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.

MR. MEESON'S WILL, Spencer Blackett, 1888, first edition., a bright very good to very good+ copy in black and gold-gilt pictorial stamped cloth. Illustrated.

THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE, Holt, 1911, first American edition, some light wear but a vg copy. 1/1,500 copies. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you.)

AYESHA, Briggs, 1905, first Canadian edition, inner rear hinge starting, some light wear and soiling, else a good to very good copy of this most uncommon issue.

MAIWA'S REVENGE, Harpers, 1888, first American edition, a good to very good copy. A book that was offered in both cloth and paper, this volume is most curious as it is bound in full burgundy meshed cloth with no stamping of any kind on spine or front panel. Perhaps a rebind (contemporary with original publication) of the paper edition. Allan Quatermain #5.

THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN, D-P, 1922, first edition, stain along section of fore edge margin of the rear cover extending onto the rear end-papers and then in narrowing degrees along the same area for the next 25 leaves, else a tight vg+ copy. Infinitely better than a reading copy.

AYESHA, Ward-Locke, 1911, a bright vg+ copy with a different frontis, fewer illustrations and a different binding than the first edition. Illustrated. SHE #2.

RED EVE, Doubleday Page, 1912, first American edition, just about fine in second state Grosset & Dunlap binding.

THE ANCIENT ALLAN, Cassell, 1920, first edition., slight wear to spine extremities, else a vg copy.

THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST, Longmans Green & Co., 1894, first edition., foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, t.p.e.'s darkened, else a very good, externally bright copy. Illustrated.

THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN, Cassell and Co., 1922, first edition, some wear to the outer spine hinges, else a just about vg copy in just about vg later printing full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine.

COLONEL QUARITCH, Longmans Green & Co. 1888, first edition., 3 volumes, spine panels dust soiled, some shelf wear at spine extremities and corners (several of the latter also bruised ), hairline cracks to inner hinges, some scattered minor foxing, a good to very good set.

QUEEN OF THE DAWN, Doubleday, 1925, first edition (issued a month prior to the British edition), some scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a bright vg+ copy in the publishers original vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with bit tanned dust-wrapper spine, some light wear and tear, clear tape reinforcement at the base of the spine and at a small area of the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel and with some inner tape reinforcement along the upper and lower hinges of the dust-wrapper as well. All in all, still a very nice copy.

MORNING STAR, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910, first American edition, a tight vg copy with the slightest of wear. Illustrated.

FAIR MARGARET, Musson, 1908, first Canadian edition, rear lower corner a bit bumped, some soiling to the spine, else just about a vg copy with all the green and gold-gilt stamping bright and intact. Illustrated.