Authors starting with F from Margolis & Moss

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. 289 pages + ads. Octavo, 7 3/4 x 5 inches. Light green, beige and gold on dark green pictorial cloth. Top of spine rubbed; small damp stain in upper margin throughout. A later edition, originally published in 1904. ... more information

Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1891. Illustrated in chromolithograph from watercolor sketches and pen drawings by F. Schuyler Mathews. Oblong octavo (7 1/4 x 10 inches). Cream pebbled boards with large chromolithograph paper paste-down. A beautiful copy of a lovely Prang book. F. Schuyler Mathew (1854 - 1938) was a naturalist, author, and artist. He was extremely popular in his day in all three areas of expertise and several of his books are still in print. Louis Prang (1824 - 1899) who... more information

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. 154 pages + book ads. Illustrated from drawings by C. D. Weldon. Octavo, 8 x 6 inches; gilt-pictorial brown cloth; light rubbing. With the bookplate of Horace White. Includes the tipped-in pink slip offering $1,000 for the first person to guess the name of the author. The first 10,000 copies were numbered by hand, and their pink slips were machine numbered. Apparently the first 1,500 numbered copies constitute the first printing. This copy numbered 4311. See B.A.L. #56... more information

Boston: Boston Photo-Electrotype Co., 1877. 110 pages + 16 pages of poultry advertisements. Frontispiece wood-engraved portrait of the author. Twelvemo, 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Green cloth backed printed boards; covers well rubbed but sound. The author's first book. Isaac Kimbal Felch (1834 - 1918) was an early American poultry breeder, a veteran poultry judge and President of the American Poultry Association. ... more information

Cambridge: Hart, 1956. 329 pages. 8vo, cloth with chipped dust jacket Mr. Felheim's account rescues from undeserved eclipse one of the outstanding figures in American life during the post-Civil War years." - Jacket blurb. ... more information

Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1853. 208 pages. 8vo, half-calf; rubbed. Ex-library, with only a small hand-stamp on title and first leaf, plus a paper number on spine. First edition. The first section describes furniture and household accessories in colonial New England. The second lists fashions of dress. A useful compendium describing utilitarian items, although with much moralizing. HOWES F74. SABIN 24030. ... more information

London: Printed for W. Meadows, C. Hitch and L. Hawes..., 1759. 2 volumes. 360 + 304 pages. With folding engraved map and 24 engraved plates. Twelvemo (6 2/3 x 4 inches); contemporary calf, leather labels; lightly rubbed. Curiously volume one calls this the "Sixteenth Edition" while volume two calls it the "Seventeenth Edition." Both have the same imprint and are in matching binding. Originally published by Fenelon in 1699, this famous retelling of the Greek myth proved the authors und... more information

Mexico: La Secretaria de Hacienda Y Credito Publico, 1936. 70 pages, with two text maps and two large, folding maps in rear pocket. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards. A fine, bright copy. The two large folding maps, each 22 x 30 inches, are printed in bold colors and one delineates every street and home in Patzcuaro, while the other shows all the villages around Lake Patzcuaro. ... more information

Mexico: La Secretaria de Hacienda Y Credito Publico, 1936. 63 pages, with two text maps and a large, folding map in rear pocket. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards. A fine, bright copy. The large pictorial folding map, 22 x 30 inches, is printed in bold colors and delineates every street and home in Morelia, Michoacan. ... more information

Mexico: La Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico, 1936. 43 pages, with two text maps and a large, folding map in rear pocket. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Cloth backed proctorial boards. A fine, bright copy. The large pictorial folding map, 22 x 30 is printed in bold colors and delineates every street and home in Uruapan, Michoacan. ... more information

New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1976.. 143 pages. Profusely illustrated from historic photographs. Oblong quarto, 8 1/2 x 9 inches. Black cloth with dust jacket. Slight marking to jacket. First edition. ... more information

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press , (1990). 243 pages. Profusely illustrated from historic photographs. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 inches); black cloth with pictorial dust jacket. A bright copy. The best overview in English on Brazilian photography. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. 344 pages + 8 pages of book ads. 7 3/4 x 5 inches. Publishers black cloth; head and foot of spine rubbed. With the signature of L. F. Olmstead. First American edition, originally published in Paris the previous year. The author, whose real name was Eugene Louis Ferry Gabriel de Bellemarre (1809 - 1852) spent seven years in Mexico, riding 4,000 miles via horseback. His enthusiasm for Mexico is self evident. ... more information

Chicago: Monument Fund Committee, (1896). (36) pages. 4to, gilt-pictorial light green cloth; very light wear. First edition. An attractive memorial gift book created to assist in the development of a monument to Field. Designed and illustrated by many of the artists of that generation: Stanford White, Frederic Remington, Harry Fenn, E. W. Kemble, A.B. Frost, Mary Hallock Foote, Alice Barber Stephens, and others. ... more information

Chicago: Monument Fund Committee, (1896). (36) pages. 4to, half-brown morocco over marbled boards; spine gilt; original cover bound in; lightly rubbed. First edition. An attractively bound copy of this memorial gift book to assist in the creation of a monument to Field. Designed and illustrated by many of the artists of that generation: Stanford White, Frederic Remington, Harry Fenn, E. W. Kemble, A.B. Frost , Mary Hallock Foote, Alice Barber Stephens, and others. ... more information

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1882. 203 pages. Illustrated. Folio, cloth backed boards; paper label; minor soiling. One of only 100 large paper copies. Issued in the American Actor Series, edited by Laurence Hutton. "The biography, comprising nearly one-half of the text, emphasizes his professional activities in Europe, England and America. The author, who knew Fechter in America, indicates her opinion of his work. The descriptions, which comment most fully upon his Hamlet and Claude Melnotte, sugg... more information

New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1860.. 225 pages + ads. Illustrated with wood-engravings + six double-page hand-colored maps. Octavo, 8 x 5 inches; brown cloth with binding wear at head and foot of spine. With the stencil bookmark of E. C. Silliman, a Civil War soldier from Illinois. Tenth large edition. Revised, with notes, alterations and additions by Alphonso J. Robinson. ... more information

Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1889. 433 pages. Octavo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A fine, bright copy. First edition. "Five years' residency in the mountains of southwestern Chihuahua between 1882 and 1887 provided the author with the opportunity to observe the dwellers of that area to a degree of completeness. As Flippin compared the mining region with the rest of Mexico, he saw more immorality and vice, less regard for law and order, and greater reluctanc... more information

Nord, France: Douzies-Maubeuge, 1928. This 16 page catalog measures 8 x 5 1/2 inches. Stiff paper wrappers. The fourteen pages of wonderful designs for ceramic tile floors are printed in beautiful color. ... more information

Paris: Briand, 1811. Engraved frontispiece by Macret + 118 pages. Twelvemo, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Leather backed boards; light staining to boards. An attractive copy of a later edition of this classic. ... more information