Titles starting with H from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: The Viking Press, 1928. 21cm; 96 pages. Blue cloth in dust jacket, VG/poor. Dust jacket worn, missing half of spine, preserved in mylar. Bookplate of Canadian bibliophile Lawrence Lande. First edition. ... more information

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. ... more information

Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1936. Cloth. 25cm; 175 pages, illustrated. Binding a little spotted; contents very good. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First American edition. Cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Bright and clean with minor shelf wear only. ... more information

Tokyo, 1953. 33 cm; [4, 30] double leaves, with 30 images of horses printed in woodblock on tissue and mounted, and two additional prints mounted on both covers. Bound in paper and stab-sewn, in traditional "fukuro toji" fashion. Base stock somewhat browned, but rice-paper tissue still fresh. Chip missing from lower corner of lower cover; lower cover torn near crown. Small chip missing from upper cover along top edge. Album of original prints of horses by the twentieth-century manga master.... more information

London: Virtue, Hall, and Virtue, [1855]. Gilt-stamped leather. 8vo (23cm); 29 delightful full-page engraved plates by "Phiz." Marbled edges and endpapers. Binding scuffed at extremities. Marginal toning on plate leaves. ... more information

Fort Erie: 1 February, 1864. Reference: Lande, John Law: The Evolution of his System, # 104. 21 x 27 cm; 11 pages. Steamship manufacturer's chop in upper right corner of every sheet. Thomson purchased the Fort Erie Railroad Company (formerly Samuel Zimmerman's Erie and Ontario Railroad) in 1862. Here he writes to potentates of the Great Western concerning the relationship of "our two roads--your large one and our little one!" He projects that his line from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort ... more information

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: February 14,, 1842. 125 x 205 mm; 4 pages, last page blank except for manuscript docket. Usual folds. Alexander Baring's career as an international financier had included speculating in large tracts of American wilderness, and negotiating the Louisiana Purchase between France and the United States. The bank he helped establish at the end of the 18th century endured until 1995, when it was brought down by a rogue trader. After his distinguished career, Baring came out of reti... more information

Washington: December 9,, 1843. Reference: Lande, John Law: the Evolution of his System, #228. 1 leaf, 20 x 25 cm. Addressed to Nathaniel Bullock. 21 lines including datelines and salutations. Split along folds and repaired with document tape. President John Tyler was expelled from the Whig party not long after taking office in 1841. Cranston, a Whig, opposed the annexation of Texas, which Tyler supported, believing (rightly, as it turned out) that it would precipitate war with Mexico. "The presi... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 25 cm; 410 pages. Cloth in dust jacket, both good, with light flecks on fore edge, tiny frays at base of spine. ... more information

Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 31 December 1929 (Colophon). First edition. 19 cm; 252 pages, [1] leaf. Bound in original wraps, plain variation (that is, without the vignette that appears on most copies). Edition limited to 2500 copies on Alfa Mousse Navarre, this copy not numbered. INSCRIBED BY DE CHIRICO on front blank "A Monsieur Rudder, hommage de..." Published in the "Collection Bifur" series. Original glue fails to completely hold the wraps to the text block. Some very light ... more information

Boston: Oliver Ditson, December 2, 1878. 19 cm; 31 pages, ads. Printed self wraps, illustrated with publisher's full-page wood-engraved ad on lower wrap. Upper wrap unevenly toned; sewing tender but holding firm. Lower edge slightly bumped. Gilbert and Sullivan's first great success, HMS Pinafore, opened in London in May 1878. Saturation was so thorough that "unauthorized" productions sprang up. The first American production took place at the Boston Museum, November 25, 1878. This c... more information

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1989. 34cm; 424 pages, including 273 plates, mostly in color. Cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG, with shelf wear only. ... more information

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. First printing. Cloth. Original edition of this perennial study. Gift inscription on endleaves. Chipped and Torn DJ. ... more information

London: Thomas Roycroft, 1663. First edition. References: Wing B3386; Wood 245; Osleriana 2062 (later ed.).. Two volumes in one; folio (40cm); [96] pages, 1094 columns, [137] pages, 888 columns, [112] pages, and engraved portrait. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Title page printed in red and black. Text in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages. Bound in contemporary vellum, embossed with "oriental" lozenge and with the gilt stamp of the Society of Writers to the Signet on... more information

Quebec: La Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Université Laval, 1953. 8vo; 446 p. Original green printed wraps, negligibly worn. Unopened. ... more information

Paris: P. Jannet, 1855. Cloth. 12mo; 17 cm., viii, 440 p., Red cloth, stamped in blind, titled in gilt on spine., Minor wear, some fraying at crown; top edge darkened., ... more information

Geneva and Paris: Droz/Giard, 1953. xlii, 235 p. Wraps, unopened. ... more information

Baltimore: William Wood & Company, 1933. First edition. 24 cm; 491 pages. Cloth bound. ... more information

London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Richard Sare, 1715. 8vo (17 cm); xxiv, 250, [2] pages, including final advertisement leaf. Bound in full paneled calf, tooled in blind. Joints weak and reinforced. Scuffed at edges. Dampstain on front board penetrates noticeably through first quire. ... more information