Search Results: Authors starting with H from Supercalifabulistic Books

Heritage, 1937 Book. Illus. by Covarubias. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/G. Colorful picture of a tropical rainforest encompassing the entire exterior of book. Slight shelfwear to edges and corners of cover. box protecting outside of book is in 3 pieces and missing small portion that protects the upper spine. No DJ - box instead. Interior of book is in near fine condition with brilliant colored illustrations throughout. No marks, clean and tight..

The Sioux by Irene Handl
This copy is in near fine condition!
Stated First

Published by Knopf
"A dazzling and wholly original novel! The story of an aristocratic French family living in our time with a style and arrogance that are emphatically feudal." It has nothing to do with the Sioux tribe of Native Americans.

Boston, Toronto: Atlantic- Little, Brown, 1970 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/VG Stated First Edition Very good condition tan hardcover with red spine, embossed design and gold embossed titles, with all corners sharp and nearly zero shelf wear. Slight discoloration where tape help on plastic dust jacket cover. Spine leans slightly. Paper roughened and scarred on back flyleaf. 245 pages. DJ in Very Good condition, not price clipped, nearly zero shelf wear, one 3 inch tear vertical on spine and repaired well. Beautiful illustration on front cover. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to title and copyright pages. VG/none. Oatmeal colored/textured boards with imprint of Ernest Hemingway's signature on front cover. First flyleaf partially torn away. Clean, no marks, tight edition. Black title on spine is clear, red background a bit worn.
Considered Hemingway's most important work.

New York : Triangle Books, 1948 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/G Book is in Very Good condition, straight spine and shelf wear, slight bumping at corners and spine. Pages are stiff, possibly exposed to dampness at some point. 242 pages. DJ is in Good condition, not price clipped. Worn at crease, slight cracking, chipped and bumped at corners, slight stain on upper inside front edge, near penciled price of "59c". "No man, woman, or child on the island of Celador could swim or dive so well as Nina. And no girl or woman had ever been so framed by nature to attract the roving masculine eye. . .".

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Good/none. Green, blind stamped boards, gilt lettering on front and spine. Loose binding, all pages intact. Possible American first. Dedication to original owner from Grandmother and Grandfather. NRA stickers adhered to front and back. Some woodblocking. East Lynne was an English sensation novel of 1861- a Victorian bestseller. It is remebered chiefly for it's elaborate and implausible plot centering on infidelity and double identities. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard working but neglectful Lawyer husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Issabel disguises herself and takes the position of Governess in the household of her former husband and his new wife..

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. G/VG Red hardcover with gold embossed titles has some water damage on the back, otherwise book is in near new condition. 420 pages chocked full of pictures documenting Miss Hepburn's life, to add to her own words on the subject. DJ is Very Good, near to new besides the water damage on the inside back cover, not visible on the out side. This book contains pictures of Katherine Hepburn skateboarding (as well as her life story in her own words. . . )!.

Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert , author of DUNE
Paperback
Berkeley Edition 1979
Author of DUNE

Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert
Berkley Edition
Stated second printing
1979
By the best selling author of Dune

New York: Knopf, 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Rare copy.Pulitzer Prize Winner! Same date to title and copyright pages:1944.War time printing. Covers show wear to edges, spine and corners. Bell design stamped on spine, mission style building stamped on front cover.Water stain. Uncut pages show age, yet are tight, clean and unmarked. No jacket. Cover condition: Good +, inside condition of book: Very Good. .

Someone Knows My Name
VG/VG

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF Orange cover with dark blue details and illustration, slight chip on front cover and faint smudges on spine. Straight spine. Besides light penciled inscription on first flyleaf, pages ar pristine. An Indiana adventure and romance, focusing on pioneer lifestyle and rural living. 434 pages Possible first printing. . ..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/VG Stated first edition. Jacket is slightly chipped at spine, not price clipped. Book is beige with maroon spine and gold writing. The spine is loose, otherwise book is in very good condition. 420 pages. Autobiographical story of an American woman trapped in Tehran, imprisoned by her husband. "The underground said they could get her out but she would have to leave her little girl behind." Basis for the hit film by the same title starring Sally Fields. .

Random House, 1958 Book. Illus. by Marion Holland. Good. Hardcover. The inner pages of this classic children's book are in VG+ condition, and amazing enough, the binding is in tact. Red/Orange boards. The hard cover however is only in good condition. The cover to the spine is stripped. The rest of the cover is in tact and has general shelf wear, corners and edges bumped - great condition for a well loved and read 60 year old children's book! Po's name, signed by an adult in pen "Craig Belcher" . No other marks, stains, book is clean and tight! "But here came a man and he shook out the can! He shook all the things from the can in a sack. He took all the things in a pack on his back . "Hey! you with the sack! You bring back my string!" HE did NOT bring it back. He did not say a thing. Away went the man. Away went the truck. And away I went! And then - what luck! BUMPETY-BUMP! The truck dumped with a thump. And there I was at the good 'ol dump! The young Dennis the Menace look alike finds all kinds… Read More

New York: The Platt & Monk Co., Inc. , 1935 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/none. Royal Blue Boards with red Thunderbird and titles to front cover and red titles to spine. Fraying to edges and corners. Clean on inside pages, no tears. Map endpapers, "The Indians In This Book Lived In These Places". Map depicts the places where the following story characters lived: Whale Tooth, Cedar Bough , Raven, Little Turtle corn-Flower Buffalo Calf, Otter Tail , Flying Squirrel, Rides away Tinking. Sketches along the borders of every page, Numerous full page 8" by 10" color illustrations throughout. "Painted-Bowl, Litlle Turtle's mother, wove the most beautiful feather robes. She pulled the fuzzy part of the feather from the quill and wound it about yucca fiber strings. These strings she wove into soft light robes which were very warm. For a feather supply she kept wild turkeys in willow pens in part of the big cave. Baskets held her corn meal or flour. she ground the flour in a little open-topped box of plastered… Read More

Little Brown and Company, 1996 Book. Illus. by John Howe. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/NF Stated First, matching number line. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color. The Story of Yvain, a Knight of the Round Table.A classic Arthuria Legend. Not price clipped. Clean, tight, no marks. .