Search Results: Authors starting with H from 4Shadows Books, IOBA

Tor Books, 1993-07. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. No marks. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket with light ruffle to spine head. Yellowed areas on front and back pastedowns, like someone tried to glue the flaps to the boards but it didn't take, and a few small soilspots to the outside page edges. Binding and corners square. NY: Tor Books, 1993. Stated First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. - Part murder mystery, part espionage thriller. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Fithian Press / Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2001-04-02. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. No marks. Clean hardcover in crisp unclipped dustjacket. Binding straight, corners square. Santa Barbaa, CA: Fithian Press (division of Daniel & Daniel Publishers), 2001. No printings indicated. 511 pages including 3 pp. bibliography. Illustrations by Ruth Boynton. - A novel set in Vietnam in the early 60's, on the eve of war and American involvement. Love and romance, politics and danger, from steamy backstreet Saigon and the tennis courts and dinner parties of foreign society to the high-country jungle. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Beacon Press, 1971-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. No marks inside or out. Clean paperback with light wear, square binding with no spine creases. Slight musty smell. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. 8th printing of 1966 Beacon Press Ariadne edition. xvii, 394 pages; a few b&w illustrations, bibliographic endnotes. (Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association.) - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Harper & Row, 1978-01-01. 1st/2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. No marks inside or out. Clean hardcover in brown cloth with bronze stamped title to spine and deckled fore edge, square binding and barely nudged corners. Unclipped dustjacket with spine sunned, a 1/2 inch tear to top front edge, a 1/2 by 1/2 inch triangular chip to top back edge, other light wear. NY: Harper & Row, 1978. 2nd printing of the First Edition. 304 pages; 8 pp. of b&w plates, map endpapers. - During the most terrible years of World War II, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Harper & Row, 1978-01-01. 1st/2nd. Hardcover. VG/VG. No marks inside or out. Clean hardcover in brown cloth with bronze stamped title to spine and deckled fore edge, square binding and corners. Unclipped dustjacket with spine sunned, light wear and a microscopic tear to the spine head. NY: Harper & Row, 1978. 2nd printing of the First Edition. 304 pages; 8 pp. of b&w plates, map endpapers. - During the most terrible years of World War II, in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of Nazi SS, Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. VG-/None. No markings. Hardcover in blue cloth with lettering and design in cream and blindstamp to front and spine, top edge gilt, fore and tail rough cut. Binding square with no cracks, light bump and rub to extremities. Faint dampstain to last several pages. NY: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. First Edition, dates match, NAP. 317 pages; 10 pp. ads. B&w frontis. illustration by Louis Loeb, w/tissue guard. - The authors earliest works were published under the pseudonym Sidney Luska. This novel, his last, follows The Cardinal's Snuff-box (1900), and The Lady Paramount (1901). - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Minotaur Books, 2006-09-05. US 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Almost like new. Unmarked clean hardcover in crisp unclipped jacket. Two pages had upper foreedge creased with mild wrinkle, otherwise as new. Binding tight and square, corners sharp. NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006. Stated First US Edition with full number line, 1st printing. - Harper's second historical mystery, following The Mosaic of Shadows, set in 11th-century Asia Minor during the Crusades. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Minotaur Books, 2005-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. A small date stamp to the top edge, no other marks. Clean hardcover with square binding and barely nudged corners. Unclipped dustjacket with light wear and no tears. Flaps were glued to pastedowns, are now free. NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005. Stated First US Edition with full number line. - Authors first novel, a mystery set in Byzantium. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987-10-01. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Previous owners blindstamp seal to the ffep, no other marks. Clean hardcover with square binding and barely nudged corners. Unclipped dustjacket with very little wear, in mylar cover. NY: Macmillan, 1987. First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. xxxiv, 364 pages; map, b&w plates, endnotes. - A critical, often controversial, study of how the face of Japan was changed by war and defeat, how the American occupation forces under General Douglas MacArthur made those changes, and how Japan and America have coped with each other since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Donald I. Fine, 1987-08-26. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Clean unmarked hardcover in crisp unclipped dustjacket. Binding and corners square, hint of tan to outside page edges. NY: Donald I. Fine, 1987. First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. 320 pages. - A riveting WW II saga of divided loyalties and triumphant sacrifice in the days before the liberation of Paris. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

St. Martin's Press, 1996-07-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/VG. No marks inside or out. Clean hardcover with tight square binding and sharp corners appears unread. Unclipped dustjacket with a 3/4 inch surface scratch to the front panel, otherwise little wear and no tears. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Stated First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

St. Martin's Press, 1997-12. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. No marks. Clean hardcover in crisp unclipped dustjacket. Tight and square, sharp corners. 2nd book in the Lily Bard series, set in a small Arkansas town. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Stated First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. - 2nd book in the Lily Bard / Shakespeare series. After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Charlaine Harris launched a lighthearted (cozy) series "starring" Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden, with Real Murders, a Best Novel nominee for the 1990 Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight Aurora titles. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses in the town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

St. Martin's Press, 1996-07. 1st/2nd. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author without inscription directly to the title page, no other marks. Clean hardcover in unclipped jacket with light wear to the extremities. Tight and square, top corners barely bumped. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 2nd printing. - 1st book in the Lily Bard / Shakespeare series. After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Charlaine Harris launched a lighthearted (cozy) series "starring" Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden, with Real Murders, a Best Novel nominee for the 1990 Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight Aurora titles. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses in the town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

The Century Co, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/None. Clean unmarked hardcover in red cloth with gilt title and green blindstamped design to spine and front, top edge gilt and other edges uncut. Binding tight and square, corners bumped. NY: The Century Co, 1899. First Edition (dates match, NAP). 225 pages. - A novel set first in revolutionary era New York City, then in "present-day" (1899) NYC. Constance Cary Harrison (1843–1920), was a prolific American writer. She was also known as Constance Cary, Constance C. Harrison, and Mrs. Burton Harrison, as well as by her nom de plume, Refugitta. She was married to Burton Harrison, a lawyer, American democratic politician, and private secretary for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. She and two of her cousins were known as the "Cary Invincibles"; the three sewed the first examples of the Confederate Battle Flag. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

W W Norton & Company, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. No marks inside or out. Clean hardcover with square binding and corners, tanned page edges. Dustjacket with very light wear, edges tanned, lower flap corner clipped. Slight musty smell. NY: W.W. Norton, 1960. xvii, 739 pages; illustrated throughout. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Simon & Schuster, 1994-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author to the colophon page with personalized inscription, no other marks inside or out. Fresh, clean hardcover with tight square binding and sharp corners. Crisp unclipped dustjacket with negligible wear and no tears, in mylar cover. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. 551 pages. - Author's first novel, a military-political thriller about World War III including exchange of nuclear weapons. Back panel blurbs by Clive Cussler, Stephen Coonts, and others. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Simon & Schuster, 1994-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. No marks inside or out. Fresh, clean hardcover with tight square binding and sharp corners. Crisp unclipped dustjacket with negligible wear and no tears. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. 551 pages. Published 25 years ago and long out-of-print. there are no 'New' copies, don't be fooled. - Author's first novel, a military-political thriller about World War III including exchange of nuclear weapons. Back panel blurbs by Clive Cussler, Stephen Coonts, and others. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Bookmark, 1967-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Complete two-volume set, plus cardboard slipcase poor but intact. Hardcovers in gray cloth with black lettering to spine and front, tight square binding and nudged corners. Previous owners blindstamp seal to each ffep, no other marks. Dustjackets with light wear including some loss to the corners, in mylar covers. Manila: Bookmark, 1967. Stated First Edition with no printings indicated, 1st printing. Vol 1: xvi, 662 pages. Vol 2: vii, 682 pages; both with b&w photos including frontis. - This is the entire work written in secret in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, produced at the daily risk of the authors life, large portions of which were used by the U.S. Army authorities in the prosecution of Japanese war criminals. Scarce. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Burd Street Press, 2000-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author to the front free endpaper with brief inscription dated 10/10/02. No other marks inside or out. Clean hardcover with square binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dustjacket with very little wear. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. First Edition with no printings indicated, 1st printing. xiv, 251 pages; illustrated, endnotes, bibliography. - The story of Lee's military career in the Revolutionary War, primarily in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Details his exploits, the central role he played in gathering intelligence and foraging for the Continental Army. Also delves into the unique personal relationship between Henry Lee and General George Washington. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.

Belknap Press, 2005-05-30. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Previous owners blindstamp seal to ffep, no other marks and otherwise about like new. Clean hardcover with tight square binding and sharp corners. Dustjacket with very little wear, in mylar cover, no price on unclipped flap. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 382 pages; maps, photo plates, endnotes. - The first international history of the end of World War II in the Pacific integrates the roles of the US, Soviet Union, and Japan; puts the final days of World War II into a whole new light. - - Wrapped, boxed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.