Search Results: Authors starting with H from You Little Dickens

Poughkeepsiae (NY): Impensis Paraclete Potter, 1814. Hardcover. Good. 3 1/2 x 6. 148 pages + 2 of recommendations for other books. Neat ownerships by S. (or L.) Curran Clark and John H. Young. Foxing to end pages and age toned page edges. Full leather boards. Three corners rubbed through; scuffed areas on the leather. Rear leather hinges cracked on the lower 40%. Front leather hinge broken but still attached by one string. SCARCE

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated Edition" Dark green leather spine and corners. Red leather label in the second section of the six sections on the spine. Purple boards. Some leather rubbed. SEE PHOTOS No published date but probably from 1880's. Illustrated including engravings in text, on title page and frontis with tissue.Interior nice and clean. Numbers written on front pastedown and owner sticker on ffep.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1901. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4. John Henderson Betts. 257 pages. Neat gift inscription. The boards show slight fraying to the ends of the spine and the spine is somewhat darkened. GOOD+++

Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & Co., 1877. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 1/2. 360 pages + 3 of ads. Some personal notes in pencil on the first free page ("got acquainted with Miss Ida Rhoads, daughter of Rev. Wesley .......). The text pages may have 2 or 3 pages with some marks but they are scarce. Illustrated (great ones at that). The page edges are age toned. The spine has tan tape over it to add reinforcement. The printed boards are rubbed but over 98% legible. Some ink staining on the boards. Bumped corners but I give this book a solid GOOD+. SCARCE

New York - London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 6 x 8 3/4. 538 clean unmarked pages. Illustrated. Blue boards gently rubbed. This book looks unread. Dust jacket has lots of chips and the spine is dark and missing a small amount of paper. Not price clipped ($4.00). Stated First Edition followed by L-B. This is a NEAR FINE book with a GOOD MINUS jacket.

private, 1952. Soft cover. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4. 16 pages. Privately printed reprint of an 1881 poem. Unmarked. The wrappers are stapled green paper with a paper label on the front. Very slight age toning to the edges.

New York. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4 x 61/4. German translated publication of Rev. Newman Hall's book, 'Come To Jesus'. Probably early 1860's.Blind stamped brown cloth covering with faint gilt title on spine. Missing 1/4 inch of cloth from spine tail but underlying cloth is still present. Missing second front free page and has foxing. Hard to find book!

New York : Dodd Mead & Company, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. A Red Badge Mystery". Clean unmarked pages, slightly age toned. Bottom corners bumped but no rubbing. VERY GOOD+

Cleveland - New York: International Fiction Library, 1919. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 3/4. 342 pages. Unmarked but the front free page and a few others have a stain. The page edges show some age toning. The red cloth boards show some loss of red pigment on the spine area.

New York - Cincinnati - Chicago : American Book Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 1/4. 232 pages + 7 of ads. Unmarked pages, some finger prints 'here and there'. The brown cloth boards are slightly rubbed on the corners and the gilt is fading.

New York: The Industrial Press, 1916. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4. Stated First Edition. 232 pages. Top edges gilt. Red cloth boards are patterned to simulate half leather binding. Brown end pages. Owners paste in (Adelbert P. Hull). Besides the owners paste-in the only faults with this book is a slight rub to the ends of the spine and corners and a closed tear on page 91. The gilt lettering on the spine is bright.

Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.: Oxmoor House, 1987. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4. The jacket would be as new except for a short crease at the top of the front of the dust jacket!

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6 x 8 3/4. 345 pages. Owners paste in on the first free page; otherwise unmarked. The red cloth boards have no flaws. The dust jacket is now in a Brodart cover. It has some edge wear and the spine is darkened somewhat. Not price clipped ($3.50).

Dansville, N.Y. : F. A. Owen Publishing Company, 1919. Soft cover. Poor. 4 3/4 x 7. 62 pages; with little markings throughout. Pages have age toned. Paper wraps have started to rip apart from stapled spine, still connected. Owner's signature along front cover. Some tearing and bending of covers, along with some dirt marks. READING COPY ONLY.

New York: The Wormwood Press, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4. Jefferson Machamer. First printing before publication - Second printing, November 1945." Dust jacket with some loss of paper at edges. SEE PHOTOS Unmarked clean pages. Not price clipped ($2.50). Great funny book.

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. , 1881. Hardcover. Fair. 4 x 61/4. 203 pages. A few pages are darkened from use but legible. Copyright 1871. The rear board is present; printed but too dark to read. The spine consists of cloth and may no9t be original. The front board is missing as are any free pages . Starts with the title page which has about one square inch of paper missing from the lower corner.

Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 1/4. 3 parts - First being 96 pages titled "A Plea for the Dumb Creation; Second being 105 pages titled "A Plea for the Dumb Creation From 'The Band of Hope Review'; Third being 32 pages titled "A Plea for the Dumb Creation, from 'The Animal's Friend' and Other Sources." Neat owner's signature dated 1903. Pages have slightly age toned. Red cloth boards have few stained spots with rubbing and bumping of corners. Spine has slight fraying of edges.

Philadelphia: Reformed Church Publication Board, 1851. Hardcover. Fair. 5 x 7 1/2. 288 pages. READING COPY ONLY because the boards have extensive damage. SEE PHOTOS

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2. 236 pages + 8 of ads. Some age toning and it has an ex libris paste-in. Copyright 1891, this book 1893. The green cloth boards show only slight wear. Gilt lettering on the front and spine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4. 365 pages showing age toning, more so to the page edges. Illustrated by several artists. The green cloth boards are bumped but not rubbed or soiled. A Good++ or Very Good Minus book