Search Results: Titles starting with H from Borg Antiquarian

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with neon green lettering on spine over charcoal gray boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the tennis shoes of a covered dead victim, [xii] + 256 pages. Sue Grafton (1940 - 2017) was a bestselling American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Among her many awards: the Ross Macdonald Literary Award (2004), Cartier Diamond Dagger (2008), and Edgar Grand Master Award (2009).<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, clean in a comparable dust jacket (unclipped). No remainder markings.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, beige cloth with brown and gold label and spine bands, introduction by the author, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) on a dark brown field, viii + [iv] + [432] pages. Though well known for his "Mr. Moto" spy series which were made into movies starring Peter Lorie during the 1930's, John Philips Marquand (1893-1960) was also a distinguished novelist who treated American society (often the upper classes) with sensitivity, respect, and satire. Thus, he won a Pulitzer for The Late George Apley in 1938. Other crime novels included Ming Yellow (1935); Don't Ask Questions (1941); Repent in Haste (1945, L: 1949); and It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer (1949); Stopover: Tokyo (1957). ;l;,, The author's literary novels included: The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922); The Black Cargo (1925); Waring Hill (1930); THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (1937) for which he won the Pulizer Prize in 1938; Wickford Point… Read More

Kernville, California: Sierra Trails, 1973. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine/Very Good +. SIGNED by Author & Photography, 4to, 1 of 1000 Copies autographed by Artist and Author, 15 full page black & white photographic plates with facing haiku poems, loosely laid into a white wrapper binder with photograph on its cover. Exceptional Photographs in near perfect condition!

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First U.S. Edition: "Second Printing Before Publication" [no number line]. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, red cloth over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket of glasses by Zen Sekizawa, 211 pages + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! <br/><br/>SIGNED by the brilliantly talented Author. <br/><br/>Sir V[idia] S. Naipaul TC (1932 - 2018), was a writer who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Trinidad in a family with Indian roots, resided in England as an adult, and traveled across, and wrote about, India, Africa, the Islamic world, and South and North America in his novels and non-fiction works. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He published more than thirty books,… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney: Scribner, 2009. First Edition, Eighth Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author with flourish on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red quarter cloth over black boards, illustrated with a B&W photo frontispiece & other photos as section headings, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting three children with bicycle outside a dilapidated house, 272 pages + [2] About the Author. Jeannette Walls' somewhat fictionalized story about her grandmother Lily Casey Smith. "A true-life novel about a no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working and spectacularly compelling" woman.<br /> <br /> Destined to become a classic, Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham s West with the Night. <br /> <br /> SUPERIOR COPY SIGNED by the Author. Tight, bright, clean in comparable unclipped dust… Read More

Washington, D.C. Covelo, California: Island Press / Shearwater Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page; 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), beige boards with bright red lettering on spine; archival polyester-protected color photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Hickson Bridge & Salt Lake City skyline; sticker states "autographed copy"; oxblood endpapers, xiii, [xiv] + 191 pages. SUPERIOR SIGNED COPY: Tight, bright, clean. DJ has light wear to upper edge, top and bottom of its spine and a 1/4 inch tear at top of rear flap crease.<br/> <br/> A member of a prominent Salt Lake City family and direct descendant of Mormon Pioneer Brigham Young, Williams tells the story of "his personal journey, balancing the expectations of family and society and the needs and desires of his heart."

New York Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, purple cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial aqua dust jacket (unclipped), with a human eye with radiating lines, xiv + 326 + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. Dr. Oliver Sacks (1933 - 2015) was a physician, best-selling author, historian of science, and professor of neurology. He is the author of many books using case histories, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. Dubbed "The Poet Laureate of Medicine" by The New York Times.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITON internally & externally. Bright clean dust jacket (unclipped). Slight rubbing to rear panel of dj. No previous owner or remainder markings.

New York Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Charles Child. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), red cloth with black lettering on spine & small gold circle with rampant horse on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of a crowned long haired king, [xxiv] + [271] pages. James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. The author's Heirs and Assigns trilogy consisted of this volume: HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE (1940), The King Was in His Counting House (1938), ad The First Gentleman of America… Read More

New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), beige cloth with brown lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected dark green pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with white lettering & human head suspended by strings, 221 pages. Arthur Louis Wormhoudt (1918 - 2007): MA;Ph.D., SUI. After the Army during WWII, he taught at the State College in St. Cloud, Minn, and published three books of literary interpretation with psychoanalytical insights. Later, at William Penn College, he became deeply involved with The Arab Translation Series. Cloth is tight, clean, and without markings. Bright dust jacket has some rubbing.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc, 1990. First Edition, later printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, black cloth with bold gilt lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket unclipped) of a V-22C Sea Lion tilt-rotor VTOL and red-gold bold lettering, preliminary specs on aircraft and map of the Caribbean, [xv] + 478 pages. An exciting adventure by Dale Brown, a former Air Force captain, involving drug cartels, smugglers and terrorism in conflict with the US Coast Guard and its elite unit the "Hammerheads," who fly Sea Lion vertical take-off &-landing (VTOL) aircraft and highly trained crews and hi-tek methods to stop them.

New York: Congdon and Weed, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. William F. Nolan. SIGNED by the AUTHOR with his fine CARICATURE of Dashiell HAMMETT, 8vo, cloth, arhival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with a drawn portrait of Dashiel Hammett's head, B&W illustrations, 276 pages. EXCEPTIONAL COPY with an ORIGINAL CARICATURE SKETCH of DASHIELL HAMMETT, SIGNED by the multi-talented Author! EXCEPTIONAL COPY with an ORIGINAL CARICATURE SKETCH of DASHIELL HAMMETT, SIGNED by the multi-talented Author! William F. Nolan (born 1928) is also the award-winning co-author with George Clayton Johnson of the Sci-Fi classic, Logan's Run (nominated for a Hugo & Nebula), and this definitive biography, Hammett: A Life at the Edge (1983). Nolan was voted a Living Legend in Dark Fantasy by the International Horror Guild in 2002. He also has the honorary title of Author Emeritus by the Sccience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Dana Gardner. 8vo, yellow buckram with crimson lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing details from a painting by Dana Gardner, who also created 18 finely executed B&W drawings of birds for the volume, xii + 216 pages with Index and Bibliography. Alexander Frank Skutch (1904 - 2004) was a naturalist (Ph.D in Botany) and writer. He published numerous scientific papers and books about birds, and several books on philosophy. He is best remembered ornithologically for his pioneering work on helpers at the nest. He believed in "treading lightly on the mother Earth" and lived most of his life in Costa Rica. He is universally regarded as one of the world's greatest ornithologists.--abridging Wikipedia See gardnerbirds.com for more on the brilliant bird painter Dana Gardner. SUPERIOR CONDITION: of what is likely to become a classic: tight, clean,… Read More

New York London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition (2000 copies published). Cloth and boards. Very Good +/Good +. Small 8vo, red eighth cloth over pale gray-green boards with depiction of man shooting embossed in gold on lower edge, illustrated with 26 B&W plates including a folding map and in-text images, Mylar-protected dust jacket with reproduced red cover of Pickwick Papers, x + 156 + [2] Note on the Type. A useful bibliographical study. Better than average condition with the dust jacket.

New York: Colton, 1855. Good +/Slight toning and spotting to margins & a few short splits to edges (mended with archival tape). Folio's overall measurements c.14 1/2" W x 16 3/4" H; printed area measures c.13 1/2" x 14 1/4" H. Attractive and detailed, hand-colored, lithographed map of the globe's Western hemisphere. Very frameable with minor defects mainly confined to the margins.

New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over tan boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: $12.95) depicting a basketball & bag of money, 311 pages. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark. Robert Kalich is an American novelist, journalist, and producer. He is the author of non-fiction books--his first being The Baseball Rating Handbook--and novels, best known for his national best-seller, "The Handicapper" (1988) a novel about an obsessive gambler and basketball betting.<br /> <br /> VERY SCARCE SIGNED & in such FINE/VG Condition! Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with some edgewear. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Detroit New York San Francisco New Haven, Conn Waterville, Maine London: FIBE STAR / GALE Cengage Learning, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Photographic boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page + INSCRIBED on the Dedication page, 8vo, glossy brown photographic boards with image of a flintlock musket, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing photo on boards, 245 pages. Fourth Steve Martinez Mystery.<br /> <br /> Henry Kisor (born 1940) is the author of three previous Steve Martinez mysteries, Season's Revenge, A Venture into Murder, and Cache of Corpses. He retired in 2006 after thirty-three years as a book-review editor, first for the old Chicago Daily News and then the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1981 he was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR Condition: Tight, bright, clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine and "Thomas Harris" facsimile signature in gold on front cover, Mylar-protected dark russet dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a dragon eating a man designed by Craig Decamps, blood-spattered black endpapers, [viii] + 486 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally. No remainder marks. Seven years after Dr. Hannibal Lecter's escape from the authorities, the climax of Silence of the Lambs, one of his earlier victims uses Agent Starling as bait to draw the doctor into an intricate and unspeakable design for revenge. Horror throughout. William Thomas Harris III (born 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Award… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, mauve quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over olive green boards, mauve endpapers, 360 pages. James W. Hall (born 1947) is an American author and professor of creative writing from Florida. He has written eighteen novels, four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a collection of essays.<br /> <br /> INSCRIBED & in LIKE NEW CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with image of two juxtaposed hands holding pistols, red endpapers, 296 pages. Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer, who also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in LIKE NEW CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with scarlet lettering over red boards, archival mylar protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by C Lyttle, 376 pages + [2] About the Author. George P. Pelecanos (born 1957) is an American author. Many of his books are detective fiction set primarily in Washington, D.C. He is also a television producer and briliant writer: notably for the superb HBO series The Wire. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects. No remainder marks.