Search Results: Titles starting with H from Second Wind Books LLC

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Cloth. First edition of the first descriptive bibliography of H. D.'s works. Fine, in pictorial dust jacket featuring H. D. holding her daughter, Perdita. As new copy encased in publisher's shrink wrap (as seen in photo).

[London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First UK edition. Fine / fine.. Thick octavo. Pictorial boards. First UK edition, first printing. Fine copy of the children's edition in fine dust jacket of the final edition in the Harry Potter series. Personally purchased by the bookseller in London on first day of issue.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. Good or better./Good.. Red cloth, stamped in black. Foreword by Leonard Woolf. Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket. A good or better copy of the first printing of this work, now uniformly toned as both book and dust jacket were printed on highly acidic wartime paper stock. Bell jacket largely complete but fragile and split along spine's front panel fold with losses at crown, toe and, most recently, a portion of the spine itself after being carelessly handled. Lowered price reflects the losses. First edition of this volume of short stories which includes six of the eight stories in MONDAY OR TUESDAY, six stories which appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941, and six which had not previously appeared in print. KIRKPATRICK A28.  WOOLMER 507.

New York: Knopf, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth. Small stain to top edge, else near fine in a bright dust jacket with a scattering of a few rubbed areas. First American edition. Bowen was an Anglo-Irish writer who, although she lived primarily in England, maintained a large family estate, Bowen's Court, in County Cork, Ireland. She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, becoming good friends with Rose Macaulay and welcomed Virginia Woolf, among others, to Bowen's Court. In the finest Bloomsbury tradition, Bowen had several extra-marital relationships including one with the American poet May Sarton. The present novel is concerned with the London blitz, Ireland, sex, spies and counter-spies. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Spine label and endsheets a bit darkened, light foxing to preliminaries, else very good, without the printed dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. Near Fine/Good. Gilt cloth. Frontis and endsheet maps. First US edition, and first edition under this title. Blue sprinkled edges faintly dusty, else about fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a few nicks and tears. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A57b.

[N.p. (Buffalo)]: [Frontier Press], 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/As New. Stiff grey-blue paper wrappers with a printed and decorated spine label. Roses and thorns vignette on title page. Fine, as new. First (unauthorized/pirated) edition, based on a preliminary draft, and differing from the poems published a year later by New Directions. Although not stated in this publication, 1600 copes were printed at the Frontier Press, several hundred of which were damaged and recycled. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Tall, narrow quarto in yellow padbound printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Filing label across bottom edge, else about fine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. First edition, inscribed by author on front free endsheet, "With all good wishes / Kathleen Norris." Clean and bright throughout, crack at front hinge, else very good, in good printed, dusty dust jacket with chips and some closed tears. "Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 - January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris was a prolific writer who wrote 93 novels, many of which became best sellers. Her stories appeared frequently in the popular press of the day, including The Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Woman's Home Companion. Norris used her fiction to promote family and moralistic values, such as the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood, and the importance of service to… Read More

New York: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, 1949. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt green cloth. Pale stain at fore-edge, edges lightly rubbed, else very good, in a full-color pictorial dust jacket by Adolf Dehn, with a tanned spine and a few nicks.  First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the US Army ski troops during WWII without the benefit of the company of women, a subject that seems to irritate them inordinately.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and plates. Negligible corner creases, or folds, in a few early leaves, otherwise about very good in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. Very good.. Pictorial stiff wrappers. First edition (approx. 2000 copies printed). Cover attributed to Vanessa Bell, though not cited in text. Wrapper darkened at edges, bump to lower fore-tip, spine chipped at head and toe; internally very good. WOOLMER 43. GALLUP A7.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. First edition. Fine. Black cloth, gilt spine. 110 pp. First edition. Copyright page blank. Fine, in about fine Richard Taylor designed dust jacket.   Long's slim novel, first serialized in Weird Tales in January and February/March 1931, is a novel in the "Cthulhu Mythos" vein. The story concerns a hideous stone idol brought from China, and an age-old entity which uses that idol as a material tenement to bend humanity to its evil will. Long based this story on a dream which he thought about for many years before sharing. BLEILER 1034; JOSHI 72; JAFFREY 76.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. ix, 383 pp. Fine copy, in fine dust jacket by Gahan Wilson.  First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a variety of professional clients, taken largely from previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany." -- Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, p. 96. Contributors include August Derleth, Elizabeth Berkeley, Sonia Greene, and many others. The one unrevised, original contribution is the story by Wilfred Blanch Talman, "Two Black Bottles," first published in Weird Tales for August 1927. BLEILER 1054; JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 109.

New York: Knopf, 1936. Fine/Very Good. Gilt and blind-stamped red cloth. First U.S. edition. Printed in black with red decorative chapter heads. Neat, early ownership signature on front free endsheet, otherwise a fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket.

[London: Hesperus Press, 2005. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Blue cloth, silver spine. First edition. xxiii,[1],240 pp. Black and white photographs and facsimiles. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gill Lowe; Foreword by Hermione Lee. Notes on the manuscript and biographical notes. The bookplate of the noted Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman is affixed to the front pastedown, else fine, in fine pictorial dust jacket.  From the publisher: "As children, Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell and brother Thoby collaborated on their own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate ... [g]ossipy, playful and at times irreverent, they record the comings and goings of a host of figures -- including aristocrats, academics, politicians and artists -- whilst also proffering their own fictional and poetic creations." And it's really funny.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Edited by Sandra Braman, preface by Ed Dorn. Number 17 of one hundred deluxe, numbered copies. Fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper as issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.