Titles starting with F from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1965. (WRIGHT) ZEVI, Bruno, and Edgar Kaufmann. F. LLOYD WRIGHT'S FALLINGWATER. (Milan): Etas Kompass, (1965). Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 80 pages. Second edition. Reprinted from August 1962 issue of L'Architettura. Photographs by Paul Maye Text and title page in Italian and English. Dust jacket sunned, else very go ... more information

1980. Paperback. (BRANDYWINE PRESS) HALL, Helen. F.V. HALL: A MEMOIR. Sydney: Brandywine Press & Archive, 1980. 8vo. Hand-sewn wrappers. (8) pages One of 60 numbered copies. A tribute to an Australian advertising man who started The School of Applied Advertising and compiled 60 instruction books on all aspects of advertising s as typography, the work of the artist, process engraving, etc. ... more information

1823. PERRIN, Jean Baptiste. FABLES AMUSANTES. Baltimore: Neal, 1823. 12mo. Full contemporary sheep. 180 pages. Second Neal edition. Being a school book, teaching French using fables as text. Slight waterstain and light chipping to head of spine, else a very nice copy. This text was fi printed in London (1783) and went through several American editions. ... more information

1964. Paperback. (LEAF BOOK) BREWER, Frances J. THE FABLES OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1964. Large folio. Wrappers, slipcase. (viii 7, (3) pages. One of 125 copies. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, this elegant leaf boo contains two leaves of text and one full-page illustration from the Memorial Edition of the Fables Choisies, illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and printe in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755-1759. ... more information

CLUNN, Harold P. THE FACE OF PARIS. London: Spring Books, n.d. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xv, 310 pages, (65) plat Provides indepth descriptions of a fourteen of recomended walking and five driving tours with emphasis on the history and architecture of the city and i surrounding environs. Very good. ... more information

1978. PFISTER, Harold Francis. FACING THE LIGHT. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 37 pages. First edition. With a foreword by Marvin Sadik and a curatorial preface by William F. Stapp. Bookplate, dust jacket slightly sunned and rubbed, else fine. ... more information

1931. TATSCH, J. Hugo. THE FACTS ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON AS A FREEMASON. New York: Macoy, 1931. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition. With a forward by Robert E. Coonz. Illustrated. ... more information

1973. (BIBLIOMYSTERY) BARTRAM, George. FAIR GAME. New York: Macmillan, (1973). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. First editi The hero/victim of this novel is John Grueby, a corporate librarian, who must use all his skills to stay alive and fight a plot involving international finance, computers, and the illegal transfer of vast sums of money by compute ... more information

1906. (BOOKS IN BOXES) SANGSTER, Margaret. FAIREST GIRLHOOD. New York: Revell, (1906). 8vo. Pictorial cloth, glassine wrapper, printed bo 263 pages, plates. First edition. An attractive book, printed in brown throughout and illustrated with drawings Griselda Marshall McClure, in it's original publisher's printed box. Books i boxes are becoming very uncommon and will be more so in the coming decade. Sangster was best known as editor of Harper's Bazaar. Book in fine condition box showing some ... more information

1876. KEYSER, Charles S. FAIRMOUNT PARK. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Heffelfinger, 1872. 8vo. Publisher's clot Frontispiece, folding map, 161, (12), (7) pages, 2 plates, 1 of which is in color. Fifth edition. First published in 1871, the book offers a history and of the parks construct and uses. Fairmont Park was the site for the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Illustrated throughout. Folding map and nineteen pages of advertisements for Philadelphia businesses. Light spotting to covers. (For p... more information

1925. (CURWEN PRESS) DE BIBIENA, Jean-Galli. THE FAIRY DOLL. London: Chapman & Hall, 1925. 8vo. Quarter-cloth, top edge gilt. xv, (v), 15 pages. First edition, thus. One of 1,000 copies. Shane Leslie provides the introduction to this English language version of La Poupee; unopened. Printed by the Curwen Press. Very good. ... more information

1976. Paperback. OELGART, Isaac J., compiler. FALCONRY AND HAWKING TREATISES PRINTED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. (Newburyport, Massachusetts): New Mews press, 1976. 8vo. Wrappers. 36 pages. First edition. One of four hundred copies. "A checklist of preliminary sources with a list related books of interest to falconers." An annotated list of forty-eight wo printed between 1575 to 1975. Indexed. Fine. ... more information

1996. JONES, Shirley. FALLS THE SHADOW. (Brecon: Shirley Jones, 1996). Large folio. Cloth clamshell box with brown leather spine label. Unpaginated. One of 40 copies. "Falls the Shadow is a multi-layered work which explores the gulf between Man ideals and the realization of those ideals. Five essays by Shirley Jones dra on historians from Thucydides to Christopher Hill; political philosophers fro Aristotle to Mao Tse-tung; poets from Pindar to Eliot. A blind-printed shell a symbol of the ideal intro... more information

1755. HALLIFAX, Charles. FAMILIAR LETTERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF BUSINESS AND AMUSEMENT. London: R. Baldwin, 1755. 8vo. Contemporary full-calf. (vii), xvi, 12, 275, pages. Third edition. An instructional guide for youth combining practical matters with morals, tas entertainment, and letter writing. Copies were in colonial Virginia, adverti for sale in Williamsburg's Virginia Gazette. Rebacked, else very good. ... more information

1789. RAWLINS, Thomas. FAMILIAR ARCHITECTURE; OR, ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF HOUSES, FOR GENTLEMEN AND TRADESMEN. London: I. and J. Taylor, 1789. Folio. Quarter-calf, marbled boards. 30, (4) pages, 50 plates. Second edition. [Harris, 731; Schimmelman, Architectural Bo in Early America, 112]. First published in 1768, Rawlins plans concentrate on both rural and city housing. The patterns are for parsonages, summer retreats, banqueting- rooms, and churches, as well as middle class housing. Many of the designs are ... more information

1848. BARRINGTON, Archibald. A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO HERALDRY. London: H.G. Bohn, 1848. Small 8vo. Publishers red cloth. Frontispiece, xii, 216 pages, 22 plates. "Explaining in a series of lectures the principles of the science, and shewin its application to the study of history and architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings of armorial bearings, badges, and other devices." With indices. Bookplate of George Bury; with his signature and notes in text. ... more information

1853. BUIST, Robert. THE FAMILY KITCHEN GARDENER; CONTAINING PLAIN AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF CULINARY VEGETABLES. New York: C.M. Saxon, 1853. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 216, (22) pages. First edition 1847. It includes "descriptions and characters of the most sel fruits, their management, propagation, etc, illustrated with twenty-five engravings." With twenty-two pages of advertisements in back. Bookplate. T of spine repaired, internally very good.... more information

1921. HOLLISTER, Paul M. FAMOUS COLONIAL HOUSES. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1921. Small folio. Cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 170 pages, 11 plates. First edition. With an introduction by Julian Street, and color illustrations by James Prest Hollister tells tales of colonial homes in which early American history was made. Some edge wear, else fine. ... more information

1921. HOLLISTER, Paul M. FAMOUS COLONIAL HOUSES. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1921. Small folio. Cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 170 pages, 11 plates. First edition. With an introduction by Julian Street, and color illustrations by James Prest Hollister tells tales of colonial homes in which early American history was made. Some coverwear, else fine. ... more information

1902. MALAN, A.H. FAMOUS HOMES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR STORIES. Three volumes. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1900, 1902, and 1902. 4to. Publisher's cloth. First appearing as articles in "Pall Mall Magazine", each chapter details the stories behind the construction of famous British homes. The authors of the chapters drew upon county histories, papers in the various antiquarian and field-club societies' transactions and private family memoirs in an effort to obtain the full history of t... more information