Authors starting with F from Bauman Rare Books

2006. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FALCONER, Ian. Olivia Forms a Band. New York: Anne Schwartz—Atheneum Books for Young Readers, (2006). Slim quarto, original pictorial white paper boards, patterned endpapers, original dust jacket. $1100. First edition of the fourth book in Falconer's delightful series, signed on the title page by the author-illustrator. "With perfectly nuanced dialogue and a mixture of comical and artful scenes, Falconer explores the logic, invention and humor emanating from a t... more information

1948. FIRST EDITION. FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, (1948). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $2200. First edition of Faulkner's first novel published since 1940—"his stirring, very great chronicle" (New York Times). "For sheer virtuosity in prose Faulkner has no American rival since Melville and James… There is no author I can think of since Chekhov who knows so deeply, and transmits so justly, the people he records in his... more information

1832. FIRST EDITION. FEARNSIDE, W.G., editor. Tombleson's Views of the Rhine. WITH: Tombleson's Upper Rhine. London: W. Tombleson & Company, 1832-circa 1834. Two volumes, uniformly bound. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter black calf gilt, marbled boards. $1500. First editions of Tombleson's lovely German scenes, richly illustrated with 137 steel-engraved plates after Tombleson and vignette title pages. Tombleson's views take us from Cologne, Bonn, and Godesburg in the first volume to... more information

2008. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FEINSTEIN, Rachel. Rachel Feinstein. (New York): TarSIZ, (2008). Slim quarto, original light blue cloth, mounted cover illustration. $150. Signed limited first edition, number 23, of this elegant full-color catalogue of Rachel Feinstein's works, signed on the half title by Feinstein, collector James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces), who wrote the introduction, and editor Bill Powers. This is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Rachel Feinstein—a comp... more information

1947. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FELLER, Bob. Strikeout Story. New York: A.S. Barnes, (1947). Tall octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $225. First edition of this autobiography of the Cleveland strikeout legend, with numerous in-text photographs, inscribed, "Best Wishes to George Scheele, Bob Feller." Disheartened after being knocked out of the box in Boston, Feller sought his father's advice: "Pitching baseball is like pitching hay. You just have to stay with it." Fel... more information

1896. FIELD, Eugene. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Ten volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $750. First collected edition of Eugene Field's works, published just one year after his death, each volume with frontispiece portrait or illustration. In addition to his popular verses for children, Field is best known for his satirica... more information

1911. FIELD, Eugene. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Twelve volumes. Small octavo, mid-20th-century full red morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; uncut and partially unopened. $1800. Twelve-volume set of Eugene Field's works, with three fold-out manuscript facimiles and 12 frontispiece illustrations. Field (1850-95) is best known for his newspaper column in the Chicago Morning News entitled "Sharps and Flats,"... more information

1852. SIGNED. (FIELD, Eugene) STODDARD, Richard Henry. Poems. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. Slim octavo, original brown cloth. $250. First edition, one of 1000 copies published. Eugene Field's own copy, with his owner signature and bookplate. This volume of Stoddard's poems "showed real promise and was favorably received in New York" (ANB). It was only Stoddard's second volume of poems and is the earliest obtainable as he burned the entire print run of the first volume. I... more information

1896. FIRST EDITION. FIELD, Eugene. Songs and Other Verse. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter purple morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $450. First edition of this wonderful collection of songs, poems, and ballads by one of 19th-century America's best known poets, handsomely bound. This lengthy collection includes a number of Field's best poems and songs such as "The T... more information

1881. FIELD, Eugene. The Tribune Primer. [Denver: Denver Tribune, 1881]. Small octavo, three-quarter purple morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt; pp. 29. $300. First edition of Eugene Field's satirical take on the New England Primer drawn from his writings for the Denver Tribune, handsomely bound. "The Tribune Primer (1881) is made up of selections from the Denver Tribune and modeled after The New England Primer. Field's Primer ... more information

1909. FIRST EDITION. FIELD, Eugene. Cradle Lullabies. Chicago, Illinois: Canterbury, (1909). Square octavo, contemporary three-quarter purple morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt; pp.27. $300. First collected edition of all of Eugene Field's beloved lullabies, including his most famous lullaby, "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," handsomely bound. This beautifully printed first collected edition of Eugene Field's lullabies for chil... more information

1898. FIELDING, Henry. The Works of Henry Fielding. Westminster and New York: Archibald Constable; Charles Scribner's Sons (Chiswick Press), 1898-99. Twelve volumes. Tall octavo, contemporary half burgundy morocco gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $1400. Limited edition, one of only 750 sets, of Fielding's works, handsomely bound, with nearly all frontispieces by George Cruikshank. Henry Fielding "is beyond question the real founder of the English novel as a genuine picture of men and wome... more information

1824. FIELDING, Henry. The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. with a Life of the Author. London: Otridge and Rackham, et al., 1824. Twelve volumes. 12mo, contemporary full tan diced calf rebacked, gilt-decorated spines, red and green morocco gilt labels (one volume with red and orange labels), marbled edges. $1250. Later edition, handsomely bound in full diced calf. Includes Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, and Amelia, as well as all of his shorter works and a biographical sketch. A most handsomely bound set of th... more information

1984. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. FINK, Larry. Social Graces. Photographs by Larry Fink. (New York): Aperture, (1984). Quarto, original stiff laminated pictorial wrappers. $650. First trade edition, inscribed by Fink on the inside front cover, "For Matt & Baby, Larry Fink." Preceded by a limited edition of only 250 copies, Larry Fink's Social Graces "compares and contrasts the paper-thin vanity of high society to the demeanor of a blue-collar family" (McDarrah & McDarrah, 147).... more information

1909. FIRST EDITION. FISCHEL, Oskar and VON BOEHN, Max. Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time… Translated by M. Edwardes. With an Introduction by Grace Rhys. London: J. M. Dent and New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt with red floral morocco onlays on spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges gilt. $1500. First edition in English, profusely illustrated throug... more information

1906. FIRST EDITION. FISHER, Irving. The Nature of Capital and Income. New York and London: Macmillan, 1906. Thick octavo, original pale blue cloth gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4200. First edition of this pioneering work on the growth of wealth, by "the United States' greatest scientific economist" (Niehans, 279). Considered "the father of monetary economics," Irving Fisher, during a mountain-climb in the Alps, encountered a cascade of water into a pool, which clicked ... more information

1937. FIRST EDITION. FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. Octavo, original navy cloth. $1850. Later printing of Irving Fisher's groundbreaking doctoral dissertation at Yale, photo-engraved from the original, with numerous diagrams for the design of a hydraulic mechanism demonstrating equilibrium prices in a multi-market economy. The copy of Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Richard Stone, with his owner stamp. Irving Fi... more information

1902. FISKE, John. The Historical Writings of John Fiske. Twelve volumes. WITH: The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske. Twelve volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1902). Together, twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $4800. "Standard Library Edition" of Fiske's works, handsomely bound by Blackwell and beautifully illustrated... more information

1902. FITZGERALD, Edward. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald. London: Macmillan, 1902. Seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, uncut and partially unopened. $1600. Limited edition set of the correspondence and selected literary productions of the famous translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, one of only 775 copies printed. Fitzgerald was "a prolific and delightful letter-writer, whose anecdotes of his literary friends... more information

1920. FIRST EDITION. FLEURY, Comte. Memoirs of the Empress Eugenie. New York and London: D. Appleton, 1920. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, uncut. Housed in custom cloth chemises and half blue morocco gilt slipcases. $350. First edition of this defense of the French Empress. "Compiled from statements, private documents and personal letters authorized by the Empress, from conversations with the Emperor Napoleon III, and from family letters and papers of general Fleury, M. Franceschini Pietr... more information