Search Results: Authors starting with H from Collectible Books

1. 1880 on title page and copyright. Very attractive green cloth with blind-stamped embellishments and gold lettering on spine. Floral design on inside covers and adjacent endpapers. Small previous owner's name on fep, otherwise clean and unmarked. Firm binding with NO hinge cracking.

1. Very nice, solid set. Rare first edition published by Scribner Armstrong. 1874 on title and copyright pages. 9.25 x 6.24 inches. (Vol 1) 416 pp, (Vol 2) 417-834pp + 4pp ads. Spines are faded, and have gilt lettering and very slight chipping and fraying to ends. Pages are clean bright and tight. Small signature in pencil at top of fep, ""J.W. Simonton Dec. 1874"" (Pa. Judge); same small name in pencil at top edge of title page. Hinges and joints fine. Scarce work by an important Presbyterian historian and prominent Protestant theologian. Ezra Hall Gillett was a Connecticut born Yale graduate and pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Harlem, New York during the Civil War. He taught political economy, history and ethics at the University of New York.

1. No dust jacket. Stated first printing. Houghton Mifflin. Light brown cloth with pink and chocolate colored letters to spine and front cover. Bookseller sticker on front pastedown. Top edge dusty. Pages clean bright and tight.

1. Stated first American edition. Book like new, clean, bright, tight and unread. Very light edgewear to bottom and top edge dj edge.

1. 1975 First edition First printing. Harper Row. Unclipped, intact dust jacket is edge bumped and rubbed overall. Minor light spotting to front endpapers and textblock edges. Pages clean, bright and tight.

1. Foul Play/Countryman Press, Woodstock Vermont 1982. Stated First Edition. Book appears unread, clean , bright and tight. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor corner crinkle. Publisher $12.95 on dj flap.

1. First printing, first edition. Holt Rinehrt Winston. Faint toning to 1/8"" top white edges of dustjacket. Spine leans. Otherwise clean, bright, and tight. Appears unread.

1. Foul play press. 1984 stated First ed. Book is unread, clean, bright and tight. Dustjacket has a 1/8"" closed tear and two 1/16 ""closed tears. Slight spine lean.

1. Henry Holt. Stated first edition, full number line. Book and dj appear like new inside and out. When angled to a light dj shows only very faint surface rub. Else clean, unread, bright and tight

1. Stated first edition. Hardcover. Holt Rinehart Winston. Fine in a near fine, faintly rubbed dust jacket. Clean, bright, tight and unread.

1. By Slim Hawkins. Published by Rupert S. Dougharty, El Paso, Texas. 1st. edition. 1945. Illustrated by Luis Duarte. 50 pages. Light brown card covers. Front shows illustration, design and letters in green. Small chip to top front cover corner. Pages clean, bright and tight. Mostly named and anonymous jokes, and stories submitted to his Texas radio program over the years. 50 pages.

1. 1962. Harper and Row. Stated First Edition. Very near fine in very good brodart protected dust jacket showing a couple of short closed edge tears and light rubbing. Book is clean, unmarked, tight and bright.

1. Studio Limited. London. 1925 First edition, limited to 1000 copies, #929. No dustjacket. xvi, 48 pages of text, 79 b&w p; w plates, 24 color plates with printed tissue guards. Original dark blue cloth, bright gilt titling to front board and spine, top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers and pastedowns. Very good condition. Light spotting to some pages, not affecting plates. Corners lightly bumped, spine ends slightly frayed, edges lightly rubbed. Sound hinges and binding.

1. 1st American Edition, 1st Printing. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. By a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature author Heinrich Boll. Dustjacket slightly surface rubbed, no color loss, no edgewear. Clean, tight, unread, unmarked, unclipped.

1. Inscribed, dated 1991, and signed by three Makk family members on title page. 1st ed. 1986. Published by the Makk Studios, Honolulu, Hawaii. Brown cloth with gold letters and emblem on the front cover. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. 256pp. Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase with reproductions of paintings on front and back, and light wear on corners and spine ends. 195 full color paintings. 17 are double-page. Color photo of a serigraph by Eva Makk titled GOLDEN DAYS laid in.

1. ...Frontier Warrior, Scout, and Hunter. Near Fine condition. First edition. Caxton Club limited to 500 copies with original prospectus laid-in. xxiii, 206pp. + colophon page. Lightest faint bump and rub to corner tips and spine ends. Clean, bright and tight.

1. NY Farrar Straus Giroux 1970, 1st edition. Stated first printing. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Purple cloth with pressed silver letters to spine and front cover. Very slight fade to top edge of cloth, NO wear to cloth. Clean, bright and tight. Top edge and endpapers black. Dustjacket designed by Milton Glaser, has 1"" closed tear at top front edge near spine, else very light edge rub. Published price $5.50 on flap.

1. Knopf stated First Edition. Green cloth spine with gilt letters. Pressed design on brown paper covered boards. No dustjacket. Clean, bright and tight but for browned endpapers and my bookplate on the front endpaper.

1. Walker. First printing. First American edition. Remainder marks on textblock top edge. Else dj and book clean, bright, tight, square and appears unused.

Inscribed and Signed by author Frank Hinman Jr. a Clinical Professor of Urology at the University of California in San Francisco. The Art and Science of Piddling: Voiding Habits of Men and Beasts. Redding, California, Vespasian Press. 1999. Isbn: 0-9669952-1-X. 1st ed. 5"" x 8"" tall. Pictorial hardcover. 55pp w. glossary and bibliography. ""...Amusing, Accurate and Absorbing!"" IIlustrated in color and b&w with author's hilarious drawings, cartoons, photos, graphs and charts. A humorous and scientific work about urologic behavior of beasts and people making water.