Search Results: Authors starting with H from Charles Agvent

n.p.: (Samuel R. Delaney), (1967). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Near Fine and quite scarce. Twenty-six mimeographed 8-1/2" x 11" pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE, which won the National Book Award--by seven years. Published by Hacker's then-husband, science fiction writer Samuel Delaney. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in red ink on the title page: "To James- Allen/with whom I have so/much in common./Marilyn."

(London): Gaberbocchus, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A diary of thoughts on philosophy and psychology by a research ballistician.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. First British Edition. Hardcover. Subscription library bookplate on front pastedown. Minor wear at the spine tips and corners. Light foxing. Very Good. Original blue cloth.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Minor wear to spine tips. Near Fine in an about Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with watercolors by Edward Wilson reproduced through stencils by hand. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Some wear to spine with loss at the top bottom. Very Good in a Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with hand-colored watercolors by Edward Wilson. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Mild soiling to the covers. Very Good. Decorated green cloth. An uncommon collection of poetry by the author of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Minor wear to the top of the spine which is lightly sunned. Still Near Fine in a Very Good, intact slipcase. Edward Wilson. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with hand-colored watercolors by Edward Wilson. Copy #21 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: The Viking Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper with a chip at the base of the spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1987 by the poet on the title page: "this book still pleases me."

New York: Harper & Row, (1978). First Edition. Softcover. Short closed tear at the top of the half-title page. Near Fine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page "with a leaf," including a leaf drawn by Hall.

(Edgewood, KY): Robert Barth, 1995. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Chapbook in printed pink wraps with a decoration on the front cover. Of a total of 300 copies, this is one of 25 SIGNED by the poet on the colophon with an original unpublished two-line poem in Hall's hand titled "The Learning of Poets": "Thus -- for his final word -- the dying poet:/'Man can embody truth; he cannot know it.'" Laid in are two poem postcards by Hall: "Apples and Peaches" and "The Absence."

New York: Harper & Row, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.

(Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1983). First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Decorated wraps (4-1/4" x 5-1/2"). One of 436 copies, this SIGNED by Hall though not called for. Issued as a Christmas token by the publisher. With envelope.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1982). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Wraps, second printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1987 by the author on the title page "this gang of three with pleasure."

(Santa Cruz, CA): (Story Line Press), (1989). First Edition. Softcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The softcover issue. A collection of Hall's poems, essays by other poets such as Robert Creeley and W. D. Snodgrass about Hall, reviews of Hall's work, an interview with Hall, and a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs from Hall's collection.

New York: Harper & Row, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, close to Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet in 1966 in Salisbury, CT, on the half-title page: "For Rich/a man who knows/the experience of forms/with much pleasure/in our acquaintance."

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine a bit sunned, minor bump to bottom corner. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase without dustwrapper, as issued. Thomas Nason. An intimate sketch of Hall's New Hampshire, illustrated by Thomas Nason. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.

Boston: Godine, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin chapbook of 44 pages bound in black-and-white patterned boards. The title poem is about a town in New Hampshire erased by a flood, although another town of the same name was built not far from the original. INSCRIBED on 24 January 1976 on the title page for Marian and Arthur "with pleasure cruising to Charlottesville" and SIGNED Donald Hall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Hall's moving collection written after the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon.

Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Advocate, 1955. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine copy in a lightly sunned, Near Fine blue dustwrapper with a faint small stain on the outside edge of the front cover. Stiff wraps with a blue printed dustwrapper. Hall's first collection of poetry published in the United States, issued as Volume I, Number I of the Pegasus Publication Series. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.

(Concord, NH): (William B. Ewert), (1986). First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Decorated wraps (4-1/2" x 6"). One of 330 copies, this SIGNED by Hall though not called for. Issued as a Christmas token by the publisher.