Search Results: Authors starting with H from The Second Shelf

Graphic novelist Posy Simmonds names Kathleen Hale's books as important to her. A glimpse at the gorgeous layout of Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Camping Holiday shows the influence.
London & New York: Country Life and Transatlantic Arts, 1948. Third printing of the 1938 first edition. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 31 pages. Folio. Hardcover. Beautiful colour lithographed illustrations throughout. Near fine in slightly chipped with a small loss a bottom, very good unclipped dust jacket. Rare signed.

Lorraine Hansberry's tour de force was the first Broadway play produced to be written by a Black woman. A Raisin in the Sun explores the dynamics of a Black family in America as they confront prejudice and the profound barriers due to racism in all aspects of their daily lives. Before its debut, Hansberry worked as a Black civil rights activist and journalist for Black papers, and is now known to have been a closeted lesbian, leading to intense isolation even after she was catapulted into fame.
The play debuted at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1958 and the book was published the following year, it includes photographs of the original production, and therefore documents a crucial moment in the history of performance arts.
Hardcover, 142 pp. Quarter cream cloth and textured marbled brown card, with paper label photograph of actor Glynn Turman as Travis in centre. Some wear on top and bottom edges of cloth in the spine, overall in very good condition. Dust jacket is in good condition, with chips at… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Highsmith's suspense novel, published after The Talented Mr. Ripley. A thriller delving into the twists and turns of a deeply flawed relationship, claustrophobic and unsettling, Deep Water has been filmed twice and adapted for television. First book edition, previously serialised under the title The Mask of Innocence. Blue boards with black cloth spine titled in silver gilt, light bumping to corners. Dust jacket in very good condition, small loss to top of spine, light toning to edges, wear to hinges. Book and dust jacket bright, clean, and in very good condition.

1894. Hillier's handmade book displaying her abilities at sewing and embroidery through a collection of samples. "Marie Hillier" is written on the front and inside back of the book's hard covers. The book offers a guide to the common stitches and methods used in women's and girls' clothing, with some labeled, i.e., gathering and buttonholes. Most specimens are white thread on white fabric, tied with pink yarn and mounted on handbound leaves which have been gathered into signatures. 35 separate examples, including stitches for seams, patching, smocking, and miniature examples of "leg of drawers", "pinafore", and "half chemise", "sleeve of overall". One page appears to be dated "3.4.'94", and a fully constructed miniature "Pinafore", stitching for the opening on the "Front of Nightdress, or chemise", and stitching for "seam of flannel petticoat" support this date.Hard covers and three book signatures loosely bound in red thread, with 30 pp, 19 x 15cm. Thread also strung for a closure. An… Read More

The heroine's mother is a militant Suffragette; she is not. Final pages include reviews of other titles by the same author, by William Locke and "John Lane's List of Fiction".
Original red embossed cloth boards, with gold lettering to cover and spine. 19 x 14 x 4.5. 311 pages. Hardcover.