Search Results: Titles starting with H from Turn and Temper Books

Pantheon Books, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover/Hardback. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Thus, First Printing. Near Fine, Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Edge base shows minor signs of shelf wear. Owner's stamp on inside of front board. Dust Jacket (G+) clean, sticker removed on cover, 1 tear at top of spine, and small tear along top, some chipping at base of spine and tips, Price intact ($2.75).

Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The binding feels crisp as if unread. The dust jacket has no chipping or tears, but has scuffing along back (none on front, sides, or top). "Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) , and his science fiction and horror story collections, The Martian Chronicles (1950) , The Illustrated Man (1951) , and I Sing the Body Electric (1969) , Bradbury was one of the most celebrated twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers. While most of his best… Read More

Nan A. Talese, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Cover has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in very good condition with creases at the base and a price sticker mark on the cover. We package all books in cardboard book boxes for shipment. "In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the… Read More

Harpercollins, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Harper and Row, 1987, New York. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 9-1/2" tall, 332 numbered pages includes "Acknowledgments" and "Index". This edition is pristine: the exterior is square, spotlessly clean, free of corner bumps and edge dings with undamaged spine ends; hinges are strong and feels crisp as if unread. The interior is perfectly clean and completely free of writing, marks, or stains. The dust jacket is clean and free of tears and fading, with only very light scratches on the back. A collection of Boorstin's best articles from his 40+ year career.

Philomel Books, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Light bump to the base of the spine, otherwise in excellent condition. DJ is clipped at the top and bottom of inside flap. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Algonquin Books, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A truly lovely First Edition copy! As new in original hardback (square, tight, and unmarked) in a fine dust jacket -- crisp, bright, and tight -- which has not been price-clipped. First edition; first printing (full number line present). Mylar cover.

Springfield, Il: Charles C. Thomas, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover/Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. . . . . 8Vo, Hardcovers. Previous Owner's Bookplate And Stamp/Name On Inside Front Covers. Bindings Square And Tight, With Some Wear On The Tips. Some Underlining In The Text. Volume 2 Only.

New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1951. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover/Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Text is clean and unmarked. Spine may show signs of wear, board tips are bumped.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover/Hardback. Good/Good. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and small tears, jacket flap clipped with price intact. Protective mylar cover. 1969 Hard Cover. Boards have scuffing and wear, but spine lettering is intact and clean. Front free endpaper has stamps and numbers (possibly ex-library). xxvi, 415, xiv pp. Black-and-white fold-out map follows text. The Portuguese pioneered the maritime expansion of Europe which, above all else, marks off the modern from the medieval world. Follows the vicissitudes of the Portuguese on three continents during four centuries of tempestuous and dangerous sailing, trading, preaching, and fighting.

Scribner, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: COLLECTIBLE: RICH: Fine hardcover, First Edition, First Printing of this revised & skillfully abridged edition of a monumental classic of American history, showing orig. $45.00 price Fine cover w/ navy-blue linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in dark purple paper w/ sharp edges & corners & titles gilt-stamped on spine. "In my writing & teaching I have done all I could to disseminate the idea that history should be as inclusive as life itself." - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. * It is hard to imagine the time when this idea seemed radical, even threatening --a shot across the traditional historian's bow. Now we accept as given that the story of how men & women lived & worked & played --what sort of houses they built, what books they wrote & read, how they earned a… Read More

Harper & Row, Publishers, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. Condition: Fine in near-fine jacket. Inscribed first edition, later state, of the commercial and critical success that established Sendak's talent as an illustrator and Krauss's reputation for capturing child-like lyricism - an especially nice copy inscribed by Krauss. Krauss enjoyed enormous acclaim, particularly in the 1950s, as a writer on her own terms for her children's books that are now better known today as early "Sendak titles." Biographer Philip Nel argues that, because she "treated them as equals, children accepted Krauss as one of them, confiding in her, telling her stories, or just playing while she watched. She listened, wrote down what they said, and used her poet's ear to select phrases that displayed a natural, unrehearsed lyricism." Krauss, along with her husband Crockett Johnson, was a formative mentor for Sendak. While their relationship was often… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Atheneum, New York, 1970. Hardcover condition fine with no markings, wear, or defects. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Minor wear on tips and base of spine. Mylar cover. Red Boards with crisp gilted lettering on spine of Author, Title and Publisher. Illustrated with Frontispiece a photograph of Mandelstam herself. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward, and an Introduction by Clarence Brown. It has been said about this book-Harrison E. Salisbury: "No work on Russia which I have recently read has given me so sensitive and searing an insight into the hellhouse which Russia became under Stalin as this dedicated and brilliant work on the poet Mandelstam by his devoted wife."

New York: MJF, 2014. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Boards and DJ in pristine condition. Crisp binding.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. New York City Ny / London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 359 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, With 1924 Date On Title Page And Scribner Seal On Copyright Page, No Mention Of Later Printings.  Rare to see a copy in very good condition.  Bumping on edges, slight fraying, tear on first blank page--free end paper, but no marks or discoloration.  No fading--spine letters are clear and crisp.

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1947. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover/Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, decorated endpapers, deckle. Shelf-ware to head and heel of spine, fading to lettering on spine, corners bumped, else volume is unmarked and clean.

The Literary Guild of America, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First printing. Covers worn with spots along the shelf edge and at corners rubbed through the cloth. Spine ends curled and fraying. The internal hinge is cracked with a small section of the paper separating. The binding is otherwise sound. Text is clean. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.

St. Martin's Press, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj with minor wear to tips, otherwise clean.