Search Results: Authors starting with H from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

WINDOW DISPLAY FOR OUTFITTERS & TAILORS, Blanford Press, Ltd., 1935, some light wear and tear to the head of the spine, some light dust-soil to the covers, some faint foxing to the pre and postlims, else a vg copy with fine contents in stiff boards and printed on slick paper. Profusely illustrated with actual photo displays of dressed windows on virtually every page. Quite scarce.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated March 29, 1955, about 55 words, very good.

THE ECONOMY WHERE IS IT GOING?, Council of Jewish Federations And Welfare Funds, 1966,first edition, fine in wraps. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector and noted philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

PICTURE BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE, Coward-McCann, 1930, first edition, light wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, outer hinges exhibit just a scattered bit of cloth loss, else a vg copy of this marvelous book in pictorial binding with illustrations on every page, most of which are in full color.

THE BOMB THAT FELL ON AMERICA, Blandford Press, 1946, first English edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light inner reinforcement.

13 GOLF MAGAZINES FROM 1923 THRU 1928 being 2 issues of THE AMERICAN GOLFER, 1 issue of GOLF ILLUSTRATED & 10 issues GOLFERS MAGAZINE, Centurion Publishers Incorporated, Golf Illustrated, Inc. & Golfers Magazine respectively, first editions, some soiling and wear and tear, but overall vg issues with just about fine contents, most being in color pictorial wraps. Contributions by: Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Francis Ouimet, Ring Lardner, Chester G. Horton, Chick Evans, James Warner Bellah, James Montgomery Flagg, et.al. with marvelous photographs of just about anyone you can name during this era of golfing history as well as photos of famous places, courses & holes not to mention those marvelous advertisements.

HEART OF THE WORLD, Longmans Green & Co., 1896, first English edition, spine a little faded, f.e.p. clipped, else a vg copy in bevelled boards. Illustrated.

MAIWA'S REVENGE in Harper's Magazine for July & August, 1888, first edition, 2 vols., spine extremeties chipped on the August issue, else a vg+ set in wraps of this, the true first edition of this book. Scarce thus.

BEATRICE, Longmans, Green, 1890, first edition, just about a vg copy.

THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE, Longmans, Green, 1911, first edition, spine a bit faded, else just about a vg copy.

ALLAN QUATERMAIN, Harpers, 1887, first American edition, rear wrap missing (supplied in facsimile ), front wrap chipped along extremities, else a nice copy of this very scarce book issued in wraps from the Handy Series.

HEART OF THE WORLD Longmans Green & Co., 1895, first edition, a bright vg copy. Illustrated.

THE LADY OF BLOSSHOLME, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909, first edition, spine just a bit lightened, small area of frontis effaced, else a bright vg+ copy of this most scarce book never published in the U.S. Illustrated in color.

ALLAN QUATERMAIN, Longmans, Green, 1887, first edition, some light wear to corner tips, wear also to the spine extremities which has resulted in 3 nicks with subsequent loss of little pieces of cloth missing from the base of the spine and a couple of small nicks to the head of the spine which in this instance has lost a section of cloth across the top edge which measures about 3/4" long by 1/8" deep, small cloth loss (3/8") also at upper edge of front board, inner front hinge a little weak, else a near vg copy of this, the second Quatermain novel. Illustrated with 20 plates by C.M.H. Kerr.

THE SPIRIT OF BAMBATSE, Longmans Green & Co., 1906, first edition, a bright solid vg+/near fine copy. Published in the U.K. as BENITA.

SHE, Longmans, Green & Co., 1887, first English and first hard-cover edition, professionally recased with the bevelled boards and gold-gilt lettering and images retained with the original spine laid down, some wear to the fore edge corner tips of the front cover, else a bright, tight vg copy of this now classic tale which has never been out of print. Filmed several times. (From Wikipedia: "In his autobiography Haggard writes of how he composed SHE in six weeks in February and March 1886, having just completed Jess, which was published in 1887. Haggard claimed that this was an intensely creative period: the text "was never rewritten, and the manuscript carries but few corrections". Haggard went on to declare: "The fact is that it was written at white heat, almost without rest, and that is the best way to compose." He admitted to having had no clear story in mind when he began writing: "I remember that when I sat down to the task my ideas as to its development were of… Read More

DAWN, Appleton, 1887, first American edition, (one of apparently three published that year), 2 vols., bottom of spines lightly chipped, front and rear covers lightly foxed, else a vg copy in wraps as issued. The authors first novel, published in the U.K. in 1884 as a triple decker and sold at auction several years ago for more than £6000, this edition is perhaps even more difficult to acquire (as any paperback book more than a century old would be). In Allen's recently published THE HAGGARD GUIDE, he states that there is no American edition of this work! In Scott's earlier bibliography of the works of H. Rider Haggard, he again makes no mention of this publication. RARE and virtually unknown in this format.

MAIWA'S REVENGE, Longman's, Green & Co, 1888, first edition, a tight solid vg+ copy with un- broken inner hinges and first state ads.

THE POOR AND THE LAND, Longmans, Green, 1905, first edition, small nick at upper margin of front cover, else a bright vg+ copy. Illustrated with photos. 1/5,000 copies. Uncommon.

STELLA FREGELIUS: A TALE OF THREE DESTINIES, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, first British edition, slight leaning, several faint stains to front cover, else a very good, bright copy.