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Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway & Thomas Hardy First Editions. |
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Joel Chandler Harris Told by Uncle Remus first edition |
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HARDY, THOMAS. first edition
A Changed Man.
HARDY, THOMAS. limited edition
The Return of the Native.
HARDY, THOMAS. limited edition
Tess of the D'Urbervilles.(1926)
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
Told by Uncle Remus
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST 1st editions
A Moveable Feast
The Old Man and The Sea
The Old Man and The Sea first illustrated edition
Across The River and Into The Trees
HENTY, G. G.
One of The 28th
HERLIHY, JAMES LEO. first edition
Midnight Cowboy. |
HERVEY, HARRY
The Black Parrot
HESSE, HERMANN
Reflections
HISS, PHILIP HANSON
Bali
HLA, M. T.
The Prome River Bank...Original Water Colour.
The Yaung-whe village at S.S.S....Original Water Colour.
HODSON, ARNOLD W. Travel and sport in the Kalahari Desert
Trekking the Great Thirst
HOLE, S. REYNOLDS. 1872
A Book About Roses.
HUMPHREYS, ARTHUR L. A book about books.
The Private Library
HURRY, JAMIESON B.
Imhotep
HUTCHESON, GEORGE
An Exposition of The Gospel of Jesus Christ 1657
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Ernest Hemingway Across The River and into the Trees. |
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 Hardy, Thomas. A Changed Man.
London. MacMillan & Co. 1913. First Edition, 8vo., original gilt tooled blue cloth, teg., Frontispiece plate & map of Wessex at rear, some staining to front cover and light foxing to ffep otherwise very good. U.S.$195
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  Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native.
London, MacMillan & Co. 1929. Limited Edition of 1500 copies and signed by the artist Claire Lieghton, 8vo., original vellum backed striped boards, boards unevenly faded, corners rubbed, top edge gilt, title in red and black, contents crisp and clean, a very good copy. U.S.$300
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  Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
London. MacMillan & Co. 1926. Limited Edition of 1500 copies, 8vo., original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine,top edge gilt, a few spots to binding and spine slightly faded, illustrated with 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble, with the folding map of Wessex at the back, binding a trifle loose, contents very clean, a good plus copy. U.S.$250
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   Harris, Joel Chandler. Told by Uncle Remus New Stories of the Old Plantation.
Published: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. October, 1905. N
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Red Cloth with Pictorial Illustration
Price: U.S.$295
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8vo., First Edition, original red cloth with centre pictorial illustration, & gilt lettered, spine gilt but slightly faded, top edge gilt, illustrated by A. B. Frost, J. M. Conde and Frank Verbeck with 18 full page plates plus numerous text illustrations, pp. 295, remnants of erased pencil inscription just visible on front free endpaper, a tight and very good copy.
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Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast.
Published: Jonathan Cape. London 1964
Edition: First U.K. Edition.
Binding: Original maroon cloth with dust jacket.
Price: U.S.$395
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8vo., First English Edition, original maroon cloth in its colourful price-clipped dust wrapper, with a few small chips to corners & edges, bookplate on front paste-down, pp.192, a clean, bright and very good copy.
'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.' (Ernest Hemingway to a friend, 1950)
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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea
Published: Jonathan Cape. London 1952
Edition: First U.K. Edition.
Binding: Original pictorial stamped blue cloth with dust jacket.
Price: U.S.$425
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8vo., First U. K. Edition, original blue cloth stamped in red, in its pictorial dust wrapper (not price-clipped), wrapper rubbed and chipped at corners and edges and an one inch tear to rear dust wrapper flap, pp. 127, slight spotting to endpapers, contents clean, a good firm copy.
*Gregorio Fuentes, the weather beaten captain of US novelist Ernest Hemingway's boat in Cuba and inspiration for The Old Man and the Sea, died at the ripe old age of 104 in the fishing village of Cojimar.
Born on July 11th, 1897, Fuentes became captain of Hemingway's boat Pilar at the end of the 1930s when the US author lived on the Caribbean island.
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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea illustrated edition.
Published: The Reprint Society London 1953
Edition: First Illustrated Edition.
Binding: Original silver stamped blue cloth with dust jacket.
Price: U.S.$135
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small 4to., First illustrated edition, original blue cloth tooled in silver, in its pictorial dust wrapper, pp. 117, top edge red, illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe & Raymond Shepard with pictorial endpapers, vignette half title, full page illustrations, including frontispiece plate plus chapter headings and text illustrations, small chips to corners and edges of dust wrapper, a very good copy of a delightful edition.
First Edition published in 1952, this edition first published by The Reprint Society by arrangements with Messrs. Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1953
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 Hemingway, Ernest. Across The River and Into The Trees
Published: Jonathan Cape. London 1950
Edition: First U.K. Edition.
Binding: Lime Green Cloth. Dust Jacket.
Price: U.S.$425
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8vo., First U.K. Edition, original lime green cloth with centre red motif, in its pictorial dust wrapper ( not price-clipped), rubbed and chipped at corners and edges, previous owner's name and date (1950) on front free endpaper, pp. 254, contents clean and fresh, apart from wear to dust Jacket, a very good copy.
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  Henty, G. A.. One of The 28th
Published: Blackie and Son Limited. n.d.
Edition:
Binding: Pictorial Red Cloth
Price: U.S.$160
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8vo., Original pictorial red cloth, similar spine, all edges blue, pp. 352, + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrated by F. A. Stewart with 6 full page plates plus 2 maps, prize label on front free endpaper, spotting mainly to first and last few page, a very good copy in a bright binding.
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 Herlihy James Leo. Midnight Cowboy .
New York, Simon and Schuster 1965. 8vo., First Edition, original light blue cloth in its pictorial price clipped and chipped d/w small loss to 3 areas of spine, blue stain to top edge, pp.254, contents clean and good. U.S. $120
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 Hervey, Harry. The Black Parrot, A Tale of the Golden Chersonese
Published: New York, Grosset Dunlap. 1923
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Pictorial Black Cloth, Dust Jacket
Price: U.S.$150
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8vo., First Edition, original pictorial black cloth with pictorial cover of parrot in a jungle Very attractive., pictorial spine, in a chipped pictorial dust Jacket with loss to corners and edges, pp. 337, + 6 pages adverts, apart from wear to dust jacket a very good copy.
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Hesse, Hermann. Reflections. Selected from his books and letters by Volker Michels, translated by Ralph Manheim.
Published: Jonathan Cape, London. 1977
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Grey Boards with its Pictorial Dust wrapper
Price: U.S.$165
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8vo., First Edition, original grey boards in its pictorial dust wrapper, one inch tear to top edge rear dust wrapper, repaired on inside with tape, pp. 196, black endpapers, previous owners name on title page, light foxing to fore-edge, a tight and very good copy.
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  Hiss, Philip Hanson. Bali
Published: Robert Hale Limited London. 1941
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Pictorial Purple Cloth
Price: U.S.$195
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Folio, Second Printing, original purple cloth with centre gilt tooled figure, binding with bevelled edges, slightly rubbed with a few marks, pictorial endpapers, half title, pp. xiv + preface + 112, profusely illustrated with 80 full page plates, contents clean, a very good copy.
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 Hla, M. T.. The Prome River Bank, original watercolour, a waterside view in Burma, or Myanmar showing cargo being offloaded from native boats at Pyay, or Prome, on the Irrawaddy river, watercolour over pencil 250 x 315mm, signed lower right. c. 1900.
Price: U.S.$475
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Very good condition, no stains or marks, colours still clear and bright, hinged into mounts, framed and glazed.
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  Hla, M. T.. The Yaung-whe village at S.S.S. original watercolour, a waterside view in Burma, with boats, raised huts and a temple on the bank of lake Inle in South Shan State, water colour over pencil, 250 x 315mm, signed lower right, c. 1900
Price: U.S.$500
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Very god condition, no stains or marks, colours still clear and bright, hinged on mounts framed and glazed.
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 Hodson, Arnold W. Trekking the Great Thirst,
Travel and sport in the Kalahari Desert. Edited by A.E. Nellen with introductory note by Sir Ralph Williams and a foreword by F.C. Selous. T. Fisher Unwin London. 1913. 8vo., 2nd edition, original black lettered green cloth, pp. 359, illustrated with 85 photographic plates and 5 folding maps, some spotting mainly to edges & borders and some small discoloration marks to cover, but overall a good copy. U.S.$125
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  Hole, S. Reynolds. A Book About Roses.
How to Grow Them and Show Them. Edinburgh. William Blackwood. 1872. 8vo., original gilt lettered & decorated green cloth, similar spine, some rubbing to corners and edges, pp. 320, tissue guarded color frontispiece, small ink spot to fore-edge, bookplate, a very good copy. U.S. $145
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 Humphreys, Arthur L. The Private Library; what we do know what we don't know what we ought to know.
London. Strangeways & Sons 1897. small 4to., original double gilt ruled green buckram darkened at spine and edges, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, pp.vii + 162, bookplate on paste-down & ink stamped name on ffep, some browning to endpapers but overall a very good copy.
U.S.$125
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  Hurry, Jamieson B. Imhotep. The Vizier and The Physician of King Zoser and afterwards The Egyptian God of Medicine.
Published: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. 1926
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Original Blue Cloth Gilt
Price: U.S.$275
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8vo., First Edition, original blue cloth with a gilt figure of Imhotep, spine gilt, light wear, pp. xvi + 118 including index, 17 illustrations including frontispiece plate, most illustrations on gloss paper, bookplate, soiling to half title, & light foxing to 1st & last few pages, overall a very good copy.
Inscribed by the Author on half title page.
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Hutcheson, George. An Exposition of The Gospel of Jesus Christ
Published: London. Printed for Ralph Smith 1657
Edition: First Edition 1657
Binding: Full Calf
Price: U.S.$475
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Folio, First Edition, Finely rebound in blind ruled full dark calf, spine in compartments with a maroon morocco title label & gilt lettered, pp. (1) title (4) + 418 & errata, new endpapers, one or two pages professionally repaired, random light spotting and a few small stains or marks, but overall a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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