Search Results: Titles starting with H from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Preface by Denzil M. Stanley. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), some soiling to the back panel. Red buckram with a green ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclippe (£14.99), generally rubbed and bumped, a few small closed tears. Beige paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with toned pages and a slight forward lean. Macdonald's award-winning memoir about training goshawks after her father's sudden death. "Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.00). Quarter pink cloth with patterned paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The third published story collection from the Nobel Prize-winning author. Seventeen stories "concerned with men and women by love 'possessed.'

Durban: Hours Publications, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Inscribed by Scholtz on the title page: "For Ann, Towering beyond imagined heights of longing to the heart's window. With love Pieter." Very good in wraps, rubbed and bumped. Internally sound and clean. Scholtz is PEN South Africa member and winner of the South Africa Writer's Circle Forestry Tale Writing Competition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown buckram with a brown ink panel on the spine with white ink lettering. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a brown top stain, clean internally. Burke's debut novel about the harsh lives of three Louisana men that "evokes the white-hot violence of convicts in a jailbreak, the passion and lyric sweetness of Avery's love affair in New Orleans, J.P.'s tawdry world of brothels and cheap politicians and one-night stands, the terror of Toussaint's last-ditch struggle against the bullets and bloodhounds of his pursuers.

Missoula: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Cover by Joe Servello. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The third Paul Pine mystery, originally published in 1948.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With fifty cabin and plantation songs arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Very Good. Brown boards, lightly rubbed and with a few stains, gilt lettering on the spine and front panel. Square and firmly bound, a few stains on the top edge, fold-out frontispiece, clean internally. An early history of Hampton University, notable for its work educating freed slaves.

New York: Pocket Books Inc, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned and soiled, rubbed and bumped at the corners, marker x on the front wrap. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The eighth Parker novel.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95). Quarter black cloth with orange paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The prequel to all of Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, adapted into the 2007 film of the same title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), toned at the spine and with a tear through Mencken's name, lightly rubbed at the edges. Beige cloth, toned, with blue and red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Mencken's memoir of his childhood growing up in Baltimore.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Wright on the title page, inscribed again on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.00), faded at the spine. Grey cloth with black and white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wright's second book-lenght collection of poetry.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, faded at the spine, soiling and rubbing throughout, a few small closed tears at the edges. Quartred red cloth with blue paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a forward lean, dark top stain, clean internally. O'Brien's "nonstop Irish lark" about a pair of orphans brought up by a whiskey-loving Mr. Collopy.

New York: DAW Books, 1974. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Translated by Wendayne Ackerman. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few faint creases. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first paperback printing of this work about observers from a distant planet trying to stop the murder of intellectuals, adapted into the 2013 Russian film of the same title.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly rubbed and soiled, faded a shade at the spine. Quarter black cloth with patterned paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Newman's first full-length novel, "the story of a woman, unconventional in an unconventional manner, a woman intimate with the mysteries of the past, exotic, and yet thrillingly human.

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, first issue without the year on the spine, unclipped ($17.95), lightly rubbed and bumped at the top edge, black ink stains on the back panel. Quarter green buckram with blue paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a crease to the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The second book in Rowling's world-renowned Harry Potter series.

Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First Canadian Edition. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, a crease to the bottom-left corner of the front. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second book in Rowling's beloved Harry Potter series.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Advance reader copy. Near fine in the plain-colored wraps, toned on the spine edge with sparse spotting elsewhere. Square and firmly bound, clean page faces, some faint foxing to the outer edges. Seymour's first novel, one that was adapted into the 1982 ITV mini-series starring Ray Lonnen and Derek Thompson.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Red buckram, generally rubbed and bumped, stained at the fore-edge of the front board, a small tear at the head of the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, toned preliminaries from old newspaper clippings, clean otherwise. A collection of spiritist writings from the French astronomer detailing historical accounts of hauntings while outlining his beliefs on their happening.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95), lightly rubbed at the edges, bookseller's price sticker on the back panel. Black buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, stains at the top edge, clean internally. A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery.

West Chester: Horace F. Temple, 1917. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Limited to 200 copies. Good. Red wraps, toned and with some stains, chipped at the head of the spine, a two inch tear at the foot, rubbed and bumped at the corners. Square, bound with two staples, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The first separate edition of Stein's work about Henry McBridge that originally appears in Vanity Fair in 1917.