Search Results: Authors starting with H from Old Saratoga Books

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, foxed, and toned, front free . endpapers loose in first four volumes.. 1903-05. Hardcover. Bound in red, green, blue, tan, and dark gray flexible cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spines. Pocket-sized (5 x 4 inch) guides to architecture and history of English cathedrals. Many illustrations and photogravures. Unpaginated. Vol. I: Introduction, Canterbury. St. Paul's. Winchester. Gloucester. Lichfield. Salisbury. Vol. II: Chichester. Durham. Ely. Norwich. Peterborough. Rochester. St. Albans. Vol. III: York. Carlisle. Chester. Manchester. Newcastle. Ripon. Liverpool. Wakefield. Sodor and Man. Vol. IV: Bath Abbey. Bristol. Lincoln. Oxford. Southwell. Wells. Worcester. Vol. V: Exeter. Hereford. Truro. Bangor. Llandaff. St. Asaph. St. David's. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1591021170 . Acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, and index. The level-headed appraisal of current issues and ideas, seen through the eyes of a widely informed and sensible philosopher who explores the middle ground between competing extremes, providing the guidance of a civilized mind. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pages .

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket faintly worn.. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. x, 223pp. "Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social debates of recent years. Relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science, literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itselfall come under her keen scrutiny." (front jacket flap); 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers lightly worn.. 1967. Hardcover. A Whitman Pillow Book with padded illustrated covers. 59 cents price sticker on front boards. Whitman 1795. A young horse named Whiffles finds love with a little girl named Penny. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, inscription on front . free endpaper, light foxing. Jacket chipped with piece missing from the . top of the spine and 2” by 2”chip missing from the top of the back panel.. 1908. Later Printing. Hardcover. Brown decorative cloth binding. xiii, 357 pages + 9 pages of publisher ads. Black and white illustrations. A continuation of the child raising antics and experiences and of Aunt Alice and Uncle Harry. Listing of books on the reverse of the dust jacket places the publication date of this printing around 1926. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Barse & Hopkins. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled and worn.. [1920]. Hardcover. Navy cloth with color paste-on illustration of young child emptying a steamer trunk by von Hofsten and four other different color plates by him. Contains these two vintage children's classics. [20] pp of illustrated publisher ads at rear. ; The Pleasant Hour Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .

NY: Free Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0684842173 . Author signed bookplate on front free endpaper. vii, 244 pp, index. Photos, a few recipes. The food historian provides detailed chapters on various types of American cooking through the ages: Irish immigrant cooking, World War II POW cooking, cuisine of the Old West, Civil War nurses and health diets, African-American culinary heritage, Jewish refugee cooking, White House cooking for FDR, food reformers, and American gourmet cooking. .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket is heavily chipped and . missing sections at top edge of front panel.. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarterbound blue cloth with color patterned paper-covered boards. Glassine jacket. One of 700 copies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 36 pages .

NY: The MacMillan Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and lightly tattered.. 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. Illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages .

Minneapolis: T. S. Denison and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1923. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated boards. Many photos and illustrations of circus performers in homemade costumes. Authors' preface notes that they performed this time of circus 500 times during a three-year period. Chapters discuss costumes, clowning, decorations, side shows, circus parade, order of performance, finances, how to be a ringmaster, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 978-0393048308 . Author photo and bio on rear jacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 107 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 978-0393036749 . Gold foil sticker on front jacket panel noting that this collection won the 1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Black cloth binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 067057399X . Winner of the 1975 National Book Award for Poetry. Laid in is printed card from Academy of American Poets noting that this book received the 1973 Lamont Poetry Selection and that the Academy purchased 1,000 copies to distribute to its membership. Hacker's first published poetry collection. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages .

Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Light foxing to first and last several . leaves, one illustration taped.. 1919. Leatherbound. Brown polished calf with ruled boards, gilt seal of Girls Public Day School Trust Limited on front boards. Six gilt decorated panels on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Blindstamped turn-ins and gilt filleting along edges of boards. x, 254 pp. Black and white portrait illustrations of various musicians and composers tipped in. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: "Sydenham High School Prize awarded by the Council of the G.P.D.S.T. for Music, to Margaret M. Carmichael, Form vi, July 1924, Adele K. Sanders, M. A." .

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn.. 1989. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0152006109 . An early title by the author best known for his bestselling adult novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Illustrated vividly by the author. A picture book about a woman named Toni who only likes tomato soup, until she finds it tiresome after a genie grants her wish to have her world filled with her favorite potage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slightly cocked.. 2003. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385509456 . The first American edition of Haddon's first book and Whitbread Award winner, about a young man on the Autism spectrum who solves the murder of a neighbor's dog. The novel has been adapted several times as a play. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket worn, owner name on . front free endpaper, gift inscription on half-title page.. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0027389200 . Color illustrated boards. Story about an imaginative young boy who dreams about living with Native Americans after a trip to the Museum of Natural History. Written and illustrated by the husband and wife Caldecott medalists. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Front jacket flap clipped, jacket toned and . worn.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial green library reinforced binding (but not ex-library copy). Charming story about a man who makes peace with the rabbits and quail menacing his garden written and illustrated by the husband and wife Caldecott medalists. Illustrations in color and in black and white. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name stamped on front free . endpaper and half-title, jacket lightly toned and tattered.. 1957. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Illustrations in color and in black and white by the husband and wife author-illustrator team and Caldecott medalists. Cute picture book about Mr. And Mrs. McGinty and how they share their spring garden with their animal friends. Light green illustrated cloth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

NY: MacMillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, some finger soiling, . attractive owner bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, top corner of . front boards creased.. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth binding. Many illustrations in color and in black and white by the husband-and-wife Caldecott medalists. A story for children about two little burros in the American Southwest. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 90 pages .