Search Results: Titles starting with H from Grinning Cat Books

The definitive four volume set of H.P. Lovecraft's works by Arkham House Publishing. Each book fine in a fine dust jacket. The only full set currently on the market. Quite rare thus, especially in this excellent. Includes the definitive and highly acclaimed three volume compendium H. P. Lovecraft's works edited by S.T. Joshi, the leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft and other authors of Weird and Fantastic Tales: (1) The Dunwich Horror and Others, (2) At the Mountains of Madness, and (3) Dagon and Other Macabre Tales; together with the final supplemental edition, by Joshi, The Horror in the Museum. An amazing collector's set for the H.P. Lovecraft fan!

Arkham House is considered the definitive source for Lovecraft's fiction and letters, and S.T. Joshi the leading authority on Lovecraft. Joshi edited, corrected, and compiled all of Lovecraft's stories in these four volumes based on Lovecraft's original autograph and typewritten manuscripts. Based upon S.T. Joshi's extensive and painstaking collation… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Good in original navy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Large folding map included at rear. Ex-library, with usual markings. Spine heavily sunned, spotting to edges of pages and text block; corners bumped, especially lower top corner. Octavo. 6.75 x 9.75 in. xxv + [i], 248 pp.

First Limited Edition thus (1975). Limited to 5,000 copies. Fine in a fine lovely pictorial dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original white textured cloth with gilt titles and illustration. Content fine. Beautifully illustrated endpapers by Picart. Profusely illustrated throughout with 200 black and white facsimile plates of Haggadot across five centuries from around the world.. 4to. 8 1/2 x 12. 494 pp. A truly lovely copy of this amazing work.

A rare blend of scholarship and art, Haggadah and History is not only a history of the Passover story, but a time traveling showcase of the last five centuries in Jewish history as reflected in the Haggadah itself. Two hundred facsimile plates reproduce representative pages from rare printed Haggadot in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections: the libraries of Harvard University and The Jewish Theological Seminary.

Dr. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (b. 1932) was educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. A detailed compendium of Mexican natural resources, with an emphasis on mineral wealth, and mines for the use by American investors. There is a chapter on each state and territory of Mexico, with emphasis on the northern states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, and Durango, Includes plates of City of Durango birds-eye view, smelting works of Durango Mapimi Mining Co., Cerro de Mercado in Durango.
Illustrated with lovely woodcuts and several black & white reproductions. Very good plus in original dark blue cloth, decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Binding square and tight. Pages slightly toned, but otherwise content is near fine fine, with text bright, clean and unmarred. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Octavo. 6 x 9.5 in. 281, xiii pp. appendix + [viii] pp. adverts. Illustrated with several black & white reproductions. A great copy.

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Deluxe. Hardcover. First Folio Society Deluxe Edition. Limited edition, numbered 905 of 3750 copies. Oxford Univ. Press text. Edited by Professor G. R. Hibbard under the General Editor Stanley Wells. Fine (as new) hand-bound in gorgeous goatskin leather, blocked in gold, hand-marbled paper sides. With commentary volume, bound in buckram, and presented in buckram-bound solander box. Heavy book, will require extra postage. Narrow folio. 129 pages. Used/No Jacket.

First Edition, First Printing. Limited edition, numbered 136 of 200 copies. Very rare early Stein work published in the June 1917 issue of Vanity Fair, and reprinted in this special limited edition. Fine, with very good plus original red printed, stiff, stapled wrappers, with light stain on the richly colored cover (see photos). Illustrated with a full-page woodcut portrait of Henry McBride by Jules Pascin. The poem is a conversation with and caricature of the then-famous art critic, Stein supporter and friend, Henry McBride. Square, thin octavo. 7 x 8 in. [ii], 14 pp. A lovely copy; one of the best on the market in this condition.

First Edition First Printing (2006). Fine in a fine dust jacket, presents as new. Winner of the 2007 Newbery Award (award seal not present). Fine in publisher's original red cloth backed boards. Fine pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine. The moving story of a little girl living in the California desert who is searching for her "higher power" after overhearing the phrase at an AA meeting. At the time, the book caused some controversy among parents and librarians for using the word "scrotum" on the first page. Octavo. 8.75' x 5.75 inches. 134 pp. + [ii]. A fine copy of this wonderful story.

First Edition. Special Limited Edition. Fine, in a custom brown paper slipcase with chemise. Limited Edition, this being number 1,428 of 2,000. Containing 8 classic Perrault tales, including Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, The Fairies and more. From the collection of renowned children's literature collector, Justin G. Schiller. A rare and truly wonderful edition.

First Edition, First Printing (1699). In native French. Near fine for the age in full contemporary vellum, with worded spine labels. Rare in original bindings. Covers and boards worn, with corners slightly bumped. Text clean and unmarred, although a bit toned with age. Rubbing and soiling to one page in preface of Vol. I. Endpapers professionally replaced in Vol. II. Octavos. 10.25 x 16.5 cm. [14], 389 pp. + [18]; 443 pp., [19]. An excellent set.
Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo y Pimenta (1507-1582), also known as the Duke of Alba in Spain and the Iron Duke in the Netherlands, a Spanish general and important diplomat. Between 1567 and 1573 he was appointed by the Spanish King Philipp II as governor of the Netherlands. He is best know for his actions against against the revolt of the Netherlands, where he instituted the Council of Troybles and repeatedly defeated the troops of William of Orange and Louis of Nassau in the battle of Jemmingen (1568) during the first stages of the Eighty Years War.

First Edition thus, First Printing. Limited Deluxe Edition, #34 of only 150 printed. Signed by Kostova (25 copies were retained by the author for personal use). Fine, as new. No jacket as issued. Specially-bound and housed in a beautiful slipcase covered in a reproduction of a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans by Sebastian Munster. Dragon illustration to front board by Luis Campos. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Historian were used in the production of this special limited edition. The title has been translated into medieval Latin, "Historiographus." Octavo. 642 pp. An amazing deluxe edition of this famous work. A perfect collector's copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in original cord-tied printed wrappers. Inscribed by famous early 20th century publisher, A. Edward Newton on the front free endpaper.
Stevenson's earliest literary creation, recited at the age of six to his mother, who wrote it down, as part of a contest between him, his brothers and cousins, to write the best history of Moses. The frontispiece (The Israelites going out of Egypt) is from a watercolor by Stevenson done at the same time. Includes a facsimile of Mrs. Stevenson's manuscript, facsimile inscription signed by his uncle from the reward book he received for winning, and facsimile of RLS's early signature. Printed blue paper covers, pamphlet stitched with blue cord. Presented in a folded brown envelope, to which an A. Edward Newton bookplate and a Charles Dexter Allen bookplate are affixed. Thin duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in.10 pp. A wonderful copy of Stevenson's earliest know composition.

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in half-deep evergreen leather over broth cloth, corners, leather. Gilt lettering and along leather edges, raised bands. All edges marbled. Corners and slightly bumped, along with spine head and tail. tartan-design boards. Content near fine with only occasional foxing. Binding square and tight. Fronitspiece (Alexander II), vignette title-page, three partly-colored double-page maps, and numerous illustrations and steel engravings throughout, complete. 4to - over 9¾' - 12'. 546 pp. A beautiful copy of this seminal work by Tyrrell.

First Edition thus. Fine in publishers blue cloth bindings with gilt decorations and text; blue topstain; each in a fine matching slipcase. As new. Three volumes covering the time period from the foundations of England after the fall of the Roman Empire through the beginning of the Tudor period in 1485: (1) Peter Hunter Blair: Anglo-Saxon England; (2) M.T. Clancy: Early Medieval England; and (3) M.H. Keen: England in the Later Middle Ages. Each volume profusely illustrated with B&W and color, many full page. Large 8vo. A wonderful set.

First edition thus. John Lockhart edition, using the Motteux translation. 4 volumes, complete. Rare edition of Cervantes 'Don Quixote' in the arrangement of the Scottish writer John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), who published 'Quixote' for the first time in 1822, this printing being an exact reprint of the 1822 edition, but for the first time placing Lockhart's name on the title page to give him proper credit, posthumously. With the Lockhart's essay 'Life of Cervantes' and his important and detailed notes at the end of each volume, this edition, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, is considered a desirable English translation, which was lauded and very popular after its release in 1700 through the 19th century. Today, however, Motteux's translation has been criticized for its frivolous style, rather than a more serious and ironic tone--turning Don Quixote and Sancho Panza into buffoons by casting the work in a Franco-Cockney tone as opposed to one more respecting of Spanish culture. Very good in half… Read More

First Edition (1848), Early Printing. In 2 volumes, complete. First issue, State B: the period after the word 'integrity' at line 20 on page 467 of the second volume is missing. The classic work on the subject, going through scores of editions, Prescott's "Peru" was one of the standard household books for the later part of the Nineteenth Century. A very good copy comparatively speaking.
First edition of this classic narrative history, a landmark when it first appeared in 1847. BAL refers to copies such as this one, with no printer's imprint present on the copyright page of the first volume, as 'State B' of the two states of the first edition issued (no priority between the two is given). BAL 16346. GRIFFIN 2975. SABIN 65272.
Frontispiece in each volume, map of Peru, facsimile of two signatures of Pizarro. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt on spine clean and bright and clear, some edgewear present, scattered foxing in both volumes including illustrations and title page, heavy foxing to yellow… Read More

First Trade Edition of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible by Viking Studio. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Sewn in satin ribbon bookmark. Complete with 232 beautiful and captivating engravings by Barry Moser. Presented in a two-column format. Renowned illustrator, Barry Moser, brings the King James Bible to life with luminous, often haunting images that capture the ordinary human qualities of the book's well-known characters. The Holy Bible, designed and illustrated by Barry Moser, is as thrilling an experience as you'll ever find inside a dust jacket. Moser, the foremost fine press illustrator of our time, spent four years crafting the relief engravings illustrating this amazing Bible. Folio - over 12' - 15' tall. A truly lovely bible and copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Famous compilation comprised of essays and engravings from famous authors and artists of the day, commissioned expressly for this work. Minor rubbing to spine extremities, otherwise a bright near fine copy in original blue beveled cloth, ornately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. Quarto. 8.75 x 11.75 in. Illustrated with 13 plates, with tissue guards, complete.

New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. Home Town. New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. [iv], 145 + [3] pp. Very good in original cloth, stamped in green, and very good pictorial dust jacket. Some sunning to spine, as well as toning to endpapers; light wear and chipping to extremities of dust jacket. Text clean and bright, binding square and tight. Published as part of The Face of America series, edited by Edwin Rosskam. In the small town, where everybody knows everybody's first name where everybody knows everybody's business, Sherwood Anderson sees the foundation and the test stone of democracy. The Farm Security Agency is well known for the influence of their photography program, 1935-1944. Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. The Information Division of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press… Read More

First Trade Edition, First Printing. Scarce history of the renowned James Veitch and Sons Nurseries. Illustrated with 50 beautiful black-and-white plates, many full page. Front and rear endpapers browned, occasional light spotting in the text, else a near fine copy in original maroon cloth ruled in blind on the covers and lettered in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Thick quarto. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 542 pp. A lovely copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover.