Search Results: Authors starting with H from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

WINDOW DISPLAY FOR OUTFITTERS & TAILORS, Blanford Press, Ltd., 1935, some light wear and tear to the head of the spine, some light dust-soil to the covers, some faint foxing to the pre and postlims, else a vg copy with fine contents in stiff boards and printed on slick paper. Profusely illustrated with actual photo displays of dressed windows on virtually every page. Quite scarce.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated March 29, 1955, about 55 words, very good.

THE ECONOMY WHERE IS IT GOING?, Council of Jewish Federations And Welfare Funds, 1966,first edition, fine in wraps. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector and noted philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

PICTURE BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE, Coward-McCann, 1930, first edition, light wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, outer hinges exhibit just a scattered bit of cloth loss, else a vg copy of this marvelous book in pictorial binding with illustrations on every page, most of which are in full color.

THE BOMB THAT FELL ON AMERICA, Blandford Press, 1946, first English edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light inner reinforcement.

13 GOLF MAGAZINES FROM 1923 THRU 1928 being 2 issues of THE AMERICAN GOLFER, 1 issue of GOLF ILLUSTRATED & 10 issues GOLFERS MAGAZINE, Centurion Publishers Incorporated, Golf Illustrated, Inc. & Golfers Magazine respectively, first editions, some soiling and wear and tear, but overall vg issues with just about fine contents, most being in color pictorial wraps. Contributions by: Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Francis Ouimet, Ring Lardner, Chester G. Horton, Chick Evans, James Warner Bellah, James Montgomery Flagg, et.al. with marvelous photographs of just about anyone you can name during this era of golfing history as well as photos of famous places, courses & holes not to mention those marvelous advertisements.

THE KING'S HOMELAND: SANDRINGHAM AND NORTH-WEST NORFOLK, A. & C. Black, 1904, first edition, cloth chipped at heel of spine panel, shelf wear at head of spine panel and corners, 38mm split in cloth at bottom edge of front hinge, else a very good copy. Haggard supplies the introduction to this volume.

THE MAHATMA AND THE HARE, Longmans, Green, 1911, first edition, spine a bit faded, else just about a vg copy.

A FARMER'S YEAR, Longmans, Green & Co., (London), 1899, first edition, a bright vg+/near fine copy with unbroken inner hinges. Illustrated. 1/3,000 copies.

THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN, Cassell and Co., 1922, first edition, some wear to the outer spine hinges, else a just about vg copy in just about vg later printing full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine.

SWALLOW, Longmans Green, 1899, first edition, a tight bright vg+ copy.

QUEEN SHEBA'S RING, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910, first edition, a bright very good to very good+ copy of an attractive book. Illustrated.

MORNING STAR, Cassell, 1910, light foxing to page edges, else a near fine copy in a bright vg full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and a modest chip missing from the upper left corner of the front dust-wrapper panel. Very nice. Illustrated in color. INSCRIBED by the author in 1911. Scarce thus.

MAIWA'S REVENGE, Longman's, Green & Co, 1888, first edition, a tight solid vg+ copy with un- broken inner hinges and first state ads.

THE POOR AND THE LAND, Longmans, Green, 1905, first edition, small nick at upper margin of front cover, else a bright vg+ copy. Illustrated with photos. 1/5,000 copies. Uncommon.

WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK, Cassell, 1919, first edition, some light silverfish to the rear cover, else a vg copy. Among the authors better science fiction tales in which an attempt is made to readjust the Earth's axis using a device made by a long dead race.

STELLA FREGELIUS: A TALE OF THREE DESTINIES, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903, first English edition, top edge of text block dusty, some scuffing to front panel, several white smudges (perhaps paint stains) on rear panel, a very good copy.

DAWN, Hurst & Blackett, 1884, first edition, 3 volumes, glue stains on front paste-downs, shallow fraying to fore edges of several free end-papers, inner hinges cracked, some shelf wear at head and tail of spine panels and corners, spine panels lightly age-darkened, some minor scattered foxing to the text blocks. Overall, a good or slightly better set. Rare.

THE SPIRIT OF BAMBATSE, Longmans Green & Co., 1906, first edition, a bright solid vg+/near fine copy. Published in the U.K. as BENITA.

BARBARA WHO CAME BACK in Pall Mall Magazine for 1913, first edition, Volume 17, a vg+ copy in the publishers original cloth. Also contains THE ABSENSE OF MR. GLASS, THE HEAD OF CAESAR & THE PURPLE WIG by Chesterton (all later collected in THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN), CLIMATE AND CONDITIONS & ELEPHANT HUNTING by Mundy, INN OF THE TWO WITCHES by Conrad, GOLF FOR THE PEOPLE by Leach, THE NEWS by Belloc, THE SMALL GAMBLER by Wodehouse, et.al.