Search Results: Authors starting with H from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1925. Lacks spine label, spine cry, covers discolored, internally clean. 8vo (21 x 13.4 cm). 395 pages. Frontispiece, plates. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Later edition.

6 7/16 x 9 13/16 inches. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso with Ernst Haas's Magnum Photos inkstamp. On a mount with corners (photo removable) with Elaine Steinbeck's manuscript identification in white ink: "Photographer Robert Capa and singer/actor Burl Ives visit John Huston in the hospital ... 1953." A superb photograph, connecting two great 20th century photographers and one of its leading auteurs. Though widely known for his innovations in color photography, the Austrian-American photographer Ernst Haas had a storied career as a photojournalist, with images widely distributed in Life and Vogue. Haas was also a respected stills photographer for many films, including The Misfits, Little Big Man, Moby Dick, Hello Dolly, West Side Story and Heaven's Gate. John Huston hired Haas as a second-unit director for his 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning. Provenance: from the Estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck.

New York: Hurst & Co, 1892. Browned, brittle paper with some chipping at edges. 8vo. Modern faux leather. Reprint, likely a rebound copy of the first edition in wrappers (1892).

New York: Hurst and Co, 1892. title with marginal loss at bottom, browned, brittle paper with some chips. 8vo. Modern faux leather. Reprint, likely a rebound copy of the first edition in wrappers.

Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. As-new in shrinkwrap. In German. Oblong 4to. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "[This] album was made in the 1780s by the Zimmerpolier Balthasar Kornelius Koch and shows, through its additive presentation, important aspects of the bourgeois life of that time in Augsburg - an invaluable cultural-historical source" (the publisher, translated).

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924. Spotting to cloth, loss at upper spine. 12mo. v, 93 pages. Original blue cloth, printed paper labels. First American edition of Haldane's first book, a major inspiration to Huxley's Brave New World.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest - if not the earliest - books on Kansas, considered the best book on the emigration occasioned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Hale gives an historical survey of Kansas, an account of the Indian tribes, and a detailed description of the soil, rivers, settlements, railroads, and projected cities in Kansas and Nebraska. Of particular interest is information on emigrant aid companies, emigration from the West (including of Chinese from California), the suitability and promise of the territory for emigrants and a significant discussion of the fugitive slave question, the Missouri Compromise, women's rights, suffrage, and the railroad. The "Map of Kanzas & Nebraska from the Original Surveys" (17x18.7 cm) has… Read More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest - if not the earliest - books on Kansas, considered the best book on the emigration occasioned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Hale gives an historical survey of Kansas, an account of the Indian tribes, and a detailed description of the soil, rivers, settlements, railroads, and projected cities in Kansas and Nebraska. Of particular interest is information on emigrant aid companies, emigration from the West (including of Chinese from California), the suitability and promise of the territory for emigrants and a significant discussion of the fugitive slave question, the Missouri Compromise, women's rights, suffrage, and the railroad. The "Map of Kanzas & Nebraska from the Original Surveys" (17x18.7 cm) has Nebraska including present-day Wyoming, Montana and adjacent… Read More

The Hague: Pierre Paupie, 1740. First edition in French. A few chips at ends of spine, else in original condition. 8vo. Title printed in red-and-black. Two folding engraved plates. Sewn in original plain limp paper boards, lettered in ink on spine, paper shelf label at foot of spine. Provenance: Leo S. Olschi (label on pastedown). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Hales' 'Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea', published London, 1738. "Stephen Hales (1677-1761) is chiefly remembered for his important researches into vegetable physiology. In this book he describes and illustrates his invention to obtain fresh water from salt, suggests methods for preserving fresh water and eatables, for cleansing rivers and harbours, for preserving and bottling mineral waters, etc." (E.P Goldschmidt, Catalogue 17, "Landmarks of Pure and Applied Science Inventions; Inventions and Technology; The Invention of Lithography").

New York: Allan Frumkin Gallery. Softcover. Front wrapper with areas of damage, internally fine. 11 x 8.25 inches. 15 pages. Wrappers.

New York: Abrams, 2009. In fine condition. 9.5 x 7 inches. 292 pages. Stiff printed wrappers; red plastic slipcase. "Just as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Sagmeister's innovative work--featured in this lavishly illustrated collection--shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional quick. Includes text by design historian Hall and is annotated with Sagmeister's own writing" (the publisher).

Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1972. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket with some toning and soiling, price-clipped. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 197 pages. Boards, dust jacket. "Convinced he is unable to jump, Alphonse Frog teaches himself to walk.

London: MACK, 2019. As new (with two small marks on back of chemise, present since receipt). 29 x 23 cm. 144 pages. Paperback with linen spine; cloth chemise with image mounted on front. Plain board slipcase. First edition, special "Book" edition, limited to 100 numbered and signed copies, each comprising 152 C-type contact prints tipped-in to a handmade linen hardcover book, all housed in a slipcase. This is copy no. 13. "Throughout his career, Gregory Halpern has explored the elusive, inchoate notion of Americanness. It is both a difficult subject and a lofty prospect for any photographer and it remains an absolutely essential line of investigation, particularly in the context of the current political maelstrom. Traveling to the nation's heartland—a vague construct increasingly synonymous with the Bible belt—Halpern continues to mine this idea of Americanness in a place bounded by prairie and steeped in pioneer history. His work in the midwestern city of Omaha reveals America as pluralized,… Read More

New York: The Oliphant Press, 1975. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 16 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 100 copies, designed and printed by The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.

New York: Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 2007. Softcover. A fine copy. 10.5 x 9 inches. 36 pages. Wrappers. "Produced for a show at Ameringer & Yohe Gallery (NY) Jan.11 - Feb. 10, 2007.

Orlando, Florida: Flying Horse Editions / Hoopsnake Press, 1998. A fine set. A complete copy, comprising: Sixteen 10.5 x 12 inch etchings by William T. Wiley and sixteen poems by Michael Hannon. Sheets unbound, and with tissue guards, laid loose as issued in two green cloth clamshell portfolios with recessed, tipped-in etching. ONE OF 20 COPIES, this is copy number 1. "The design for the book was done in collaboration with the artists. Debbie Smith set the type by computer. Owasso Graphic Arts etched the type-high plates which were printed on a Vandercook 2832 letterpress by Hoopsnake Press. William Wiley made his drawings on copper plates which were etched by Tim Bell. Additional drawings and alterations were done on photo-sensitive plates. All of the edition printing and etchings was done by master printer Paul Wenzel at Flying Horse Editions. The boxes are linen over board with a Lana paper liner. These were designed and constructed by Larry Cooper to fit the printed folios. Each book is numbered… Read More

Paris: Floury, 1947. Softcover. Text lightly browned, wrappers in quite good condition with some light wear. 10 x 6.5 inches. 140 pages. Wrappers.

New York: Laurence Miller Gallery, 2004. First edition. A fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. 44 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held from 29 January to 20 March 2004 at the Laurence Miller Gallery. "You may feel as though you have seen them before, in a movie, at the gym, browsing at a yard sale, meandering through the mall, or--more likely--on your trip to Florida. Duane Hanson's life-sized fiberglass and polyester resin sculptures are the spitting images of real, breathing people; they illustrate modern consumer society with equal parts tenderness, humor and horror. This revised edition of Hatje Cantz's best-selling catalogue raisonne, featuring two new essays, documents all phases of Hanson's oeuvre, from his earliest carved wooden replica of Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" to the last works he produced before his death in 1996. Regardless of when the works were made, though, Hanson's remarkably lifelike sculptures… Read More

New York: Samuel Marks, 1827. Binding worn, occasional pale spotting. Large folding map has a small tear at the attachment else very clean and bright. 8vo. 360 pages. Hand-colored engraved folding map. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorated on spine. Provenance: contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Church 1336; Howes H-184. Sabin 30319.

New York: Karma, 2013. A near-fine copy. 9 x 6 inches. 64 pages. Original black cloth. First edition, inscribed by the photographer on the rear endpaper. Number 16 of 25 copies.