Authors starting with F from Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (1988). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0691067481 Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, the author focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent t... more information

West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Co.. (1988). HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by Faber. ISBN 0887401465 Price Guide laid in. . 280pp ... more information

London: Thomas Richardson and Son. 1860. HC. very good, full black leather, aeg (hardcover) light edgewear. "Treatise on the Sacred Infancy of our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer." Nice clean and tight copy in a black full calf presentation binding. . 536pp ... more information

New York: Times Books. (1977). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0812907256 In this fascinating book we are taken into the strange, self-defeating world of the Luftwaffe high command with all its colorful characters and the destructive interplay of its personalities and rivalries. . 267pp ... more information

New York: British Book Centre. (1953) 2nd ptg. HC. very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). "The detective of the century presents an intimate record of the police's timeless war against crime." . 208pp ... more information

New York: Richard B. Smith. 1940 1st ed. HC. good, decorated yellow boards (hardcover) light edgewear. Through the illustrations and accompanying captions, Fabres presents an amusing tale of his emigration from Holland in the face of Nazi occupation, and his struggle to find a publisher for his work in New York. Rubber stamp on the front free endpaper reads: "Gift of The People of the United States Through the Victory Book Campaign (A.L.A. - A.R.C. - U.S.O.) To the Armed Forces and Merchant Marine"... more information

New York: Viking. (1994). HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0670846384 A literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in historical and literary context. . 812pp ... more information

Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. (1999). PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0806131500 . 275pp ... more information

New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. (1983). PB. very good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0716714913 A collection of 18 articles from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN that describe recent discoveries and major developments in many areas of archaeology. . 262pp ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster. (1995) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0671793853 . 288pp ... more information

New York: Basic Books. (2006). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0465022847 . 338pp ... more information

London: T. Fisher Unwin. (1913) 2nd ed. HC. good++, decorated blue cloth (hardcover). "The Earth" was produced at the Kingsway Theatre on April 14, 1909. PLAYS OF TO-DAY & TO-MORROW Series. . 158pp ... more information

Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press. (1989). PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0881501441 . 278pp ... more information

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Pub.. (1989). HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0810915421 On the pages of this enchanting volume are inscribed and portrayed a variety of fables or tales that recount incidents or conversations between animals who speak like human beings, or between either animals or people and gods, or involving just people. Each fable is intended to make a point in morality or worldliness. . 175pp ... more information

Lancaster, PA: Franklin & Marshall College. (1987). PB. very good++, wraps (softcover). Contents include: Fraktur; Calligraphy and Linguistics: A Different Look at the F&M Fraktur; Religious Dimensions; Checklist. . 29pp ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. (1982) 1st ed. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0060390050 An informative and delightful memoir by America's most distinguished student of China, a man known and loved as the father of American China studies. . 480pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts. (1975). PB. good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0878460888 Catalogue of an exhibition that shows Boston during the 83 years of Paul Revere's lifetime. This bicentennial exhibition included: major paintings, graphics, furniture, needlework, ceramics, and silver. . 234pp ... more information

New York: Geological Soc. of America. 1952. HC. very good, maroon cloth (hardcover). "Beginning with notebooks, diaries, and letters in the possession of the Society, and adding thereunto material slowly accumulated from his family, his friends, his associates, and acquaintances, the story of his life has been pieced together." . 765pp ... more information

Cornwall, UK: D. Bradford Barton Limited. (1975). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 085153189X This, the first of two volumes, depicts behind-the-scenes views at approximately half of the Southern Region's depots, ranging from the large London sheds at Nine Elms and Bricklayers Arms, through the smaller provincial establishments such as St. Leonard's and Weymouth, to single-road sheds like Bude and Seaton. . 96pp ... more information

Cornwall, UK: D. Bradford Barton Limited. (1977). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0851533167 At nationalization on 1 January 1948, the Southern Region inherited 1,838 steam locomotives from the Southern Railway. This volume, the fourth in the series, depicts a cross-section of these engines at work during those momentous years from Nationalization to the end of the steam era in 1967. . 96pp ... more information