Authors starting with H from Charles Agvent

n.p.: (Samuel Delaney), (1967). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Near Fine and quite scarce. Twenty-six mimeographed pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE--by seven years. Published by Hacker's then-husband, science fiction writer Samuel Delaney. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in red ink on the title page: "To James- Allen/with whom I have so/muc... more information

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(Mansfield): M. Martino, [2000]. Reprint. Fine. Reprint of the 1903-1917 edition. Cloth. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. vii, 385 + ix, 258 pages. Konrad Haebler is one of the more famous bibliographers of the twentieth century with more than a dozen bibliographies to his credit. Bibliografia Iberica remains to this day the standard work on early printing in Spain and Portugal. In all 1500 early printed books are described. Each book is expertly described and much bibliographical information is provided... more information

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London: Longmans, Green, 1903. First Edition. Original blue cloth. Minor wear at spine tips & corners. Light foxing. Very Good. Plates. First English Edition. Subscription library bookplate on front pastedown. ... more information

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London: Longmans, Green, 1896. First Edition. Decorated green cloth. Spine lightly sunned, gilt bright. Very Good. First English Edition, First Issue with error on page 271. Preceded by the American edition. With a 24-page catalogue at end dated 4/96. Light to moderate foxing. ... more information

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London: Longmans, Green, 1890. First Edition. green cloth. Tiny split bottom of front joint. Very Good or better. 23-page catalogue at end dated 10/92. Light soiling and foxing. ... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. leather. Still Near Fine in a Very Good, intact slipcase. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with hand-colored watercolors by Edward Wilson. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown.... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. leather. Near Fine in about Fine slipcase. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with hand-colored watercolors by Edward Wilson. Copy #1050 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown. Minor ... more information

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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1818. First Edition. boards. Very Good, uncut, clean copy in original state. Small quarto (5-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in original paper-backed blue boards with printed paper spine label. xvi, 246, [2] ads. Complete with half title. An early and important monograph on meningitis. Pencil notes and small ink owner stamp to front blank; mild and scattered foxing. Some erosion of paper on spine including part of the label. Front board holding by cords. ... more information

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Philadelphia, 18 Jan. 1856. Crease marks from folding. Near Fine. Gracious and humble reply to a request for an autograph: "[I] only wish my autograph were better worth the trouble you have taken. Hale is perhaps best known as an editor of Godey's Lady's Book and as author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Fine example. ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good in Good first-state dustwrapper. INSCRIBED in the year of publication: "October 8, 1976/Mary Sams, Kunta's/family wishes the very/best to you and your/family--/The very best!" and SIGNED "Alex Haley." Touch of wear to spine tips of book. Dustwrapper a little tired with some edgewear and a small chip at the head of the spine. Laid in is a flyer from a Haley lecture in 1977. ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in price-clipped Very Good dustwrapper. Made into a very influential television series. SIGNED by Haley on the front free endpaper and quite uncommon thus as he almost always added an inscription. Book with bump to bottom of spine; first-state dustwrapper with soiling to the white areas. ... more information

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New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First Edition. cloth. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Includes reminiscences of Marianne Moore, Archibald Macleish, Yvor Winters, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Archibald MacLeish. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Row, (1969). First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good dw with minor edgewear. ... more information

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New York: Viking, 1958. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Hall's second major collection INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet to the writers Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis: "For Yvor and Janet Winters/with affection/Don Hall/January 1959/Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... more information

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Mt. Carmel: Ives Street Press, 1984. First Edition. cloth. Fine. Tall, thin octavo (5-3/4" x 11") bound accordion-style in red cloth over boards; text handset and printed in four colors. Illustrated with two duotone plates made from prints produced directly from the original glass negatives by T. S. Bronson taken at the turn of the twentieth century. Copy #88 of 130 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Prospectus laid in. ... more information

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(Edgewood, KY): Robert Barth, 1995. First Edition. Fine. One of 300 copies of this chapbook in printed wraps with a decoration on the front cover. Laid in is a poem postcard by Hall. ... more information

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Concord: Ewert, (1988). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Nicely printed poem with an illustration reproduced from an original woodcut by J. J. Lankes. Of a total edition of 436, this is one of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in wrappers. ... more information

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Boston: Godine, (1975). First Edition. Patterned boards. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin chapbook of 44 pages bound in black-and-white patterned boards. The title poem is about a town in New Hampshire erased by a flood, although another town of the same name was built not far from the original. INSCRIBED on 24 January 1976 on the title page for Marian and Arthur "with pleasure cruising to Charlottesville" and SIGNED Donald Hall. ... more information

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New York: Viking, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with customary edgewear. Illustrated by Mimi Korach. Wonderful book! SIGNED by Hall on the title page. Address sticker remnant on front endpaper. Chipping at head of spine of dustwrapper with about a one-inch open tear at top of front panel. ... more information

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Ann Arbor. Near Fine. Brief letter about a bronze in the Museum of Modern Art. ... more information

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