Search Results: Titles starting with H from First Folio

Oxford: At the Clarenden Press. Typis Joannis Baskerville, 1763. 500 copies. Some fading and minor scratching to upper cover, all else about fine. There are a few scattered marginal notations in pencil, presumably made by Seferis. 500 copies. Royal 8vo. Title. 676p. No half-title. Bound in full morocco, a.e.g., the spine untitled with the panels densely gilt, covers bordered with rules in gilt and blind. Signed with an inscription in Greek by George Seferis. Seferis (1900-1971), a Greek diplomat, Ambassador to the UK, and one of the Twentieth Century's most important Greek poets, won the 1963 Nobel Prize in literature for "his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture", thus the first Greek to have received the prize. Gaskell Add. 2 ; Darlow and Moule 4756.

Paris: Morel, 1875. First edition. Endpapers chipped, preliminaries dusty, binding with wear, but all quite strong and complete - plates fine. First edition. Two volumes. Large folio. [iv], 28p. Illustrated with 200 engraved plates of facades and floor plans. Volume I bound in quarter maroon morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., brown spine labels, gilt; volume II with the plates laid loose in fascicules in a red cloth portfolio with string ties.

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. Limited to 895 copies. VG with fading to cloth. Limited to 895 copies. 81p. Gilt-titled cinnamon cloth.

New York: Putnam's, 1875. Spine ends chipped, else a tight and bright copy. 256p. Illustrated, including fold-out frontispiece and printed music. Embossed terra-cotta cloth with titles in gilt on spine and upper cover. Work p. 418; Blockson 515.

[Birmingham]: Leonard Jay, 1944. Sixty-five copies only have printed on an Hayle Mill toned paper in black, red, and green, for private circulation only. About fine. Sixty-five copies only have printed on an Hayle Mill toned paper in black, red, and green, for private circulation only" Quarto. 21pp. Pictorial unattributed title page in green. Printed throughout in red and green garamond type. Bound in tan cloth with titles in gilt on upper cover.

East Aurora New York: The Roycrofters, 1898. No. 449 of 720 copies. Suede with a bit of wear (as expected), else very good, the contents fine, uncut and unopened. No. 449 of 720 copies. 142p. colophon. Printed in red and black on handmade Kelmscott paper. Bound in quarter tan suede over green boards with gilt-title on the cover and on a leather spine label. McKenna. Roycroft Bibliography no. 25.

Sussex: Ditchling Press Ltd, 1953. No. 1 of 250 copies signed by Pepler. Facsimile of the 1934 original. Book fine but for offset from the dust jacket flaps, dust jacket about fine with some spine fading. No. 1 of 250 copies signed by Pepler. Facsimile of the 1934 original. (viii), 57p. Illustrated with 6 facsimile pages and 7 wood-engravings and drawings, these by David Jones, Thomas Derrick, Chute and Harold Purney. Bound in full blue gilt-titled linen in dust jacket. Taylor and Sewell, A233 for the original.

London: John Murray, 1876. The covers quite fine and bright, interiors with minor light scattered foxing. A two-page ALs wedding gift presentation is tipped into Vol I. Two volumes. 8vo.xii (ii) 375p; v, (ii) 378-790p. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated with 4 frontispieces and titles, diagrams of floor plans for each cathedral, and 105 numbered plates. Complete. Bound in publisher's light cream colored ribbed cloth with elaborate blind stamped details on the covers and cathedral style gilt designs and titles on the spines. A bookseller's ticket is mounted on the rear pastedown of Vol I. Rare in this lovely condition.

London: Blades, East & Blades for The Bibliographical Society, 1896. First edition. Wrappers soiled and chipped, contents clean and sound. First edition. Two volumes in gray stitched wrappers. Subsequently expanded to four (possibly 5) parts. Illustrated throughout with colophons and head- and tail-pieces. Inscribed in pencil to the Caxton Club by C.W. Williams (of Way & Williams), January 1897.

London: Oxford University Press, 1935. VG. 67p. Cloth spine with boards.

New York: Scribner's, 1922. First American edition, limited to 1000 copies. Covers moderately soiled, else about VG, quite sound.. First American edition, limited to 1000 copies. Two volumes. Volume II is the plate volume with 205 plates, 19 in color. 4to. Gilt-titled tan cloth over beveled boards.

New York: Zenith Books, Doubleday, 1974. Second printing. About fine in d.j., owner's blind stamp on flyleaf and title page. Second printing. [viii], 120p. Illustrated. Blue cloth with black titles.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1914. Reprint edition. Ex-library, but with only minimal markings (Cranbrook Institute of Science bookplate, reference room sticker on rear paste-down, accession number on copyright page). Six volumes have leather title labels at foot of spine. Fine and bright.. Reprint edition. Eleven (of twelve) volumes. Vols. I-V, VIII-XI, XIII-XIVb. Profusely illustrated from photos, including many by E.S. Curtis and C. Hart Merriam, color plates, text figures, and maps, including birds by A. Fuertes. Bound in green ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt vignettes on upper cover. Includes contributions by John Burroughs, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, et. al. Volumes 6 and 7 were never published. Volume 12 is "Enchytraeids, Tubioculous Annelids

Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1983. First edition. Special Edition Limited to 250 copies signed by the author, with an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Harry Clarke's original drawings for illustrations to The Ancient Mariner. This no. 152 of the copies published by H. Keith Burns, Los Angeles. Fine in slipcase. First edition. Special Edition Limited to 250 copies signed by the author, with an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Harry Clarke's original drawings for illustrations to The Ancient Mariner. This no. 152 of the copies published by H. Keith Burns, Los Angeles. 160p. Illustrated. Tall 4to. Gilt-titled black cloth with cover designs adapted from the binding of special copies of The Fairy Tales of Perrault, 1922. Includes bibliography of the books illustrated by Clarke.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. Second printing. Owner's name on flyleaf and title page, upper corner of flyleaf clipped. else VG+. Second printing. xxiv, 689p. Gilt-titled black cloth.

New York: Christie's, 1998. Fine. Three volumes. Illustrated in color. 4to. Color-printed glazed boards. Vol I. Middle Ages and Renaissance Vol II. Age of Reason Vol III. Modern Age 1384 lots. One of the most important sales of rare scientific works.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Fine in d.j.. First edition. xvi, 181p. Illustrated from photos. Terra-cotta cloth with spine titles in black.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1966. First edition. Very good. First edition. viii, 888p. Green printed wrappers.

New York: Leon Amiel; Keter Publishing House Jerusalem, 1975. First edition. Spotting to text black edges. VG in dust jacket with chips and curled edges. First edition. Tall quarto. [viii], 225p, [iv, appendices]. Illustrated. Foreword by Dr. Jacob Rothschild. Gilt-titled black cloth.

Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1859. New Edition, Enlarged. Binding fine, pages slightly age toned, front endpapers cracked in the gutter. New Edition, Enlarged" xi (i), 279. Includes an appendix of other poems and with additions and corrections. Bound by Bradstreet's in quarter brown crushed morocco over marbled boards with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and double-ruled panels with tiny corner pieces. With the oval blue leather bookplate of Henry W. Poor (1844-1915) whose collection was sold at Anderson Galleries in 1908-09. Henry Huntington "took away most of the prizes" capturing "almost one-third of the Poor library". (Dickinson. Dictionary of American Book Collectors. p. 262).