Search Results: Authors starting with H from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. First edition. Original red cloth, fine. One of 550 numbered and signed copies. Frontispiece portrait lithograph by Zhenya Gay, signed.

Tangier/New York, 1988. First edition. Nos. 1-6, 9-60, original wrappers, very good and fine copies.

Geneve, 1970. First edition. Cloth, fine, lightly worn dust jacket. Inscribed : "Pour Herbert Marcuse avec mon amité, Merek Halter". 23 x 25 cm.

One page 8vo, n.d. , arranging a meeting: "Mon cher ami, . . .Je recois avec beaucoup de joie tes bonne nouvelles. Je serais chez toi 4 h[eures ]1/4, demain Samedi...." Tipped along one edge to a narrow strip of heavier paper. Two light spots of foxing, otherwise very good. French composer Halèvy (1799-1862) studied under Cherubini and taught Gounod, Bizet, and Saint-SaËns. His operas were admired by both Berlioz and Wagner. Autograph letter signed.

1941. 11-7/8 inches x 9-7/8 inches. Printed on thin paper. Very good condition. Probably made for a local theatre.

1944. One page, 8 1/2 x 11 in Fine condition with envelope. On "Yank" Alaska edition letterhead. Writing to an Army friend in Detroit "Don't let this paper fool you....It only means I'm using Yank's office tonight and I'm going to stop it and take my trade elsewhere if they don't put darker ribbons in their typewriters....Last week I wound up on a four-month--some ten thousand miles in all--romp....Anything you want to know about Alaska and the Aleutians, just ask me. Yes, the Eskimo girls at Nome are often very pretty, usually very good-natured and practically always very diseased. No, there's no sense in trying to rig up a sea otter poaching racket on Amchitka, because, while you could angle it OK there, you couldn't peddle the skins anywere except, perhaps, in the London black market. Yes, Kodiak is a little gem, whether you want to shoot, fish, drink or futz around with dames...." Hammett continues for another paragraph with discussion of his future travel plans, closing "I'm going to...get… Read More

New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. First edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket. Jacket has clear tape along the top and bottom edges.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, 1982. First edition. Text by John G. Hanhardt, Dieter Ronte, Tom Armstrong. Issued in connection with the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 30-June 27, 1982. Hardbound with dustjacket,143 pp. with bw and color illustrations. Faded top edges of cover else very good in a dj worn at top edges and with a small piece missing. Protected by mylar book cover. 28 X 22 cm. 143.

London: Batsford, 1966. First edition. Three volumes, original cloth, spines faded but a very good set.

London: Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Original green cloth, front endpaper cracking; a very good copy. Signed by Hardy on the half-title. With a letter from Henry J. Brown (of the bookselling firm B.F. Stevens and Brown) to the then California State Librarian, M.J. Ferguson: "Knowing your interest in everything connected with Thomas Hardy, I am sending you a copy of his new book of poems just issued, in which my friend Shorter has induced him to put his autograph..." Hardy's greatest collection of poetry, including the sequence "Poems of 1912-13," which Michael Millgate has termed "the highest point of his achievement in verse". Cited by Cyril Connolly, 100 Modern Books. Rarely found signed.

London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition. Green cloth, gilt, fine in lightly used dust jacket.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First edition. Cloth backed boards, corners bumped, else fine. One of 500 copies.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867. Brown cloth, gilt, a nice bright copy. An early (but not first) printing, with the plates inserted. See BAL 7095.

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First edition. Green cloth, fine in dust jacket. Inscribed "For Anne Rutherford with best wishes for continuing success in the Commonwealth adventure. Wilson Harris," recipient's signature on endpaper. Harris's second novel.

New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, 1953. First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to use it -- Many Thanks. Weegee / Worlds Greatest Photographer /1954"

Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Steam Print, 1890. 8vo, 38 pp. Original printed wrappers, rebacked. Forbes 4165.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Small area of wear at the base of the spine, corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. The gilt is bright, hinges sound, text block clean and fresh. March 1850 catalogue at front, slightly loose. Early ownership signature (Anna B. Greene, Brookfield, May 1850) on title page, chemise and half brown morocco case. BAL 7600.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine dull, frayed at the ends, slight wear to corners, hinges trifle loose; internally mostly fresh and clean. March 1850 catalogue. BAL 7600.

Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1988. Hardbound with dustjacket, 379 pp. with 432 illustrations, incluiding 213 in color. As new in dj. 30 X 25 cm.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First American edition. 2 volumes, 8vos, pale yellow endpapers, original brown cloth paneled and stamped in blind. This first U.S. edition prints Klosterheim in Vol. II, De Quincey's only novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to his English friend Henry Arthur Bright on the front free endpaper of each volume: "H. A. Bright, / with regards of / Nath' Hawthorne". One of Hawthorne's biographers, Brenda Wineapple, describes Hawthorne's relationship to Bright: "In Liverpool, Hawthorne gained a reputation for refusing invitations although he did develop a close friendship with Henry Arthur Bright, the precocious twenty-two year-old who'd met the author in Concord in the fall of 1852. Then, Hawthorne had hardly talked to him, but once in Liverpool he was grateful for his company and all his kindnesses, great and small. "Bright was the illumination of my dusky little apartment, as often as he made his appearance there!" Hawthorne would write (in Our Old… Read More