Search Results: Titles starting with H from The Peculiar Old Cat and Fiddle Bookshop

Roaring Book Press, First Paperback Edition, First Printing, 2012, Inscribed by G-- (presumed to be the author) with intricate hand-drawn image of Cerberus - this is not a casual doodle! Graphic novel, 72 pages, 10 x 7.5 inches. including "G(r)eek Notes". Condition is Near Fine with some light corner wear. George O'Connor is a contemporary author and illustrator living in Brooklyn, creator of the New York Times Bestselling Olympians series of educational graphic novel. The personal illustration makes this a unique copy.

Harcourt Brace and World, New York, Harbinger Shakespeare Edition, 1962 Ed. G.B. Harrison. Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Covers worn, pages tanned, clean pages but clean, tight binding

Doubleday, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Colson Whitehead on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 318 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed with sections in red, yellow, green sections with retro illustrations. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine: tiny crease on rear top corner of jacket. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s (Courtesy Goodreads).

Hutton Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Jason Mott, on a bookplate affixed to the half title. Hardcover with dust jacket, 319 numbered pages, 22 x 15 cm, book features black paper over bright yellow textured boards, jacket printed in yellow and black with a creative "cut-away" book illustration by Christopher Lin. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, a crisp copy with minimal shelf wear. 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Winner (Fiction) . With audacity and invention, Jason Mott s Hell of a Book weaves together three narrative strands an unnamed author, a boy named Soot, and a figure known as The Kid into a masterful novel. In a structurally and conceptually daring examination of art, fame, family and being Black in America, Mott somehow manages the impossible trick of being playful, insightful and deeply moving, all at the same time. A highly original, inspired work that breaks new ground (NBA Judges' Citation).

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1922 (German language), Band 27 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 11 pages text. Near Fine copy, minimal corner wear, slight lifting of board In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. A classic… Read More

Algonquin Books, 1998. 1st edition, 1st printing, pp. 199, 7.25" x 5.25'' x 1", quarter red cloth binding, cream boards, near fine in near fine dj, book has slight bumping on spine top, light edge curl to jacket, classic NY apartment dweller tale. Nice crisp copy.

Phaidon, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2022 SIGNED by author David Byrne and designer Alex Kalman. Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued), 15 x 21 cm, 160 pp, red cloth boards with "Phaidon" embossed on front cover and gold leaf embossed lettering on spine and both boards, with 115 illustrations. In NEW condition. Through striking and humorous figurative drawings, the iconic artist and musician David Byrne depicts daily life in intriguing ways. His illustrations, created while under quarantine, expand on the dingbat, a typographic ornament used to illuminate or break up blocks of text, to explore the nuances of life under lockdown and evoke the complex, global systems the pandemic cast in bright light. Edited and designed by Alex Kalman in close collaboration with Byrne, this unique book reflects on shared experiences and presents history as a story that is continually undergoing revision.

A.R, Harding, Columbus OH. Modern Facsimile Reprint n.d. , pp. 283 (plus advertisements), 6" tall, paperback (pictorial design on upper cover). Very Good (clean pages, crinkle on spine but not broken). Cute little book.

Atelier Books, Edinburgh 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 128, 28+ cm tall, 21+ cm across, black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and pictorial jacket featuring Hornel's artwork. Fine in Fine - book has superficial wear on corners but still sharp, jacket has mimimal wear on rear edge. Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

The Mole Press, Dublin, Georgia, 1975, limited edution of 500. Small oblong plain paperback (stapled) with dust jacket, 13 x 17 cm, 32 pages, featuring essays, poems, drawing, collages and photographs. Jacket is collage featuring newspaper format. Condition is Near Fine with slight tanning to spine of jacket, faint corner crease on cover of book, wraps clean and bright, spine edge clean, binding firm, clean pages. This is an extravagantly zany work from Black Mountain school, self-described as "an example of art as ecology" after the trio spent a week at St. Andrew's College in Laurinburg, North Carolina participating in a festival celebrating Jonathan William's Jargon Press.

Chicago Tribune / Spadea Press, July 26th 1970. Newspaper section 8A pamphlet in the form of a "Make-It Yourself Book" supplement, 16-page booklet folded from 2 newsprint sheets (quarto), 10.5 x 7.3 in. In Very Good condition, light page toning, clean pages (uncut and without creases), lightcreasing at corner tips, color drawings are bright. Presented in mylar sleeve with cardboard backing to ensure it arrives undamaged. Written and illustrated by Len Borozinski, the prolific, syndicated cartoonist. Section 8A was a Sunday supplement appealing to children's creativity in addition to telling charming stories. "As he flew gracefully from flower to flower all the animals looked up with envy. Now Clyde could have his choice of any home he wanted. He would never have to hide again. Do you think Clyde was dreaming..?"

Random House, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Imbolo Mbue on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 364 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, tan paper over black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features illustration in gray of arms crossed, decayed ostensibly as from a statue. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an America oil company.

Robbins Music Corporation, New York, 1931, Sheet Music with piano accompaniment, pp. 5. Good - tear along half of spine and top of page - score unaffected. Art work (images of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable) is bright and lustrous - "pops out"

Lord John Press, Northridge CA, 1992, First and Limited Edition, J of the lettered edition of 26 Signed by the author. Hardcover issued without jacker, pp. 28, 19 x 14 cm, bound in full leather binding (black morocco), with gilt "NM" lettering on cover, printed on (cream colour) Curtis Flax Text paper with Palatino type. In Fine Condition, shows exceptionally well. A beautiful book, designed by Susan Flake, printed by Page Printing Services, binding by Marianna Blau.

Dell 13800 ($1.95), 4th Printing 1977. MMPB, 254 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (pop art style multi-colored shadowing of title text). Condition: Near Fine. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, slight curl, minimal edge wear. Sheehy played a part in the movement Tom Wolfe called the New Journalism, sometimes known as creative nonfiction, in which journalists and essayists experimented with adopting a variety of literary techniques such as scene setting, dialogue, status details to denote social class, and getting inside the story and sometimes reporting the thoughts of a central character. Also adapted for a 1975 American television film directed by Joseph Sargent. (Courtesy Wikipedia).