Search Results: Authors starting with F from Great Northern Books

Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1995. First edition. Oversized Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Comprehensive and richly illustrated study of Howard Kottler, influential West Coast ceramist. Includes numerous black & white and color illustrations. Also includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1919. First edition. hardcover. Ex-Library. At head of title: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Economics and History./ Includes index./ Bibliography. Ex-library with usual markings.

New York: Doubleday, 2009. Advance Reader's Copy. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The 11th book in the ADA Alex Cooper series. Letter from publisher loosely laid in. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. First printing. The third book in the Island Stallion series. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Harold Eldridge "Flame leaves his island home with Steve Duncan and races the world's fastest horses!" [from jacket]. Book cover edges rubbed, dustjacket is worn, rubbed and chipped, protected in a Brodart book jacket cover.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First printing. Lilac cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration, on front cover panel. Frontis (with tissue guard) and three color illustrations by Charles E. Brock. An early novel, by Farnol, who along with Georgette Heyer, founded the Regency romantic genre. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine, else an otherwise unmarked, clean copy.

Copán [Honduras]: Asociación Copán : Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, 1992. First printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. 52 pages with illustrations and maps, in English. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Signet Books, 1950. First printing, December 1950. Paperback. Good. A collection of six detective stories written around the character of Gavin Stevens. The title story appears for the first time. Only detective fiction written by Faulkner. Cover art by Barye Phillips. [Peterson catalogue no. A27.3] Corner crease to front cover, edgewear to bottom of cover, small tear to last couple of pages, an unmarked copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934:February. First publication. Periodical. Good. This critically acclaimed short story was first purchased for $350 by Harper’s Magazine on 2 November 1933 and subsequently published in February 1934. Later that same year, “Wash” was republished in Faulkner’s short story collection, "Dr. Martino and Other Stories." The next year Faulkner revised and interpolated parts of “Wash” into the novel he was writing, "Absalom, Absalom!," which was published in 1936. [from the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project] Also includes the poem "Valentine," by Edna St. Vincent Millay and a frontispiece by John Steuart Curry. Top and bottom of spine rubbed off but still a complete, intact, clean, unmarked copy.

St. Paul: Itasca Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Author's second novel. Manfred was also author of "Lord Grizzly." Price and former owner's name crossed out on front free endpaper, lacks a dustjacket.

Hardcover. Very Good/fair. A collection of black and white photographs of Ferlinghetti by Christopher Felver with a Ferlinghetti poem, "Autobiography." Ferlinghetti just turned 100 and published an autobiography entitled "Little Boy." Edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Penguin Books, 1946:October. First Penguin Books edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cover art by Robert Jonas, who gave American Penguin books a degree of modernity when compared to other more populist US brands.

Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, 1952:June. First appearance. Periodical. Good. The very first appearance of Ferber's novel, Giant (first part of six). Includes a color illustration by Joe De Mers. Also includes an original discussion of the novel by Ferber, illustrated with a small black & white photograph and facsimile signature. A complete intact issue with cover starting to split, small ink note on front with slight dampstain on a few pages. Still a very presentable copy of an item every Ferber completist needs.

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. "Ice Palace" was made into a movie. Ferber, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is best known for her books, "Show Boat," and "Giant." Dustjacket is price clipped with slight edgewear, else a clean unmarked copy.

[Washington, D.C.]: [U.S. National Student Association], [1970]. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good +. "Excerpts from remarks made by Michael Ferber and Dave Harris at the 21st Annual National Student Congress, held at Kansas State University, August 21, 1968." From intro page. Michael Ferber was one of the defendants in the anti-draft "Spock Trial." A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Soho Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. A novel based on the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, illustrated with numerous black & white photographs, Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: New Directions, 1971. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Good. A single long poem of linked verses, hand lettered and illustrated with Ferlinghetti's "doodles." Small gift inscription on inside front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987. First printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Includes first appearances from Edward Abbey, Allen Ginsberg, and Garcia Lorca, and others. Also includes the Ferlinghetti piece, "A Modest Proposal to Change the Names of Certain Streets in San Francisco." A bright, unmarked copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Advance Reader's Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. "The saga of two families in Puerto Rico early this century, one old money, the other new money." [from publisher] Trade paperback with French fold covers.

Wilmington, DE: Wilson & Heald, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Small clipping of the authors' signature pasted on top of the title page. Includes 4 engraved plates, 3 maps including folding map in rear, orgininal blind stamped covers and spine, and bibliographical eferences. [Howes F97] Front hinge beginning to weakened and corners rubbed,

New York: Viking Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Also includes promotional postcard, "Scotlandesque Porridge," designed by Fforde. Author's first book and the beginning of the "Thursday Next" series. Slight edgewear to dustjacket else a clean unmarked copy.