Search Results: Titles starting with H from Appledore Books, ABAA

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1976 "second, corrected edition". A sharp copy: Tight and VG+ (with light scuffing at the bottom-edge) in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light soiling at the panels. Tall, thick quarto, 494 pgs.

San Francisco: The Haight Ashbury Tribune, 1968. Newspaper. Very Good +. A crisp, clean copy of the 1968 "Sock It to Me" issue (Vol. 2, No. 4) of "The Haight Ashbury Journal". Bright and VG+ to Near Fine in its 60s-infused pictorial covers.

New York: Vantage Press, 1966. Boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR MAEVE O. FINLEY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1966 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (light soilig to the pastedowns) in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light soiling to the panels. Charming collection of 101 haikus.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Limited. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. #25 of only 75 copies "handbound in boards each with an original drawing by Michael McClure, all copies signed by the poet". A bright, Near Fine copy in its duotone cloth over yellow boards. Quarto, 11 pgs. Lacking the unprinted acetate dustjacket. Signed by Author.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1934. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. The 1934 stated 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with mild creasing and spotting along the edges. Thick octavo, "with 123 illustrations and 8 colored plates". Published under the auspeices of the New York Zoological Society.

New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +. A handsome copy of the uncommon 1912 1st edition. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its olive-green cloth, with light rubbing along the spine. Tiny former owner book tag to the front pastedown's top-edge, otherwise clean as could be internally, with no writing or markings of any kind. Quarto, dozens of drawings and black-and-white photos complementing Allen Jackson's text. Part of the publisher's impressive "Country House Library" series.

Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. A very nice copy of author's first book. 1967 stated first printing. Thick octavo. Near Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket. 1 of 5000 copies.

Grune & Stratton, 1962. Hardcover. An early, uncommon collection of articles/ studies on hallucinations, including those chemically induced (mescaline, LSD, etc.). 1st edition, 1962, 8vo. A VG copy with the first 9 pgs. of text lightly and selectively underlined in pen.

Paris: Presses Universitaires De France, 1965. Original wraps. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR HENRI FAURE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE JOSEPH P. KENNEDY FOUNDATION on the front free endpaper of Vol. I. A sharp copy to boot of the 2 volume set, 1965 and 1966 1st editions respectively. Both volumes clean and VG+ to Near Fine in their light-purple wrappers, with light soiling at the spine of vol. 2. Octavos, 533 pgs. all told.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1972. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PHILIPPE HALSMAN on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of the 1972 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, crisp examples of Halsman's wonderful black-and-white portraits throughout. Designed by the redoubtable Herb Lubalin.

London: The Shakespeare Association and Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1951. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1951 collotype facsimile. VG (with light foxing to the preliminaries) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light pencil at the rear panel and light chipping at the spine crown. Octavo, top-edge gilt. "Quarto Facsimile #7" in the series.

Chicago: Exposition Publications & Novelties, Inc, 1933. Printed wrappers. Very Good +. 14 lovely hand-colored, full-page prints of various locations within the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Each plate crisp and near-pristine to pristine, and each, mounted along its recto, umiformly measures 9 3/4" wide x 6" tall. The string-tied portfolio itself, an oblong folio, has held up very well. Solid and VG to VG+ in its off-white, card wrappers. Just a bit of light soiling and creasing to the rear panel, tender, neat inscription at the top of the title page. The hand-coloring within the plates, used to dramatic, very pleasing effect here, was overseen by American Colortype Company of Chicago and New York.

New York, 1894. Original wraps. Very Good. Fragile, uncommon 1894 booklet by the Young Women's Christian Association (the YWCA) of New York. Clean and VG- to VG in its stapled beige wrappers, with a March 1895 addendum pasted onto the upper front panel. Light creasing to the covers, mild chipping at the front cover's lower-tips. Mild tearing as well along the lower 1/3 of the spine. Wonderful local ads (many of them engraved) throughout. 12mo, a number of black-and-white photos (including the "Library and Reading Room", "Needle Work Salesroom", "Hand Sewing Room", "Machine Sewing Room", etc.) complementing the text.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1869. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A solid copy of the 1869 printing. Tight and VG in its purple cloth, with decorative blindstamping at the panels. Fading along the spine (which still shows bright gilt-lettering and decoration), very light soiling to the endpapers and pastedowns, otherwise very clean. 12mo, 478 pgs. plus publisher's ads.

Providence, RI, 1935. Decorative Wrappers. Near Fine. A crisp, well-preserved copy of this lovely 1935 self-published guide to bookbinding. #155 OF 500 COPIES ISSUED SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR CLARA BUFFUM at the limitation. Bright and clean and Near Fine in its decorative, light-brown wrappers. Designed and printed by the Akerman-Standard Company of Providence.

Barcelona, 1910. Very Good +. Wonderful collection of 32 hand-drawn and painted postcards, housed in clear plastic sleeves mounted within a period brown-cloth album and, as such, are easily removable (and begging to be displayed). Created by Barcelona artist Antoni de P. Rigau Tolosa (b. 1886), these enchanting cards, post-marked between 1908-1910, bear frequent illustrated cut-outs mounted atop images that capture either the Art Nouveau style of the period, or use images and scenes particular to a resident of Catalonia. Rigau was a highly-skilled illustrator best known for his fiesta posters.

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine. A pristine copy of the 1995 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its laminate boards. Thick quarto, 628 pgs. Part of CRC's "Mechanics amd Materials Science" series.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A Practical Manual Covering the Physics, Technology, and Circuit Applications of Transistors, Diodes, and Photocells". The 1956 stated 1st edition. VG+ (in its flexible red cloth) with bright gilt-lettering to the spine. And in a bright, VG to VG+ dustjacket with light chipping along the spine crown and top-edges. Octavo, 68 pg. "Bibliography on Transistors, Semiconductors, and Rectifiers"in addition to the main text.

London: John Murray. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 6 of the 8 volumes of this very handsome late 19th century architectural study of the Cathedrals of England. All volumes in their uniform beige cloth, with decorative blindstamping to the panels and bright gilt-lettering and design at the spines. All volumes solid and VG+, with very light foxing to several of the preliminaries and very light soiling to several panels. 5 of the 6 volumes early reprints (1890s, 1903), ove volume a 1st edition. Thick 12mos, over 2,000 pgs. all told, dozens and dozens of steel engravings thruout. The individual titles are as follows: Northern Division: Part I (York--Ripon--Carlisle); Northwer Division: Part II (Durham--Chester--Manchester); Southern Division: Part I (Winchester--Salisbury--Exeter--Wells); Southern Division: Part II (Canterbury--Rochester--Chichester--St. Alban's); Eastern Division (Oxford--Peterborough--Norwich--Ely--Lincoln); and Handbook to the Cathedrals of Wales (Llandaff--St.… Read More

Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Publications, 1993. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A sharp copy of the 1993 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (with small former owner name at front free endpaper) in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo, 623 pgs.