Search Results: Authors starting with H from Caroliniana

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 4to, hardcover with dust jacket. Third printing. Owner name written in pencil on title page. Hint of wear to corners, hint of toning to pages, lower corner of book bumped, rubbing to dust jacket, DJ price-clipped, with chipping to DJ spine and corrners.

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1918. 12mo, 48pp, eight color plates. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket (soiled, with three 1-2 inch closed tears, corners of flaps trimmed).

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1908. Square octavo in brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. An excellent copy of this early edition of the medieval classic, with a hint of toning to pages and minor rubbing to spine tips and corners.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title, 212 pp. A book by Mary Abigail Dodge, a prominent writer and essayist who wrote under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Here, Dodge weighs in on the ongoing debate over women's suffrage. Dodge believed strongly in equal education and work for women, yet while claiming that sex should not affect the right to vote, she does not come out strongly in favor of the ballot, arguing that its achievement will make no difference for women in terms of their economic or educational opportunity. An attractive copy with minor wear and discoloration to covers, foxing and toning to pages, contemporary owner inscription to front endpaper.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930s. Octavo, green cloth, in the pictorial dust jacket. Photoplay edition for the Paramount film starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, photo of actors to front panel of the dust jacket. A good copy with pages toned, pencil notes to endpapers, minior spotting to cloth, in foxed, soiled and spotted dust jacket, spine faded, closed tears and wear to edges, shallow chipping to spine ends and corners, still a presentable copy.

Beaver, Pennsylvania: Printed by Wm. Henry, 1836. Fourth Edition, Much Enlarged. Octavo, 192 pp, disbound text block and rear cover. Small chip to lower corner of title page, foxing to pages, lacking front endpaper and front cover, though original paper that went over the front board is curiously present, tape over binding.

London: A & C Black, Ltd, 1940. Hardcover with pictorial covers, 62 pp, illustrated. Covers bowed, toned, lacking spine covering, foxing to pages.

Nashville, Tennessee: A.M.E. Sunday School Union, [1952]. 8.75 x 6.25", pink wrappers with black lettering, 92 pp. A scarce pamphlet printing a collection of sermons by Reverend Eugene C. Hatcher, who served as the editor and manager of the Southern Christian Recorder, the newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, starting in 1940. The pamphlet is undated, but the Author's Note mentions that Hatcher had served as Editor of the newspaper for twelve years at the time of publication. Hatcher went on to serve as Bishop, presiding over four West African countries, as well as president of the A.M.E. Bishop's council. One of the sermons, titled "The Black Woman Who Got The White Woman Told Or The Excellency Of Mine," discusses the progress of the African American in the years since emancipation and the importance of the A.M.E. church and prayer in maintaining this progress. Another sermon, "How To Be Saved Just Now," contains an anecdote about "Zekiel, of the Old Slave Days," who lived on a… Read More

New York: Mystery House, 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket, 256 pp. Wear to corners and edges of cover. Foxing to endpapers. Rubbing, and soiling to dust jacket. Wear and tears to edges of dust jacket and small chip to upper spine of dust jacket. Two small stains to corners of jacket. Old bookstore tag and old sticker residue on front flap of dust jacket. A Pharaoh Pharr Mystery. Detective Pharaoah Pharr hunts down a murder who decapitates his victims and uses them to torture the residents of a Florida town.

Boston: Houghton MIfflin Co, 1898. Original publisher's grey cloth 2 volume set with gilt design to front covers and spine, gilt titles, gilt to top of page edge, illustrations throughout by Maude and Genevive Cowles. An excellent set with George Edward Cabot bookplate and date of 1895 to front pastedowns, mild bumping to a few spots to edges, a stunning set to give as a gift or to display on a shelf.

Boston: James R. Osgood Company, 1876. 7 x 4.75", green cloth decorated with gilt, 352 pp, illustrated. A lovely antique decorative copy of a Nathaniel Hawthorne work. Mild wear and discoloration to covers, owner inscription to front endpaper, bit of foxing to pages, bit of wear to text block edges.

Nashville: McQuiddy Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 108pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book of courtroom anecdotes by the radio country music star and founder of the grand ole opry. About very good with staining and discoloration to covers, toning to pages.

New York: Gryphon Editions/Classics of Liberty Library, 1996. Large 8vo, green leather spine with cloth boards, gilt decoration and lettering, text block edges gilt, silk bookmark. A fine copy.

New York: Gryphon Editions/Classics of Liberty Library, 2002. 8vo, red leather spine with cloth boards, gilt decoration and lettering, text block edges gilt, silk bookmark. Near fine with warping to rear cover.

New York : Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. 4to, original pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, 176pp, profusely illustrated throughout. In the original scarce printed dust jacket. A collection of stories, anecdotes and studies of the lives of Children in China, by an American missionary and Science Professor at Peking University, also the author of Chinese Mother Goose Tales. Featuring many illustrations from photographs, and color printed illustrated borders on each page. The back panel of the dust jacket prints a letter from the Chinese Minister in Washington to the author. An attractive copy with a hint of foxing and wear to covers, minor chipping and tearing to jacket,

New York and Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains/Jennings & Pye, 1902. First Edition. 8vo, red decorative cloth, 248 pp. Front endpaper lacking, mild soiling to covers, sunning to spine, cloth worn at corners and edge with area of loss to upper spine cloth.

Hartford, Conn: Hurlbut, Williams & Company/American Publishing Company, 1863. First Edition. Two volume set. Octavos, original black cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, marbled text block edges, 506, [2] pp (vol I) and 702 pp (vol II), engraved illustration plates. Intermittent foxing to pages, bit of staining and discoloration to covers, cloth worn at corners and spine tips, joints of volume one cracked, with rear cover of volume one held on by webbing.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Hardcover with original dust jacket, 310 pp. Book in fair condition with mildewing and staining to covers, damp staining to pages. Dust jacket stained with front panel separated from rest of jacket, two upper pieces of spine detached from rest of jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 270 pp. Good plus with foxing and toning to pages, owner inscription to front end paper, mild soiling to covers and dust jacket.

New York: T.Y. Crowell, Circa 1880s. 7 x 5.25", brick decorative cloth, 394 pp. A lovely decorative edition. An attractive copy with bit of wear along spine, bump to corner, slight toning to pages.