Search Results: Authors starting with H from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wrappers and Letters. Very Good +/[No Dust Jacket -- as issued]. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original pink wrappers in NEAR FINE CONDITION (showing wear to the spine -- including some splitting to the lower spine and a tear to the front cover near the spine as well as some general wear to the wrappers) signed by the presumed prior owner W. P. Burgess to the upper face of the front wrap and there dated by him "1865", the year of publication; TOGETHER WITH THREE MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, EACH SIGNED BY HALE, further together with ONE FIVE (5) PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM GENERAL BRAYMAN TO HALE dated November 15, 1893 written IN THE HAND OF GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER [Mason Gowdy's mother], having been dictated by him to her, and SIGNED BY GENERAL BRAYMAN AND MENTIONING HIS PLEASURE TO HEAR THAT HALE HAD MET THE GENERAL BRAYMAN'S DAUGHTER WHO MENTIONED BRAYMAN TO HALE UPON… Read More

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1886. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A Very Good + or better copy of the first edition, first printing, in a somewhat less than Very Good dust jacket with chips and tears and showing a small piece of decorative tape to each flap. [Some of the tears have archival tape applied to the jacket's verso to prevent growth of such tears.] The closed page block's edges show some foxing and there is scatterd foxing within, primarily to the pastedowns, free endpapers, and the leaves nearest thereto. A presumed prior-owner's name appears in pencil on the half-title and there is correction in pencil to page 7. The front board is lettered in red and illustrated in white, yellow and black and the volume's title page is lettered in black and red. [The book's author, James Logie Robertson, was all of literary scholar, educator, journalist, editor, and author -- including of scholarly works, and sometimes wrote under the name "Hugh Haliburton". His… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/[Slipcase]. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original boards and slipcase, being number 397 of 1,000 such copies issued. The slipcase is rather worn but remains largely intact with some splits to the edges. Copies of this First American edition are surpassingly uncommon and copies in the complete and intact slipcase (even when rather worn). The Frontispiece is by Thomas Hardy. SCARCE INDEED.

Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket of this salute to the White Tee Shirt, a garment worn by people of every age, gender, and shape; an interesting, elegant, and profusely-illustrated book from the cover on, and wearing the dust jacket with an illustrated verso. [PLEASE NOTE: This is a large and heavy book and the buyer's shipping charges will exceed those quoted by this site.]

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume which once likely held them. Examples of this original material are surprisingly uncommon to the market. A Very Good or better UNCOMMON piece of Bret Harte literary ephemera.

New York: New Directions, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing (a bit of rubbing to the spine tail and board bottoms) in a Fine, bright dust jacket (without the fading and toning so often seen); a novel which moves back and forth in time with dramatic episodes in unusual settings with the narrator's life being beset by tragedies. A Fine copy.

New York: I. S. Platt (for the first above item); Wiley and Putnam (for the second item, an expansion of the first), 1844 and 1846, respectively. First Editions, First Printings. No binding and Hardcover. Good and Very Good or Very Good +. Good to Very Good or better copies of two works, the first having been disbound (presumably from a larger volume, and the second housed in the remnants of a plain and privately-made dust jacket, with the spine mostly lacking (a small piece of which has been loosely laid in, and with the portions to the boards having been affixed to themselves (but not discernibly to the volume itself) too tightly to be removed without tearing them. The Author, Joel Tyler Headley (1814-1897), a member of the American Party, served as the Secretary of State for the State of New York for the year 1856. He had a varied career, working as a clergyman, historian, author, newspaper editor, adventurer and, of course, a politician. Headley graduated from Seminary and began his preaching… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original decorated cloth with the title label applied to the front board and the title and author label applied to the spine panel (the spine shows some minor sunning, most notably to the spine label due to the dust jacket cut out -- see below, and the boards show some minor corner rubs; multiple pages are unopened, or are only partially opened, on their leading fold, showing the book to have been only partially read -- or possibly entirely unread); in a Very Good + example of the EXCEEDINGLY RARE UNSOPHISTICATED dust jacket -- original to this copy of the book -- with scattered small tears and chips and with the arc over the spine label split on one side and nearly so on the other. The viewer will notice, of course, that the dust jacket is plain as it is from the period when jackets were used not to sell the book but only to keep the book clean… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original red spine and violet cloth, in a Fine example of the dust jacket, with both authors signature embossed on the front board in blank and SIGNED BY JOSEPH HELLER on the title page. The volume shows some minor pushing to the spine tail and a few small spots to the front free endpaper's recto. The tale centers around Heller's apparent good health and his suddenly feeling unwell and soon thereafter being admitted to the Hospital, and being found to have Guillain-Barre syndrome. An overall Very Good + or better copy, SIGNED BY JOSEPH KELLER.

New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. A Near Fine, tight and unread, copy of the first edition, first printing (with a bump to the rear board's lower leading outer corner, a slight lean to the left, and light spotting to the closed page block's top edge) in a Near Fine dust jacket (with several translucent linear markings visible when held at an angle to the light); being Ernest Hemingway's previously unpublished tale of his of last African safari written by him when he returned from Kenya in 1953 and being the last of his unpublished works to come to print. Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Hemingway's son, Patrick, who went with his father on the safari, edited Hemingway's manuscript to facilitate its publication here. A Near Fine copy.

New York: Scribner and Welford, [Undated but 1890]. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first American Edition, first printing, being one of the last four G. A. Henty titles to be published with the Scribner and Welford imprint. The first American edition of this novel and the other three in the last four printed by Blackie for release in America by Scribner and Welford ["By Right of Conquest", "Maori and Settler", and "A Chapter of Adventures"] were all issued with undated title pages -- thus being an exception to Harland Eastman's rule that true first American Scribner and Welford Editions require a dated title page). This copy meets all of the requirements of the first American Edition. (Notably, the Scribner and Welford First Editions of Henty's novels are much scarcer than are Blackie First Editons, and only 1,000 copies of this edition were printed, a paltry number compared to the number of Blackie editions published -- see… Read More

London: [printed by George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode], 1857 [plus undated ephemera]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. [Varies by item included]. As noted above, this listing includes (i) a notable work of postal information on London and its Post Office Districts, (ii) an original commemorative Irish stamp featuring Anthony Trollope, and (iii) an ORIGINAL SURVEYOR'S CARD SIGNED BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE (who served as a Postal Surveyor in Ireland, the place where he first came to happiness after having a miserable youth during which he had thought about suicide). The book itself is quite uncommon to the market and the Surveyor card [to which someone later added "Novelist" in red ink] is QUITE SCARCE and is ABSOLUTELY RARE WHEN SIGNED BY TROLLOPE................London was first divided into postal districts in 1857-1858, to a plan devised by Sir Rowland Hill in 1856 – a circle of roughly twelve miles radius from the General Post Office in St. Martin’s-le-Grand being split into ten… Read More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [Undated]. [Edition Unstated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good copy of the undated Alta edition of this famous work issued by Porter & Coates. The binding is in Very Good or better condition and shows minor rubbing to the spine ends and to each board's leading corners. The first (rear) free endpaper shows damage near the gutter. While undated, the front free endpaper bears a presentation inscription dated 1892 (as well as and prior seller's price in pencil). First published in 1857, the tale, set in the 1830s tells of Rugby School, an English boys school, with much of it centered on the author's experiences there, with the Tom Brown character being based on the author's brother, George Hughes. The volume is illustrated by a frontispiece, decorative initial chapter letters, and fancy illustrations at the end of each chapters, was the basis for the a number of television and film productions, and influenced the genre of British school novels. The… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original boards (the leading edge of which show some lightening), with each volume wearing the QUITE SCARCE DUST JACKET (each of which shows edgewear and loss), being the only jacketed set we have seen. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was a leading English Biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He was seen as an intellectual powerhouse and pugnacious and unyielding debater and was such a strong advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution that he was frequently described as "Darwin's Bulldog". Copies of this work in the original dust jackets are quite difficult to find. SCARCE INDEED.