Search Results: Authors starting with H from Alba's Books

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1988. First Thus. Hardcover. As New. Octavo. Richard Miller. Full brown calf leather with gilt title and cover designs, all edges gilt, raised bands and silk ribbon. Single date on copyright page indicates first printing of the Easton edition, with first publication of Miller's color plates. A sumptuous copy, pristine and unmarked in gleaming gilt.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Alice and Martin Provensen. Introduction by Donald Hall, America's Poet Laureate. With the '1' in a number line. A beautiful rendition of Lawrence's poetry by the Provensens, geared to all ages but particularly children. A pristine copy.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's blue gilt cloth with date on title page. Noteworthy for the long section on William Osler, this was an important historical text in the London medical world of the pre-war period. Clean, bright and unmarked. Scarce.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Paula Gerard. Signed. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Single date on copyright page. A fine copy in a price-clipped jacket. Mylar cover inclduded.

St. Louis: University of Missouri Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Plates and photographs. Single date on both copyright and title pages. A memoir of art, with essays. letters, and rare photos, about two of America's most important art colonies, with an introductory essay by Bambi Ellis. Clean, unmarked and unclipped. Very scarce die to small print run and demand.

John F. Trow, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Portrait Engravings. Memoirs of a blind authoress who was married, became a widow, and lost her sight in the same month. Minor Myers' copy (see Basbanes' Patience and Fortitude). Original brown gilt embossed cloth. Covers rubbed as usual; wear at spine edges; else a whole, tight, clean copy

New York: Dover Publications, 1978. First American Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Map frontispiece. A little-known early detective story by the author of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING first published by Gollanz in London 1in 1932, and now in its first American edition. A clean, bright, unmarked copy in a Mylar covering.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Has the '1' in a number line. The first publication of over 200 of Auden's earliest poems. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Stated first edition. Auden's last poems. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. Archival plastic jacket cover provided.

Harper, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Harper, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other name present. Has all the first printing points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket protector.

California: Stanford University, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. fine. o.p. first ed. Binding is cloth.

New York & San Francisco: Derby Brothers / A. Roman & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Engravings by Granger, Nasby, Ogden and others. Original indigo designer cloth with gilt Sphinxs flanking author's initials above gilt title in black field. Includes stories of the California Gold Rush by the author of Helen's Babies. Many full-page plates from Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, engraved on better quality paper. An unusually well preserved copy, clean, tight and bright. Wright III, 2355. Baird & Greenwood 1001 Cowan p. 256.

London: Harrap, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Brodart added.

The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Hungarian war emigre Hans Habe's second novel; he was highly praised by critic Malcolm Cowley as one of the finest emigre novelists of the 1940s. Both book and jacket are fine, clean and whole, except for a very small smudge to the edge of the free endpaper. An unusually well preserved copy.

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. 15 Plates in Color - 354 Other Illustrations. Translated from the French by F.M. Atkinson. A handsome copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Elmer Hader. Ex-lib with all marks carefully removed. (A little bit of the J for Juvenile still visible at the bottom of the jacket; otherwise a tight, bright, clean and unmarked copy of this scarce childrens classic.

The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Elmer Hader. Out of print and scarce. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photographs. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. With removable 'Autographed Copy' bookstore sticker on bottom front panel, signifying authenticity. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.