Titles starting with F from Quill & Brush

New York: Random House, 1956. First edition, seventh printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Best wishes J. Edgar Hoover" fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with minimal edgewear. Although not a first, this is the book to have signed by Hoover on the FBI. Scarce signed. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1989). First edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Advance reading copy in pictorial paperwraps. Near fine with light rubbing and minor edge wear. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1989). First edition. SIGNED on title page. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1989). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

(Rockville, MD): Quill & Brush, 1996. First edition. One of 500 copies of which 250 were sold or distributed at Fitzgerald events associated with the centenary. Introduction by Jackson Bryer, President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. Small, Princeton-orange, printed paperwraps with photograph of Fitzgerald in profile reproduced on front cover. Tributes by Alice Adams, Frederick Busch, Hortense Calisher, Thomas Caplan, Alan Cheuse, Nicholas Delbanco, Don DeLillo, Nelson DeMille, Thomas Flanagan, G... more information

(New York): Random House (1954). First edition. National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner. "Book Sale" stamped on the bottom page edges, otherwise very good or better, lacking dust jacket. ... more information

Barre: Imprint Society, 1970. First thus. Complete fables in one volume. Wood engravings by Gillian Lewis Tyler. One of 1,950 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. Fine in slipcase. Only the barest wear. Very nice production. ... more information

New York: Harper & Bros. (1940). First edition. Pictorial paper-covered boards with minor edge wear mainly on corners and spine ends where there is one small chip at bottom. Lacking dustwrapper. ... more information

San Francisco: Kayak (1967). First edition. One of 400 printed by George Hitchcock for Kayak. Textured blue paperwraps with light offsetting from binders glue affecting tissue endpaper edges. Poetry complemented by lovely illustrations. Near fine condition. ... more information

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. First edition. Near fine in dustwrapper with a little rubbing at spine ends and corners and one short tear (top edge, front panel). ... more information

(New York: Friendly Press, 1985). First edition. By Paul Davis, with an introduction by Vonnegut. Fascinating color portraits by Davis collected from his work done primarily for magazine covers and theatre posters. Subjects include George Orwell, Gore Vidal, Woody Allen, Ian Fleming, among others; many portraits are previously unpublished. Large (quarto) white cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering. Tiny remainder mark on bottom page edges, otherwise fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: George Braziller, 1961. First edition. Author's second novel. Small stain on front page edges, light foxing on end papers and few small spots on top edge, otherwise very good to fine in dustwrapper with slight edgewear and some very small chips on spine. ... more information

(New York): Random House (1960). First edition. One corner bumped and cloth very slightly soiled, otherwise very good to fine in dustwrapper which has some rubbed spots and a few closed tears. ... more information

New York: Bantam Books (1990). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row (1986). First edition. His second mystery, after STRIKE THREE YOUR DEAD. This one involves the mysterious deaths of two basketball players from the Boston Celtics and Washington Bullets. INSCRIBED, "Oct. 6, 1986/ To Michael --- May all your dribbles be single ones. Best, Richard Rosen." Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row (1986). First edition. His second mystery, after STRIKE THREE YOUR DEAD. This one involves the mysterious deaths of two basketball players from the Boston Celtics and Wahington Bullets. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row (1970). First edition. The first in the Brandstetter series and the first novel written under his own name. Fine with previous owner's name on verso of front endpaper; in a very good or better dustwrapper with light rubbing and soiling. ... more information

New York: A Dutton Book (1992). First edition, an uncorrected proof. A wicked black comedy about women who love men who love men. Fine in paperwraps. ... more information

New York: Ballentine Books, Inc. (1953). First edition. Classic dystopian novel, made into the 1966 film of the same name starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. "451"--the temperature at which book-paper combusts. Faint foxing to endpapers and minor rubbing to tips, otherwise fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket with green on spine toned to gray-green and red "451" just faded to pink. A crisp, attractive copy of this scarce Ballentine hardcover. ... more information

(New York): Times Books/ Random House (1995). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper with lengthwise crease in spine. Publisher's promotional letter laid in. ... more information