Authors starting with H from Joseph The Provider / Books

Paris:: Olympia Press,, 1956.. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. A near fine copy of this fragile, perfect-bound paperback. 12mo. Illustrated with photographs by Brassai. Miller's no-holds-barred erotic narrative is correspondingly equipoised by Brassai's earthy images of Paris after dark. ... more information

Garden City:: Doubleday,, 1976.. First edition of the author's second book. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket (two chips at top of spine). 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Viking Press,, [1979].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with pictures by Barbara Cooney. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1980. ... more information

New York:: Delacorte Press,, [1994].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 4to. Signed and dated by the author in the month of publication. With publisher's promotional postcard laid in. The third mystery featuring the Florida Keys loner, Thorn. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1991.. First edition. Hardcover. Faint offsetting to front free endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Norton,, [1990].. First edition of the mystery writer's first short story collection. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Norton,, [1987].. First edition of the author's first detective novel. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. The first Thorn mystery. ... more information

Madison:: Perishable Press,, [1967.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine (issued without dust jacket). 8vo. One of 200 copies (of a total edition of 250) hand-printed from handset type on nideggen papers. The 11th of Walter Hamady's Perishable Press books and selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the 50 Best-Designed Books of the year. ... more information

Mt. Horeb:: Perishable Press,, 1970.. First edition. Embossed wrappers. Fine. Narrow 4to. One of 100 copies signed by Hamady (the entire edition). Printed on a light gray (olive-tinted) Shadwell paper and bound in similar-colored wrappers -- Hamady 38. ... more information

Mt. Horeb:: Perishable Press,, 1970.. First edition. Broadside. Fine. 4to. One of "one hundred or so copies printed for friends for Christmas". Handset and hand-printed on Shadwell paper "handmade from old shirts in the basement. ... more information

Mt. Horeb:: Perishable Press,, 1971.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine (issued without dust jacket). Small 4to. One of 98 copies signed and dated by Hamady (the entire edition). Because every copy was taken by subscription and no copies were offered separately for sale, this title seldom turns up on the market. Of this book Hamady writes: "Of course this is one of my favorites, for the occasion; the content which returns me to my childhood & roots beyond; and the way it managed to hang together esp... more information

Mt. Horeb:: Perishable Press,, [1972].. First edition. Broadside. Fine. Oblong 4to. One of 78 copies (the entire edition) of this poem that is beautifully printed on Shadwell Handmade paper from hand-set Sabon Antiqua type. Only 15 copies were offered for sale. ... more information

New York:: Doubleday,, [1994].. First edition of the author's second book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1934.. First edition. Hardcover. With a slight trace of foxing to the fore-edges and the usual fading to the cloth, else a very good to near-fine copy in a near-fine dust jacket (the scarce red variant) that has some expert restoration at the extremities by a paper conservator. An attractive copy of highspot of 20th Century detective fiction. 8vo. ... more information

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence,, 1993.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small 4to. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1983.. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket, almost like new. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by the author on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1983.. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket, almost like new. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1983.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated at the time of publication ("Jackson 1983"). ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1985.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. The author's second short story collection. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1980.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. With the card of Knopf editor / novelist Gordon Lish laid in. The author's third novel, with a blurb by Philip Roth on the back panel of the jacket: "Hannah has taken Faulkner's Sanctuary and transformed that world into post-Vietnam America. The lust and violence in this little book isn't a schoolteacher's gratuitous high-jinks, but the brutish, menacing, driven stuff of life. ... more information