Search Results: Authors starting with H from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

WINDOW DISPLAY FOR OUTFITTERS & TAILORS, Blanford Press, Ltd., 1935, some light wear and tear to the head of the spine, some light dust-soil to the covers, some faint foxing to the pre and postlims, else a vg copy with fine contents in stiff boards and printed on slick paper. Profusely illustrated with actual photo displays of dressed windows on virtually every page. Quite scarce.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated March 29, 1955, about 55 words, very good.

THE ECONOMY WHERE IS IT GOING?, Council of Jewish Federations And Welfare Funds, 1966,first edition, fine in wraps. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector and noted philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

PICTURE BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE, Coward-McCann, 1930, first edition, light wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, outer hinges exhibit just a scattered bit of cloth loss, else a vg copy of this marvelous book in pictorial binding with illustrations on every page, most of which are in full color.

THE BOMB THAT FELL ON AMERICA, Blandford Press, 1946, first English edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light inner reinforcement.

13 GOLF MAGAZINES FROM 1923 THRU 1928 being 2 issues of THE AMERICAN GOLFER, 1 issue of GOLF ILLUSTRATED & 10 issues GOLFERS MAGAZINE, Centurion Publishers Incorporated, Golf Illustrated, Inc. & Golfers Magazine respectively, first editions, some soiling and wear and tear, but overall vg issues with just about fine contents, most being in color pictorial wraps. Contributions by: Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Francis Ouimet, Ring Lardner, Chester G. Horton, Chick Evans, James Warner Bellah, James Montgomery Flagg, et.al. with marvelous photographs of just about anyone you can name during this era of golfing history as well as photos of famous places, courses & holes not to mention those marvelous advertisements.

THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN, D-P, 1922, first edition, stain along section of fore edge margin of the rear cover extending onto the rear end-papers and then in narrowing degrees along the same area for the next 25 leaves, else a tight vg+ copy. Infinitely better than a reading copy.

LYSBETH, Longmans, 1901, first American edition, a very good to very good+ copy. Very nice.

MAIWA'S REVENGE, Harpers, 1888, first American edition, a good to very good copy. A book that was offered in both cloth and paper, this volume is most curious as it is bound in full burgundy meshed cloth with no stamping of any kind on spine or front panel. Perhaps a rebind (contemporary with original publication) of the paper edition. Allan Quatermain #5.

THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST, Longmans Green & Co., 1894, first edition, foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, t.p.e.'s darkened, else a very good, externally bright copy. Illustrated.

*** large paper edition ***A FARMER'S YEAR: BEING HIS COMMONPLACE BOOK FOR 1898, Longmans Green & Co., 1899, first edition, lacks front free endpaper, some age-darkening to spine panel, binding lightly dust soiled, else a very good copy. 1/100 copies of this, the large paper edition.

MORNING STAR, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910, first American edition, a tight vg copy with the slightest of wear. Illustrated.

LYSBETH, Longmans, 1901, first edition, a few red blotch stains to the covers, else a solid vg copy. The most uncommon colonial edition in gold-gilt and dark blue stamped pictorial cloth.

REGENERATION, Longmans Green & Co., 1910, first edition, a very good copy. Illustrated with photos.

ALLAN'S WIFE & OTHER TALES, Spencer, Blackett, 1889, first edition, a vg copy.

THE WORLD'S DESIRE, Longmans, Green & Co., 1890, first edition, light wear to corner tips and spine extremities, inner hinges starting, else a near vg copy. Illustrated.

AYESHA, Briggs, 1905, first Canadian edition, inner rear hinge starting, some light wear and soiling, else a good to very good copy of this most uncommon issue.

CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS Trubner & Co., 1882, first edition, cloth rubbed at head and heel of spine panel and corners, partial hairline crack to inner front hinge, small private library stamp of George Hood, M.D. on recto of first blank, 18mm by 20mm V-chip from top edge of leaf preceding title leaf, else a very good, tight, bright copy of this, the authors scarce first book, published in an edition of 750 copies.

RED EVE, Doubleday Page, 1912, first American edition, just about fine in second state Grosset & Dunlap binding.

RED EVE, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911, first edition, spine splitting at rear hinge, fraying to the head of the spine, else a good to very good copy in the publishers original binding with unbroken inner hinges and 4 full color plates as well as color pictorial inlay to the front cover.