Search Results: Titles starting with H from Evening Star Books

New York: Basic Books, Inc. [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [9], x, [3], 4-117, [1] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, light blue topstain. Illustrated with a number of in-text diagrams. Very Good with previous owner's name stamp and date written on free front endpaper and a few hints of wear to the edges of the boards in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with mild fading to the spine panel.

New York: Publishing Division of Metromedia, Inc, 1969. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 8vo. 53.5 c.m. x 36 c.m. [2], 3-32 pp. Pamphlet staple-bound, wrappers printed in yellow, black, grey, and green. Price of 35 cents on the publication information page. With several in-text and full-page photographs, the ad on the rear wrapper is for Silva Thins, a menthol cigarette. Hair premiered at the Biltmore Theater in April of 1968, this Playbill was published in August of 1969. The musical was a controversial one, due to its on-stage nudity, depiction of drug use and of other facets of hippie culture. Minor foxing to the front wrapper.

New York: Random House (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 3-373, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with copper lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Winner of the National Book Award. An attractive copy of the author's best-known and most critically acclaimed novel, a book widely admired by fellow writers including Stephen King. One of the more difficult National Book Award winners to find in collectible condition. Near Fine with a tiny concavity to the spine and two owner's marks on the front preliminaries in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few traces of wear to the extremities.

New York: Ballantine Books (2000), 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], 312 pp. Quarter black paper over maroon paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page.

New York: Ballantine Books (2000), 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 312 pp. Quarter black paper over maroon paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [12], 13-368 pp. Three-quarter light blue cloth over quarter blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Hancock and with two plates of black and white photographs and several full-page maps. A biography of the Union General. Jacket has a few spots of edge wear.

New York: Henry Holt and Company (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [10], 3-449, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. Stray mark on the verso of the half-title page, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [2], 3-617, [1] pp. Red blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with charts and in-text diagrams, including examples of draughts moves in various game scenarios. Jessel 140. According to Jessel this was the standard handbook of games in England for many years. An expansive rule-book for several popular card games, and a rich installment in the history of card games. A Near Fine book with minute wear to the boards' corners.

Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. [4], 1-166, [2] pp. Half textured cloth over brown paper boards; all edges speckled red. Brown decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with numerous maps, with a geographical index at the rear of the volume. Herausgegeben von der Geographischen Anstalt von Velhagen & Klasing in Leipzig. A large turn of the century atlas that displays several detailed maps of Germany. Rubbing to the extremities and a dampstain that affects the top edge of the pageblock.

Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1922. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [4], iv-xvi, [2], 1-351, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Boards sharp, a bookplate on the free front endpaper and several ink and pencil annotations.

New York: Random House [1991], 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], ix-xiii, [3], 3-337, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over green paper boards with copper lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with four double-sided plates, photographs from Bukowski's life and times. A minute touch of wear to the extremities, overall a beautiful copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [6], 11-377, [1], [1]-6 (pages of publisher's advertisements for other children's titles), [2] pp. Blue cloth with decorations stamped in red, black, and silver. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty additional black and white plates, with several in-text illustrations. Baumgarten 64. A Very Good book slightly askew with minor toning and spotting to the spine. Name written on the free front endpaper.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [9], 2-216 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. Signed by author on title page. An attractive copy of Shields' third novel. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of edge wear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [9], 3-192, [6] pp. White cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. First publication in English of Camus first novel. Translated by Richard Howard. Near Fine with a hint or two of spotting to the cloth in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur (2002), 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 296, [2] pp. Black cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [2003], 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [13], 4-337, [4], 342 pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with blue lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A very near Fine book with a tiny scuff on the bottom textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon Books (1970), 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 3-462, [4] pp. Bound in dark brown cloth with gold lettering and black Pantheon logo on spine; orange topstain. Price of $8.95 on the front jacket flap. A very near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of rubbing, especially to the folds.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc. [1986], 1986. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-416, [4] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes "The Kill-Off', "The Nothing Man", and "Bad Boy". Introduction by Roderick Thorp.

Los Angeles: Underwood-Miller, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [17], i-xxxvii, [3], 514, [4] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on front flap of jacket. A tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock, else Fine in a close to Fine jacket.

New York: Penzler Books (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xxviii, [2], 417, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $22.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text decorations. A tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock; jacket shows a hint of edge wear.