Search Results: Titles starting with F from Quaker Hill Books

Hartford:Hartford:: The American Publishing Company, 1897 Publisher's Pictorial Cloth. FIRST EDITION, First issue. 8vo. Bal. 3451. A beautiful copy of Mark Twain's classic travelogue in the original publishers blue pictorial cloth with coloured illustration of an elephant on the front cover. Spine elaborately tooled and lettred in gilt. A fine copy..

Hartford:Hartford:: The American Publishing Company, 1897 Publisher's Pictorial Cloth. FIRST EDITION, First issue. 8vo. Bal. 3451. A beautiful copy of Mark Twain's classic travelogue in the original publishers blue pictorial cloth with coloured illustration of an elephant on the front cover. Spine elaborately tooled and lettred in gilt. A fine copy..

Lodon:, 1897. Profusely illustrated with portraits, charts and maps (some folding). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in 3/4 navy blue morocco with spine in six compartments ornately tooled and lettered in gilt. Some very light wear and scuffing to the corner edges otherwise near fine.. 3/4 Navy Morocco. Near Fine. 8vo.. 2 Volumes.

New York:: Random House, 1954. This is copy 150 of the Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Original publisher's gray, pictorial cloth. Housed in the original slipcase which shows some light soiling and scuffing. A beautiful copy of this limited edition SIGNED BY FAULKNER.. Fine. 8vo..

London,: Heinemann:, 1912. 1/1450 numbered copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM at limitation statement on verso of half-title. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. White buckram with gilt stamping including vignettes at spine and front cover, t.e.g. untrimmed with numerous full-page and text b/w illustrations. There are 13 tipped-in color plates from watercolors by Rackham with brown art paper mounts. Spine is lightly sun-browned also showing mild wear and some soiling to spine ends. Text pages show some aging following each art paper mount. Includes a printed 1912 flyer for a Rackham exhibition of his watercolors used for this book. Lacking board slipcase. A lovely copy .. By the Artist. First Limited Edition. White Buckram Gilt. Excellent. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

LondonLondon: Chatto & Windus, 1882 Brown Cloth. Excellent. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered spine, decorative end papers with a list of advertisements dated November 1881. Lightly soiled with small bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover..

Westminster:: Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1897. Illustrated with over 120 wonderful illustrations including 16 colour plates fron Nansen's own sketches. Four folding maps. Bound in the publisher's original turquoise cloth with the great sailing ship Fram rendered in gilt on the front cover of volume I and a scene depicting an explorer and dog sled team in a snow storm rendered in gilt on the cover of volume II. The boards and spines are beautifully lettered in gilt. A near fine copy bright and clean showing only very light wear. Former owner's bookplate on ffep.. First Edition. Publisher's Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo.. 2 Volumes..

San Francisco:: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. By John Henry Nash., 1930. Contains a facsimilie of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Open Letter" to Rev. C. M. Hyde of Honolulu attempting to vindicate the memory of Father Damien who had been seriously defamed by the Presbyterian minister Hyde. Housed in a custom cream colored slipcase that shows some very light soiling.. Limited Edition. Gilt Stamped Vellum. Fine. Folio. 2 Volumes..

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co.,, 1920. No. 188 of 375 copies numbered and signed by Kipling. Very modeate wear and light soiling to covers. "He must go—go—go away from here! On the other side the world he’s overdue. ’Send your road is clear before you when the old Springfret comes o’er you, And the Red Gods call for you!". Limited Edition. Excellent.

Boston:: Fifth Regiment Veterans Assn.,, 1911. 510 pp, original publishers blue cloth with gold lettering, front cover with regimental emblem attached to the center, profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, plans etc.. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO SERGEANT FRED M. CULTER, dated August 9, 1911. Tipped in between the front endpapers are contemporary newspaper clippings referring to this regimen and contemporary picture postcards of Hudson, Mass.. Binding has a very small crease to upper left corner of the front cover. Ex. lib with a small ink stamp id (St. Thomas Seminary) at the bottom of the title page. Otherwise the book is in near fine condition with only the slightest soiling and rubbing. Bornbusch MA 138; Nevins pp153.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo..

Boston:: Fifth Regiment Veteran Assoc.,, 1911. 510pp. , frontis portrait of Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Battle insginia in gilt at bottom of sppine. A beautiful copy of an important regimental history. Dornbusch MA-128.. Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo..

Keene, N.H.:: Sentinel Printing Col,, 1890. Frontis portrait 511 pp., illustrated throughout with engraved portraits, charts and maps. Original blue cloth with regimental insignia stamped in gold on the front board; brown endpapers. A clean and strong copy of an important regimental history.. First Edition. Blue Cloth Gil. Near Fine. 8vo..

PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia: Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1853 Self-wrappers. Excellent. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A review of Anti-slavery activity in the fugitive slave years 1848-1853. A rare and important slave tract in wonderful condition..

London:: Frank Palmer,, 1911. INSCRIBED BY H.G. WELLS IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION on the upper free endpaper: "To A. B. Darley an acknowledgement of a very pleasant present very pleasantly given. From H. G. Wells Xmas 1911." Half-title, publisher's device on title, numerous marginal vignettes after J. R. Sinclair, printed in blue, wood-engraved patterns for toy-figures on page 36, halftone frontispiece and seven plates; the title and frontispiece slightly worn in the lower margins. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in tan, color halftone view of the author's sons at play mounted on the upper cover, plain cream woven endpapers, all edges trimmed and plain (as issues); extremities slightly rubbed. Housed in a blue morocco slipcase - blue cloth chemise. Wells 42.. First Edition Inscribed. Excellent. 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in..

Alliance, Ohio, 1919. Every Day Life of the Man Under a Musket. 186pp. illustrated. The important and dramatic diary of the Civil War by a member of the 104th Ohio Regiment. Original green, pictorial paper wraps. Spine reinforced with green binding tape. A clean and excellent. copy.. First Edition. Green Paper Wraps. Excellent. 8vo..

London:, 1954. A lovely copy in the publisher's red cloth, spine with silver lettering. The dust jacket showing some light rubbing and soiling.. First English Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine/Excellent. 8vo..

Longman, Hurst. London, 1806. Second. edition. Full calf. Light rubbing and some offsetting to plates - Excellent. Extra illustrated. 8vo., 12 volumes., Full polished tan calf, rebound with light brown morocco, gold tooling and raised bands. A gorgeous set..

New York:: D. Van Nostrand,, 1875. Pictorial regimental frontispiece, illustrated with maps and scenes, many in color, publisher's ads in rear. Original bright red cloth, the 2d Cavalry regimental insignia embossed on the front cover in gilt. The spine showing an elaborate military insignia and gilt lettering. The seminal work on the Second U.S. Cavalry written by an illustrious Civil War veteran. Originally appointed 2d Lieutenant to the 2nd U.S. Dragoons shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, Rodenbough was quickly promoted to 1st Lieutenant and to Captain soon thereafter. He was engaged throughout the war with the Cavalry seeing action at Manassas, Winchester, (where he suffered the loss of his right arm) Gettysburg and Cold Harbor. By the end of the war he had achieved the rank of Brigadier-General. This book is a highly interesting account of the United States 2d Cavalry's experiences fighting Indians in Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming with additional material on the… Read More

Henry Holt & Co. New York, 1936. First Edition. orig. cloth. Excellent 8vo., Small piece of lower right corner missing on table of contents page not affecting text - Excellent.