Search Results: Authors starting with H from Better Read Than Dead

New York: New York University Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, partially paginated, [60]. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped and worn with sticker residue at base, cover top right corner creased, cover soiled with sticker residue, top front flap seam torn 1/2", rear cover lightly soiled and nicked. One of two published books during Umbra member N.H. Pritchard's following The Matrix Poems 1960-1970. He was also published in several journals, though EECCHHOOEESS would be his last published work during his lifetime. His poetics would be revisited decades after his death and anthologized by Ugly Duckling Presse, Primary Information and DABA Press in the 21st century.

New York: Prestel, 2022. Hardcover, quarto, orange boards in pictorial dust jacket, 150 color illustrations, 50 b/w illustrations, 208 pages. New, in shrink.

Prestel, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Text in German. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2013. Softcover quarto in pictorial wraps, 446 pp. Very good/No dust jacket.

Grove Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Small, 1 in, tear to the bottom, light edge wear. faint toning, and foxing to dust jacket. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free or foiling or creasing. Light foxing to end papers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Tuscaloosa: Greenleaf Publications, 1993. Hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards, stamped gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, [2], 159, [1] pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket, spine crown chipped and creased, upper cover corner 1/4" tear and creasing, lower cover top edge crease and tear, lightly worn edges. Title page author signature. Autobiographical detail of experiences with extraterrestrials and mediumship.

New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Thatched brown cloth with blue and white decorative title to spine, publisher's blue topstain. 302 pp. Very Good, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, with a slightly rolled spine, light abrasion to topstain. Previous owner inscription to front free end paper. Otherwise bright, sound, clean./About Very Good jacket, unclipped, with creasing and shallow chipping about edges, some toning and soiling, small dampstain to heel of spine. Else bright and attractive.. Stated first printing of Hall's highly scarce second novel, the first to be published under his full name (his first, and a handful of subsequent mysteries, were published as "O.M. Hall" and then "Jason Manor"). Published while teaching Fiction at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Hall would go on to become a respected novelist and professor at UC Irvine, but this early hard-boiled novel, set in the slums and stockyards of the Great Depression, would remain… Read More

New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998. Perfect bound [octavo], printed pink wraps, 108 pp, [4] advert pp. Very Good, lightly soiled and creased wraps, with some wear at corners and spine ends. Essays on experimental filmmakers.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. 8vo, black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, 404 pp. Very Good, foxing and soiling to edges of text block, 1/4" chip out of crown of spine, bookseller sticker on front pastedown./No jacket.. With editorial collaboration of Alex Pelle.

Lahore, Pakistan: Premier Book House, 1975. 8vo, black cloth with stamped gilt lettering to front boards and spine, colorful mottled stain to full text block, xxviii, 783 pp. Good, some fraying to edges of boards, fraying to crown and tail of front joint, corners lightly bumped with resultant fraying, residue of sticker to front free endpaper, vibrant decoration to edges of textblock..

ostfilden-ruit, germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, corners sharp, binding tight and square, clean and unmarked within. Overall in very good condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1985. First Vintage Books Edition, November 1985. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated glossy wraps. 209pp. About Near Fine. Cover by Rick Lovell. Signed copy of Hannah's debut short story collection, which was first published to resounding critical acclaim and would stake out his particular style of Southern fiction. Anecdotally, this bookseller has been told bya few obsessives that the saxophone-taking-off-from-aircraft-carrier depicted on this edition's cover is a "high point" of the Vintage Contemporaries design of the 80s/90s -- a corner of the graphic design book world we are scared to look too close at, but is certainly a singular one.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. First edition. Hardcover octavo in original dust jacket. Green paper covered boards over black cloth, stamped to front and spine in gilt. 150pp. Near Fine in a like jacket.. Jacket designed by Fred Marcellino. Signed by Hannah to title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Purple paper-covered boards backed with red cloth and lettering stamped in silver to front and spine. 101pp. Near Fine in about Near Fine unclipped jacket, soft vertical crease along edge of front flap.. Signed by Hannah to half-title page.

New York: E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1987. First Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. White paper-covered boards backed with maroon cloth, lettering stamped in gilt to spine. Olive green endpapers. 133pp. About Fine in a like unclipped jacket; a beautiful copy..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine and green boards, stamped gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 150 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket. Jacket design Fred Marcellino.

Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2014. Hardcover octavo, gray cloth stamped with black lettering,385 pp. In cardboard slip case. Near Fine, one corner gently pushed./Cardboard slipcase shows some soiling, bump to rear bottom corner..

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 156 pp. 12mo. In dust jacket. Very Good, frayed and rubbed to head of spine and rear board, otherwise lightly soiled, foxed. Binding sound./Very Good jacket, edgeworn including shallow chipping, some soiling, unclipped and clean otherwise.. Early novel from the revered and prolific Guyanese author, who has somehow remained out of print in the United States. This copy inscribed to Anna Rutherford, who organized the first European conference on the British Commonwealth novel and spent her career promoting and publishing indigenous writers under European colonial rule, including work by Wilson Harris (Commonwealth, 1971). Her journal Kunapipi was regarded as the premier post-colonial literary journal in Europe. Harris' inscription in blue ink to title page reads as such: "For Anna / with kindest wishes and affection / Wilson / Aarhus April 1973". It was likely that Harris was staying with… Read More

New York: Basic Books, 1971. Hardcover octavo, black cloth boards with purple and silver spine lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 375 pp. Very good, lightly faded and discolored edges of boards and spine ends, remainder paperclips of former owner, Doris Funnye Innis footnoting several pages, additionally a 'duplicate' stamp on front free end paper/Very good, lightly worn and chipped at ends of spine, lightly soiled overall with some discoloration, and top of cover and back of jacket slightly warped. Designed by Vincent Torre. Former copy of CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) publications editor Doris Funnye Innis; owner inscription on front free end paper.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. First UK Edition. Hardcover (5-1/8 x 7-1/2 in.) in printed yellow dust jacket. Red cloth with lettering stamped in gilt to spine. 286pp. Very Good, corners and spine ends gently pushed, top of text block lightly soiled, spine slightly cocked. Good or better unclipped jacket is toned and damp stained to spine and soiled and lightly edge worn throughout.. Presentation copy and true first edition [UK] of Hauser's fourth novel, published in the United States the following year under the title The Choir Invisible. Warmly inscribed to front free end paper to fellow novelist and close friend, Marguerite Young: "To the one and only Marguerite, and to all the creatures of her incomparable brain and art. With endless love and admiration, Marianne / On the shuttle train between Paris, France and Paris, Missouri - April '57 B.C." Marianne Hauser (1910-2006) was an Alsatian-American author who, after a period in Paris writing against the encroaching threat of Nazism, ended up… Read More