Search Results: Authors starting with H from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

[New York]: [Henrik Drescher], 1986. First edition. [52] pp. Sewn wrappers, with a roughly trimmed translucent outer wrapper and gray paper inner wrapper, with a gold leaf rectangle hand painted on the inner wrapper. Some minor wear, near fine. Inscribed by Drescher on the title-page and dated 1986. In the Design Observer, Steven Heller wrote of Drescher's small handmade books, "like a kind of automatic writing, the books are not always intentional but rather 'a nervous habit... packaged Tourette's blabber.' He adds they are 'they are books not paintings or sculptures because they are necessary and function as file cabinets of the imagination.'" Two copies in OCLC.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition of the first book by this former poet laureate of Alaska. A clean copy in wraps with a touch of surface wear.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition of the first book by this former poet laureate of Alaska. A clean copy in wraps with a touch of surface wear and some slight spotting on the top edge. Signed by Haines on the title-page.

New York: Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First edition of Hall's second regularly published book. 63 pp. A very good or better copy with some edgewear in a very good jacket which is chipped along the top edge, rubbed and browned along the front edges, shows some age-toning, and is darkened on the spine.

New York: John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. 118 pp. Deep brown polished cloth backstrip over light brown paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to the head of the jacket spine, minor offsetting to endpapers, else a remarkably fresh and bright copy, jacket edges trimmed a little close. The first book by an important Oregon poet. Confined to a wheelchair, she worked as a seamstress and observed the world pass by outside her window, weaving and stitching her poems. The Oregon Book Award for poetry is jointly named for Hall and fellow poet William Stafford.

Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1979. First edition. [12] pp. Unprinted sewn wrappers with dust jacket. One of 150 copies printed. Fine copy, publisher's prospectus laid in. Hamady 93.

Springdale Township, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. First Edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. Sewn brown wrappers with blind-embossed jacket. One of 167 copies printed, signed by Hamady. Very slight rubbing to corners. Hamady 26.

Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. First edition. 60 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. The first collection of verse by the great American painter, written while he was living the life of an "impecunious exile" in Berlin and published by his friend Robert McAlmon. A fresh, fine copy of a fragile item, in original wraparound glassine. Signed by Hartley on the title-page.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. Cover by Joe Brainard. Stapled wraps. Spine slightly faded, else a fine copy.

London: Lee Harwood, 1965. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First issue (of a total of three published), one of 200 copies printed. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers. Includes poems by Tristan Tzara, John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Gerard Malanga, Max Jacob, and others. Illustrated cover is a single sheet wrapped around the spine, it is chipped at the spine with some loss at the top staple, and detached from the lower staples and the top front staple, with some toning. Clay & Phillips, p. 302.

London: Covent Garden Press, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Number Three of the Covent Garden Essays, one of 100 copies (of a total edition of 600) signed and numbered by the author. 22 pp. Printed stapled wraps. Slightly sunned at spine, else a fine copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. 245 pp. Yellow paper boards over red cloth backstrip, spine lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Board edges slightly rubbed at the spine, jacket shows some toning, slight edgewear, and a couple of tiny chips at the top edge of the rear panel. Hazzard's uncommon second novel.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First American edition, and first bilingual edition, of Heaney's translation. Black cloth backstrip lettered in silver over black silver-speckled boards. 220 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. 75 pp. Dark blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Remainder mark on the bottom edge, else a fine copy. Signed by Hecht on the title-page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. 76 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in copper on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Includes "The Presumptions of Death" with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, first published in a limited edition by the Gehenna Press. A fine copy in a fine jacket, signed by Hecht on the title-page.

[West Chester, PA]: Aralia Press, 2004. First edition. Single sheet, folded once. A memorial keepsake printing Hecht's poem Aubade. Some minor handling wear. Six copies in OCLC.

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition, wrappers issue, of the collection that won Hecht the Pulitzer Prize. 103 pp. Some surface wear and slight toning to covers. Inscribed in his distinctive calligraphic hand by Leonard Baskin, whose wood-engravings illustrate a section of the book, on the half-title "S. from L." and dated 1969. The first edition is uncommon in any form.

Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913. First edition. 15 pp. Black wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. Some handling wear, slightest chipping to spine. The first book by one of the founders of the Dada movement. Together with her partner and future husband Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and others, Hennings founded the infamous Cabaret Voltaire, which opened its doors in Zurich in 1916 with Hennings performing her poem "Gefängnis" on the opening night. Although she has not received the credit of some of her contemporaries, Hennings was a full participant and instigator in the Dada scene. Published in the Wolff series Der Jüngste Tag, 5.

Leeds: Northern House Pamphlet Poets/University of Leeds, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12 pp. Just about fine in sewn wraps with some minor toning at the spine. An uncommon early Hill title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition of the poet's first book, the hardcover issue. A near fine copy with a bit of sunning and foxing on the top edge in a jacket with some edgewear, especially at the head and foot of the spine. Unobtrusive previous owner name on front flyleaf.