Search Results: Authors starting with H from Elk River Books

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Dogma Gallery. Very good. Vividly colored poster on fabric (21" x 16" printed area), reproduced by the Dogma Gallery, is captioned in Vietnamese and English, "Uncle and We Still Operate Together," (or more literally from Uncle Ho's point of view, stating "I will still march together with you" or "Together We March"). The artwork (signed with the initials D.H.T.) features Ho Chi Minh with a cloud-like batallion of soldiers floating in the bright red background.This particular poster was featured in the Faith section of "Dogma - Morale from the Ministry," a book about the collection of Vietnam-based businessman Dominic Scriven, who created an archive of more than a thousand pieces of Vietnamese propaganda art dating from 1945-1985. In a 2023 interview, Scriven says the collection era essentially is "covering really the birth of modern Vietnam, which is combat art and political art and philately and photography and stuff, so itÂ’s very cool. ... [T]he Vietnamese (style) was… Read More

Tarrytown, NY: Pilgrimage Publishing, 1986. Hardcover. Near fine/Fair. Signed by author on half title page. Oblong octavo (20.5 cm), pp. 253. Pictorial jacket and matching frontis, green cloth. Includes errata and fold-out map of Palisades (showing several roads that were proposed but never built); with black and white photos and illustrations, and appendices. Jacket has many large tears and chips, spine bumped at both ends.

Cambridge: Nutall Ornithological Club, 1974. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 390. Unknown edition. Green cloth boards with gilt text. Illustrated throughout with maps, charts and graphs. Extensive bibliography. Piece of masking tape on inside of both boards, former owner's name on front free endpaper. No jacket.

Gardiner, MT: A Naturalist's World, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 60. Signed by both authors on half-title page. Numerous illustrations, charts and color photos. Rubbing, fading and edge wear to wraps.

New York: Harper Collins, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed by author on title page. White boards with black spine titling. Orange illustrated jacket with $26.99 price. Light reading wear. Jacket with very light staining, creasing to back. A novel of the testing of the first atomic bomb.

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1973. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (20cm), pp. 149. Very small closed tear at top cover, light staining on textblock.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 266. Orange cloth with brown illustration and spine text. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Charles Hargens. Gift inscription on half-title page. Moderate edge wear and bumping to boards. No jacket. A narrative of the West based on stories by the author's uncle, Robert Seth Meacham. First editions are somewhat scarce in the trade.

Maseru, Lesotho: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (20 cm), pp. 217. Unknown edition. Green paper wrappers with white titling. Includes presentations, lectures and reports from the seminar which took place in December 1987. Topics include trade, infrastructure, culture, communications, agriculature, ecology and more. The opening speech of King Moshoeshoe II, who attended and participated in the entire proceedings, is included as well. Wrappers have rub marks, light edge wear.

Missoula, MT: Kutenai Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 40 [unpaginated]. Gray wraps with illustration by Sarah Miller. Introduction by James Welch. The first and only collection of poems by the step-son of Richard Hugo, published posthumously. Lithographic reproduction of the hand-printed limited edition.

Butte, Montana: Harper, MacDonald & Co., 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Color lithographic map of mining claims near Butte, Montana, measuring 37" x 49" when opened. Map is glued onto linen and bound in red cloth hardcover with gilt text. Binding with moderate wear to extremities with some material loss and closed tears. Maps has light edge wear, as well as multiple closed tears at creases (stabilized by linen backing), and faint stain on verso along one fold. One set of claims -- for the Blue Bird silver mine, discovered in 1881 -- marked in orange crayon.Butte was known as "The Richest Hill on Earth" for mines that made fortunes for Copper Kings Marcus Daly, William A. Clark and F. Augustus Heinz. The city's rich history includes a stint as a hotbed of socialist activism, home to a thriving Chinese community whose members came to work in the mines, and scene of some of the most deadly mine disasters in U.S. history (including the Pennsylvania Mine Fire, which killed 21 men the year this map was published).

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 379. Signed and inscribed on free front endpaper to his friends, Tom and Dee Cox of Tucson, Arizona. Jacket with Aztec-style design, orange boards with black quarter binding. Spine is mildly cocked, jacket has moderate edge wear with several small closed tears, binding glue visible through endpapers. This was Harrington's third novel, a darkly humorous thriller that was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review. Inscribee Tom Cox wrote of Harrington in the Tucson Weekly after the author's death in 1997, "Alan Harrington was a quirky, quixotic genius of a writer whose works, fiction and non-fiction, were always philosophical. One's view of the world was changed after reading him."

New York: Grove Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed by author on leaf before half-title page. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 341. Cream boards with cream quarter cloth, jacket features artwork by Jim's long-time friend Russell Chatham. Minor wear to jacket along bottom edge. Continuing the adventures of Detective Sunderland (first introduced in "The Great Leader") who has traveled home to Michigan where he takes on an upper peninsula family of outlaws. From the Harrison family collection.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 300 copies signed by author on publisher's tipped-in page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 274. Black paper over brown boards, silver spine titling. Jacket illustration by Russell Chatham, Harrison's fourth set of novellas, including "The Beast God Forgot to Invent," "Westward Ho," and "I Forgot to Go to Spain." From the Harrison family collection. [Orr & Torrey, A36.a]

Livingston, MT: First Ascent Press, LLC, 2007. Second Printing. Paperback. Very good. 12mo (19 cm), pp. 112. Illustrated wraps. Fully illustratraed with trail maps, elevation charts and black and white photography. Volume one of "Greater Yellowstone Ski Trails." Light reading wear, else fine.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. Limited first edition, #173 of 250. Signed by author on half-title page. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 320. Gray cloth with Harrison's one-eyed self-portrait blind-stamped and half-covered with marbled paper, gilt spine titling and blue-gray endpapers. Fine gray cloth slipcase with same blind-stamped image. Illustrations thoughout by by artist, Clark City publisher and close friend of Harrison, Russell Chatham. A collection of Harrison's non-fiction writings including sections on Food, Travel and Sport, and Literary Matters. Includes bibliography of journals where individual essays first appeared. [Orr & Torrey A24.c]

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2021. Paperback. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 921. Paper wrappers featuring the Russell Chatham painting, "Spring Moon Over Marshall Ridge." Includes a note to reviewers and an editor's note by Copper Canyon's Joseph Bednarik, and an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams. The definitive collection from one of AmericaÂ’s iconic writers. Contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career and displays his wide range of poetic styles and forms.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 64. White paper wrappers with sunburst design. Wrappers with light edgewear, text block a tad dingy. Paperback issued simultaneously with hardcover [Orr & Torrey, A6.b].

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 274. Limited edition #45/250, signed by author on colophon page. In green slipcase with matching cloth boards. Gold publisher's ink on top edge, black bookmark ribbon. Backside of slipcase has sunning along side and bottom edge, else fine. Harrison's fourth set of novellas, including "The Beast God Forgot to Invent," "Westward Ho," and "I Forgot to Go to Spain." From the Harrison family collection. [Orr & Torrey, A36.c]

New York: E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (24.3 cm), pp. 324. White quarter cloth over light green boards with gilt and black spine titling and gilt facsimile signature on front board. Green endpapers. Jacket painting by Russell Chatham. By the author of Legends of the Fall and The Theory and Practice of Rivers, this novel is often held up as Harrison's masterpiece. Light bumping to spine ends, jacket price-clipped, else fine. [Orr & Torrey #A20.b.]

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine. Limited signed edition in slipcase (#231/250). Octavo (23 cm), pp .313. Maroon cloth with gilt titling, matching slipcase. The only memoir written by this prolific poet, novelist and food writer. This copy from the collection of bibliographer Gregg Orr. [Orr and Torrey, A40.e]