decker police procedural mystery centered around possible murderess, Norma Drosschen, and the debut of the Bill Decker character. Goldstone (1903-1998) was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, twice won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and inspired Sue Grafton in her Alphabet Mystery Series.

[New York: Quigley Publishing Co., 1950-1952. Three issues. Folio. 49, [9]; 49, [9]; 46, [8] pp. Numerous photo illustrations, some colour plates (some double-page), text illustrations, diagrams. Illustrated gray & orange softcovers, cover art on back covers promoting Gilda with Rita Hayworth, The Fuller Brush Girl with Lucille Ball, and Invasion USA (minor scuffing, wear, rubbing), still VG- copies. First editions of these scarce installments in the famed trade magazine which was published weekly from 1915 to 1973. This journal was the primary trade paper of the American motion picture industry, and advertised production schedules, marketing schemes, stunts, included advertisements of lobby cards, movie posters, marketing merchandise, theater equipment, sound equipment, and far more.

Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, [1952]. 8vo. 93, [1] pp. Purple cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght dustsoilng, vry mnr sunng to spine), NF/VG copy. First edition of the Long Beach, Washington author’s first volume of verse.

Toronto: S.J. Reginald Saunders & Co., Ltd., [1947]. 8vo. 229, [1] pp. Illust. title page, numerous illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Hambleton (minor rubbing, edgewear), still NF/VG copy, inscribed by the author to her husband Kenneth Osborne Wright (1911-2002), noted Canadian astrophysicist. First Canadian edition, stated & inscribed, of this memoir of serving with the Canadian Red Cross Corps during World War II. The writes about “dodging bombs in London, or shells in Normandy; writing letters for wounded men, or learning to bathe in a basin,” all while caring for wounded soldiers in hospital wards, and maintaining morale.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1961. 8vo. 263, [1] pp. Blue cloth, blue lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. cover art by Vera Bock (vry slght rubbng), NF/VG copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition, stated, of this Orwellian science fiction tale set in a post-apocalyptic future.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1991. Thick 8vo. xi, [1], 492 pp., plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With 4 maps. Black cloth, silver lettering, w/ d.j., political cartoon cover art (slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy. First edition of this work which focuses on the impact of Japanese military and economic incursions and attacks on Nationalist China during the 1930’s leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War, while Chiang Kai-shek continually tried to unite the country. Due to their weak military and economic his ongoing focus on the Communist movement led to public support for the Communists as he continued to back away from confronting Japan.

[Modesto, CA: Stanislaus Cities -- County Advance Planning Staff, Belt Printing & Lithograph Co., January, 1960]. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.5 in. 72 pp. With photo illustrations, colour maps, text illustrations throughout. Gray illustrated limp covers, photo illust. on front cover, plastic comb binding as issued (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to couple corners), still VG copy, from the library of George Reed Volker (1925-2018), former World War II pilot, and urban planner in California, New York, and Washington State, w/ ownership stamp on upper right corner. First edition of this scarce Mid-20th-Century urban planning housing report issued as a result of the 1945 California Redevelopment Act, focusing on Stanislaus County, including sections on the environmental characteristics of blight, public-facility needs of blight, health and welfare costs of blight, police costs of blight and economic losses. This report encompasses a program to end blight. Worldcat locates 4 copies; See: George Morrow, The… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: Smith Engineering Works, [ca. 1920]. Oblong 8vo. 7.25 x 4.0 in. Title and ownership leaf bound in rear, w/ loaner inscription in ink, 15 original product linen-backed photographs (5.5 x 3.5 in.), each with identifying information at lower fore-edge, product numbers at right corner, mounted on linen hinges. Black cloth post-binder, nickel screws at spine, gilt stamping for Grogan Photo Co. on rear pastedown, gilt stamping of Smith Engineering Works on front cover (minor shelfwear, chipping to right margin of ownership leaf, minor rubbing to front cover lettering), still a VG- copy, w/ photo images in excellent condition. First edition of this very scarce factory salesman sample catalogue of the machinery sold by T.L. Smith under the Smith Engineering Works which produced the rock crushing equipment, sand tanks, aggregate screens, elevators, wash plants, and screening plants for gravel mining, road building, and hard rock mining. The original product photographs of the machinery provide… Read More

Racine, WI; St. Joseph, MI; Chicago, IL: J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Farm Equipment Institute, ca. 1909 - 1962]. Eighty-three original photographs printed on glossy photo stock, sized from 2.5 x 4.5 in. up to 7.5 x 9.5 in. (49 are 7.5 x 9.5 in. (some duplicates); 58 photos & 23 negatives mounted and preserved in original printed file folders w/ typed & ink captions, annotations on covers (occasional edgewear, couple w/ slight scuffing affixed on front); 5 additional collotype photos included, each w/ negative number in lower margin of image (slight toning); [together with] 5 works. 4to. 40; 28; 6; 165, [1]; 14 pp. 100s of photo illusts., diagrams, text illusts. First work: over 100 text illustrations, diagrams, with Arts & Crafts painting cover art showing completed road heading off into the distance (some edgewear, rubbing, annotations on title, scuffing to corners); 2nd work with over 50 text photos & illustrations, w/ gray softcovers, blue-tinted… Read More

[Denver, CO] & Chicago: Chicago & North Western Railway Co.; Union Pacific Railroad Co., [Poole Bros.], 1903]. 4to. 8.5 x 9.5 in. 15, [1] pp., printed in orange, brown, black & sepia, w/ photo text illustrations, 2 colour-tinted maps, historiated initial. Colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers, center fold crease as issued (minor dustsoiling, shelfwear), still VG copy. First edition of this very rare land promotion for the North Western Line, including stops and opportunities in Denver, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Pike’s Peak, Pueblo, line rates, and the natural parks, well-illustrated with photos by the famed western photographer, William Henry Jackson. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Univ. of Utah).

[Oakland, CA]: Fageol Motors Co., 1921; [1925]. Two pieces. 1st - Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 6.75 in. With 32 silver gelatin photographs, sized 6.3 x 8 in., many backed in linen, all mounted on hinges at gutter margin, most w/ typed captions, or manufacturers stamps on versos. Deluxe and elaborately embossed full green leather, Fageol Motors Company title in raised padded lettering, embossed decorated borders, sewn at gutter margin w/ green leather tie (slight shelfwear, very slight wear to corners), NF exemplar; 2nd - 4to. 1 printed leaf, 8.5 x 11 in., diagrams & illustration for Fageol Inter-City Bus (crease fold at center, slight dustsoiling), NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce dealer’s showroom photo catalogue for these Jazz Age Inter-City and Sightseeing buses. The company’s “Safety Bus” designed and built by Fageol in 1921 was the first time a company had designed and manufactured a bus from the ground up, without simply placing a bus body on available heavy-duty truck chassis. The… Read More

Chicago & New York: N.K. Fairbank Company; Lithographed by G.H. Buek & Co., [1897]. 4to. 8.5 x 11.75 in. Six colour chromolithograph leaves, printed on thick paper stock, each with image on recto, calendars & lettering in blue & gilt, punch sewn through upper margin by white silk braid (very slight shelfwear, slight rubbing), NF copy. First edition of this exceptional and brilliantly printed Victorian chromolithograph calendar for the famed Fairy Soap Company during the Gilded Age. These splendid images of fairies draw from paintings by Gustave Liebscher (1870-1953), known for his figure and cityscapes; Eugene Grivaz (1852-1915), a Belle Epoque artist who exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Switzerland; Charles Schabelitz (1844-1905), best remembered for his Buffalo Hunt painting; Albert H. Sonn (1867-1936), noted American artist well known for his watercolours, and striking commercial art; Walter G. Read (1863-1950), an excellent artist, perhaps best known for his famed watercolour painting of… Read More

Portland, OR: E. Thayer, [Commercial Art Photographer, 2731-715 W. 3rd Ave.], [ca. 1925]. Oblong folio. One hand-coloured photo printed on thick matte finish stock, sized 11.25 x 19.25 in., w/ caption and photographer’s imprint w/in the negative at lower right corner (minor dustsoiling, age toning to fore-edges), still a VG image. This splendid large panoramic advertising photo offers a superb example from a hustling commercial photographer between the World Wars in the Pacific Northwest. Thayer marketed his talents to the wealthy upper classes in the Portland area, by offering beautifully hand-coloured large display photographs of their businesses, impressive homes, interiors and exteriors, and even offering Christmas cards and calendars to send to their friends, business associates, and family as a specialty. Famed for his coloured photographic images of bucolic 1920s log cabin homes tucked away in forest glens, he has captured the broad green fields, rolling hills, of this historic dairy best… Read More

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., [1932]. Tall 8vo. 272 pp. Colour frontisp., 7 colour plates, woodcut-engraved borders, illustrations by Nielsen. Red publisher’s cloth, colour plate by Charles Augustus Federer (1880-1966) on front cover (minor rubbing, slight shelfwear, toning to endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art by Federer (minor chipping head of spine, some rubbing, edgewear, minor closed tear), still VG/VG- copy. First Garden City Books edition of this work with the magnificent Art Nouveau illustrations of Kay Nielsen. The famed Danish artist and illustrator took 12 years to complete the original edition published in 1924, and the resulting plates are filled with long sweeping lines, macabre and ephemeral qualities, with stylized figures. Federer (1880-1966) illustrated several of the Garden City Books edition dustjackets, and covers, and is best remembered for his spectacular fairy tale murals in the Danbury, CT library.

London: The Folio Society, [1999]. 4to. xi, [1], 288, [2] pp. Colour frontisp., 15 colour plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, plates. Red cloth, gilt lettering & decoration on front cover & spine, white & silver illustration mounted on front cover, w/ open-backed slipcase, NF/NF copy. Early Folio edition, thus, of this anthology of the beloved fairy tales, wonderfully illustrated by William Heath Robinson.

Seattle, WA: Sears Roebuck and Co., 1933. Thick 4to. 752 pp. With 1000s of text illustrations, photo text illustrations, many colour plates. Colour-lithograph illustrated softcovers, cover art illustration of fashionably dressed woman paging through the Sears Catalogue on front cover, w/ calendar pages against the right fore-edge, women’s fashions on back cover, wool blanket samples attached on verso of front cover (slight dustsoiling, very minor creasing to spine, light uniform toning to interior pages as usual, faint scuffing from removed coupon on front cover), still a NF copy. First edition in exceptional condition of this expansive Sears Roebuck catalogue at the depths of the Great Depression, geared to the Pacific Northwest market. The women’s fashions heavily reflect the Hollywood glamour of the 1930s, as well as splendid hats, patterned fabrics, lingerie, men’s made-to-order suits, as well as many listings and ads for sturdy work clothes, logging & railroad boots, along with wool coats.… Read More

New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., [1948]. 8vo. [4], 258 pp. Red boards, blk lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, slght bmpng ft of spine, creasng), still VG/VG- copy. First edition of this work examining the U.S. occupation of Japan and reconstruction following World War II.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1959]. 8vo. 309, [1] pp. Brown cloth, blk lettrng (mnr dustsoilng to fore-edges, bk cvr), w/ d.j. (slght scuffng, shlfwr, mnr dustsoilng to fore-edges), VG/VG. First edition, stated, of this novel set against the backdrop of McCarthy like investigation of artists and their political connections.

London: Printed for Private Distribution, 1896. 8vo. 17, [3] pp. Facsimile frontisp. of a verse stanza printed on Japanese vellum, facsimile signature on last page, Ashley Library colophon dated 1896 on recto of p. 19. Cream-coloured Japanese paper boards, gilt lettering on spine, (minor dustsoiling, slight toning to rear board, still a NF copy from the library famed book collector, John A. Spoor, w/ bookplate engraved by Emery Walker and dated 1921 on front pastedown. First edition, 1 of 27 copies printed on Whatman’s handmade paper (manuscript annotation on ffep. noted limited to 30 copies). This title formed one of The Ashley Library Series of Privately Printed Books, and the Epistle was addressed to Mr. Charles Baxter, one of the author’s executors. Prideaux, 45, pp. 96-97.