Authors starting with F from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Stackpole Sons,, [1938].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket that is ever-so-slightly used at the top of the back panel. 8vo. This copy is signed by Fante. Laid in is a 1971 color photograph of him with his two dogs. ... more information

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, 1985.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket as issued. Small 4to. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition was issued unsigned. Fante died in 1983 and, according to the publisher, there were actually fewer than 26 signed colophon sheets to draw from, the exact number being unkonwn. Fante composed "The Road To Los Angeles" prior to his first published novel, "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," but the unpubl... more information

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, 1983.. First signed / limited edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket, as issued. Small 4to. One of 200 numbered, hardbound copies signed by Fante, this being copy #1. ... more information

New York:: Viking Press,, [1983].. New edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very nearly fine dust jacket with some slight wear at the spinal extremities. 8vo. With a 10-page introduction by Pynchon written especially for this edition. Not an easy book to find in collector's condition. ... more information

New York:: Atheneum,, [2002].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the 2003 Newbery Honor Award and the 2003 Prinz Honor Award. ... more information

New York:: Berkeley / Putnam's,, [1980].. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. This copy is signed by Farmer on the front free endpaper. ... more information

New York:: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith,, [1931].. First edition. Hardcover. Spine a touch foxed, else fine in a bright dust jacket that has been restored at the spine by a master conservator. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Boni & Liveright,, 1926.. First edition of the author's second book and first novel. Hardcover. Fine in an unfaded dust jacket that has been minimally restored by a master conservator. Rare in any kind of jacket. In a custom-made cloth chemise and slipcase. 8vo. The Carl Petersen copy. ... more information

New York:: Random House,, [1939].. First trade edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

Milwaukee:: Casanova Press,, 1932.. First edition. Printed stiff wrappers. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper ("To Princess Nadya."), else a near-fine copy in publisher's slipcase (somewhat worn and chipped) as issued. Small 4to. Illustrated with a tipped-in, frontispiece photograph of Faulkner. Prints Ernest Hemingway's poem, "Ultimately," on the back cover. One of 525 numbered copies (the entire edition). ... more information

New York:: Random House,, [1942].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Housed in a quarter-leather cloth clamshell box.. 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, the lowest limitation of any of the author's signed, limited editions. Faulkner came to regard "Go Down, Moses" as a novel, though originally the stories were individually published. "For the second edition [Faulkner] rightfully eliminated the stories aspect and made the volume appear as a novel, one based on interrela... more information

Dated March 23,, 1959.. About fine. Signed by Faulkner, this document reassigns the rights to "Turn About" and the rights to the story's characters to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation. The original assignment was dated October 22, 1932. At that time Faulkner adapted his story for the 1932 Howard Hawks movie, "Today We Live," a character-driven drama of World War I aviators. With light professional restoration of several tears. ... more information

New York:: Horizon Press,, 1963.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. With drawings by A. Birnbaum. ... more information

Oxford:: Sycamore Press,, 1981.. First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. 8vo. There was no hardcover edition of this title. ... more information

New York:: Soho,, [1991].. First edition of the author's third book, his first novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Based on the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, which visited 75 American Indian reservations in 1913. ... more information

London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [2002].. First edition, hardbound issue, of the author's second book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Signed by Fforde on the title page in his usual manner, using only his first name. This is one of the copies that were signed using all uppercase letters. The second of Fforde's novels to feature "literary detective" Thursday Next. ... more information

London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [2003].. First edition, hardbound issue, of the author's third book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Signed by Fforde on the title page in his usual manner, using only his first name (with an uppercase "J" and the rest of the letters in lowercase). The third of Fforde's novels to feature "literary detective" Thursday Next. ... more information

New York:: Viking Press,, [2003].. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. Signed by Fforde on the title page in his usual manner, using only his first name (with an uppercase "J" and the rest of the letters in lowercase). The third of Fforde's novels to feature "literary detective" Thursday Next. ... more information

London:: Quartet Books,, [1991].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket (one tiny, closed tear). 8vo. With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. ... more information

London:: Secker & Warburg,, [1997].. First edition of the author's third book, the first of his works to be published in England in a hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed by Fischer on the title page. The narrator of this novel is a piece of ancient Sumerian pottery that has passed through many hands over the millenia. "Unquestionably," as the jacket text extols, "the finest novel narrated by a bowl ever written. ... more information