Search Results: Titles starting with H from ReadInk

New York: Hermitage House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1954. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minimal wear to book, slight age-toning to edges of text block; jacket lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks at spine ends, one tiny closed tear at bottom of rear panel]. (line drawings in text) Comic novel "about the funny side of parental guidance and the serious side of son-parent attachment" Set mostly at a fictional prep school, "Fairfield School for Boys," in Riverdale, New York, it follows the school career of one Addison Beech, whose father, frankly, sounds like a prototypical helicopter parent, long before the term was invented: he coaches his son for his first interview with the school's headmaster, meddles in his business throughout the book, and even writes his Graduation Night speech for him. "If Fairfield School is Addison's alma mater, Mr. Beech is certainly his alma pater." Jacket blurbs by Edward Streeter and P.G. Wodehouse, of all… Read More

New York: David McKay Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, minor wear to base of spine; jacket slightly age-toned at spine, no other significant wear]. Novel about "the twenty-four hours in the life of a young man just before he goes into military service," even though he's passionately against war and does intend to do any killing: "he wants only to look in the face of the man who will try to kill him, and love that man if he can." Basis for the 1970 film of the same name, directed by David Miller and starring a young Michael Douglas in his first starring role, with Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright as his uncomprehending and unsympathetic parents. .

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1931. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [quite a decent copy, with light fraying to cloth at bottom corners, various scratches and abrasions to spine; front hinge weak but not split]. A psychological suspense novel, of sorts, about a man who accidentally kills his enemy, then spends the next twenty years or so fretting about: (a) getting away with "murder"; and (b) whether it actually was murder, since he didn't mean to do it -- at least not consciously. The narrative is divided into two sections: "London, 1910" and "London, 1930." The author was known for writing "metaphysical thrillers" with occasional supernatural elements. The American edition of this book seems to be considerably more uncommon than the true (British) first edition, published the previous year. .

New York: Exposition Press (A Banner Book). Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1955). First Edition. Hardcover. [bumped and slightly cracked at bottom corner of front cover, one-time owner's ink signature on ffep, otherwise tight and clean with no significant wear; jacket lightly edgeworn, small tear at top right-hand corner of front panel, small horizontal scrape on spine]. "The real, unvarnished facts, the revealing story about hair, presented authentically in a humorous autobiography [in which] facts are blended with fancy" -- one of the "fancies," perhaps, being the author's bona fides as a "cinema, radio and TV writer," given that any credits he may have achieved in this line of work seem to have completely eluded all the standard reference sources. The rear-jacket blurb (presented in the form of two jokey and clearly fake newspaper articles) calls him a "notorious radio and TV writer [with] a long record having served time in the San Francisco… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped?) [minimal shelfwear to book, some dust-darkening to top of text block; jacket front flap clipped rather weirdly (although the printed price is still present), a few small chips along top edge and at spine extremities (about 3/4-inch torn away at top of spine, impacting most of the author's name thereupon), light soiling and general wear]. "This picaresque tale of adventure is unusual in its theme -- that the American Revolution was won in Europe -- and in following a part of history hitherto neglected in fiction, the roles played by Benjamin Franklin, the Lees of Virginia, Beaumarchais, and the British Secret Service." .

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc.. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1931. 3rd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [very nice copy, no significant wear to book; jacket shows just a bit of wear to spine extremities]. The only novel by the then-ex-wife of Sinclair Lewis (they had divorced in 1925 and he had already remarried, to journalist Dorothy Thompson), this book doesn't try very hard (or at all) to put up any kind of a "fictionalized" screen -- the jacket blurb states: "This story of what it means to be a famous author's wife, told by a famous author's former wife, throws a floodlight upon the jangled marriages of today." OK, she at least changes the names -- the husband here is "Timothy Hale" -- but the autobiographical nakedness shines through from the first page, on which we meet the protagonist, who's working as an editor at a magazine called "Fashion." (In real life, Ms. Hegger was an editor at "Vogue.") She got another… Read More

Sauk City WI: Arkham House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. [a touch of wear at the base of the spine, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), small check-marks next to all titles in table of contents; the jacket is very nice, showing just the tinest bit of soiling and some minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel (which for some reason shows up more in the scanned image than to the eye)]. A collection of the author's "finest spectral fiction written over a period of thirty-five years," including her legendary tale "The Three Marked Pennies," which originally appeared in the August 1934 issue of Weird Tales. (The "thirty-five years" claim is a little specious, though: in fact, all but one of these stories was published between 1934 and 1950, and all first appeared in Weird Tales.) The volume also contains: "The… Read More

Seattle: Darling & Company. Near Fine. 2007. Second Edition Second Printing. Softcover. [tiny stain on bottom edge, affecting image side (but not the image itself) just one one card; otherwise as new, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (color postcard reproductions) Beautiful color reproductions of thirty vintage Halloween postcards. Perforated for easy detachment if you wanted to actually send one in the mail. .

Missoula MT: Dennis McMillan Publications. Very Good+. 1988. Reprint. Softcover. [slight wear to corners of front cover, short soft diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, slight dog-earing at lower corner of rear cover]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the half-title page. Reprint of the third Paul Pine mystery, originally published in 1949. Signed by Author .

New York: Carrefour. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. [some external soiling, diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover, spine a little browned with minor tears at spine extremities (binding still solid), vintage bookseller's label (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood) on rear pastedown; NOTE that numerous leaves in this copy are unopened at the top edges]. Volume II only (the first volume having been published in 1939), containing the texts of 17 lengthy letters exchanged between Miller and Fraenkel between July 1936 and October 1938. On the rear endpaper is stated: Printed in Mexico. NOTE that numerous leaves in this volume are unopened at the top edges. .

New York: Summit Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. (c.1981). 4th printing. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, thin black marker line (remainder mark) on bottom edge of text block; the jacket has just a bit of faint soiling to the front panel and some light surface wear (essentially invisible inside its mylar covering)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("With all my love to my favorite hockey fan") and SIGNED by the author (just "Dave") on the front endpaper. Memoir by the famous hockey "enforcer" -- basically a guy whose primary job on the ice was to get into fights -- who played most notably for the Philadelphia Flyers (from 1971 to 1976), and to this day holds the all-time NHL record for most penalty minutes in a single season (472). He had been retired as an active player for about a year when this book was published, but went on to coach a number of minor-league teams. In 1982 he famously published an op-ed piece in the sports section of The New York Times… Read More

Sheffield, England: Tomahawk Press. Fine in Fine dj. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely, flawless copy; no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W and color photographs) An extensively-illustrated visual history of Hammer Films, by "the world's leading expert" on the company and its films, who had written two books on the studio prior to this one and was also the author and publisher of "The House That Hammer Built," a serialized history of the company issued in 25 magazine-format installments between 1997 and 2009. Note on the copyright page: "This is a strictly limited edition of only 2500 copies." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1924. 1st (unstated). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, moderate shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top edge, top corner of ffep cut away, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown]. A partly autobiographical novel by this Birmingham-born author and artist (1889-1961), who painted murals for churches and theatres as a young man, and later worked in other forms of decorative art. He also contributed stories and poetry to a variety of periodicals and published at least three novels, of which this was the second. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. [1928] (c.1926). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light wear to extremities, minor dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is edgeworn and moderately age-toned , with minor paper losses at spine ends and most corners, and a somewhat larger (1.25" triangular) piece missing at lower left corner of the rear panel]. (8 B&W film stills) Photoplay Edition, issued to coincide with the release of the 1928 Fox Film Corporation film, one of the last silent features directed by John Ford (although both Wikipedia and IMDb have the weird idea that he was "uncredited" on the film, a non-fact so easily disproven as to be laughable). With its Irish setting, it was right in Ford's comfort zone (although biographers and critics have noted its brooding "Murnau-esque" visual style), with Victor McLaglen starring as a wanted IRA man who returns secretly to Ireland with the intention of killing… Read More

New York: Random House. Very Good+. (c.1942). First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid attractive copy, minimal shelfwear, spine cloth a little darkened, uneven darkening to cloth around perimeter of front cover]. Classic psychological suspense novel about a schizophrenic, considerably altered for John Brahm' s 1944 film adaptation with Laird Cregar. .

New York: Greenberg, Publisher. Very Good. (c.1928). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, light dust-soiling to top edge but otherwise clean with light shelfwear to bottom edge, slight bumping to a couple of corners, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown]. "A novel of character, revealing the internal life of an individual throughout childhood into mature manhood, thus presenting the evolution of a personality." Apparently the author's only book; Ohio setting. .

Goodlettsville TN: Published By the Author. Near Fine. (ca.1995; c.1967). Second Edition [see notes]. Softcover. [light handling wear only, a touch of residue on inside front cover, apparently from a removed bookplate]. (B&W photographs) A self-published memoir of country legend Hank Williams, by a member of his original band, the Drifting Cowboys. (Rivers was the fiddle player, and joined the group in 1949.) It's not very well-written, but is still valuable for its up-close-and-personal perspective. Rivers created the "Second Edition" of the book (originally published in 1967, as he explains in his Foreword) by adding a "Special Section," inside which the original edition is sort of sandwiched. (Pages 1-8 consist of new material, pages 9-48 are the original book, and the remainder of the book (through page 56) contains more new material, including a page on Hank Williams Jr., an account of the later career of the Drifting Cowboys, who got back together and… Read More

Philadelphia: Drexel University. Near Fine. 1996. Softcover. NOISBN . [tight and unread, just a bit of edgewear here and there]. Trade PB B&W Photographs This double issue of the literary quarterly also includes short stories by Stephen Dixon ("The School Bus"), Donald Hall ("Lake Paradise"), Joyce Carol Oates ("We Were Worried About You"), and others, plus non-fiction and poetry. .

Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, a little irregular fading to cloth along front joint; jacket shows some edgewear, very slight paper loss at a few corners, small chip at top right corner of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown: "To / Bill Finneran, who has the / hardest job of all -- selling these / 'Nights.' / Harvey Klemmer / NYC - Sept. 2, 1937." The author's story of "the most interesting side of a sailor's life -- his experiences ashore. [The book] reads like a novel, but it is the true story of the author's experiences from the age of seventeen when he left a small mid-western town and went to sea." Klemmer had been a journalist earlier in his life, but the same year this book was published he moved on to another career -- as an advisor to Joseph P. Kennedy and… Read More

Ann Arbor MI: UMI Dissertation Services. Fine. 2001 (c.2000). Softcover. NOISBN . [nice clean copy, with no discernible wear]. Facsimile of the author's Doctoral dissertation, "made from the microfilm master copy"; a revised version was later published by the University of Texas Press under the title "Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s." .