Search Results: Authors starting with H from Parnassus Book Service

Tarrytown, New York: Pilgrimage Publishing, 1986. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Tarrytown, New York:Pilgrimage Publishing. 1986. 1st edition. xx+253pp. Illustrated, with map at end. Signed by the Author on half-title page. Hardbound with dust jacket. Green boards lightly soiled with some mottling, else in very good condition. Page edges soiled. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures but both front and rear inside boards are discolored. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn with light wear along edges, including a couple small tears.  *"This is the story of what happened before 1900 in Palisades, a small hamlet on the Hudson River, at the first real break in the great cliff of the Palisades north of Weehawken.  Snedens Landing, the part toward the river, which was owned by the Sneden family for a hundred years, was well known as the western end of the famous Dobbs… Read More

Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press, (2009). hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press. (2009). 474pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good copy. Light wear to edges and spine ends with edge points gently bumped. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures, but with glue stains to spine edges of front and rear end-pages. The 1st free end-page also has a vertical crease at outside edge from being folded at some point in time.  The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is in very good condition, slighlty worn along edges with wear at edge points where bumped.  

Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press, (2013). hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press. (2013). x+550pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good clean copy inside and out with a very good, slightly edgeworn dust jacket. 

Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press, (2010). hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis, MD:Naval Institute Press. (2010). vi+458pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy.. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures, but with glue stains to inner hinges, front and back.-. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is in very good condition, now encased in Brodart. * "This is the second volume of Geirr Haarr's monumental and unsurpassed account of the events at sea during the German invasion of Norway in 1940. The early part of the book covers the operations off southern and western Norway where Norwegian and British forces attempted to halt the German advance out of the invasion ports and the stream of supplies and reinforcements across the Skagerrak. The second part focusses on the British landings in central Norway where the Royal Navy for the first time had its mastery challenged by air superiority… Read More

Boston:MFA Publications, 2005. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/05/0_034.jpg. Boston:MFA Publications. (2005).  Stated 1st printing. 176pp. Softcover.  Front cover's lower outside edge is creased and turned otherwise in very good condition.  Internally, light soiling and age toning to outside edge of 1st free end-page, otherwise a very good, clean copy.  Published in conjunction with an exhibition in 2005 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Chicago: Jamieson-Higgins Co., 1900. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Chicago:Jamieson-Higgins Co.  1900.  Illustrated by Miss Sara Crosby.  170pp. Hardcover.  Light green decorated boards lightly soiled and rubbed. Edge points gently bumped. Internally, end-pages slightly soiled but otherwise, a very good, clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures found. The binding is tight and hinges intact. According to George Orwell, this is "the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished." A very good copy.

NY:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. An Illustrated edition of OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. By the author of "HELEN'S BABIES". The designs by Lucy G. Morse. 303pp. 1st. Edition. Inscribed by a previous owner on the flyleaf, dated Christmas 1977. Some minor wear to the boards, otherwise a very satisfactory copy. Wright 3. T030.

Washington:Government Printing Office, 1907. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Washington:Government Printing Office. 1907. 113pp. Illustrated with 21 plates, and 16 figures in text. Hardcover.  Green boards soiled, with spine darkened and gilt dulled, with evidence of insect grazing to lower boards and spots on spine strip. Internally, paper lightly age-toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact.  Overall, a very good copy. 

New York:Peter Eckler, nd. hard cover. No jacket. (nd; dated 1893 via inscription). 337pp. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn at the edges with some sun-fading to the spine. Covers also show some soiling. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, save for an inscription from the publisher inked and dated on the first free end-paper. Pages do show some mild age-toning. Overall, this is a very good copy.

386pp. Illus. With dust jacket. A very good copy internally. Jacket badly frayed at edges. Top of jacket was water-damaged at some time and impacted top of front dust-jacket. Otherwise a very good copy.

Kansas City, MO:Martin Printing Co., 1936. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Kansas City, MO:Martin Printing Co. (1936). viii+110pp. Illustrated. Limited edition, #7 of 125 copies. Hardcover.  Black leatherette covers lightly soiled and shelf-worn. Internally, aside from penciled notes on 6 different pages, but otherwise in very good clean condition.  With additional typed pages laid in referring to a Miller Family record.  

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, (1990). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ithaca:Cornell Univ. Press. (1990). 369pp. With dust jacket. The dust jacket has light overall shelf-wear and there is some light soiling to page edges, but otherwise a very good clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures. Pages clean and bright. S027.

Dept. of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1966. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Dept. of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. 1966. No pagination. Illustrated. Softcover.  Light shelfware to covers, with a bit of age toning to endpages, otherwise a very good, clean copy. 

New York:Moffat, Yard and Company, 1913. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2016/06/0_00421.jpg. New York:Moffat, Yard and Company. (1913). 1st edition. 412pp. With 14 illustrations plus folding map at rear.  Hardcover. Blue boards lightly shelf-worn and soiled. Spine ends are worn with small tears.  Internally, no previoius owners marks or signatures but paper is age-toned with foxing scattered throughout.  A good solid copy. 

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Garden City, NY:Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1964. 1st edition, stated. 277pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brown boards slightly soiled and shelfworn. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight, although slightly cocked, with hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and a tear to the bottom spine end. It is not price clipped. 

Naval Institute Press, [1981]. hard cover. Very Good/Good. [Annapolis, Md.]: Naval Institute Press. [1981]. 176pp. Illustrated. Hard bound. A Very Good tight copy in a Good+ DJ.  Jacket is lightly rubbed, with some tears at the extremities, including a largish chip to the front near the spine.  Red cloth boards in good shape with bright gilt titling.  Owner name penned on ffep; otherwise the interior is clean and securely bound.  First half devoted to a history of these ships. Second half devoted to assistance of model builders. Emphasis is on the American schooner HANNAH, 1st. Armed vessel in George Washington's Navy, and the British Royal Navy schooner HALIFAX. (cfm)

Seoul, Korea:Moonwang Publishing Company, (1967). First Edition Thus. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Seoul, Korea:Moonwang Publishing Company. (1967). 186pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good condition. White boards slighlty soiled (age-toned) along edges otherwise very good.  Internally, end-pages are age-toned but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight,  with hinges intact and bound in ribbon still attached. The dust jacket is in very good condition with soiling and light wear along edges.

New York:The American Numismatic Society, 1988. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:The American Numismatic Society. 1988. 142 pp+24 plates. In very good, clean condition.

New York:Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1988). hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1988). 119pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges and spine but otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. A very good copy. FB029

Boston:L. C. Page and Company, 1908. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:L. C. Page and Company. 1908. 1st edition. 368+6+4pp ads. Illustrated with color frontispiece by H. R. Reuterdahl. Hardcover.  Green decorated boards in very good, clean condition. Internally, a few penciled ownership notes to 1st free end-page, but otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.