Titles starting with F from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. Two spots on front panel of jacket, else fine. ... more information

Montreal: 15 Decmeber, 1786. Reference: Lande, FMS 244. Folio (37cm); 16 pages, three of them blank. Text in French. Stab-sewn with woven ribbon. Signed on final text page by Lery, Ignace Gamelin, St-Ange Charly, Cheneville, and one other. Inventory totaling more than £29,000 in fabrics, clothes, small utensils, small arms, powder, some beaver hats, 36 pounds of chocolate, 7 dozen calumets, etc. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1940. First edition. 20 cm; 375, [3] pages. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket frayed, chipped with some loss, and stained lightly on upper panel. Text unblemished, if well read. True first edition that has been around the block. Writers at BBC Radio 4 came up with a brief summary of Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) that beats the hell out of anything I could come up with: "Philip Marlowe is a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fr... more information

Munich: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, nd (1955?). 20 cm; 328 pages. Brown cloth. VG. A sturdy copy of the German text. ... more information

Madrid: Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano, 1815. Small octavo (16 cm); [24], 352 pages. Woodcut vignette on title page and 62 woodcuts vignettes, many of them captioned with proverbs or "dichos," illustrating the fables. Bound in rustic contemporary vellum over boards, in Latin American style (laced to text block with headband cores), titled in ink on spine, worn, peeling at fore-edge of upper board; scorched (?) on lower board. Old sewing on spine. Title page loose. Damp stain in lower margin of... more information

Zurich: Verlag der Zurcher Kunstgesellschaft, 1927. 23 p. and 16 plates. Later red cloth, original wraps bound in. Light marginal foxing affecting few plates. Early catalogue of the artist's graphic work. ... more information

Paris: Nizet, 1969. 186 p. and 7 plates. Wraps, unopened. Text with all-encompassing critical apparatus. Old price stamps on upper wrap. ... more information

New York: The Grolier Club, 1952. Hard Cover. 4to; 57, 1] p. 1/4 cloth, paper-covered boards, remains of one glassine panel. VG, Bookplate & sig. of Joseph Francis Weiler. Edition limited to 1000 copies ... more information

London and New York: Unwin Books and Barnes & Noble, 1964. 19 cm; 93 pages. Original wraps. Minor shelf wear only. ... more information

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925. Cloth decorated with gilt illustration and lettering. No dust jacket.. 25 cm; xvii, 257 pages. 11 only (of 12) plates. Title printed in red and black. ... more information

Cairo: Ministry of Public Works (Schindler's Press), 1940. Octavo. 32 pages, 2 color folding maps, and 21 full-page diagrams, some folding. Bound in original half pebbled morocco over printed boards. Scuffed along edges. ... more information

London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. 24cm; xviii, 636 pages, and 22 plates. 1 (of two) folding map (lacks map showing area of Mahdist influence). Bound in original green decorated cloth. Spine slightly canted. Tear in gutter of list of illustrations, not affecting text. Owner's name on front blank. Minor shelf wear only. Top edge gilt. ... more information

Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1928. Oriental Institute Communications, No. 3. 25cm; [xii], 52 pages, and map. Half tone illustrations in text. Printed wraps, frayed with loss at corners. Upper wrap detaching, spine frayed/ On pre-historic Egypt. Forward by James Henry Breasted. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First American edition. 25 cm; xxx, 782 pages, includking frontispiece portrait and many half tone plates. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in original green cloth. Binding is very good with minimal wear; text block a little shaken, with one leaf loose. ... illustrated with 302 of the author's untouched photographs taken by day and night. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1972. First American. Cloth. 24cm; 231 pages. Brief fraying to dust jacket. Steegmuller translated, edited and constructed a narrative of Flaubert's notes on Egypt. ... more information

Florence: Printed for G[aetano] Cam[biagi], 1785. First edition, presentation copy. Reference: Rothschild 1437; Maggs catalogue 1083, #398 (this copy). Octavo (21 cm); 224 pages, including three pages of engraved music. Manuscript leaf in Piozzi's hand bound in. Bound in contemporary English tree calf, gilt, covers with an outer border of Greek key pattern between gilt fillets and framing an interlaced gilt inner border with tooled corner ornaments of flowers, board edges, turn-ins, and text block e... more information

Brooklyn, [1966?]. 22 cm; 82 pages. Stapled wraps Dusty and a bit worn. INSCRIBED BY PHELPS on title page, "Mr. Wheeler, Best of the New Year, and ... thanks for a beautiful editing job on I.B. Singer. Contents include an appreciation of Allen Ginsburg's HOWL by Michael Rumaker. ... more information

Vancouver: The Library, University of British Columbia [Wil Hudson], 1967. 26 cm; [12] pages, sewn in self wraps. Upper wrap printed in red and black. Includes original wood engraving of "Grouse Mountain in Wintertime" by Vancouver artist George Kuthan. Some slight crimping at bound edge due to inattentive storage. The text first appeared as the foreword to "Wood Engraving," by R. John Beedham, in 1921. It was printed here by the legendary Wil Hudson for the opening of the National ... more information

Prague: A. Majital; Svaz Ceskoslovenských klubu fotografu amatéru, , 1930-1937. 2 volumes, 27 cm. Title page (from 1930 issue), and 630 gravure reproductions of photographs that appeared as an 8-page supplement to each monthly issue of Fotographicky Obzor for the years 1930-1937, collected and specially bound in two quarto volumes. Pagination, where present, is not consecutive because signatures from different numbers have been interleaved for binding purposes. Bound in half cloth over dec... more information

[Boston]: June 8,, 1789. 180 x 235 mm; Order to levy a fine on one Joseph Otis, a Suffolk County jailer, signed by Phillips. Docket and additional signature in Phillips' hand on verso. Also signed by David Cobb. ... more information