Search Results: Authors starting with H from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 119 pages; a fine copy in a fine pictorial dust jacket.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1904. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Printed from the American plates, 361pp, 2pp. publisher's ads. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt; very light wear to extremities; inner front hinge just starting with free endpaper having a closed tear, previous owner's name in pencil; a very good copy.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Printed from the American plates, Bound in dark blue cloth over beveled boards, lettering gilt. A clean bright copy showing minor wear. 348 pp. Frontispiece and all black and white illustrations by M. Greiffenhagen present.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1896. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Printed from the American plates, Bound in dark blue cloth over beveled boards lettered in gilt, black endpapers; internally clean and bright without foxing, spine faded to tan; a very good+ copy. 347 pp., + publisher's ads. Frontispiece with tissue guard. All illustrations present.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 216pp., without ads. Bound in blue-green paper covered boards lettered in brown; toning to spine and edge, light wear at extremities. A very good copy.

Lipsiae: Caroli Tauchnitii, 1839. Hard Cover. Octavo, 1392 (23) pages, 2 pages of ads; bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather, raised bands on spine. Secundum editiones Ios. Athiae, Ioannis Leusden, Io. Simonis Aliorumque Inprimis Everarde Van Der Hooght ; Recensuit Sectionum Propheticarum Recensum Et Explicationem Clavemque Masorethicam Et Rabbinicam. All edges stained red. Very light brown spotting to preliminaries. A very good, attractive copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. Bound in original black cloth spine and white paper boards with gilt lettering spine. Near fine copy in a very good+ dust kaccet with fading spine, ligtht soil and blue mark front panel of dust jacket. xiii, 336 pp.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, 304 pages; publisher's black cloth, spine printed in red. INSCRIBED thus by the author on the title page: "For Arthur Parson - / Sincerely - / Adam Hall" - dust jacket with price of $5.95 on front flap, with "4.99" penned below; small loss at head of spine, light wear at extremities. Signed page marker laid in. Owner name and date on FFEP.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 288 pages; SIGNED by the author on title page. Pictorial dust jacket, with $16.95 on front flap. First edition stated, first printing; author's first novel.

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1890. Hard Cover. Fine. 32mo. 428 pp. A beautifully bound German Catholic prayer book with purple velvet covered boards, ribbon floral design front cover, metal edges and clasp, all edges gilt, floral paterned endpapers. A perfect copy of this lovely little prayer book.

Adak, Alaska: The Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, 1944. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Oblong 12mo (5 1/2" x 8"), unpaginated; original blue wrappers, printed in black and white. Illustrations and maps designed by Sgt. Harry Fletcher. Reproduced by detachment 29th engineers stationed with headquarters Western defense command. A slight wrinkle or two, very good.

Adak, Alaska: The Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, 1944. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Oblong 12mo (5 1/2" x 8"), unpaginated; original blue wrappers, printed in black and white. Illustrations and maps designed by Sgt. Harry Fletcher. Reproduced by detachment 29th engineers stationed with headquarters Western defense command. A fine copy.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1932. Advance Review Copy. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo. 128pp.,with preface by John Cowper Powys; red printed paper covered boards; upper hinge starting, but strong. Light wear at spine ends, small loss to head. A very nice copy in glassine wrapper protected in mylar.

New York: Random House, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 12mo; first produced by Lee Sabinson and William R. Katzell on January 10, 1947, at the Forty-sixth Street Theatre, New York City. Laid in is a color flyer, octavo, advertising the play at the LA Civic Light Opera Association. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. xiii, 540 pages, with folding map and plates. Contemporary 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Map with short archival repair at stub; map and plates are very good to fine. FEP stained in gutter; front hinge starting. A very good copy.

New York; (1953): Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First Edition First Printing, 276pp., bound in 1/4 green paper over pale green paper covered boards, spine lettering red; fine in Very Good+ unclipped pictorial dust jacket with mild edge wear. The author is African-American and a writer for Fireside Theatre; a number of TV producers left California to write books. This being his first of a number of mystery-detective books dealing with the life and times of Gregory George Athelston Keen.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octvo. First illustrated edition. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Very good copy with light foxing, off setting to ffep from newpaper clipping, pencil notes endpapers. 488 p.

London: Macmillan, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set. First issue bindings, three half title and title pages, original green cloth, gilt lettering spines, black coated endpapers, 2pps of adds at rear on Volume I. 1000 printed with only 860 bound. Three very good- books with inner hinges intact. Ghost of traveling library labels on front covers of all three volumes. Mild cover edges wear.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. A very good copy bound in original brown cloth binding gilt lettering spine and front cover, white decorations spine and front cover. Piece missing top of ffep, owner inscription ffep, minimal cover edge wear. 292 pp.

London: Chatto and Winus, 1878. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fair. Octavo. First Illustrated Edition, first state, with "th a" for "that" on page 109, line 4. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 14 plates. Front hinge broken, ffep missing. Owner ink stamp rear paste-down, cover edge wear. Nice copy for rebinding. 342 pp.