Authors starting with F from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1993. First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. ... more information

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a couple of small interior tape mends. ... more information

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with a couple of small interior tape repairs. Nicely inscribed by the author to Robert Sherwood (”Thanks for so much encouragement...”) on the title page. ... more information

Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2001. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Irving P. Fox, 1898. First Edition. Wright 1791 (”Illustrates injustice of Massachusetts inheritance laws.”). Publisher’s cloth with paper spine label; some cloth spotting, else near fine. The author graduated law school in 1891, was the only woman in 40 examined for the bar, and practiced with her husband. She was the first woman attorney in Massachusetts to argue a case in front of a jury. Illustrated by Vesper L. George, who founded the eponymous art school in Boston that closed a couple o... more information

London: Smith, Elder, 1880. First Edition. Bound in full morocco by Bedford (probably for the author’s use); all edges gilt; minor rubbing; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “Margaret Warrender from her affect. Friend ‘Violet Fane’ [illegible] 27th Sept. 1881.” Fane was the pseudonym of Lady Mary Currie. ... more information

London: Smith, Elder, 1889. First Edition. Bound in full morocco by Bedford (probably for the author’s use); all edges gilt; original cloth bound in; minor rubbing; very small chip in the margin of the first couple of leaves; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “Margaret Warrender from her affect. Friend ‘Violet Fane’ Christmas 1889.” Fane was the pseudonym of Lady Mary Currie. ... more information

New York: Viking Press, 1940. First Edition of this short story collection. Bookplate; a near fine copy in a slightly browned dust jacket. The author enjoyed a fairly successful career as a screenwriter, but his prose work was largely forgotten until revived by the Black Sparrow Press at the urging of Charles Bukowski. ... more information

New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with light wear and a faded spine. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Review copy; with the publisher’s slip laid in; a fine copy in a dust jacket with light wear. ... more information

N.P. [London]: [privately printed], n.d. [1914]. First Edition of this short fantasy novel; in Bleiler; 107 pages; bound in plain binder's cloth with the author and title on the spine; minor spine repair; very good. A regular edition was not published until 1923 by Collins; this edition must have been produced in a minuscule quantity; the author has made several holograph corrections in the text. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, "Robert Frost from Eleanor Farjeon, Feb. 1915." Farjeon was a confi... more information

New York: Third Eye Press, 2004. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Dodge, 1914. Deluxe, gift edition. Publisher’s illustrated boards; fine in dust jacket. In the original publisher’s box (damaged). ... more information

Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1948. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Vanguard Press, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Vanguard Press, 1933. First Edition. Bookplate; near fine in a dust jacket with a tiny chip and tear, and only very light wear. ... more information

New York: Vanguard Press, 1934. First Edition. Bookplate; near fine in a slightly browned and worn dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Vanguard Press, 1936. First Edition. Bookplate; near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Published by the Author, 1951. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket; inscribed by the author. ... more information