Titles starting with H from Quill & Brush

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First edition. The story of the love affair of H.G. Wells and Rebecca West, written by Gordon N. Ray, with the cooperation of West. Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with minor edge rubbing, a skinned spot on rear panel and slight sunning to front flap fold and spine. ... more information

London: Macmillan (1991). First U.K. edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press (1988). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First edition. Includes FANFARE by Burton Rascoe, THE AMERICAN CRITIC by Vincent O'Sullivan and BIBLIOGRAPHY by F.C. Henderson. Near fine in paperwraps with spine ends lightly rubbed and some underlining and notations on a few pages. ... more information

Athens: University of Georgia Press (1984). Second printing. INSCRIBED by Martin on the title page, ". . . I hope this book at least lives up to HLM's remark that 'criticism is prejudice made plausible.' With best wishes, Edward A. Martin November 1991." Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

Durham: Duke University Press, 1962. First edition. Fine in a very good or better rubbed dustwrapper with minor edge wear. ... more information

Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc. (1990). First edition. By Howard Markel, M.D., and Frank A. Oski, M.D. This book comprises the contents of WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BABY originally published in 1910 by Leonard Keene Hirshberg; ghostwritten by Mencken (all except the questions and answers). Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light rubbing along edges, one small closed tear and very faint soiling on back panel. This copy INSCRIBED by Markel to his aunt. ... more information

(New York: Knopf, 1926). First edition. Lippmann's review of Mencken's NOTES ON DEMOCRACY in Saturday Review of Literature; a scarce offprint from the December 11, 1926, issue. Very minor tanning to edges of stapled paperwraps, attractive bookplate tipped inside front cover, otherwise fine. ... more information

Steel plate etching in an edition of only 20 copies, each SIGNED and numbered by Steadman. 21 1/2 by 16 1/2" on Barcham Green English paper. Fine. ... more information

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. (1956). First edition, second printing. INSCRIBED BY ANGOFF to Mrs. Elmer Bobst. Bobst was born in Lebanon and served on her country's delegation to the United Nations before marrying Elmer Bobst, an architect of the modern pharmaceutical industry. Mrs. Bobst's gift to Princeton in 2000 established its Peace and Justice Center. Fine in dustwrapper with rubbed creasing to bottom front corner, light rubbing to edges and one small chip (bottom edge of back panel... more information

(Hockessin, DE: The Holly Press, 1980). First edition. SIGNED by the author, P. J. Wingate, on the front free endpaper. Spine ends and tips lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine in dustwrapper with a few small spots of light soiling. ... more information

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. First U. S. edition. One of 500 in a limited edition specially printed for friends of the publishers as a holiday greeting. Photo illustration on title page of the corvette ship, from an official British photo. Near fine in price-clipped, very good to near fine dust jacket with few internal tape repairs. ... more information

London: Collins, 1955. First U. S. edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Spine a bit faded, otherwise fine in very worn dustwrapper. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1976). First edition. Two small spots on top page edges, otherwise fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with a few closed edge tears and light soiling. An attractive copy of the author's first science fiction book. ... more information

London/ New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Darwin's proposal of two sources of instinct--natural selection and inherited habit--fostered among late-nineteenth-century evolutionists a variety of conflicting notions concerning the mechanisms of evolution. Morgan, a British comparative psychologist, was a cardinal figure in restructuring the orthodox Darwinian conception to meet the demands of the new biology of Weismann. Illustrated. Ex-library copy with mostly minor markings (though ... more information

Sante Fe: The Rydal Press (1938). First edition. One of only 30 copies SIGNED by Horgan and Hurd and hand bound by Hazel Dreis for Esther & Chester Arthur as gifts for their friends, Christmas 1938. Bound in three-quarter morocco and pictorial cloth. Illustrated with fold-out drawings by Peter Hurd. The endpapers show slight offset and a few spots and the pictorial cloth is slightly soiled with a few light water stains, otherwise very good, as issued, without dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster (1985). First edition. Personal copy of author Doris Grumbach with her intitials on front endpaper. Review copy with slip and publicity letter laid in. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. ... more information

NY: Random House (1953). First U. S. edition. Fine in a slightly worn but still very good price-clipped dustwrapper with soiling. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First U.S. edition. Introduction by Herbert Weinstock. Based on HADRIAN THE SEVENTH AND OTHER WORKS by Frederick Rolfe. Fine in dustwrapper with small closed tear in rear panel. ... more information

Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv: Massadah and Magen, 1956. First edition. Edited by Cecil Roth. Unpaginated, double-leaved pages, illustrated endpapers; full illustrations by Arthur Szyk throughout. In blue velvet binding and matching clamshell box. The book is in fine condition and the box is in very good condition with some scuffing along the edges. Still, a beautiful copy. ... more information