Search Results: Titles starting with H from Michael Carroll Dooling

Carrollton Press, 2014. First Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Haunting on East 27th relates the true story of an investigation into a house haunting in New York City in 1862. William Channing Russel, a prominent lawyer in the city, investigated the strange affair at a private home just off Park Avenue. Russel documented every aspect of his inquiry by hand in a leather-bound journal that has survived all these years. In his manuscript, he recorded every interview he undertook and the details of every séance in which he participated.

London: William Heinemann, 1922. First Edition . Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth, 250 pp., dust jacket has been trimmed and the individual panels glued on end page and half title, spine slightly faded, a few small stains on cover. SIGNED by V. Sackville West on the title page above her crossed out printed name (appears to have been crossed out by Sackville-West) in the same pen and INSCRIBED & SIGNED by V. Sackville-West's mother "To Sir John Hall (B?) from the author's mother Victoria Sackville" written on her yellow bookplate with her monogram and address 40 Sussex Square Brighton. Also contains letter (dated 11th February, 1932) from the bookseller (J.I Davis & G.M Orioli of Museum Street, London) who sold this book; the letter reads in part, "We have now managed to procure you three more of the Sackville-West books, which you were anxious to have, as well as the Henry James...You will notice "The Heir", is… Read More

London: L. Wayland, 1792. First Edition . 8vo, bound in ¾ brown leather with tan cloth, pp. (4), 64, (4); front joint cracked, about 6 internal leaves have old faint waterstains, an early owner has written the words "William Tell" on the title page. rear end page has label from John Howell / Importer / San Francisco. This play about William Tell, was written to show the advantage of encouraging peasant archery. Reference: New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature #1563.

London: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1919. First Edition . Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, 8vo, red cloth, 250 pp., moderate shelf wear, rubbing along joints, small pinhole on front joint, lower corner of page edges has coffee-like stain about 1/2" each of front and bottom edges; about 20 pp. have similar type stains in margins, the largest measuring about the size of a dime and diminishing in size and fading outward from the source for about 10 pp. on either side of it. Author's first novel. This is a respectable copy in spite of its faults. The front flyleaf is signed "Ina A. Bubna / Carbisdale 1920." Bubna was the daughter of Duchess Blair who constructed Carbisdale Castle, reputedly out of spite of her second husband's family. Construction of Carbisdale began in 1910 in the village of Culrain Scotland but the Duchess died in 1912 before it was completed. Her daughter Countess Ina A. Bubna, married to an Austrian… Read More

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1916. Reprint . Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 19 pp., 2 plot maps of the settlement, minor soiling and chipping.

London: G. & W. Nicol, 1834. First Edition . Polished Red Calf. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes, bound in polished red calf with gilt-ruling on covers, spines have six panels with gilt floral devices in four of them; joints lightly rubbed, a.e.g., plates have moderate foxing and offsetting; contains 7 full page plates, 14 text illustrations and two folding pedigree tables. This copy belonged to William Courthope who carried the title Rouge Croix. Courthope was the editor of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage between 1833 and 1839. He gave up editing in 1839 when he was appointed Rouge Croix. Volume I is inscribed to him by the wife of a friend and Courthope wrote, "These books were given to me after Norroy's death by his widow, the writer of the above / William Courthope / Rouge Croix Oct. 1857." On the front pastedown of volume I is a handmade bookplate on parchment for William Courthope showing a stag, a hand grasping… Read More

Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8.25. Holograph letter, dated 4-18-11, on Miller's green stationery with the upper left imprinted "From / Joaquin Miller, / The Heights / Dimond, Cal." The letter, written on one side only, is difficult to read but relates to his admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It reads in part, "...Hawthorne (was) great, very great but to my mind the greatest thing about him was his heart as shown in his English notes and Travels published by his son soon after his death. A shy, silent man...(signed) Joaquin Miller.

London: Ward. Lock & Bowden, 1895. Apparent First Edition . Illustrated Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 772 pp., b&w illustrations, top and bottom of spine shelfworn, end pages and title page browned, 2" split on front joint, overall a bright handsome copy

Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1922. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume VIII, Number 5 of this important publication. Bound in stiff printed wraps, b&w illustrations, 16 pp., minor soiling. Contains architectural information relating to Bennington, South Shaftesbury, Weathersfield, Woodstock, Hartford, Norwich, Pawlett Vermont.