Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings the Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
by Harris, Joel Chandler
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. First printing with "presumptive" on page 9 and the correct ads in the back. (BAL 7100) A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with bright gilt and clean boards. Light rubbing at the spine ends, minor separation within the page block and a short 1/4 inch... Read More
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The Writings of Bret Harte (Autograph Edition in 19 vols)
by Harte, Bret
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Thus. Autograph Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author and dated “Septem. 1896.” Nineteen octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 213 x 142 mm) occupying approximately 32 1/2 inches (83 1/2 cm) of shelf space. Contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers elaborately paneled in gilt within... Read More
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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. A Very Good copy of this American masterpiece. Some chipping at the spine ends, and a short split to the cloth at the rear spine fold. Professional repairs to that outer joint and spine ends (no new material added).... Read More
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Grandfather's Chair
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. Very Good +. Sixteenmo (4 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 124 x 82 mm.). viii, [9] - 140. Publishers basket-weave plum cloth, cream endpapers. Lacking the gilt lettered black paper label on the front cover, spine repaired (possibly recased). Chemised in a quarter dark green morocco slip-case. Nathaniel Hawthorne thrilled... Read More
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition. First printing, with the misprint “lifed” for lifted” on p. 21, line 3. Small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm.). [2, flyleaf], [i]-vi, [7]-256, [2, flyleaf] pp. Frontispiece and six inserted engraved plates after designs by Hammat Billings, all with original tissue-guards. Original gray-green, vertically ribbed... Read More
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Mister Roberts (Inscribed by the Broadway cast)
by Heggen, Thomas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Very Good+. Publisher's tan cloth. Some wear to corners and fraying to cloth at spine. A bit of dampstaining to edges. Illustrated by Samuel Hanks Bryant. The novel was adapted for the stage in 1948; this copy is warmly inscribed by seven members of the original Broadway cast to fellow cast member... Read More
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Assignment in Eternity
by Heinlein, Robert
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1953. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Near Fine book with a bit of toning to closed textblock. Contemporary ownership stamp of "Carlota Frahm, literary agent" to front endpaper with a later stamp lower on page. Corners gently bumped. In a VG+ jacket with rubbing to rear panel and chips and tears to extremities... Read More
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes
by [Helen Hunt Jackson] H. H.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Brown coated endpapers. A pleasing copy, with some spotting to boards and bumping to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting, but binding sound overall; minor staining to closed textblock (with staining to fore-edge extending slightly into... Read More
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Winner Take Nothing
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing with "A" on copyright page and Stallings review on the rear dust jacket panel. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with a short (one inch) tear at the top of the rear panel and just slight wear at the crown and extremities. Spine... Read More
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Men Without Women
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A bright, Near Fine copy of the book with the top-stain a bit dulled, otherwise very presentable. In a Very Good dust jacket with spine panel toned, minor chips and tears at the spine ends and corners and scuffing at the bottom of the front panel and... Read More
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Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed first edition)
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Book with spine toned and a faint dampstain to front board. Front inner hinge (now) professionally repaired. Price-clipped dust... Read More
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The Sun Also Rises
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. First state, with "stoppped" on page 181 uncorrected. Original black publisher's cloth, retaining the delicate gold paper labels to spine and front board. A Very Good+ copy of the book. Offsetting from a small envelope on the rear flyleaf, some discoloration to the front flyleaf as well.... Read More
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Brown topstain with a scuff near the spine, otherwise a clean, fresh copy. First state jacket (with no publisher credit) without fading or toning to the spine. Some discoloration to the front panel, from what looks like an ink... Read More
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A Farewell to Arms (Signed limited edition)
by Hemingway, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Fine. Number 76 of 510 copies of the signed, limited edition, printed on large paper. Available simultaneously with the trade edition. Original half japon, over paper boards, black morocco spine label. A Fine copy of the book with only the slightest toning to the vellum (leaves unopened throughout until the... Read More
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The Acts and Deeds of the Gallant Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie. With the Relationes of Arnold Blair, Sir William's Chaplain
by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry
Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1758. First edition thus. It is generally agreed that while the sheets for this edition were printed in 1714, the books were not bound and sold until 1758. This copy lacking the title page, but with an early facsimile bound in, showing the date as 1714, not 1758. Bound in quarter diced calf over... Read More
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Aelteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechts (in 2 vols.)
by Herder, Johann Gottfried
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1776. First edition. Two quarto volumes (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 241 x 195 mm.). [iv], 384; [viii], 202 pp. Late nineteenth century parchment over decorated paper boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was a philosopher and literary critic, whose writings were instrumental in forming European... Read More
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The Works...Translated from the Greek by Mr. Cooke
by Hesiod [Cooke, Thomas, translator]
London: Printed by N. Blandford for T. Green, 1728. First thus. Near Fine. The rare first collected edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto. 260; [2], 203 pp. Collating complete, with separate title-pages and frontispieces for each volume. Full contemporary mottled calf ruled in gilt with gilt spine. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine in... Read More
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Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. No. 1. Legal Disabilities of Married Women
by [Suffrage] George A. Hickox
Hartford: Printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1871. First edition. Very Good. 115 x 182 mm. 40 pp. Publisher's paper self-wrappers. Some toning and dampstaining, mostly to outer leaves. A bit of minor foxing to first leaf. Creasing to upper corner. A Good+ copy of an important item. Founded by Frances Ellen Burr and Isabella Beecher Hooker... Read More
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An activist promotes the interests of women wanting official positions in the church
by [American Woman Suffrage Association] Matilda Hindman
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1880. 6 page Autograph Letter Signed with transmittal envelope, dated May 25, 1880 and stamped May 26. Pages measuring 200 x 122mm with original horizontal foldlines. Clean and legible. Matilda Hindman of Pennsylvania was an influential leader of the women's suffrage movement in the U.S. and was particularly influential in equality campaigns taking place across Ohio, South... Read More
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Financial Ledger and Minutes of the Order of the King's Daughters of Bangor, New York
by [Women's Philanthropy] [Women's Social History]
Bangor, NY, 1909. Manuscript ledger containing seventeen years of financial information for the women's philanthropic group. Comprised of 77 handwritten pages with 2 sheets (4 pages) inserted at front. Bound in quarter cloth over marbled card measuring 6 x 7 inches. Cloth spine has largely perished; text block almost fully disbound but held together by remnants. Boards generally rubbed... Read More
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Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Paper chip to upper board. With the ownership stamp of Ida MacAlpine and Richard Hunter (authors of Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1525-1860) to each pastedown, verso of title-page, and foot... Read More
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The Czarina; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia (in 3 vols.)
by Hofland, Barbara
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 186 x 118 mm.). [2], 302; [2], 317, [1, blank]; [2], 325, [1, blank] pp. Contemporary half plum calf, decoratively ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively ruled and numbered in gilt and ruled in blind with four raised bands and brown morocco... Read More
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Poems
by [Hofland, Barbara] Hoole, Barbara
Sheffield: J. Montgomery, 1805. First edition. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt and morocco to spine. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 148 x 90mm and collating complete with subscriber's list: li, [1, blank], 256. Discreet repair to upper joint near crown and joints starting but sound. Occasional light scattered foxing, but a largely clean and fresh copy internally. Several small pinholes to... Read More
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by [Hogg, James]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. First printing, one of just a thousand copies; reports indicate that fewer than three hundred actually sold. In 1828, the leftover sheets were reissued with a new title-page as The Suicide's Grave; or, Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner, and a severely bowdlerized version was published in 1837... Read More
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Odysseias [The Odyssey] (Large paper copy)
by Homer
Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1758. First thus. Near Fine. The rare large paper issue of the beautiful Foulis folio edition of the Odyssey. Near-contemporary diced russia rebacked with gilt spine. Two volumes, folio. Measuring 245 x 385 mm. [viii], 297; [iv], 336 pp. Bound without terminal blanks, otherwise complete. Pages ruled in... Read More
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