Search Results: Authors starting with H from Classic Books and Ephemera

Bethlehem, Pa: Times Publishing Company, 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. 190, [2] p.: frontispiece and 17 additional plates; 22 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-ruled border on front board. No dust jacket, as issued. First Edition. Nazareth Hall, in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, was built in the 1750s as a boarding school for Moravian boys. In the 19th century it expanded to include non-Moravian boys. The school closed in 1929. Contents: Historical Sketch of Nazareth Hall -- Latin Document Deposted in the Corner-Stone -- The Principals of Nazareth Hall -- List of Teachers of Nazareth Hall -- Catalogue of Pupils of Nazareth Hall. The author was an Instructor at Nazareth Hall. In Near Fine Condition: corners very lightly rubbed; pages and illustrations are clean and tight.

New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. x, 249 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with silver spine title; brown paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Religion in America series. Contains articles by Gutbi Mahdi Ahmed, Carol L. Stone, Byron L. Haines, Abubaker al-Shingiety, John L. Esposito, Jane I. Smith, Frederick M. Denny, Steven A. Johnson, Larry A. Poston, Kathleen Moore, Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Beverly Thomas McCloud, Marcia K. Hermansen, John O. Voll, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, and Sulayman S. Nyang. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: spine slightly sunned; clean and bright.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4 volumes of varying size in a rigid plastic slipcase with "Zaha Hadid" embossed on the front (31 cm.). (1) Major and Recent Works -- 240 p.: illustrations; 31 cm. (2) Projects Documentation -- 111, [1] p.: illustrations; 31 cm. (3) Texts and References -- 95, [1] p.; 18 cm. (4) Process: Sketches and Drawings -- 127, [1] p.: illustrations; 13 cm. The covers are in varying shades of maroon and silver or black. In 2004 Iraqi-British architect and designer Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. A heavy set; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. Books are in Near Fine Condition: minor scrape on lower spine of Major and Recent Works; covers are slightly rubbed; internally clean and tight. Slipcase is in Near Fine Condition: lightly rubbed; solid.

Paris: Gravure Goupil et Cie, 1882. Near Fine -. The sheet is 15 x 11.5 inches; the image is 10 x 7.25 inches. The print is a black-and-white image of the painting After High Tide in the Bay by August Hagborg (1852-1921). No date of publication. The series The Masterpieces of French Art was issued in the United States beginning in 1882. Portfolios containing several photogravure prints and several wood engravings were published on a monthly basis. Gravure Goupil et Cie became Boussod, Valadon & Cie in 1884. A beautiful print. In Near Fine- Condition: one edge slightly sunned; two corners slightly creased; image is clean and bright.

Washington, D.C.: United States Geological Survey, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 34 leaves: 24 color maps (7 double-leaf); 56 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped cover title. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, v. 32. In Good Condition: cloth is soiled and rubbed; corners are frayed; minor loss at ends of spine; blank leaf preceding title page is torn from fore-edge to gutter; faint dampstain along fore-edges and lower corners throughout, not impacting maps; closed 2-cm. tear from fore-edge of 2 maps; otherwise, clean and tight.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good +. Ross, Gordon. "Printed on Normandy Vellum at the Tomoye Press." [8], 98, xxiii, [3] p.: color frontispiece, head pieces; 25 cm. Original light brown paper spine with dark brown paper over boards; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles, the cover title within gilt-stamped embellishment. No dust jacket (as issued?). Top page edges gilt. The charming tissue-guarded frontispiece by Gordon Ross is also printed on tissue. Some unopened pages. The weather-related quotations are arranged by month, with a small illustration or head piece related to that month's astrological sign at the head of each page. The title page and other front matter and the quotations by month are printed within a green border. The 23 pages of interleaved material (numbered i-xxiii) are printed within a red border and inserted between the months with the 23d page following December. The interleaved material concerns weather-related items; for… Read More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. Paperback. Good +. 268, [4] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with brown wrappers printed in black only. Inside of both wrappers contains list of titles in Funk & Wagnalls Standard Library, numbers 1-105. Outside back wrapper contains advertisements for Vitalized Phos-Phites, and Sohmer pianos, the latter with an illustration. Last 4 unpaginated pages contain publisher's advertisements. In Good+ Condition: lacking both corners of front wrapper and lower corner of back wrapper; old repair at head of spine; lacking wrapper at ends of spine; lower corner of front wraper creased; lower corner of first 2 leaves lacking, without loss of text; pages are clean and tight.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good -. xvi, 246, [2] p.; 86 p.; 24 cm. Original black cloth spine with light pink paper over boards. Printed paper spine label with title: Hale and Gamage on Fever. Half-title: History of an Epidemic Fever. Advertisement by Wells and Lilly on 2 unpaginated pages following text of Hale for medical books, both imported from Europe and published by Wells and Lilly, as well as "one copy of Hogden's celerated Treatise on Obstetric studies" and imported thermometers and barometers. Hale: Shaw & Shoemaker, 44218; Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 851. Gamage: Shaw & Shoemaker, 44125; Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 810. Bookplates and inscriptions on front endpapers indicate that this volume formerly belonged to American medical researcher George R. Minot (1885-1950), the G.L. Simmons Medical Library, the Lane Medical Library of Stanford University, and the Nathan and Rose Benison Memorial Library. Very scarce.… Read More

London: M. Flesher, 1647. Hardcover. Fair. 1353 p.; 34 cm. Signatures: B-3G6 3H4 3I-4H6 4I4 4K-N6 4O-P8 4Q-5X6 (-5X5, -5X6) 2o. Full calf with seven spine compartments between raised bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Hall's Works." All page edges red. Wing, H362. Lacking first signature (including frontispiece and engraved title page) and 32-page index following text; front endpapers replaced with 20th-century stock. Without the title page and other preliminary pages, it is not possible to determine which of the 1647 and 1648 printings this is. Each part has special title page with title vignette, dating variously 1639-1647. Woodcut headpieces and historiated initials. Contents: Meditations -- Epistles -- Apologetics -- Contemplations. Includes: Some Few of Davids Psalmes Metaphrased; Salomons Divine Arts; Pharisaisme and Christianitie; The Imprese of God; A Common Apologie of the Church of England Against the Unjust Challenges of the… Read More

New York; Oxford: Oxord University Press, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. ix, [3], 404 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Includes glossary, bibliographical essay, table of cases, and index. The author seeks "to elucidate the interaction of law and society as revealed over time through the main lines of development in American legal culture." -- Preface. In Very Good Condition: cover very lightly soiled; upper corner creased; lacking upper corner of p. 359-60, without loss of text; one page corner creased; clean and tight.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. xiv, 194 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Part of the series Masterpieces of Western Painting. Michelangelo painted the fresco The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City from 1536 to 1541. "This book explores the context, both historical and biographical, in which the fresco was created and the debates about the style and function of religious art that it generated." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed; clean and tight.

Garden City, N.Y.: John Martin's House, 1916. Paperback. Good -. [80] p.: illustrations, music; 25 cm. Stapled paperback with illustrated cover. Printed in orange and black. Contains stories, poems, and illustrations, including Jack Junior: A Railroad Story by Charles S. Pease; a story in French by Charles Wagner; Jack Frost's Gift by Mary J. J. Wrinn; Catskin; The Story of King Cotton, part 4, by Helen Waldo; and Scoodle-Do and Sambo by Minnie Jones Hall. Scarce. In Good- Condition: lacking paper over lower spine; cover is creased; lacking lower part of final leaf (advertisements); browning; otherwise, clean.

London: John Murray, 1829. Hardcover. Good +. Fifth edition. This is volume 1 only of 3 volumes. xix, 1, 549 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; black morocco label in the 2nd and 4th compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number. Gilt-ruled borders on both boards. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Contents: Chapter I: The History of France, from its conquest by Clovis to the invasion of Naples by Charles VIII; Chapter II: On the Feudal System especially in France; Chapter III: The History of Italy, from the extinction of the Carlovingian emperors to the invasion of Naples by Charles VIII. In Good+ Condition: part of each morocco spine label lacking; edges rubbed; small section of leather lacking at tail of spine; spine is sunned; small scrape on back board; lower corners of last few pages creased; title page and a few additional pages foxed; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

London: T. Tickler & Co, 1837. Paperback. Very Good -. 52 p.; 14 cm. Brown wrapper with wrapper title in black. American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck first published "Fanny," his satirical look at social mobility and New York society, in 1819. Its popularity led him to publish a version with 50 additional sections in 1821. This edition is of the longer version, running through section CLXXI. "T. Tickler & Co." was presumably a false imprint, as it produced no other works. A copy of this edition was presented to the author by his friend, the London bookseller Robert Triphook; it seems likely that Triphook himself published it as T. Tickler & Co. [see Wilson, Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1869), 405.] Satire aside, the poem provides a fascinating glimpse of New York City in the 1810s. A very scarce edition of this American poem. In Very Good- Condition: some loss of wrapper along spine; front wrapper has chip out of fore-edge and minor loss at corners; wrapper slightly soiled; light foxing… Read More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1946. Paperback. Very Good. [20] p. (pp. 79-97); 23 cm. Light grey wrapper printed in black; stapled. Wrapper title. Reprinted from ELH, A Journal of English Literary History, vol. 13, no. 2, June 1946. Annual address of the Tudor and Stuart Club, April 26, 1946, by William Haller (1885-1974). The author discusses John Milton's writings on love, marriage, and divorce. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: staples starting to rust; otherwise, clean and tight.

Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press, 1965. Paperback. Good. [10], 13-70, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. The drawings are by Leonard Baskin. In Good Condition: cover is lightly stained and browned, which seems to be typical of this white paperback cover; a few upper page corners creased; pages are clean and tight.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1961. Paperback. Very Good +. New Dell Edition, first printing June 1961. 191, [1] p.; 16 cm. Paperback with cover art by Robert McGinnis. Page edges are green. D423. Price of 35 cents printed on front cover. Small photo on back cover of Richard Denning as Michael Shayne in the weekly NBC series. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; upper corner of covers lightly creased; clean and solid.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. New Dell Edition. First printing May 1964. 191, [1] p.; 16 cm. Paperback with cover art by McGinnis. Page edges are green. A Dell Mystery, 5602. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; upper corner of first leaf cut off, removing name of former owner; pages lightly browning; clean and solid.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1961. Paperback. Very Good -. Dell First Edition, first printing Dec. 1961. 256 p.; 16 cm. Paperback with cover art by Bob McGinnis. Page edges are green. K109. Price of 40 cents printed on front cover. Contains 12 stories chosen by Leo Margulies as the best that appeared in the in the first four years of the Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. The stories are by: Brett Halliday, Franklin Gregory, D. E. Forbes, Hal Ellson, Frank Kane, Robert Bloch, Hope Field, Richard Deming, Henry Slesar, Kenneth Fearing, Jonathan Craig, and Helen Kasson. In Very Good- Condition: edges lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; upper corner of front cover lightly creased; back cover creased with 2-cm. closed tear from upper edge; clean and solid.

New York: Dell Publishing, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. First Dell printing June 1961. 192 p.; 16 cm. Paperback with cover art by Robert McGinnis. Page edges are green. D424. Price of 35 cents printed on front cover. Small photo on back cover of Richard Denning as Michael Shayne in the weekly NBC series. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; faint writing on first page (before title page); otherwise, clean and solid.