Search Results: Titles starting with H from Irving Book Company

Philadelphia: David McKay, No date. Early Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Hinges weak.. 16mo. 255 pp. Original brown cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; light algebra in pencil at rear.

New York: David McKay, 1960. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good only. Spine heavily taped.. 16mo. 212 pp. Original red cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1965 ownership signature to front flyleaf, and rear flyleaf along with a paragraph in pencil that begins 'that electrical, living noon-tide silence which, like the hushed abyss in Valery's poem...'.

New York: Grossman, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good indeed in good unclipped jacket. Covers lightly splayed. Moderate wear, toning, and soiling to jacket. Binding tight, text otherwise clean.. 8vo. 123 pp. Original brown quarter-cloth over light red boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Translated by WILLIAM ARROWSMITH. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 3/5/84 ownership signature in green marker to front flyleaf, a couple pencil notes to rear flyleaf, sparse pencil annotation, a couple laid-in scraps with notes and an ink drawing.

Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, 1981. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine in original wrappers and fine dust jacket.. Small quarto. 8.25 x 8 in. 80 pp. White wrappers in pictorial dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of Siskind's photographs. Text from the Federal Writers Project. Edited by Ann Banks. Foreword by Gordon Parks. A splendid Black Mountain College association copy, inscribed by Aaron Siskind to Jonathan Williams in the year of publication. Siskind taught JW, publisher, poet, & photographer, at Black Mountain College in the 1950's.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine. Charming aquatic bookplate to front pastedown. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking rare dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. 332 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 1 in original chocolate brown 'limp croft leather', gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; blue marbleized endpapers. First Printing, with publisher's 35-title catalogue (C3) preceding title page. Black & white frontispiece. Two volumes in one. Introduction by ALEXANDER HARVEY. A very fresh copy of this early and scarce Modern Library title. Andes 25.1.1B. Toledano 25.1.

New York: A.L. Burt, 1933. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Very light soiling to covers, with lightly bumped fore-corners and light edgewear, especially at crown & foot of spine; endpapers somewhat toned. Binding square & tight, text clean.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.625 in. vi, 314 pp. Black cloth, titled and decorated in red, top edge red. An excellent reading copy of a Blandings Castle title.

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 2001. First Thus. Hardcover. Previous owner's rune bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise nearly fine in fine dust jacket. Light spotting to top edge.. 12mo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. 321, [15] pp. Full powder blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with white & yellow candy stripe endpapers; in pictorial dust jacket. Published as part of The Collector's Wodehouse; first printing. A very attractive edition.

London: William Heinemann, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good indeed. 'Quantum est quod nescimus' bookplate to front pastedown. Binding sound. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 493 pp. + adverts. Folding map at rear. Original green cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt. Volume 1 only. Books I-V. LCL 88. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in ink to front flyleaf.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good original slipcase.. Two-volume set in slipcase. Large 8vos. 6 x 8.75 in. xxi, [i], 328; xvii, [1 blank], 307 pp. Second printing of The Heritage of the Cathedral: A Study of the Influence of History and Thought upon Cathedral Architecture, together with presumed first printing of The Voices of the Cathedral: Tales in Stone and Legends in Glass. Full black cloth in publisher's slipcase, with large pictorial onlays affixed to each side. Uncommon in slipcase.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Very good in like price-clipped jacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Spine panel and edges of jacket toned. Binding tight.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.125 in. [x], 241, [5] pp. Original illustrated boards, in matching dust jacket. Translated by RICHMOND LATTIMORE. Illustrated with several black & white reproductions by RICHARD WILT. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with some of his pencil annotations throughout.

Hauniae (Copenhagen): Ejnar Munksgaard, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Light edgewear & soiling to covers, with heavier rubbing to the spine labels of Volume One. A well-preserved ex-library set, with only a few stamps & no pockets etc. Bindings square & tight, texts clean & bright.. Two-volume set, complete but only covering alpha through omicron. Small 4to. 6.625 x 9.75 in. 509; 823, [1] pp. Salmon cloth, with black skiver labels titled & ruled in gilt affixed to spines. Text in Greek and Latin. The only two volumes published of the original projected five-volume set, edited by German classical philologist Kurt Latte (d. 1964). A significant work of Greek philology. 'A textual base which meets modern standards was not established before Kurt Latte's epoch-making edition, based on a new collation of the sole existing ms. together (for the first time) with the parallel base of what is known as the Cyrillus Glossary (Vol. 1: Alpha-Delta 1953, Vol. 2: Epsilon-Omikron postum 1966). The… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Jacket heavily taped, with masking tape, at extremities and heavily toned at spine panel. Binding tight.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xvi, 453, [1] pp. Publisher's Oxford blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in plain light blue typographic dust jacket printed in dark blue. 1969 printing, reprinted from corrected sheets of the First Edition. Edited with introduction and commentary by W.S. BARRETT. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1971 ownership signature in ink to front flyleaf and numerous pencil marginalia throughout. Somewhat uncommon.

[Paris]: Enfantimages / Gallimard, 1978. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Light edgewear, light soiling to rear board with old price sticker.. Small, thin 4to. 5.625 x 7.75 in. [20] pp. Original glossy illustrated boards. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by JEAN-MICHEL NICOLLET. Translated into French by A. ALLAIS.

Chicago: Ares Publishers, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine.. 8vo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. viii, 111 pp. 'A History of the Republic of Marseilles', reprint of the 1826 Göttingen edition. Full red cloth, without dust jacket. Latin text with notes in Latin etc.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Light spotting and soiling to edges. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 in. 342 pp. Original green cloth. Text in English and Latin. A nice copy overall.

Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Backstrip detached, but laid in. Heavily worn, moderately soiled covers separated but hanging on desperately. Dampstain to textblock. Previous ownership signature to front pastedown, text otherwise unmarked.. Large 8vo. 6.75 x 9.75 in. 451 pp. Burgundy cloth. Illustrated with several black & white plates. Scarce.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked at spine, else near fine.. 4to. 320 pp. Original black boards, in pictorial dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with July 2001 gift inscription to him from the Latin in Rome Staff.

New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good. Binding remains sound.. 8vo. 5.375 x 8 in. 344 pp. Second Printing of the First Paperback Edition. Pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his March 1971 ownership signature in pencil to half-title, a few annotations.

Texas: Howard County Historical Comission, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in original embossed brown leatherette.. 4to. 9 x 11.25 in. 592 pp. Original embossed brown leatherette; without jacket, as issued. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs; pictorial endpapers in color.

London: Routledge, 2012. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near fine. A touch of edgewear. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Demy 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 317 pp. Original black wrappers. Introduction and commentary by THOMAS M. BANCHICH.