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Your search for Literature has returned 1065 results. Hale, Edward Everett  James Russell Lowell and His Friends  Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1899..  First Edition.  Cloth.  With portraits, facsimiles, and other illustrations. Gilt lettering and trim front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Crease in back cover. Contents include: His Boyhood and Early Life; Harvard College; The Brothers and Sisters; Lowell as a Public Speaker; Lowell's Experience as an Editor; Politics and the War; Twenty Years of Harvard; Minister to England; etc.   American Literature. Biography. Teacher. Editor. Public Speaker. Public Service.  (Book ID 266)  $25.00 Hall, Radclyffe  The Master of the House.  Jonathan Cape.  London, Toronto and New York.  1932.  490 pages, beige cloth with vellum spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled end leaves, #107 of 172 copies, signed by the author. Lightly soiled, still a very nice copy, tight, fine interior.   Modern First Editions. Literature  (Book ID 6410)  $250.00 Hammond, Chas. F.  Poems of Portland, Oregon. And the Great North West.  Portland, Oregon.  1926.  [33] pages; brown paper wrapper with leather strap binding (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) with title on the cover in red. According to library database worldcat published in 1926, Portland, Oregon by the Associated General Contractors of America. A series of poems: Portland the City of Roses; The Boosters Outburst; The Tale of the Oregon Trail; For You a Rose, in Portland Grows; The Great North West; and The Wooing of the Rose. Printed on one side only of the pages. Large oily stain on the front cover (4 1/2 x 2 inch), some wear and evidence of folding along the edges, clean text.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry, Pacific Northwest, Oregon. DK-76  (Book ID 11573)  $25.00 Hamsun, Knut  Konerne Ved Vandposten  1920.  First Edition.  Gyldendalski Boghandel. Nordisk Forlag. Kristiania og Kobenhavn. Two volumes in one. Attractive quarter leather binding. On copyright page: "1-12 Tusind" (or first through 12th thousand). Former owner's name on front pastedown. Very good. 559 pages. Hamsun was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, the year this novel was published. In English, the title of this book is "The Woman at the Pump."   Nobel Prize. Norway. Farming Fiction.  (Book ID 5391)  $200.00 Hansen, Harry  Herman Wouk; A Biographical Sketch  No Publisher. (1962). No City..  Illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. This pamphlet provides a biographical sketch of Herman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny"; "Marjorie Morningstar"; "Youngblood Hawke" and other novels. He was born in 1915 to Russian Jewish parents who had emigra ted from Minsk. He attended public schools in the Bronx and later was graduated from Columbia University in Manhattan. From 1936 to 1941 he and a partner wrote for Fred Allen. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Wouk joined the Navy a nd was assigned to a destroyer-mine-sweeper in the Pacific for the next three years. After his 1946 release from military duty he plunged into the world of writing novels.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. NOVELS. WRITINGS. PUBLICATIONS. AUTHOR.  (Book ID 3138)  $10.00 Harding, Edward J.  Cothurnus and Lyre  The Authors' Publishing Company. 1878. New York..  First Edition.  Illustrated Cloth.  Signed by the author: "Edw. J. Harding, March 12, 1878". Manuscript corrections in author's hand on pages 104, 112 and 117. Gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Front cover has slight discoloration at leading edge; back cover has slightly more discoloration at leading edge. Chipping top and bottom of spine. Last several pages in the book are advertisements for "New Books" from The Authors' Publishing Company. From the Introduction: "The contents of this little volume are the work of a young English book-keeper at present residing in New York, and were composed in the scanty leisure of his evenings and early mornings". A play in five acts. "The scene is laid at a seaside village in the west of England, and the action passes in the present Victorian age. " Also eighteen odes: To Iole; Ad Urbem et Orbem; At Random; To Fortune; To Leuconoe; To Sleep; To Phoebus Apollo; To O. B. Frothingham; To Aulus Julius Rufus; etc.   A PLAY. LITERATURE. LITERARY WORK. WRITINGS. ODES.  (Book ID 2961)  $37.50 Harland, Henry  My Friend Prospero  S. S. McClure Co. 1903. No City..  BAL 7089. Paper backed boards. Front cover label. Illustrations. Bound up from the magazine. Advance copy for private distribution only. With the compliments of McClure, Phillips & Co. "My Friend Prospero" was originally published in six parts, all of which are included in this volume.   LITERATURE. LITERARY WORKS. WRITINGS. PUBLICATIONS. SHORT STORIES.  (Book ID 2706)  $75.00 Harland, Marion  Sunnybank.  Sheldon and Company.  New York.  1866.  First Edition.  415 pages, brown cloth with gilt spine title, 7.5 x 5". Worn, extremities chipped, two signatures started, paper darkened. Story set in Virginia during the Civil War.   American Literature. Civil War. Women Authors  (Book ID 6676)  $50.00 Harper, Henry H.  The Genius of Henry Fielding (with Selections from His Works)  Printed Exclusively for The Bibliophile Society. Boston. 1919..  Paper Backed Boards.  Frontispiece. Gilt lettering spine. Gilt page tops. Page sides and bottoms uncut.   LITERATURE, ENGLISH,  (Book ID 130)  $37.50 Harper, Henry Howard  Byron's Malach Hamoves (Revised Edition) A Commentary on Leigh Hunt's Work Entitled "Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries"  Privately Printed. Boston. 1933..  Boards in Slip Case.  Book and slip case each have spine label. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Illustration on title page. Page 5 footnote: "In the old Hebraic language 'Malach Hamoves' means Angel of Death -- in other words a sort of diabolical enemy that attacks the spirit after the body is entombed". From page 6: "Byron lived in an age prolific of literary genius -- likewise an age prolific of literary critics. Both he and Shelly -- foremost among the poetic geniuses of their generation -- were actually driven into exile by the criticism and obloquy heaped upon them by persons who were as incapable of interpreting their true natures as they were of appreciating their works."   English Literature. Literary Works. Poetry. Poems. Writings. Verse. Poetry Critics.  (Book ID 198)  $37.50 Harriman, Alice  Wilt Thou Not Sing? A Book of Verses  The Alice Harriman Company.  New York.  First Edition.  (1912). Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Inscribed by the author: "Dear Mrs. Weir: Nothing of common street has worth when I can sing from stars distil. Alice Harriman" Light foxing on front end paper. Introduction by Alexander Harvey. Poems include: In the Hop Fields; The Timber Cruiser; An Alaska Widow; Totem Poles; A Letter From Alaska; Seattle; Tacoma; Alaska; The Alaskan's Dream; California Poppies; etc. 94 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Poetry. Northwest Literature. Washington State Writers  (Book ID 8033)  $50.00 Harris, Frank  Elder Conklin and Other Stories.  Frank Harris.  New York.  1920.  277 pages, green cloth with gilt title, undersized dust wrapper. Nice copy, jacket with a little edge wear, tear in page 119, no loss. Collection of stories of the Middle West written in 1891-93.   Literature; Essays; Midwest  (Book ID 6049)  $37.50 Harris, George W.  Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun By a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool. Warped and Wove for Public Wear.  Dick & Fitzgerald.  New York.  (1867). Wright, Fiction II no. 1104. Plates, orig. cloth. Humorous yarns in Southern dialect. "Snake-bit Irishman", "Eaves-dropping a lodge of Free-Masons", "Sut at a Negro Night-Meeting", "Trapping a Sheriff", and more.   Condition: Very Good.  American Dialect Humor. Southern Fiction. 19th Century American Fiction.  (Book ID 5575)  $47.50 Harris, Joel Chandler  The Story of Aaron (so named) the Son of Ben Ali, Told By His Friends and Acquaintances.  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston & New York.  1896.  First Edition, First Issue.  Illustrated by Herford, Oliver.  198 pages, 25 plates by Oliver Herford, decorated beige cloth showing two children riding a black stallion, 8.5 x 6.5". Nice copy, spine with some small lighter spots. First edition, first issue, BAL 7135. Stories of Gristle, the Gray Pony, Rambler, the Track Dog, Grunter, the White Pig, the Black Stallion, etc.   Literature; Childrens and Illustrated Books; Horses  (Book ID 6066)  $100.00 Harris, William Welton  Autograph Letter Signed  One page. January 29, 1906. Written to cartoonist Bert Cobb, asking him to send along some pencil sketches and some other finished work. (Cobb went on to draw the comic stirp "Stumble-Toe Joe" in 1907. He had a subsequent career as and etcher who specialized in show dogs). On "The Evening Telegram" stationery. New York. Some splitting along the original folds of the letter. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.   Condition: Very Good.  Autographs and Manuscripts. Newspapers. Cartooning  (Book ID 8086)  $25.00 Harrison, W. H.  The Humourist, A Companion for the Christmas Fireside  R. Ackermann.  London.  1831.  Full-Leather.  Fifty engravings, "From Designs by the late T. Rowlandson" (exclusive of numerous vignettes). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. All page edges are gilt. 280 pages. In the Preface the author describes this book: "To promote the hilarity of the winter's hearth by the application of humour to a variety of subject -- occasionally to launch the shaft of satire at the vices and follies of the day -- and, generally, to subserve the cause of virtue -- are the objects of this work; and it is sent forth into the world in the honest confidence that if, unhappily for its design, it should fail to create a smile, it will, in no instance, afford occasion for a blush". Contents include: The Living Legacy, or the Doctors Puzzled; The Bull and the Botanists; A Chapter of Accidents; Love in a Box; A Taste of Matrimony; The Cow Doctor; The Steeple Chase; The Modern Ulysses; The Antiquary; My First Love; Hydrophobia; The Dumb Monitors, or the Sot Reclaimed; etc.   Condition: Fine.  English Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Publications. Fiction. Humour. Satire.  (Book ID 3944)  $150.00 Hart, Henry, Translator  A Chinese Market. Lyrics from the Chinese in English Verse. Foreword By E.T.C. Werner.  The French Bookstore.  Peking.  1931.  First Edition.  San Francisco poet Frances Revett Wallace's copy with her attractive bookplate. Also signed by Henry Hart. Paste in card "Darling Flower of the Lotus. How can I select poetry for the only true singer I have everknown. If these books do not please you or if you should have them - please feel free to exchange them - My love your love always Jim". xiv, iv + 50 poems (Chinese charaters on one side and translation on the facing page). Paper ends are in script of H.M. Hsuan Tung, last of the Manchu Emperors, the seals are his also. Fading and fraying to corners of the publisher's boards. Nice item. Poetry translated of the following authors: Sung Chih Wen, Wang Wei, Li P'in, Lin Pu, Meng Yun Ching, Yuan Wan Shen, Wei Chuang, Liu Yu Hsi, Ching Chang Hsu, Ch'uan Te Yu, Li Shang Yin, Li Tai Po, Wang Wei, Hsieh Fang-Te, Shen Yueh, Lin Ching Hsi, Chu Son Tse, Liu K'un, Chang Shou, Chantg Chi, K'ung P'ing Chung, Hsu Yun Lan, Ko Chang Keng, Ho P'ei Yu, Hsu Hun, Wang An Shih, Hsieh Neng, Liu Tzu Hui, Yin shih, Wang Chien, Wang Ch'ang Ling, Wang An Shih, Chin Chuan, Hsu Hsiu Chen (2), Liu Shen Shu, Le Ch'i Lan,Wang Wei, Li Shang Yin, Liu Fang P'ing, Ou Yang Hsiu, Chang Chih Tao, Chang Hu, Wen T'ung, Ch'en Tzu An, Lu Yu, Wei Ying Wu, and Ch'ang Chien.   Condition: Very Good.  Chinese, Poetry, China, Henry Hart.  (Book ID 8887)  $25.00 Hart, Walter Morris  High Comedy in the Odyssey (cover title)  University of California Press.  Berkeley and Los Angeles.  1943.  Illustrated Wrappers.  16-page booklet. University of California Publications in Classical Philology, Volume 12, No. 14, pp. 263-278. From the first page (page 263), the author notes: "The Odyssey is romance, but it is rich in comedy; its comic scenes are developed by Homer with especial and loving elaboration". The author goes on to describe the humor in the Odyssey. Ink notation front cover.   Literature. The Classics. Homer. Epic Novels. Literary Works. Humorous Writings.  (Book ID 4171)  $10.00 Harte, Bret  By Shore and Sedge  Houghton Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1885..  First Edition, First State.  Embossed Cloth.  BAL 7330. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. 260 pages. Contents include: An Apostle of the Tules; Sarah Walker, and A Ship of '49.   American Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. Tales. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 165)  $25.00 Harte, Bret  Flip and Found at Blazing Star  Houghton Mifflin and Company. Boston. 1882..  First American Edition, First State.  Embossed Cloth.  BAL 7321. Binding A. Gilt lettering front cover and spine; chipping top and bottom spine. 192 pages. 192 pages. Contents include: Flip -- A California Romance; and Found at Blazing Star.   American Literature. Short Stories. Tales. Fiction. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 166)  $27.50 Harte, Bret  Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories.  Houghton, Mifflin and Company.  Boston, Mass.  1899.  First Edition.  FIRST EDITION. 289 pages; brown cloth binding with black lettering on the cover, gilt lettering on the spine (5 x 7 1/4 inch). Contains 'Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation', 'The Man at the Semaphore', 'An Esmeralda of Rocky Canon', 'Dick Spindler's Family Christmas', 'When the Waters were up at 'Jules',' 'The Boom in the 'Calaveras Clarion',' 'The Secret of Sobriente's Well, and 'Liberty Jones's Discovery'. Blanck BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE #7392-S   Condition: Fine.  Bret Harte, American Literature. DK-79  (Book ID 11648)  $37.50 Harte, Bret  Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands, and Other Sketches  James R. Osgood and Company.  Boston.  1873.  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 7266. Slight chipping top and bottom of spine. 352 pages. Contents include: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; The Princess Bob and her Friends; The Romance of Madrono Hollow; Urban Sketches include -- A Venerable Imposter; Sidewalkings; A Boy's Dog; Neighborhoods I Have Moved From, etc.; Legends and Tales -- The Adventure of Padre Vicentio; The Devil and the Broker; The Ogress of Silver Land; The Ruins of San Francisco; etc.   American Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. Tales. Literary Works. Writings.  (Book ID 168)  $37.50 Hasbrouck, Hylah  Autograph Manuscript. "History of Fortnightly Club of Warwick" Among Others.  A collection of nine manuscripts by Hylah Hasbrouck (1882-1979) dealing with various subjects which were presented to 'The Fortnightly Club' based in Warwick, New York which was based along the lines of a Choutougua Club model. The club was formed around some forty local citizens who meet to give and hear educational presentations, discuss issues and socialize. Ms Hasbrouck was a long time member of the club and over the years gave presentations and wrote articles on Warwick history. Among the manuscripts is a 15 page "History ofthe Fortnightly Club of Warwick, New York" written in 1921 while she was secretary of the club. It goes into the founding members, intial committees, along with many of the topics covered and voted on. Among them were Suffrage, Prohibition, annexing the Philippine Islands, joining the League of Nations, travels, and history. Along with the club history are eight other presentations that Ms Hasbrouck made to the Club over the years (1908-1931). They are: The Evolution of Lighting, 1915 - 28 pages (12 pages on street lights coming to Warwick); Desdomona, 1908 - 10 pages; Charles Dickens, 1912 - 21 pages; Russia, 1913 -27 pages; The World's Food Problem, 1917 - 10 pages; Constantinople, 1923 - 15 pages; I.Q.s, 1928 -12 pages; The Effects of Russia's 5 Year Plan, 1931- 16 pages; along with two related items for the club, one a manuscript and the other typed. Altogether an interesting group of papers by a very bright mind. All unpublished.   Condition: Very Good.  Suffrage, Prohibition, Self Education, Warwick, New York, Electric Lighting. DK-13  (Book ID 9657)  $175.00 Hayward, Richard  "Rathlin Island" from 'In Praise of Ulster'.  1938.  Typed manuscript (10 pages) by Richard Hayward (1892-1964) from his IN PRAISE OF ULSTER (1938) published by A. Barker of London. This section deals with 'Rathlin Island' in the North Channel Islands of the Irish Sea relating to travel and folklore. The manuscript came from the papers of Saxe Commins, an editor at Random House.   Condition: Fine.  Travel Literature, Foldklore, Irish Literature. DK-17  (Book ID 9839)  $50.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Complete Lectures On Poets  The Hokuseido Press.  Tokyo.  1934.  First Edition.  Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Some creasing to tissue guard of title page, otherwise fine and unworn. In publisher's very uncommon slipcase which has some soiling and wear. Edited by Kyuji Tanabe, Teisaburo Ochiai and ichiro nishizaki. Bibliography of American Literature number 8029. Based on lectures by Hearn given to his Japanese students and from notes taken by them. Contents include: Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, Mr. and Mrs. Browning, George Meredith, William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, Edward Fitzgerald, Herrick, Crabbe, Cowper, William Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Thomas Campbell, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, Rossetti, Robert Bridges, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Walt Whitman. 841 pages, plus 10 page index and tipped in publisher's colophon.   Condition: Fine.  American and British Poetry.  (Book ID 8574)  $150.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Creole Sketches.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston & New York.  1924.  xxv, 201 pages, drawings by the author, orange cloth stamped in yellow, 8 x 5.5". Very good, spine slightly soiled. Work written between 1878 and 1881 while assistant editor of the 'Item' in New Orleans.   Literature; New Orleans; Journalism  (Book ID 6029)  $75.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Editorials.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston & New York.  1926.  First trade edition. BAL 7994. 356 pages, dark olive cloth with gilt spine title. Title portion of spine rubbed, very good. Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. Editorials written by Hearn during his New Orleans days for the 'Item' and the 'Times-Democrat'. Wide variety of topics.   Literature; Essays  (Book ID 6050)  $25.00 Hearn, Lafcadio  Exotica; Noveller Och Studier Fran Japan; Bemyndigad Ofversattning Af Karin Hirn; Med Nagra Notiser Om Forfattaren Af Yrjo Hirn; Fjarde Upplagan  Wahlstrom & Widstrand.  Stockholm.  1/4 Leather With Cloth.  (1907). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Slight chipping to top of spine. Damp stains to back cover.   Swedish Literature. Literary Works. Fiction. Writings. Publication.  (Book ID 3858)  $37.50 Hearn, Lafcadio  The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories  Houghton Mifflin and Company.  Boston & New York.  1905.  First Edition.  209 pages, chapter headings in red, also a Japanese style ornament in red on every page, charcoal and yellow cloth, 7.5 x 5". Very good. These stories were collected after Hearn's death on September 26, 1904 in Japan. First edition, BAL 7943.   Literature; Literary Works; Essays  (Book ID 6068)  $125.00 Henderson, Archibald  Is Bernard Shaw a Dramatist? A Scientific, but Imaginary Symposium in the Neo-Socratic Manner; Conducted by Bernard Shaw's Biographer  Mitchell Kennerley. New York. 1929..  First Edition.  Cloth in Slip Case.  No. 568 of 1000 copies. Frontispiece. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Spine label on book and slip case. 33 pages. Damp stain bottom edge of slip case. From an introductory page: "This playlet was delivered as a lecture before the New York Theatre Guild, New York City, December 12th, 1928; and before the League for Political Education, the Town Hall, New York City December 17, 1928".   English Literature. Drama. Stage Production. Theatre.  (Book ID 393)  $25.00 Henry, James  Notes of a Twelve Years Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of Eneis  Meinhold and Sons.  Dresden.  1853.  First Edition.  Attractive three quarter leather with cloth boards (slightly sunned at top). Each part of this book separately paginated: xvi, 172, 130, 54, 98, 62, 70, (2) p.   Vergil, Aeneas, Aenied, Trojan War, Ancient Roman Literature  (Book ID 5168)  $100.00 Henry, O.  Sixes and Sevens  Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. 1911..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16298. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. 283 pages. Small piece missing bottom page 127. Offsetting pages 192-193. Contents include: The Last of the Troubadours; The Sleuths; Witches' Loaves; The Duplicity of Hargraves; Let Me Feel Your Pulse; The Church with an Overshot Wheel; New York by Campfire Light; The Caliph and the Cad; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN . WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 346)  $37.50 Henry, O.  Strictly Business; More Stories of the Four Million  Doubleday, Page & Company. New York. 1910..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16294. 310 pages. Small top margin stain pages 234-237. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Slight chipping bottom spine. Contents include: The Gold that Glittered; The Poet and the Peasant; The Girl and the Graft; The Thing's the Play; Psyche and the Pskyscraper; The Girl and the Habit; Past One at Rooney's; "What You Want"; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 345)  $25.00 Henry, O.  Whirligigs  Doubleday, Page & Co. New York. 1910..  First Edition.  Cloth.  BAL 16295. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. 314 pages. Contents include: The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Whirligig of Life; The Roads We Take; The Song and the Sergeant; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches; etc.   LITERATURE, AMERICAN. WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER. LITERARY WORKS. SHORT STORIES. TALES. WRITINGS.  (Book ID 347)  $25.00 Henty, G.A.  Both Sides the border, a Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1898.  First American Edition.  Illustrated by Peacock, Ralph.  378 pages, plus 32 page list of books for young readers, 12 plates by Ralph Peacock, navy cloth with decorated spine and front cover, 7.5 x 5.5". Some wear and soil. Adventure story set in 15th century England.   Literature; England  (Book ID 6046)  $37.50 Henty, G.A.  Through Russian Snows, a Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1895.  First American Edition.  Illustrated by Overend, W.H..  339 pages, 8 plates by W.H. Overend and 3 battle plans, decorated cloth, 7.5 x 5.5". Good reading copy, edge worn, a little loose, some spotting to pages 29-35.   Literature; Historical Fiction  (Book ID 6076)  $50.00 Herbert, A.P.  Derby Day: A Comic Opera in Three Acts  Methun & Co., Ltd..  London.  First Edition.  121 pages   Condition: Fine.  Theatre. Light Opera. Musicals. Humor  (Book ID 6916)  $25.00 Herbert, F. Hugh  The Mood is Blue. With an Introduction By Ben Hecht.  Random House.  New York, New York.  1951.  First Edition.  FIRST EDITON. xi, 162 pages; illustrations; off gray cloth binding with photo glued to the cover and lettering in gilt, dust jacket (one small tear closed, but no loss of paper and no chipping) under mylar. Advance copy with review slip. Full dialogue for the Broadway play with illustrations of the actors in the comedy. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Comedy, Plays. DK-62  (Book ID 11252)  $50.00 Hewlett, Maurice  Maurice Hewlett: a Sketch of His Career and Some Reviews of His Books, with Portrait.  The Macmillan Company.  New York, New York.  31 pages; portrait; paper wrapper (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch), Contains a sketch of his career and several reviews. Small chip missing from the lower front cover (1/2 x 1/2 inch).   Condition: Very Good.  English Literature. DK-27  (Book ID 10301)  $10.00 Hewlett, Maurice  The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay.  The MacMillan Company.  New York, New York.  1900.  First Edition.  410 pages; 2 page in the back; bound in publishers green cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. FIRST EDITION. CBEL, Volume 4, page 601. 'Precedes British Edition'. Set in the Middle Ages. Maurice Hewett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet & essayest most famous for his work "Forest Lovers". He was a close friend of J.M.Barrie and one of the pirates in "Peter Pan" was named Cecco after his son. Very good clean copy inside and outside.   Condition: Very Good.  Historical Novels, British Writers. DK-72  (Book ID 11421)  $17.50 Higginson, Ella  From the Land of the Snow Pearls: Tales of Puget Sound  The Macmillan Company.  New York and London.  1897.  Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and beautiful decorations. A reprint of her earlier book "The Flower That Grew in the Sand" but with two of the 12 stories ("Ester's Fourth" and "The Blow Out at Jenkins Grocery") first published here. Coleman, Northwest Books, page 112: "Tales of humble farm and village people, pioneers or of pioneer stock... Details of description and characterization very realistic; a true picture of farm life before boom days." Wright III, number 2667. 268 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Washington State Literature  (Book ID 7861)  $25.00 Hill, J. Wagley  Dadsie Dan.  W.D. Poessnecker.  Omaha, Nebraska.  1914.  First Edition.  82 pages, with illustrations and frontis; bound in soft leather with title and illustration. Top of pages gilted. Fictional romantic account of a soldier in the American Civil War.   Condition: Fine.  Fiction, Civil War. DK-15  (Book ID 9756)  $125.00 Hirschman, Jack  (Poetry Broadside)  The Lost Pleiade Press.  No City.  1974.  Broadside.  Poetry broadside. Single sheet measures 8" x 11". 12 lines. 300 copies printed. First line of the poem: "Time of the people changed to prayer,".   Literature. Literary Works. Writings. Poetry. Verse.  (Book ID 4377)  $20.00 Hittell, Theodore H.  Geothe's Faust  Privately published. 1872..  Wraps.   LITERATURE, GERMAN, CRITICISM  (Book ID 152)  $15.00 Hoffman, E. T. A.  The Tales of E. T. A. Hoffman Translated Out of the German by Various Hands Illustrated with Lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag Together with a Prologue from the Illustrator.  The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1943..  Cloth in slip case. No. 910 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator.   LITERATURE, GERMAN  (Book ID 534)  $60.00 Holmes, Oliver Wendell  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table...with Illustrations By Howard Pyle  (Houghton Mifflin).  Cambridge.  1894.  Two volumes. Bound in publisher's full vellum. Former owner's signature on front end papers. Vellum slightly darkened, especially at spines, but nice copies. "Large Paper Edition." Limited to 250 copies (this is no. 91). The Pyle illustrations are original to this edition. Bibliography of American Literature No. 9215. 474 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  Illustrated Books. Classic American Literature.  (Book ID 7159)  $175.00 Homer  The Iliad of Homer: The First Twelve Staves Translated into English by Maurice Hewlett  The Cresset Press Limited. London. 1928..  Vellum Backed Cloth.  No. 431 of 750 copies. Cresset Press. Gilt page tops; gilt lettering on spine. Page sides and bottoms uncut. 228 pages. Private library inked stamp imprint front end paper. Book measures 7 3/4 x 11 1/2. As noted in the Preface: "...throughout this translation the poetically sensitive reader will find, both in single phrases and in continuous movement, by means of a range of English which stretches from colloquialism to archaism, a keen and zealous response to all the vivid energy which makes Homer's poetry the very type of the youth of the world".   CLASSICAL LITERATURE. VERSE. POETRY.  (Book ID 559)  $75.00 Hood, Thomas  The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. With Memoir, Explanatory notes, Etc.  Frederick Warne & Co..  London and New York.  No date. xxiii, 615 pages, red polished leather with 5 raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling on spine, 7 1/4 x 5". Leather splitting along front hinge, still clean and tight, with two bookplates, one showing this was a prize for reading awarded by the Bradford Grammar School, front cover stamped in gilt with the school's coat of arms.   Literature; Poetry; Leather Bindings  (Book ID 5850)  $47.50 Horace  Horace: His Life, Friendships and Philosophy as Told by Himself ... Including Views of Authorities on Rhyming and Other Translation Methods with Notes, Comments and Examples by Clarence Cary  The Evening Post Job Printing House. New York. 1904.  Cloth. First edition thus. Gilt lettering front cover and spine. Gilt page tops. Book plate front end paper. From the title page: "In Unrhymed Metrical Translation, with the Latin Text, and appropriate Illustrations from his Works". Contents include: From Satire I. VI; From Ode 2. XIII (On his Escape from a Falling Tree.); Ode I, V, (To Pyrrha); Ode I, XXIII, (To Chloe); The Epistle of the Pisos on The Art of Poetry; etc.   LITERATURE. EUROPEAN. POETRY. BIOGRAPHY. LITERARY WORKS.  (Book ID 77)  $25.00 Hornblow, Arthur  The Profligate, a Novel.  G.W. Dillingham Company.  New York.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Grunwald, Charles.  (1908, first edition, May, 1908) 383 pages, 4 illustrations by Charles Grunwald, red cloth with gilt title and mounted illustration, 7 1/4 x 5". Excellent copy in lightly soiled dust wrapper which is protected with a mylar jacket.   Literature  (Book ID 6063)  $75.00 Go to page: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22

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