Bad Behavior
by Bill Hayward
New York: Rizzoli, 2000. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY THE POETS MARK DOTY, TIMOTHY LIU, DAVID LEHMAN AND YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA --AND BY THE NOVELIST MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM AND THE PLAYWRIGHT EVE ENSLER across their portraits. A very sharp copy to boot of the 2000 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto,... Read More
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Negro Liberation
by Harry Haywood
New York: International Publishers, 1948. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. The uncommon 1948 1st edition of this important study "about a nation within a nation -- America's 15,000,000 oppressed Negro citizens. It is unique and important as the first comprehensive volume on the Negro question in the United States by a leading Negro Marxist", himself the son of... Read More
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Studies on Scipio Africanus
by Richard Mansfield Haywood
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. Original wraps. Very Good +. A clean, solid copy of the 1933 1st edition, in its original light-brown wrappers. Crisp and VG+, with several tiny closed tears --and just a touch of very light chipping-- along the panel edges. Octavo, part of "The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science"... Read More
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Why Couldn't I Be an Only Kid Like You, Wigger
by Barbara Shook Hazen
New York: Atheneum, 1975. Pictorial cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Leigh Grant. WONDERFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR LEIGH GRANT --AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF "GEMINI"-- on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1975 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with just a bit... Read More
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Selections from the Panorama of Professions and Trades; or Every Man's Book
by Edward Hazen
New York: Martin M. Reed, 1956. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. A very sharp copy of the 1956 1st thus (reprinted from the 1836 1st edition, Philadelphia). Clean and Fine in its patterned boards. 64mo, handsome "trade" engravings at each verso. The colophon at the rear: "Monticello is the typeface used in this pamphlet. It was cut by Linotype for... Read More
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The Signboards of Old London Shops
by Sir Ambrose Heal
London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1947 1st edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Solid and VG (with light offsetting at the front free endpaper) in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light abrading at the spine and along the front panel's lower edge. Quarto, 220 pgs., "illustrated with upward of 400 collotypes".... Read More
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Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Steamer CORWIN in the Arctic Ocean (1885)
by M.A. Healy
Washington DC: Government Printng Office, 1887. Cloth. Very Good +. A tight, presentable copy of the 1887 report of the Arctic cruise of the Corwin in 1885. Solid amd VG+ in its chocolate-brown cloth, with just a touch of light scuffing and spotting to the panels. Tall quarto, the 4 color plates ("Salmon Berry", "Lake Cor-Lac-Ah-Look-Tak Trout", "Amok-Tok"... Read More
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Field Work
by Seamus Heaney
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED (NOT INSCRIBED) BY SEAMUS HEANEY on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1979 true 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with offsetting (fading in this case) along the panel edges. Thin octavo, 64 pgs.
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Station Island
by Seamus Heaney
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED (NOT INSCRIBED) BY SEAMUS HEANEY on the half-title. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1984 true 1st edition, published out of London. Clean and Fine in its dark boards. And in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Truly a collector's copy.
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Station Island
by Seamus Heaney
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY SEAMUS HEANEY on the front free endpaper. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1985 stated paperback 2nd printing. Tight and Near Fine (one small stamp inconspicuously at the bottom-edge) in its pictorial wrappers. Octavo, 123 pgs. of Heaney's incomparable verse.
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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (In Dustjacket)
by Lafcadio Hearn
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. An impressive copy of the 1904 1st edition, IN THE PUBLISHER'S UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in its gilt-decorated, olive-green boards. And in a crisp, VG example of the original dustjacket, with a thin band of clear tape cleanly and evenly applied along the top-edges,... Read More
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Two Years in the French West Indies
by Lafcadio Hearn
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. A solid, very presentable copy of the 1890 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its decorative coth, with small, neat former owner name and date at the front free endpaper. Otherwise, clean and sharp. 12mo, over 40 photographs and etchigs complementing Lafcadio Hearn's text.
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The Goblin Spider (Japanese Fairy Tales: Second Series, No. 1)
by Rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn
Tokyo: T. Hasagawa, 1930. Wraps. Near Fine. A lovely example of this uncommon offering in the "Japanese Fairy Tales" series, published by T. Hasegawa of Tokyo, circa 1930. Clean, bright and Near Fine to Fine in its string-tied terrycloth, with nicely-reproduced color woodblocks thruout. 64mo, text rendered into English by the great Lafcadio Hearn.
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A Dialogue with Solitude
by Dave Heath
Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY DAVE HEATH at the title page just under his printed name. A pristine copy to boot of this elegant 2000 reprint of Dave Heath's seminal collection of black-and-white photographs from the early 1960s. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Tall, thin quarto, a deserved Roth-101 selection.
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The Hopeful Years (With Excellent Ephmera)
by Bessie Holland Heck
Clevelanbd: The World Publshing Company, 1964. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Lorence Bjorklund. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR LORENCE BJORKLUND along the title page. A tight, very sharp copy to boot of the 1964 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Also includes a laid-in letter from the publisher (World)... Read More
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Cactus Kevin
by Holland Heck
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1965. Pictorial cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Lorence Bjorklund. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR LORENCE BJORKLUND on the title page. A beautiful copy to boot of the 1965 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, nicely illustrated throughout by Lorence Bjorklund.
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A History of the Town of East-Hampton, N.Y., Including and Address Delivered at the Occasion of the Bi-Centennial Anniversary of Its Settlement in 1849
by Henry P. Hedges
Sag Harbor: J.H. Hunt, Printer, 1897. Cloth. Very Good +. A solid, well-preserved copy of the 1897 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in the publisher's original dark cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Light bumping at the base of the spine, just a touch of mild scuffing to the panels, very mild spotting along the fore-edge. Octavo,... Read More
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Abraxas & Other Poems
by Leslie Woolf Hedley
San Francisco: Inferno Press Editions, 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. The 1960 1st edition. Solid and VG in its dark laminate boards, with pasted-on wraparound band. Octavo, 42 pgs.
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Jazz Bibliography
by Bernhard Hefele
Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag, 1981. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1981 1st edition. Tight and VG in its decorative orange cloth. Octavo, 368 pgs. Text in both German and English.
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The Old Houses of Stratford-Upon-Avon
by H. E. Forrest, F.L.S.
Methuen, London, 1925. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. A pretty copy of the 1925 signed/ limited edition. 1 of 250 copies signed by author H.E. Forrest. THIS COPY IN THE UNCOMMON ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. VG in a bright, VG dustjacket with a bit of chipping along the spine crown and one minor closed tear along the foot of the spine.... Read More
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
by Alice Caldwell Hegan
New York: The Century Co, 1901. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1901 1st edition. Well-preserved and VG in its handsome, gilt-decorated green cloth. Very light scuffing at the spine, otherwise very clean. 12mo, 153 pgs.
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The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire
by Penny Hegbin-Barnes
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1996. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, a handful of vivid color (along with crisp black-and-white) reproductions throughout. Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Catalogue of Medieval Window Glass) #3 in the series.
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City Planning for Milwaukee: What It Means and Why It Must Be Secured
by Dr. Walter Hegemann
City Planning Commission of Milwaukee, 1916. Stapled wrappers. Near Fine. The uncommon 1916 1st edition. Solid and VG+ to Near Fine (small former owner name and date {1921} at the title page) in its stapled, printed wrappers. Quarto, crisp black-and-white photos and plans throughout. "A Report Submitted to the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, The... Read More
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Report on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland & Berkeley
by Werner Hegemann
Oakland and Berkeley, CA: The Municipal Governments of Oakland and Berkeley, 1915. Boards. Very Good +. A solid, well-preserved example of the 1915 1st edition, in its uncommon hardback. Tight and VG+ in its 1/4 burlap over light-brown boards. Clean, mounted paper title labels at both the front panel and the spine. Very light soiling to the panels,... Read More
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Neue Werkkunst: Die Architekten Bruder Gerson
by Werner Hegemann
Berlin: Friedrich Ernst Hubsch Verlag, 1928. Boards. Very Good +. Impressive monograph showcasing the work of German architect brothers Hans Gerson (1881-1931) and Oskar (1886-1966). Spanning 1911-1927. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its washed, off-white boards, with brigh gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Light bumping at the base of the spine and the tips,... Read More
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