Search Results: Authors starting with H from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Review copy with the Norton Book News broadside laid-in. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.00). Quarter yellow paper with green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The ninth poetry collection from the National Book Award-winning author.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps toned, a small scratch at the spine. Square and firmly bound with two staples. A collection of five addresses about the state of American literature with writing from J.E. Spingarn, Padraic Colum, H.L. Mencken, Morris R. Cohen, and Francis Hackett.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Very Good. Wraps toned and foxed. Square and firmly bound with two staples, bumped at the fore-edge. A collection of five addresses about the state of American literature with writing from J.E. Spingarn, Padraic Colum, H.L. Mencken, Morris R. Cohen, and Francis Hackett.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Tom Lea, who has signed on the half-title page. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, clipped, generally rubbed and soiled. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Hail's biography of Harper Lee, who became the first American to become a matador in Mexico from 1909-1911.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Inscribed by Hail on the half-title and with a note on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, lightly soiled. Red cloth with black ink and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally.

New York: Bramhall House, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fourth Printing. Foreword by Peter Cushing. Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, bumped and lightly chipped at the top edge. Black board with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of "the best, the most illuminating and frequently most amusing items to appear about the famous detective partnership.

New York: University Books Inc, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by George Underwood. Fine a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.00), faded at the spine, bumped at the edges. Red cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Black Magic rituals purporting to provide a better life in all aspects.

New York: Hyperion, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine glassine jacket, unclipped ($35.00), faintly bumped at the top edge. Pictorial boards. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, clean internally. Halberstam's Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the Korean War that presents the "political decisions and miscalculations on both sides.

New York: Avon, 1978. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Viking Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Association copy inscribed by Haldeman to science fiction publisher and artist John Stopa on the title page. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95), faintly rubbed at the edges. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, stain at the fore-edge, clean internally. A collection of two novellas and many shorter works from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer.

Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, Inc, 1968. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($10.), generally toned and soiled, bumped at the top edge with a tear at the top of the front flap fold. Blue cloth, bumped at the foot of the spine, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), rubbed and with some creases, tears, and chips. Yellow boards, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Before writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning western Warlock, Hall wrote this crime-mystery about two men fighting against the Los Angeles mob.

New York: Viking Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.75), a closed tear at the bottom edge. Quarter blue buckram with silver paper on the boards, lightly bumped at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. Hall's sports drama focusing on four amateur skiiers as they travel across the United States competing in Olympic trials.

New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. With commentary by Havelock Ellis. Tenth Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), lightly soiled, a small chip at the top of the front panel, larger chip at the foot of the spine. Green cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine, faded to match the loss on the jacket. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, clean internally. Hall's groundbreaking and highly controversial novel about the lesbian relationship between Stephen Gordon and Mary Llewellyn.

London: Jeremiah How, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Green leather with five raised bands and ornate gilt lettering and tooling by Hayday, rubbed at the surface, edges, and corners, bumped at the top-right corner on the back board. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, some foxing to the preliminaries, clean otherwise. A selection of British ballads "that shall be agreeable and interesting to the general reader, and not unsatisfactory to the antiquary and the scholar.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, lightly rubbed and with a few small chips. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the half-title page, clean otherwise. Halliburton's account of his travels following the expeditions of Columbus and Cortez.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early printing. Signed by Halliburton on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.75), lightly rubbed, a chip at the bottom-right corner of the front panel. Black cloth, lightly mottled, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Halliburton's fourth book, this time seeing him take to the air to travel to Timbuctoo, California, New York, the Middle East, and other places.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. About Fine. Wraps lightly toned at the spine and back panel. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This issue includes writing from Tobias Wolff, Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Gordon Parks, Raymond Carver, and others.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps toned at the spine, rubbed at the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This issue includes writing from Tobias Wolff, Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Gordon Parks, Raymond Carver, and others.

Layton: Peregrine Smith, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (17.95). Quarter red buckram with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of interviews with Carver's friends and family, a work that Halpert expanded into his Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography.