Search Results: Titles starting with H from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2010. Full Leather. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xiv, 1098 pp. First edition, first printing, thus. In publisher's decorative bonded leather binding; illustrated endsheets; satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Light shelfwear, only; contents are clean and the binding sound; a bit of very trivial rubbing to the gilt edges. All in all, a very nice copy of the compendium of one of the most popular science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers of the last century.

Maine State Museum, 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto. viii, 69 pp. First Edition. A bight copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket; clean. An Exhibition of Maine Britannia Ware and Silverplate, 1829-1941, in the Collections of the Maine State Museum, May 15, 1992 - May 15, 1993.

Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1964. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. 12mo. 35, [4] pp. First edition, number 119 of 425, signed and inscribed with a drawing by Reynolds. In original stiff wrappers. Contents clean and binding tight. Humorously inscribed by Reynolds on the first blank with an anatomically correct self portrait alongside that of another the signature beneath is unknown.

Mobile: Mobile Register Print, 1878. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. xl, 338 pp., folding map. First edition. Backed in modern morocco with marbled paper over boards. An attractive copy in modern binding that reuses the original boards, though covered over in new marbled paper; bottom corner of the front board is rounded; original pastedowns are present preserving an inscription to Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore by the Mobile Board of Trade (?), dated 1880. Gillmore was a Union general in the Civil War. Contents are clean with very little foxing; Eugene A. Smith's "Geological Map of Alabama" is in remarkably sharp condition, no misfolding; very minor closed tear at the intersection of the folds. An uncommon book to find complete with the map. Accompanying this copy is Eugene A. Smith's "Geological Survey of Alabama. Report of Progress for 1876" (Montgomery, AL: W. W. Screws, 1876), with a printed "compliments of the author" label tipped in before the title page. Marcou & Marcou 602.

Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co, 1910. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 62 pp. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers Only light wear and a bit of foxing. In addition to organizational notes on the Society, there is an annotated list of collectors and collections as well as a detailed list of mounds and prehistoric works in Alabama. Indexed.

Rosewell Page, 1926. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo.[8], 153 pp., frontis, plates. First edition. In publisher's cloth; ten plates including the frontispiece. A fairly bright copy; very subtle moisture exposure to the bottom edge of the front board, quite minor; a very presentable copy; hinges are a trifle loose; contemporary owner names on the front free endpaper; a few pages with pencil marginalia, otherwise clean. Uncommon county history in this the first edition privately published by the author.

Richmond: George M. West, 1857. Hard Cover. Good binding. 12mo. 356 pp. First edition. In original cloth with spine titled in gold. Binding is generally rubbed and worn with some chipping to the cloth at the tail of the spine and fraying at places along the board edges and corners; textblock has a forward lean; nevertheless, a solid copy; contemporary owner name; contents are generally and lightly toned in the margins, but otherwise clean.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. 67 pp. First edition, review copy. As issued, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fresh copy, clean throughout in a slightly scuffed dust jacket, intensely sunned at the spine; price intact on the front flap; review slip is laid in. A nice copy of an early collection by the Pulitizer-winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate, uncommon in the hard cover edition.

Williamsburg, VA: Botetourt Press, 2007. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. 264 pp., illus. Second edition, updated, redesigned, and expanded. In publisher's imitation leather with dust jacket. A very bright copy in similarly sharp dust jacket. A profusely illustrated history of the second oldest institution of higher education in what is now the United States.

Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1866. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xix, [1], 477, [1]; iv, 512 pp. First edition. In publisher's cloth. Light edgewear only, including a bit of fraying at the spine ends of Volume II. Previous owner armorial bookplate in Volume I and what appears to be discrete removal of a bookplate in Volume II. Front hinge of Volume I is a bit loose, but holding well enough. A very bright copy of this compilation of biographical sketches of 19th century notable alum.

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Embossed Cloth. Very Good binding. Octavo. First edition. Publisher's embossed cloth with title in gold on the spine; spine is sunned; light wear to the extremities including some notable fraying at the top corner of the back board; small closed tears at the spine ends; binding has a backwards lean; contemporary owner name on the front free endpaper else a clean copy with only light and very occasional foxing. Cummins's first novel, Lamplighter enjoyed commercial success as well as Nathanial Hawthorne's derision. Haunted Hearts was Cummins's fourth and final novel before her untimely death in 1866. "A new edition in 1988 of The Lamplighter demonstrates this novel's durability. Even though the other three texts failed to match the commercial impact of her debut, Maria Cummins's importance as the author of an archetypal American romance remains secure" American National Biography. BAL 4255.

Regensburg: Johann Leopold Montag, 1760. Hard Cover. Fair binding. Octavo. [24], 56, [14] pp. First edition. In early paper over scaleboard binding; spine is lacking. Boards are rubbed exposing the scaleboard underneath in a few places; despite the missing spine the binding is fairly stable. Internally a very good copy. The first edition of Schaffer's pharmaceutical work is scarce in commerce and OCLC locates about a dozen copies in institutional holdings, all in Europe. A nice engraved title page vignette showing an apothecary's apparatus, engraved by Stephan Luibel of Regensburg.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. x, [2] 52 pp. First American edition, first printing with correct printing code on the copyright page. Signed by Hughes on the title page. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Spine titling is a bit dulled, but a fresh binding; offsetting the endpapers and inner margin of the preliminaries from binding glue; dust jacket is a bit toned at the spine and extremities; minor white staining to the front panel at the fold; price intact on the front flap. Quite a nice copy of Hughes's first book.

New York: Targ Editions, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. 13, [5] pp., frontis. First edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by Updike. As issued, backed in cloth with marbled paper over boards; and plain paper wrapper. Light shelf rubbing only, a very handsome copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 498 pp. First Edition signed and dated by Raine on the title page. As issued, in full cloth with title in silver on the spine. A bright copy with an lightly and evenly toned textblock. Dust jacket is crisp and retains the price on the bottom corner of the front flap.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1974. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 32 pp. First edition. Signed by Hollander on the title page. Publisher's patterned paper over board. Quite a fresh copy with only very light toning to the covers; contents clean.

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xv, [1], 97, [7] pp. Early printing. Signed and inscribed by Finney on the title page. Trade paperback. A bright copy with little shelfwear to speak of; publisher added National Book Award sticker on the front cover. A nice copy of Finney's award-winning collection of poems.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. 320 pp. First American edition. As issued, in red embossed cloth with title in gold on the spine. Covers are a trifle soiled, but on the whole, a very nice copy; solid; contemporary owner name in pencil on the front free endpaper and the title page otherwise clean throughout.

Berkeley: Bern Porter | printed at the Gillick Press, 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [6], 33, [1] pp., frontis, illus. First edition. In publisher pictorial board with dust jacket. Light toning to the extremities; contents clean; jacket has tape reinforcement to verso at the head and tail of the spine--this tape has faintly toned the binding; spine of the jacket is bit toned and rubbed, particularly at the tail of the spine. First book by this important American poet and significant figure in the San Francisco poetry scene. Scarce, particularly in this condition and with the dust jacket.

Knoxville, TN: F. S. Keiskell, 1834. Quarter Leather. Good+ binding. 12mo. 299 pp. First edition. In original calf spine with paper over boards expertly renewed with period paper; new pastedown and preliminary blank; final leaf of the contents is supplied in a surprisingly good facsimile. A sophisticated copy, but the conservation was done with great care to the appearance. Spine a bit desiccated but solid; dampstaining to the preliminaries; foxing throughout. A fairly uncommon book by the Tennessee minister, editor, and eventually, post-bellum governor and U.S. Senator. While more known for his role as a newspaper editor with a bent towards the incendiary and his outspoken stance on the Confederacy, manifest in Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession (1862) and elsewhere, this remains a notable book with several dozen pages of his autobiography and travels. A reasonably early Knoxville imprint. Howes B-882, "aa"; Tennessee Imprints 527, Allen 1113; Smith p. 135-6; Oxford American… Read More