Search Results: Authors starting with H from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

New York: The Rosehill Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5000 copies, 82 plates laid-into cloth-backed clamshell case. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG. Incidental foxing to half title on which the artist has put his signature. Better than very good all over.

Santa Barbara, CA: Pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition. Soft cover. VG/Very Good +. Covers smooth and soft. Very small tear top left corner front cover. Dj with matching small closed tear top left corner front panel, spine and rear panel slightly darkened. Edges and corners sharp. Signed and inscribed by Hagedorn at ffe.

NY: R.R. Bowker, 1970. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. As New. Third edition 1970 (after the first of 1955), this edition issued without dustjacket, as new in publisher's cardboard shipping box.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1939. Cloth. Near Fine. Fuller, Arthur D.. Gilt title and grouse pictorial at front cover. Edges and corners sharp. B&w illustrations. In VG publisher's paper-board slipcase with worn corners and spine ends.

NY: Hastings House, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Rivera, Covarrubias, Oroozco, et al (art of). Comprehensive mid-20thC review of Latin American artists in woodcut, etchings, lithis, aquatint, etc. 26 pages text and glossary, then 37 -186 pages of reproductions by artist and country. An apparently unused copy, internals as new, in almost fine dw.

NY: The Hroswitha Club, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New. Authored by well-known biblophile and one of the founding members of the Hroswitha Club, dedicated to the study of women in the book arts. Unused copy, as new. Red cloth, issued without dustjacket.

1862: no publisher 0. Soft cover. Fair. ARCHIVE OF CIVIL WAR PERIOD LETTERS OF EDWARD HAIGHT (March 1817 - 1885), an American politician and businessman from New York City. He was elected to the US House of Representatives from NY's 9th CD in 1860 and served for one term, after which he returned to NYC where he was a director of the National Bank of NY. The archive consists of 28 pieces of correspondence all to Mr, Haight, during and following his term as US Congressman. The letters have been pasted (blank page down), not chronologically, into an album (front cover missing) that was water damaged. Some letters, owing to that damage and also owing to the indecipherability of some handscript, are difficult to read. Still, the archive documents both the rudimentary tasks of a Congressman - like government appointments, military service recommendations, etc - and, after elected office, the ongoing relationship between a former Member of Commerce and Washington officials. The archive includes… Read More

Martin TN: Tennesse Poerty Journal, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Fine copy. Inscribed by Hall on 27 Aug 1974. On content page. Includes 11 Hall poems and his essay "Waking Up a Giant" plus contributions of others. '.

The Board of Trustees of Concord Academy, 1962. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Tudor, Tasha. Privately published by Concord Academy (for girls) , this is a series of talks on the education of young American women by Headmistress of School, Elizabeth B. Hall. It includes an address that Archibald MacLeish gave the student body. Now, it is most collectible as it was illustrated by Tasha Tudor, and, as it was not commercially published, is rarely found. 8vo, printed paper covers, French-style, 89 pages, with a cover pictorial plus 12 text illustrations, one full page, all others half page. Covers slightly toned around edges, with small loss spine foot and moderate chipping / tearing around edges as is often seen with French-style covers. Uncommon.

NY: MacMillan, 1890. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. NF. Nevill, Ralph. First edition, from English plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles and vignette front cover. vi + 271p. Illustrtaed with five coloredplates, four facsimiles and loads of text cuts. A superior copy.

Hardcover. Very Good. A small James Norman Hall/"Mutiny on the Bounty: collection consisting of 8 items: a copy of "Mutiny on the Bounty" signed by both Hall and Nordhoff in January 1933, three typed poems by Hall, two photographs of Hall taken in Tahiti in the 1930's, and two copies of Hall's posthumous book "Her Daddy's Best Ice Cream", the original 1952 edition and the 2003 reprint signed by Nancy Ella Hall. $3,500 1) A copy of "Mutiny on the Bounty, first edition, second state with decorated end papers in good condition, lacking the dustjacket, with a tipped in inscription "with cordial regards to the skippers friends John and Helen Bunker", signed by both Hall and Nordhoff and dated January 27, 1933. This may be John W. M. Bunker who was a biology professor at MIT consistent with the book was sourced in Gloucester, MA. 2) A typescript of a poem with ink corrections entitled: "Paeon of Gratitude to Nancy Ella Hall", who, upon being asked what kind of ice cream she liked best, replied: "My daddy… Read More

Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1965. Limited. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Baskin, Leonard. fine in near fine dw, number 46 of 500, spine sl tanned.

Tangier: Antaeus, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Lot of 26 copies: numbers 1, 12, 16 (2 copies), 19, 20, 27,28, 29, 30/31 2 copies), 32, 34 (2 copies), 45/46, 51, 52, 54 (2 copies), 57, 58, 59, 60, 64/65, 69. Issue #1 water damaged, so a reference copy, the rest near fine.

Tangier: Antaeus, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Run of the first issues, some double issues. Near fine copies.

Chicago: H. L. Barber, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Salesman dummy. 8vo, gray cloth, pictorial stamped in red and blue and titles in gilt. Sample pages, random page runs up to page 406, plus 6 pages of promotional materials in rear and blank subscription page. With lots of full page b&w photographs. Rear pastedown has binding sample of the backstrip in green, faux leather sample with gilt title. Book moderately soiled, some loss to stamped colors. Tipped in at front pastedown are testimonials acknowledging author Halstead as legitimate historian of the Philippine Expedition.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. Inscribed "To Jane Sargeant --- With warm best wishes" and signed by Maris Morris Hambourg. Jane Sargeant was an accomplished artist and the wife of Winthrop Sargeant, noted New York music critic and Sanskrit scholar, and previously married to photographer Walker Evans.

NY: Macmillan, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. Shimin, Symeon. First edition, stated second printing, 1968 (1967).  Coming of age story for juveniles of the young Ceylonese Zeely whose heroine is an ancient Watusi queen. Inscribed by Hamilton on the free front endpaper.  First novel of author Virginia Esther Hamilton (1936 -  2002) , who wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975.  Hamilton's lifetime achievements include the international Hans Christian Andersen Award (1992) for writing children's literature  and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (1995) for her contributions to American children's literature in 1995.  Illustrated by Symeon Shimin. . A better than very good copy. Some light foxing to unclipped dustjacket flaps, which have some edgewear and shallow chipping and a closed tear rear panel. Books shows little sign of use. A solid collectible, scarcely… Read More

NY: Baker, Voorhis, 1867. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Second edition of this rare, early American treatise on mental illness. Original brown pebbled cloth, blind double-ruled, gilt titles front, cloth over spine gone, still firmly bound, corners worn, 8vo, 81p, rear cover lightly damp-stained not affecting rest of book. Uncommon.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. First US Edition, 14th Printing. Laminated Pictiorial Covers. As New. Exemplary copy. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions.