Search Results: Titles starting with H from Biblioctopus

1967. Near fine. Paul McCartney's handwritten, working manuscript (as Beatle) for "Lovely Rita," from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. the most famous album in the entire panorama of modern music. This is the very first (rough) draft, 10 lines (in ink), all in Paul's handwriting and all written on a single side of an irregular scrap of lined paper (7 1/2" X 5") torn from a spiral notebook. 7 lines in black are Paul's first concept. 3 lines of changes have been added later in blue, such as, "writing all the numbers in her little black book" changed to "filling in a ticket with her little blue pen" and still later recorded as "filling in a ticket in her little white book." Near fine condition. Lavishly matted, and framed with a full size, uncorrected, 1st state proof photograph of the album cover, varying in that McCartney is kneeling, the band instruments have been passed around, and 2 people are among the onlookers who would not sign releases, and therefore did not appear on the… Read More

Garden City: Double-day, Page & Co, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 1st edition. Near fine in a good, rare jacket with chimping and small tears.

London: Pearsons, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. 7 stories, some with amateur detectives and some with professionals, and among the latter is one story with Nayland Smith, the tenacious police commissioner from Rohmer's Fu Manchu series. And there are some stories with horrific villains and some with gentlemanly burglars, you know, the ones who just find things before other people lose them. 1st edition. Some foxing to the endpapers and along the edge of the page block, in a dustjacket with slight wear at the extremities and a small spot of rubbing, else near fine. Rare in any dustjacket, and rarer in this condition than a 21st century hospital with a "smokers only" elevator.

London: Dreyden Press, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition of this translation. The 1st French, 1558, 1st in English, 1597, and those that followed, were terribly abridged so this is the first complete and thorough translation into English (see below). Contemporary morocco (5 1/2" X 8 1/2") by Kaufmann. Portrait and 8 plates. Near fine. A dutiful text but a common book, and since you should never discount beauty, ours is a good way to want it, in an extravagant binding. Now, we have priced this book half what we paid for it, because we re-mark our books to market when we catalog them and today $400 is what it's worth. Marguerite (1492-1549), often hailed as the first modern woman, was Queen of Navarre, and forebearer of the Bourbon Kings of France through her grandson Henry IV, first of his line and the last amiable French King of the people. She was smart, adeptly educated, a humanist, and a reformer, and hostessed Leonardo at the Château d' Amboise after he left Italy and… Read More

New York: Reynal & Company, 1960. Uncorrected galleys, printed rectos only, ribbon bound in cardboard cover with applied paper label. Very good or better. Prepared for in-house use, usually only a few copies were made. Autobiography of a remarkable Cuban-American lesbian poet, playwright, and socialite reputed to have conducted affairs with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Maude Adams, and others.

New York: McCall Company, 1945. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. June 26, 1945 issue of Look Magazine, in which the first published photograph by Stanley Kubrick is on page 25. Also containing an important article for Alcoholics Anonymous collectors delving into an account of a bender, as-well-as a look back for the 10 year anniversary of AA. Rubbing, creases, vertical fold line, else very good and complete. Kubrick began his love for photography at 13, becoming the official photographer at his high school, a street photographer after school, eventually landing a job as an assistant photographer at Look Magazine a few months after this issue was published. He quickly showed an aptitude for story telling and covered a wide range of topics from circuses, to boxing matches, to jazz musicians and New York socialites.

London: Murray, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1st edition of the eighth Sherlock Holmes.  Original cloth, some soiling, spine faded else very good.

London: Hutchinson of London, 1963. Uncorrected proof. Orange printed wrappers. A little cocked, a trifle soiled, a nice, near fine copy.

London: Methuen & Co, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st edition. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (just rubbing to its edges). Contemporary signed, presentation copy, inscribed in ink using his stage name, David Baron, to Vivien Merchant, his wife, the lead actress and the only woman in the play (she is seen on the jacket in a scene from the play). Half morocco case. Ex-Edwin Erbe, publicity director at New Directions. In 1965 The Homecoming premiered at London's Aldwych Theatre. In 1967 it went to Broadway where it won the Tony Award for Best Play and became a driving force behind Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize. It was a sizeable rotation in drama, accentuating the spoken word as weapon and the unspoken word as eloquence, and it was a potent child of the 1960s, though plays are one of the less differentiated (less recognized) of the arts invigorated by the cultural revolution. This was the play that established Pinter, and we apologize for the redundancy, but again, this is the… Read More

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. 1st edition. Signed. Some rubbing to the corners, toning from acidic binder's glue along the gutters, else near fine in fine (actually fine) dust jacket. One of the smallest publications of any Arkham House book at 553 copies, Drake self-financed the printing and took 300 copies for her own distribution. Fine copies are rare and signed copies scarce. Custom ¼ morocco slip case. This is Drakes first book, but she was already well known from the mid 30s as one of the more popular poets of the horror and fantasy genre, regularly appearing in Weird Tales. They named It the Jabberwock For want of another; But some shook their heads; "It's The Devil's own brother!" Then people came to church Who'd never been yet. Some patched up a quarrel And some paid a debt. -The Jabberwock.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine rubbing and wear to the extremities. One of the smallest publications of any Arkham House book at 553 copies, Drake self-financed the printing and took 300 copies for her own distribution. This is Drakes first book, but she was already well known from the mid 30s as one of the more popular poets of the horror and fantasy genre, regularly appearing in Weird Tales. They named It the Jabberwock For want of another; But some shook their heads; "It's The Devil's own brother!" Then people came to church Who'd never been yet. Some patched up a quarrel And some paid a debt. -The Jabberwock.

London: Newnes, 1902. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 9 vols. The 1st appearance anywhere. The serialized novel in the individual Strand Magazines. Original wrappers, 2 rear wrappers have the correct ads but slightly variant wording, all issue have general wear, with chipping to the spines, else very good, complete, so cool, and rarely seen for sale. Significantly rarer in parts than the Adventures or Memoirs.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 1st edition in English of the Nobel Laureate's masterpiece. Original wrappers, small nick to upper back cover, some handling wear, a few creases, else very good, complete, and unrepaired. Copies in cloth are out there, those in wrappers are not (1 copy in wrappers listed in RBH's auction records in the last 85 years and that sale was 29 years ago). First published (1890) in Norwegian as Sult and first translated into English here by Mary Dunne under the pseudonym George Edgerton. Hunger is an autobiographical novel about a destitute writer living in Oslo on a constant search for nourishment, a prototype for later novels of alienation, poverty, and loneliness. It's a descendant of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866), and is remarkable for its psychological maturity, and focus on the main character's sanity while highlighting a series of irrational and nervous acts of self-destruction. The book is among the foundations of… Read More