Search Results: Titles starting with H from Quill & Brush

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First edition. Very good or better with underlining to first 7 pages.

Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, (1990). First edition. Mencken's brief foray into pediatrics resulted from Theodore Dreiser's request for articles for The Delineator magazine. Those articles were collected in the 1910 book, WHAT YOU OUT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BABY, "by" Leonard Keene Hirshberg, M.D., whose only contributions, according to Markel and Oski, were the "questions and answers" portions added to each chapter -- and to whom the men refer as a "physician turned scoundrel." Markel and Oski's "commentaries" correct and bring up to date the information in the original text. INSCRIBED BY MARKEL 3/3/90 on title page beneath his printed name (which he has struck through), "For Aunt Doris with love, Howard." Fine in near fine dust jacket with spine toned to blue and touch of lightly rubbed creasing at head of spine.

(Hockessin: Holly Press, 1980). First edition. SIGNED BY WINGATE. Bathtub Hoax frontispiece drawing by Nancy Sawin of Mencken sitting by a statue of Millard Fillmore in a tub. Includes "A Neglected Anniversary," the December 28 1917 article in the New York Evening Mail which was the origin of Mencken's bathtub hoax; "Melancholy Reflections," his May 23 1926 Chicago Tribune article bemoaning the fact that lie had become "fact" ("If there were any facts in it they got there accidentally and against my design. But today the tale is in the encyclopedias. History, said a great American soothsayer, is bunk." -- Well, ain't that the truth?); and, Mencken's repeated effort to set the record straight as well as meditation on truth itself -- his July 25 1926 Chicago Tribune article "Hymn to the Truth." Along with Wingate's commentary on such. Fine in fine dust jacket.

(West Warwick): Necronomicon Press, 1979. First edition. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud. Collects letters to the editor referencing Lovecraft and his works from the Weird Tales' column, "The Eyrie, from 1923 to 1953. Includes bibliography of Lovecraft's appearances in Weird Tales and list of contributors -- Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, et al, Stapled pictorial paperwraps. Near fine with only minor aging and wear.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1976). First edition. Two small spots on top page edges, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a few closed edge tears and light soiling. An attractive copy of the author's first science fiction book.

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985). First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her intitials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip and publicity letter laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Boni & Liveright, (1922). First edition. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for ANNA CHRISTIE. Minor rubbing, touch of foxing to page top edges, bit of soiling to bottom page edges, otherwise near fine, lacking the dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First edition of the author's first book. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year as well as a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Also, the basis of a 1970 film WUSA, starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward. Small name on pastedown (under the dust jacket flap) and the barest edgewear and rubbing on corners, otherwise fine in dust jacket with small chips on corners and spine ends and white spine slightly soiled.

(Puerto Rico): Carrefour, (1939). First edition. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1936 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. 12mo off-white paperwraps printed in red and black. Near fine in original tattered and worn glassine.

(Puerto Rico) / New York: Carrefour, (1939 / 1941). First edition. Two volumes. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1938 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. Both volumes in off-white printed paperwraps. Volume I is bright, clean, unopened and very nearly fine with just a touch of rubbing to edges. Volume II is lightly soiled with spine and edges somewhat toned and few chips and tears, most noticeably at spine corners. Large "II" in thin-tipped black marker on spine but still good to very good.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1918. First edition. Second binding with dark blue spine and green paper boards printed in black. Spine label a little rubbed, otherwise very good or better. Lacking dust jacket.

[New York]: Academy of American Poets, no-date [2004]. First edition. One of only 200 copies. This one being Anthony Hecht's. Includes six poems by the six poets who responded "WITH WILLING HANDS" to Tanning and Melby's request to "PLEASE WRITE US A POEM": "Weathering here" (Ammons), "Anthem" (Hecht), "Elementary Principles at 72" (Howard), "To Myself" (Merwin), "Wait" (Rich), and "Asides" (Wilbur). Seven 7 x 7" folding cards housed in pearlescent quadra-fold envelope with title in green on front and circular green sticker seal at back. Designed by Silvano Nova & printed in Brooklyn at the Rolling Press. Includes the colophon card and one card for each poet. The colophon card has title in green on front, note by Tanning about the project, list of the six poets, and colophon (no date of publication indicated by OCLC notes "Distributed by the Academy on December 13, 2004"). The six poets' cards are blank on the outside and open to their portrait by David Alexander facing a facsimile of their poem in… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1940. First edition. An early western by the mystery writer best known for his Michael Shayne novels. Written under his own name, Davis Dresser. Near fine in edge-rubbed dust jacket with few chips, tears and attendant creasing but otherwise very good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First thus. Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. One of 350 numbered copies. Author's undated preface. Minor wear, otherwise very good, lacking dust jacket.

London/ New York: Duckworth & Co./E. P. Dutton, [1905]. First edition. Holbien (c.?1497 - 1543) was a German and Swiss artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style [Wiki]. Like his earlier artists' studies, this one is published in the "Popular Library of Art" series (later printing copies are in the "Masters of Painting" series). Original red cloth with top edge gilt, and gilt design and lettering on front and spine. Harvey [A15] calls for a limp green-leather binding and notes a copy in red cloth. Based on publisher's ads, we believe the leather was a special binding and that the standard issue cloth (and presumably paper) boards were available in various colors. Spine slightly faded otherwise near fine. From the collection of Ford scholar Thomas C. Moser with his penciled signature to the front endpaper.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959). First edition. Very good or better in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with very minor wear on corners and spine ends and few tears.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First edition. Number 330 of 377 numbered copies SIGNED BY McFEE. Quarter blue cloth, blue paperboards; gilt stamped front, spine and top edge. Crisp and near fine in publisher's blue paper-covered slipcase with light edge toning and repair to one small split (otherwise very good or better).

[New York: Household Words, 1854]. First edition thus: first U.S. appearance serialized in the American version of Dickens' British weekly, "Household Words," May - September 1854." The American publisher of Household Words, T. L. McElwrath, placed HARD TIMES in his version of the magazine in such a way that the segments of the novel could be excised and bound up together--which is what his customers were urged to do. He provided a wrapper (which was also later used for his unissued sheets) in which to bind HARD TIMES, thus constituting the actual first American edition of the novel. This copy, which has been bound-up without the title page and wrapper, starts at page [1] with heading, "HARD TIMES. / By Charles Dickens, Esq. /Furnished in advance exclusively for this Journal." 108 double-column pages, bound in period three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Some darkening and foxing to text otherwise altogether very good. TOGETHER WITH the U.S. illustrated "Household Edition" issued from the sheets… Read More

New York: Prentice-Hall Inc, (1948). First edition. Fine with only the lightest rubbing; in a very good dust jacket with some age darkening, a few small tears and minor edge wear.

New York: Random House, (1991). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MAILER on the front free endpaper, "For Spencer--- cordially Norman Mailer." Massive volume, over 1,300 pages; a novel about spies, intelligence officers and the CIA. Slight roll to base of spine and signatures just beginning to fall away from head of spine otherwise fine in bright, fine dust jacket.