Search Results: Authors starting with H from Heldfond Book Gallery, ABAA-ILAB

Chicago. The Mas-Sin-Na'-Gan Company. 1888. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated original brown cloth. Gilt decorations and titles to spine. Thick 4to. 7" x 10.5". The First Edition. Illustrated with a folding chart and numerous engravings en texte. Spine and covers rubbed, corners bumped. Professional repair to front hinge with front endsheet adhering to front board at gutter. Professional repair to rear hinge with some loss of rear pastedown at gutter. A Very Good tight copy.

Boston. Roberts Brothers. 1880. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated cloth. Decorated endsheets. 12mo. (4.5" x 6.5"). First Edition. Illustrated with an engraved half title. A superb collection of first hand Civil War battle accounts. This volume compiled by Hale, author of The Man Without A Country. An elusive Civil War title. Covers very gently rubbed with several scuffs. Head and tail pieces chipped with portions lacking. Contents slightly shaken. Lack of continuity to endsheets at front and rear hinges. A Very Good crisp copy.

Paris. Boussod, Valadon Et Cie. 1888. Rebound in black cloth with gilt titled spine. 4to. Illustrated with tissue-guarded colour plates by Madeleine Lemaire. Near Fine.

Edinburgh. Oliver and Boyd. 1926. Bound in gilt titled red cloth over boards. Thick 4to (7" x 10.5"). New and Enlarged edition. Several very mild creases to head and tail pieces, else a Fine, crisp set.

n.p. 1882. Bound in gilt titled burgundy cloth covered boards. 4to. Illustrated with various diagrams, schematics, maps, etc. Mild sunning to covers and spine, mild scuffing to covers, corners gently bumped. A Very Good copy.

Paris. Crepin- Leblonde. 1951. Bound in imprinted stiff cardboard wrappers. Square 8vo. This edition limited to 1350 numbered copies. This copy unnumbered. Illustrated throughout with brilliant full page water colour plates depicting various French Military costuming and accouterments and further monochrome drawings en texte. A handsomely printed and illustrated history of military dress and weapons. Usual vertical reading wrinkle to spine. Some mild foxing to bottom edge, else a Fine crisp copy.

New York. Dutton. 1941. 12mo. 1st edition. Illustrated from photographs. Excellent study of the RAF in the Battle of Britain. Fine in Very Good dustwrapper.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1995. Bound in stiff pictorial paper wrappers. 4to. Illustrated throughout with monochrome and duotone photographs. A Fine copy.

London. The Nonesuch Press. 1929. Bound in gilt titled glazed buckram. 16mo. This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies of which this is number 629. Illustrated with copper plate engravings as vignettes throughout. A Fine copy.

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1930. Extravagantly bound in full, gilt ruled ebony Morocco by Zahensdorf for Asprey of London. gilt-ruled spine compartments with gilt titles. Gilt-tooled raised bands, head and tailpieces. Extremely elaborate fleural turn-ins. Marbled endsheets. All edges gilded. 8vo.(5"x7.5"). The First Printing of The First Edition. Innocuous tiny patch of rubbing to front cover, else a Very Fine, flawless, exquisitely bound copy of perhaps the most significant work of American Crime Fiction.

Berkeley. Friends of Bancroft Library. 1966. Gilt titled green cloth. Folio 1st Edition. Illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, etc. Tailpiece frayed, else a Near Fine copy.

Tokyo. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1937. Thick 4to. 1st Edition. Illustrated with colour and monochrome plates. A wonderful and important work on Japanese Art. Spine lightly sunned, some light scattered foxing, else Near Fine in chipped dustwrapper.

London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner & Co. 1893. Gilt titled cloth. 12mo. 2nd Edition. With 36 full page illustrations of book-plates. Headpiece severely chipped. Covers somewhat rubbed and soiled. Spine cracked (but firm).

London. Macmillan & Co. 1888. Bound in original Publisher's Green cloth. Horizontal imprinted lines to front cover. Gilt tiled spines. Publisher's imprinted device to rear covers. Housed in Custom Slipcase with gilt titled Morocco label and further in custom chemise. 8vo. 5" x 7.5 The First Edition.One of only 750 copies,of which only 634 were bound up. All required points present in this copy. Purdy- p.58; Sadleir-1119 Hardy's first published collection of stories. Both volumes are mildly cocked. covers and spines. present mild, rubbing and darkening. Several short and mild wrinkles to cloth of Front Cover Vol. 1. Foxing to prelims.Several edges trimmed short.Text clean and bright with firm, uncracked hinges. A Very Good Set.

Cedar Rapids. The Torch Press. 1930. Bound in printed wrappers. 4to. Privately printed for the author. Illustrated with an engraved frontis. Usual chipping to wrapper edges, some minor offset. A Near Fine Copy.

Washington D.C. Government Printing Office 1928. Cloth with gilt titled spine. 8vo. Ink to ffep, else Near Fine.

Boston. James R. Osgood and Co. 1883. Bound in gilt titled pictorial boards. 12mo. First Edition. Illustrated with full page black and white drawings by the author. Covers worn. Repair to 1 page. Generally, Very Good.

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1883. Bound in pictorial gilt titled green cloth. 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the Church. Spine slightly sunned covers a bit dusty. Short tear to one plate intruding from fore-edge to a 1/4 inch inside illustrations. A Very Good, Tight copy.

London. Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. 1848 Original gilt titled green cloth. 8vo. Illustrated with 12 brilliant full-page, Hand-coloured plates. Bumps to corners, spine sunned, chipping to head and tailpieces, else Very Good.

London. The Studio Ltd. 1937. Beautifully bound by Zahnsdorf in gilt titled full snowy vellum. Lovely gilded endsheets. t.e.g. 4to (8.5" x 12"). This edition on hand-made paper, is limited to 215 numbered copies of which this copy is number 8. Lavishly illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates reproducing the most decorative examples of early English illuminated manuscripts. A most desireable and well regarded study. An elegant presentation. Usual slight vellum bowing to front cover. Covers mildly soiled, spine slightly darkened. A lovely copy of this elusive limited issue.Featured Art.