Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Brick Row Book Shop

London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. First and final leaves a little dust-soiled; very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 79 pages. Half-title present. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly from Racine; but the last is (excepting a few lines) entirely new." The Fatal Legacy had a short run at Lincolns-Inn Fields, with Anthony and Anna Maria Seymour Boheme in starring roles. It is apparently the only publication by Jane Robe, about whom little else is recorded. The attribution to Robe comes from Allardyce Nicoll's A History of English Drama.

San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. Fine copy.. 4to, original tan linen spine, gray-green paper boards and printed paper labels, untrimmed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The dialogue, about Dante and Virgil, was written in observation of the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil's birth.

London: John Murray, 1819, 1819. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175. Some light foxing and stains; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary acid-stained brown calf, gilt decorated and lettered spine. Frontispiece, three aquatint illustrations and one engraved plate, probably after illustrations by the author. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is unaccustomed. In her reserved preface, Baillie apologizes for leaning toward romance in her prose and an inclination to imitate the travel writing of Ann Radcliffe. The artist of the aquatint illustrations is not identified, but Baillie did the illustrations in a similar style for her second travelogue about Portugal, and it is likely she did these as well. Contemporary bookplate on the front paste-down.

London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419. Title-page trimmed slightly along the fore-edge (not touching the text); top margin closely trimmed, touching the pagination on four leaves; light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, later tan quarter calf, marbled paper boards, red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Bound from a tract volume; without the half-title and advertisement leaf. A lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the border police, currency exchange, etc. Five Weeks Tour was sufficiently popular that it went through four editions; the final one was issued in 1765. William Lucas apparently published nothing else.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. Cloth faded and worn; a few leaves roughly opened; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.

London: Printed for R. Sare, F. Saunders and Tho. Bennet, 1697, 1697. First edition in English. ESTC R5377; Wing Q188. Binding, particularly the spine, rubbed; text fine; very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated and lettered spine. The first English translation of Francisco de Quevedo's La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna con Seso, a biting satire of Spanish politics and the follies of the times, written under the guise of a prose fantasy. Ouevedo (1580-1645), a contemporary and friend of Cervantes, was one of the greatest writers of his era in Spanish literature. The translator, Capt. John Stevens, was a prolific translator of Spanish literature and author on Spanish subjects.

San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. Fine copy.. 4to, original black buckram and printed paper spine label. Vignette title and 21 aluminum etchings by Edward Hagedorn. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text of the poems, in both French and English, is preceded by an interesting introduction about Milosz by poet Kenneth Rexroth. This was the fifth book printed by Henry Evans at his Peregrine Press in San Francisco and one of several collaborations he did with artist Edward Hagedorn.

Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014, 2014. First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. As new.. 8vo, gray cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis and ten illustrations. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman, was a work long in the making. Part biography, part encomium to the famous proprietor of The Brick Row Book Shop from 1953 to 1983, the planning for the publication began within hours of Franklin's funeral, more than 20 years ago, in Cuero, Texas. Like most things involving Franklin, the wheels turned slowly, so much so that a few individuals, including most of the contributors to the book, thought it was some kind of joke. In late 2013 there was a determination by The Book Club of Texas to finally see the project through or forget about it once and for all, and responsibility for its production was dropped into the lap of… Read More