Search Results: Authors starting with F from McBlain Books

Madrid: Imprenta y Fundacion de M. Tello, 1882. Paperback. Very Good. 279p. Wrapper. 19cm. Light chipping around edges of wrapper. Partially unopened. Spanish text.

Paris, 1929. Paperback. Very Good. map, photos, illustrations, pp. 638-693. Original wrapper. 26cm. Faune des Colonies Françaises, tome 3, fasc. 5. French text.

1959. Fagg, William Buller. Afro-Portuguese Ivories. London: Batchworth, n.d. [1959?]. frontis, photos, xxiii, (84)p. Hardcover in original cloth. dj. 33cm. Jacket scuffed and rather edge-worn. Very Good/Good. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper.

Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1873. Paperback. Good. pp. 406-420 plus 6 plates (numbered VII-XII). Original partial wrapper (front cover and most of the thin backstrip). 25cm. Lacks rear cover panel. Foxing. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on the first blank leaf. French text. Extrait du "Compte rendu du Congres International d'Anthropologie et d'Archeologie Prehistoriques." 6e section Bruxelles. 1872.

London: Bremen, 1975. 1st ed. Paperback. Good. 20p. Original wrapper. 21cm. Edges browned. Heritage series, volume 26. Poetry.

New York: Harper & Row, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 133p. Black board backed in turquoise cloth. dj. 20 cm. African American author.

Washington: GPO, 1918. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 64p. plus 8 folding plans, 7 plates (2 black & white phoros per plate) and 2 pages of diagrams. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Cover browned with some chipping at base of narrow backstrip. Modest age-toning and brown spotting to contents. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 583, An uncommon report about an experimental effort to set up an honor camp for 40 African American convicts with improved comfort, sanitation, and food for convicts working without armed guards and without being given special rewards for good behavior.

1833. Fair. Bound volume with several issues of Vols II-V (1833-1834) as follows: Vol. II, Nos. VII-IX, XI & XII; Vol. III, Nos. XIII-XVIII; Vol. IV, Nos. XIX, XX, Contemporary leather. 23 cm. Covers heavily scuffed and rather worn but still reasonably sound. Contents are also worn but reasonably sound. These issues were published in Philadelphia under the editorship of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield.

Warminster: Aris & Philipps, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine. illustrations, ix, 201p. Original light blue cloth with small gilt figure on front cover. No jacket (as published?).

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lee Boltin. frontis, photos (most color, some full-page), map on endpapers, index, 256p. Original red cloth. 30 cm. No Jacket (probably as issued). Red cloth-covered slipcase. Copy #135 of the special first edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author and the photographer (Lee Boltin).

London, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 287p. 22cm. Red cloth. 22cm. Covers stained at bottom of both front and back cover and also lightly spotted. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1802 Second Edition.

n.p., n.p.:[199-?]. Paperback. Very Good. xiii, 158p. Softcover. Original yellow cover. Black plastic comb binding. 28 cm. Text printed (photocopied) on one side. OCLC locates three copies (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and KSU Medical Center. McCune graduated from medical school (University of Glasgow) in 1837. This loosely organized effort does not appear to have been published in a more permanent form. Quite a bit about Smith is found in the five volumes of Ripley's "Black Abolitionist Papers" (1985-1992).

Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1989. Paperback. photos, (20) p. Softcover in original wrappers. 28 cm. Exhibition at the John Slade Ely House in New Haven.

Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artistique [and others], 1993. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations (some color), maps, 219p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. French text. Most of the volume is devoted to a French translation by Philippe Noble of "Le Journal de Voyage de Willem de Famars Testas 1888," including a new Introduction and Notes by Maarten J. Raven.

Taibei: She jie Li shi zong qin zong hui, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. [Volume 3]. photos, advertisements. Original green cloth. 26cm. Some cover soil and bumping. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. Chinese text.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1940. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. photos & illustrations, index, 388p. Original illustrated boards. dj. 23cm. Jacket has moderate chipping at ends of backstrip and some edge-wear. Some foxing and soiling on page edges.

[Bangkok?], 1972. Paperback. Very Good. photos, unpaginated (ca. 68 pages). Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover scuffed. A separate unpaginated [24p.] pamphlet on " Siamese Pottery" by Prok Amranand is bound in at the end and was issued to accompany this annual report.

New York: Vantage Press, 1961. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good/Good. 196p. Boards. Worn dj (some chipping and staining. 21 cm. Text rather heavily browned. Name, patch of white-out, some residual adhesive, and a small waterspot on front endpaper. A depressing interracial novel about lust, rape, and murder. Author appears to be white.

n.d.. Very Good. 21 x 26 cm. Background indistinct (presumably intentional). Photographer not identified. Undated (1930s or 1940s??).

Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1904. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 268p. Orange wrapper. 26cm. Fading on top portion of front cover. Unopened. French text.