Search Results: Authors starting with H from WhoByBooks

Toronto: Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. The award winning playwright's first novel.

New York: Random House Inc, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Bottom corners of HC are bumped. DJ has very slight sunning to spine. A notable collection from this fine American essayist. Signed on title page . Errata slip laid in.

Brantford, Canada: Bradley-Garretson, 1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Paul Krafft. Sold By Subscription Only".- title page. Includes numerous line drawings and half-tones. Some minor foxing. Illustration on pg 159/160 missing. A very interesting book - how little things change. An excerpt from the preface: "When one man earns so much money that he does not know how to invest it, and the other man earns so little money that he does not know how to get enough to eat, then the time has arrived to call a halt; and who will do this unless the people as a mass rise up and offer their protest and make their demand for economic change." No jacket as issued.

New York: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of three novellas from this American master.

Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New.

Toronto: Little, Brown (Canada), 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the award winning Newfoundland writer's second book of stories.

New York: Bantam, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ron Miller. This wildly successful book by Hawking went into multiple printings after a somewhat choppy printing start. As it is, this is the choppy start - the first state DJ and book. The first state is quite rare as it has numerous errors and was subsequently destroyed, ( it lacks a Table of Contents as well as having no Dedication and the DJ has factual errors ). Introduction by Carl Sagan. Small ink signature on FFEP, small stain to rear paste down. A touch of edge wear to DJ at crown of spine and some wrinkling to a few interior pages.

New York: Dover Pubns, 1968. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. ...a collection of weird, ghostly legends and beliefs of old Japan." Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Three B&W Illustrations by Yasumasa from the Limited Editions Club edition.

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Norman Shapiro. Jacket has 2 closed tears: inside front flap: 3" and front: 1", small stain on upper back. Ownership stamp on FFEP. Made into a movie by the fine Quebecois director Claude Jutra.

Concord, Ontario: House of Anansi Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. Writing and Culture in a Virtual World. Essays. French flaps.

Toronto: Oberon Press, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Best Canadian Stories of '71. Contributing writers include Gwendolyn MacEwen, Hugh Garner, Nora Keeling, George Bowering, Marian Engel, Rudy Wiebe, Alden Nowlan, Norman Levine and others. Crease to upper right corner with (university?) price stamp on first page.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft Pubs, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. DJ is some what tattered. Binding stain to inside front cover along gutter. FFEP has an ownership signature along with the owners note as to where the author gave her talk and she purchased it. The the writer has signed her name to the FFEP also which has transferred to the front flap (as in the book was closed before the ink had time to dry). Included: some newspaper ephemera.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Part of The Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectures delivered at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1962.

London: Heinemann Ltd., 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Here is an early work by Ms Highsmith better known as the author of The talented Mr. Ripley. The book is sharp and clean ... some small mottled stains on edge papers in a dust jacket that has some minor rubbing and chips at its edges. Previous ownership signature of front page with a small sticker: "Bookers Universal Building, British Guiana". First UK |Edition.

Toronto: Doublday Canada, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Previous ownership signature on FFEP.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The author's second novel and mystery featuring Detective Carlo Arbati. Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. An excellent volume of poetry from this Pulitzer winning poet. Maroon coloured boards. Fine in a tanned and slightly chipped dust jacket. Association copy - signed with a lengthy inscription to an obvious friend: "For ___ with best regards and the reminder of our pleasure in palimpsest.(Perhaps all poetry is a palimpsest!) Robert Hillyer 26 March 1959

New York: Random House, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fourteen essays from one of the pre-eminent American essayists of this generation. Price-clipped with a lamination curl to bottom edge at rear. Inscription on FFEP.

New York: Random House Inc, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hoagland turns his keen eye to the Dark Continent in this haunting travel book. Inscribed in Oct '79 to the poet Joel Oppenheimer who passed away in 1988.