Search Results: Authors starting with H from Quill & Brush

(Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985). First edition thus: Number 19 in the short-lived "Selected Short Stories by Great Writers" series devised by James H. Schmidt in 1982 with the intent of providing quality reading material for daily commuters that was inexpensive enough to share. Originally issued in 4 slipcased volumes each of which housed 12 map-folded pamphlets. Most of the individual pamphlets included a single short story though a few had an additional story and/or poem. In this case, there are 3 stories. Each of the 48 pamphlets in the series is 24 pages (including illustrated covers) printed on both sides of a single sheet folded up like a map. Fine. Increasingly scarce. "THESE TALES ARE DEDICATED TO ALL TRAVELLERS, RIDERS ON THIS EARTH TOGETHER

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887. First American edition of Haggard's first novel. There were four U.S. printings of this book in 1887: by Appleton, Harper, Lovell and Munro. Priority unknown. The Appleton edition was also published in two volumes in wraps. This may be a rebound copy although it also may be a publisher's one-volume edition. It has only one title page. There are 8 pages of ads in back. Red cloth spine lettered and ruled in gold; black marbled paper boards. Boards lightly scratched and worn at edges, spine has few tiny tears to ends, otherwise about very good.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. First U.S. edition (issued simultaneously with UK edition). Very good or better in red cloth boards, lettered in gold on front and spine (spine ends and corners lightly nicked).

New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition. SIGNED by author. Covers Bush, Clinton and the Generals. Fine in near fine dust jacket with the barest wear.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories including the title one. INSCRIBED BY HALE on front endpaper TO FAMED NATURALIST CLINTON HART MERRIAM, "Dr. Merriam/ with the regards of/ E. E. Hale/ Please look at page/ 210. I understand that/ you have seen a traveler/ from those regions/ March 21/ 1900/ Washington." Beneath which is a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM MERRIAM TO HIS DAUGHTER, "Recd. From old Dr. Edward Everett Hale/ March 21, 1900, and passed on to my/ daughter Dorothy [Mrs. Henry D. Abbot]/ C. Hart Merriam." Page 210 begins the tall tale, "Colonel Ingham's Journey" (in which Ingham journeys to the North Pole, where he encounters his "Other Self"). 8vo dark pink cloth boards, silver-stamped spine; illustrated front cover stamped in silver and black; frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations by W. T. Smedley; 416 pages. About very good with hinges cracked at front endpaper and rear blank but still holding; relatively light rubbing, including to the spine… Read More

Boston: Lend a Hand Society, 1895. First edition. SPECIAL AUTOGRAPHED EDITION with Hale's signature on title page in lieu of his printed name. 24mo green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover only; 53 pages. Very good with covers lightly rubbed and endpapers somewhat foxed but otherwise only scattered foxing throughout.

Boston: S. W. Tilton and Co, (1885). First edition. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettered front and spine; floral endpapers. Illustrated with line drawings. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown, small call numbers on spine, penciled call numbers on contents page, and rear card pocket. Art store label on title page between author's name and publication information. Boards rubbed and lightly shelfworn, otherwise good or better with lettering bright and interior clean.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1837. Second edition. Small 8vo green cloth. Good at best with pages oxidized, covers worn, and spine label nearly perished. Contemporaneous ownership signature of Samuel D. Lane, North Hampton, New Hampshire, to first blank.

New York: Norton & Co, (1987). First edition. Advance reading copy in pictorial paperwraps. Author's first book. Minor soiling otherwise fine.

New York: Torquil / Dodd, Mead & Co., (1959). First edition. Expanded from the short story "Dead Man's Diary" which appeared in Black Mask, Sept. 1945 [per Johnson, working bibliography]. Page following endpaper with "Michael Shayne's 34th Case" hand corrected in ink to "33rd" otherwise fine in bright, near fine dust jacket.

London: John Long, (1957). First UK edition. Foxing to page edges otherwise bright and fine in equally nice, fine dust jacket with only the barest wear -- unusual thus.

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1940. First edition. An early western by the mystery writer best known for his Michael Shayne novels. Written under his own name, Davis Dresser. Near fine in edge-rubbed dust jacket with few chips, tears and attendant creasing but otherwise very good.

New York: Torquil / Dodd, Mead & Co., (1960). First edition. Ghostwritten by Robert Terrall [per Johnson, working bibliography]. Expanded from the short story "Violence in the Sun" in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Jan 1960. Touch of faint foxing otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce.

(Denver: Copper Canyon Press, 1973). First edition. One of 500 copies. Near fine in paperwraps with faint soil mark near spine and light sticker shadow to front cover. (Only 10 hardback copies.).

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition. Author's first book, SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. The detective known only as "The Continental Op" investigates a diamond theft from the San Franciscan Leggett family, the supposed victims of a curse said to inflict sudden, violent deaths on those in their vicinity. Very good to near fine with only minor soiling and edge wear. A nice looking copy lacking original dust jacket but with facsimile provided.

[San Franciso]: North Point Press, circa 1984. First edition. 18.75 x 24.75" broadside poster advertising the availability of the trade edition issued from the Arion Press limited edition (published the previous year). Both editions were illustrated with period photographs of sites in the novel. The poster prominently features a film-noirish black-and-white photo of San Francisco's Stockton Street Tunnel -- outside of which is where Sam Spade first sees his murdered partner, Miles Archer. There's also a quote painting the scene from the book printed beneath the photo. Near fine with touch of faint soiling and few tiny edge creases. Scarce.

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1945. First edition. Paperback original, "Bestseller Mystery, No. B62." Collects "Fly Paper," "Death on Pine Street," Zigzags of Treachery," and "The Farewell Murder," all of which first appeared in "Black Mask" magazine (two are previously uncollected). Pages a little darkened, light edge wear, otherwise fine.

(Adak, Alaska: Intelligence Section Field Force Headquarters, 1944). First edition. "In Honor and Memory of the Men of the North Pacific Theater Who Died so that a Continent Might Be Free." Hammett, who was stationed in the Aleutians Islands was assigned to help compile an accounting of the Aleutian Campaign under supervision of the Intelligence Section. Text by Hammett and captions by Colodny; illustrations, maps and layout by Harry Fletcher. Few small scrapes and light stains to rear cover, edges lightly rubbed, otherwise very good or better in oblong, stapled blue paperwraps. WWII TEXT BY HAMMET