FOSTER, GEORGE M.

Contemporary Pottery Techniques in Southern and Central Mexico

New Orleans, La: Middle American Research Institute, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations & Maps; This is a larger than trade sized paperback book with cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have noticeable toning to the spine, spine joints and edges. The text pages are clean and bright. "George McClelland Foster Jr. (October 9, 1913 – May 18, 2006) was an American anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for contributions on peasant societies (the "principle of limited good" and the "Dyadic Contract") and as one of the founders of medical anthropology. He served as president of the American Anthropological Association (elected 1970). And was elected member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences (elected 1976) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1980). He received the 1982 Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2005. A festschrift in his honor was published in 1979. He was married to the linguist Mary LeCron Foster, and in 1997 the U. C. Berkeley anthropology library was renamed the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library in their honor. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 49808

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: Archaeology George M. Foster Tulane University Mexico Pottery Ethnological Studies

FOX, GEORGE

Amok a Novel

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671226819. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright, with the exception of a previous owner's embossed name stamp on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has several tiny nicks and small tears, along with some fading to the spine.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 43758

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0671226819 Modern Fiction First Edition George Fox Espionage

FRANCIS, DICK

10-Lb. Penalty

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399143025. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book has slight bumping to the bottom and top of the spine. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has one tiny nick to the top spine end.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 45390

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0399143025 Modern Fiction First Edition Dick Francis Horse Racing Steeplechase Racing Horses Horse Racing

FRANKLIN, TOM

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

New York: William Morrow, 2010. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060594667. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Though some characterize Franklin as being a crime writer, his fiction is much more diverse, and he is best described as being a Southern writer, who is often compared to Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor. Franklin's first book is collection of ten short stories, Poachers (1999) , the title story of which won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Short Story. In an interview for the website Mississippi Writers and Musicians, its author writes of the book as being " stories that address the injustice and irony that life can sometimes have as well as the corruption present in daily life. Franklin puts his characters in situations where temptation makes the line between right and wrong unclear at times." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40722

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: 0060594667 Modern Fiction First Edition Tom Franklin Humor Suspense

FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Black Ajax

London, England: Harper Collins, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002255855. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages have some beginning toning / darkening to the edges of the pages due to the quality of the paper used. The foredge and top edge of the text block have noticeable toning as well. The dust jacket is clean and bright.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 46155

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Keywords: 0002255855 Modern Fiction First Editions George MacDonald Fraser Boxing Flashman The Flashman series Victorian England Sports Pugilism

FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Flashman and the Redskins

London, England: Collins, 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. There is a slight slant to the spine of th ebook, and one smallish patch of white discoloration to the bottom spine end. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some light ground-in dirt to the edges of the text block. The dust jacket is in mostly clean condition, however there is some generalized toning to the edges and spine. The dust jacket art is by Barbosa. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 39262

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition George Macdonald Fraser Barbosa Historical Fiction Military Fiction Modern Fiction Firsts

FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALD

Flashman and the Tiger and Other Extracts from the Flashman Papers

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375410244. Illustrated by Barbosa. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. The dust jacket artwork is by Barbosa. "In 1966, Fraser got the idea to turn Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days (1857) , into a hero, and he wrote a novel around the character's exploits. The book proved popular and sale of the film rights enabled Fraser to become a full-time writer. He moved to the Isle of Man where he could pay less tax. There was a series of further Flashman novels, presented as packets of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman looking back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series is notable for the accuracy of its historical settings and praise it received from critics. For example, P. G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, "If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman." The first Flashman sequel was Royal Flash. It was published in 1970, the same year that Fraser published The General Danced at Dawn, a series of short stories which fictionalised his post-war military experience as the adventures of "Dand" MacNeill in a Scottish Highland regiment. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 42552

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0375410244 Modern Fiction First Edition George Macdonald Fraser Flashman Barbosa Adventure Espionage war War Fiction

FRAYN, MICHAEL

Spies a Novel

New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2002. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805070583. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. A previous owner has glued in a ribbon bookmarker to the spine of the book. "His novels include Headlong (shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize) , The Tin Men (won the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award) , The Russian Interpreter (1967, Hawthornden Prize) Towards the End of the Morning, Sweet Dreams, A Landing on the Sun, A Very Private Life, Now You Know and Skios (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2012). His novel, Spies, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002. He has also written a book about philosophy, Constructions, and a book of his own philosophy, The Human Touch. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43408

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0805070583 Modern Fiction First Edition Michael Frayn London, England World War II

OLDER MRS. FREMONT (CORA MIRANDA BAGGERLY OLDER )

Esther Damon

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and edge wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The edges of the text block have noticeable toning, along with a couple of small spots of foxing / darkening. "Cora Miranda Baggerly Older (1875-1968) was a well-known author and novelist from the the early part of the century until publication of her last book in 1961." "So it goes with Esther Damon—a product of a bygone, mostly forgotten age. Together, these three books from the early 1900s are obscure enough that only two appear in An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction, 1664-1970, by Newton D. Baird and Robert Greenwood (1971). Esther Damon proves to be the orphan: the omitted title. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 46511

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Mrs. Fremont Older Cora Miranda Baggerly Older San Francisco, CA California Fiction California Authors

FUENTES, CARLOS

Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374128863. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, with only a small patch of discoloration to the reverse of the rear panel and some beginning bumping to the top spine end. "His 1985 novel The Old Gringo (Gringo viejo) , loosely based on American author Ambrose Bierce's disappearance during the Mexican Revolution, became the first U. S. Bestseller written by a Mexican author. The novel tells the story of Harriet Winslow, a young American woman who travels to Mexico, and finds herself in the company of an aging American journalist (called only "the old gringo") and Tomás Arroyo, a revolutionary general. Like many of Fuentes' works, it explores the way in which revolutionary ideals become corrupted, as Arroyo chooses to pursue the deed to an estate where he once worked as a servant rather than follow the goals of the revolution. In 1989, the novel was adapted into the U. S. Film Old Gringo starring Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Smits. A long profile of Fuentes in the U. S. Magazine, "Mother Jones," describes the filming of "The Old Gringo" in Mexico with Fuentes on the set. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 41419

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Keywords: 0374128863 Modern Fiction First Edition Carlos Fuentes Short Fiction South America

FUENTES, CARLOS (TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN)

Destiny and Desire a Novel

New York: Random House, 2011. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1400068800. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Fuentes served as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977, resigning in protest of former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's appointment as ambassador to Spain. He also taught at Cambridge, Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Cornell. His friends included Luis Buñuel, William Styron, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and sociologist C. Wright Mills, to whom he dedicated his book The Death of Artemio Cruz. Once good friends with Nobel-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz, Fuentes became estranged from him in the 1980s in a disagreement over the Sandinistas, whom Fuentes supported. In 1988, Paz's magazine Vuelta carried an attack by Enrique Krauze on the legitimacy of Fuentes' Mexican identity, opening a feud between Paz and Fuentes that lasted until Paz's 1998 death. In 1989, he was the subject of a full-length PBS television documentary, "Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes," which also aired in Europe and was broadcast repeatedly in Mexico. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41437

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1400068800 Modern Fiction First Edition Carlos Fuentes

FUENTES, CARLOS (TRANSLATED BY SUZANNE JILL LEVINE)

Holy Place

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1978. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525475281. Trade PB. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have several tiny spots of ground-in dirt. There is some bumping ane nicking to the top edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small green marker spot on the bottom edge of the text block. "Carlos Fuentes has been called "the Balzac of Mexico". Fuentes himself cited Miguel de Cervantes, William Faulkner and Balzac as the most important writers to him. He also named Latin American writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Juan Carlos Onetti, Miguel Angel Asturias and Jorge Luis Borges. European modernists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust has also been cited as important influences on his writing, with Fuentes applying the influence from them on his main theme; Mexican history and identity. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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Book number: 44247

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0525475281 Modern Fiction First Edition Carlos Fuentes Mythology Past And Present

FUSSELMAN, AMY

The Pharmacist's Mate

New York, NY: McSweeney's, 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0970335539. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 48364

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0970335539 Modern Fiction First Edition Amy Fusselman Signed Edition Author's First Novel World War II Diary

GABALDON, DIANA

Voyager

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385302320. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The bottom edge of the rear board has a strip of very light fading / discoloration. This is a stated first edition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has a sewn binding. The dust jacket has one small nick with rubbing to the top rear corner. The reverse of the dust jacket has some discoloration displaced from the rear book cover. "In 1988, Gabaldon decided to write a novel for "practice, just to learn how", and with no intention to show it to anyone. As a research professor, she decided that a historical novel would be easiest to research and write, but she had no background in history and initially no particular time period in mind. Gabaldon happened to see a rerun episode of the Doctor Who science fiction TV series titled "The War Games." One of the Doctor's companions was a Scot from around 1745, a young man about 17 years old named Jamie McCrimmon, who provided the initial inspiration for her main male character, James Fraser, and for her novel's mid-18th century Scotland setting. Gabaldon decided to have "an Englishwoman to play-off all these kilted Scotsmen," but her female character "took over the story and began telling it herself, making smart-ass modern remarks about everything." " (from Wikipeda). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 43928

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0385302320 Modern Fiction First Edition Diana Gabaldon Historical Fiction Scotland Time Travel

GALLICO, PAUL

The Snow Goose

New York: Knopf, 1969. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some wear to the inner front hinge of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and a chip to the top spine end. "The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha. The snow goose, symbolic of both Rhayader (Gallico) and the world itself, wounded by gunshot and many miles from home, is found by Fritha and, as the human friendship blossoms, the bird is nursed back to flight, and revisits the lighthouse in its migration for several years. As Fritha grows up, Rhayader and his small sailboat eventually are lost in the Dunkirk evacuation, having saved several hundred men. The bird, which was with Rhayader, returns briefly to the grown Fritha on the marshes. She interprets this as Rhayader's soul taking farewell of her (and realizes she had come to love him). Afterwards, a German pilot destroys Rhayader's lighthouse and all of his work, except for one portrait Fritha saves after his death: a painting of her as Rhayader first saw her—a child, with the wounded snow goose in her arms." (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 39907

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Birds Snow geese London Dunkirk World War II Modern Fiction