Titles starting with F from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

Paris: G. Carre...,, 1888.. 8vo, 23, (1)pp. Publ. orange title wrappers, lettered in black. Covers detached and chipped, text clean. A fair copy.. First Edition. Dorbon-Aine 6388. ... more information

Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,, 1998. Sm folio, xxvii, 100pp text vol. in wrappers, with 99 plates, together in folding cloth portfolio. Fine copy.. Comprising Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple. Vol. 2, plates 129-227. (Oriental Institute Publications Vol. 116.) ... more information

London: Trübner,, 1861.. Folio, 79, (4)pp, with frontispiece portrait of St. Matthew & 19 plates. Modern buckram with original printed wraper laid on front cover. Very good.. Only Edition of a rare work by the celebrated 19th-century scholar-forger, pertaining to the famous scandal of the Mayer Papyri. Prior to the 1860s, when his interest turned to Egyptian hieroglyphics, Simonides had been at the center of a series of disputed manuscript discoveries of major importance that had involved collectors, pa... more information

London: Hippolyte Baillié;re,, 1844.. 8vo, 4 (ads), xxxv, 390, (2, ads)pp. Orig. cloth, lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind. Wear to back joint, signature to endpaper, otherwise very good.. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Townshend, a poet and close friend of Southey, 'was one of the most articulate British writers on animal magnetism... (Crabtree 433, first London edition, 1840). Tinterow p.104-5. ... more information

Westbury NY: Highland House,, 1981.. 4to, 160pp, 58 illus. throughout in b/w. Grey cloth, color dust jacket. Very good copy with blind stamp of a collector.. First Printing. ... more information

Boston: Lothrop, [n.d., ca., 1890].. 4to, 2 fine chromolithographic plates & b/w woodengravings in the text. Chromo boards, red lcoth backstip. Light edge wear, child's name & scribbles on on endpaper, otherwise very good. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape, , 1975.. 8vo, 272pp, illus. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Fine.. ... more information

Lancaster, Penn.: Jaques Cattell Press,, (1942).. 8vo, 299pp, illustrated, index, glossary. Publ. royal blue cloth. Very good, clean copy.. First Edition of a work on the inheritance of family traits, focussing on the hair, eyes, nose, ears, hands, and birthmarks. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday,, 1968.. 8vo, (10), 340pp, 41 b&w photo-illus. Beige cloth, blue lettered, dust jacket, offset to h-t and ffep with (2) staple holes, otherwise fine in very good dj.. First Edition, Inscribed by the Author. ... more information

New York: Bloch Publishing Co., , 1927.. First Edition, signed by Goddard Lieberson, composer and once president of Columbia Records. ... more information

London: The Studio Ltd.,, 1927.. 4to, (4)pp, 6 tipped-in color plates on rectos, notes on versos. Printed stiffcard with vignette, internally clean, wrappers age-toned, repair to spine head, lacks the sixth plate, otherwise very good.. First Edition. ... more information

Geneve: Slatkine Reprints,, 1970.. 8vo, 312pp. Red cloth. Fine.. Re-issue of the Paris 1864 original edition of 220 copies; the text includes articles on imaginary books and libraries. ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1899.. Sm 8vo, xi, (1), 194, (4) as publisher's adv. Publisher's original tan cloth, lettered and illus. in gilt, red, black, and blue, dust jacket, fine in very good dj. . First Edition, second state with advertising at rear headed, 'New Fiction.' Scarce in dj. BAL 1120; Starrett 16. ... more information

Halle-Ammendorf: Hartmann,, 1930.. 4to, 26pp, 3 color prints and 1 plate in photogravure, with 4 b/w reproductions of the Hartmann brothers, a stunning tipped-in color phptograph of flowers. Illustrated wrappers (the inside wrappers covered in brown faux-suede, small residue of tape front cover, small library stamp & inventory numbers on title, otherwise fine.. A striking deco booklet published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the printing company under the motto: Farbe ist Leben, Leben ist Arbeit, A... more information

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth,, (1928).. 4to, 39pp booklet laid into portfolio with 115 of 120 color plates. Orig. cloth portfolio. Portfolio worn, small paper defect to margin of booklet, plates clean, very good.. Classic collection of decorative details, including many tiles, frescos, and columns. Many deteriorated ancient materials have been reconstructed and recolored in these illustrations. ... more information

Stuttgart: G. Siegle, ca., 1925.. Oblong 4to, 20pp text printed in gray plus 30 color lithograph plates loose in portfolio. Orig. cloth backed board portfolio, linen ties, very slight wear to the portfolio, otherwise fine.. An astonishing collaboration between the publisher, a color manufacturer, and the author, a professor and designer. Jöker has provided a series of interior wall designs based on complicated color patterns using Siegle colors. Intended for artists, architects and other professionals, t... more information

London: Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , 1806.. 12mo, xlviii, 99, (2), (4 as ads)pp, frontispiece, head and tailpieces,11 woodcuts. Brown cloth, gilt lettered on red morocco spine label, front hinge starting, otherwise good. . Later edition, initially published in 1800. Cf. Haywood 212. ... more information

(Los Angeles: USC Fisher Gallery,, 2003).. 8vo, 86pp, color frontispiece, 1 color plate, 25 b&w figures. Illus. wrappers, fine. . First Edition of a catalogue on the Gazette du Bon Ton, published 1912-1915. ... more information

(New York): A Plume Book, , (1989).. 8vo, paperback. Very good.. ... more information

Hamburg: Verlag St. Gertrude,, 1988.. 4to, 390 plates. Burgund cloth. Very good copy in slightly worn dust jacket. With a brochure with French translation laid in. . First Edition, initialled by the author on the front endaper ... more information