Titles starting with F from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1941].. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Illustrated with diagrams. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition. One of only two hundred and fifty copies, printed in Caslon type on laid paper. As usual, the 4pp. supplement is tipped in after leaf 17/18. CAHOON, p.28. ... more information

Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, [2000].. Quarto. Cloth, pictorial label. Frontis, photographs and 95 plates. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition of this elaborate catalogue published to coincide with the international traveling exhibition of Day's photographs: "Art and the Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day," hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. Notes, bibliography, catalogue. ... more information

New York: Holt, [1989].. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Fine. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt, [1989].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Lower corners faintly bumped, else fine in dust jacket. ... more information

[Willimantic, CT]: Ziesing Brothers, [1982].. Printed wrapper over stapled wrappers. First edition (800 copies printed). Wrappers lightly dust-smudged in a few places, small sticker ghost on lower wrapper and corners barely bumped, else very good. ... more information

Bloomfield Hills, MI & Columbia, SC: A Bruccoli-Clark Publication, 1972.. Oblong octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. Facsimiles and illustrations. First U.S. edition (650 copies printed) of this exhibition catalogue. Fine. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, [1980].. Cloth. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

[London: The Fabian Society], 1892.. Red wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers chipped at corners, typical rust stains at staples, but otherwise a very good copy of a fragile item. First edition, only printing, Laurence's second issue, with the Committee roster omitted from p.16, an alteration made in press. Issued as Fabian Tract 40. LAURENCE A14. ... more information

London: The Fabian Society, 1889.. Pictorial cloth. Spine and edges darkened and heavily soiled, light wear to corners and spine ends, but a good copy, very nice internally. First edition, first printing. One of 1000 copies. In addition to exercising his editorial hand, Shaw also contributed two of the essays herein printed. LAURENCE BB7a. ... more information

London: The Fabian Society, 1889.. Pictorial cloth (after designs by Walter Crane and May Morris), green coated endpapers. Spine and edges darkened and soiled, spine crown frayed, light to moderate wear at edges and bumped fore-corners, but a sound, largely unopened, reading copy. First edition, first printing (1000 copies). In addition to exercising his editorial hand, Shaw also contributed two of the essays. LAURENCE BB7a. ... more information

Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926.. Printed wrapper over plain wrappers. Frontis and engravings by Hermine David. First edition. One of one thousand numbered copies on vélin d'Annonay, from a total edition of 1250. Wrappers sunned at spine and at edges, light foxing at edges, else internally near fine and unopened. TALVART & PLACE (MAURIAC) 21. ... more information

[Paris & Rome: Éditions Maintenant, 1972].. Oblong quarto. Cloth-hinged stiff board folder, with die- cut handle and pictorial label. Heavily illustrated with photographs by Umberto Santucci. Near fine. First edition. One of 2000 numbered copies. A visually rich monograph of this collaborative exhibition by the Italian surrealist sculptor. Cortenova's text is bound separately, in an inserted sleeve, and is accompanied by a folded copy of the exhibition poster, also printed on tissue. Ivsic... more information

[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, [1971].. Printed wrappers. First edition, ordinary issue. Two patches of adhesive residue (from price stickers) on lower wrapper; just a good, sound copy. ... more information

[New York]: Random House, [1954].. Decorated cloth. Fine in glassine wrapper and very faintly smudged slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of one thousand numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. MASSEY 37. PETERSEN A31b. ... more information

New York: Random House, [1954].. Plum cloth. First edition, trade issue. Fine in very good dust jacket (light wear and creases at spine extremities, and a short snag at one fore- tip). ... more information

[New York]: G.P. Putnam, 1848.. 78pp. Early 20th century three quarter calf and marbled boards (half title and prelim blank retained). Early ink name, else a very nice copy. First edition (state D) of this early work. Bound in back is a prospectus for an undated Houghton Mifflin reprint of this work. BAL 13062. ... more information

Dublin & London: Sold by Gilbert and Hodges / Longman [et al], 1813.. [4],3-104pp. Octavo (signed in fours). Extracted from bound volume. Early ink private acquisition inscription in margin of title, several old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, some occasional smudges, lacking half- title but with the final blank, but a good, crisp copy. First edition of these unsigned translations, with a two- page preface by the translator. NSTC locates a copy at Trinity College, without identifying the transla... more information

Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1900.. Small octavo. Decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Illustrations by Clyde J. Newman. A very good copy. First edition of the author's most popular book, sporting a binding design by F.W. Goudy. KRAMER 219. WRIGHT III:26. RUSSO, p.30. ... more information

Paris: Michaud, 1810 & 1814.. Two volumes. 247;306pp. 12mo. Mid 19th century gilt calf and boards. Half- titles and plain front wrapper to second volume bound in. Occasional foxing and some offsetting from binding to end leaves at corners, small spot on one title, otherwise a very good, untrimmed set. First edition of each volume, with the author's presentation inscription (name of recipient effaced in an early hand) in each volume (on the preliminary blank verso in the first volume, and on the reta... more information

New York: D. Langworth at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1804.. 70pp. Contemporary plain wrappers, loose, untrimmed and partly unopened signatures. Third (?) American edition, with frontis and pictorial vignettes. Stabholes from now absent stitching, but a near fine, crisp and bright copy of this charming edition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6616. ... more information