Authors starting with H from Bauman Rare Books

1933. FIRST EDITION. HABERLER, Gottfried. Der Internationale Handel. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. Tall octavo, original paper wrappers, uncut and partially unopened. $650. First edition of Haberler's innovative theory of the connections among the world's economies as well as the representation and analysis of international trade policy. With 35 economic models, including tables and graphs. Haberler was one of the first economists to argue that unrestricted international trade increases producti... more information

2006. FIRST EDITION. HAI, Bo. Hai Bo. (New York: Max Protetch Gallery, 2006). Oblong quarto, original photographic paper boards. $150. First edition, featuring 19 pages of photogravures by Hai Bo of changing China. One of China's new generation of photographers, "Hai Bo intends to demonstrate a 'historical' 'change' through 'the unchanged.' [His work] is filled with personal Utopian behavior and imagination. The 'history' that Hai Bo depicts is not a cultural hist... more information

1895. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HALE, Edward Everett. Susan's Escort. Boston: Lend a Hand Society, (1895). 12mo, original green cloth. $175. First edition in book form, signed on the title page by Edward Everett Hale. Best known for his acclaimed short story "The Man Without a Country," Hale was a prolific writer whose well-developed social conscience led him to write "many of his 150 books and pamphlets [as] tracts for such causes as the education of blacks, workers' housing, and wor... more information

1683. FIRST EDITION. HALE, Matthew. Short Treatise Touching Sheriffs Accompts… to which is Added, a Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the County of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664. London: Will. Shrowsbery, 1683. Small octavo, modern full green morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spine. $4200. First edition of the account of the notorious witchcraft trial at Bury St. Edmonds presided over by Sir Matthew Hale. Norman Library copy. "Hale, one of the most respecte... more information

1854. FIRST EDITION. [HALIBURTON, Thomas Chandler]. The Americans at Home; or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies. Edited by the Author of "Sam Slick." London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854. Three volumes. Octavo, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. $800. Early edition of this collection of humorous anecdotes of rural America by "Sam Slick." "Haliburton was the first writer to use American dialect, and according to Artemus Ward founded the American school of humor… Haliburto... more information

1848. HALL, Samuel Carter, editor. The Book of Gems. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848-53. Three volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full polished rose calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1200. Later edition of this representative collection of the British poets, with engraved title pages and numerous in-text vignettes, beautifully bound. The editor's objective was to present "the most perfect specimens of the Poets, il... more information

1834. HALLAM, Henry. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages. London: John Murray, 1834. Three volumes. Octavo, later full polished calf gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1300. Later edition of Hallam's classic history. "Hallam's works helped materially to lay the foundations of the English historical school …(State of Europe) was probably the first English history which, without being merely antiquarian, set an example of genuine study from original sources" (DN... more information

1867. HALLAM, Henry. The Constitutional History of England From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II. London: John Murray, 1867. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and black leather spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $1200. Eighth edition of Hallam's History, which helped to lay the foundations of the English historical school. Most handsomely bound by Tuckett, "Binder to the Queen." Macau... more information

1855. HALLAM, Henry. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. WITH: Introduction to the Literature of Europe. WITH: The Constitutional History of England. London: John Murray, 1855. Together, ten volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $2200. Later editions of Hallam's esteemed histories of he law and literature of Europe and England, uniformly and handsomely bound. "Hallam's works help... more information

1732. FIRST EDITION. HANDEL, George Frederic. The Most Celebrated Songs in the Oratorio call'd Queen Esther, to which is Prefixt the Overture in Score, Compos'd by Mr. Handel. London: I. Walsh, [1732]. Folio, modern half brown calf, red morocco spine label, marbled boards. $4500. First edition, first issue, of the songs (in full score) from Handel's landmark oratorio Esther, fully engraved. The oratorio, in its English variety, was substantially Handel's invention. Handel wrote his first ... more information

1893. HARDY, Thomas. Novels. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1893. Eight volumes. Octavo, mid 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $4800. "Half-Crown" edition, the first collected edition of these works, with scarce engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Hardy, handsomely bound by Sotheran. Includes The Return of the Native, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Two on a Tower, T... more information

1893. FIRST EDITION. HARRELL, John M. The Brooks and Baxter War. A History of the Reconstruction Period in Arkansas. St. Louis: Slawson Printing, 1893. Octavo, original black cloth. $500. First edition of this chronicle of Reconstruction in Arkansas. In the spring of 1874, a dispute over the governorship of Arkansas between Elisha Baxter—the regular Republican candidate—and Joseph Brooks—leader of a splinter Republican faction and supported by Democrats—erupted into armed conflict, no... more information

1999. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HARRIS, Joanne. Chocolat. London: Doubleday, 1999. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $425. First English edition, boldly signed on the title page by Joanne Harris. In Chocolat, British author Joanne Harris offers a description of the chocolate festival that "also describes the novel: 'It is an amazement of riches… Try me. Test me. Taste me.' Few readers will be able to resist" (New York Times). Director Lasse Hallström's 2000 f... more information

2007. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. HARRIS, Robert. The Ghost. London: Hutchinson, (2007). Octavo, original black cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $175. First trade edition of Harris' slyly satirical politcal thriller, signed on the title page by the author. Harris' "amusingly acerbic" thriller "unfolds with clarity and panache—and with a classy twist on the very last page" (New York Times). Basis for the 2010 motion picture directed by Roman Polanski. Also issu... more information

1988. FIRST EDITION. HARRIS, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1988). Octavo, original half maroon cloth, original dust jacket. $350. First edition of Harris' third and most famous novel, basis for the 1991 Academy Award-winning film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, in original dust jacket. Silence of the Lambs is "a virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly toward its climax… Harris is quit... more information

1896. SIGNED. HARTE, Bret. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1896-1914). Twenty volumes. Octavo, three-quarter scarlet crushed morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2800. Author's Autograph Edition, one of 350 copies signed, numbered and dated Sept. 1896 by Harte, and illustrated throughout throughout with tissue-guarded photogravure plates. Includes the scarce Volume XX (Stories and Poems), published separately in 1914 in a limited edition. BAL 7384. Owner... more information

1866. HARTWIG, G. The Harmonies of Nature, or the Unity of Creation. New York: D. Appleton, 1866. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $575. First American edition, published the same year as the first edition, illustrated with eight wood-engraved plates and numerous in-text woodcuts, handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. Hartwig surveys the stars, the oceans and a wide variety of life on the land—pl... more information

1900. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1900). Twenty-two volumes. Octavo, mid-20th century three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $4500. "Old Manse" edition of Hawthorne's works, with over 100 plates including portraits, facsimiles and illustrations. Encompassing Hawthorne's masterful novels (such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables), his memorable sh... more information

1891. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Works. Thirteen volumes. WITH: HAWTHORNE, Julian. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography. Two volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin (Riverside Press), [1891]. ogether, fifteen volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $4200. "Standard Library Edition," with introductory notes by Hawthorne's son-in-law, George Parsons Lathrop, and... more information

1853. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Tanglewood Tales, For Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder-Book. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 12mo, late 19th-century full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. $1650. First American edition, first printing, of Hawthorne's versions of myths for children, with engraved additional title page and six engraved plates, handsomely bound by the Grolier Club bindery with the original cloth bound in. Although... more information