A Circuit Rider's Wife (Signed First Edition)
by Harris, Corra
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1910. First edition. Fine. Original green publisher's cloth binding brightly stamped in gilt. A tight, square, pleasing copy with just a bit of rubbing to the lower corners and some light scattered foxing to the edges of text block. Bookplate of B.L. McMillon to front pastedown. Internally pleasing and unmarked. With eight illustrations. Signed on the title page by author Corra Harris, one of Georgia's most successful female writers. In her own time, Corra... Read More
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I, Me, Mine (Signed limited edition)
by Harrison, George
Guildford, Surrey: Genesis Publications Limited, 1980. First edition. Fine. Number 1,386 of 2000 copies, signed by George Harrison on the limitation page. A Fine copy in like slipcase. Lacking the original plain paper dustjacket. Publisher's half black leather over green boards with gilt-and-leather guitar to upper board. All edges gilt. Minor blemish to leather on lower board at one corner, otherwise an excellent copy. Taking its name from the last track the Beatles recorded on before... Read More
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I, Me, Mine (Signed limited edition)
by Harrison, George
Guildford Surrey: Genesis Publications Limited, 1980. First edition. Fine/Fine. Number 1899 of 2000 copies, signed by George Harrison on the limitation page. An exceptionally clean, fresh copy, still with the original plain paper dust wrapper. Book pristine. Slipcase with one little spot to paper the label, otherwise Fine. Paper dust wrapper with some creasing and small tears at the spine due to the raised bands of the book underneath. With the publisher's letter to the subscriber. Rare to... Read More
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The Theory and Practice of Rivers (Signed limited edition)
by Harrison, Jim
Seattle: Winn Books, 1986. First edition. Fine. One of 350 copies, signed by Jim Harrison on the title-page. Publisher's natural cloth boards with green cloth spine. Matching slipcase titled in gilt. 53 pp., with illustrations by Russell Chatham throughout. A Fine copy in like slipcase. Though Jim Harrison is best remembered for his novellas (most notably his collection Legends of the Fall), he was also a prolific poet of over a dozen full-length collections and several more... Read More
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Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings the Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
by Harris, Joel Chandler
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. First printing with "presumptive" on page 9 and the correct ads in the back. (BAL 7100) A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with bright gilt and clean boards. Light rubbing at the spine ends, minor separation within the page block and a short 1/4 inch tear at the inner margin of the title page. A total of eight plates, including the frontis, with several other... Read More
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The Writings of Bret Harte (Autograph Edition in 19 vols)
by Harte, Bret
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Thus. Autograph Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author and dated "Septem. 1896." Nineteen octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 142 mm) occupying approximately 32 1/2 inches (83 1/2 cm) of shelf space. Contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers elaborately paneled in gilt within a double gilt fillet border, spines decoratively paneled in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, red crushed levant morocco doublures ruled... Read More
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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. A Very Good copy of this American masterpiece. Some chipping at the spine ends, and a short split to the cloth at the rear spine fold. Professional repairs to that outer joint and spine ends (no new material added). Internal contents generally clean and attractive. First issue with "reduplicate" error on p. 21 and the publisher's ads dated March... Read More
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition. First printing, with the misprint "lifed" for lifted" on p. 21, line 3. Small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm.). [2, flyleaf], [i]-vi, [7]-256, [2, flyleaf] pp. Frontispiece and six inserted engraved plates after designs by Hammat Billings, all with original tissue-guards. Original gray-green, vertically ribbed cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow wove endpapers. Some occasional and minimal light marginal soiling.... Read More
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Grandfather's Chair
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. Very Good +. Sixteenmo (4 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 124 x 82 mm.). viii, [9] - 140. Publishers basket-weave plum cloth, cream endpapers. Lacking the gilt lettered black paper label on the front cover, spine repaired (possibly recased). Chemised in a quarter dark green morocco slip-case. Nathaniel Hawthorne thrilled nineteenth-century audiences with probing analyses of the legacies of America's colonial and Puritan past on later generations, and it is... Read More
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Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of All Ages and Countries (in 6 vols.)
by Hays, Mary
London: Richard Philips, 1803. First edition. Very Good. Six volumes, twelvemo. xxvi, 238, *169-*238, 239-316; [2], 404, [1, blank]; [2], 444; [2], 504; [2], 527, [1, blank]; [2], 476 pp. Contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards. Hinges expertly repaired. Some edgewear, some wear to spines, some minor foxing to preliminaries, and some uniform toning to a few gatherings due to inconsistent paper quality. Small hole to leaf C12 in vol. IV with loss to two letters. Small... Read More
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Mister Roberts (Inscribed by the Broadway cast)
by Heggen, Thomas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Very Good+. Publisher's tan cloth. Some wear to corners and fraying to cloth at spine. A bit of dampstaining to edges. Illustrated by Samuel Hanks Bryant. The novel was adapted for the stage in 1948; this copy is warmly inscribed by seven members of the original Broadway cast to fellow cast member Harvey Lembeck, who played the character of Insigna in over a thousand performances from 1948 to 1951. The hit production... Read More
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Assignment in Eternity
by Heinlein, Robert
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1953. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Near Fine book with a bit of toning to closed textblock. Contemporary ownership stamp of "Carlota Frahm, literary agent" to front endpaper with a later stamp lower on page. Corners gently bumped. In a VG+ jacket with rubbing to rear panel and chips and tears to extremities and along panel edges. A collection of four early sci-fi works, loosely related in their speculation about the... Read More
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes
by [Helen Hunt Jackson] H. H.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. A pleasing copy, with some spotting to boards and bumping to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting, but binding sound overall; minor staining to closed textblock (with staining to fore-edge extending slightly into page margins, else internally unmarked). Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper: Martha Goddard to Mrs. Chenoweth." Measuring 187 x 122mm... Read More
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The Sun Also Rises
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. First state, with "stoppped" on page 181 uncorrected. Original black publisher's cloth, retaining the delicate gold paper labels to spine and front board. A Very Good+ copy of the book. Offsetting from a small envelope on the rear flyleaf, some discoloration to the front flyleaf as well. Housed in a black custom clamshell case. Hemingway's classic novel - a roman à clef about a group... Read More
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Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed first edition)
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Book with spine toned and a faint dampstain to front board. Front inner hinge (now) professionally repaired. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned, a large crease running down the front panel, and some chipping and wear at the spine... Read More
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Winner Take Nothing
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing with "A" on copyright page and Stallings review on the rear dust jacket panel. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with a short (one inch) tear at the top of the rear panel and just slight wear at the crown and extremities. Spine a trifle faded, but a handsome copy overall. A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize winner Ernest... Read More
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Some fading and a dampstain to spine, minor edgewear, endpapers a bit toned, and a contemporary bookplate to upper free endpaper. In the first issue jacket (with panel text in brown and no Nobel Prize announcement). Jacket price clipped (with clip affecting one letter), small contemporary price sticker to inside of front flap, some edgewear, and slight chip to... Read More
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The Acts and Deeds of the Gallant Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie. With the Relationes of Arnold Blair, Sir William's Chaplain
by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry
Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1758. First edition thus. It is generally agreed that while the sheets for this edition were printed in 1714, the books were not bound and sold until 1758. This copy lacking the title page, but with an early facsimile bound in, showing the date as 1714, not 1758. Bound in quarter diced calf over dark blue paper boards. Binding holding fine, but fairly worn at the corners and spine ends with a bookplate removed... Read More
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Aelteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechts (in 2 vols.)
by Herder, Johann Gottfried
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1776. First edition. Two quarto volumes (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 241 x 195 mm.). [iv], 384; [viii], 202 pp. Late nineteenth century parchment over decorated paper boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was a philosopher and literary critic, whose writings were instrumental in forming European romanticism. As the leader of the Sturm und Drang movement, he inspired many writers, notably Goethe, the future leader of... Read More
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Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. No. 1. Legal Disabilities of Married Women
by [Suffrage] George A. Hickox
Hartford: Printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. First edition. Very Good. 115 x 182 mm. 40 pp. Publisher's paper self-wrappers. Some toning and dampstaining, mostly to outer leaves. A bit of minor foxing to first leaf. Creasing to upper corner. A Good+ copy of an important item. Founded by Frances Ellen Burr and Isabella Beecher Hooker in 1869, the Connecticut Women's Suffrage Association (CWSA) was one of the most prominent local organizations in the women's suffrage... Read More
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An activist promotes the interests of women wanting official positions in the church
by [American Woman Suffrage Association] Matilda Hindman
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1880. 6 page Autograph Letter Signed with transmittal envelope, dated May 25, 1880 and stamped May 26. Pages measuring 200 x 122mm with original horizontal foldlines. Clean and legible. Matilda Hindman of Pennsylvania was an influential leader of the women's suffrage movement in the U.S. and was particularly influential in equality campaigns taking place across Ohio, South Dakota, and Colorado from 1880-1890. Only the second woman to graduate from Ohio's Mt. Union College (in 1860), she was... Read More
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Financial Ledger and Minutes of the Order of the King's Daughters of Bangor, New York
by [Women's Philanthropy] [Women's Social History]
Bangor, NY, 1909. Manuscript ledger containing seventeen years of financial information for the women's philanthropic group. Comprised of 77 handwritten pages with 2 sheets (4 pages) inserted at front. Bound in quarter cloth over marbled card measuring 6 x 7 inches. Cloth spine has largely perished; text block almost fully disbound but held together by remnants. Boards generally rubbed with loss of bottom front corner. Internally, legible and detailed, in a variety of hands. Founded in New York... Read More
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Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Paper chip to upper board. With the ownership stamp of Ida MacAlpine and Richard Hunter (authors of Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1525-1860) to each pastedown, verso of title-page, and foot of final page. Clipping of old bookseller's description pasted to upper flyleaf. Clean and fresh throughout, a Very Good+ copy... Read More
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Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Front hinge a bit tender. Some foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise very clean throughout. A Very Good+ copy of an uncommon work promoting the rights of children in education and the home. Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784 - 1836) wrote her guide to early childhood education for mothers... Read More
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The Czarina; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia (in 3 vols.)
by Hofland, Barbara
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 186 x 118 mm.). [2], 302; [2], 317, [1, blank]; [2], 325, [1, blank] pp. Contemporary half plum calf, decoratively ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively ruled and numbered in gilt and ruled in blind with four raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, edges sprinkled red. Spines faded to brown, corners lightly rubbed, spine labels a tiny bit chipped. Some... Read More
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