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Paris: Chez Lefevre and Chez Charpentier, 1841. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Fawn-colored, half leather binding with marbled boards, significantly edge worn on front; chipped at head of spine. Moderate foxing throughout with periodic light pencil marginalia, (only a number here and there.) Owner's name and date (1846) in handsome brown script on FFEP; last name neatly inked on pg. 1; and a light pencil diagram drawn on the rear pastedown. One page dog-eared; two similarly creased; one with a 1-in. closed tear on the long edge. Binding is firm. Highly readable. 16mo., (4.5 x 6.75 ins.) BOOK INFO: Fables Choisies, mises en vers pars J. De La Fontaine. With an open letter A Monseigneur Le Dauphin (Louis, the dauphin of France, son of Louis XIV), from De La Fontaine; Preface; and La Vie d'Esope, le Phrygien; followed by the fables; with an alphabetical Index in the rear. Aesop; Louis Le Dauphin; Louis XIV
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Fables de la Fontaine
by Walckenaer, M.
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Fair Rosalind: the American career of Helena Modjeska
by Coleman, Marion Moore
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Cheshire, Conn.: Cherry Hill Books, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Fair-. Signed. Inscribed (but not personalized) by author on title page. NOT ex-library. Violet cloth boards with black titling on the front and spine, edgeworn at extremities and bottom corners bumped. Upper page edges toned. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. B&W pictorial DJ is toned along spine and edges, with tears at extremities. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Helena Modjeska (October 12, 1840 ? April 8, 1909), whose actual Polish surname was Modrzejewska, was a renowned actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles. 'The truth is, she was an innovator: the first to bring Ibsen to the American professional stage (A Doll's House, Louisville, Ky., 1883), the first to risk Sudermann's 'advanced' social drama Magda, and an early supporter of the 'new drama' as represented by Clyde Fitch.' (-from the endflap). Bibliographical references included in 'Notes' (p. 969-990)…
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Faith Ringgold : a view from the studio
by Holton, Curlee Raven Ringgold, Faith
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Boston: Bunker Hill Pub. in association with Allentown Art Museum, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Multi-colored pictorial boards and dustjacket are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. Square quarto, (8 1/4 x 8 1/4 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: With bi-fold exhibition pamphlet laid in. Copiously illustrated in color photography. 'Faith Ringgold: A View From the Studio is a remarkable book about a world-famous Black American artist. It is an artist's artist's book--by one artist and about another--about the making of art, about politics and judgment, about passion and struggle. It is, above all, about a great artist's collaboration iwth others in the creation of a unique body of work, which expresses a deeply committed vision of American history and the struggle for freedom. Whether in the deeply personal works such as Coming…
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Fallacies, by C. L. Hamblin
by Hamblin, C. L. (Charles Leonard)
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US: [London] Methuen, 1970. Hardcover. Good/None. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on red band on spine; barely noticeable adhesive residue to spine heel. Top front corner bumped. Binding is sound. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates were removed. Title page previously excised. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated with a few diagrams. 'There is hardly a subject that dies harder or has changed so little over the years. After two millennia of active study of logic and, in particular, after over half of that most iconoclastic of centuries, the twentieth A.D., we still find fallacies classified, presented and studied in much the same old way.... Strangely, in a certain sense, there has never yet been a book on fallacies; never, that is, a book-length study of the subject as a…
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A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems
by Buttaci, Salvatore Amico M Buttaci, Salvatore Amico M.
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US: S. Buttaci, 1998. Paperback. Good/None. Signed. **SIGNED**by author on title page. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding sound, and spine uncreased. Adhesive mark from remnants of small address label of front. Some edgewear. Erin L. Wright, Buon Giorno! Magazine: ""Woven throughout Buttaci's stories and poems is the rich tenderness that Sicilians should be known for. This is the book that no Italian-American should be without."" Italian Americans--Literary collections, Sicily (Italy)--Emigration and immigration--Literary collections
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The Farm
by Blaikie, A. H. and F. M. B.
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New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1st American Printing?. Hardcover. Fair/None. Undated, c 1920. Orange cloth boards with stamped, illustrated cover, 12mo., lightly soiled. Corners bumped. Interior unmarked. Front board slightly curved. Described by Foster Meadow. 48 color illus. depicting life on the farm, the animals, plants, equipment, hazards and pleasures. Including some practical advice such as ""six plain rules for working with horses."" Foster Meadow
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Fate at the Door
by Belden, Jessica Van Zile
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Philadelphia: J B Lippincott, 1895. Hardcover. Good/None. Cream cloth boards with blue titling and illustration on front and spine. Covers soiled and spine toned. Owner's name and year (1900) in tidy script on ffep. Front hinge cracked. Interior is unmarked, and binding is sound. BOOK INFO: Another bookseller noted that the music staff on the front cover is a notation from Beethoven's Fifth. Beethoven is said to have pointed to the beginning of the first movement of his piece and exclaimed, ""Thus Fate knocks at the door!"" Not a reprint or print-on-demand.
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Feather in the Breeze
by Leonard, J. Edson
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Rockville Centre, NY: Freshet Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed. Signed by the author in tidy script on ffep. Green and beige cloth boards with gilt titling on spines. DJ edges wrinkled and chipped at spine heel. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: A charming memoir of his long education as a fly fisherman. Leonard is a dedicated and highly accomplished trout fisherman, an enthusiast of pan fishing, a fan of the underrated pickerel, a top notch bass fisherman, and a pioneer and expert in the art of taking stripers on the fly. Fly fishing, Saltwater fly fishing
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The Feminine ""No!"": Psychoanalysis and the New Canon
by McGowan, Todd
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US: SUNY Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture 2001 Bright red paper boards with black spine, clean and tidy; 1.5 inches of Indentation marks along rear long edge, and upper corners lightly pushed--barely noticeable. Spine is tight. Interior is clean, bright and unmarked. Lacking dustjacket, presumably as published. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'The Feminine No! sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon, Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated concern of literary critics, actually offer concrete insights into the source of social change. Througha deployment of psychoanalytic theory, McGowan conceives the rediscovery and subsequent canonization of previously forgotten literary works as recoveries of past…
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Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho
by Patterson, Kenneth E. Neiman, Jonalea R. Tonn, and Patricia
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Ogden, UT: USDA/U.S. Forest Service, 1985. Paperback. Good/None. General Technical Report INT-180 Cream softcover, 8vo., with tree drawings in green, stamped 'withdrawn' and pencilled 'dup' on front cover. No library markings. Interior unmarked. Binding sound. BOOK INFO: A field guide designed for use by the layperson to aid in identifying nearly 200 plant species, with line drawings, simplified taxonomic descriptions, charcteristics tables, conspectuses, and keys. Includes index, references & glossary, B & W illus.
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Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England (Variorum Collected Studies)
by Campbell, Bruce M.S.
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Surrey, England & Burlington, VT: Routledge/Ashgate/Variorium, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Variorum collected studies series 2008 Blue cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine. Front board ever so slightly bowed. Upper front corner bumped, along with pages through about 30. ISBN sticker on rear board. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Small quarto. BOOK INFO: 'The thirteen essays reproduced in this volume...share several common concerns. First and fundamentally, they aim to reconstruct late-medieval agrarian arrangements from the wealth of extant contemporary documentary sources preserved in a wide array of public and private archives.' (-from the Introduction). See photos for Table of Contents: Population change and the genesis of commonfields on a Norfolk manor -- The extent and layout of commonfields in eastern Norfolk -- The regional uniqueness of English field systems? : some evidence from eastern Norfolk -- Commonfield origins, the…
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Fighting through
by Cattell, Edward James
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Philadelphia: Dunlap printing company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Dark orange to brick red cloth boards with black titling on front and spine. Binding is sound, and interior is unmarked. Pages are a bit toned with age. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Contents include: 1860-1870. Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Trip to California, Yosemite and Big Trees; 1870-1880. Centennial, Trip to Europe, Shipwreck, Isle of Anglesea, Switzerland, Colorado; 1880-1890. Beautiful Jamaica, Kingston, Mandeville, Canada; 1890-1898. Decide to try a literary experiment in London, Visit to Atlanta Exposition in 1895, Special work at request of President Cleveland and Secretary Olney, First nove, 1897; 1898-1918. Return to America, Literary work in America, Country-wide speaking. American Civil War; U.S. Civil War
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Fighting French Year Book. 1942-1945
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New York: France Forever. Paperback. Fair/None. Pictorial softcover; backstrip and front cover chipped; front cover detached. Binding is cracked at page 80. Interior is unmarked. Folio. BOOK INFO: Fighting France Year Book, 1945. Illustrated with B&W photos. An examination of the Provisional French Administration known as the French Committee of National Liberation which was set up '...to establish close cooperation with the organized French Resistance; to coordinate the efforts of the French armies and French territories in the war; to administer the liberated territories in re-establishing everywhere under its jurisdiction the laws of the Republic...and to purge the French administration of pro-German and collabborationist elements.' Includes ads. France combattante; General Charles de Gaulle; Harry S. Truman; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Film Music Notebook, 12 issues
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Paperback. Good/None. Staplebound softcovers with mailing labels on the rear cover of all but one issue. All in good condition, lightly worn at edges. 2 issues of Vol. I from 1974 (Autumn and Winter). 2 issues from 1975 (Spring and Summer). 4 issues of Vol. II from 1976. 3 issues of Vol. III from 1977. 1 issue of Vol. IV from 1978. Small 8vo. Filmmusic; Elmer Bernstein;
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Fire Chief Ed Wynn and ""His Old Fire Horse""
by Sherman, Harold
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Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1934. Paperback. Fair/None. Edgewear to head of spine. Soiling to the wraps detached from pages make this an only fair to poor copy, hence the excellent price. Pages toned as usual but unmarked and all there. With ads for other books.
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Firebuff's Guide to Metropolitan Milwaukee
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Milwaukee, WI, 1983. Paperback. Good/None. Red stapled softcover with black titling and illustration on front, (7 x 8 3/16 ins.) Top corner of cover is creased. Laid in is a map of the Milwaukee Fire Dept. service area indicating various stations, companies and emergency squads and on verso, A Guide to the Milwaukee Fire dept., four pages pulled from The Extra Alarmer newsletter. Interior unmarked. INSIDE: A description of the Milwaukee Fire Department, some of its procedures and apparatus, its departments, (Milwaukee City and Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Racine, and Kenosha Counties), the apparatus in each department, arranged by frequency, and support information such as radio codes and abbreviations.
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First Language: Poems
by Carson, Ciaran
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US: Wake Forest University Press. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED** to poet Moira Bailis; Text unmarked, pages crisp, binding sound and DJ bright. Winner of the first T. S. Eliot Poetry prize for the outstanding book of poetry in Britain and Ireland. First Language is the craziest, most exciting book I have read for a long time. --Gerald Dawe Northern Ireland --Poetry
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First Reformed Church, Easton, Pennsylvania: Built 1776, Restored 1952
by Creitz, George A.
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Easton, PA: First Reformed Church, 1953. Pamphlet. Very Good-/None. Heavy red stapled softcover. Edgeworn at extremities, rubbed along spine and onto front cover in a 2-in. patch, and with two small spots on back cover. Interior clean and unmarked; only lightest foxing on bottom margin of title page; no text affected. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Brief history and description of the restoration of the church in 1952. B&W photos of the interior and exterior of the church and of the congregation.
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Fishing in Maine
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Portland, ME: State of Maine Publicity Bureau. 22nd Edition. Paperback. Good-/None. Staplebound pictorial softcover with green titling and green illustration of a hooked fish, (trout?). Cover is creased vertically. Heel of spine was bent. Owner hand-dated title page in pencil, 1960, otherwise unmarked. A couple pages toned with age. 8vo. BOOK INFO: With ads throughout, an index of ads and return mail cards. Good fishing in the Pine Tree State; The One that Didn't Get Away Club; Record fish caught; Fishing licenses at the time; Fish species including Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Togue, Brook Trout, Black Bass, and White Perch, cousin of the black bass and the easiest fish in the state to catch, but mysteriously dark colored; Fishing season and equipment. Brown Trout, Landlocked Salmon, Togue, Brook Trout, Black Bass, and White Perch; One that Didn't Get Away Club
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The Flute Boy of the Navajos
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New York: Newson & Co. Apparent First. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Signed. Our Changing World Library Inscribed by the author on ffep, 'For The American Indian Association-With all good wishes,' and signed, dated June 2, 1952. Green cloth boards, titled and with illustration in black of woven basket design, lightly rubbed at extremities. Upper corner bumped. Binding firm. Interior unmarked. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Illustrated by Nils Hogner, B&W drawings and musical staffs throughout. A story told around the music of the Navajo. 'To many people Indian music seems too closely identified with the m onotonous beat of the tom-tom and the harsh dissonances of unmelodic musical phrases. Yet, modern composers have availed themselves of this material, building upon themes of Indian origin with charm and originality...It is our belief that children should become acquainted with these tribal melodies, and know of their importance in the life of the people who originated them.' -from the…
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