Search Results: Titles starting with H from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

New York: Robert McBride, 1925. First Edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket with a date stamp (Sep 3 1925) on the front panel.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. First American Edition. Red rubber stamp of a symbol on the title page; about fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. First American Edition. About fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1932. First Edition. Some light staining to the bottom of the front and rear boards, else near fine in an edge-chipped dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed, “For: Carey Wilson, who forced me to continue scribbling when defeat hit me - faithfully yours, Darryl Francis Zanuck/ ‘23.” Wilson was an important figure in the film industry in the twenties and thirties, writer of Ben-Hur and Mutiny on the Bounty, and a founder of the Motion Picture Academy. Wilson’s bookplate on the front paste-down, his blind stamp on the rear free end-paper; front hinge cracked; very good in dust jacket. Zanuck persevered from that “defeat” and a dead end as a writer to become one of film’s most significant and successful producers.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1929. Special edition; illustrated by Alexander King; one of 750 numbered copies signed by O’Neill. Fine in a very good or better dust jacket and a damaged publisher’s slipcase; in a custom clamshell box with a leather spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco label.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1965. First Edition of the author’s first book. Very good to fine in a similar dust jacket with a faded spine. Signed by the author.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1892. First Edition; two volumes: state B of volume I. Tiny bookplates on front pastedowns; a fine, bright set. While Parkman is somewhat out of favor these days for his heavy tilt toward the American view of history, he was among the most influential of American historians.

New York: Stokes, 1936. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with an interior tape mend. Inscribed by Dannay (as Queen) and with the recipient’s ownership signature.

New York: Neale Publishing, 1913. First Edition. A near fine copy; presented by the publisher. A story of Egypt, illustrated with photographs.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. Only very slight wear; fine in dust jacket.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, n.d. (c.1900). First Edition. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; some cloth foxing; very good. With an introductory essay by George Gamble, describing the music hall artists, “...mostly, a music-hall artiste is a person who has to roar, bellow, screech, caterwaul for supremacy throughout a mere orchestral free-fight...” The 24 illustrations are very much in the style of William Nicholson.

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. About fine in an attractive example of the dust jacket, which has some creasing; a short tear at the front flap fold, and a longer one along the front panel and spine, else very minor wear.

New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. Very good plus in a dust jacket with a tear at the top of the front panel.

Pendleton, Oregon: Hamley & Co., n.d. [1932]. Publisher’s wrappers; very good. A substantial offering of 176 pages in black and white and color of gear for the cowboy: boots, saddles, hats, chaps, bits, spurs, belts, ropes, etc.

New York: Spivak, 1946. First Edition; original wrappers; a very good copy.

Tellico Plains, Tennessee: Tellico Theatre, n.d. [1943 or later]. Single sheet, approximately 5 1/2 x 8 3/4”, printed in black on cheap paper, promoting “Chills/Thrills/Terror” with Bela Lugosi. Very good condition.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1935. First Edition. A fine copy; inscribed by Bay.

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First Edition; three volumes; original publisher's cloth backed boards; lacking half-title in volume I; spines and labels worn and chipped; some other wear and staining; a good set in a custom cloth slipcase.

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1942. First Edition; first issue of Salinger's first book appearance. Only minute wear; a fine copy in a stamped and addressed first issue publisher's cardboard box. With a fine example of the second issue (1943) of the book in a very good, stamped and addressed example of the second issue publisher's box.