Search Results: Authors starting with H from Sanctuary Books

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1908-1928]. Hardcover. Original navy blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine, illustration mounted to upper board; approx. pp. 80, with 28 pencil portraits (one per page, with many pages left blank, one portait tipped-on). A cute little gift book, each page with a printed heading making a pun on the face, with two lines for a name and date at the bottom -- on the verso only, inviting 40 portraits (or thereabouts). The artist has filled most of them and, in many cases, invited her subject to sign and date their own portrait. An adept artist, she's sketched numerous members of her family and friends -- young and old, male and female, frontal or in profile. A nice item, just a bit scuffed at spine tips and corners. Lightly finger-smudged throughout (as one would expect), and two pages neatly torn away.

Berlin, 1876. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Original blue gilt stamped cloth. Cloth rubbed, red tape labels to spine, soiling to covers, a few small old library stamps and previous owner's book plate. Complete with 6 plates (with pink tissue guards), 3 lithographed plates in vibrant, bright colors.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Red cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

London: Edward Lacey. Hardcover. Very Good+. no date (c. 1830) 12 mo. pp. 72. Engraved frontis; title page with engraved vignette. 6 additional plates. Parlour Stories XXXIV. A scarce little book nicely bound in modern (early 20th century?) 3/4 brown calf.

London: Published for Henry Colburn by His Successors, Hurst and Blackett, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Two-Volume Set. Full calf, gilt-stamped lettering in dark brown and green leather spine labels, gilt-stamped ornament on spine, all edges marbled. Both volumes lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; upper board or Volume I lightly sunned. A nice set.

London: John Murray, 1819. Hardcover. Good+. Half calf and marbled paper; 8vo; pp. viii, 229, [1] (errata). Volume 2 only, of 2. Front board detached; first few leaves faintly foxed, but overall internally bright and clean. An excellent working copy, or candidate for repair. Sold as is.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. (12mo) original patterned red cloth stamped in gilt. Third edition expanded with an added poem. Internally spotted. BAL 6975.

Göttingen: ap. Viduam ab Vandenhoeck, 1751. Hardcover. Very Good+. MDCCLI [1751]. Small 8vo (156 x 96mm). 568, [4] pages, plus errata leaf. Signatures: A-A(8), Aa-Mm(8), Nn(4), X2 duplicate inserted between pp. 562-563, another dup. pp. 79-80 inserted between table of chapters and errata leaf. Engraved title-page vignette of compass with motto “fidem non derogat error,” one decorative woodcut engraved chapter head and tail-piece. Modern speckled calf signed by G. Pietersma A’dam with red morocco lettering label, “A.v.HALLER PHYSIOLOGIAE,” endpapers renewed; (contents slightly browned, small rust hole on A8, overall a solid copy). The fine engraved title device of the compass insignia and perfectionist motto, translating to “Faith does not lessen the error,” has a longstanding tradition in the medical scholarly community. This is the new and corrected version, “Ad novam editionem,” of the Primae lineae physiologiae by Albrecht von… Read More

Lausanne: Marci-Michael Bousquet, 1757. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Contemporary calf; volume one only. Ink stain in top margain of a few rear leaves (not affecting text), otherwise a very nice copy.

Paris: Arthaud, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good+. Publisher's pictorial cloth. pp. 128. Photographs throughout. The 1982 reissue of this clever book. Inscribed by Halsman's wife, Ivonne, to whom the book was dedicated

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Small slim quarto. Warmly inscribed by Philippe Halsman in English and French to a pair of his close friends, signing both his name and his wife's, dated Dec. 1959, the year of publication. Nice copy in a worn and spotted dustjacket with a number of small chips and tears.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine copies in original cloth.

London, 1776. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volumes, 8vo (140 x 85mm). Pagination: 383pp.; 318pp.; 318pp.; 335pp. Oeuvres diverses: Tome I: Lettres et épitres; Zeneyde; Tome II: Fleur d’épine; chansons. Tome III: Les quatre facardins, conte; poésies. Tome IV: Le Bellier, conte; poésies. Period French mottled calf, marbled endpapers, edges stained red (some light marginal staining and edgewear). Nouvelle édition.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company , 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original grey boards with minimal signs of wear and no markings. Signed by author and illustrator. A fresh copy. Includes newspaper clipping from November, 2nd 1915 about this first edition being suppressed by Doubleday because of "inaccuracies" alleged by Stevenson's heirs. In one clipping it is mentioned: "Book collectors are making frantic efforts to obtain copies of the supressed work." (clipping is dated in ink: Nov. 2, 1915).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Red cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; dust jacket; 12mo; pp. xix, [1], 139, [1], plus 8 b/w photo-illustrated plates on glossy stock. Gilt somewhat darkened; spine tips gently rubbed; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket just a little tanned along spine; tiny closed tear at bottom edge of front panel (barely visible under mylar); not price-clipped ($2.50), NF in mylar. Based on Meilhac and Halevy's adaption of Prosper Merimee's CARMEN.

Paris: apud Mauricium Ménier, via Nova in suburbiis Victorianis, ad insigne D. Petri, 1560. Hardcover. Good. 16mo (115 x 75mm). Pagination: [16], 542pp., [1]. Signatures: *(8), a-z(8), A-L(8). Woodcut printer’s device of Maurice Ménier depicting a man resisting a temptuous woman with the motto “Coercenda voluptas” (voluptuousness must be contained) and Ménier’s monogram “MM” in oval cartouche frame. Editor’s and author’s note, index, and chapter one with woodcut headpieces (“MM”) and decorated opening initials: one jester and one frog. Final blank with elaborate woodcut diamond ornament. Biblical references as printed marginalia throughout. Later mottled French calf, spine gilt in four compartments with floreate ornament, red morocco lettering label “VIRTVTV VITIOR,” four raised bands, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, blue silk bookmark laid in; (some lighter edgewear: front joint splitting, corners lightly… Read More

[Rochester, New York], 1861. Ephemera. Very Good+. Single leaf (267x192mm), printed on both sides in a variety of types. Program, list of performers, and general advertisement for a performance of Handel's Messiah at Corinthian Hall, "...produced for the first time in this city, by upwards of one hundred performers, under the direction of Mr. Fred Miller, conductor." Foxed.

London: Button & Whitaker, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio. Leather-backed contemporary marbled boards; pp. 170; two engraved title-pages, engraved music, index. N.d., but circa 1800. Corners chipped; spine scuffed, tips perished. A handsome early edition.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Illustrated. Boards a bit faded and scuffed along the edges; spine tips frayed; faint scattered foxing. A nice association copy. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate, and inscribed to him by the author. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.

New York: Random House, 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 218. Spine tips lightly rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine tips and corners, otherwise fine. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid-in.