Search Results: Titles starting with H from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Fritz Kredel. Pictorial cloth boards; 4to; illustrations by Fritz Kredel; 96 pp. Clean and bright copy, minor wear to boards but near fine; dust jacket has closed tear to top edge, chip and crease at bottom front corner, now protected by mylar sleeve. First edition stated, DJ price of $3.00 intact. Includes music and lyrics to some of the songs, Kredel's illustrations capture the fun and action of the musical.

New York, NY: Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Black and white photographs. Light bumps at extremities, mild shelf wear.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial paper boards backed in red cloth, oblong 12mo, not paginated, illustrations on each page; a well kept copy; spine of dust jacket faintly sunned, now protected in mylar cover. A sweet vintage copy illustrated in black and red; a story of students and their pets throwing a birthday circus celebration for their beloved teacher.

A Matrix Publication, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Card covers in pictorial dust jacket, 7-7/8" x 8-3/8", 80 pp. First edition stated. Very slight wear to extremities. First publication of these photographs and interviews originally taken as part of the WPA.

Twayne Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by M.B. Tolson on front endpaper to Reginald and Dolores Wilson. Hardcover, full grey cloth boards with black lettering, green and orange dust jacket, 8-1/4" tall, 173 pp. Some rubbing and fading to DJ, but generally a very nice copy. Tolson was a disciple of the Harlem Renaissance movement; Reginald Wilson was a civil rights activist for most of his life, from his time as a Tuskegee Airman to founding the first black ski club, to professional activism in higher education.

New York City: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Third printing, decorative paper backed in orange cloth with a paper paste down title, 12mo, 57 pages; very faint damp stain on front and rear fore edge of cover boards, also visible on endpapers, bookseller's stamp on rear paste down. A nifty little book. Bookseller's stamp is from The Seven Arts in Carmel, where Burgess lived and passed in 1951.

Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lawson, Robert. Early printing in same year as the first edition. Grey cloth under yellow & green dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of DJ, price-clipped. Lawson's illustrations have a different tone than much of his children's illustrations; for example, his image of the slave for the "Slave Catcher" segment is both stark and inspiring.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Full beige cloth with blue & red lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed, pictorial dust jacket, 8-1/8" tall, 290 pp. Only real flaw to book is that an inscription has been cut out of the front endpaper, about 40% of endpaper is removed along a diagonal, but "otherwise a lovely copy" as we say. Dust jacket has a chip removing part of author's name to front panel, toning to spine, price-clipped. The author's novel about the Smoky / Appalachian Mountains in East Tennessee. Sorry about the front endpaper, but it is priced accordingly.

No date or publisher, 6" tall, 13 pp. Stapled wraps with printed cover, very good condition.
A brief memoir of a young man's experiences working at a head shop in Bellingham, Washington. In the span of 13 pages, he takes marijuana, LSD, and heroin; befriends a Hell's Angel; takes a buying trip to Haight Ashbury; has sex with a woman who also had sex with Charles Manson; attends a Who concert; publishes a book and records a song (both fail commercially); talks his way out of being busted by the cops; goes through two relationships with women; avoids a homosexual encounter; and stops taking drugs. Presumably at least partly fictional—especially the part where they drive through Los Angeles on their way from Bellingham to San Francisco, unless the drugs were better than they realized.

St. Martin's Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. Signed by Author(s). First printing with full number line; signed (name only) on title page. Slight wear to edges of jacket, price intact. The second Doc Ford novel. A lovely copy.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Red cloth spine over white cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine & decorated in black & blindstamp; under pictorial dust jacket with $4.95 price intact, 627 pp. + colophon (note on type.) Very minor wear to extremities of jacket. Interestingly, the DJ flap mentions the 1953 Japanese film "Gate of Hell" but other than similar source material, I don't know of any direct relation between the two. A lovely collectible copy.

Horace Liveright, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Full dark orange cloth with embossed lettering to front board, lighter orange lettering & decoration to spine, blue & green dust jacket with $3.00 price intact, 8-5/8" tall, 339 pp. Slight turning in at extremities, bookplate to front endpaper; dust jacket lightly toned at spine, small closed tears to edges, small hole (size of a skinny ladybug) to rear panel; presents very well. Anderson's writing had a significant impact on the development of American literature, particularly through his focus on the lives of ordinary people and his rejection of the romanticism and sentimentality that had characterized much of American literature up to that point. "Hello Towns" chronicles one year in the life of such a town.

Wesleyan University Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition stated. Full grey cloth with black & green lettering to spine, under pictorial dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 6". Ghost of a "3" in colored pencil written to front endpaper, else a fine copy all around. DJ price of $4.00 intact.

Princeton University Press, 1964. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Third edition stated. Full grey cloth boards under green pictorial dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 379 pp. Slight shelf wear to bottom of jacket spine panel. Additional postage required for international shipping.

Princeton University Press, 1956. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition stated. Full grey cloth boards under orange pictorial dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 355 pp. Spine panel of DJ faded to grey, else a very nice copy indeed. Additional postage required for international shipping.

London: Bancroft & Co, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7. Holle, E. Illustrated paper boards are clean and bright with moderate edge and corner wear. Faint damp stain at tail of spine. Unmarked pages are clean, crisp and bright. Binding straight and tight. Dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with chipping at extremities. A couple of short closed edge tears and mild damp stain at tail of spine visible only from inside. Laminate lifting along front flap hinge. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Unnumbered pages. Pictorial end papers.

Doubleday & Company, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by de Angeli on title page, dated 1974. Red pictorial boards under matching dust jacket. Minor edgewear to boards and jacket, but a nice copy overall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition with "A" on copyright page, oblong in gray cloth with brown illustration on front board, 4to, unnumbered pages, gorgeous illustrations done in five colors throughout, pictorial endpapers; manufacturing error resulting in permanent creases in front paste-down, dust jacket shows heavy edge wear with chipping and small tears. Toning along edges and to spine, sunned strip along rear fore-edge. A scarce title from one of America's most lauded picture book illustrators. Caldecott Honor book of 1950.

Canyon, Texas: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bugbee, H.D. Hardcover, full brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover, page edges untrimmed, 11-1/8" tall, 36 pp., illustrated in brown & black by H.D. Bugbee. Slight shelfwear to bottom edge of boards, minor foxing, else fine. A lively history of ranching in the Southwest in a nice fine press keepsake edition.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Minus. Blue cloth stamped in black, 12mo, 340 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Boards show mild wear at extremities with discoloration in joints; dust jacket toned and tattered with large chip out at head over title. now in protective mylar cover. Scarce dust jacket.