Search Results: Titles starting with H from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1923. First Edition. Boards with 1/4 cloth. Good. 8 3/4 x 5.5 inches (22 x 14 cm), yellow boards with brown spine, some fading on front cover, black lettering on spine, foxing on front flyleaf. Verso of half title page has works by A. L. Cleather pasted down, photo of Blavatsky on frontispiece, plus additional photos in text. Title page has stamped: 'donated by H.P. B. Library Victoria, B.C., Canada. Page ix has postscript pasted in.Pencil handwriting below the paste down. Highlighting on the page, another page has writing in read. Rear endpaper has a pink paste down from the Oriental Bookstore. 30 page addendum, a posthumous attack on H.P. B. by Basil Crump. 76 pp.

J.G. Swisshelm, 1880. First Edition. Cloth. Very good.. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, front cover has decorative black stamp on front and the same design blind stamped on back, brown endpapers, front free endpaper has discoloration at top left corner as if a label has been removed. Front flyleaf has "Compliments of _________ Aug. 1880." Jane Grey Swisshelm was a social reformer, abolitionist and journalist. This book documents her activities in the abolitionist movement and her travels in the antebellum south. 361pp. Rare and First Edition.

Composing Romm + Graphic Typographers Inc, 1972. First Edition. 1/2 cloth and 1/2 leather. Near fine. Jack Wolfgang Beck. Gray cloth with 1/2 leather, 8-1/4" x 8-1/4" (21 x 21 cm). Illustrations by Jack Wolfgang Beck. Marbled endpapers, no page numbers. Full page black and gray illustrations throughout. Cloth slipcover with minor rubbing at opening.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket has Romare Bearden illustration. From the Lamar Memorial Lectures no. 35 at Mercer University. The author analyzes three books, The Autobiography of Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson, Jonah's Gourd VIne by Zora Neal Hurston, and Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps. 151 pp.

Very good. Hand written diary with silver foil cover. 24 pp. One black and white photo, 4 black and white photos pasted in.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1979. Boards. Very good/very good. Brown boards with gilt illustration of tree on front and gilt lettering on spine. Price clipped dust jacket. Essays by Martin who was a journalist for the Atlanta Constitution. Previously he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. Illustrated Bill Dratch. Pen and ink sketches throughout. 166 pp.

Dayton, OH and St. Louis, MO: Dr. Harter Medicine Co, 1896. Pamphlet. Poor. 5-1/4 x 7-1/2" stapled chromo-lithographed wraps. Unpaginated, but [36] pages. Wraps soiled, chipped, torn, and rebacked with cello-tape, previous owner's name and pencil markings on the upper wrap and ink notations on several pages within, one page with a 1/2" chunk out at the bottom edge. Established in 1855, this is the 41st "Annual Greeting" from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co., in which they are pleased to announce their expansion into a new factory at the corner of First and Canal Street, Dayton, Ohio.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2002. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Pink boards with dark blue 1/4 cloth, with gilt lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket,. 333 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good/fair. Red cloth with gilt drawing of cow on cover and gilt illustration on spine with white lettering. 5" x 8-1/2" (13 cm x 21 cm). Dust jacket has chipping and tears, top corner has small square tear. Line drawings on endpapers and throughout. Helen Corbitt was director of restaurants at Neiman-Marcus. 181 pages including index.

Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Teal cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, some foxing to top page edge, illustrations throughout. 107 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good/very good. Paul Mirocha. Cream colored boards with 1/4 green cloth, gilt illustration on front and gilt lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Essays on a variety of subjects. The first page of each new chapter has an lllustration at the beginning of the text. Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. Laid in is a post card duplicating the cover. 273 pp.

London: Trubner & Company, 1872. First Edition. Cloth. Very good.. 7 x 4 3/4inches (18 x 12 cm), reddish brown pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind stamp,wear to top and bottom of spine and corners. Bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper verso. 119 pp.

New York: Weathervane Books, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Very good/very good. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top and bottom of spine are creased. DJ has wear at top and bottom of spine. ix-xxi, 650 pp. Reprint of 1970 edition by the Imprint Society. The history of printing and newspapers in the Colonial states, the British colonies, and the British Isles.

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. First Thus. Cloth. Near fine/Very good - Slipcase. Blue cloth, in sturdy brown slipcase with a paper label with a picture of the 1810 edition of the book. Signed limited edition, number 347 of 1950. Insciription dated 1991 and signed by M.A. McCorison. ix-xxi, 3-650 pp.

Tribune Publishing Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Black pebbled boards, gilt lettering on front and spine. Wear to extremities. Front free flyleaf has had pastedown removed and has small JUL in red stamp (This is the only evidence of it being an ex-library copy). Also on front free flyleaf "Property of Joe A. Riddle Sr. Children. July 6, 1949." is written in ink. Photos and maps throughout. Minor pencil writing on 2 pages.

London: Methuen & Co, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Green cloth with gilt letter and illustrations on front and spine, foxing on first few pages and final few pages, wear to extremities. Previous owner's name and date written in ink on front free endpaper. This is volume II of Animal Life: An Evolutionary Natural History. Illustrations throughout including several photographic plates. In the back of the book is a catalog of books published by Methuen & Co. 1910. xxxi, 458 pp.

Southaven, MS: Carter Printing Company, 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, illustrations throughout. Limited to 1,000 copies. Signed by author dated 1983. 452 pp.

Germany: Bolfsausgabe, 1924. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Busch, Wilhelm. 9.5 x 11 /3/4inches (23.5 x 29.5 cm) Tan cloth with red gilt lettering and illustration on front and red gilt lettering on spine. Book of cartoons with text. Cloth is ripped at rear bottom corner. 352 pp.

North Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1965. First Edition. Pulp paperback. Good. 4 x 7 inches (10 x 18 cm), pulp paperback. Reddish brown cover with The Three Muses illustration. Diagonal fold on front cover, slight vertical crease on backcover, some foxing to page margins. Appears to be unread. 186pp, plus six pages of ads for other Brandon House books. Case studies on lesbians.

Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1980. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/very good +. Salvador Dali. 10 x 12.5 inch ( 25 x 32 cm) Tan cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dj, sixty-five plates in color, 112 reproductions in black and white. 160 pp. Special issue of the XXe Siècle Review. Nineteen essays about Dali. First edition.