Search Results: Authors starting with H from Bountiful Books

London: Longman's Green and Co.. Hinges starting, else a sound copy with chipping/wear to spine ends and corners, fading to fore-edge of front board. Owner's name in pencil inside top back cover, else no interior markings. Illustrated with 15 color plates, numerous black & white drawings and maps. xxiii + 632 pages. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1901.

Greenwich: Henry S. Richardson. This first edition published by Richardson was printed for private circulation only. Rebound with original green decorated boards, new spine, spine label, and end papers. Boards show wear, bumping at edges, else sound. Damp stain to frontispiece portrait of Hargood, light foxing to first two pages and last page, else text block is clean and unmarked. Hargood served as first lieutenant and later commander of the battleships Pegasus and Adromeda under the man who later became King William IV, and continued to serve during the American and French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars including the Battle of Trafalgar. xii + 206 pages including six Appendices. Two illustrations listed in the Table of Contents are not present. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1841.

New York: St. Martin's Press. Warmly INSCRIBED on half-title page by HAYWOOD, this is the author's first novel, featuring African American detective Aaron Gunner. Spine tail is lightly bumped, else book is pristine, inside and out. In a clean, bright dust jacket that shows minor rubbing at spine ends and along bottom edge. DJ is now mylar-protected. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988.

New York: Knopf. Very nice copy of this scarce first edition of Hellman's second play. This is the true first ed., NOT the Modern Library reprint. Book is orange cloth with black decorative stamping on front and on spine, with a hint of fading at top edges of boards, and light wear to spine ends. Pages within are clean and tight. Fragile DJ, now mylar protected, shows chipping and small tears along edges and spine head, 1" closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, minor sunning at extremities, else clean and bright. . Very Good+. Cloth. 1st Edition. 1936.

San Jose, California: Eaton and Co.. Brown cloth boards show light soiling, else sound, and INSCRIBED by Hines on the front pastedown, "to _________, April 18, 1912, from The Author". Endpapers show light offsetting from the pastedowns, else interior is clean and unmarked. A biography of the Reverend Joseph Wilkinson Hines by his grandson. Hines was an early California settler, active during the Civil War, in dealings with the Indians, in establishing educational systems in the state, and an early member of the Republican Party. His biography offers an exciting and authentic picture of what life in California was like during the nineteenth century. 199 pages. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1911.

Paris: Didier et Cie. A handsome set, complete in two volumes. Burgundy calf with gilt stamping to spine, marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Leather corners and spine show light rubbing, else binding is clean and sound. Frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in each volume (Vol. I Charles II, King of Spain; Vol. II Henri Harcourt), with a fold-out copy of an important letter in each volume. Light foxing throughout each volume, else unmarked. The Marquis of Harcourt was French Ambassador under Charles II and Philippe V, and this history was compiled by Hippeau from the personal archives of Harcourt Castle and the official archives of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with notes and a historic Introduction by Hippeau. Vol. I - ccxxxix + 293 pps.; Vol. II - 575 pps. + Errata. . Very Good. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1975.