Search Results: Authors starting with H from Downtown Books & News

NY, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1985. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. VG-/G. 4to. 144pp. Cream cloth covered boards. Edges of textblock and endpapers foxed and rubbed. Corners lightly bumped. Former owner's name on ffep. Illustrated Dj. is chipped along edges and has a few closed tears. Lightly soiled. A 6" by 2" portion of the lower Dj. flap is missing, presumably cut out by the former owner. An in depth look at figure drawing with many B/W examples and diagrams.

New York: Penguin/Riverhead, 2017. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (8.5"x6"). 231pp. 1/4 bound navy & blue paper-covered boards with silver-stamped title & decorations. Flat signed by Hamid to title page. This edition was published days after the true/British edition.

The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1995. No additional printings indicated. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. 128pp. Pictorial wraps lightly scuffed. Inscription by Hamilton on title page. B&W photographs and text throughout.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo (7.5"x5"). 166pp. Black cloth-covered boards with red- & green-stamped decoration, deckle edge. 1/2" tear to head spine extreme. Small discolored spots to lower cover. Corners rubbed with board exposed. Pages toned & foxed. Color title. No dust jacket. Translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo (8.5"x6"). 209pp. 1/4 navy cloth & tan/blindstamped paper-covered boards with gilt title to spine, robin's egg blue topstain, deckled edges. Toned endpapers, light tone throughout: else fine. Typographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar.

Gardiner, ME: William Palmer, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo (7.5"x5"). 343pp. +business register. Green cloth-covered boards with blindstamped decoration to upper cover & giltstamped title to spine. Spine slant. Covers rubbed, small stains to lower cover. Cloth cracking over joints: glue repair to joints, linen tape repair to upper hinge. Spine extremes frayed, corners rubbed. Dampstain to textblock foredge, visible to interior margin. Pages toned, foxing throughout. Pencil marks to endpapers. Newspaper clipping taped to first page: darkening paper from acid damage. B&W frontis. Covered in seller's protective mylar.

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Green cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: inner panels toned. Photographic endpapers foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Tom & Jonathan, the poets of Skywinding, last keeper's of the grail in F(P?)atsylvania's cultural wilderness" in calligraphic marker to half title. Association copy of the poets Jonathan Williams & Thomas Meyer.

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Grey cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Spine slanted. Sun-faded edges. Two corners bumped. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar. Half title & index foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Jonathan and Tom, wishing you 'bond' voyage. The bicycler boy is here now waiting to take this so the only mildly witty thing I can think of is "No man is an island except Fred Madagascar'--To Tip and Top with love" in calligraphic marker to half title. Association copy of the poets Jonathan Williams & Thomas Meyer.

UK: Practical Action Publishing, 1993. 2009 revised edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. 374pp. Pictorial wraps lightly scuffed with edgewear. B&W diagrams and illustrations throughout.

Bienkowski, Ancon, Canal Zone and Panama, R.P., 1908. No additional printings indicated. Paperback. VG. Frontis, ills, photos, 522p. Wrapper stained, rubbed and chipped. Spine repaired with masking tape with "PANAMA PILOT" neatly inscribed in ink . Bottom edge of spine chipped and rubbed. Contents slightly yellowed and foxed with insect nibbling on a few pages. Additional articles taped onto free end pages and at least two other blank pages within. A detailed account of the political, social and economic background of the building of the Panama Canal. From the publisher's announcement: "Books have been published, and some of them very good ones, on various phases of Isthmian history and events, but the publisher has tried and believes that he has succeeded in massing more meat 'of the Isthmian cocoanut,' than has ever before been printed between the covers of a book whose title page bears the well known name of 'Panama.'".

London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1979. First UK edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 159pp. Blue paper covers with dark blue linen-taped spine; perfect bound. Covers, endpapers & textblock edge foxed. Fore-edge of upper cover rubbed. 2" crease to top corner of lower cover. Original price sticker (Rudolf Steiner Press/3.50 pounds) to lower cover. Small stain to fore-edge of textblock. Translated from the German by L. D. Monges. B&W diagrams throughout. 9-16-18.

Zurich, Germany: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. First edition thus, limited. Flexible covers. Very Good+/Good+. 8vos (7"x4.5"). 357 & 389pp. Tan, twill-covered flexible boards with giltstamped, rose cloth spine label; top edge gilt. Sundarkened spine, soiled spine labels. Hand-tinted etchings by Carl Strauss. #239 of 1500 copies signed by Strauss to colophon. Brown paper-covered slipcase with giltstamped, rose cloth label and "239" imprinted to spine: shelfwear, light soiling, paper cracked at some edges with board exposed.

New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio (12.5"x10.5"). Unpaginated. Black-stamped cardboard wraps. Sundarkened, light edgewear. Light foxing to enpaper. B&W and color photos throughout. No dust jacket as issued, covered in protective mylar by seller. Includes interview, catalogue coinciding with Marden's exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery.

Cheapside, London/UK: Clementi, Banger, Collard, Davis & Collard, 1815. First edition. Limp Leather. Very Good +. Folio. Full limp leather with blind & giltstamped borders. Two 1/4'' tears to leather to upper joint; two 1/8" tears to leather in lower joint. Light edgewear & scuffing to both covers. Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely works in order of appearance: Offertoire: Op.35 No.1 in B flat (11pp.), Offertoire: Op.35 No.2 in F (17pp.), Cantabile, Largo & Adante (8pp.), Offertoire: Op.35 No.4 in G (17pp.), Offertoire: Op.35 No.6 in C (15pp.) & Three Adantes (9pp.); all circa 1857-1895 & published by Ashworh & Parry, arranged for the organist. The Surprise, Symphony No.3 for Saloman's Concert (now known as No.94) is in G Major (16pp.). Inscription in pen to title page; paper infills, ink ghosting & notations in pencil to the Hayden sheets. 11-18-19.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo (9.5"x6"). 272pp. Lilac cloth-covered boards with blindstamped and giltstamped titles, purple topstain. Narrow, sunfaded tailedges. Lightly foxed textblock edges. Signed by Hecht and inscribed, "For Heather McHugh, with cordial good wishes," in green ink to half title. Association copy: belonged to the poet Heather McHugh. Typographic dj. covered in protective mylar: light tone, some ink ghosting to text, NOT price-clipped ($22.95).

New York: Atheneum, 1977. First edition. Fine/Fine. 8vo (9.5"x5.5"). 75pp. Black cloth-covered boards with blindstamped upper cover & giltstamped title to spine. Typographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: not price-clipped. Inscribed, "with warm good wishes", signed & dated (April 6, 1978) by Hecht to half title. Includes 2 typewritten letters signed by Hecht.

NY, NY: Poseidon Press, 1990. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 158pp. Light blue wraps. Advance uncorrected proof. Light soiling to edge of text block and wraps. Protective mylar cover.

Berlin, Germany: Propylaen-Verlag, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio (13.5"x11"). Unpaginated. Half black leather and illustrated paper-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine, top-edge gilt, deckled edges. B&W lithographs by Liebermann throughout. Signed by Liebermann in pencil to frontis and in pencil to colophon. From a limited edition, numbered 284 0f 400 copies. Previous owner's bookplate to front pdep with ghosting to ffep. Paper covers toned, multiple dampstains to upper cover. Tail edges rubbed.

UK: CodeX, 1996. First edition thus. Paperback. Good -. 8vo. 78pp. Blue and black pictorial wraps lightly scuffed. Unfortunately, pp.28-38 and the endpapers are water damaged, causing two of the pages to have been formerly stuck together and the lower free endpaper to be stuck to the lower cover. All of the pages are still entact and present, but pp. 32-33 are hard to read and torn along the fore-edge. Signed with brief inscription by author on title page. Reads, "Bon jour Alissa from -- Richard Hell -- Oct. 7, 1999." Reprint of Hell's 1973 novella. Already an expensive book on its own, this edition is rarely signed.

Amsterdam: Soyo Publishers, 1991. Limited Edition of 30 remainders from music boxset. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dj. as issued. 16mo. 57pp. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on upper board and spine. Boards lightly soiled, else fine. Sticker on lower board that says Made in the Netherlands. "Across the Years is a selection made by Richard from all the poems he'd written up to the time the book was published. A beautifully designed, cloth-bound little book set in Garamond containing 33 poems in the chronological order of their composition, this is the remainder of the approximately 30 copy overflow from the luxury edition, published in an edition of 500, long out of print. (from Hell's website)"