Search Results: Authors starting with H from DuBois Rare Books

New York: Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 240 p. ; 25 cm. 148 illustrations. 48 in color. Hardcover. Publisher's original avocado/grey linen over boards, lettering in black to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: pretty much, and somewhat miraculously, pristine; a lovely copy. Dust Jacket Condition: front flap creased with extreme edge of approx. 2 inch section showing bent laminate, all well clear of any text, and otherwise a very sound, sharp, copy. Includes small biographies of the artists, whose names include: Max Ernst, Lyonell Feininger, George Grosz, Alexi Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Emile Nolde, Kurt Schwitters...etc. etc.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 190 pp. Octavo. A sharp copy almost certainly unread. The author's second book.

Hamburg: Hans Christians Druckerei u. Verl, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. [ltd. to 5000 copies]. Wraps. About Fine. 34pp. 25cm. 4to. Softcover. Book Condition: toning to wraps (mostly lower cover) else fine.

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 188, 196, & 171 pp. respectively. Hardcovers. Publisher's original cloth over boards. Condition of Books: faint signs of handling, the Rosens left their bookplate affixed to the front paste-down of vol. #8, else fine; lovely copies all. Condition of jackets: vol. #6 with chipping to crown of spine, light shelf wear to the extremities of each in their measure, each jacket prettier than the last. A sharp copies. Happy to peel one or more volumes away priced separately.

[San Antonio?]: si, 1961. Wraps. Near Fine. [16] pp. 24 cm. Softcover [Pamphlet]. Staplebound blue cardstock wraps lettered in copper. No date, publisher, or place published are specified but: "A critical paper read tl-o the annual dinner of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, San Antonio, Texas, January, 1961." appears on the title page. The final page has Carl Hertzog's colophon mark and he has signed it. Presumably the basis for the work with the same title published 2 years later. Book Condition: some toning around the cover edges along with superficial bits of edgewear, else fine. "A critical paper read to the annual dinner of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, San Antonio, Texas, January, 1961.

Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. viii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm .Hardcover. Publisher's original paper cloth over boards, lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. A sharp copy. Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2012 Nominated for Lawrence W. Levine Award 2013 Nominated for PROSE Awards 2012.

New York: Atria, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 402pp. Blue paper over boards. Virtually as-new. Presentation copy signed and dated by author a scant two weeks after publication.

New York: World Pub. Co, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 241 pages 21 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth over boards, copper lettering to spine. Book Condition: top edge shows fading, spine ends lightly frazzled; Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: toning to top edge of front panel, a few nicks, wrinkles, and nips at the extremities. Very Good. Author's first book.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 263pp. Book condition: Fine. No defects. Dust Jacket condition: Near fine. Minimal shelf wear and an errant crinkle or two. Author's first novel.

St. Louis: Hardin, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. 30pp. 21cm. Softcover. Staplebound wraps.

St. Louis: Hardin, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 26pp. 21cm. Softcover. Staplebound wraps folded but not stapled. Book Condition: back panel with crease mark, light spotting to pages. Described by editor as intermittent issue containing only advertising (hence issue #10 1/2 rather than #11).

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition, First Printing so stated with no additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 346 pp. 8to. Hardcover. Grey cloth over boards, green & red stripes with green lettering on spine. Book Condition: Very Good. Showing it's age in a kind of indescribable, unspecific way. Dust Jacket Condition: wear to extremities including chipping with some loss. No text or illust. affected. Spine has pea sized bruise that appears inexpertly coloured in.

Willowdale, (Ont: Canada): Harduf Books. (printed by Gross Brother's but ..."typeset in Israel"), 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. 185 pp. illustrations ; 29 cm. Tall quarto. Covers in black leatherette with gilt titling to spine and upper cover. With publishers material laid in. The true first edition, printed in Israel! Book Condition: Discrete PO inscription to ffep else fine. Virtually pristine inside and out. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Harduf David Mendel. 1987. Transliterated Yiddish-English Dictionary.

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: The Friends of the Library of the College of Bryn Mawr, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. 29, [1] p. Front., facsims. 24cm. Softcover. Light gray decorated wrappers, printed in moderate pink; staplebound. Book condition: spine is lightly sunned, with faint half-moon shaped coffee stain to front cover, else fine. "This keepsake, printed for the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library in an edition of 750 copies, was designed by Douglass S. Livingston of Sutter House, Lititz, Pennsylvania. . . . The cover design is from a pencil sketch by Laurence Housman, and the frontispiece is from an hitherto unpublished portrait of Thomas Hardy by Sir William Rothenstein. The letters and illustrations, from the Adelman Collection at Bryn Mawr College Library, are published with permission." A lively assortment of letters from the great man himself, Thomas Hardy, selected from the period when he lived at Max Gate.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking. 2 v., 343 p. & 352 p. incuding index. 33 leaves of plates : ill. ; 8to. [7 1/4 x 5 1/4 2 ¼ thick both vol. combined]. Black cloth over boards (w/ spines faded to more of a brown), gilt spine lettering (dulled). Book Condition: Cloth mildly worn, with discoloration in a spot or two. Binding sound and no starting in hinges. Previous owner's name on ffep in neat hand on both volumes. Plates collated and perfect with tissue guards intact, no foxing at all to interior. Very Good at least. It's our belief that the UK and US editions were simultaneously published, making these first editions. One of the strongest pieces of evidence in this claim is the fact that both editions were printed on the Continent and year of publication for each volume is indicated on the it's title page. It is a curiousity to us that while the George Allen editions are widely held institutionally Worldcat shows no institutions holding the Dodd, Mead editions.

New York: Dutton, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 383 pages ; 24 cm.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1898. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good -/Lacking. Publisher's advertisements precedes text. Title page engraved. Description: [4], 417 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. Twelve stories about the poor and wealthy people of the South before, during, and after the Civil War. Publisher's green cloth over boards, gilt and black lettering and decoration to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Spine is toned, with lettering dull; spine ends frayed. Front cover is quite handsome. Title page is loose and rear interior joint cracked. Else Fine. Binding is quite sound.

New York: Scribner, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Bath: Parragon, 2002. Reprint. About Fine/Near Fine. 79 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original photo-illustrated paper over boards. Book Condition: About fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities else fine. A sharp copy. "A compilation of works from the Bridgeman Art Library.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 486 pages ; 25 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very light wear to the extremities. A sharp copy.